The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-02
W YATT GIVEN KEY TO SERIES FAME OR FAILURE.
Chandler or Russo for New York--POwer Hitters and
 Rufing Won for Yanks
pY GEORGE KIRKsFY

BY GEORGE K1MkSEY United Press Stan COrresp0ndent)
 New York, Oct. 2.--(UP)--This is the day the Brooklyn Dodgers must make a liar of whoever first called them buns.
 This is the day for them to throw in their best pitcher, sharpen their batting eyes, make impossible stops and miraculous catches.
 For today it's now or never, sink or swim, all or nothing. If they lose again they are likely to be crushed under the New York Yankees power and wake up Sunday morning and find that they have blown the world series in four straight games.
 The Yankees are rolling. They're getting the pitching, they're hitting the ball and they're coming up in the clutch with lightning double plays that choke of rallies and runs.
 Manager Leo Durocher of the Dodgers called on a lanky half-bald veteran to stem the tide. Whitlow Wyatt of Shickamauga, Ga, winner of p games this season, the man who hurled the pennant-clinching game in Boston, will be on the mound for the Beloved Buns in the second game of the 1941 world series in Yankee Stadium this af- ternoon Cat 1:30 p. rn., EST).
 No Hurry
 Manager Joe Mccarthy of the Yankees, riding 8 one-game lead and leading a cocky, confident club, slept on the problem of whether to start Spud Chandler or Marius Russo. Among those who are breathlessly awaiting his decision is Leo the Lip Durocher. Chandler is a right handler, Russo a south- paw. When a left handler starts against the Dodgers, the batting order is shifted radically. Enjoying every minute of 1t, Mccarthy Is likely to keep Durocher on pins and needles until just before game time.
 Yesterdays 3-2 victory for the Yankees in the series first game, was an old, old story set to familiar music. The Yankees got only six hits, but one of them was a home run, another was double that rat- tied against the fence in right cen- ter. The Dodgers never could match that power and the Yankees took the lead in the second inning and held 1t all the way.
 Missed Out
 The Dodgers had plenty of op- portunitieS. The Tanks opened the gate for them three times-in the sixth when the Dodgers had two on with one out, in the seventh when they had two on and none out, and in the ninth when they had two on and one out. Each time the Tanks snuffed them out.
 Everybody's second-guessing Leo Durocher today just as they sec- ond-guessed Bill McKechnie in 1889, Gabby Hartnett in 1888 and Bill Terry in 1873 and 1936. They're ask ing
 Why did Curt Davis start?"
 "Why didn't Durocher order a bunt in the. seventh with. two on and none out?"
 why did Reese try to reach third after Wasdell's foul fly to Rolfe in the seventh7"
 why didn't Durocher order La- vagetto to bunt in the ninth with they tying run on first and none out?"
 But those are the kind of ques- tions National League fans always ask, after their league champs have the first series game with the Tanks.
 Durocher might have made every mistake In the book but you still can't get away from the fact that the Tanks belted the ball over the outfielders' heads three times and the Dodgers none. There's your an- swer to why the Tanks won the ball game.
 Wotta Homer, Wotta Catch!
 Joe Gordon teed of on one of Curt Davis low inside pitches and belted it into the left field stands in the second. Joe Medwick leaped almost three feet off the ground with his back against the short fence in left field to rob Joe DiN6aggio of a homer in the fourth. Bill Dickey belted a double of the right field wall in the fourth which just missed being a homer by three feet.
 The Dodgers haven't yet hit a ball over the Yankee outfielders' heads. Mickey Owen got a triple between Keller and DiMaggio and some of the National Leaguers are saying 1t would have been an inside the park homer if DiMaggio hadn't made a great gloved hand play to knock it down. But that is Nation al League talk today-would have,- should have,-might have been. With a new day dawning, the Dodgers have an opportunity to get even with the Tanks with their big man, Whit Wyatt.
 If Wyatt fails, then the Dodgers are on the run like the Reds were in '39, the Cubs in '38 and the Giants in '37 and '36. And when the Yankees get a ball club on the run, it's Katy Bar the Door,"