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Your Sports Question Box. You send in the questions, any question on any sport or game, and Leo
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And here's a masterminding manager of those dashing, slam bang Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo DeRosher.
Hi, you sports fans. It's great to be here with you today and to try to answer your sports question.
Right, Leo. And this is Frank Chase, who is going to swing your queries at the lip to answer fans.
And I hope you won't be mad if I don't fat a thousand every show.
I'm sure they won't, Leo. Just do your best. And now step up to the plate.
I'll do just that. And first of all, I want to answer some questions that have been tossed at me by
sports fans everywhere for the past week. And all on the current World Series, I'll bet.
Every one, Frank. And the one I've been asked most often is who's going to win the World Series.
And so who is going to be the winner? Well, Frank, I'll stick my neck out. In two words, the carton.
Well, now give us the lowdown on your figuring. Well, I figure that any club that can beat the
Dodgers can beat anybody. Okay, Leo. I hope you're right. So you were up there in Boston for three
days. What else was a special interest? Well, there was one thing in particular that I noticed.
5,000 fans in Brooklyn on any given day can make more noise than 35,000 fans made in Boston during
the World Series. Say, here's one that I heard a lot of them ask you, Leo. Would you have walked
Ted Williams to get at York in the first inning of that third game? Well, of course, all managers
figure different and have their own ideas. And I think that Eddie Dyer did a great job handling
his team in the games that I saw. Yeah, but you still haven't answered the question. Listen,
you're some men head. Dyer beat us 16 out of 24 games last season. Do you think I want to make
him mad at us for next year? Nice side stepping, Leo. Nice side stepping. And now on to the first
question from one of our known fans. Mr. Tom August of Locust Valley rigged this one up for it.
In a night ball game, the team at bat is one run behind and has a man on third. There are two
out. The pitcher winds up, throws the ball and the batter at the plate swings and connects.
Nothing very tricky about this one so far. Hang on to your hat. As the batter hits the ball,
the runner on third heads for home. With two out, what would you expect him to do? Sit on third base?
As the batter hits the ball, the runner on third base heads for home. And the lights in the ball
park go out. When they come on again a few seconds later, the runner on third has scored and the
batter is safe at first. And a pig's neck he is. You don't agree? I certainly don't. The rules say
that in a game momentarily interrupted by light failure, play is halted and all runners are sent
back to the base they started from. The hitter bats over again and the last ball thrown in where
they hit fair or foul or not hit at all is charged neither as a strike nor a ball. And that sends
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And now back to Leo Durosha and Frank Chase and your questions on sports. A hockey fan, Kevin
Haggerty, would like you to tell him the final score of a hockey game in the case of a forfeit.
Well the score is one to nothing and that goes whether the game is between amateurs or professionals.
Five dollars for Mr. Haggerty. Here's one about the payboards, Leo. Look, Chase,
say cards when you mean cards. Sorry, Leo. I'll rephrase the introduction. Here's one about cards.
Go ahead. I'm waiting. In the game of poker asked Ms. Cynthia Lee of Bennington, do four races beat
a straight flush or does a straight flush beat anything in the deck? Well I guess they'll never
get through batting that one around. The answer depends somewhat on your own local rule. But the
best information I have to offer coming straight from the Frontier Club in Reno, Nevada is that a
straight flush beats anything anyone else can hold. Well you can't say the lip isn't definite,
Miss Lee. Understand I'm not kicking about four races, Miss Lee. Anytime you want to deal
them to me, I'll play you for table stakes. And we're sending you five dollars to start your game.
Here's one from the mouth of a disciple of Isaac Walton. Laying it right on the line,
he means it's a question from a fisherman. Nicely riddled, Leo. Now come up with the answer.
Mike Adams of Port Washington wants you to tell him if there's any recognized competition for
fly casting. Not one but several. There are all sorts of varieties of competitions from coast to
coast. There are competitions for wet fly casting and dry fly casting. For salmon fly, for distance
and for any number of weights of rod and line. And here's a pixie from a gal who must be riding
with her tongue in her cheek. Anything wrong with that? Wait until you hear the question, noisy.
Just keep that up, Applehead. You won't be able to ask questions much longer. Isn't it funny, Frank?
Just when you're beginning to hate the guy, he crosses you up by saying something sweet and
kind. Roberts, you'll be doing your announcing from Peoria next year. Well, Miss Steinsall of
Spring Lake wants you to answer her question no matter how you do it. Okay, what's the question?
The young lady wants to know which is the fastest, a horse, a camel or an ostrich. Okay, that's all
for the day. Pack your bags, boys, and we'll ride home in my dog's lap. You mean you're going away
mad, Leo? Look, my business is baseball. It's a tough job. It takes up most of my day. Yeah? So I
haven't got time to run around clocking the speed of camels and ostriches. But you do know something
about the speed of horses. The speed of the horses I know about shouldn't happen to a dog. Well,
anyway, here's the information we've dug up for you, Miss Steinsall. If the distance is under a
mile, take the ostrich. If it's between one and 10 miles, take the horse. And if it's over 10 miles
and you want to get to where you're going in a hurry, then thumb a ride on any passing camel.
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And now Mr. Walter Drum of New York City asks, is it true that farlap raced in the money more
often than any other of the famous Australian race horses? No, it's not true. There was another
famous Australian horse called Glooming who had it all over farlap like a tent. Well, farlap was
pretty good, Leo, before he died in 1932. He won 37 races out of 51 starts. Yes, but this Glooming
was the real Australian money horse. Glooming went to the post 67 times. He was out of the money
once. He came in second nine times and stuck his nose over the wire ahead of the pack 57 times.
And that's what they call a red hot tip. Here's a funny one, Leo, but maybe you know the answer.
Well, if I don't, I promise you I'll at least make up a good story about it. Mr. Joe Lowell
of Brooklyn wants to know what famous ball player caught a I can even finish that question. A
baseball drop from the Washington Monument. It was Gabby Street of Washington. Are you all through
completely? What's the next question? Well, we'll start over again. Mr. Lowell of Brooklyn wants to
know what famous ball player caught a grapefruit tossed from an airplane. Oh, that one. Well,
first of all, the grapefruit was never really caught. But here's how the story goes. When
old Robbie, who did a great job managing the dodges for a long, long time was in spring training
camp one year, he made a bet with some of the men that he could catch a baseball drop from an
airplane flying at 400 feet. Boy, if I'd ever hit him on the head, it would have killed him. A lot
of the boys pointed that out to him, but Robbie was determined. So? So Frank Kelly, the trainer,
climbed into a plane and flew over the beach at the required height and let his missile go.
You mean a baseball? It should have been a baseball. But Kelly did a last minute switch and dropped a
grapefruit instead. Robbie saw a speck leave the plane and come whizzing down at him. He stood directly
under it with his feet well braced in the sand. Wham! came the grapefruit and smacked through his
hands. It banged against his chest, knocking him to his knees and drenched his face with juice.
Robbie was scared to death and shouted like a madman. I'm killed. I'm blind. It broke open my
chest. I'm covered with blood. Help me. Help me. And then came the roar of the crowd. I'll say the
speck kid has nearly killed themselves laughing. And what did poor Robbie do? Well, he was so scared
he forgot to be mad for quite some time. When he finally realized the gag that had been played on him,
he made life torture for the team all week. And after years, Robbie used to tell the story on
himself and laugh as loud as the next one. But when that grapefruit hit him on the chest,
he really thought he was a goner. And there you are, Mr. Lowell. That's the complete story on the
record for catching grapefruit thrown from airplanes. And five dollars to you for sending it in. Here's
one from a gent who's trying to put us on the spot, I think. And what's so different about him and
the other listeners? Meaning they're all trying to put you on the spot, Leo? Anyway, the question is
for Mr. Collins of Pittsburgh. He'd like you to name the four best forward pass combinations in
college football for all time. Here's a guy with big ideas. Well, do you want to stick your neck out
again? Here you are, Mr. Collins. Catch these. Doreus to Rockney, Notre Dame. Freedmen to Oosterbound,
Michigan. Howl to Hudson, Alabama. And Frank to Kelly Yale. Yes. And if you'd like another pair
to conjure with, Mr. Collins, you might add Hellitus Glidaney of your own home city college in
Pittsburgh. Boy, that ought to bring in the screams. In football, every fan does his own
experting and there are an awful lot of forward pass teams you left out, Leo. They just asked for
my opinion, Ken. That's what I'm giving him. And in tomorrow morning's man, you can bet you'll hear
from a lot of people who have opinions of their own. And now we come to the most interesting
question of the first show. Who do you think, Leo, is the better ball player? Stan Musial or Ted
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back to the most interesting question of the week. And now Leo about that question. It's from
Kathleen Ford of Louisville, Kentucky. I remember Frank, the lady wants to know who I consider
the better ball player, Stan Muziel or Ted Williams, right? That's it Leo, give. Well,
they're two different type ball players. Ted Williams is a great hitter with tremendous home run
power and has a fine throwing arm and his running speed is above average. I personally
haven't seen too much of Williams in actual play, but from what I have seen, I don't consider him
a great fielder. That's Williams Leo. Now how about Muziel? Although Muziel does not have Williams
home run power, I consider him a better hitter and way above Williams in running speed. Although his
arm is not on a par with Williams, he is a much better fielder. Say, what about this defensive
infield shift that Cleveland originated against Williams and that the cards adopted in the series?
I'm glad that point came up because that illustrates why Muziel is the better hitter.
No team would dare shift its infield in that manner for Muziel because he hits to all field. So in
my book, I'll take Muziel over Williams. Then if Mr. Rickey gave you your choice of any ball player,
you'd take Stan Muziel. I never said that. I said I'd take Muziel over Williams. But if I have my
choice of any ball player, I'd take Joe DiMaggio despite his bad season. I think Joe DiMaggio is
the greatest all-around ball player I've seen in the last 10 years. Next question. First, $50 to
Kathleen Ford. And that's all for today, Leo. I want a few seconds to tell the fans how to send
in their questions. You know, folks, this is your sports question box. You send in the questions,
any question on any sport or any card game. For every question used on any program, we'll mail
the sender $5. But that's not all. If your question is judged most interesting of the week, we'll mail
you a check for $50. Just write your question on a plain piece of paper and be sure to include your
name and address. Mail to Leo DeRosier, American Broadcasting Company, New York City, 20, New York.
This is Leo DeRosier saying, see you next week, same time, same station, when I'll be back for
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