THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
NL Flag To Cinderella Club World Series Starts Today
New York—(U.P.)—The New York Giants set out today to prove that the age of miracles did not end yesterday.
Still monarcas of their own tale world after their incredible 5-ninth-inning victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday the green card bode team in baseball history met the World Series hardened New York Yankees in the first game of the 1951 classic only 18 hours after winning the longest and most dramatic of all National League races.
Only the odds-makers were not carried away by the fantastic story
This'n That; Here'n There
New York—(U.P.)-Baseball writers went overboard for the New York Yankees as usual today, picking them to win the Series from the Giants by a better than 3 to 1 ratio.
Despite the unprecedented finish by the Giants in the playoffs yesterday, 76 out of 100 writers polled doubt whether they can do it again. And of the 76 who picked the Yankees, seven are convinced they will do it in just four games—the minimum distance.
GOODBYE DRESSEN
New York—(U.P.) They were second guessin' Charley Dressen today for sending two-time playoff loser, Ralph Branca, into a game that already appeared to be won and the best guess ws that he would lose his job as Brooklyn manager along with the pennant.
President Walter O'Malley of the Doggers was aware of the rumors which whizzed about town after the ninth inning Giant "time bomb" victory and said he would make a statement about Dressen's status "sometime after the World Series when everything has quieted down."
NOBODY FOR GIANTS?
New York - (U,P) - It's Yankee pitching, defense and know-how against the Giants' dangerous top-to-bottom batting strength and two splendid but tired pitchers in the World Series.
BOOM MIZZOU BACK
That is the cold, realistic analysis of the two teams that begin battling it out for the World Championship today. The analysis is a composite of the men who should know them best—the managers and general managers who have watched them play all year and were polled for opinions last night.
Columbia, Mo—He may lack some of the individual nifitness of a Reynolds, Hoag or Vessels, but half-back Junior Wren is every bit as valuable to Mizzou's offense as are the "bip name" stars to their respective clubs.
When the final whistle blew on the Tigers' hectic 27-26 win over Oklahoma A & M here Saturday, the soggiest, dittiest jersey on the field belonged to Wren—a thoroughly exhusted gladiator who had reason to be weary. In that game, Junior did everything but lock up the stadium after it was over.
SANDS DISAPPOINTS
Chicago, Oct. 4—(U.P.)—Australia's triple-champion, Dave Sands, apologized today for his "poor showing" in his American debut against Carl (Bobo) Olson, but he outlined a four-boot program aimed at a middle-weight title scram.
The Australian, who has won 88 fights in a 98-bout pro career includes three draws, never was in danger of losing until the final round when Olson, with new found strength, pummeled him all the way. By then, though, Olson was so far behind he needed a knockout to win.
BRIGHT AGAIN
(U.R.)—Drake's durable, 205-pound weapon, Johnny Bright, held a new intercollegiate ground-gaining record today, and if he keeps his good health, Drake may well hold the Missouri Valley football championship a bit later.
of the team that could do no wrong. They made the Yankees, shooting for their third consecutive world Championship, 8-5 favorites in the opener and 9-5 picks in the series.
The Yankees, with a cash register in every foot-locker, were seeking to make it three world titles in succession. The Giants, having already written one marvelous story, had nothing to lose. It was safe to say that no more relaxed team ever entered a World Series.
Durocher's choice of Dave Koslo caused only mild eye-brow raising, although the little left-hander had won only 10 games while losing nine during the National League. Durocher, in fact, had told a few reporters even before yesterday's game that Koslo would be his opening day World Series pitcher if he won the pennant.
Koslo's low-breaking curve-ball stuff—on the same order as the equipment used by such as Bobby Shantz and Bob Cain, who gave the Yankees considerable trouble during the regular American League season—was considered a reasonable bet to fool the Yankees by a surprising number of experts.
Reynolds, who beat Brooklyn's Don Newcombe, 1-0, in the openen of the 1949 series, was Stengel's logical choice. The Yankees' most valuable pitcher all season, he showed a record of 17 victories and eight defeats. But sprinkled among his victories were seven shutouts, including no-hitters against the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox.
The Yankees undeniably carried the edge of almost a full week of rest into the $5,000-a-man series. They clinched the American League pennant last Friday and will enter the series in perfect physical condition.
On the other hand, the Giants will be gambling with tired pitchers in at least the first three games and will be without the services of regular right fielder Don Mueller today and probably tomorrow.
Mueller suffered a severe sprain of his left ankle sliding into third base in that hectic four-run ninth inning rally yesterday and is definitely out of today's game.
Durocher announced that stocky
smiling Henry Thompson would replace Mueller in right field if the Yankees start Reynolds, as expected. He said Clint Hartung, one-time "Hondo Hurricane" and now virtually a forgotten man, would get the call in the unlikely event that Stengel suddenly switched to a left-hander today.
Durocer admitted a tremendous factor in his decision to put, either Thompson or Hartung in the outfield, was his unwillingness to take Bobby Thompson, home-run hero of yesterday's pulse-stopper off third-base. The Giants began their inexorable march toward the National League flag on Aug. 11-the day Durocer, desperate because Thomson could not seem to make good as an outfielder, inserted him at third base.
On that day the Giants trailed the Dodgers by 13½ games. But with the insertion of Thomson at third, they caught fire and came careening down the stretch to win 37 of their last 44 games and tie the Dodgers for the pennant.
Dodger manager Charley Dressen still was under fire for that ninth inning maneuver. The experts argued that he should not have removed Don Newcombe, who had pitched so gallantly, or that, assuming he removed Newcombe, he should have brought in Clem Labine —or Carl) Erskine—or anybody but Branca.
Thomson smashed a two-run homer off Ralph Branca in the Giants' 3-1 victory in the playoff series opener and yesterday struck the blow heard 'round the baseball world—the three-run ninth inning homer, also off Branca, which crowned the Giants' unbelievable streak with success.
It was still uncertain whether yesterday's loss had cost Dressen his job.
Today's series meeting was the beginning of the sixth between the Giants and Yankees. The Yankees have won the last three, in 1923, 1936, and 1937 while the Giants won in both 1921 and 1922.
That 1937 series was the last the Giants played in and they bowed ingloriously, four games to one.
But, perhaps, that was before the age of miracles.
Yanks Place Faith In Wahoo; Reynolds Slated For Opener
New York—(U.P.) Impassive and unexcited, Indian Allie Reynolds goes out at Yankee stadium today determined to knock the first wheel off the pumpkin carriage of the Cinderella New York Giants with an arm that rattles.
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The Yankees were certain to a man that the "Superchief," who this season became the first American Leaguer in history to pitch two no-hit, no-run games in one season, would stop the Giants.
It's produce for the payoff as the poker-faced Greek from Bethany, Okla., is concerned. And neither those never-say-die Giants nor an elbow full of bone chips perturbed him as he prepared to toss the opening pitch of the 1951 world series.
Indian Allie, a guy known to his mates as "Wahoo," wasn't talking
much. He figured to do his talking with that crackling right arm which throws just about the fastest pitch in baseball.
He was potentially a great gridiron star, too, in the days before he graduated from Oklahoma A. & M. But Allie didn't like the drudgery of spring football practice.
"So I started playing fraternity ball and, when I averaged 14 strigue-outs a game, the baseball coach asked me to come out for the varsity." Reynolds recalled. "I did, and when I won 28 games and lost only two, the Cleveland Indians offered me a contract."
Looks Ferocious
Or Just Plain Mean.
We Can hardly wait
To hear it scream.
Beat Colorado!
Reynolds signed with the Indians and, working in the Cleveland chain, almost slipped from the mound again. Because of his hitting, he was converted into an outfielder.
"I even caught for a while," He grinned.
But soon he was pitching again and after four rather mediocre seasons with the Indians he was traded to the Yankees for Joe Gordon at the end of the 1946 campaign.
Facts, Figures On Series
Since then Reynolds has played a major role in Yankee pennant drives of 1947, 1949 and 1950.
New York—(U.P.)—Facts and fig-
ures on the World Series;
Contenders—New York Yankees, champions of the American League, and New York Giants, Champions of the National League.
Winning team - The first to win four games.
First game—At Yankee Stadium today.
Game time—1 p.m., EST.
Starting Pitchers — Giants: Dave Koslo (10-9); Yankees: Allie Reynolds (17-8).
to 5 to win series; Yankees favored
8 to 5 in opening game.
Betting Odds—Yankees favored. 9
Radio—Mutual Broadcasting System, coast to coast.
Television—National Broadcasting Company, coast to coast.
Remaining Games — Second at Yankee Stadium, Friday; third,
fourth, and fifth (if necessary) at Polo Grounds, Saturday, Sunday,
Monday; sixth, seventh (if necessary) at Yankee stadium, Tuesday,
Wednesday.
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