Evening star., 1951-10-08

Eddie Stanky comes close to being the
The Giants eftfelder Irwin probably is the closest
thing in baseball to Stan Musial.
1t is not intended either to pretend that the Giants are
without weaknesses Leo Durocher has two outheldrBobby
Thomson and Whitley Lockman-paying in his inield Thev
are not polished in their positions Leos centerelder Willie
Mays shows the nexpeence expected youth of M
His present rgheder Hank Thompson much of hitter
But by and large, Durocher has good ball club Only once
IN many weeks have the Giants looked in the
second playof with the Dodgers when they were
beaten 10 to 0.
BUT THE POINT that of the real good YANKEE teams
wouldn't be having hard time with the in this World
Series The old Yankees wouldn't be relying oun to
get base and they wouldn't dropping because
OF hard slides Nor would they be showing signs panic
This isn't good, oldfashioned Yankee ball club and the
records to date it. Consider you please Casey tenges
outeld Four players so far have played DMaggo Mantle
Bauer and Woodng Their batting average o5s for the
three games That's two hits in "a times at bat.
The Yankee outeders masse scored only two in
these games They batted in total of They are
such far from the outelds bygone days-Meusel
Combs and Ruth Keller Heinrich younger DMaggio-
that for the first time many years National Leame club
Is overpowering Yankee outield
THIS WORLD SERIES might have been a breeze for one
OF those good Yankee clubs To repeat with bow to
the Giants But Durocher club figured to be worn ont after
It's exhaustng and dramatic % overcoming 131-
game lead to tie for the pennant and ) beating Brooklyn
the final game of playof with four-run ninth inning
All this while the Yankees taking easy Thanks to
coapsS the the Red Sox hev m home
unexpectedly early They routine casual workouts while
the Giants were battling for their the playofs And
it's wonder that Stenge subject his warriors to real
live games while waiting for the League rivals to
determine the winner
happened before In la4S for instance ube, ,. Dad
sox romped there was playof between Dodgers and
Cardinals for the National League flag In the nteu the
Red Sox contracted to play what called an team
OF American Leagurs helped sharpen the Red sox al
though the Cardinals supposedly as these esent-
DAY Giants, won the World Series in seven games
BUT PAST HISTORY is of little import at the moment
ne lankees lost the opener to the Giants Kose
suspected they might have been overcondent stale or both
But since that time there's been change of opinion
The Yankees haven't got it, the critics think
hey gnt yet win but they won't be mentioned with The good
YANKEE clubs You might Yankees can't wn
gardess Even they the Giants they1 be considered
cneese championsa werested bunch ball players who
licked an emotionaly and physically drained rival Bnt if the
dleS oeaC the Yankees make it close thing will
be clear ' ~ 'e "
1 be clear that in the League next wear there
won't be solid team-not You start with the Yankee,
and you find that Joe DiMaggio is washed I'D The ped so~
apparently are dead Ditto for the Detroit Tigers ThChicago
whe oox made headlines for half season. they m have
FENCES 70 mend Probably the best ball club the final few
weeks of the American League season. was the phenbis
Athletics who finished sixth
BUT THAT'S NEXT year Now weather nerna+s,n H..
Giants and Yankees at again. Up to todav s been
sfange sort OF srugglea Yankee apparently getting
weaker by the moment and Giant becoming stronger
u Ine YANKEES rarely have been unucky just they've
rarely been unaccomplshed They may have been blessed
oy Yesterdays raw ran which postponed fourth game
All casey Sengel had left against the are of the
Giants Maglie, Johnny sain who was waived out Of the
Natonal League not so ago. Thanks to the rain
hes now got Allie Reynolds properly rested and his
rotation is in order again
All OF which strikes weird ronic chord The deadbeat
a opened tne world Series with Koslo They won with
No. pitcher, beating No. "nonev" ntcher IN psunold
wnen ne Giants also licked Vic Rasch they found themselves
ahead IN games to and with pitching st-npth
the Yanks. 'e -~4e'N 'i'"ii
But the rain osensby has helped the American
MagIe was good bet to beat San Against RevnoId hos
such tanoou But the Giants used to buckinp odds
They've been doing it all year e ""