Evening star., 1947-10-03
Yanks Take Toll
In Weird Loss
Heavy Hitting Futile
After Newsom Spots
Brooks Six Runs
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By Burton Howkins
Stor Stoff Correspondent

BROOKLYN, Oct. 3.-Manager
Burt Shotton of the Brooklyn
Dodgers frantically was scraping the
bottom of the barrel today in an
effort to locate starting pitcher
with some semblance of ability, but
his grasping paws could come up
only with Harry Taylor, whose sore
armed status had the National
League champions in an unenviable
spot as they entered the fourth game
of the World Series with New York's
Yankees.
Brooklyn's pitching staff had
reached point of exhaustion, what
with Joe Hatten, Ralph Branca and
Hugh Casey having been employed
in the Dodgers 9-8svictory yesterday
at Ebbets Field before 33,098 fans.
Shotton was forced to keep Vic
lombard and Hank Behrman warm
ing up most of the afternoon, too,
as Brooklyn staggered to it's first win
after spraying six runs across the
plate in the second inning
And so Shotton was reduced to
choice of pitching Taylor, who had
hurled only four innings since
August 18 when he pulled a tendon
in his arm. The right-hander had
pitched two innings against the
Philadelphia Phillies and two more
against the Boston Braves in a six
week span and after that last effort
admitted to reporters that his arm
wasn't fit.
Manager Bucky Harris was better
equipped with fresh Floyd Bevens
to toss against the Dodgers, who
had seen their pitchers mauled for
% runs in three games. Only Relief
Pitcher Hugh Casey has been effec-
tive against the Yankees, who are
confident of ending the series in
five games.
Yanks Blast Dodgers Stars.
The Yankees confidence stems
from the fact they have battered
Brooklyn's starting pitchers from
the mound in hurry in every game.
Hatten lasted only AZ innings yes
terday and before him Branca and
lombard had survived only four
innings each.
Thus far the pitching has bor-
dered on wretchedness, with the
Yankees averaging nearly eight runs
a game and the Dodgers averaging
five. TWenty-four walks and five
wild pitches have cluttered up
series dominated by wholesale hit
| ting and erratic fielding
1t has been a gruesome sort of
series, with yesterdays episode re-
quiring hours and minutes, the
longest Ginning game in World
Series history. The first four in
nings consumed hour and As min
utes as the Dodgers grabbed a 60
lead which it developed, wasn't suf-
ficient.
Bobo Newson, the ex-Nat who Is
supposed to thrive in colorful sur
roundings, failed to last two innings.
With one out in the second, Bobo
walked Gene Hermanski, then the
roof caved in on him. Bruce
Edwards doubled, Peewee Reese
singled, Hatten singled, and Ed
Stanky doubled, all of which
prompted Newsom's exit. In came
Vic Raschi to be greeted by single
of Jackie Robinson's bat and Carl
F'urillo doubled.
Sherman Lollar's single, a walk
to pinch-hitter Al Clark and singles
by Johnny Lindell and Joe Di Maggie
sliced the Dodgers margin to 6-2 in
the third, but Brooklyn bounced
back with a run off Karl Drews,
who hit Hermanski, wild-pitched
him to second and saw him score on
Johnny Jorgensen's single to left
after he had moved to third on
Edwards infield tap.
Casey Curbs Bombers.
A walk to Bill johnson, Lollar's
double and George Stirnweiss' single
netted New York two more runs off
Hatten in the fourth, but the
Dodgers made in 9-4 in their portion
of the inning when sore-armed Spud
Chandler walked Stanky and Furillo
and pitched singles to Dixie Walker
and Hermanski.
Lindell coaxed walk from Hatten
to start the fifth and Di Maggie
promptly blasted a mighty homer
(see WORLD SERIES, Page CD