Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-10
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV BY FRANCIS STANN
Epidemic Comma Up

BROOKLYN OCT. lots beginning to look as if the
windup may become thing of the past, possibly
remembered in future years outandish exercise
pracced by pitchers. You what Don Larsen
compished when he voluntarily abandoned the windup
Well, Bob Turey wasn't bad, either.
True, Turey did not win his World Series game-the
sixth He got beat in 10 innings To- after setting
altme strikeout record m for Yankee pitcher in
combat He shouldn't have lost the game his club
had plenty of scoring chances and with all due respect
old Enos Slaughter he did not play left field in the classic
Larsen Turley, the two humpty -dumpties the
Yankees thought they got Baltimore were tremendous
successive days Turey told to forget the winup
just Maury McDermott told Larsen did it his
near the end of the season.
There's going to be epidemic of wndup pitch
ing" Jimmy Dykes saying yesterday Actually there's
really no point in elaborate windups"
DYKES, WHO HELPS BIRDIE TEBBETTs do some deep
thinking member of Cncnnats board of strategy put
it this way
IF pitcher is big and strong like Larsen and Turley
he doesn't need to wind up What does do? supplies
sort of rhythm for the hitter Turley just by
holding the ball in their gloves and suddenly firing eliminate
the rhythm.
The manager coaches of the other club can't very
well call the pchescurve fast ball. knucklerbecause they
can't the ball. Nobody it,"
Ned Carver who not built in the Herculean proper
tons OF Larsen and Tuey has used much of wndup
When you to think of it, quite few of the really good
pitchers have felt that elaborate stretching
the birds Walter Johnsons motion simplicity itself
So was Lefty Groves And who threw baseball harder
than this pair?
Along about the sixth or seventh inning yesterday,
when Turey was busting that fast ball past the Dodgers
press box wag remarked:
Il know that Johnson didn't take much of wndup
but what if he hadn't taken any? He'd have given
up a hit"
1T WAS TOO BAD about Country Slaughter. That line
drive by Jackie Robinson, which broke up the game by
scoring Junior Gillian, off his bat like bullet
it seemed as if Slaughter might snag it, From the press
box-and this vantage point is not necessarily good as
teevision screent the rifle shot wizzed past
Saughter'S left ear.
clubhouse 1T sailed on me- it went good two feet
my head"
Enos had rough day. In the third inning Gillian
lifted high, lazy fly that Slaughter lost in the sun It
dropped his but Country the Yankees were lucky
Gillian tried to make two bases and out slaughters
peg to Billy Martin But the old pappy guy-al plus
also left four teammates stranded on the bases
You felt sorry for Turey who only ga pitcher
during the entire but Glenn Labne didn't deserve
to lose, either The kid age 3O may not have
oeen as spectacular Turey but that seven-hitter he
spun was real beaut
LABINE HAD NEVER STARTED Series game until
yesterday although he's relieved eight times in
There lot OF moxie to this Rhode Islander who one
August afternoon in ST. Louis stopped drive with his
right wrist in the top of the ninth inning off
pitched the bottom of the frame the game then learned
the next day that he had fracture.
Two weeks later Labine had the cast cut of and not
only began to pitch but began to ask for starting assign
ments after career reiever. Did all right too
Glen has been in more ball games than any other
Dodger pitcher the last three years He pitched AZ in
1885 tied the club record last year by appearing
Guiding four in the Seres and this he was in g.
AUD TWO more in this World Series and it So
On yes Was mentioned that this the first series
shutout by Dodger pitcher Bureigh Grimes? That
was back in 1920 when "Boey' blanked Cleveland 80
Still it's too bad about Bob Turey On the day he really
arrived real big, that s--he had to run up against
Laoine But then pretty much the happened Sal
Mage Monday.