The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 30, 1954, Page 6

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WHITEHEAD and SOUTHARD STREETS > Thursday, September 30, 1954 Antonelli, Wynn Clash In Polo Grounds In World Series Classic Say Hey Boy Says His Catch By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK (#—It will be neces-| sary to go on and play out the World Series, but it is difficult to think of anything that might hap- pen from here on that the boys didn’t dish up in that 10-inning opener yesterday at the Polo | Grounds. That was a real hard rock of a baseball game, from the moment the first ball was thrown until, more than three tense hours later, Dusty Rhodes draped the fourh pinch homerun in all World Series history into the right field stands to wrap it up for the underdog New York Giants 5-2. The Giants today were in an ad- vantageous position. They have the fully rested Johnny Antonelli, a 21- game winner, poised for a second thrust at the Cleveland Indians today. Antonelli, a lefthander, figured from the start to possibly give the Indians the most trouble. Bob Lemon, one of the Indians’ two 23-game_ winners yesterday’s defeat. Early Wynn, the other big winner, was Manager Al Lopez’s choice for the second game, starting at 1 p.m. Another capacity crowd, matchiag yester- day’s 52,571 turnout, was expected. and warm. Yesterday’s game was the sort that two fighting league champions as the Giants and the Indians figured to put on. The feeling here is that it set the pattern for what may be one of the greatest play- offs in hisory. The Indians are not beaten by a long way, but the {club must have been jolted out of its complacency and made to know that it faces a grim battle. It is true that Rhodes’ climactic swipe was very much of the Oriental variety for which the Polo Grounds is notorious. No shorter homerun can be hit in any ball park than was this 270-foot speci- men that a fan muffed only inches above the green barrier. But it also is a fact that the slugging Indians had the same target to shoot at all through the sunny af- ternoon. Of deep satisfaction to Leo Du- | Tocher’s club was the fact that it jstayed in there and finally de. feated Cleveland’s best. ners was the manner in which their relief star, the veteran Marv Gris- som, walked in there to stop the Tribe in its tracks after their starter, Sal Maglie, suddenly felt his 37 years in the eighth inning and his reliever, Don Liddle, had been clouted for one of the longest and most sensational putouts ever | seen anywhere. And last, but far from least, it | was their wonder boy and official )team electrifier, Willie Mays, who saved the game with his amazing over-shoulder catch of Vie Wertz’ towering 450-foot smash to the centerfield wall with two Indians on base and none out in the eighth. The boy from Alabama didn’t get a hit off Lemon’s sinking stuff, but he gave notice that he wil be a telling factor all the way with that catch and his steal of second after Lemon had walked him for the second time with one out in the 10th. The steal caused the Indian ace to pass Hank Thompson | purposely to set up a possible double play, and that gave Du- rocher the opportunity to insert the lefty swinging Rhodes for slumping Monte Irvin. The best Irvin had been able to do in four tries was lay down a | sacrifice bunt, and more than a little complaint had been heard in our section that Leo still had Rhodes sitting upon his hands when things looked so desperate. The record crowd of 52,751 gave absorbed | The weather forecast was cloudy | Also of glad tidings to the win- | truly | Dusty a nice ovation, and the next thing anyone knew that lazy little fly was being boosted along by the wind toward its destiny. The ironic part of it was that the same wind, blowing with some Ivey across the field from left to right, almost surely robbed Jim Hegan, Cleveland’s catcher, of a | bases-loaded home run off Grissom |in the eighth inning, and also blew jone back off Al Dark’s bat that would have given the Giants a 32 win after two were down in the jninth. Both knocks clearly were |headed for the seats when they | set out. From the very start * was evi- dent that Maglie was short on con- trol, even though the veteran had warmed up for close to 20 min- utes. His first three pitches to the Indians’ leadoff batter, Al Smith, were not even close, and the fourth one plunked Smith. Bobby Avila, the American League’s leading hitter, followed | with a looping single into short right which Don Mueller kicked around, permitting Smith to race to third. However, Sal settled and got Larry Doby and Al Rosen on popups, and that brought up Vic | Wertz, the Tribe first-baseman |whom even the Baltimore Orioles refused to continue feeding early in the season. Well, sir, Vic clanged one off | the right - centerfield wall that would be going yet if it hadn't met wood. By the time it came back he was perched on third and two runs were across—the only runs the Indians were destined to get, despite the fact that Wertz slashed a double and two singles and nearly chased Mays out of the park on his next four tries. Auld Clootie Says: Dum-de-dumm-dum. . .We want | the facts, Senor Lopez, nothing but | |the facts. All those alibis after | jyour tribe was pole-axed by one} | Dusty Rhodes do not enhance your | | status. The facts are that none of | our pinch-hitters delivered and} hey had the same opportunity to/| hit a “shorty” home run. You used three pinch-hitters, Senor Lopez. Two struck out, the other one walk- |ed. Durocher used just one and he | knocked the ball into the stands on | Lemon’s first delivery. Those are | |the facts, Senor Lopez. j You also were very much upset | | because the sensational “Say Hey | | Kid” robbed Wertz of what should | jhave been at least a triple. That/ | wasn’t robbery, Senor Lopez. Wil- | ‘lie Mays has been making those | | spectacular catches throughout the | }summer. It’s just second nature | with Willie to catch the impossible. | Piersall of the Boston Red Sox is | the only other outfielder in base-| ball today that can compare with | Willie. You had opportunities galore yes- terday, Senor Lopez, but the mar- velous team work of the Jints knocked them into a cocked hat. That's what did it for the Jints — team work! Auld Clootie predicted the score | to be seven to two in favor of the Giants. It turned out to be five to two. Not bad for a neophyte sports writer, eh? | Wynn won’t win today. He’ll be knocked out of the box before the | sixth inning rolls around. Antonel- li will go all the way for the Giants. The final score will be: Giants ten | — Cleveland three. The Giants will | hit at least three home runs to-; day. We suspect that ‘Thompson, | Mays, and Dark are due for home runs today. At least, we hope so. SEE THE NEW 1955 STUDEBAKERS ARRIVING SOON "GREATER HORSEPOWER COMBINED WITH TOMORROW'S STYLING TODAY” The 1955 Studebaker Achieves Another Land Mark In the Automotive Industry BEFORE YOU BUY — SEE THE TWINS WE HAVE ONE 1954 V-8 COMMANDER HARDTOP LEFT First Come, First Served With A Good Deal TWINS GARAGE, Inc. 1130 Duval St. Phone 2-2401 Key West, Don’t Wait!! = Fla. xk wk x & *® x &® & Wasn’t Great In Dressing Room By &D CORRIGAN NEW YORK (#—Say, hey, now, was that the greatest catch of his young career that Willie Mays made on Vic Wertz in the New York Giants’ 5-2 opening World Series victory yesterday? “Naw,” said the happy-go-lucky Willie in the dressing room. “I had the ball all the way. There was nothing too hard about it. I’ ve] made better catches. But what} about my hitting? 1 wasn’t any help up there at the plate.” Over in the corner, Johnny An- tonelli, the Giants’ pitching nom-| inee today, was in deep conference ! with starting pitcher Sal Magtie. “Just a regular game for us,” | shrugged Johnny. “We won the/| pennant with finishes like this all season long.” Ne was referring, of course, io Dusty Rhodes’ 10th inning, two-on- | base home run. | “Well, Johnny,’ laughed the | usually dour Maglie, “us old gaf-! fers won the first one, so now it’s up to you to get No. 2.” | Then the Barber, who left the | game just before Mays made his} great catch, told newsmen: “I didn’t tire so much. It was just that I didn’t have real sharp control of my curve ball. I couldn't hit the outside corner against the | lefthanders. That’s what got me | in trouble. “And that Wertz. The way he, hitting today you couldn’t get him out. I guess we don’t know him, as well as some of the other Gere land hitters.” | Mazglie probably will be ready | to start again Sunday or Monday, although manager Leo Durocher wouldn’t say just when. Durocher added he wasn’t so sure now that he’d start Rueben | | Gomez in tomorrow’s third game in Cleveland. Don Liddle corny get the call. Leo was all talk, though, about | Rhodes’ game-winning home run. | “He was my big guy in a jam and that’s what he’s going to be for the rest of the series,” en-| ; but had his big one caught, sat hit all year,” he said. ‘shortest homer of the year.” ; down the right field foul line. thused Durocher, ‘‘Dusty did just what I’ve come to expect him to do. Bring him up in an important place and bang—you’re back in the clubhouse.” Said Rhodes: “The biggest hit of my life.” Over in the Indian dressing room, Wertz, who had four hits sadly before his locker. “That was the hardest ba 1 Manager Al Lopez went even further, “Tt looked to me like the longest ball our club has hit all year. There wouldn't have been a tenth inning if Mays hadn’t caught it. “Well,” he sighed, “we were beaten by the longest out and the! Rhodes’ homer certainly was short, It arched just about 270 feet Losing pitcher Bob Lemon, the! | victim of Rhodes’ “blast,” was un-| happy even thinking about it. | “I was worried all through the | game that something like that | would happen” he said. “If they had to beat me with a homer, I wish Al Dark’s hit had gone into With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE A $15.58 Battery That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 Exch, Lou Smith, 1116 White the stands in the ninth. 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