Eugene register-guard., September 21, 1954, Image 12

Giants Capture National Crown
With 7-1 Triumph Over Brooklyn
Brooks Quiet
Following Loss
BROOKLYN (. It was all
over, even the shouting.
The victorious Giants, a jubi
lant gang of merrymakers, had
long since departed after cele
brating their pennant victory in
true style, complete with cham
pagne and more sober refresh
ments.
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Boston M a3
Detroit . fiS 14
Washington 6 84
Baltimore S2 98
Philadelphia 49 WO
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?; J For the first time
57, ball magnates became convinced
so thnir athletes would be belter
conditioned for the 154-gamo
grind wilh the help o warm sun
and palm trees in the early
Isoring. Florida doesn't have a
;j I World Series entry.
T...I TJ. lnlime snH ftinniS
ol shunned the orange juice circuit victories.
: for the sands arjd sun of Arizona. Leo uurocner said nc never
iwith nnlv the Chicago Cubs and, made predictions, then quickly
The Clevenland Indians andiBaltimore Orioles around forjadded his Giants, with the return
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There was not much life in IhCjNew York Giants open ine worm major icuc ""f"" '
13 1.1. . I..Min.,co nilhor nl. ' " " Stronger.
thruirh a einun nf Dodeers were or Reo-lster-Guard. Eusene. Ore. Tucs.. Sept. 21, 1954 "Brooklyn is the team to beat,"
still sluing arouno, iryins iu yui
two clubs played each other
often enough to know the players
by heart.
On their barnstorming tour
back to the majors the Giants
whipped the Indians 13 times in
21 games, often by such scores
as 20-14 or 13-9.
Al Lopez flatly predicted a pen
nant for his Indians and made
good as of last Saturday. Now
he's after a new all-time high in
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
the Dicces together. It was so
quiet you could hear the pen
nant drop.
Walter Alston, the freshman
manager, sat silently in a chair,
dejected and still bewildered. A
fellow said he had been sitting
there for nearly an hour.
As if suddenly aware that he
was expected to say something,
Alston looked around and began
to talk.
"It wasn't just one thing," he
murmured. "It was a combination
of things. It wasn't Campanclla
alone. We might have won de
spite Roy's bad hand. But Furillo
didn t start to hit until mid-
season. Newcombe never did get
started. Erskine failed to take up
the slack. Oh, so many things.
We just didn't play good ball."
In another corner, Pee Wee
Reese, the team captain, sat
quietly, smoking a cigarette. He
was still in his baseball uniform.
"They're a fine ball club," he
said in his usual generous way.
"They deserved to win. We gave
it all we had but it wasn't
enough."
Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges and
one or two others of the ex
champions echoed Reese's senti
ments but one who refused to
console himself was Roy Campa
nclla
"Nobody hurt the team more
than I did," he growled. Imag
ine hitting .200. I should have
done better even with one hand.1
Earlier, President Walter J.
O'Malley had gathered the play
ers together and told them "this
has been a rugged Sanson."
"I feel sorry for you and
sorry for the fans," he said
"particularly because it was the
Giants who beat us, and sorry for
Alston. I don't feel the team did
as well as it should have done
but let's wrap it up and get ready
for next year. Go home and have
a good winter,
O'Malley, accompanied by Als
ton, had been among the first to
congratulate Leo Durocher and
his Giants.
"You got a good manager,"
Durocher had told O'Malley. "It
was not his fault that Campa
nclla got hurt and his pitching
went sour. He did a fine job un
der the circumstances."
Concerning his own club, Leo
said he never felt at case about
it until the pennant was clinched.
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jr Oregon's 41-0 decision over Idaho does not prove that
the Wcbfoots are the Pacific Coast Conference and Rose Bowl
contenders we all want them to be. The Stanford Indians or the
Utah Redskins, who play Oregon in Portland Saturday night and
here the next Saturday afternoon, respectively, may have the
answer. But if Oregon's football forces remain question marks,
the California Bears are certain to write success or failure to the
1954 gridiron yarn. , . .
The scouts at Neale Stadium Saturday saw very little, other
than that Oregon has a galaxy of capable passing quarterbacks
(making George Shaw's return to Jackof-all-tradcs status possible
later in the season); a hard-hitting team a bit under par in block
ing; an alert club that takes advantage of opponents' mistakes;
a running attack that cannot function against a nine-man line;
a team that did not always take advantage of its ability to pass
"all afternoon," and a squad we feel has a chance for the Rose
Bowl until proven differently. . . .
Official statisticians were slightly off the beam on fumbles.
We had only four recorded instead of five for Oregon. The one
by Walt Gaffney on the first play of the game was charged,
although there was a 15-yard penalty on the play. There were
four others, however, but in only one case did Idaho recover
Center Ed Barton recovering Jasper McGee's fumble on the Idaho
seven-yard line. That ended the second Oregon scoring failure
and set up Idaho's only real scoring threat in the second quarter.
.There were two other fumbles in the opening period, which
prompted the captain of the Pan American charter to make a
speech before the departure from Lewiston to Eugene Saturday
night. . . .
After explaining low flying procedure on the trip to Lewiston
Friday and giving the 59 passengers other vital information, he
said, "And don't fumble your lunch boxes (no hot meals were
served aboard) like you did in the first quarter today."
it Alertness on the part of the Webfoots can be shown
by the four Idaho fumbles recovered, the two blocked punts,
and the one (should have been two) Intercepted passes. The
fumble recoveries were by Jerry Nelson (1st quarter), Fred
Jacobs (2nd quarter), Ted Overton (3rd quarter), and Tom Crab
tree (4th quarter). . . . Dick Moblcy and Jim Potter shared a
blocked punt in the 2nd quarter, and Jacobs one in the 4th quar
ter that resulted in a touchdown two plays later. . . . Mobley
intercepted a pass that was deflected by Ron Pheister, and the
captain should have an assist. ... In the second quarter Keith
Tucker nearly intercepted one. Then, in the 3rd quarter, George
Eidam completed to End Frank Teverbaugh, who appeared to
have possession and then dropped it Shaw recovering.
Shaw had a questionable call against him his only
intercepted pass. . . . George was passing the ball a bit long,
but it could have been that the receivers were slower than anti
cipated because of the damp turf. . . . Anyway, George tossed
one late in the second quarter that Bill Lawr "trapped," taking
the ball off the turf like diving play at shortstop. . . .
Oregon's Ail-American candidate will have better days this
season than he had against Idaho, but his 24-yard run that set
up the third touchdown was brilliant. Late in the second quarter
he was thrown for 11 and 16-yard losses by Idaho's nine-man line
that made his rushing yardage unimpressive. . . . But his "8 for
15" and 157 yards passing is impressive. In addition he averaged
24 yards on kickoff returns, 10 yards on punt returns, averaged
belter than 55 yards on kickoffs and 40 yards on punts. . . .
Actually, had you been a stranger and not known any better,
you might well have picked Johnny Keller as the best quarter
back on the Idaho field. ... His play-calling was sound and his
passing good. Wally Russell and Don Holt also took advantage
of the Idaho pass-defense weakness. , . . The performance of Holt
was as pleasing to members of the squad as surprising to members
nf the press. A senior who has been nothing more than a "bag
holder" never passed better in practice and against "nobodies"
as he did against Idaho "3 for 3" for 72 yards and a touchdown
pass to Bill Moore, a basketball player who, like Fred Jacobs,
turned out because of Oregon's reported shortage of ends.
ir That 41-0 score was the second highest ever scored
by a I.cn Casanova team at Santa Clara, Pittsburgh or at
Oregon. ... The highest was 47 0 for Santa Clara over Loyola in
194H when Line Coach Vern Sterling wa a varsity guard.
Leo said in April.
He followed his own advice. He
beat them opening day with
Willie Mays hitting a 425-foot
home run and Monday night in
Ebbets Field, home of the
Iriolfforc Tlnrnohpr'a mun plinrhpH
the pennant with a 7-1 victory.
Appropriately Willie Mays
picked the occasion to take over
the National League batting lead
with three hils. The "Say Hey"
kid, released from the Army just
in time to reach training camp,
is battering the ball at a .344
clip.
Sal "The Barber" Maglie was
razor sharp as he scattered five
hits. The only Brooklyn run came
in the third when Maglie's con
trol deserted him momentarily
and he walked Pee Wee Reese
and Duke Snider with two out.
Gil Hodges followed with what
started out to be a routine fly,
then it sank rapidly in the reurky
night and fell just in front of
Mays, who made a belly slide on
the slick turf.
The Giants jumped off to a
two-run lead in the first inning
on a walk to Whitey Lockman
Al Dark's single followed by a
sacrifice and singles by Mays and
Hank Thompson
Don Mueller's single and
doubles by Thompson and Monte
Irvin produced two more in the
sixth and wrapped up the flag
for sure.
Durocher called his team a bet
ter outfit than the 1951 pennant
winners who caught Brooklyn
and won in a playoff after being
far behind in mid-August. Walt
Alston, freshman manager of the
losing Dodgers, congratulated Leo
and said: "There is a lot of differ
ence between those two teams,
mine and his. I only hope he can
go out now and beat Clevelend."
While the Giants were clinch
ing their flag, the Indians won
their 11th straight and ran their
victory total to 109, only one
short of the American League
record set by the 1927 Yankees.
Bobby Feller pitched the In
dians to a 7-4 triumph over the
Chicago White Sox with the help
of home runs by Larry Doby and
Vic Wertz. Cleveland has five
more games to play.
The battles for fourth place.
and its share of the rich World
Series loot, tightened in both
Leagues. Cincinnati split with
Milwaukee, winning 3-1 after
losing 6-2, and holds a two game
lead over St. Louis. The Cardinals
defeated Chicago 7-2 with five
runs in the 10th inning. The idle
Philadelphia Phillies are less
than half a percentage point be
hind the Cardinals.
Boston held fourth in the
American League with a 5-2
triumph over the Athletics. De
troit, half a game back of the
Red Sox, defeated Baltimore 4-3
and Washington, another half
game behind, shaded the Yanks
3-2.
Experts Fail to
Pick Indians - Giants
NEW YORK tin Baseball ex
perts? Not one nut of a total of 181.
That was the shining rec
ord chalked up by the sports
writers who participated in the
annual United Press pre-scason
pennant selections.
Nobody picked both the Giants
and Indians to win.
Only four writers picked the
Giants and just 22 selected Cle
veland. Three of those who
liked the Giants envisioned a
World Series with the White
Sox as oppontnets and one writer
picked both New York teams.
There were 19 out of the 22 Cle
veland pickers who thought the
Indians would play Brooklyn In
the World Scries. One thought
it would be Cleveland-Milwaukee,
one picked Cleveland and
St. Louis and one Clevelend
and Philadelphia.
Spahn Joins
Select Group
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (W War
ren Spahn, who became the first
left hander in modern baseball
league history to be a six time
20 game winner, was more de
jected Tuesday over the Braves
pennant failure than he was
pleased with his pitching record.
Spahn defeated the Cincinnati
Redlegs Monday, 6-2, in the first
game of a double header to give
him his 20th victory of the year.
He previously won more than 20
games in '47, '49, '50, '51 and '53
"It was okay," Spahn said.
"But I would much rather won
that New York game last week
when we were still in the pen
nant race.
With his 20th victory, Spahn
joined immortal righthanders
Christy Mathewson, Grover Al
exander and Mordecai Brown, as
the only pitchers in modern base
ball to win 20 games for six or
more seasons. Mathewson did it
12 times, Alexander nine and
Brown six.
Coast League
Gate Increases
LOS ANGELES WI Attend
ance at Pacific Coast League base
ball games increased 13,848 paid
admissions over 1953 with some
teams registering sharp upswings
and others steep declines.
The league, holding a meeting
here, reported 1,773,643 paid to
see FCL games during the past
season.
Both Los Angeles and Portland
suffered attendance dives of more
than 100,000 but San Diego, the
pennant winner, and the surpris
ing San Francisco Seals drew big
increases.
Attendance by teams, with 1953
and comparison in parenthesis:
Hollywood, 269, 385 ( 274,522
minus 5,137); Los Angeles, 238,
567 (363,818 minus 125,251); Oak
land 201, 922 (135,784 plus 66,
138); Portland, 135,058 (236,762
minus 101,704); Sacramento, 186,
245 (180,271 plus 5,974); San
Diego, 292,487 (168,617 plus
123,870); San Francisco, 298,908
(175,459 plus 123,449); Seattle,
151,071 (224,562 minus 73,491).
Trio Sweeps Honors
In Oakway Tourney
Virgil Snodgrass, Darrell
Thomason and Gene Hcbrard
captured top honors in golfing
activities at the Oakway course
last weekend. Snodgrass won the
sweepstakes with a gross 71,
Thomason upset Co-medalist
Brad Fullerton 2-1 and Hebrard
eliminated Fred Reber with a
birdie on the 19th hole to win in
the championship flight of the
men's tourney.
Bob Prescott was the net win
ner in the sweepstakes with a
73-7 66. Tied for second were
Hebrard 72-567 and Oscar
Smith 83-1767. Tied for the
final "money" place were Elmer
VanDenBos with 82-1468 and
Chris Christcnsen and Russ
Deihl with identical 78-10 68's.
Quarter-final results in the
tourney follow:
CHAMPIONSHIP Thomason d Ful
lerton 2-1, Snodgrasfl d Barrett 4-3.
Hebrard d Reber 19th, Hamilton d
Milliard 5-4.
FIRST FLIGHT Chrlstensen d Brav
ton 3-1, LeForea d Griffith 2-ud. Pres.
cott d Delhi 4-2, Sowers d Ankarbcrg
2-up.
SECOND FLIGHT Bunch d Ca.iad
4.3, Schwleger d A. Smith 7-5, Hansen
d Jones 4-3, Bralncrd d Sage 1-up.
THIRD FLIGHT Campbell d Bav
nox default, Landry d Martin 3-2, Lip
pert d Kebs 2-up, VanDenBos d Wood
6-5.
FOURTH FLIGHT Sater d McNew
1-up, Kevllt d Cokcr 19th, O. Smith d
Moss 4-3, Belknap d Miller 3.1.
FIFTH FLIGHT Bakken d Mivn.
ard default, Petersen d Fair default.
KO WINNER
LOS ANGELES (IP) Don
Jordan, one of California's more
promising lightweights, Monday
night stopped Billy Hartman,
Long Beach, Calif., in 1:35 of
the fourth round of their sched
uled 10-round main event at
LeEion Auditorium.
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Quarterback
By WARREN GAER
Head Football Coach,
Drake University
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Favored to win. Ohio Slate is
behind Indiana 19-0 with 30 sec
onds left in the second quarter.
Throughout the half, the Hoosicrs
have surprisingly had the edge,
with one of their touchdowns the
result of a sustained march, the
other of a recovered fumble.
Now Ohio Stale has its first big
break and has the ball, first and
ten on the Indiana 12-yard line
as a result of blocking a kick.
Ohio State's pass attack has not
been clicking as predicted, and
Indiana-has been throwing eight
and nine-man lines against you
and stopping your running game.
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at least an eight-man line against
your split-T formation.
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pitchout wide if situation devel
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back fakes to dive man. Handoff
to halfback on quick opener. But
ton hook pass to end (receiver
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