The Archive · 1941

68,540 Fans See Yankees Play Brilliantly to Whip Dodgers

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

New York, Oct. 1.

(OH McCarthy's New York Yankees took a brilliant ear-splitting, throat-tightening opening round from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 World Series, winning by a 3 to 2 decision today before 68,540 delirious fans who jammed Yankee Stadium for the game.

Joe Gordon, one of the sweetest of the major league's second-baseman, was the hero of the game, getting a four-bagger in the-second inning to open the Yankee drive, and singling in the sixth to drive in the winning run, Hose TPE Bolt, But they, alt cher guys of baseball-—wwere

mainder of the game to almost" pull and fought through the

ven with the Yankees, Owen Takes a Toe-Hold his Yankees, boasting a 1 to 9 lead vinue of Gordon's homer In the Bleond, sul loose gain inthe fourth foning: Shark Keller dow a cee art al ea ith she rach ott Bil Diskey pounced on the nex Serenruing "double. that cee See eta 5 tcentee eld wall. eller cross "lis plate standing' up, giving the Yankees" a2 to 0 lead.

Undaunted, the Deders came, paci:

the fifth ming when Harold "Red Reese, third-baseman, reached first Sed Siumies weet Sieringy sand sent booming into ep gutta s"triple' that. scored Recto By 3

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