The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1953, Page 6

Campanella, Reynolds Are Key To Bum Chances Thursday, October 1, 1953, Vols Slate Stiff Drills For Duke Tilt; Others In SEC Rest ‘and second with nobody| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘out. Most other SEC teams begin It obviously was a golden oppor-! Others were not so sure that Char-| Page 6 ‘lie hadn’t passed up a bet. The situation was this: The Dod- gers, trailing by 45, got busy on old chew tobacco Johnny Sain at the seventh inning and three straight singles over or through the Yankee , pushed across the tying THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Fans Ponder Dressen On Bunt Wisdom By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK — Did Charley LeonardIs Michigan State Victory See NEW YORK W—How can you) Notre Dame over Purdue: iy JOSEY LIMA [cuss dna Recctres ent eesioetoer Niatel trend ates v while ives me | Ns CHICAGO Un—Baseball’s foun-run blasts from the World Series ithe Purdue line last week and # tain of youth apparently has rivals? (Last week's figures: Si/Irish should do the same. trickled to an end for Emil (Dutch)|winners in 40 games that reached| Maryland over Clemson: Mary. Leonard, the grand knuckle-baller|a decision for an average of .775./1and supposedly has backs stack who averaged almost 10 victories |Season’s total: 50 correct, 17 incor-up like grandpa has cord woo By HAROLD CLAASSEN pass work as they dug in for the Boston College invas:on. tapering off drills today for their) Co.., Murray. Warmath pro- weekend games but not so for tunity, but Dressen faced a prob-| i 4 REE TH § : Be F fb t H ; I ‘ B difference one way or an- H aE £ z pt chances, such as they 2 z have gone af ‘S$ men won. slump the Dodg- if he was were just seriously handicapped on, you may start Stengel for his five- me = i stion of whether Charlie iy FE FSe i genius in ordering two itters to lay the ball the seventh inning yester- was wide open at a late Brooklyn pactisans muttered rite had followed the book. proved himself something | “second guvssing” and said lem. The very bottom of his batting order was up—Billy Cox No. 8 and Clem Labine, his third pitcher, No. 9. The Brooklyn piict had either to go for a big inning or to try to move the leading run around to s-|third. He chose the latter, and it backfired. Sain,-his jaw bulging with the heart of the leaf, fired to Cox, and sprang into action as though they had been catapulted. Yogi reached went tearing in. It was close as the Gore ruled it a putout. Some thought it could have been called} the other way, and Dressen danced| in pain in the coach’s box. Then Labine triea it too, and! -|this time Berra pegged Carl Furillo! out at third with a stride to spare. Junior Gilliam then sent up a pop) foul to end the Dodger threat, and that was the ‘ast the National ‘Leaguers saw of Sain. It is idle, of course, to specu- late what might have happened) had Dressen played things differ- ently. Cox might have hit into a double play. A pinch hitter for La- bine might have done no better than the Clem did, and the fact remains that Sain and his unsung sidekick, Joe Collins, banged across four more big runs after that, But the inning was about all ‘the boys had to argue over. Otherwise it was just another ‘Yankee victory, notable only for its distance hitting and indifferent quality of the pitching, other than that of Sain. Carl Erskine, presumably Brook- ilyn’s best, could not survive past the first inning, in which the Yan- kees lathered him for four runs, Reynolds, the Yankee bellwether, departed in the sixth after his back had broken down and he had been scalped by three home runs. The Chief said it may have ended his series work. Stengel, however, was optimistic that he might be a' able for a few innings of relief work, if needed. On the law of averages, today’s game should be better. Both Ed Lopat of the Yanks and Elwin (Preacher) Roe of the Brooks are eminent and sagacious left-handers whose fast balls have long since departed but who possess fine con- trol of their dipsy-doos. They give a batter a little of this and a little of that, usually nothing that he really wants, The current odds of 2-1 on the Yanks to win the series sound about right, : Gators To Embark For Kentucky Fri. GAINESVILLE (®—Coach Bob Woodruff and 45 practice-shy Uni- another ball club.'versity of Florida football men! leave here for Lexington tomorrow for Saturday night’s game with Kentucky. Constant rain since the Georgia Tech game has hampered practice considerably—and there appeared to be more coming up today. Drills have been shifted to try \to get between deluges, but rain |has continued to interfere. camel’s hump is used to store food, not water. both he and catcher Yogi Berra} the dribbler first and fired to Gil] McDougald at third as Gil Hodges| next heart beat, but umpire Art} Contrary to popular belief the) | Tennessee. ling today. “We’ve got more hard practice ahead of us before the {game with Duke” Robinson said.| |The Vols should be in fair shape| \physically except for Lama Leach-| man. A bruised side may keep him jon the bench. Coach Bob Woodruff tried to} beat a second straight rainy day to the field and almost made it. Taking note of a weather bureau| prediction of more rein Woodruff! called his Florida squad out for al 1:30 practice. The rains came just} as practice began. Guard Curt! Haygood went back to full scale practice after an ankle injury but) guard John Hammock's twisted) knee gave him a restless night) and he may be lost to the Kentucky) game. Kentucky Coach Paul Bryant is) trying a different approach to the! week-end game. Bryant said his| men were battered in their first two games so he is taking it easy this week in hopes they will be rested and show up better against Florida. | Quarterbacks Clement and Ray} Weidenbacher looked sharp in a passing drill at New Orleans. They pitched mostly to Tulane end Eddie Bravo and halfbacks Max McGee and Les Kennedy. Louisiana State’s entire squad popped leather. in their third straight day of contact scrimmage. The varsity spent most of their time on defensive and offensive Allie Hopes He Can Pitch After Injury By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK W--The voice on the other end of the telephone| sounded tired and dispirited. “I don’t know,” the voice kept repeating. “I just don’t know.” A pause . . . then Allie Reynolds’ voice was heard again. It came through scarcely audible and very deliberate. % “I pray and hope I can pitch. But I would have to say it’s very doubtful whether I can start again. About relieving, I don’t know. “The only thing 1 know for sure right now is that my back hurts and there is nothing I can do about it but sit tight and wait. ‘That's the worst part of it. I know its no good but I don’t know how bad it is.” The great New York Yankee right-hander went on to explain how he hurt his back during the opening World Series game against jthe Brooklyn Dodgers. He jwrenched it in the third inning and reinjured it in the fifth. © The 35-year-old clutch pitcher} had been firing the ball in his old-| time form through four scoreless linnings. He was hit fairly hard in ithe fifth and was shelled from the mound in the sixth. The Yankees} went on to win 9-5. | jounced his Mississippi Staters in |top shape and promised them light) jworkouts for the rest of the week.| The University of Mississippi team had a light drill in store) today and an even tighter one Fri-| day before they emplane for Co-! lumbus, Ga., and the Auburn game. “We'll have to be at our best to make it a ball game,” said Coach/ Johnny Vaught. Alabama tackle Ed Culpepper may miss the Vanderbilt game. He is suffering with headaches caused by an injury received last year. Right guard Tom Danner) injured his shoulder and probably} will be sidelined for a week. Coach Ralph Jordan is working) to brace Auburn’s line for the rough time it is expected to get from Mississippi. Linebacker Ed Baker, tackle Frank D’Agotino, fullback Bob Scarbrough, end Jim- my Long and halfback Fob James Jr. gave a good accounting in practice. The Georgia Tech team was pro- nounced about ready by Coach Bobby Dodd after a rough scram- ble. Roger Frey is out of the South- ern Methodist game but the Jackets are otherwise in top shape. Coach Wally Butts named 190- Pounder Gene White as the starter at right end in Georgia’s game Dressen pull a “rock” when he} turned his homer-happy Dodgers into bunting beauties in the seventh inning of the World Series’ opening game? Second guessers say “Yes” and that the strategy back-fired into the Yankees’ 9-5 victory. Dressen stoutly defends his move and he is backed by seascned baseball men interviewed on the matter. “It was like a fighter knocking another fighter’s brains out and) then pulling back and starting to box,”” commented one observer. “It was like a gambler on a hot) winning streak,” said another. “In-| stead of letting everything ride, Charley got cautious and drew in his chips.” inning and three straight whistling singles in the seventh. : Now it was the top of the seventh with Roy Campanella home, Gil ‘Hodges on second, Carl Furillo on first and none out. Third baseman Billy Cox was the batter, Cox dropped a bunt to the left of the plate and Yankee catcher! Yogi Berra threw cut Hodges on a close play at third. Clem Labine, the third Brooklyn pitcher, also bunted and Berra threw out Furillo with Texas A..& M. White won the spot for his good showing against Tulane, Joe O'Malley, nurs- ing a bruised foot, is expected to see only limited action Saturday. Vanderbilt's Commodores pol- ished their plans for Alabama. my wife Dale. She was watching me closely (naturally) and familiar with every move I muke, she de- tected immediately that something was wrong.” Reynolds went on to strike out Belardi but hurt his back again in the fifth. “I couldn’t put anything on the ball in the sixth,” he said. Reynolds said he should have taken himself out of the game in the fifth but hc hated to leave. “I know now it was a mistake to stay in,” he said, “but I wanted to win that game more than any other. I wanted that No. 7 that would have tied Red Ruffing’s World Series record. Maybe if the game were in the seventh or eighth inning, I would have quit.) But it was only tre fifth and I wanted that victory bad.” The injury is a recurrence of an early-season mishap that ruined Reynolds as a starting pitcher un- til the final month, Allie says it is a memento of a bus accident that injured several Yankees in Philadelphia last July. “It’s been bothering me on and off all year after the accident,” he said. “But I thought I had re- conditioned myself pretty well es- pecially after I pitched that good i last start.” (Reynolds fanned 11 and permitted no runs and two hits in seven innings.) RED FOR WARNING LAKELAND (#— Florida Citrus Mutual is going to make red a warning of shaky market condi- tions. When the fresh fruit situation is “I first hurt my back in the third while pitching to Wayne Bel-} jardi,” he explained. ‘‘The only one who knew it besides myself was troubled, Mutual will print its daily market information bulletin for shippers on red paper instead of on white. at third. Berra then camped under Dodger threat was ended. “It was a bunt situation,” said (etnies explaining his orders to x, “If the bunt had been success- ful—that is, if we’d moved Hodges Junior Gilliam’s pop foul and the}} per season for 20 major league| years. The 43-year-old Leonard yester- day was released by the seventh- place Chicago Cubs, a bit of senti- mental news vi lost in the blare of World Series’ opening day. The Brooklyn Dodgers, the Wash- ington Senators—especially the Senators—the Philadelphia Phils all got the best this fierce mound pasture with a lifetime big league record of 191 triumphs. Perhaps baseball’s most exvep- tional physical specimen, Leonard | was in far better shape than many Players years and years younger. But his pitching skill faded while! his well-muscled, 197-pound frame The Dodgers, fighting from be-|still craved action. Even this sea- hind, had tied the score 5-5 after|son, Dutch would be hardly start. a two-homer binge in the sixth'ed with calisthenics when younger Cubs would huff to a finish. “I still think I can be a relief Pitcher,” said Leonard, who this year had a 2-3 record in 64 innings for the Cubs. But he wasn’t convincing as he talked at his Auburn, IJ., home. “T’'ll shop around. I see they have rect for .746). The winners this weekend: | Michigan State over Minnesota: the signs say Michigan State. i Ohio again the victor. a new manager at Cincinnati. I'm innings, three or four times a week, ‘team in lifetime records. and Furillo to third and second, as intended—then I planned to put in a pinch hitter, Don Thompson, for Labine and bring Russ Meyer in to pitch, When Hodges is forced at third, it changes the entire situa- tion. Now I feel I’m forced to stay with Labine, who I figure has the best chance of stopping the Ya kees, and let him bat for himself.” | “But, Charley,” said one observ-|} e- “You're going for the big inn- 2.” “No, you're going for the big inning,” Dressen replied curtly, “You manage your way and I'll manage mine, I’m going for one run when the score is tied in the| seventh inning.” Bratton Shows. Little In Win Over Al Wilson BALTIMORE #—Johnny Bratton seemed to have been saving him- self last night for the shot he’ supposed to get at Kid Gavilan’s welterweight title next month. But he showed little to 1,856 per- sons in the coliseum and a national | television audience to get excited about, HESTER BATTERIES TRUCKS and BOATS FREE INSTALLATION 1116 WHITE ST START! GO! FOR ALL MAKE OF CARS The Spartans apparently aren't as ‘strong as last yeat and the Gophers are stronger now that Bob Mc- Namara’s knee has healed. But! Duke over Tennessee: Duke al- ways troubles Tennessee and this Tennessee team apparently trou- bles easy. Bobby Burrows is the big man in the Duke line that is downright stingy when it comes to sure I can pitch well three or four Sal Maglie of the Giants is the jonly National League pitcher to jhold an edge over every rival NL piled up in the barnyard. Georgia Tech over |Methodist: A duel of individu: jinvolving Leon Hardeman of tl \Georgians and Jerry Norton, jnimble back in the tradition ¢ Doak Walker and Kyle Rote & |the Mustangs. Ohio State over California: This) Finishing the others in a hurry? is the game you will see on your |TV after you have finished the i World Series contest. A replay of competitor could give. 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