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Shotton QuietAfter LosingTo Yankeesr1:vrBy TED SMITSYANKEE STADIUM. NEW YORK-(/P)—Manager Burton Edwin Shotton of the Dodgers put his hands on his hips, wiped the smile off his face, took so much time it seemed he hand't heard the question, and then said in that sharp, country-boy voice of his:We got beat. What is there to saybut that.”That was at the door of the Dodgerdressing room today. When he hadcome out of the dugout, the last of along line of solemn, silent men. he wassmiling.Later, after the Dodgers had held a brief, private review of what had £ happened, he was smiling again. He is not a man who discourages easily.If the curve ball that Johnny Lindell hit in the fifth inning (with the bases laeded) had been outside instead of inside we’d still be in the ball game.”said Shotton.I would have liked to win it,certainly. But we aren't going to fold up. I’ll be back here today.“Nothing happened to Ralph Branca.He just got the ball in the wrong place, that’s because he’s human. He didn’t want to get it there, you know.If they get the bases full and hitthe ball between you they get runs. I don’t know any remedy for that.”As for Branca, he had been pale as a ghost and swating before the gamestarted. For four innings he had setthe mightv Yankees down in order.Then the roof fell in. Afterwards, with his color back and a faint smile on his lips, he said, no he wasn’t scared, and that all he was thinking about was to “get that ball game over with. Someone thought maybe the windbothered him.I didn’t even know which way thewind was blowing. You don’t think I was scared, do you?”No one did. ,But Dixie Walker offered expert, outfielder testimony on the wind.It was playing the fool with those balls,” he said. “It was the worst you’llever see it , „“Aw, we had to play it conservative,said Jackie Robinson. “That’s when we” got four runs behind. That’s notour kind of game.“But we’re going to keep right onrunning unless they get someone in there with a better arm/’ he added.The pointed reference wa$ to Yankee Catcher Gogi Berra, who before the game said he was on to Robinsons ways. He may have been, but Robinson stole second no sooner than he got on base in the first just to get the feel ofthings.Everyone managed to read one telegram. It was stuck up with adhesive tape on a mirror. It was addressed to Shotton and said without benefit of punctuation:“I will be pulling for you Burt and I am sure that you wtil win the series,
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 01, 1947
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