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Show Backseat fT Driving By FRANK K. RAKFR " Telegram Sports Editor For two days now, baseball fans, sports writers and commentators have been poking fun at Ernie Lombardi l; for his futile efforts around home plate for Cincinnati in the ninth and tenth innings of the fourth and final game in the world series. I suppose big Ernie did look a little comical, if not downright down-right pathetic, rolling and lunging around the plate while Joe DiMaggio was sliding home with another run for the victorious Yankees, but I'm wondering why he didn't get some help from some of his teammates. After all, good team play insists that either the pitcher or the first baseman or both, for that matter should be in on the play, backing up the catcher on such plays. If Bucky Walters, Wal-ters, the pitcher, or Frank McCormick, the first baseman, had been on hand they should have been able to pick up a ball and make a play on DiMaggio, who had to run 90 feet from third base. I'll wager if Catcher Bill Dickey of the Yankees had been in distress that at least one or two of his teammates would have been around within hailing distance, anyway! Joe McCarthy, manager of the high stepping Yankees, asks some right pertinent questions, .too, when be wonder (ConttniMS an rmw Fourt n) |