FORTY DRUBS KNIGHTS, 10-2; GRABS FIRST TITLE

DALLAS, TX(AP): The North Dallas Forty routed General Crowder and the Harlem Knights today, 10-2, winning the 1933 World Series four games to two. Much jubilation and celebration is expected in the Lone Star State tonight as North Dallas capped off an amazing season with a World Championship.

"It's a long time coming," said Forty helmsman Bill Terry. "Every year we kept getting closer, yet hadn't tasted the sweet joy of victory."

Despite the rout today, the victory was far from easy. The underdog Knights fought valiantly, and were an four outs away from being up 3 games to none on the Forty.

"They are a fantastic team... a great story for the DBS," said Harlem second sacker Buddy Myer, who hit .333 in the Series. "We fought them tooth and nail, but in the end, they were just too much for us."

North Dallas was a combination of dominant pitching and hitting as they wracked up 103 wins in the regular season while running away with the SouthEast division. Mel Ott, Carl Hubbell and Babe Ruth are just a few of the contributors to this team, which has a young core that should remain intact for a few years to come. Harlem was lead this season by four outstanding rookies, and showed maturity far beyond their years.

Crowder (0-1) did not have his best stuff. We gave up two hits in the first, but the Forty failed to score. After retiring Freddie Lindstrom to lead off the second, Luke Appling doubled into the gap, and Werber tripled him home to give North Dallas a 1-0 lead. The floodgates opend in the third for North Dallas, as Charlie Gehringer lead off with a single. Mel Ott walked, and then Ruth, who has been clutch all season, narrowly missed a home run to right as the ball hit about 6 inches below the top of the fence. He had to settle for an RBI double. Terry singled home Ott, and after Lindstrom popped out, Appling knocked in Ruth. Werber then punched a 1-1 pitch into center to score Terry, and North Dallas had a 5-0 lead.

That was more then enough for Hal Schumacher (1-0), as he scattered 9 hits over nine innings, allowing only the two runs in Harlem's 8th inning. North Dallas got some insurance from home runs by Billy Werber and Rick Ferrell.

10/1/2003, Har33-NDa33, Polo Grounds
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1933 Knights           0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2  0     2  9  0     7  0
1933 Forty             0  1  4  0  2  2  0  1  x    10 16  0     8  2
 
Knights              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Forty                AB  R  H BI   AVG
Higgins           3b  4  1  1  0  .231    Ferrell           c   5  1  1  1  .286       
Moore             lf  3  0  1  0  .091    Gehringer         2b  5  2  3  0  .333       
Greenberg         1b  4  0  1  0  .417    Ott               rf  3  1  1  0  .174       
Klein             rf  4  0  2  1  .250    Ruth              lf  5  2  3  1  .320       
Dickey            c   4  0  1  1  .200     Stone            lf  0  0  0  0  .000       
Cronin            ss  4  0  2  0  .292    Terry             1b  5  1  2  3  .261       
Johnson           cf  3  0  0  0  .360    Lindstrom         cf  5  0  0  0  .174       
 Brown            p   0  0  0  0  .000    Appling           ss  4  2  3  1  .231       
 O'Doul           ph  1  0  0  0  .000    Werber            3b  4  1  3  4  .455       
Myer              2b  4  0  0  0  .333    Schumacher        p   3  0  0  0  .000       
Crowder           p   0  0  0  0  .000                         39 10 16 10             
 Johnson          p   1  0  0  0  .000                                              
 Walker           cf  2  1  1  0  .333                                              
                     34  2  9  2                                                    
 
Knights                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Crowder          L 0-1           3.2  9  5  5  2  3  79  52 12.27
Johnson                          3.0  5  4  4  1  1  53  33  7.36
Brown                            1.1  2  1  1  0  0  16  11  8.44
                                 8.0 16 10 10  3  4 148  96 
 
Forty                            INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Schumacher       W 1-1           9.0  9  2  2  2  4 126  83  2.40
                                 9.0  9  2  2  2  4 126  83 
 
Har: Walker inserted at cf in the 7th
     O'Doul batted for Brown in the 9th
NDa: Stone inserted at lf in the 9th
 
2B-Cronin, Ruth, Terry, Appling. 3B-Werber. HR-Ferrell(1), Werber(1). 
K-Greenberg, Klein, Myer, Johnson, Ferrell, Gehringer, Schumacher 2. 
BB-Moore, Crowder, Ott 2, Schumacher. 
GWRBI: Werber
Temperature: 59, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from right at 11 MPH.