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University Daily Kansan
Yank Rookie Ruins Giants With Grand Slam; Win 13-1
New York—(U.P.)—The New York Giants groped like shell-shocked men today for that miracle touch that carried them to the National League pennant as Leo Durocher called on left-hander Dave Koslo to face Vic Raschi in the sixth game of the World Series and keep the Giants' hopes alive.
Trailing the Yankees, three games to two, after yesterday's fearful 13-to-1 shellacking, the Giants faced a sudden end to their Cinderella story with the series scene shifting to Yankee Stadium for the sixth—and, if necessary—the seventh games.
The feeling was that the Giants had at last lost their magic touch and the odds-makers supported that by establishing the Yankees as 9 to 5 choices if Durocher sticks with Koslo, surprise opening game winner, against Raschi.
Iney hedged a bit, however,
should Durocher decide overnight
to go with stuff-ball pitcher Jim
Hearn. In that event, the Yankees
will be only 17 to 10 choices to win
today.
The Giants, therefore, once more and an uphill struggle and surprisingly seemed quite confident that they could pull out the World Series victory just as they had the National League pennant.
"The Yankees have only won three." Durocher cried. "And they need four."
"We're still in there as long as there is a game to play tomorrow," echoed Giant shortstop and captain Alvin Dark.
Fraley's Follies Feature Texas
New York—(U.P.)—Oscar Fraley's follies and the weekend football "winners"—along with some palpating press box observations on the World Series.
Game Of The Week
Home Plate Specials
Texas over Oklahoma—It's take two and hit to right in this one and you could be correct either way. From my eerie eyrie in the Yankee stadium Texas just seems a shade too strong.
Georgia over Maryland - Mize and Hearn are cracking crackers.
Alabama over Villanova—Stanky is a 'Bama bov.
The East
Penn over Princeton—Seeming like as good a reason as any.
Army over Dartmouth—There's been at least one error in every game.
Illinois over Syracuse—The Giants have the most.
Columbia over Yale—Their big one came yesterday.
Fordham over Boston College-In showing up!
The South
Also: Rutgers over N.Y.U. Lafayette over Muhlenberg, Delaware over P.M.C., Temple over Albright and Lehigh over Gettysburg.
Georgia Tech over LS.U.—On a Barrymputer put out against Raschi.
Kentucky over Mississippi State-Dark is the top actor.
Holy Cross over Tulane—Maglie a contender.
dississippi over Vanderbilt—For character acting,
Purdue over Miami-Iimagine a 7:20 era for the barber.
Also: Wake Forest over W. and M.; Tennessee over Chattanooga (for shame); Florida over Auburn, Duke over North Carolina State, George Washington over Virginia Tech, North Carolina over South Carolina and West Virginia over Richmond.
The Mid-West
Notre Dame over S.M.U.—Colle-
man is the series' collar, ad gruv.
Ohio State over Wisconsin—It's Berra on a naked reverse.
Michigan State over Marquette
-DiMag is the glamour guy.
Northwestern over Minnesota— But I'd rather watch Laraine.
Iowa over Pitt-Even if she can't play the outfield.
Also: Indiana over Michigan,
Cincinnati over Louisville, Drake
over Detroit, Kansas over Utah, Colo-
ado over Missouri, Kansas State
over Iowa State and Nebraska over Penn State.
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1951
As a whole the Giants seemed to write off the nightmare game which snapped them out of their dream world. They pointed out that everyone had said they had lost their magic touch when they dropped the second game of the N. L. playoff series to the Dodgers, 10-0, only to rebound with their astounding 5-4 ninth-inning victory the following day.
At that, the Giants probably played no worse yesterday than they did in that crushing loss to the Dodgers.
But the prevailing feeling was that the Yankees were in the drivers' seat for the first time and that the combination of their defense, know-how and pitching would surely be enough to win one of the two remaining games.
Yankee manager Casey Stengel emphasized that he would not give the Giants a chance to "pick up" and would send veteran and experienced Raschi at them today in a purposeful attempt to wind it up.
Raschi, loser of the third game to the Giants but a 21-game winner during the regular season, will be working with his normal three days of rest. Despite his defeat in the third game, the Yankees generally regard him as their steadiest clutch pitcher. The six-foot, three-inch 220-pound right-hander pitched a strong game last Saturday until Eddie Stanky made his famous "field goal" that kicked the ball out of shortstop Phil Rizzuto's glove and opened the gates for five unearned Giant runs.
Koslo, a, stocky, curve-baller,
beat the Yankees, 5-1, in the opening.
Durocher insisted that Dave would
be the pitcher although, there was
spread speculation that Lee
would be the pitcher. Roschi
in the third game over night.
Stengel is expected to re-insert right-handed hitter Hank Bauer in the Yankee lineup today if Durocher sticks with Koslo, that would mean that Joe Collins, who played right field Tuesday, would return to first base and that Gil McDougald would play third base and Coleman would play second.
The Giants were surprisingly loose and easy following the holocaust Tuesday. They seemed to feel it was merely a case of losing a game because one of their frontline pitchers, Larry Jansen, pitched one frightful inning.
Jansen certainly had no excuses.
He asked for trouble by walking Gene Woodling and Phil Rizuto
New York—(U.P.) —The New York Giants were only one game from World Series extinction Wednesday but they still were talking about their astonishing National League pennant victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
It is obvious that the entire series has been a letdown for the Giants after their pulse-stopping victory over the Dodgers.
It is almost as if they are satisfied with having put on a creditable showing against rugged odds in a series which to them is strictly anticlimax. They're straining every muscle to beat the Yankees, of course, but Giant manager Leo Durocher has indicated twice during the series that his team simply has been unable to "get up" for the series.
He said before the second game that several of his players had come to him and told him they "were saving a hard time getting excited about the series" and didn't want him to feel they were letting him down if they didn't appear to be playing their best game.
"I understand that," Durocher said then. "As far as I'm concerned, the National League pennant victory was my vindication."
And then yesterday, Durocher sat back in the Giant clubhouse and recalled Bobby Thomson's three-run ninth-inning home that won the third game of the playoff series and gave the Giants the pennant.
Texas A. & M. Boasts UP Coach Of Week
And a punch in the nose proved he was a great head coach.
New York—(U.P.) A lunge at the blocking dummy proved he was a great line coach.
That's the story of Ray George of Texas A. A. and M, the United Press coach of the week. Fielding a team in what may be the toughest conference in football, this massive man directed his charges to an upset triumph over Oklahoma Saturday night.
The lunge at the blocking dummy. That's really Ray George's creed. Action speaks louder than words. Last January A. and M. was looking for a Line coach and, as luck would have it, the N.C. A.A. convention was at Dallas, Texas.
The coaches at the convention buzzed with the word that Ray George was the kind of line coach to have. Texas A. and M. hired him—and realized at the first practice that the right man was on the right job.
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'Scooter' Tells About 'Brat'
New York—(U.R.)—Nice guys are bound to finish ahead of scrappy Eddie Stanky, insists amiable Phil Rizzuto, who won't get angry at anyone.
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"You're playing right into Stanky's hands when you get mad at him," said little Phil, who was kicked for a "field goal" by the Giant second sacker in the third game of the World Series.
"That's what he wants you to do"
added Rizzuto. "He wants you to get so mad at him that you forget all about winning the ball game.
That's the trouble with most of the guys who play against him. They get so peeved, they concentrate more on him than they do on winning the ball game."
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"Holy Cow!" exclaimed the Yankee shortstop, "That isn't so at all.
Someone called attention to a newspaper story which said Rizzuto would "throw the ball down Stanky's throat" next time the Giant infielder ran into his path.
You think I'd lose the double play just to hit Stanky with the ball? Never in a million years. Making the play means more to me. Let the other guys get mad and lose: I'm more interested in disregarding him and winning."
"The Brat's" diamond wiles are nothing new to Rizzuto, who members bantam Eddie "way back when."
"Stanky and I played together in the Piedmont league back in 1938," Rizutto recalled. "He was with Portsmouth and I was with Norfolk.
"When he'd come into second base, he'd grab my pants and twist me around, trying to break up the double play. What did I know? I was only a kid then.
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