The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05

oeoin today and close out tn
to one.
When they rallied twice in the
closing innings to slug out q 8
to 6 victory in yesterdays tussle
before a record series throng Of
SO, 9O2 at Yankee Stadium, the
daring young men from the West
left little doubt in anyone's mind
that they had what it took.
BLANK YANKS
The previous day they had
done it with pitching, when
their Lefty Ernie White BANKED
the old champions, 2 to 0-the
first embarrassing administer
ed to a Yankee team in World
Series since 1925. Yesterday the
Cards said it with their bats, and
for the second time in the Series
shook off a crushing home run
by the Yankees Charley Keller
to break a resultant tie and
come on to win.
Everyone was much Impress
ed with the Cardinals. The locals
had to be shown that a. crowd OF
comparative youngsters could
come in and practically run the
Yankees right out of the stad-
ium, and the lads from Missouri
obliged them. In the subways
and in the public houses. men
were declaring solemnly that
the Cardinals might be one OF
baseball's truly great teams.
The experts, them S e I've s
slightly groggy, were not dispos-
ed to argue very much about It.
Practically all of them had
thought the Yankees would win
the Series, but they had to ad-
nit they seldom had seen such
baseball played as the Cardinals
had poured into the Yanks since
they suddenly found themselves
in the ninth inning of the open
ing game at St. Louis and pound
ed Red Ruffing from the mound.
RUFFING AGAIN
They agreed that the Yankees
were in semi-desperate straits
for pitching when Manager joe
Mccarthy was forced to call ur-
on the 37-year-old Ruffing again
today. Red has been strictly a
once-a-week finger the past
season, and he faced the Cards
today with less than his normal
rest. Despite the brilliance of his
first game effort, when he set
World Series record by holding
the Cardinals hitless for the first
seven and two-third innings, the
odds appeared to be against
Reds stemming the the young
sters again.
AS for Manager Billy South
worth, he was in position to
come back with Johnny Beazley
the strong-a armed kid from Ten.
nessee who brazened out threa,
after threat to subdue the Yanks
in the second game. Thus 1t was
winner against winner, but the
23-year-old Beazley, with light.
ming in his fast ball, and the
strength to pitch all day, looked
a better bet than Ruffing.
The only disappointing thing
about the Cards up to this point
had been the failure of their top
pitcher, Mort Cooper, winner OF
% games in the regular season,
to win either of his two starts in
the playoff. The Yankees lick
ed him in the first game, when
he lacked control, and they
knocked him from the hill again
yesterday, when they scored five
runs to tie the score at 6-6 in the
sixth inning.
UNSUNG HEROES
But where Cooper fell down
his less-noted mates c a m &
through. Not since Pepper Mar
tin, another wild-running Card
inal of another day, gave the
Philadelphia Athletics multiple
abrasions in 1891 has the base
ball world seen a set of hell-for.
leather ball players like the pre-
sent outfit from the banks OF the
Mississippi.
Yesterday, with 69,9O2 crit
ical spectators looking on Catch
err Bill Dickey, one of the no.
blest Yankees of them all, made
perhaps the first absolutely
foolish and unnecessary wilc
throw of his illustrious baseball
career to put the winning st
Louis run on third base, whence
it scored a moment later. There
was no accounting for 1t except
that the Cards had upset ever
Dickey.
The Yankees just had tied the
score in the sixth, wiping out
81 st. Louis lead and the Card.
had every reason to feel like
slicing their outlets. The homer
by Keller that had scored three
runs and knocked Cooper from
the box was enough to discour'
age probably any team excep,
the present Cardinals.
YANKS SHAKEY
Then to start the Card sew.
enth, Alley Donald OF the Yank.
issued to pass to Enos Slaughter
Shaken, he also threw the fourth