The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-10-12
BEHIND HOME PLATE
By Doug Stewart

Sundays rain washed out all the
play-off games in the Washington
County and Independent Baseball
Leagues and also in the Y County
Softball League Weather permit
ting, they will be played next Sun
day afternoon and here are the
schedules:
Washington County League -
Keedysville at Williamsport.
Independent League-Security VS..
Antietam at Sharpsburg
Y County Softball League -
Friendly Market VS.. Pinesburg at
Reservoir Park. This will be a
double-header with the first game
starting at 100 o'clock.
Although the Yankees took the
measure of the Whiz Kids in four
straight games in the World Series,
it was not so one-sided as the results
would seem to indicate.
The first three games were won
by margins of one run and all three
games were in doubt until the last
man was out in the last inning.
only saw one game - the second
one in Philadelphia on Thursday -
and l can assure you that, in that
particular game, the two teams were
as evenly matched as it is possible
for any two teams to be.
What impressed me most in the
Series was the fact that the pitching
on both sides was just about perfect
and think that was proved by the
low scores. The difference in the
two teams was the clutch hitting of
the Yankees as against the futility of
the Whiz Kids when the chips were
down.
Eddie Sawyer's team could easily
have won the first three games in
stead of the Yankees if they had
been able to hit with men on base.
But you can't deny the fact that
when they twice hit into double
plays and on three other occasions
were unable to get ball out of the
infeld, when any sort of reason
ably long fly would have scored a
run that might have won the game,
it was due, in large measure, to
the ability of the Yankee pitchers to
really bear down when it was most
needed.
Since the Phillies had to lose, am
glad in way that the series only
went four games, for it puts an end
once and for all to the rumor that l
heard time and again on Saturday
morning that the Phillies would GER
tainly win Saturdays game because
the club owners wanted to get the
big gate from the Sunday game
For those who may not know it,
the players shares only come from
the first four games and all the reve-
nue. after that goes to the club own
ers and commissioner Chambers
office.
The very fact therefore, that there
was no fifth game played, proves
once again that this great national
pastime of ours is on the level from
top to bottom.
Saturdays college football con-
tinued the upsets that started the
previous Saturday and perhaps the
greatest of all was the University of
Maryland's "a to z shellacking of
Michigan State.
| wrote in this column last week
that if Jim Tatum could keep his
boys keyed up to the game they
played against Navy, they were go
ing to be pretty tough to beat and,
as a matter of fact, he not only kept
them keyed up, but put two teams
on the field offensive and defensive)
that played even better ball than
they did against Navy.
Again 1 wish to comment on the
tremendous strength of Tatum's
team on defense, which not only
kept strong Michigan State team
bottled up all through the game, ex-
cepting for one brief moment when