The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-12
Cooper Loses AS Cards
Fail In Scoring OPP
portunities

cy in baseball today by conquering
The desperately struggling St. Louis
Cardinals to 0 before 1892 fans
for their fourth victory in five
games of the 1943 World Series.
1t was the tenth world cham
picnship for the deadly Bombers
from the Bronx and the clincher
was delivered by two of the vet
Grams who have. shared in h e
tspoils of many of those previous
triumphs-Pitcher Spud Chandler
and Catcher Bill Dickey.
The 36-year-old Dickey, one of
the greatest backstops in the his
tory of the game, decided the final
skirmish in the sixth inning with
a two-run homer that landed on
the roof of the right field pavilion,
1875 feet from the plate.
1t was mighty blow to climax
the lustrous career of Dickey, who
has been on nine Yankee squads
in the World Series starting as a
rookie in 1923 and it helped Chan
dler, the 34-year-old dean of New
York mound staff, to his second
success of the series.
Without this hefty home nun the
last contest of the classic might
easily have gone either way in
spite of the shutout pitching of
the Georgia Highlander, for Chan
dler was pelted for 10 hits and
was kept in almost constant trou-
BILE by the Cardinals
At the start OF the duel it was
big Mort Cooper, ace of the Cards,
ENho appeared invinclble as ne
fuck out the first five batters
ced and he was going strong
4aSsearch of a repeat victory over
tHg3H anks right up until the time
DirKey punched the winning ticket.
HE had retired the first two bat
tiers in the top half of the sixth
when Charley king Kong Keller,
of the series, topped ball that
Of tn seeries, topped "a ball that
rolled into right field for single
i On the next pitch Dickey ham,
mered out his homer and that was
the ball game, althoug hthere were
other trimmings for the fans,
whose presence brought a new at
tendance record of 277,312 for a
Sgame series.
Altogether the Yankees m
just: seven hits and Dickey's clout
was only his fifth of the series. but
it was his fourth with men on
bases and the third which drove
in runs.
The Cardinals used every effort
Manager Billy Southworth could
conceive to stave off defeat. They
made two changes in their out
field, subbing Johnny Hopp n
Debs CAIRNS for Harry Walker and
Danny Litwhiler, and they tried
to stir up their old base-running
style of sped and thunder.
They succeeded in making a
gripping ball game of the final
tussle in place of their docile per-
Torrance Sunday but it was no
use.
In the first inning they got two
runners on base with one out on
an infield single, sacrifice and
walk, but they couldn't break
| through.
In the second inning they put
two on with none out as Ray San
ders singled and banged into Short
stop Frank Crosetti to make him
drop the ball on double play
attempt on Hops bouncer, but
again it was to no avail.
Walker Cooper singled with two
out in the third and was thrown
out trying to make it double.
A single and walk gave the Red
in the fourth and they came up
with one hit in the sixth and sew
enth stanzas and two each in the
eighth and ninth. Yet for all the
good it did them they might just
as well have been held hitless,
for Chandler managed to tighten
down and suppress every threat.
The Yankees also made several
gestures at Cooper and his sue
cessors on the mound, lefty Max
Lanier and hurry Dickson, the
Highlander who was given leave
from the Army for the series after
he had been supposed to enter
military service a week before the
series started.
Following Cooper's spectacular
feat Of striking out the first five
New York batters, coming within
one of the series record, he walked
Nick Etten on four straight pitches
and bad throw by Catcher Walk
er Cooper trying to catch the rum
ner off first let him reach secon. d
Joe Gordon grounded out to end
this business but the Yankees we're
right back in the next frame press
ing for run. With two out Croset-
ii and Bud Metheny hit successive
singles and Crosetti reached third
before Bill johnson popped up.
In the fifth Tuck Stainback sin
gled with one out, was sacrificed
to second and raced to third on
a wild pitch, but Crosetti raised
Ia helpless fly.
rosetti fouled off numerous
ehes before going out, however,
kpne of these tips struck Catch
(alker Cooper on the n x
finger of his right hand causing
Eeompound dislocation that forced
him out of the game. He kicked
Ehss .mitt along the ground in front
Of him in disgust as he trudged