Evening star., 1939-09-27
Reds See Title
Garner Today
In Walters
Need One More Win
After Dividing With
Cards Yesterday
BY JOHN FRYE,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 81
With the end of the season swirling
up like the crack of doom, the Gin
cinnati Reds and their shadows,
the st. Louis Cardinals, try again
today to put the clutch on each
other in a game which can bring
Cincinnati it's first National Lesgu
pennant since the Olympian days
of Pat Moran.
1t isn't like yesterday. when the
twin bill gave each team the chance,
for unless today's game winds up
In another one of those ties in favor
of the sunset, the Reds either have
the flag spiked to the mast for the
first time in 20 years, or the Cards
are game closer to the top.
Bucky Walters, the tall fellow
whose formative years were spent
on third base and who now owns
Cincinnati and its metropolitan
district, and Fiddler Bill MCGEE are
the pitchers. Bucky, in the course
of his q victories this year, has
put the old hex on the Cardinals
four times and Manager Bill Nc
Kechnie is depending on his long
right arm for the convincer today.
Strategist McKechnie Scores.
Bucky is pitching today as a re-
suit OF some smart maneuvering
IN yesterdays double header by Dea-
con Bill, who is nobodys fool.
Bill said to Gene Thompson, the
doughty freshman, Gene, can you
do it?" Gene said yes, and despite
six walks and nine hits by the
high-compression Cards, the Reds
had the opening game that gave
them the starting edge by a score
of to l..
Thus, McKechnie could take a
chance on Lee Grissom, who does
and then doesn't, for the nightcap
and give hard-working Bucky, who
pitched and won a full game only
Saturday, another day of rest. Paul
Derrlnger, his other ace, is ready
for the Cards tomorrow.
AZ 1t developed, Lee didn't and the
ball game soon was over. Morton
Cooper kept the Reds under a tent
all the way and the final was to 0.
just the same, with but four games
left to 1889 after today, the Cards
have a steep mountain to climb if
they are to take the flag in the face
OF the Reds 312-game lead.
1t was Billy Myers ninth homer
OF the year that made the differ
ence in the opener. After Ernie
Lombardi had astonished the Card
outf1eld by lining a double to-of
all places right to open the second
inning, Harry Craft singled him to
third, and both stood still while
Wally Berger popped to Jimmy
Brown at short. Then Billy caught
the first ball pitched to him on the
nose.
You could have heard a 2-ton
bomb explode in that park full of
34,l94 screamers.
Gene Gets Out of Hole.
Gene got in trouble in the Cards
third when Medwick singled and
Johnny Mize doubled. Padgett was
passed Intentionally to fill the bases,
but Terry Moore walked in the ma
ture of things, and a run was in
with only one out. Stu Martin,
however. forced Mize at the plate.
Johnny Hopp pinch-fanned for
Clyde Shoun, which was what you
call pitching from the heart.
Grissom, who needs a good start
to win, might have done better in
the nightcap if Browns curly roller
down the third base line had gone
foul. Bill Werber pranced along.
side the ball for 10 feet, having no
chance to throw to first anyway, but
it went to bed against the bag.
That was the cue for the explo-
sion, and before Red Barrett, Just
back from Indianapolis, restored law
and order four runs were in on six
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