Show Water Can Run Uphill After This Says Mac Macy B By y HENRY McLEMORE Special to The Telegram The Yankees beat the 7 4 in the fourth g game ame of the world series and from now on dont don't you let a anyone tell you that water doesn't run up hill hili or that fish fisho d do lo o not make fine mountain climbers or that blood is not e easily extracted from turnips After that victory of the Yankees Yan-I Yan Yan Yan- k kees ees nothing is Impossible I am writing this in the press b box ox just a few minutes after the bg g game jame ame is finished and if someone came c ame up and told me that Hitler h lad had just been elected national p resident president of the Girl Scouts it wouldn't surprise me one bit Because brother I have just watched the most fantastic thing e ever ver to happen in baseball or in inny a any ny sport for that matter Heartbreaking Defeat I have just seen a pitcher lose losea a world series game on a perfect third hird strike Not only a perfect third strike but a perfect third s strike in the ninth inning when t two wo were down It was a heart- heart b reaker breaker Here are the facts and they will be remembered and discussed discussed dis dis- dis- dis c cussed long after all of us have gone to our reward and spend our days lays taking harp lessons and being fitted for wings The scene Ebbetts field Th The time the first half of the ninth Inning of the fourth game of the world series Brooklyn ahead 4 Two Yanks away Tommy Henrich batting and Hugh Casey pitching With two strikes on Henrich Casey throws a perfect curve that cuts the middle As Henrich swings and misses the crowd jumps j to its feet to applaud its heroes Policemen run toward the field to guard the diamond For a split second Brooklyn has won the game and the series is tied at 2 Then Then for for a reason that only the Fates who pull the strings on us humans know the know the ball spins out of the hands of Catcher Mickey Owen of the Brooks and rolls toward toward toward to to- ward the stands I Henrich makes it to first base and the Yankees given a reprieve from the governor rise up and strike To the dismay of everyone inthe in inthe the park yes park yes the dismay of even the rooters the rooters the Bronx Bombers go to work You know the details by now DiMaggio singles Keller doubles Dickey walks Gordon doubles and the ball game the had won is lost If it had to happen perhaps itis it itis itis is fitting that it happened In Ebbetts Ebbetts Ebbetts Eb Eb- Eb- Eb betts field for field for lo 10 these many years the scene of the most fantastic fantastic fan fan- unbelievable baseball oc oc- oc- oc It was at Ebbetts field I that men hit triples only to have them converted into double plays that outfielders played fly balls off their heads and the art of stealing a base already occupied was brought to glorious I tion Passes Up Visit This is being written without a visit to the Brooklyn dressing room I purposely passed up a visit there I didn't want to have to tc talk to Owen one of the finest boys in the game and one who until that strike got by him was one of the unsung but standout players of the series I didn't want to see Casey What a tough one for him Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- he was the tho goat goat four four straight hits off him They booed I him when he came in to relieve i French Sunday But he hung on gallantly and had a world series game in his grasp hell grasp hell he had it won only won only to lose it on a to 1 shot I saw MacPhail though You know tough hard-bitten hard Larry the man who eats nails and kicks puppies |