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Yanks Take Series Edge As Russo Wins, 1 I RonkiR Trinmnhs: i VOL. CXXXV A-ll NO. 97 GCGG OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1941 In Great Battle Blow That Hit Fitzsimmons in Leg Breaks Hearts of 33,000 Raving Brooklyn Fans By ART COHN Tribune Sports Editor W5.C 13, Bears Stanford 33, Bruins 0 EBBETS FIELD, BROOKLYN, N.Y., Oct. 4.

A fat old vucTnich -x man, his moon face contorted with pain, staggers off the diamond. And with him go Brooklyn's hopes in the third OlSON PHILUPS game of the World Series: History is repeating for Fat Fitzsimmons, who for seven innings had shackled the mighty New York Yankees, hand DE FRANCISCO cuffed them with just four hits and no runs. The Yankees are breaking his heart, just as they did in the third at game of another World Series five years ago. That day in 1936 when Fitz, then a Giant, lost a 2-1 classic to the Yankees on a scratch infield hit that bounced off his bare hand. The Yankees couldn't beat him today, but the fates did.

The fates and a batted ball, a leather bullet off the club of Marius Ugo Russo. It couldn't happen once in a hundred years, but it did happen here today. The ball came like a shot out of a cannon, hit Fitzsimmons an inch above his left kneecap with a bone-crushing thud, a terrific blow feared to be a fracture. The ball caromed off his leg without touching the ground, flew high in the air and into Pee Wee Reese's glove. It put out Russo and Fitzsimmons.

4, And, in the very next inning, while Fitz was being taken to New York Hospital for X-rays, the Yankees piled on Hughie Casey, his successor, lambasted him for four consecutive singles and two runs and that was the ball game. Thus did Marius Ugo Russo, 27-year-old rookie southpaw, win the third game of the series, 2 to 1. What might have been the Yankees' destiny had not Russo hit Fitzsimmons In the unlucky seventh, is a matter of 1 I conjecture. But the fact remains that, except for that barrage of lour straight hits off the hapless Casey, the Yankee cause was hopeless. Fitz, pitching with all the cunning of his 41 years, his beautiful knuckle ball breaking as it never had in his 21 years of big league baseball Fitz, the master of control had the Yankees manacled.

He had them whipped. And therr the fates stepped in, broke his heart in his golden hour, robbed him of the chance to finish a fight he was winning. And there was the irony of this game. Poor old Fitzsimmons and Brooklyn were beaten by a hit, licked by a hit that wasn't a hit, whipped by a hit that was a putout, defeated by a hit that hit nothing but the pitcher. They hit old Fitz on the knee and broke Brooklyn's heart.

The Mighty Casey Flops It took Casey just one-third of one inning to undo all that Fitzsimmons had achieved in seven innings. Johfi Sturm, the first man up, popped out to centerf ield. And that was the last man Casey could get out. For the next four Yankees Red Rolfe, Tommy Henrich. Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller hammered his offerings to all parts of the field for consecutive singles.

7 I TAYLOR Milt Vuclnich (32), Stanford fullback went 21 yardi to Stan- day's aame at Palo Alto. Stanford won, 33-0 Alio shown Vudnlch), Nat Francisco (31). Bruin guard and Fullback Jord's second touchdown late In ths first quarter of yester- are: Carl Olson (42), Chuck Taylor (head up In front of George Phillips (3). Tribune photo. 'CT Fails to jjfour hits, two runs, a 2-0 lead, and that was the game.

The Dodgers came back in their half of the eighth with eyes blazing. They were determined enough they wanted to win this one badly for Kilz. They got back one of those runs when Dixie Walker, the first man up, crashed a double to centerfield. But the next two Brooks Mickey Owen and Augie Galan, pinch MOFFETT FIELD FLIERS SCARE ST. MARY'S BUT LOSE, 6 TO 0 Presto Podesto Rifles Pass to Give Moragans Only Score in Third Quarter JIM JURKOVICH FORCED OUT OF GAME IN THIRD PERIOD Sewell Stars, Backed by Hard-Hitting Line; McQuarry Scores Cal's Lone Touchdown 60,000 See Troy Walloped Ohio State Scores In Every Period to Record 33 to 0 Win By RONALD WAGONER LOS ANGELES, Oct.

4. hitting for Larry French went out. Reese then lashed a single down 1 lie rihtfield fence to bring home Walker, but he died on base "with the tying run when Pete Coscarart fanned. And that is another point in Save Invaders 40)000 Watch Albert, Kmetovic, Vucinich In Touchdown Marches the case of Brooklyn's luck today. Not only was Fitzsimmons the victim of a freak accident while win ning a great game, but Billy Herman, the Dodgers' ace second baseman, By HERBERT ASIILOCII was forced to retire after the fourth inning.

Seems he painfully wrenched his left side while swinging in batting practice, and it was questionable By ALAN WARD SAN FRAN-. prised of "young men from many KEZAR STADIUM, PULLMAN, Oct. 4. Not seven. They got 228 total neTyards By BILL TOBITT STANFORD STADIUM, Oct.

4 S-h-h-h-h! Don't speak above a whether he would even start the game. He tried to make it, but it was from scrimmage to the Bears CISCO, Oct. 4. By the narrow mar even by a polite stretch of the and included in the same a neat gin of 6 points college football dis- whisper but that U.C.L.A. forma aerial display by Sewell and Jay crimson-clad Ohio State football team rolled over and rambled through the University of Southern tion, the "QT," should be kept imagination was this supposed to happen.

But Washington State college's under-manned football team Dlaved its supremacy over the brand Stoves that paid off with 125 yards, as compared to the Southern of the pigskin sport played by the hopeless. he had to quit in favor of Cascarart, who is not fit to carry Herman's glove. Brooklyn was hounded by fiendish luck today, and in that recital there is no desire to minimize or detract from the superlative pitching of Russo. The young man who was born in Brooklyn and who once pitched for Brooklyn College hurled a truly great game today but it is California eleven 33 to 0 today to strictly on the "QT." Don't mention it again, not after whatS didn't do here this afternoon. upset great gobs of dope on Rogers nephews of Uncle Sam.

nana the Trojans the worst defeat team's 27. W.S.C. struck first with nine and Field here today to play University colleges, and therefore representing many styles of play, provided the collegians from Moraga with stubborn resistance for the full 60 min utes of play, and it is not intended es a Gael disparage when it is stated the element of-Juck played its pert in giving the Gallopers their narrow victory. Not until the first half wai within two minutes of completion were the pigskin proteges of Coach Nor man (Red) Strader able to reach It did nothing. Stanford took care they have suffered since Notre Dame won 27 to 0 in the last game one-half minutes to go in the first of California to a standstill and win a 13 to 6 decision.

the Irish played for Knute Hockne They said that Washington surely of that. The Indians swaggered to a 33 to 0 victory over the Bruins before 40,000, thus extending the doubtful, very, very, doubtful, if he could or would have won had Fitz been able to stay inthere. I say that even irlShe knowledge that Russo yielded just four hits 1930. would go no place but in circles Although losing by a to 0 score to the Galloping Gaels of St. Mary's here this afternoon, the Moffett Field Fliers impressed on the consciousness of the football public that Army Camps in general, the Flyers in particular, henceforth are gridiron forces with which to be reckoned.

A makeshift Flyer team, com-i 60,000 SEE LOSS Clank Shaughnessy victory era to this Fall. That Stub Allison's Bears were the team to watch. Maybe 12 straight. The Trojan defeat was witnessed It did more than that, particularly they'll still say it as the season goes Continued Page 15-A, Col. 1 all afternoon, one by Ducky Medwick being the cheapest kind of a scratch single that polled half way to third base with no one making a play on it.

The Brooklyn boy who came home to smash Fitzsimmons' knee and break Brooklyn's heart deserved his victory, but still, the thought lingers, that he would not have won it without an assist from late. in the light of what happened elsewhere along Coast Conference Row. on, but for this aiternoon tne souin-erners had a heck of a time of it. by 60,000 fans in Memorial Coliseum. It was a complete Trojan rout and the statistics of first downs and yardage sent U.S.C.

fans rushing home for ice packs and head Before this so-called game had fin With a fast charging line that half, and Sewell was the man who did i clear from midfield. Quarterback Penney picked up the loose ends of this drive, and sophomore George Dyson boosted the point. Then Sewell went out of the game injured, and Jay Stoves, a tall lanky kid, came in. Stoves went on another passing binge just like Sewell, completing two to Gentry and Kennedy, the latter capping a 35-yard march with a score. This time Dyson missed the try.

CALIFORNIA SCORES Early in the fourth quarter California came to life long enough to score. After a sporadic drive from ished, the news of California wouldn't be denied at any time. With a brace of ends Nick Susocff ache remedies. ind Dale Gentry playing their For Ohio State Is was a sweet FOR CARE-FREE and Washington's defeats had been brought to the throng accompanied by roars of amazed delight. JUDGMENT SUSPENDED victory wiping out with compound hearts out, and with left halfback Billy Sewell, the shining individual interest previous Trojan victories This occasions much re-shuffling by 13 to 12 and 14 to 7 scores, and star of the game, the Cougars outclassed the Berkeley boys in every clearing the board of the stigma of predictions, but until all the results are in and word on how they got that way is disseminated, judg which came to Ohio State in 1921 when "Brick" Muller and his Uni the Cougar 31, Jack McQuary boomed through the line on the final department A soggy rain drenched field didn'lstop them.

TEN FIRST DOWNS In the Irst place W.S.C. put together 10irst downs to California's ment on whether Stanford is as ter versity of California beat the rific as today's events indicate, must Continued Page 14-A, Col. Continued Page 12-A, Col. 7 7 1 mark time. There was little of the element AND BETTER OF GOLF of luck in today's victory for the Only 32 Men Faced Russo The story of the game, tRe picture of Fitzsimmotis limping off the field, unable to walk, supported by the shoulders of two teammates.

The heartbreak story of a man twice rebuffed by fate in the World Series, twice by the same Yankees, once again by a stroke of capricious luck as he was by that freak hit by Jake Powell off his meat hand five years ago. But that Is not the story of Brooklyn's defeat. The Dodgers were not hitting. There was no hitting at all. Only two men got as far as second base all day, and one of them.

Walker, scored. No, they didn't do much with or to Russo. Only 32 men faced him. Signor Marius Ugo had Brooklyn's number. And especially Dolph Camilli's.

The home-run king of the National League, dropped from his customary, clean-up spot to sixth in the batting order today, looked worse than ever at the plate. In three trips he grounded out and fanned twice. And the last time was the most pathetic of all. That was in the seventh when Pete Reiser clubbed the first ball pitched for a two-bagger, a tremendous poke that bounced off the center-field screen. It looked as if the Brooks were going to win one for Fitz.

But wick, who never has been much of a clutch hitter, struck out. And the best Cookie Lavagetto could do was send Reiser to third Indians. They earned it honestly and expertly but with no undue tax on their forces, The Bruins were inept. That's be- ine charitable. Just once did they threaten, onlv to have Fantastic )5HELLER MAKES THIRD TRIBE TOUCHDOWN JH a a nr UMASUJ Frankie Albert, Tribe quarterback, gobble one of their passes on the Stanford five-vard line and run it BUY A SEASON'S back to within 33 yards of the Bruin goal.

And as if to prove max me Indians hadn't been shaking in their boots on that one sustained Brum march, thev scored their fourth on a roller to second. So. with Reiser on third, the mighty Camilli came to bat. The great Camilli, Brooklyn's No. 1 hero in its spectacular run to the National League pennant And Camilli went out.

He didn't SUPPLY AT KAYS touchdown two plays later. TWAS IN THE BAG strike out. No, he went out on three called strikes. The dope just stood The issue actually was settled within the first minute. It took U.

there, his bat glued to his shoulder as the third one creased the All Brooklyn groaned in unison: "Wotta bum." TODAY! Give fulsome credit, then, to young Russo. For a kid playing his C.L.A. just that long to run off four play's after the kick-off. The three maneuvers tried by Babe Horrell's lads showed them, right there end then that thin Stanford line was first year of major league ball, he matched his speed with a poise that Brooklyn could never ruffle. He was the boss alr'the way and in con fidence pitching fast, hurled a finer game than either Red Ruffing or nomethine' to reckon with.

Whitlow Wyatt, the winners of the first two games. If any further proof were neces- it oraa fnrthcnminff im- But there is not one of the 33,100 cash customers who paid $158,844 mediately. Stanford took the punt on its own 20 ana in jusi omc plays, including only one pass, it had flitted 80 yard to the first touchdown. Albert sneaked scroti from a yard out to register the points and then kicked the seventh. Milt YUCinicn grounu mm wj through center for 21 yarttf to record the second touchdown late to watch today's game who can or will say that, for those first seven inning.

Russo was Fitzsimmons master. He wasn't Fitzsimmons Stops DiMag in the Clutch While Signor Russo was unfolding his four-hit masterpiece Fitzsimmons was pitching a far more dramatic game. Come back with me to that fifth inning. It was still a goose egg classic, of course. With two out Joe Gordon boomed a triple off the railing in the center field fence, a inighty blow that missed being a homer by an inch or two.

That was the Yank's first real challenge. They had made only two other -hits in the game DiMaggio's single through shortstop in the second inning. Giuseppi's first of the series, and Rolfe's single to center in the fourth. DiMag had been the only man to reach second and he died there. Now Gordon, the sharpest thorn in Brooklyn's side, was on third.

Fitz nonchalant and deliberately walked Phil Rizzut6 to get to Russo, end Russo' fanned to retire the side. And Gordon was still on third. The sixth brought another Yankee uprising but once again Fit was equal to it Sturm started the traffic jam with a single to center and in the same quarter; Bill Sheller, reserve fullback, slipped across from one yard out to tally the third with minute left in the hell; Perembulstin' Pete Kmetovic sashayed 31 yards we lourtn touchdown in the third quarter. I Flee quelity, long-life bells with tough cover. Of.

fered et this special price et KAYS ONLY. At thlt 5. '( unheard of price you should buy a whole season's 1 'v a JxS -r-- and Lee Bickenbach, fourth string left halt 7 plopped two yardi for the fifth score with minute remaining in the game. NINE YARD TOTAL That's the substance of the scor ing and while chance may have played a part, it aidn get arouna then stole second, chiefly due to his efficacy, in kicking Mickey Owen's perfect throw out of Reese's paws. Fitz seemed to be losing hie control as Henrlch walked to put two men on basejwith only one out up came DiMaggio.

Fitz had no fear of DiMag. He had to pitch to him and he did. DiMag feed hit him the first time up. But Fitz eouVm't afford to let him get an- to it until Brer Bruin from West-wood had been thoroughly spanked and definitely put in his place. The figures mirror Me pi pepier- With but on minute of the second quarter to 90, Bill Sheller (arrow) drove through the Bruins from the one-yard line to score as Stanford beat U.C.LJL, 33-0.

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