Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-27
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Now IS the Time
NEW YORK, Sept. 27-n the Brooklyn Dodgers ever are
going to win World Series illustrating tomorrow IN
Yankee Stadus good time launch the project
The Dodgers made runaway Of the National League race
and what they're facing OF the lesser Yankee clubs
ut amt best but this gang has got lot Of moe
and like for it the other eers has got per-
centages on their de' Senge Of the Yankees
in one Of his more erudite utterances.
Brooklyn has three regulars - Roy Campanella Carl
Furio and Duke Snider-hitting better than $780, with Gil
Hodges not The Yankees have only Mickey Mantle
now dsmantled with thigh alment in the 800 bracket
The Dodgers % games, coasting after taking
ridiculous early the The Yankees barely made
it with s6 victories very bad league so bad in fact that
the ast-pace Senators practically the pennant for
them by beating the Indians.
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THERE rs PLENTY 81 reason, however. to like the
Yankees chances thing they have been in cruel
and crude competition since the started In mid
April The Dodgers haven't They took the bit real early
and romped Milwaukee fell apart and so did the Giants
and Cardinals
The net result was that Brooklyn got sloppy toward the
end raising again the question Of whether rested ball
club (Brookyn) better fitted for World Series than
club New York; which had to fight for life practically
down to the wire.
Bucky Harris who did such swell job Of finishing No
with the Tigers Of the opinion that Just year ago
Cleveland attempting record for won loused
up its World Series chances
why those guys had to win III games Is beyond me-
Bucky says IN trying for they using Lemon
up those pitchers for the Giants.
Il think the Giants who didn't win anywhere close to
III games and had to make 1t the hard way were better
off for it"
The result-Giants 4 Indians, o-would seem to sub
stantiate Harris.
TT WAS BY 1917 game margin that Brooklyn won the
National League pennant but this is not necessarily gnif-
cant The Dodgers club Campanela while great
OF the bat and at the plate spring chicken Nor
are Peewee Reese and few others, all key personnel
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nection World Series there couple Of reasons
the first place big town takes while 70 simmer
down from fight like the Rocky Marciano-A Archie Moore
affair and secondly there was the rich and important Sy
sonby Saturday horse wherein Nashua no less
learned to respect his elders.
Finally Yankee Dodger World Series Is becoming
pretty old hat that the Brooks chuck it when the
chips down. but for fact they haven't done any good
in this autumnal game Of showdown.
Just in anybody mite fuzzy about the history
OF the Dodgers World Series play it all started back In
1916 when the Brookyns got beat BY the Boston Red sox
The beloved Uncle Wlbert Robinson managed the Flat
bushers in those days. just he did In 1920, when the
Cleveland Indians trimmed the Dodgers
NOW TWO LICKNGs in succession--well, you
not considered rut-bu starting In 1871 the Dodgers
did get into rut Two ruts in fact They kept winning
the National League pennant and rolling and playing
dead for the Yankees
The very first time they were out front, two games
apiece and holding 43 in the top Of the ninth inning OF
the fifth game when Relief Pitcher Hugh Casey threw
something odd that eluded Catcher Mickey Owen 1t
such an exceptional pitch that Tommy Heinrich, who would
the final out, swung and missed itand wound
up on first base.
Heinrich and others later scored and the Yankees
by IA The Dodgers quite recovered
They back In business in 1947, but again the
Yankees opposed them this time led by Bucky Harris This
the Series In which Yogi Berra discovered there
second base athough he seemed to reach 1t with
throw and Jackie Robinson made his debut-as first
baseman, job for which he had been meticuousy I'M
trained-at Montreal
took the Yankees games to win this what
with osetting Pete Reiser, who couldn't get the
sun his eyes This the Series indeed in which
a haf-forgoten Yankee pitcher named Bill Bevens had
no-her going in the last Of the ninth and then Cookie
Layageto beat him. 3d. with double against the fence
IN rs AND 20 Wilbert Robinson managing the
Brooks Al it Leo Durocher and in Al 1t Burt
shotton standing in for Leo because The Lip
pended crusty old who acted as he were skipper
under duress. Shotton got beat by the Yankees, too
Shotton however, to manage with equal lack Of
the 1949 World Series making five defeats in
row for Dodgers Then that Burt quit the whole
business and hid away at Barlow, Fla
The last two times out jolly Choly Dresser had the
stewardship of the Dodgers This was in 1852 and 1858 and
as becoming customary Brookyn tormentors the
Yankees They up jolly Choy pretty good after
his Brooks had los games in 49, and the hasn't
recovered since.