Evening star., 1942-09-30
Sca|pers' Coup
RiIes St. Louis;
$40 Top Price
Mccarthy Expresses
Admiration for Foe;
Silent on Outcome
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


ST, LOUIS, Sept. 3o.---Joseph
Vincent Mccarthy, kindly 56-year-
old manager of the New York
Yankees, leads his players into the
World Series against the rip-snort-
ing St. Louis Cardinals with supreme
confidence-anda memory.
Last team to conquer the Yankees
in World Series was the Cardinals
of 1926, who had an outfielder
named Billy Southworth, now the
49-year-old manager of the current
Cardinals.
Since then the Yankees have won
eight world championships. defeat-
ing every team in the National
League with the exception OF
Boston and the Phils. They have
registered "a triumphs, taking four
series in four straight.
If Mccarthy is letting the mem
ory bother him. he's keeping it
strictly to himself.
Yet Mccarthy expresses admira-
ton for the Cardinals, declaring
they must be good to have won LOG
games and lasted through such an
amazing stretch drive. He had a
word OF commentator for Mort
Cooper, the 22-game winner who
starts today against the Yanks, but
he declined to be drawn into any
prediction as to the series outcome.
We'll be in there fighting from
the first pitch" Mccarthy said.
That's all l care to say. I hope
the better team wins, and I hope
1t will be u.s.
Hardened to Series Pressure.
World Series tension and excite-
ment is nothing new to Mccarthy.
He's won six and has been on both
sides of the fence, having piloted
the 1929 Chicago Cubs, who lost
four out OF five to the Philadelphia
Athletics. When the Bronx Bomb
ers smothered the Brooklyn Dodgers
last year it was the seventh cham
pionship club managed by Nc
Carthy-the sixth to world cham
pionship
st. Louis fans loyal to the Cardi-
nails were furious over their inabil-
ity to get World Series tickets ex-
| cept through scalpers. They are
bombarding newspapers with letters
and telephone calls. Explaining the
| Cardinals policy, Sam Breadon,
president of the club, said approx
imately 1900 seats were available
to the general public.
Breadon said more than enough
applications were received the first
day the sale opened to swamp
workers. Names meant nothing,
therefore. In the final selections.
Clerks just grabbed handfuls of
letters and filled the applications
until all grandstand seats were
gone.
There are 22,879 seats in the
! grandstand and 3,168 in the boxes"
Breadon explained. "Df this total.
1000 go to baseball officials-Com
missioner Lands, club owners and
members of the Baseball Writer'S
Association. Another 500 are used
for the overflow press box. Others
go to holders of season books.
helpless, Says BreadOn.
Il sincerely regret this situation.
but We couldn't help it. We were
swamped," Breadon added.
Twenty-eight Thousand pavilion
seats at $3.45 each and $500 bleacher
seats at $1.15 each went on sale at
7 am. today. Hundreds stood in
line all night to buy them.
Scalpers are doing a land office
business with $5.75 grandstand seats
bringing from $40 to $40 each. The
demand exceeds the supply. It's
the greatest thing for scalpers In
IS years.
Listen, for instance, to Herman
Leon of Philadelphia, who describes
nlmsef as one of the leading
brokers' in the East" Herman ans
bled out from behind his ricketv
wooden counter in vacant store
assumed Studious air and opened
up:
You can quote me as saving.
he began, that in all my 20 vears
experience the demand is the hast
IN Is years. You can quote me f,,rN
ther that there are too many people
wanting tickets and not enough ~
EN- willing to turn 'em loose at o,Ir
prices. My telephone rings ali the
time. Guys from Arizona. Guvs
from Chicago. All over. Such .
demand -. and We amt got enough
to sell. ;"
Herman waved his arms diapair-
ingly.
PROBABLY the fans have concludea
this may be the last Series for the
duration and they're going to ses
1t regadless of cost. 'e