Evening star., 1941-09-13
Triumph in Last
TILT Means Biq
Morale Edge
Cooper, Wyott Oppose Q
In AII-Out Struggle;
PoIIet Crippled
By OSCAR KAHN,
Arsociated Press SPORTS Writer.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13.-With all
the mounting tenseness Of World
Series game, the seasons final meet
ing of the Brooklyn Dodgers and
st. Louis Cardinals found both ready
to shoot the works today in des-
perate bid for psychological edge
in the stretch drive for the National
League pennant.
The game won't settle the race
about two weeks of the campaign
remain-but the result may make
winner and break loser.
A victory for the Cardinals would
put them in first place by two per-
centage points and send Brooklyn
off to Cincinnati with the stomach
sinking sensation of having blown
four of the five games since COM
ing West this week.
On the other side Of the picturs
Dodger triumph would keep them
in the lead by two games and tum-
BILE the Cardinals in their own baili-
wick in the years most bitter series.
Southworth Gives Pep Talk.
Manager Billy Southworth, aware
of the games importance TO his
teams morale, pep-talked his Cardi-
mails:
You've got to have that bulldog
| determination. You can't lay back
and wait for the breaks to come to
you. You've got to go out and make
them"
Having tried left, in dividing the
first two games of the set, by pitch
ing southpaws Ernie White, Howard
Pollet and Max Lanier, the Cardinal
pilot turned right for the finale
to Morton Cooper, with record OF
13 victories and defeats. Leo
Durocher, Brooklyn manager. Sc
lected his ace, 19-game winner Whit
low Wyatt, who has been beaten
10 times.
In yesterdays 4-to-3 Cardinal
victory, Pollet, 20-year-old rookie
sensation from the Texas League,
found the handicap Of a recent
groin injury more than he could
overcome. But Lanier, rushed into
the game in the sixth inning, stif1ed
the Dodgers, despite his wtdness,
with the aid Of two double plays and
a run-killing throw to the plate by
Outfielder Estel Crabtree.
"Crabby," 81 years old, and
Catcher Gus Mancuso, IS, were the
batting heroes for the Cardinals,
each slaming triples of Curt Davis.
Brooklyn's starting pitcher.
Cards Wobbly Behind Poriet.
Pollet, limping decidedly as the
game progressed, was hit more
| freely than in any of his other four
major league starts. The Cardinals,
jittery on defense, committed four
errors behind him.
Frank Crespi doubled to start St.
Louis second inning and raced to
third on Marty Marion's long ny.
The Dodger strategy called for an
attempt to cut off run at the plate
and both infield and outfield played
in close.
Mancuso ruined the whole thing
by hitting a liner to center. A single
under ordinary circumstances, 1t
went past Outfielder Pete Reiser to
the wall and Gus pumped his aged
legs all the way to third.
Pollet then singled TO score his
battery mate.
The Dodgers went ahead with
three runs in the fifth inning IN
which two misplays abetted a base
on balls to Billy Herman and singles
by Peewee Reese, Joe ~Medwick and
Dolph Camilli.
The Cards stormed to victory In
the seventh on Padgett's walk,
Crabtrees long drive to the edge OF
the pavilion roof for a triple and
Crespi's fly which Medwick took on
the run and was in no position to
head off Crabtree at the plate.