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University Daily Kansan Friday. October 1. 195
Antonelli Says Tribe Is Rough as Dodgers
By JOHNNY ANTONELLI (As told to the United Press)
It's a toss-up who's rougher, the Indians or the Dodgers.
Don't let anyone tell you that Cleveland ball club isn't hard to beat right down to the last pitch. Of course, the Dodgers eat up left-handed pitchers while the Indians seem to have a little more trouble with southpaws.
I had some troubles of my own out there yesterday. They tell me I left 13 Indian runners on the bases. Do you know all I have to say about that? Good. I wouldn't care if there were 25 guys standing out there, so long as they didn't score on us.
Frankly, I was tickled to have a small part, a very small part, in the first two runs we scored in the fifth. Of course, Dusty Rhodes came through with the big hit in that inning when he tied the game with his single.
When I came up with one out and the bases full, I made up my mind I was merely going to try to meet the ball. I hit that grounder to Bobby Avila and I knew he made the force at second but I gave it all I had to beat the relay to first. I knew I was safe because I could feel it. I arrived at the bag a second before the throw did. It certainly felt good to see Hank Thompson cross with the run that put us ahead.
I guess I began to get a little tired near the end. Leo Durocher told me to keep bearing down when he came out to the mound to talk with me in the seventh.
When Vic Wertz came up with two on and two out in the ninth, I was especially careful with him. I remembered what he did to us Wednesday and I wasn't going to make the same mistake.
Most of the pitches I threw him were fast balls. Seemed like he must have fouled 10 of them. But then I came in with another fast one, a little high maybe, and Wertz hit it out toward left.
It made me real warm inside when I saw Dusty haul it in for the ol' ball game.
Hawkers, Venders Ready for Crowd
Cleveland — (U.P.) — Ticket collectors, ushers, program hawkers, and hot dog venders stood ready at Cleveland's huge municipal stadium today for another onslaught of fans who hoped to cheer the Indians to victory over the Giants in the third game of the World Series.
Despite Cleveland's two losses, and the consequently dulled enthusiasm, a capacity crowd was expected to jam the lake-front stadium.
Bucky Harris Agrees To Manage Tigers
Detroit—(U.P.)—Bucky Harris, fired last week as manager of the Washington Senators, today agreed to manage the Detroit Tigers for the 1955 season.
Mr. Harris, 58, accepted a telephone offer from Detroit president Walter O. (Spike) Briggs and said he would sign a one-year contract with the Tigers after the World Series.
It will mark his second tour of duty with the Tigers. He directed the team from 1929 through 1933 and came to Detroit from Washington on that occasion. Mr. Harris succeeds Freddie Hutchinson who resigned yesterday because the Tigers would not give him a two-year contract.
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Cleveland — (U.P.)— The "Big Bear" of the Cleveland Indians was modestly hopeful that things would be "a lot different" as he ambled to the mound today against the New York Giants.
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"The Bear" is Edward Mike Garcia, the mammoth right-hander who pitches today's third game of the World Series. And, with the once-favored Indians two games down, he has to do something which such stars as Bob Lemon and Early Wynn couldn't do.
The Indians blame their current plight on the Polo Grounds—and not on the Giants. Coming back to huge Municipal stadium, they were unanimous in their feeling that the Polo Grounds is a "top fly palace" and something akin to playing in a closet.
Dusty Rhodes' 10th inning homer which won the first game was distinctly of the "Chinese" variety, an oriental smash which didn't travel 300 feet down the foul line. And the hit by Rhodes which tied them up yesterday was described wrathfully as a "blooper."
Being home, he figured, might just be what the doctor ordered.
"If they get a home run here in Cleveland it will have to be a real home run," Garcia summed it up. "And here those short chops which the Giants aim along the foul lines will, just be a time at bat for them."
Garcia actually was reluctant to talk as he prepared to face those pesky Giants who upset the National league this season and seem effectively bent on doing the same thing to the Indians in the Series. He didn't want folks to think he was popping off—particularly in view of the fact that the Giants just possibly might make it three in a row with him as the chief sacrifice.
The 30-year old Mexican from San Gabriel, Calif., won 19 as the Indians captured the American league flag and he can be described as hopeful.
"I'd like to win one for my wife and two-month-old son, Mike," he said.
Gomez Catches Team As Plane Takes Off
New York—(U.P.)-Ruben Gomez, the Giants' starting pitcher in today's third game of the World Series, almost missed the team's plane to Cleveland last night.
The Puerto Rican right-hander got caught in a traffic jam on the way to LaGuardia airport and finally arrived just as the plane prepared to take off. Gomez dashed across the field, wildly waving his arms, and a special ladder was dropped from the plane's cabin door to help him aboard.
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Table Tennis Meeting Dance to Follow Game
All persons, men or women, interested in forming a table tennis club at the University, are asked to meet in room 306 in the Student Union at 4 p.m. today.
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The Tigers held only skull practice today, after a light workout yesterday.
Faurot replaced Pete Corpeny at end with Jim Jennings, and Bob Bauman at fullbcak with Ray Detring.
Bud French scored 138 points playing four years of football for Kansas.
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