Evening star., 1952-10-04
Jugg|er Stenge| Gets
Test With Berra and
Three Others Injured
By Burton Howkins
Stor Stoff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-The
Dodgers had the proud Yankees
dazed. bruised and set up for q
crushing blow today. No less than
four Yankees were in doubtful
condition as the teams squared
of for the fourth game of the
World Series at Yankee Stadium
and that expert juggler, Casey
Stengel. was being put to the
supreme test.
New York's lineup remained q
mystery until shortly before game
time. for Stengel was beset by a
flock of injuries and irritated by
Joe Collins failure to hit. He
was considering supplanting Col
Inns with ancient. slow moving
but powerful Johnny Mize at first
base.
But that move depended on the
availability of other players. Yogi
Berra was nursing a puffed index
finger on his left hand. Mickey
Mantle has aggravated an old
knee injury. Billy Martins left
knee was swollen badly. Gil Nc
Dougald had a bruised left wrist.
The overnight response to treat
ment of those injuries figured to
be an important factor. for Brook
lyn carried a 2-1 game edge into
today's contest as the result of
beating the Yankees, So, yester-
day before a crowd of 66,698 at
Yankee Stadium.
Various Shifts Considered.
Stengel was weighing the pos
sibility of sending Collins to the
|outf1eld if Mantle was unavailable.
He was considering shifting Nc
Dougald to second base and send
ing Jim Brideweser to third base
providing McDougald was fit and
Martin wasn't. He was trying
to make a choice between Charley
Silvera and Ralph Houk if Berra
wasn't ready.
Casey, in short. had a multitude
of problems. He was pitching
Allie Reynolds with two days rest
against a more youthful Joe Black,
also operating with the same
amount of rest but with a strong
arm which had been tested for
resiliency and found sound.
The Yankees had reason to be
panicky. The Dodgers had them
on the run with their aggressive
baseball. The Yankees, needing
a win to square the series, were
crippled. The Dodgers, confident
after upsetting the odds in two
of the first three games, were
intent on pursuing their advan-
tage.
Berra Figures to Press.
Berra, if available, figured to
be pressing in order to atone for
a passed ball yesterday which
broke the game wide open at a
time when the Dodgers were cling
ing to a 80 lead. Berra's boot
enabled the Dodgers to score two
runs and made Yogi goat despite
the fact he accounted for three
of the Yankees six hits off ac-
complished Preacher Roe.
Yogi clouted home run, double
and single. His eighth Inning
homer sliced the Dodgers ad-
vantage to 80, but in the ninth
he permitted a pitch by Reliever
Tom German to escape him, and
in the ensuing confusion the
Dodgers romped off with the de-
cision. .....
Peewee Reese and Jackie Rob-
inson singled with one out to
chase Ed Lopat. They negotiated
a double-steal, with Reese getting
a tremendous jump toward third
base against German. Roy Cam
PAMELA popped out to ease the
pressure on German, but Berra
allowed a pitch to glance off his
mitt.
Mize's Homer Meaningless.
While Berra searched vainly for
the ball, which had caromed to
his left and trickled to the field
boxes, Reese scored and Robin
son romped all the way home from
second base to score standing,
Those two runs lifted the Dodgers
into a So command and relegated
a ninth-inning pinch homer by
Johnny Mize to comparative in
significance.
Mize's homer was the seventh
of the series, though, and ad-
vanced the teams closer to a
World Series record set by WASH
ingtcn and Pittsburgh in 1925,
when they blasted a combined
IL home runs.
Berra's left index finger, which
he holds outside his mitt, was
banged by Germans pitch. Nc
Dougald's wrist was damaged by
Gil Hodges grounder in the sew
enth inning. Martins left knee
which buckled under him in last
years World Series with the
Giants, repeatedly is giving him
trouble more as the result of
steady play than because of any
particular instance in this series