Evening star., 1955-10-04
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW !, ,..ue,, SIAM
Like Candy Coming Apart

NEW york Oct This hasn't been world Series as
convention Of the lame and the halt One two more
days and they'd be fighting out In wheel chairs and
Bellevue How the old Orioles must be spinning In
their graves
The managers don't repay the games each afternoon
their press conferences That is they
pinnacle These up. belong to doctors. trainers
and luck performers candy me who coming
all apart This then merely collection Of random obser-
oted down shortly before the Yankees and Dodgers
go it the agate today in the big No. Take the gam
bers for instance Actually nobody has far The neups
particularly Yankeeschange from day to day Yet the
gamblers called of the six right on the head
Even at 6-to-5, they can't help but have cleaned up
WHEN THIS RAZOR blade sales convention began week
ago both sides claimed casualty lists For the YAM
KEGS Mickey Mantle missing and Bill Skowron had
broken Collins groin ouch and Casey Sengel
had put it:
.Gn McDougad he comes up and says skip don't worry.
can make it.
MAKE it? yeIs. swhyn hell can't you make III?
"T just kinda got back knk something this fellow
tells me- and it's the first know about it."
Jean Hershot the ideal manager to back
in this series the movie doc had managed the Yankees he'd
have perhaps how to surount the injuries and virus
infections which have plagued McDougad Collins Mantle
skowron and, later, Hank Bauer and Irv Noren.
Oh yes, there is Billy Martins cold and sore throat
Claims he got it rong out to his position at second base
Che passes Carl Fro of the Dodgers running from right
field after inning, and inhaled Furilio's germs.
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FURIILo HAD BEEN bed-ridden when this plague began
got up in time homer in his first time at bat Since
then Don Newcombe claimed (seyeral others
the Dodger side having beaten him to IT'D and Duke
Snider has stepped into twisted knee and Jackie
Robinson wearing bandages his right foot %
Seabiscuit his regal under pinnings
They don't need sporswtes and photographers to cover
this SERIES Just internes and xray lab For fragy
this tops them all To return to Stenge
'I position where need pinch hitter, say, and
think Of Mantle Mantle hits both ways-let and right
only of his bum leg he can't hit good but from right
as get leverage SO can't the other guy and
TYran he
sYou what mean? got guy and we can platoon,
guess except that Mantle being switch hitter gotta pla
him. individually" This in the Yankee clubhouse
after yesterdays 5 win and Case spoke he unpeeled his
thick blueblack stockings Gwen verdon Gola Of Damn
Yankeesy had no threat there
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IN THE BROOKLYN clubhouse 1t was less joyous On the
brink OF winning their first World Series In eight tries the
Dodgers managed to get behind O5 in the first inning and
they couldn't do anything with Whitley Ford There those
who cruelty anticipated choke-up Choke" Is not word
you in Astons dressing Office Instead came the
pfatitudes such as:
spooner (KarD might have pitched real good game
If he hadn't got into trouble in the rst inning Aston was
saying "As Karl walked the rs batter Rizzuto
called down to the bull pen and asked how Newcombe
throwing
The answer bac-I say who was on the other
end-hat Newk had thrown and sat down. He didn't have
anything his arm hurt. so we went along with Russ
Meyer"
Yankees remember Meyer the reliever threw
his first pitch down the pipe to Mantle In the 53 Series with
the bases loaded Mantle hit Meyers pitch IA miles into the
left-center stands and the Yanks won, l1-7
THERE Is NO TELLING what Meyer might have done
had started instead Of spooner but guess Blow
top would have held his Whether he could
something others would have to decide but this day
sharp and he's always battler.
Newcombe barring whatever follows as these lines are
written dead He admits II II can't throw but half speedy
and Aston was holding out no hope.
Man says he's got arm, he's got arm" Aston was
telling reporters at his postsame interview "We1 go with
md that hacau
II thought from the first day could beat the Yankees
and Istil think I'm wrong, I'll know in very short
WHILE