The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-29
BASEBALL GOSSIP SAYS
CARDS AND TIGERS ARE
IN THE WORLD SERIES
Great Clubs Prove Worth By Repeating-Long Home
m Stand Will Aid st. Louis in September

1 the Cards will come in for the
sixth time In the last 10 years to
fill the hotels and restaurants and
to square their accounts.
Think of It'll owners spend
hundreds of thousands to win a
pennant. Deserving cities wait
years. st. Louis, an ordinary base
ball city, Is about to have Its sixth
National League flag in 10 years.
Cardinal Reasons
There are SO many reasons why
the Cardinals will win that an
other volume as drawn out as An
thony Adverse would be the result
IL you jotted them all down.
There are two or three secon-
Diary pitching replacements, but
only one new regular with the Gas
House boys, as the Red Birds have
been nicknamed In the effete east
lie is Terry Bluford Moore, 90
year-old center fielder who keeps
Joe Medwick and Jack Rothrock
crowded against the foul lines.
Moore, picked UP by Branch Rick
ey in ST. Louis municipal ranks in
1882, Is enjoying his second season
in professional baseball to the
fullest.
Weighing 17s pounds and six
feet tall and a printer by trade,
Moore Is a right-handed batter
and thrower. He doesn't hit too
much, but Is one of the fastest
men in the game and, in supplant-
Ing the erratic Ernie Orsatti, plugs
the one weak spot in the 1884
Cardinal lineup.
The Cards are a seasoned outfit
at their best in the heat Of a
fight for the COB Of gold In the
offing.
To make things equal, the Car
dinals should be half dozen
games in the red at this stage OF
the proceedings. Last year they
blew q double-header on Labor
Day which left them seven and q
half games behind the New York
Giants. Yet they won In the great
est stretch drive In all baseball
history. Coming from far In the
ruck Is q habit with the Cardinals.
Now they are on even terms
with the Giants and hold slight
lead over the Chicago Cubs.
Giants Have filters
All season the Cardinals have
cracked, 1.-THE Giants won't be able
to catch q ball In September" The
Giants couldn't do that q year ago,
and 1t appears as though history
will repeat.
Until the Deans put them out in
front by capturing u double-header
in Brooklyn the other afternoon,
the st. Louis varsity had not been
within striking distance Of the
head Of the procession for a
month.
In late July, Frank Frisch's
hustlers bagged the first two en-
gagements of an important series
from the Giants at Sportsman's
Park.
They held the lead for an hour
or so on the afternoon Of July %,
when Paul Dean accounted for
the first half OF q double-header.
But In the second skirmish, the
world champions went into o tall
spin and dropped the next three
battles to the Giants.
When Bill Terry and his New
Workers. moved out Of st. Louis at
the close OF that series, they threw
handfuls Of kisses at the Cardinals
and Sportsman's Park patrons,
gestures on their part that indicate
cd that the Giants were on their
way to this years pennant.
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Take Lead on Road
But see what's happened In the
interim, or during O little more
than q months play. Tho Car
dinals didn't walt for their final
and long home stand, comprising
the entire month OF SepterS Der.
They took the lead from the proud
Giants on the road, where PEN
nants are won.
The Cubs would have n better
chance II 80 many of them were
not no inexperienced. They would
do better Job Of holding q lead
than the Giants, who again have
dissipated a commanding one. The
Cubs also have q long September
stay at homo and are exceptionally
formidable at Wrigley Field.
II the Giants fall apart to the
extent that they did year ago
the National League flag may be
determined In the Cardinal-Cub
series Of four games which closes
the National League campaign In
81. Louis. There the Cardinals
again have the edge. for they seem
to have something on the Bruins.
The last month of the season
Is the toughest, and as said In the
foregoing, Pepper Martin and the
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