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rnitmm." mil. i. i ii mim. u-im .1 THE DAILT5UN 3 i irv 1 1 Bnooes rincn nome iun Wins Opener for Giants freest Catch by Mays IrOelps Top fmJiut 1 1 -Wimii -1 I i Lv Tribe in 105-2 NEW YORK OPV Dusty Rhodes' 270-foot pinch home run with two men on base in the 10th inning won a dramatic World Series opener for the 'New York Giants Wednesday, 5-2, after a truly sensational catch by Willie Mays and tremendous relief pitching' by Marv Grissom blunted Cleveland rounded by Indians once more. IT'S A TRIPLE FOR VVERTZ The sequence camera follows Cleveland's hardhitting first baseman, Vic Wertz, as he slid into third base for a triple in opening World Series game at Polo Grounds Wednesday.

Wertz slid past the base, then reached for bag with his left hand as Umpire Johnny Stevens called him safe and Giant third baseman Hank Thompson protested briefly. A 70-millimeter sequence camera with a 14-inch lens was used. (AP Wirephoto) i 1 i VLLt 1 At 1 1 if -5 I I r. yMff feat I HERE'S SEQUENCE ON MAYS' GREAT CATCH Sequence camera catches Willie Mays of the Giants at the instant he caught Vic Wertz' 450-foot smash to deep center in eighth inning of World Series opener with two Cleveland men on base and nobody out. Willie gets the ball with back to the diamond, lets it settle in his glove for a moment, then whirls, losing his cap, and fires to the infield.

AP Photographer Matty Zimmerman took this series with 70-millimeter sequence Camera? tiSFrfg 20-inch lens. The great catch cut off the Tribe rally. (A Wirephoto) with men on first and third and only one gone. He curled a curve past pinch hitter Bill Glynn for a strikeout and escaped once more when Lemon, who went all the way for the losers, lined out to first baseman Whitey Lockman. In the last three innings, Gris som left seven Cleveland runners on base.

It began to look as though he'd have to go on doing that all night for the Giants had only one hit a single by Don Mueller in the seventh from the fourth to the tenth. The end to this double-ulcer thriller came with the same quick flash that Bobby Thomson won the famous playoff with Brooklyn in 1951. Thomson's hit was to left and Rhodes to right, one of the shortest home runs ever hit in any series. Beaming through a happy throng oi Giants the clubhouse, Rhodes said, "I hit a curve ball. was just trying for a hit, not a homer." STARTING PITCHERS Durocher confirmed he would pitch Lefty Johnny Antonelli (21-7) Thursday against Early Wynn (23-11).

"I got great relief pitching, said Durocher. "Great, just great. Giant, fans among the bumper crowd of 52,751 that paid a net $316,957.25, groaned through the early innings as Maglie, the 37-year-old curve ball ace who does on control, couldn't get the ball over the plate. He ran up a 3-0 count on Al Smith, Cleveland leadoff man in the first, and then plunked him in the back. He threw a ball and a strike to Bobby Avila as Liddle started throwing in the bullpen.

Avila dropped a single into short right center and Smith sped 'to third when Mueller gambled- the ball for the first of his two record- tying errors. Doby fouled out to Thompson ana Kosen, the other half of the mbes home run punch that helped make them 8-5 favorites, popped up on the first pitch. Mag lie nrst threw a ball fo Wertz and the first baseman hit the next pitch over the head of the slow- starting Mueller and off the right field wall for a two-run triple. MAGLIE DIPROVES Maglie got better as he went along, after struggling in the sec ond with more control trouble. But in the fifth he started running into hot water again.

Fine infield nlavs by Thompson and Dark helped him through the sixth and seventh but he went to the showers in the eighth, just before Mays made the catch. Liddle, the little lefty, faced only Wertz. Grissom came on to win in his first series appearance. The Giants had tied the score off Lemon in the third. Lockman and Dark opened with singles, and Lockman scored from third while Mueller was forcing Dark.

A walk to Mays and Thompson's single to right brought Mueller around with the tying run. Rhodes' pinch homer actually was the first ever to win a series game. Berra's came in the Yankee seventh inning of an Oct. 2. 1947.

game won by Brooklyn 9-8. Mize's was hit in the ninth inning, Oct 3, 1952, but the Yanks lost 5-3. Shuba's homer for Brooklyn last year came in the sixth inning of tne opener, won by the Yanks, 9-5. ANTICS FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER Winning pitcher Marv Grissom, left, of New York Giants, grabs hold of Jim (Dusty) Rhodes as they indulge in horseplay for the benefit of photographers in New York Giants dressing room after beating Cleveland, 5-2, in opening NODES CONFESSES 0SV2ER ACCIDENTAL beries game. Rhodes stroked a game.

(AP Wirephoto) Shortest Homer of Year Edges Indians threats. Rhodes, a sensational pinch hitter in the Giants' pennant march, barely reached the right field stands as he swung on Bob Lemon's first pitch. The ball sailed over the head of leaping Dave Pope and just made it into the lower stands, bouncing off the hands of a fan and rolling back onto the field as the umpire sig nalled home run. Cleveland had been threatening all through the late innings, leav- Rain Possible NEW YORK (IB Continued mild weather and considerable cloudiness is the weather forecast for the second game of the World Series. Possible showers may develop Thursday evening.

The temperature is expected to remain in the 70's. ing 13 men on base, while Grissom escaped by the thinnest of mar gins. In the Giant 10th, after Don Mueller struck "out, Mays worked Lemon for a walk. As Lemon threw a ball to Hank Thompson, the next hitter, Mays lit out for second, sliding in under the bounc ing peg of Mickey Grasso who had just taken up Cleveland's catching chores. With Mays on second, Manager Al Lopez ordered Lemon to pass Thompson intentionally, setting the stage for a possible double play.

Rhodes, who delivered 15 pinch hits in 45 trips during the regular season, crossed him up. STARTED IRVIN It was the same Mr. Rhodes whom Manager Leo Durocher was going to start in left field before he finally decided to stick with the veteran- Monte Irvin. The throat-clutching finish, how-ever, didn't dim the lustre of Mays magnificent catch on Vic Wertz' 450-foot smash to deep cen ter the eighth. If Willie, the Giants' bubbling "Say Hey Kid" hadn't caught that one with two men on and nobody out, there never would have been any chance for Rhodes' heroics.

Wertz already had three hits, including a two-run triple off Sal Maglie in the first inning, when he came to bat in the eighth, with the score tied at 2-2. Larry Doby had walked and Al Rosen had singled. The baldish first baseman, picked up from Baltimore early in June, slammed reliefer Don Lid- die's fourth pitch far and away to deep center field. Mays took one sight on the ball, turned Ids back and raced pell mell toward the four-foot wall in front of the bleachers. Just when it seemed he must smash into the wall, he put out his hands to grab the ball without a look toward the plate.

GREATEST CATCH For years, the writers have marveled at Al Gionfriddo's great catch on Joe DiMaggio at the Yan kee Stadium in the 1947 World Series, but this topped that fine play. Until he grabbed Wertz bid for a sure double. Mays had been well on the way to being a bust in this first game. He hadn't hit the ball out of the infield and had managed only a walk. But in the end it was Mays' catch and his steal of second that set things up for Rhodes to win it all with the fourth pinch homer in series history.

Only Yogi Berra in 1947, Johnny Mize in 1952 and George Shuba in 1953 had done it before, Just as Mays and Rhodes shared the final honors, it was old tomato- faced Grissom, a 36-year-old American League refugee, who held the fort through the perils of the eighth, ninth and tenth. Cleveland had the bases full with one out in the eighth as Grissom struck out pinch hitter Dave Pope and retired Jim Hegan on a fly ihall Tt tha ninth tha TtJKa i men on first and second with two out when Monte Irvin dropped ii Daii ana Larry do by was walked intentionally. Once again Marvelous Marv came through. getting Rosen on an inning-ending fly. WERTZ TIES MASK In the first of the 10th, the Tribe still was at it.

Wertz opened with a double to left center that might have been a triple by a man. It was his fourth hit, Sam Dente's sacrifice shoved pinch runner Rudy Regalado to third and Pope was walked intentionally. There was Grissom, sur- Marty Keough, who was an all CIF choice in three sports at Po mona High a couple years ago, really went great guns in his sec ond full season of professional baseball with the Louisville club of the Class AAA American Assn. Marty, who piloted the Red Devils to their only CIF football cham pionship in 1951, besides being a ton scorer in basketball and a brilliant pitcher-outfielder, wound up the season hitting .292 tops for the second place Colonels. Keough signed with the Boston Red Sox organization right after graduating from Pomona in 1952.

He was sent to San Jose of the Class California League where he finished that year and then played the entire 1953 season, batting .330, hitting four homers and tying for stolen base honors with 28. Making the big jump from Class to AAA, Marty this year led the major league's top preparatory circuit with 17 triples and whacked out 10 homers, more than; he clubbed the year before at San Jose. iir ft In a post-season poll of the managers in the league, the former Pomona whiz was named as the fastest man, the third best defensive outfielder in the circuit and tied for second as the best hitting prospect for the year. In addition, Marty was the top vote-Ketter among outfielders as the fans picked their league all-star team this summer. Keough undoubtedly will be called up by the parent Red Sox this year for spring trials but he will definitely have his work cut out if he expects to stick with the Bosox.

Even if Ted Williams does retire after this season, as he says he will, Boston still has Jim Pier- sail, Jackie Jensen, Karl Olson and Sam Mele besides Bob Broome, one of Keough' garden matps at Louisville. With his armed service tour still ahead and as young as he is, it seems pretty likely that Marty will get at least one more year in the minors be fore hitting the top rung for good, ft ft ft Tom Crenshaw, the most valu able player in the Desert-Inyo League last year at Barstow, has been one of the outstanding per formers on the Antelope Valley JC's undefeated grid club this sea son. Crenshaw, a pass-grabbing end who was on the second all-CIF team for small schools, has been instrumental in both Marauder victories so far 18-7 over Chaf- fev College and 53-0 over College of Southern Utah. Coach Gene Bynum's protege would have been a valuable addi tion to San Bernardino County's schools, Valley College or Chaf-fey. ft ft ft Dave Swing, all-CBL eager-grid- der from Colton High and later a basketball standout for Coach Ray Blake at Valley College, has enrolled at the new University of California at Riverside Swing is already one of the 13 men signed up for Coach Frank Lindeburg's varsity team.

Don Saffel, another Yellowjacket and SBVC veteran, has also signed up for the Mission City club, which won't field a football team this year. ft ft ft Things don't look too bright for San Bernardino County's CBL entrants again this weekend. San Bernardino High, 25-7 losers to Muir, host a very powerful San Dieso Hoover eleven The Hooverites (also nicknamed; "Cardinals) proved their ability last week by tramping two-time I (Continued 04 Page 40, Column 1) i NEW YORK (J-Dusty Rhodes, mighty New York Giant pinchhitter whose home run in the 10th won the opening game of the World Series, confessed after the game Wednesday it was an accident of sorts. "I wasn't trying for a home run," he said. "I was just trying for a hit." But what a hit a decisive three-run homer! "It was the best hit I ever got in my life," he said, laughing.

"Were you worried going up there as a pinch hitter?" he. was asked. "Nope," he said flatly. "The pitcher is the guy who worries. He has got to get me out." Rhodes' homer was on a curve thrown by Bob Lemon, the Cleveland Indian ace.

Manager Leo Durocher of the victorious Giants, after praising Rhodes and Willie Mays, heaped his affection on his pitchers. "It was great relief pitching," he said. "I got just what I wanted." His reliefers were Don Liddle and Marv Grissom. Durocher said he would start his FIRST GAME BOX SCORE CLEVELAND (A) ABKHO ..4 111 Smith, If Avila, 2b 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 3 1 1 4 11 Doby, cf 3 Rosen, 3b 5 Wertz, lb 5 d-Regalado 0 Grasso, 0 0 0 Philley, rf 3 a-Majeski 6 b-Mitchell 0 Strickland, ss 3 Dente, ss .0 c-Pope, rf .....1 Hegan, .....4 e-GIynn, lb 1 Lemon, 4 TOTALS 38 2 8x28 12 NEW YORK (N) AB Lockman, lb 5 119 Dark, ss 4 Mueller, rf ....5 Mays, cf .....3 Thompson, 3b 3 Irv in, If 3 f-Rhodes 1 Williams, 2b 4 Westrum, .....4 Maglie, 3 Liddle, 0 0' 1 1 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 Grissom, 1 TOTALS One out scored. 36 5 9 30 when winning run a Announced for Philley in 8th.

Walked for Majeski in 8th. Called out on strikes for Strickland In 8th. Ran for Wertz in 10th. Struck out for Hegan In 10th. Hit home run for Irvin in 10th.

Cleveland (A) ....200 000 000 02 New York (N) ....002 000 000 35 Mueller 2, Irvin. RBI Wertz 2, Mueller, Thompson, Rhodes 2B Wertz. 3B VTerta. HR Rhodes SB Mays. Irvin, Dente.

LOB Cleveland 13, New York 9. BB Lemon 5, Maglie 2, Grissom 3. SO Maglie 2, Lemon Grissom 2. HO 7-7 (pitched to two batters in 8th), Liddle 0-13, Grissom 1-2 23. Maglie 2-2, Liddle e-0, Lemon 5-5, Grissom 0-0.

WP J-run pinch-hit homer to win "He wears a protective shin guard on his right leg, and as he started for second after the ball got away from the first baseman and catcher, the guard broke loose and stopped him. It's the first time the guard has ever hampered him. FOUR WERTZ HITS Wertz, who had a four-for-five day to lead the hitters with a triple, two singles and a double, was more upset by the shin guard incident than he was elated by his batting. Wertz drove in both Cleveland runs with a resounding triple off the right field wall in the first inning. With lefthander John Antonelli going for the Giants in the second game against Early Wynn, Lopez said he probably would start Wally Westlake, a righthanded hitter, in right field in place of Philley.

"The rest of the lineup will be the same," Al said. "We won the pennant with 'em, and we can win the series. We're disappointed but not discouraged." Rhodes' Smash Jokingly Called 'Chinese1 Homer NEW YORK (UP) Dusty Rhodes' gam e-winning blow, which gave the Giants a 5-2, 10-inning victory over the Indians Wednesday in the World Series opener, is known jokingly around the National League as a Polo Grounds "Chinese" homer. The rightfield foul pole in the Giants' home park is only 237 feet from borne plate. The wall is 11 feet high.

His homer barely cleared the wall about seven feet in fair territory. A fan tried to catch the ball but succeeded only In deflecting it back on to the field. There were many who thought that the ball might be called a ground-rule double because the fan had reached over the wall to grab the balL TV fans also were bewildered because the ball was ruled a home run after bouncing back on the field. spectacular young southpaw, John ny Antonelli, Thursday, but was undecided on his third game pitcher when the scene of the series will shift to Cleveland. He was happy after the game, but not boastful.

Explaining he was superstitious, he asked photographers to leave him alone (which they didn't) "and take the players instead." 1 MAYS DOESN'T FAZE VThat catch of Mays it was great. The wind was blowing, he had his back to the diamond, and I don't know (sic) if he can do it." But he refused to call it the greatest catch ever made in a series game "there have been some terrific ones before." "I've seen Willie catch so many nothing he does now ever fazes me. "And that Wertz. He hits like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. No, we weren't fooled on him.

We stayed right with what we were told to do (which Durocher did not re veal.) SERIES OPENER FIGURES LISTED NEW YORK (UP) Figures on the first game of the World Series: Attendance 52.75L Net receipts 5316,957.25. Commissioner's share $47,543.59. Players share J161.648.20. Club and league share $107,765.46. Federal tax $31,738.42.

City tax $15,863.28. New York Now Even Money Bet To Snare Series NEW YORK (UP) The New York Giants now are considered an "even money" bet to win the World Series following their opening victory aver the Cleveland Indians. Oddsmaker now are quoting -5, pick 'em on the series, which to even money in man-to-man' wagering. In other words. If yon like either the Giants or the Indians, you mast put up SS to win $5 from a bookie.

Thnrsday's second game Is rated at 11-10, pick 'em another even money proposition In maa-to-maa betting. Before the open lng game, the Indians- wers quoted as S-S favorites. NEW YORK "The longest out and the shortest home run of the season beat us, that's all." That's how Senor Al Lopez, Cleveland's smiling-in-defeat manager summed up Wednesday's opening World Series victory by the New York Giants over his American League champions. He referred to the sensational catch by Giant centerfielder Willie Mays of a screaming 450 foot drive off the bat of Vic Wertz, and the climactic 270-foot homer with which pinchhitter Dusty Rhodes ended the game in the tenth. The Indians had two aboard, the score was tied at 2-2, and Wertz had three straight hits when he came up in the eighth.

He blasted a 2-1 pitch deep into centerfield, but Mays turned his back to the plate, almost crashed into the wall while making the catch, fell to the ground, and threw on the fly to second base to keep everyone away from the plate. ROUTINE FLY Of Rhodes' home run, Lopez said: "I thought it was just a routine out when it left the bat. Dave Pope said he thought he had the ball all the way, but the wind caught it. But it was a home run, and there's no defense against home runs." Bob Lemon, who pitched all the way, had little to say about the homer. "That's the way it goes," he said.

"But I'll have to admit it's tough to lose on a hit like that one. I thought it was just another out, and all at once the game's over. Dusty hit under a curve ball and knocked it a mile high, but it got into the stands." "We had a couple of chances to win the game in nine innings. Lopez said, "but it just didn't work out. In the eighth (with the bases loaded and one out) Pope looked at a third strike, but it was a good, fooling pitch a fork Dau "And in the sixth (when Wertz led oil with his sinle to right and Mueller threw wildly trying to Pick him off fiist Vic 00111(1 have reached third instead of second, but for an unfortunate thing.

LITTLE LEAGUER THROWS FIRST PITCH Jimmy 12-year-old captain and centerfielder of the Little Lemon. HBP Maglie (Smith). tying a series mark held by sev-Grissom. Lemon. Bar lick' i eral players.

League champions from Schenectady, N.Y stands at his seat and wings out first ball at opening of 1954 World Series between Cleveland and New York. Just behind him is Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Others ars unidentified. (AP Wirephoto) (N), plate; Berry (A), IB; Conlan (N), 2B; Stevens (A), 3B; Warneke (N), LF; Napp (A), RF. 13:11.

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