Evening star., 1953-09-30

I'll in six" says Harris who in 1947 managed
the Yankees to victory the Dodgers forget
they're still playing the parks You hear
lot about how Brookyns rgh-kanded hers are going to
work the Yankee pitchers Remember that in
Stadium it'll be to l against Duke Snder"
WHAT HARRIS MEANS is that Yankee Stadium scene
of the first two gamesand the sixth seventh neces-
sarnvites home runs by htter The Yankees
have Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Wooding and
Collins drawing beads the low rightield wall only 296
feet away the foul line.
IF Bauer isn't hitting" Bucky further suggests
"Stengel put EN- over that wall
too And don't forget that Johnny Mize apt up
few times.
Against these fellows you've got snder The only other
eft-handed hitter the Brooklyn club is Gillian
isn't going to hit any home runs unless he pulls just
right"
1t may be significant that Harris unlike most Yankee
proponents doesn't claim pitching edge stenges pitchers
be reached, Bucky acknowledges so Brookyns
I've got idea the home be the decisive factor
THIS SCARCELY CONSTITUTES radical conclusion on
Harris part the homerun angle. Both sides pretty
good at it. The Dodgers have hit 2OS this season. Yankees
39 In Ebbets Field it's nothing hit ball the seats
In either direction
league performances Dodgers 60 into this Series
with big alaround edge But any frstgrader knows
it is customary to throw away the
series In the of the Dodgers it's pretty hefty volume
In all, they set equaled 35 league club marks.
They have htters better batting average
shut out far fewer
times On they've got the rght-hand battes-Campa
nella Robinson Furo Hodges Reese Cox and the switch
hitting Gilato plague Yankee Southpaws like Lopat
Ford.
paper" the field are two different things
It's habit of the Yankees win Series Dodgers
to lose em. If going attempt to justify
selection of Brooklyn you've got to throw lot figures
and perhaps, base it all hunch hunch and the
ory of what happened in final Series
which the Yankees by AZ in to triumph by 43 in
games.
CASEY STENCIL really sWeated out that Series. He
threw the best he had in the final game Rasch Lopat
Reynolds, all previous starters
anything over any distance Finally he called Bob Kuzava
from the bullpen
Kuzava, gangly eft-hander has kicked about
with the White Sox Mats is exactly you'd
earsome pitcher For of the sitting
in the bupen and conserving his When Robert be-
gan firing, the Dodgers utterly baffed.
BY comparison with Lopat RaSchi and Reynolds he
must have appeared to be eft-handed Walter Johnson
to life Pretty beaten down themselves they succumbed
dressing rooms difficult to Judge by
the looks of the athletes, which side had which
had lost
Neither Raschi Lopat could thrown ball hard
enough to a mirror AS for Reynolds frankly
moaned, I'm glad don't have much hair. couldn't
1t with my pitching arm"
NOW THEY ARE BACK practically the same pitching
cast But Raschi Lopa Reynolds important year
older The youngest of the Raschi approaching 35
They've got Ford help but this time may easy
to fool the Dodger hitters.
They unaccountably bad in the Series those
Brooklyn baers Hodges went heSs in 81 official times at
bat Campanea Robinson and Furio weren't much better
This quartet the the batting ORDER drove across
total of four in games, batting 15O
And still the Dodgers carried it to the full games
What might have happened if others
had whacked at the right time? But this all by
of getting back to the book away, you say
you grab it again before it hits the ground.