Evening star., 1960-10-12
WIN,. LOSE OR
DRAW By FRANCIS s7Auu
Ole Case and the Second Guess

another Assuming Old Case blows this World Series-the
gamblers have made the Pirates 4to-l favorites going
INTO todayhe is going to be guessed as never in
MS fe even when stenge managing the doorous old
Boston Braves
segments of the New York press already are banging
away "' ole case VINO at 10 may be managing for the
aSV ume IN the first five games the legerdemain
practceo for SO long, uncanny deserted betrayed him.
Among Stengel'S alleged SINS He benched his regular
third oaSeman Cetis Boyer before the young man with
the magic glove even could bat in the first game
- 1S did nothing to improve Boyers esprit de corps
= ana personal morale He un-boyiShly bitter and
crtcal IN the clubhouse and hasn't been used since ex
cept 1or one at bat He hit safely Meanwhile the aging
Oil McDougald had tough time in his place
OLD Case too, failed to open with Whitley Ford the
pIcher mes always vowed was my money man." True
ordS season record wasn't outstanding but that never
pohered Stengel in the past He only swung to Art
Dtmar monumental third of inning flop in the
opener but overrued himself overnight after the Pirates
mad tied 1t up in games % Instead young Bill Stafford
the apparently rookie Caseys been toutng
Tor six weeks he back with Ditmar who got racked
up again in No Stafford used too late in relief worked
BACK TO FORD: When he esdid get his start last
Saturday he pitched only the single shutout of the
series but was the only pitcher to go innings Let's
say that Casey had opened with Whitley here Critics may
point out that Ford instead of coming back to Pittsburgh
with five days of resnormal for him these days-re-
turned with only three
Sooner later it's to be supposed the law of averages
was Que to catch with the old magician Senge Ball
players who for years Scoed his strategic moves and
wondered what he talking about the bench began
10 believe that Casey possessed remarkable occult powers
1t took time and lot of world championships to convert
Z most OF the unbeieverS but Stengel did it.
Weeks ago Ole Cases retirement was fatty predicted
because Hes too old, too pale and too wrung after
tough game and too rich to play with the boys" when
the Baltimore Orioles to Yankee Stadium virtually
tied with New York. the old showed 'em something
about managing
Either that his luck still was running high In the
most crucial set of the American League the
Yankees made clean sweep and Case opposing the wide
V acknowledged pretender to the title of genius more
than held his own with Paul Richards
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= IN THIS WORLD SERIES Casey has been up against
an even younger prospective genius Orchards is 81 and
Danny Murtaugh just turned 43 and he may have met
his match Caseys critics already saying that Muir
laugh, who has managed only 154-game stretch
land then not often) has learned awful lot about
managing short series.
Danny went with two best pitchers in the opener
Vern Law and Roy Face when Law needed help. It's
doubtful Ole Case used his top in Dtma although
Arts victories were high for the Yankee staff.
Murtaugh went to Bob Friend, his No. boy in the
second game, but still hadn't removed his warming
coat But Case got away with this was games
Ford made it, 21 Yankees But all this ancient history
OF course, which, if even more ancient history in
troduced, might be short cut to the whole situation
Maybe Murtaugh, for instance read the records and
yellowed clips Of 1925 when the Pirates last world
championship and picked up clue two as how to
play snort series.
1T WAS "a YEARS and 362 days ago when the great
Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators beaten
in the mud here at Forbes Field in the seventh game 81
The date: october IS, 1925
Bill McKechne, managing the Pirates found himself
down in games 81 Left for dead, the Bucs swept three
in a to win, from behind the go Pirates can't
match
If pitcher going hot for him, McKechnie didn't
spare the whip. Remy Kremer 43 loser in Washington
30 winner in Pittsburgh October 13 and after
one-day interval the winner Johnson in the big
All during that long and memorable series, Kremer
and Vic Aldrdge pitching warming up so much
that it looked as if their arms would drop off.
Murtaugh isn't Sparng his horses, either, especially
Face Technically the validity of this argument is not
fawleSS Johnson like Kreer, also figured in three deci
sionS But then, he Walter Johnson and he's in the
Hall of Fame And although the Big Train od-qute
bit older than Whitley Fordhe pitched the opener and
thus had two shots