The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-25
Memory of'41 World Series Very Bitter
By CARL LINDQUIST United Press Sports Writer

New York, June 25. CUP)-The Mighty Casey" of the Dodgers carried a hope high in his heart today that when autumn paints the leaves on the tree that grows in Brooklyn, he'll get the chance to be the hero he might have been five long years ago.
 That was in the memorable world series of 1941 when he went into the books as Hugh Casey, the pitcher who fired the curve ball heard round the world. It was curve that struck out Tommy Heinrich of the Yankees with two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers ahead, to and behind two games to one in the series.
 Fate wrote the script for Casey that day and let him down even as she let down the legendary Mighty Casey" of Mudville, who struck out with the bases full. That curve was so tremendous that Catcher Mickey Owen dropped the strike, Heinrich got on base and the Yankees, thus given renewal of the lease on the ball game, scored four runs and won, to 4.
 Two for Two
 What made it bad for Casey wasn't that he blew up and let the Yankees win the game on 'bor- rowed time" It was that the Yam kees also had blasted him from the mound as the losing pitcher in a relief assignment on the previous day, giving him two defeats in as many afternoons and in only 5 1/3 innings of work.
 All of which is just bitter mem- ory now to the 32-year-old big guy from Buckhead, Ga, who asks just one chance" to erase it.
 And from the way he has been rescuing pitchers, the right-hander who came to the Dodgers as a heritage of their one-time manager, Uncle Wilbert Robinson, is going to get it.
 Specializing in relief jobs against tough clubs, he won his third straight in 13 innings yesterday, beating the Reds at Brooklyn, 6 to 5 with 4 2/3 scoreless innings. That brought his record to and 3, which was his won and lost mark for the entire year of 1942, the last before he went into the Navy. The Dodgers won the game when Dixie Walker walked, took second on a wild pitch and scored on Carl FurilloS single, going three games ahead of the second place Cardinals
 Threw at Bottles
 Casey's speciality is control, some thing he lacked when Robinson, then boss at Atlanta, first saw him in 1881. But Bobby, who always had a way, sent Casey out to throw stones at bottles. Hit en-" he said. "But always make sure they're empty first"
 The Braves won the only other National League game yesterday, topping the Cubs at Boston, to 0 on Ed Wright's five-hitter. It was their second straight shutout and fifth straight victory. Tommy Holmes three-run triple clinched victory in the eighth.
 Floyd Bevens won his third game on the Yankee road trip when he shut out Cleveland on four hits, 1 to o, outpitching hard-luck Allie Reynolds, Swho dropped his ninth game. Singles by Phil Rizzuto and Tommy Heinrich and Charley Kel- ler's fly produced the only run in the first inning.
 Tie Game
 Boston's first place margin was reduced to six and a half games when the Red Sox fought to 5 to draw in a twilight game at Detroit called after nine innings because of darkness. Detroit took a to l first inning lead on Pat Mul- lin'S grand slam homer which fol- lowed 8 round-trip blow by Ted Williams. Hank Greenberg also hit Detroit homer, but the Red Sox fought back and tied the score in the ninth on Bobby Doerr's two-run double after picking up single runs in the fifth and eighth.
 Chicago won 12 to slugging bee from the visiting Senators de- spite five errors. Relief pitcher Al Hollingsworth gained the victory, blanking Washington for five inn ings. Taft Wright and Hal Trosky each made three hits for the win- nerS.
 YESTERDAYS STAR - Hugh (the might) Casey of the Dodgers, who won his third straight game in a relief role, beating the Reds, 6 to in 13 innings with a 2/3 inn