FUJDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1946 TIE MICHIGAN DAILY ~ PAGE THREE Cards Stave Off inth Inning Rally To Cop Flag NO JOY IN FLATBUSH: Cardinal Dressing Room In Bedlam After Win By CLARK BAKER Daily Sports Editor Dickson Pitches Brilliantly For Eight Stanzas In 8-4 Victory Over Brooklyn EBBETS FIELD, Brooklyn, Oct. 3 --(P)-It was nice and quiet in the Cardinal dugout about 4:30 p.m. to- day-like a working boiler factory being hit by an atom bomb-but even over the National League champion- ship roar you could hear rookie catcher Joe Garagiola hollering the victory cry. Clad only in a towel that flapped off his shoulder, husky Joe stomped The first Friday night open house at the Sports Building for Veterans and their wives will take place tonight from 7:00 to 9:30. The program whichproved so pop- ular last term will' be resumed as a weekly feature with facilities provided in the following sports: basketball, volleyball, tennis, bad- minton, paddleball, and swim- ming. bare-foot through the dressing room from the shower yelling: "There'll be no joy in Flatbush to- night." And eventhough a chorus was giv- ing out with "I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad" in one corner, and assorted rebel yells were floating around from all sides, from such citizens asCountry Slaughter and Ernie Dusak, Joe managed to make himself heard. But no one cared, least of all Man- ager' Eddie Dyer and his conquering Cardinal crew who poured it on the Dodgers 8-4 today, with Murry Dick- son serving up a two-hitter for eight innings and Harry (The Cat) Bre- cheen coming on to put out the fire in the ninth, when the Brooklyns fin- ally came to life. "They've got a lot of guts, those Dodgers," Dyer admitted afterward. There has been a little question bothering us for some time. Just how many persons will Michigan Stadium accommodate between the goal lines? We have heard all sorts of guesses, most of them somewhat larger than the figure we arrived at after a half-hour of on-the-spot calculations. According to our figures and we now advance them as the last word (until a better one comes along, anyway), the 14 sections of Michigan Stadium located between the goal lines will hold 25,267 persons. (When the bleachers are erected, there are an additional 2,218 seats.) That means that the Michigan student body numbering over 18,000 were it to be entirely seated between the goal lines, would have to be seated on both sides of the field. Okay, there's room for the entire student body be- tween the goal lines. Why aren't they sitting there? For that answer we went to Mr. Andrew Baker, ticket manager. Mr. Baker informed us that the student seats started with half of sec- tion 24 and proceeded well around into the end zone. The remainder of sec- tion 24 and the other four sections on the Michigan side of the field are occupied by Stadium bond-holders who still retain their privileges in the best seats and the Michigan faculty and administrative officials. On the far side of the field the seven sections between the goal lines are held by the visiting teams, Wolverine M-winners and season ticket holders. It might also be mentioned that the bond-holders have a choice of the best seats on either a season or individual ticket basis. Much of the student objection to the present seating plan has stem- med from the mistaken belief of many that there are more than 25,000 seats, between the goal lines. In order to get better seats for the student body, one or more of the above-mentioned groups must be pushed into the end zone. Individual griping and bitter letters will not do the trick. There must be an organized effort, an effort that has complete knowledge of the entire seating problem. Mr. Baker has stated that there are no hid- den facts about the seating question and that all the facts are open to the public. Last spring the student body elected a Student Legislature. So far this body has spent much time splitting hairs about whether senior John Jones should be stuck in section 33 or section 27 and threatening everything but corporeal punishment for a group of bewildered underclassmen. That will hardly alleviate the problem in 1947. We propose, therefore, that the Student Legislature appoint a committee to delve into the student seating problem immediately, to get all the details available, and then to work out a new arrangement for a better student section to be presented no later than this spring to the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics. It is obvious that nothing can be done'to alter the 1946 situation. It is probable that the problem will not be solved to the satisfaction of the student body next year, either, but the Student Legislature has it within its power to start the ball rolling. Let's not spend our time quibbling about whether the seniors should get goal-line or end zone seats. Let's get the whole student body the best seats in the stadium. Final Major League Standings Brecheen Fans Two To Halt Dodger Threat By The Associated Press BROOKLYN, Oct. 3-A hair-rais- ing ninth inning rally by Brooklyn's battling Dodgers fell short today and the St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up their fourth National League Pen- nant in five years by taking the sec- ond and deciding game of their un- precedented play-off series, 8 to 4, before a heart-broken throng of 31,- 875 at Ebbets Field. Held to two hits by Murry Dick- son, a trim righthander, for the first eight frames, Leo Durocher's scrap- pers slugged the pride of Tracy, Mo., from the hill with their final gasp in the last inning and rushed three runs across before Harry (The Cat) Brecheen finally stunned them into submission with two season-ending strikeouts. Schultz Fans The bases still were filled with Dodgers when Howie Schultz, tall Dodger pinch-hitter who had clouted a home run in the opening game of the play-off at St. Louis, swung from his heels at a third strike-and missed. Up to the time the Dodgers put on their delayed explosion, Dickson had hurled masterful ball and appeared to have the situation entirely in hand. After yielding two singles-one of them very scratchy-in the opening round, he had set the Brooklyns down without a semblance of a safety in the seven succeeding innings. Only one Dodger hit a ball out of the in- field during that brilliant stretch. Cards Get 13 Hits The Cardinals in the meantime had pounded six Brooklyn chunkers for 13 solid blows, including three fence-busting triples and a brace of doubles, and had piled up a com- manding 8-1 lead. Many fans began leaving the park well before the home team faced Dickson for the last time. Nobody expected anything to happen, really. Augie Galan, who had snared one of the first-inning hits off Dickson, opened the excitement with a two- bagger into right center field to bring the crowd to its feet, but they all sat right down again when Dixie Walker, who failed to get a hit in the play-off, lofted to center. At that juncture Ed Stevens, who had knocked Galan in with Brook- lyn's run in the first, swatted a ter- rific triple deep into the corner be- tween right and centerfield to drive Augie in again. 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