Show Sports Sport's Comment By PETE FRITCHIE The howls and shouts of oC joy rang loudly through Los Ios Angeles Ange Ange- les and other towns and cities when the New York Yankees had their noses rubbed in the mud but good in the world Series NOW TilE THE popular pastime Is to say the Yanks will never be the same Just as ns so man many flocked Clocked to the slogan that the Yankees couldn't be beaten now the crowd is embracing the theory that the Yankee d dy nasty is collapsing Neither extreme Is true The Yankees can be beaten of oC course for Cor the Los Angeles Dodgers have just done it in four straight games and li lime lim m iced this team which was supposedly sup the best ever Yankee team to fewer runs than any other team ever scored in a n game four series SO ARE the Yankees fin in Not true the Dodgers had superlative pitching Actually Ac Ac- New York pitching inthe in inthe inthe the series was not bad Whitey Ford had an off day in the first game and the Dodgers scored five runs that day but they never did thereafter In the third game the Dodgers were held to one run and in the fourth they got two but only one was earned The Dodgers scored but 12 runs in the series themselves many of oC those not earned The series proved again as it will in future years that great pitching will win If it is great enough it checks the hitters And the Dodgers had great hurling though Don II Drysdale the only er cr to work for Cor the Dodgers probably pitched the best game of the series Not so spectacular just the best MANY baseball folk like I Charlie Dressen of or the Tigers I was Impressed at the job left handers did on the New York York- ers But Drysdale did well wen too Dressen sn says s 's he wants five live left handed starters on the Tiger team next year ear But Frank Lary the most famous Yankee killer of oC recent years in the junior major loop is also a So the thing could be over over- rated TilE THE YANKEES played good ball generally in the field They had good pitching not wonderful but good They failed to hit Jut and the Dodgers got most of oC the breaks admit admit- The Yanks will not rollover roll rollover rollover over now and die They are still the team to beat in n the American League I next year though their humiliation cation might give heart to I some of oC the man many weak sisters sisters sis sis sis- in the American who have in recent years been handicapped when playing New York by an inferiority complex IF THE TILE Yankee defeat brings about a closer league it will have ha been a fine line thing for COl organized baseball The Yankees are plenty good and they will be rough if it they are arc in the world series next year but the Nation a I 1 League has better balance and more good teams |