Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-09
WIN, LOSE OR
UkAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
And Finally It's Down to Sherry


CHICAGO, OCT 9.-Early Wynn cut across third
strike to Jim Gillian to open the sixth and final game Of
the World Series From the press box it didn't look if
of WynnS strikes had been the plate But that's
how the cagy 39year-od Indian pitches, moving the ball
here and there nicking the corners when he can.
But after Wynn had retired Gillian so mpresSvely
it became patent that he aboring The hters began
to give him hard time. With two out in the third
Dodger inning, Early walked Wally Moon.
Then Duke Snider, who had taken some mighty plush
SW1sheS at Wynns pitches without connecting, hit ball
far into the seats and it 20 Dodgers And you sensed
then that was the beginning of the end for the White
Sox playing their first World Series in 40 years
Wynn didn't have it, and neither did Dick Donovan
second OF AL Lopez six pitchers Of Wynn and Donovan
the Dodgers scored six in the fourth inning
and that the ball game, the first honest White
series since 1917 the first ever by Los Angeles etc. ETC.
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IN THE SOX' DRESSING ROOM Lopez was properly
downcast The manager with the atime best record of
any baseball genius (hes never finished lower than
ond began I'VE got the hell beat out of U.s." Wynn, who
is tough loser in any game, shrugged his shoulders
They beat me in L. A. boopers" Early said, omit
ting any reference to collapse in the famed Chicago
defense To-day they really clobbered me-"
Undoubtedly there will be some who will charge that
Los Angeles wasn't beating much of ball club that the
White Sox the American League pennant in freak
year when the Yankees down. Even before yeSter
days game there report that Charlie Neal second
baseman of the Dodgers had been quoted saying, IF
the Sox were in the National League they wouldn't have
finished in the top four"
Wynn GRIM bearded, listened to the talk. Maybe"
he mused Meal has been watching the series from the
wrong standpoint Hes been on his feet too long"
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THE DUGOUT INTERPRETERS, especially those who
know of WynnS dog-e t-dog philosophy wondered
whether it meant that Early would tuck pitch under
Meals chin at the first opportunity. All wonderment
ceased when Wynn did blow back Neal the first time
at bat
But Neal recovered and hit broken-bat single first
of three hits for the day. He is pretty tough little guy
and good hitter If it weren't for Larry Sherry Gil
Hodges Duke Snider Carl Furio in fact, he
would have been the World Series star
But this distinction, apparently belongs to Sherry the
cocky 24-year-od Jewish boy who up from the
minors during mid-seaSon and performed many
drouS deeds for the Dodgers not only in the SERIES but
in the stretch drive for the pennant and in the playo
against the Braves.
Sherry is something to watch. This is kid who had
trouble winning in the high minors but when he
into action he to take command Remember Frpo
Marbery back in 1924 and 1925? Sherry walks onto the
field like old Firpo He is all and legs Stridng pur-
posefuly He doesn't fiddle dawde when he gets his
sign.
The resin bag at the mound is important thing to
most pitchers They must touch it, throw it aside, and
then pitch
Sherry doesn't fool around much with the resin bag
sign of indecision, he probably figures.
IN THE DODGERS DRESSING ROOM the winners
yelling. They suddenly little richer and Just
suddenly, little cauStic.
Those guys (the White Sox) talked about lousy
ball park Well, beat 'em two out of three games in
COSKey Park and TWO out OF three In the Los Angeles
Coliseum Where else do they want to make it Stick?"
There remain stawartS who insist that the 1859
series matched the two worst teams since World War H.
They point to the fact that neither side could produce
pitcher who lasted the route something unprecedented
The detractors say the hters aren't what they used
to be- either and that the felders have bad hands They
single Luis Aparco having been overrated Every
body knows that off his series performance Aparicio
no Super-Star.
And yet on the other hand didn't the old pros land
how treSome that phrase has become need the help of
young guy like Sherry to bring off for the Dodgers?
LOS ANGELES WIRING 1T all out of Hodges and
Furo both in the pennant playo and the SERIES They
were purely wonderful playing up to their old Sklls.
Neal however is no odser, and he may have been the
pest heder on either side Maybe even the most valuable
pan Player although mighty question could be raised
there.
In any vote as to the series most valuable player
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