Notes on the Scorecard

Troops Hear Series;

Stengel Coming Back
BROOKLYN At 6-foot-1 and 200
pounds, Gil Hodges is likely the biggest,
strongest, scariest No. 7 hitter in baseball.
He has never stood taller than in the sixth
inning Sunday, when he sent a tie-breaking
three-run home run soaring through the long
shadows at Ebbets Field, helping the Dodgers
to a 5-2 victory in Game 3 of the World Series
WITH UNITED STATES 24TH DIVISION,
KOREA (AP) American soldiers in their
front line fox holes Sunday heard condensed re
-broadcasts of the first three World Series tilts
and the Michigan-Ohio State football game.
Recorded sections of the games were broad-
cast over loudspeakers from a point just behind
the front line. Previously the loud speakers
were used by psychological warfare teams urg-
ing Communist troops to surrender.
Yankees manager Casey Stengel will be
back next year as pilot of the club.
Stengel said Sunday that improvement in his
physical condition has prompted him to change
his mind about retiring. He still has a year to
go on a two-year contract, calling for an esti-
mated $75,000 a year.
They told me I would have to undergo an
operation if I was to carry on, said Stengel. I
told them if I had to be operated on to continue
as manager, I would quit.
Leo Durocher forecasts the end of the pla-
toon system in major league baseball if the
PCL makes good its threat to turn independent.
We wont be able to keep our reserves on
the bench at $8,000, explained the Giants pi-
lot. Theyll be offered much more.
and a 2-1 series lead over the White Sox.
Hodges batted fifth in the lineup in 103 of his
154 starts this season, but he finished the year in
the seventh spot, where hes been in all three
games of the Fall Classic. Thats usually a spot
reserved for Punch and Judy middle infielders.
Hodges, who tied for second in the loop with
37 homers this season, does not fit that descrip-
tion. But the Atom Bums have a stable of
sluggers. One of them has to bat seventh.
The score was deadlocked when Hodges dug
in at the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Chicagos Orestes Minoso had unlocked a score-
less tie with a homer off Ralph Branca in the top
of the frame. Roy Campanellas RBI double in
the bottom of the stanza tied the game 1-1.
Minosos error on what would have been the
final out of the inning allowed Andy Pafko to
reach base and Hodges to bat with two men on.
Hodges belted Lou Kretlows first pitch deep
down the left field line for a 4-1 Dodgers lead. It
was his second career World Series circuit
smash.
Don Lenhardts round-tripper, his second of
this World Series, drew the Sox to within 4-2 in
the top of the eighth. Cal Abrams pinch single
restored the Dodgers three-run lead in the bot-
tom of the inning.
Branca earned the win, allowing two runs in
eight innings. Reliever Clyde King, the loser in
Game 2, got the save. But he had to squirm out
of a bases-loaded jam to do it. Minoso came up
with the bases loaded and one out. But King got
him to bounce into a home-to-first double play
to end the game.
Kretlow, who won his final five decisions to
end the season, was hung with the loss. He al-
lowed four runs (one earned) in 5 2/3 innings.
Game 4 today will feature a Game 1 rematch,
with the Dodgers Don Newcombe facing Billy
Pierce of the White Sox.
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MONDAY, OCT. 8, 1951
The Baseball Once-Upon-A Times.
VOL. 1, No.176 FIVE CENTS
AMERICAN W L PCT. GB NATIONAL W L PCT. GB
Chicago 98 56 .636 --- Brooklyn 98 56 .636 ---
Boston 88 66 .571 10 New York 90 64 .584 8
Cleveland 85 69 .552 13 St. Louis 83 71 .539 15
New York 83 71 .539 15 Philadelphia 81 73 .526 17
Philadelphia 77 77 .500 21 Boston 72 82 .468 26
Detroit 72 82 .468 26 Chicago 69 85 .448 29
Washington 63 91 .409 35 Pittsburgh 67 87 .435 31
St. Louis 50 104 .325 48 Cincinnati 56 98 .364 42
Final 1951 Major League Standings
Lucky 7: Hodges Circuit Smash
Breaks Tie, Portends 5-2 Triumph
Hodges Favors 3-Run Homers in Series
Notes from Game 3 of the World Series:
* Both of Gil Hodges career World Series home runs have been three-run shots at Ebbets Field.
His first came in Game 5 in 1949 off the Yankees Vic Raschi.
* Ralph Branca evened his career World Series record at 2-2. His first win came as a reliever in
Game 6 in 1947.
* Dodgers center fielder Duke Snider, who
had four hits in Game 1, had three more in
Game 3. He leads all batters with a .615 aver-
age, eight hits and four runs scored.
* The Dodgers victory Sunday snapped a
four-game home losing streak in World Series
play.
* Brooklyn third baseman Billy Cox has one
hit in each of the first three games all dou-
bles.
* The White Soxs two errors gave them
three for the Series, resulting in seven unearned
runs.
* Orestes Minosos solo home run in the
sixth inning came after he fouled off two full-
count pitches from Ralph Branca.
* Through three games the White Sox are
outhitting the Dodgers, 33-29. But they have
left 25 runners on base to Brooklyns 19.
* Game time temperature was 48 degrees, the
second time in three games that the temperature
was in the 40s for the first pitch. GUILD, Page 2
Brooklyn 5, Chicago 2 Chicago (Pierce 0-1) at Brooklyn (Newcombe (1-0),
1 p.m.
Sundays Result Todays Probable Starting Pitchers
Players Reportedly Forming
Guild to Engage Ownership
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) Major
league baseball players are now in the process
of trying to organize their own guild, according
to the Huntington Herald-Advertiser. Reporter
Ernie Salvatore said players want to form such
an organization in order to present a united
front to club owners during future negotiations
of grievances.
Johnny Berardino, a major leaguer with such
clubs as the Indians, Browns and Pirates, has
been named the originator of the idea, Salva-
tore wrote.
The aim of the guild will be to secure suita-
ble settlements over grievances between the
players and club owners. It was understood that
the guild would be run by the players them-
selves with no professional union organizers
involved.

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It was learned that practically all major
league players know of the movement, although
most of them may deny it for fear of hurting the
guilds chances. Whether or not it ever becomes
a reality, according to Salvatores informant,
the movement is definitely afoot at this time
and may even be confirmed at the current
World Series.
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Baseball Writers Call For Better Access
NEW YORK (UP) A demand that the dress-
ing rooms of major league baseball teams be
open to the press at all times in the first inter-
ests of the fans was entered by the Baseball
Writers Association of America.
A resolution calling on commissioner Ford
Frick to rule the rooms open to the press was
unanimously adopted Sunday night by the asso-
ciation at its annual meeting. It was proposed by
Oscar Fraley of the United Press.
The resolution pointed out that while at pre-
sent writers are barred from dressing rooms for
the first ten minutes after a game writers have
frequently discovered that other persons, nota-
bly theatrical personages, have been admitted
during that time.
The resolution imposed the limitation that a
manager be permitted to bar the press from the
dressing room for any pre-game meetings.
Commissioner Frick, who discussed the reso-
lution with the writers during the meeting, said
it would not be possible to create such an open
door rule until the end of the World Series, if
for no other reason than my Hoosier stubborn-
ness. He agreed to consider it after that time.
The association also elected its 1952 officers
at the meeting. Lou Smith of the Cincinnati
Enquirer was named president, succeeding
Frank Yeutter of the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Joe Cashman of the Boston Record was
named vice president, and Ken Smith of the
New York Mirror was re-elected secretary-
treasurer.