Monday. Sent. 14, 1853 University Daily Kansan
Page 7
Brooks Look Better Than Yanks, But—
By STAN HAMILTON
Kansan Sports Writer
With the pennant races in the two major leagues all but wrapped up by New York and Brooklyn, the time has come to look over the possibilities inthe forthcoming World Series, only three weeks away.
Many observers seem to believe that the Dodgers, pride of the senior circuit, will romp over the defending world champion Yankees, but a game would be identical and team statistics makes this prediction seem rather hazardous.
While it is true that the Dodgers are about 12 points ahead of the Yankees in team batting and are in front of the American league entry in practically every other batting department, their pitching leaves something to be desired.
The Yanks lead the junior league in runs batted in at this date and are second to Cleveland in round trippers, but their pitching staff of Whitey Ford, Ed Lopat, Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds, Johnny Sain, etc., must be rated higher than Brooklyn's.
At first base, for a rundown on each position, the Dodgers' Gil Hodges seems to rank a shade above the Yankee foursome of Joe Collins, Don Bollweg, Gus Triandos, and Johnny Mize. Hodges started the season in a terrible slump, but since early August has been pounding the ball with the old zest and is now well over the .300 mark. While Bollweg is hitting a bit better than Hodges, the Yank rookie has batted less than 150 times, and Joe Collins is hitting in the .260s.
Triandos, brought up in mid-season, has fit well into Casey Stengel's "sit-em-on-the-bench" system, and has gotten almost no experience. Mize, past the usual retirement age, has proved invaluable as a pinch hitter, but has played few innings in the field.
Scrappy little Billy Martin of the Yanks and Junior Gilliam of Brooklyn are almost even at second. Neither has a phenomenal hitting average, but Gilliam is about ten points higher than Martin. Both are excellent glove men. Also a possibility exists that, Cornu, Coleman
who was recently discharged from the Army, may round into good playing condition to help in the fall classic.
We won't try to solve the age-old argument of Peeewe Reese vs. Phil Rizzuto at shortstop. Both are over the hill, so to speak, but, great men that they are, still continue to overshadow many other fielders in either league. Rizzuto's batting average is the healthier of the two, however.
At third, it's Gil McDougald to compare with Billy Cox of Brooklyn. Cox is an old-timer, who can come through when the pressure is on, an important requisite in a short series. McDougald, A l罗ookie of the year in 1951, is a capable performer, and he has been a star here. Here the two seem almost even, with Cox possibly a hair's breadth over McDougald.
Then on to the outfield and a real ground for squabble. The front-line Dodger gardeners, Jackie Robinson, Carl Furillo, and Duke Snider, are each hitting over 320. The three Yankee regulars, Hank Bauer, Gene Woodling, and Mickey Mantle, are grouped around 305, meaning that a good majority of the base hits in the series may be by these six.
The general concensus of opinion is that when these two teams meet, the best pair of backstops in the business will be playing against each other. Roy Campanella of Brooklyn and Yogi Berra, while not hitting in his usual high .306s, is still the big RBI man on the Yanks.
Last come the pitchers, and, rather than stir up bitter arguments, here's merely the list of men most likely to see action in the series.
The big four of the Yankee staff have been Ford, the diminutive southpaw who was released from the army last spring and who has been the big winner for the Bronx Bombers; Lopat, the lefty jung man; Raschi, the hurler known for his ability to win the "big" game; Reynolds, who has done most of his work in relief this summer, and Sain, the swarthy tobacco-chewing curve specialist, who picked up most
of his wins for the Stengelmen in the early months of the campaign.
For the Bums, skinny Preacher Roe, who has been used infrequently by manager Charley Dressen, has compiled an envious won and lost mark, and is dangerous if given adequate rest.
Clem Labine, Carl Erskine, and Russ Meyer have been the main pillars of strength on the mound this year and will undoubtedly see more than one game of action against the Yankas. Billy Loes, too, gives Dressen a reliable starter, and although the 1952 ace, Joe Black, has not been exactly a ball of fire this season, he is to be feared.
There you have it. Take our word for nothing and draw your own conclusions. A lot of things can happen in a 7-game series.
Engineers Official Retires
Victor M. Cone, chief engineering assistant and head of the engineering division of the Nashville district, Corps of Engineers, retired Aug. 31. Mr. Crone, who received a degree in civil engineering at the University in 1906, had been in federal service for 37 years.
Survey Makes Auburn Map
A topographic map of the Auburn quadrangle, covering 60 square miles of territory southwest of the Topeka quadrangle in southern Shawnee county, is ready for distribution by the State Geological Survey.
The sheet is the first topographic map of Kansas areas to become available this year under the cooperative topographic program of the Federal and State Geological Surveys.
The other topographic maps of Topeka and vicinity that have been issued are the Topeka and Grantville quadrangles. Three maps of Perry, Williamstown, and Lawrence West are in print and soon a complete set of area maps from just west of Topeka to Lawrence will be available.
Copies of the topographic maps, which should be ordered by quad-rangle name, may be obtained for 20 cents each from the U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, or from the State Geological Survey at the University.
1953 Schedule
Sept. 19 TCU, at Ft. Worth.*
Sept. 25 UCLA, at Los Angeles.*
Oct. 3 Iowa State, here, band day.
Oct. 10 Colorado, Boulder.
Oct. 17 Oklahoma, Norman.
Oct. 21 SMU, here.
Oct. 31 Nebraska, Lincoln.
Nov. 7 K-State, here.
Nov. 14 Oklahoma A&M, here.
Nov. 14 Missouri, here, home-
coming.
* Night.
*Night.
All home games start at 2 p.m.
Geological Director To Assist in Survey
John C. Frye, executive director of the State Geological Survey at the University, is one of six members of a committee named by the secretary of the interior to undertake a management study of the operation of the United States Geological Survey.
Objective of the committee will be to determine if the work of the Federal Geological Survey may be accomplished more efficiently.
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