The Key West citizen., 1954-09-30
By GAYLE TALBOT

NEW YORK R,-It will be neceS-
sary to 60 on and play out the
World Series, but it is difficult to
think Of anything that might hap
pen from here ON that the boys
didn't dish up in that 10-inning
opener yesterday at the Polo
Grounds.
That was a real hard rock of
a baseball game, from the moment
the first ball was thrown until,
more than three tense hours later,
Dusty Rhodes draped the fourth
pinch homerun in all World Series
history into the right field stands
to wrap it up for the underdog
New York Giants so.
The Giants today were in an ad-
vantageous position. They have the
fully rested Johnny Antonelli, 21-
game winner, poised for a second
thrust at the Cleveland Indians
today. Antonelli, lefthander,
figured from the start to possibly
give the Indians the most trouble.
Bob Lemon, one of the Indians
two 23-game winners absorbed
yesterdays defeat. Early Wynn,
the other big winner, was Manager
AL Lopez's choice for the second
game, starting at l pm. Another
capacity crowd, matching yester-
days 52,571 turnout, was expected.
The weather forecast was cloudy
! and warm.
Yesterdays game was the sort
that two fighting league champions
as the Giants and the Indians
figured to put on. The feeling here
is that it set the pattern for what
may be one of the greatest play
offs in hisory. The Indians are
not beaten by a long way, but the
club must have been jolted out of
its complacency and made to know
that it faces a grim battle.
It Is true that Rhodes climactic
Swipe was very much of the
Oriental variety for which the Polo
Grounds Is notorious. No shorter
homerun can be hit in any ball
park than was this 270-foot Speci-
men that a fan muffed only inches
above the green barrier. But it
also is a fact that the slugging
Indians had the same target to
shoot at all through the sunny af-
ternOOn.
Of deep satisfaction to Leo Du-
rocher's club was the fact that it
stayed in there and finally de-
feated Cleveland's best.
Also of glad tidings to the win
nerS was the manner in which their
relief star, the veteran Marv Girls
som, walked in there to stop the
Tribe in its tracks after their
starter, Sal Maglie, suddenly felt
his 81 years In the eighth inning
and his reliever, Don Liddle, had
been clouted for one of the longest
and most sensational putouts ever
seen anywhere.
And last, but far from least, it
was their wonder boy and official
team electrifier, Willie Mays, who
saved the game with his truly
amazing over-shoulder catch of
Vic Wertz' towering 450-foot smash
to the centerfield wall with two
Indians on base and none out in
the eighth.
The boy from Alabama didn't
get hit off Lemons sinking stuff,
but he gave notice that he viii
be a telling factor all the way with
that catch and his steal of second
after Lemon had walked him for
the second time with one out in
the 10th. The steal caused the
Indian ace to pass Hank Thompson
purposely to set up a possible
double play, and that gave Du-
rocher the opportunity to insert
the lefty swinging Rhodes for
slumping Monte Irwin.
The best Irwin had been able to
do in four tries was lay down d
sacrifice bunt, and more than a
little complaint had been heard in
our section that Leo still had
Rhodes sitting upon his hands
when things looked 50 desperate.
J The record crowd of 52,751 gave