Evening star., 1926-10-09

According to this same bird with
the long memory or scrap book,
Charley O'Leary was to wear red
tin fireman's hat this afternoon and
stand within coaching box marked
off with lines of fire hose. II the
Cardinals get moulting dangerous
sparks near the scoring area Charley
will wet them down with a high
pressure stream of water.
Another hunch that has the sun
posedly cagey New Workers sticking
to the Yankees for this sixth section
of the biggest annual mOney-making
proposition in sports In the United
States, if not in the world, has to
do to some extent with Washington.
Not st. Louis Year.
This same bird with the long mem
ory or a scrap book points out that
Washington, which used to be prorn1-
nent in the American League end of
world series, at least broke into the
national base ball limelight this year
when it's team of Union Printers cap
tured the international Printers
League title. And as they did it by
beating the st. Louis printers club,
he figures the St. Louis Cardinals
may let their type get pied in the
same way. In short, he dopes this as
not being a st. Louis year.
All of which may be true, but on
the verge of the sixth engagement of
this series for the base ball laurelS of
this earth it appeared that the
Yankees had to win today and thereby
end the argument or stand long
chance of taking a fine jolt on the
leaving the big end of the heavy purse
to the National League representa-
tives.
For it was dollars to doughnuts that
if the Cardinals triumphed this aft
ernoon, the Yankees would have to
face the battling deliveries of one jess
Haines tomorrow afternoon i'm the
wind-up of the big battle. And from
what they showed against this Haines
persons in ST. Louis last Tuesday,
the American League champions
would be just about as much pleased
to have to face him again as they
would to walk into a bottomless pit
from which was spouting flame and
molten rock.
Thorough Test for YanEs.
This day promised to provide thor
ough test for the Yankees, who by
sheer man-poWer, rather than science.
skill or whatchunacallit in base ball.
have won the last two games to hold
a 3-to-2 advantage over the once ma
chine-like playing National Leaguers.
They were likely to face the pitching
of Grover Cleveland Alexander. and
if there was any pitching they re-
spected more than the brand offered
by Haines, it was that put forth by
this griZZled veteran of the diamond
in the game here last Sunday.
Then, after the second inning, Alex
had a fine assortment of stuff, aS good
pitching deliveries are known in the
parlance of the major leagues, backed
by innate pitching shrewdness. And
history has it that Sunday was
most unpleasant day for the Yanks
But, so was Tuesday, when they
had to stand before the slants Of
Haines. And that was odd too. Fnr
the American League Is full of fast
ball pitchers. to which class Haines
belongs. And. according to men who
have performed in both circuits. the
American League fast ball hurlers are
superior to hl~1nrs Of this type in the
senior organization.
Ate Out of Haines' Hand.
The Yanks had faced many fine fast
ball artists while they We're Stagger-
ing to the American League pennapt,
yet this HaineS had them eating ont
of his hand And should they fail
to subdue Alexander in this sixth
game of the series they might not
find the going so good in a seventh
contest.
Although they had absorbed two
defeats in row and We're to 20 into
the sixth game with a realization
that they had to cop or else lose the
series, these Cards seemed to be ready
for a continuation Of the drive toward
an honor that st. Louisians have
dreamed Of for years.
They felt that they had the bet
ter pitching for the finale, figuring
that in Herb Pennock the Yankees
had shot their big gun.
While none of the other New York
hurlers available rs underestimate
by Rogers Hornsby and his cohorts,
they We're rather confident that with
the stellar southpaW of the Yankee
staff out Of the way their path to
the championship OF the world was
not going to be so rocky.
They may have sized up the stu
alton well. but--they had to get BY
today. and it was likely to be a big
day to get by.