Evening star., 1952-10-06

And Of them all it's old Jawn Mze at b
least In this opinion who stands apart. Jawn
will be 20 in January, and this supposed to
to be his last year in the big leagues. But how
can they turn out to pasture old frehorse
who almost Sngle-handedly has kept the
Dodgers from stealing the series from the
Yankees? at.s8
The big good-natured Georgian has hit
three home runs in the last three games one
as pinch hitter He Saturdays game
for Reynolds Black his yeser. r,s s..,.
day with two men On base put Yankees ahead teporariy
One more and ne would have Joined Gehrig as padde
OF four honaers In three successive World games
Technically Mise hit No. out Of park in the 1lth in
ming At time when Brooklyn had es and Carl skine
had retired II straight htter Johnny banged bali over The
ghed barrier Only trouble was that Carl Furlo virtnav
cleared the low fence himself with Of the series
THERE HAVE BEEN 10 homers so far One more today viii
tie the dxgaae Series record set in by the Giants and
Yankees two mere viii tie the output
for seven games in 1895 three Of the 10 and hes
played only two games plus pinc-hittins in another.
It's ronic that the Yankees look to an old National
Lacquer Tor the home punch for which noted Take
away Mze and the Dodgers not only have the better
heldes and better the hardest htte
Take away M7e and the up to now have shown
nothing to Offset the ongba uggng Duke snder Jackie
ESQ far) Gil Hodges ~ 'A~ --'''''
Yogi Berra hoe-run hitter but although he's hit one
In the Series far he hasn't looked like much at the plate
ball but hasn't Indeed Manager Chuck Dresser Of the
Dodgers is beginning to regard Mantle with jaundced eye
DREssEN CAME INTO the Dodeer dressing room last eve
ming with tears in his eyes, kind of game highly
dramatic and sensational When man has stake in it.
as Dresser had misty understandable when
Chuck got squared away he became the familiar
and he saying:
"This Mantle battles me- Reports indicate he can hit
baseball country mile that he's great player Yet we're
leading to o. when he in the fourth inning
lays down bunt-vith two strkes
on him. He beats out but dies base And
remember Mantes the guy who hits EN- far
Ruth"
It hilarious clubhouse the Dodgers They had the
Yankees down World Series rival has the
Onar
home after five unsuccessful attempts in the past
Dresser said "Its Billy Loes for that Rasch
hree-ht winner In the second game, going
Yankees with 81 lead in games Brooklyns resident genius
playing like frontrunning tennis player
set order to extend his opponent before lowering the
In other words Loes regarded ngsot against Rasc
and he couldn't make It, Dresser had Joe Black to pitch the
seventh game.
CARL ERsKnE, CoIIAR-AD type Of person. pitched
most unusual For four innings only him was
Mantes twostrkes bunt Then the Yankees trailing by 40
Jumped him for ve In the middle Of this rally
called time and walked out to speak with his handsome pitcher
It seemed 100 to that Chuck would call for relief pitcher
thought Of taking Carl out You know what said to hmp
said Carl can get out Of this This is ami
versary. Do it for the missus'"
Erkine was talking in the clubhouse "Tlats right"
he verified "They had two across and ahead
only a. Chuck walked back to the bench got Mantle
foul pop; but then threw fast inside to ize-whers
his power h you knowand suddenly became s
Yankees.
T Thoughts sure Dresser would yank me- but he didn't even
out Of the dugout That did my morale lot good"
Erskine with notable assistance Furio on Mzes drive
In the 11 retired the next 10 baters Yankees
got hit in the last six and one-thrd innings
ERSKINE LOOKED AT THE REPORTERS gathered around
him. Any Of fellows believe nuneroogy?" quered
Reason ask is because today fifth wedding anniver
sary In the nth inning the Yankees got I'VE on October
and pitched nve-hter In the fifth game the World
Series 1t not necessary to add that five
fingers ana I'VE toes on each hand ana foot.
Dresser saying that when Johnny
Blackwell he felt confident Wen Sain league we
later against that guy"
In the Yankee clubhouse the tenor enthusiastic
Casey Stenge courteousy always but he
Kept repeating to reporters "Your story
house. They happy and I'm that Dresser has
things to say understand he always does win or lose"
Casey looked old and wan Perhaps he should It isn't
always he's acuey by loss Of World Series
This his fourth shot at and while hasn't missed vet
he's never been down, to and moving yet the enemy
ball park
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