Baseball Exit

As characteristically American as ice-cream sodas, bathing-beauty parades and The Star-Spangled Banner, the World Series agitated many a U. S. citizen last week as the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees faced one another in the 35th annual four-out-of-seven game tournament that ends the U. S. baseball season.

The Yankees needed only four games to prove that they were not odds-on favorites for nothing--not only better sluggers (for which they are famed) but better fielders, better pitchers--a well-oiled baseball machine that made the Cubs look as though they would have felt more at home in the Three-I League.

Most dramatic game of the series was the second, in which Cub Pitcher Dizzy Dean's famed $185,000 sore arm fooled the Yankees for seven innings with slow balls that flew over the plate like a single file of moths, twisting and curving where the Yankees least expected them. But after they solved the mysteries of the Dean moth balls, the Yankees went on a scoring spree with the result that their veteran Lefty Gomez became the only pitcher ever to be credited with six World Series victories, no defeats.

To the Yankees went the distinction of being the first club in baseball annals to win three World Series in a row.

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