Evening star., 1942-09-28
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Appears Easy
For Yankees
In Six Classics in Row
They've Yet to Lose
To Smoky HurIer
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

The shooting and the shouting
are over for baseball's 1912 season,
and the only thing left for the boys
to fight about is whether the st.
Louis Cardinals are tired ball club
after their skyrocket ride into the
National League pennant or whether
they'll still be hotter than $40
against the Yankees in the World
Series.
The wars first campaign wound
up yesterday with considerable con-
fusion over what baseball can look
forward to for the rest of the war,
and with the Cards winning both
ends of a double header from the
Chicago Cubs to knock the Brooklyn
Buns off the National League
throne.
It was this surge of st. Louis that
had the folks bouncing around in
their chairs as the race went right
down to the wire with the Cards
finally getting the nod by two games.
Yesterdays twin win marked the
forty third victory the Cards chalked
up in their last So games to come
from far back and take the flag
And, while that's par for the course.
pals, no one can be quite sure until
the Redbirds stack up against the
Yanks whether that drive took too
much out of them to keep up the
pace.
Hughson Captures No. 22.
On the other hand, the Yanks
were just waltzing along since they
sewed up their sixth American
League championship in seven years
on September IA. and in their finale
yesterday they were nosed out by
the Red Sox, 7-6, to finish with
nine-game bulge over the Bostons.
In this taf1y-pull. Tex Hughson
treated himself to his twenty second
victory of the year.
The Yanks go into the series
Wednesday as 5-to-9 favorites in
the betting, in spite of such St. Louis
elbowing as may be offered by Mort
Cooper and his sidekicks, among
them Ernie White and Johnny
Beazley, who turned the trick over
the Cubs yesterday. 1t was in the
first game, with White serving up a
five hitter, that the Cards clinched
the flag by winning, 9-2 Beazley
won his twenty first triumph of the
year in the afterpiece, in which the
Cards clicked by Al.
Incidentally. one note of pessimism
for Speed -Baller Cooper in the series
is that no fast-ball finger has
beaten the Yanks In single game
Of the six series in their current
run as baseball's top outfit.
The Dodgers ended their year
yesterday with a 4-3 win over the
Phillies to run their closing streak
to eight straight. This was good for
just a loud ho-hum-and second
place in the National League.
Giants, Browns Surprise.
The two third-place clubs, the New
York Giants and ST. Louis Browns,
wound up the season by taking day
off. They deserved it, though, be-
cause they were the big surprises of
the year in pulling themselves up
to where they did-the Giants on
the batting power of Mel OFT and
Large Jawn" Mize and very little
pitching and the Browns with a COL
lection OF castoffs and hopefuls that
made Luke Sewell's outfit appear
like the old family jalopy.
The only change in the standings
on the final day saw the Pittsburgh
Pirates pummel the Cincinnati Reds
twice, 81 in II innings and 7 to 4
in the regular nine, to climb over the
Cubs into fifth place in the National
League. The Reds held fourth place
safely in spite of the double head
ache.
Cleveland clinched the rear end
OF the American Leagues first divi-
sion by whitewashing Detroit. 80,
behind Jim Bagbys six-hit hurting.
There was no other action on the
big league front.
Attendance held up during the
season, although most clubs had to
rely on the weekend crowds to
keep the cash registers ringing, for
the weekday turnouts were sliced all
season by the prior call of war in
dustries to the fans.
Ted Williams, with 356. and Ernie
Lombard!, with 33l. brought the two
batting championships to Boston.
And that, except for the final figures
on the number of hot dogs consumed,
the number of bottles of pop sent
along to wash down the dogs. and
the number of broken hearts in
Brooklyn, Just about pulls down the
shade for the season.