The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-06
WAR MAY GUARD CARDINAL GROWN FOR MANY YEARS
Greatest Baseball Upset Since 1926; Rockies Kur-
 owski, BeazIey Clinch It
BY LEO H. PETERSEN fYTniAaH Press Shorts Editor

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 New York, Oct. G. (UP) = The story book kids from St. Louis may not be the best ball club in base ball history but will do until bet- ter one comes along.
 They came from far back to win the National League pennant and then proved it was no luke by win" ming the 1922 World Series in five games from team which domt. mated baseball for six of the past 10 years.
 It wasn't a case of the New York Yankees beating themselves. They still are good ball club, but they were beaten by a more aggressive, g speedier and more spirited team. If they needed base hits, the Cardi. nals came through with them; if they needed pitching, fielding or speed on the bases they got them. They have all the Ssentials of a great team.
 The Yankees, scattering to theiI homes as the Cardinals were rolling west today, still couldn't figure out what hit them. Neither could many baseball fans, for winning had be- come such habit with the Bronx Bombers.
 But no team Is good enough to win all the time. The law of aver ages and better ball club finally caught up with them.
 Next Year?
 VrI.n ,,,nu ,,navy nhorAoa flaa aeaha11 picture next year, although there IS every indication that the game will go on under slightly different pat tern. They either will have to get along with kids under draft age - and there are few of them of major league caliber -- or the older play CTS. Thus it isn't likely that there will be another team like the Car dinals for a long time.
 The series finish yesterday couldn't have been more dramatic. The never-say-die Cinderella boys twice came from behind, fought of four bad errors and won out in the ninth inning on home run by George Kurowslki, the rookie third baSeman.
 Kurowski took care of the hit- ting and another rookie star, John ny Beazley, took care of the pitching. He held the Yankees to seven hits as he won, 4 to 2, and had to bear down all the way because of sloppy fielding.
 It made the final standing of this first wartime series since 1918 four games to one. The Yankees won the first game behind big Red Rufing and lost the last four.
 The first game score was ' to { with Morton Cooper the loosing pitcher. A lot of baseball men con- tend that the ninth inning of that game was a vital factor in the Car dinals eventual victory. St. Louis was beaten ' to o going into the ninth, but rallied for four runs. Once they saw that the Tanks could be scored on they kept going.
 Beazley won the second game, 4 to 3 over Ernie Bonham. In the third game, Ernie White. ace Cardinal southpaw, pitched a World Series masterpiece, shutting out the Tanks 2 to 0, defeating Sturgeon Chandler. The fourth game went to St. Louis, g to 6. with Max Lanier the winning pitcher and Alley Donald the loser. Not Enough
 Ruhnng tried to keep the Yankees series hopes alive in the fifth game but he wasn't equal to the task. He was shooting for his eighth world series victory-something a pitcher never has achieved-but came out instead with his second series de- feat in nine games.
 He pitched good ball, but 1t wasn't gcod enough. He grooved one for Kurowski and that was the ball game.
 He had battled with Beazley on even terms until the ninth when Walker Cooper singled. was sacIi- feed to second, and then scored ahead of Kurowski. The Yankees came back with one more desperate effort in the last of the ninth but their hopes were killed of when Joe Gordon, the series goat, was caught of second base. Instead of having two on and no one out, 1t was a man on first with one out. That was all Beazley needed to win his second series victory - feat which few rockies ever have achieved.
 It was more than a victory which gave the Cardinals the worlds title so far as Beazley was concerned. It was his last ball game for the dura- tion as he is entering the Marines soon.
 "It was 6 nice farewell present" 1" the cocky kid from Nashville. Tenn. said.
 Sixteen Years It was the first time the Yankees had lost a series since 1926. when the Cardinals whipped them. They had won eight, six of them under Mccarthy, since that year.
 It was heartening victory for the National League. The circuits world series victories have been few and far between. To make matters worse from the National Lague viewpoint. the American League had thumped the senior circuit represen- tatives soundly in a majority of the All Star games.
 If they lose, they will receive AA,- Nm. mn. IA .a \. A