The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-11
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 By HARRY FERGUSON (TInlteA Press Shorts EditOr)

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 New York, Sept. ll.-(UP)-This is the day when the Cardinals and the Dodgers make one pile of all their winnings and risk 1t on three games of pitch and toss
 This is the day when the big thYee-garne series opens in St. Louis. Who said old Man River keeps roll- ing along2 Nope, this Is the day when he pauSes ct the big bend near st. Louis to watch the boys fight it out for the National league pen- nailt.
 There seems to be a general im- presyion around the country that this series will hinge on such things as base hits, runs cored, line drives caught against the fence and heroic pitchers who come up with three. hitters in the clutch. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
 This Is not 8 struggle of baseball.
 This is the conflict of the cap- sules, the battle of B-l, the Donny- brook of the doctors. Medicine Is going to decide the issue between the Dodgers and the Cardinals,
 The story of this conflict starts back in July when First Baseman Ralph Camilli, big gun of the Dodg- erg attack, decided he needed a physical check.up He wasn't feel. Ing good and he wasn't rattling hits against and over the right field wall at EbbetS Field. He had hit only four home runs in July, which Is far below par for the course for him.
 So he journeyed down to Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and turned himself over to the Eawbones there. They put him through his paces, write something on a slip of paper and told him to 90 get the prescription filled. Camilli hop. ped on 6 traiii went to Pittsburgh to rejoin the Doogers and handed the prescription to q druggist. He got back 6 bottle of pills and started taking them.
 o, narvelS Of science, o, lore of the medicine men, o, secrets that turk In little capSulesl Camilli be- gan to bust hell out of the ball. He hit nine homerS in August and ale ready this month he has hit four. He knocked in runs in fiockS and he sparked the Dodgers into first place. Yesterday the news leaked out of Chicago that Cainilli had exhausted the supply of his precious pills and that a frantic message had been sent to the Pittsburgh druggist to rush another supply. If Camill goes hitleSs to-day, just blame 1t on the .. s. malls.
 Against Camilli's magic medicine, owner Sam Breador of the Cardlr- als Is ready to pit an unlimited quantity of vitanin B-i. He ar. rived in St. Petersburg, Fla, where the Cardinals train in the spring, with a carload of the stuff this year and instructed his players to start taking it.
 Breadon even took t himself, and reported that he felt better than he had in 10 years. The fact that he suffered an attack of shingles dur ing & recent visit to New York is irrelevant and immaterial because he will not be out there today bat ting and fielding-that Is, he won't unless a few more of his players are injured.
 By now the Cardinals should be saturated with the B-i, which is supposed to improve morale and steady the nerves. Thus it will turn into a melee of medicine. Should the Cardinals lose today, 1t will go far toward confirming a story that has been quietly circulating for some time and for which your agent does not vouch.
 The story has it that Brea6on en- c0untered the small son of one Of his players one day and asked:
 How does your daddy like the B-i?"
 Y don't know what that is." was the reply.
 You know" Breadon sad, "the medicine I gave him."
 "Oh," said the bright lad, you mean the little white things that daddy throws in the wastehasAet after breakfast every morning"