Evening star., 1947-09-30
Yankees Rally
In Fifth, Lead
Dodgers, 5to |
Shea and Brancu Both
Go Out of Game in
New York Uprising
By Burton Hawkins

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Nev
York broke out with a typica
Yankee rally in the fifth inning
of the opening World Serie!
game today and led the Dodger.
in the sixth, S to I.
The Yankee uprising knocked ou
Ralph Branca, Dodgers starting
pitcher. He was replaced by Henry
Behrman.
Frank Shea also went out in the
fifth. He was lifted for Pinch Hit.
ter Bobby Brown, and the Yankee,
fireman, Joe Page, came into. the
game.
The first Negro ever to perform ir
World Series, Jackie Robinson, in.
directly was responsible for the II
lead Brooklyn gained in the first
inning. With one out, Robinson
drew a walk and stole second base
on hasty throw by Rookie Catcher
Yogi Berra which hit the dirt ir
front of the base.
The next Dodger batter, Pett
Reiser, slapped grounder to Shea
who made nice stop and trapped
Robinson with the help of Shortstor
Phil Rizzuto. On the rundown
however. Reiser made second ano
Dixie Walker sliced a short, lazy
single to left field to score the run
FIRST INNING.
DODG ERS - Stanky took &
strike, then lifted a high fly to Lin
dell in short left field. Robinson
worked the count to three and two
fouled off pitch, then walked
Robinson stole second, reaching base
safely on a jittery, one-hop throw
by Berra. Reiser tapped to Shea
and Robinson was trapped be.
tween second and third and run
down. Walker looped a single to
short left field, scoring Reiser
Hermanski took a third strike. One
run.
Stirnweiss took a
strike, then grounded to Stanky
who threw him out. Heinrich took
two balls then famed on three
pitches. Berra flied deep to Reiser
No runs.
The slightly windy but bright day
with temperatures in the COS
came as a pleasant surprise to the
anticipated record throng which
aWoke to discover a prediction o1
scattered showers had failed to ma.
terialize.
SECOND INNING.
ODGERS-Edwards hit Shea!
first pitch deep to Di Maggie. Jor.
gensen took the count of three ane
two. then famed. Reese grounded
sharply to Rizzuto, who whipped
him out. No runs.
YANKEES-Reece took Di Mag
gio's hounder and threw him out
McQuinn grounded to Jorgensen ir
one hop, then was thrown out
Stanky threw out johnson. No runs
THIRD INNING.
DODGERS-Branca grounded Il
McQuinn, who tossed to Shea GOV.
ering first for the out. johnson
threw out Stanky. Robinson agalr
walked after taking the full count
Shea tried to pick Robinson off frs
three times unsuccessfully. She:
dropped the ball while pitching tt
Raiser and Robinson took seconc
on the balk. Reiser flied to Hen.
rich. No runs.
YANKEES-Lindell famed. Riz
zuto flied to Hermanski. She's
famed. No runs.
FOURTH INNING.
DODGERS-Walker smashed Q
single off McQuinn's glove. Her.
manSki lined to johnson, who's,
quick throw to McQuinn caught
Walker off first for double play
Edwards lined to Di Maggie. Nc
runs.
YANKEES-Sti took q
third strike. Heinrich flied to Refs
er Berra was Branca's fifth strike
out victim. No runs.
FIFTH INNING.
DODGERS-Jorgensen flied /,
Lindell. Shea tossed out Reese
Brnca famed. No runs.
YANkEES-Reese made a fine
stop of Di Maggio's grounder to hi
right. but Dd Maggie beat 1t out fol
New York's first hit. after Branca
(see WORLD SERIES, Page A-6.5