Homer Gives Yanks Lead in Series

Tommy Henrich's home run in the ninth inning broke up a brilliant pitching duel between Allie Reynolds and don Newcombe and gave the New York Yankees a 1 to 0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the opening game of the World Series yesterday afternoon in the Yankee Stadium.

"Old Reliable's long blast deep into the right field seats came with nobody out in the last of the ninth inning and a count of two balls. It was the fifth hit off the amazingly fast Newcombe, who struck out 11 Yankees, walked none.

Allie Reynolds twirled a masterful two bitter, striking out nine Dodgers and walking but four, in the fifth game all year that he has been able to finish.

In striking out 20 men, the two right-handers came within two of a five-year old Series record set by Mort Cooper and Denny Galehouse of the St. Louis Cards and Browns.

Reynolds himself was the only player to get two hits a double in the third and a single in the sixth. Johhny Lindell hit one of Newcombe's two slow pitches of the afternoon for a single in the second, and Gerry Coleman doubled in the eighth for the only other Yankee blows. No Yankee had reached third base until Henrich came up.

For the Dodgers, Johhny Jorgenson doubled in the first and Peewee Reese singled in the eighth, then stole second. Cart Furillo reached first in the fifth when his grounder went through second-baseman Coleman's legs for the only error of the game. Gene Hermanski, who walked to open the second, was the only Brook to reach third. He got there when Gil Hodges hit into a double play started by Reynolds.

The only other time that a homer produced the one run in a World Series game was in 1923. Present Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit it while playing for the New York Giants, and it landed in almost exactly the same spot in the Yankee Stadium as Henrich's.