The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-02

Typical of the mental attitude of
outlanders, the good people felt 1t
would have been much greater
civic triumph to have won from a
New York club than any other club
in the league. This of course stems
from the familiar psychology Of en-
barrassing the city slicker.
1t won't be so much fun beating
the Cards from st. Louis, because
after ALL st. Louis is just another
honey midweStern city, devoid OF
wickednesS, smugneSS and braSSy
sophistication. Practically brother
city, when you come right down to
it.
And another thing the good peo-
pie out here feel The Giants would
have been much easier to beat. 1t
is actually shocking to discover what
little respect Mr.. Bill Terry's used
to-be champions commanded on the
banks of Lake Erie. They would
have to be lucky to win one game,
everybody said.
DUT now that the Cards are to
ID furnish the opposition there
has been a change in sentiment.
Outwardly there is the same con-
fidence that Mr.. Mickey Cochrane's
young men will win, no matter
what, but this is what you might
call courtesy confidence. 1t won't
stand a close chemical analysis.
Actually the good people are none
too sure, and neither are the IL
gers themselves. For weeks they
have been planning and preparing
to meet the Giants; they have de-
vised defensive measures and fash
Toned offensive drives; they have
played and replayed the series on
a theoretical diamond against a
Acknowledgment background.
And then suddenly they look up
and an entirely different person is
sitting in the opposite corner. To
picture their emotions. try to imag-
inc a heavyweight fighter, say Steve
Hamas, who has trained for weeks
to meet Art Lasky, stepping into the
ring on the night of the fight ano
finding Max Baer there waiting for
him. 1t might readily be some
what confusing.
A STRANGE virgulent epidemic
N which has been diagnosed as
Deanitis appears to be sweeping over
the city too. This is pitching
malady that strikes twice in the
same place. Eminent medics havent
yet been able to determine whether
the original attack is worse than the
relapse or vice-versa. All agree that
one way or another it is pretty
terrible thing to inflict on man OF
beast.
Until the two Dean brothers, Dizzy
and Daily, took personal charge OF
the Cards pennant situation. and
between them, pitched an unsettled
unharmonious club into the worlc
series. the good people out here
were convinced that Mr.. Schoolboy
Rowe represented the last ultimate
phrase in throwing a baseball pas
the hitter
But now-well, they aren't so sure
about that. either. In academic
circles the odds are always against
a schoolboy when he faces a Dean
It may be Just twice as discouraglnE
on the diamond when a schoolooy
has to face a pair of Deans.
There has been so much in the
newspapers about the Deans the las
week or so that the good people Out
here are about ready to believe thai
every PLAYER in the National League
is named Dean. 1t has gotten 81
that when one Of the locals bump;
into a stranger on the street he
SHES away and says, pardon me
Mr.. Dean"
TT is difficult to refrain from ex-
l. aggeration and lurid speech in
discussing the Deans, The Deans
are a living, breathing, pulsatlng re-
futation to the gloomy cry OF the
baseball Tories that the Olympian
era of the game has long since
passed. Consider them, for a mo-
ment as pitchers and personalities
they won a pennant for Frankie
Frisch this year They may verJ
easily go further and win world
championship.
From the artistic and dramatic
side the series has been improved
SO per cent by the fact that the