University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1952
Yanks Cop 4th Title in Row On Top Managing by Stengel
New York—(U.P.) It was still "the Champs" for the New York Yankees today: "The Bums" for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Yankees were the champions of the baseball world for the fourth straight year; and those "Bums" had failed again except for their president Walter O'Malley, who was unanimously selected as the world's best loser. $ \textcircled{4} $
Triumphant, 4-2, over the Dodgers in the money game of the 1952 World Series yesterday, the marvelous Yankees had for the second time in their history achieved the feat of winning four consecutive world titles.
Only the Yankees of 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939 had previously accomplished this feat. And so, Casey Stengel—the man the baseball world once dismissed as a clown—stood in the record books with Joe McCarthy as the only managers ever to pilot four straight world champions.
Moreover, the 63-year-old, grizzled old man, who turned in one of the greatest managerial jobs in anybody's memory yesterday, had decided to try for No. 5 and his own little agate line in the record book.
So, it will be Casey and the Yanks trying for No. 5 and baseball history next year. And nothing could be more fitting, for the 1952 World Series which ended with Wednesday's truly great game will henceforth be identified as "Casey Stengel's Series."
How the old master of manipulation compensated for his short-manned pitching staff by "four-platooning" his three stars, Ed Lopat, Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi plus Bob Kuzava, will be one of the heartwarming World Series stories of years to come.
Frat B Teams Begin Season
By RONNIE PHILLIPS Kansan Sports Writer
Fraternity B intramural football teams made their first outing of the season yesterday afternoon in four tilts.
Phi Delta Theta shut out a fighting Sigma Alpha Epsilon outfit 7 to 0 in a close Division III clash. In the Division II duel, Phi Kappa Psi conquered Alpha Epsilon Pi 27 to 6.
With three minutes gone in the first quarter, A E Pi broke the ice with a pass that netted 10 yards and a touchdown. The conversion was missed, however, and the score was 6 to 0.
After that goal, the Phi Pi's were a different ball club. On the march that started on their own 20 yard line, they drove to the A E Pis 20 yard line where Leo Wells fired a long pass which Joe Compton snagged in the end zone for a tally. The attempt for an extra point was stopped by the hustling AEPI defensive line.
The Phi Psi's continued their enthusiasm during the third quarter as they caught the A E Pi's behind their goal line for a safety.
With the score standing at 8 to 6, the Phi Psi's offense proved invincible for they piled up over 200 yards from scrimmage in less than six minutes of play. Out of all the yardage the Phi Psi's racked up, they made two touchdowns and one extra point.
After that flurry of scoring by the Phi Psl's, the A E Pi's spirit was broken. The final stanza saw only one tally, which was a pass from Wells to Fred Dumirem. The conversion was missed and the game dragged to a ragged conclusion.
Delta乙 edged out Kappa Sigma, 19 to 14 in another of the Frat B contests yesterday. The final game saw Phi Gamma Delta romp Sigma乙 Chi 19 to 0.
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Casey, as they say in the world of football men who are now among us, needed the horses, of course. And he had them.
He had, for one, Johnny Mize, an old man who played like a boy. And Mickey Mantle, a boy who played like an old pro. And Reynolds, the magnificent pitcher who hurled his way out of a bases-filled, none-out situation with only one run scored against him in relief of Lopat. And last and certainly not least, Kuzava, who retired Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson on infallible pops with the bases filled and one out in the seventh inning.
These were the two key innings— the fourth and the seventh.
In the fourth, when Lopat gave up singles to Snider, Robinson and Roy Campanella, filling the bases with none out, Stengel made his first big pitching move.
He called in Reynolds, the Chief, to throw the best he had at the opposition when the Dodgers were threatening to crack the game wide open.
Reynolds was making his fourth appearance of the Series. He had lost the first game to Joe Black but had come back to beat him, 2-0, in the fourth game and save the sixth game for the Yankees only the day before by retiring the last four hitters.
A 34-year-old veteran. Reynolds was unaccustomed to such a tax on his arm but he came out of the bullpup, surly and pugacious as only
Reynolds can be, and bailed out the Yankees at the expense of only one Brooklyn run.
But even Reynolds' arm is made of bone and muscle, and the Chief could not do it alone. He was laboring and, in the sixth, when Campanella lined a single to right field off him, he signalled to Stengel to warm up another pitcher. Reynolds had enough to get out of the inning and Stengel made his second big move in the next inning.
He brought in Raschi, who had pitched almost eight innings the day before.
Raschi, like Reynolds, was 'off but he struggled through until the Dodgers filled the bases with one out in the seventh and Snider was the hitter. Then, once again, the nimble-brained Stengel made a pitching move.
This time, his man was Kuzava, a left-hander of indifferent success during the season, but the perfect man to pitch to Snider because he had the fast ball to keep the Duke, and he could do it with series, from pulling the ball toward the short right field wall at Ebbets field.
Kuzava ran the count to 3 and 2 and then retired Snider on a pop fly to the infield.
And Stengel would have been royally second-guessed if he had lost. He left the left-handed Kuzava in the game to pitch to the right-handed Robinson, and Casey won. When Robinson popped to Billy Martin.
When Martin caught the ball,
Stengel leaped out of the Yankee
dugout and rubbed his hands. He
was "in" and he knew it.
For Mantle, the 20-year-old kid whom the draft board loves to look at, this Series earned the highest of plaudits. For the Dodgers unanimously agreed that Mickey had more than made up for the Yankees' loss of Joe DiMaggio. There is no higher praise.
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