Evening star., 1943-09-22
Yankee Flash Make,
It Hard 10 Compare
lniieId With Cards
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Out on
second base In the coming World
Series the Yankees will have a guy
named Joe who wants to get even.
1t is funny that Joe Gordon. one
of the greatest second basemen Of
his generation and the rock of the
New York infield for five years,
doesn't have a thing this year to
build him up for stars spot in the
Forthcoming fall fuss.
He's been hitting a hat-sized .233:
he's been in less than 100 double
plays for the first campaign since
joining the Yankees and any re-
semblance between this years Cor
don and the guy they nicknamed
the Flash" around second base
purely is co-incidental.
But for year now Joe has been
remembering those headlines and
the hitting and the base running
that made him the goat of last
years series. For year he's been
burning to get even-and you have
to watch out for a guy who's burn
ing to get even
That's why any comparison of the
New York and ST. Louis infelds,
based on the numbers in the book.
figures up about as accurately as a
spinster Dragging about her age.
Because If the Flash gets hot, he II
put on quite show.
Etten Overshadows Sanders.
As matter of fact, you look over
the inf1elds this year and you start
to hum that old tune about Ohio
the one that says it is round on
the ends and hi in the middle" "
The Yankees are the round boys on
the ends, on past performances, with
Nick Etten overshadowing Ray
Sanders on first, having knocked in
100 runs, against st.
Rookie Bill johnson. the Georgia
juggler with 90 RIBS" must be
rated over Third Baseman Whitley
Kurowski. the st. Louis kid who
broke up the 1912 series.
And off the figures, the Cards are
plenty high in the middle with
Marty (the Thin Nam Marion and
Lou Klein, the freshman from
Louisiana, strutting their stuff
against the aging frankie Crosetti
and the Flash.
Shifting the scenes for a look al
the backstop branch of the inner de-
fenses, 23-year-old Walker Cooper
on the job in lib games this cam
paign, has spryness-if nothing else
ON sweet William Dickey, the age
less ace who handles most of the
Yank catching chores. Right now
William is waltzing around with a
1862 batting mark for the rs days
he's been in, while Cooper's is .3O4.
Yank InfieId Packs Power.
The four Yankee inf1eld regulars
-Etten, Gordon. Crosetti and john
son-may be operating on an "a
book In some departments, like total
bases, double plays and in general
batting, but they have hit 33 homers
to % and have driven home 271 tai
lies, against 229 for the Card outfit.
For that reason alone you have to
give the New York first line the
largest piece of cake.
They have been saying that Etten
has been in a slump lately, but Nick
knowing how it feels to be a fugitive
from the Phils, won't be taking any
chances. And even Gordon tops
Klein, 81 to Sc, in bringing in the
ducks on the pond.
The four regulars for each side
strictly are on their own because
the reserve inflelders are just along
for the ride. For the Cards, George
Fallon and Johnny Hopp haven
been hitting enough to beat car.
pet. Gorgeous George Stirnweiss
the infleld star who didn't sparkle
and Ossie Grimes, rescued from
Cleveland, are the Yankee spares
and the best that can be said abou
them is that they are no worse thar
| the Card extras,