Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-06
CARDINALS NOT
ABLE TO LOSE
ANOTHER TODAY
Teams Travelling To St.
Louis With Pre-Series
Roles Switched.
BY FRANK GETTY
United Press Sports Editor

United Press Sports Editor
ENROUTE TO ST. LOUIS WITH
THE WORLD SERIES BALL
CLUBS, Oct. 6.-Thc Cards can t
lose today, anyhow.
There won t be another world Sc
rics game until tomorrow afternoon,
when the National eague champions
resume their thus far most distress
ing engagement with the New York
Yankees at Sportsman Pork, st.
Louis.
The world series contenders were
speeding westward today across
Ohio, Indiana and the broad Missis
sippi valley with the Yanks riding
hfgh and happy on the strength
Of two successive victories.
Hospital appnrtenances and Red
Cross equipment which had been
prepared for the American League
champions in anticipation of their
collapse were simply switched over
to the Cardinals special train, where
the other Yankee cripples sat up
half the night playing bridge and
making whoopec and talking over
their chances of winning their see
end consecutive world s series in
four straight games.
Baseball history doesn't insist
that the team which wins the first
two games shall win the world s Sc
ries. The Yankees themselves know
better, for they tossed away the
1927 series after taking the first
two games from the New York
Giants, and they came from behind
to defeat those same Giants in simi-
lar fashion two years later.
After making only seven hits in
two games and seeing their pitching
ace, Grover Alexander, trumped by
Yankee bats, the st. Louis Cardi-
mails hardly could help but be down
cast today.
Manager Gets Hard.
Bill Mckenzie, hunchcd up in the
corner Of a drawing room, dealt out
criticism to his athletes in no un-
certain terms. Bill ordinarily is
lie mildest of men.
"The time for kindness. > said
Mckenzie, "is no more. You boys
have got to get out there and make
some base hits tomorrow, or III
use the Oakland, Calf, boys club in
the fourth game
The failure of "Petc' Alexander,
who was knocked from the box yes
terday at the climax of the Yankees
9 to , victory, marks another OF
those turning points with which the
national paStimc, like the rest of
l;fe, inevitably must be sprinkled.
Long after the fact that the st.
Louis Cardinals were beaten in the
second game of the 1923 worlds So
rias is forgotten, fans will recall
the sunny afternoon when old
"Fctc,' beloved rcprobate that he
is, had to shuttle from the pitching
box, not only beaten, but knocked
out.
Alex had his day ON the diamond,
Just as his historical predecessor,
also called "Thc Great had upon
the battle fields of Asia Minor.
Both had to lose some day or other.
Yesterday was "Pete s. day.
Jess liaincs will face the Yankees
tomorrow, and jess Haincs, hc it
remembered, beat them twice in the
1926 world series. But then, 50 did
Alexander. The Cardinals do not
know whom they will face at Sports,
man. S Park. Perhaps it will be old
Tom Zachary, possibly Henry john
son, maybe Waite Hoyt again.
The Yankees are figurativclv sit
ting atop the baseball world and
Miller Huggins is astride the
Yankees. The midget has the world
series by the tail and whichever
way he swings is likely to be the
right one.