The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
MORT COOPER CARRIES LAST
 HOPE OF MATES
BY LEO N. PETERSEN United Press Staff Correspondent

BY LEO N. PETERSEN
 United Press Staff CorFespOndent)'
 st. Louis, Mo-, oct. i1.--CUP)-- The St. Louis Cardinals faced the best pitcher in baseball today and had to beat him to keep alive their waning hopes for e second conseci- tive world championship at the exc pense of the New York Yankees.
 Manager Joe. McC Carthy, sitting in the drivers seat with Q three to one edge, nominated Sturgeon Chandler, the "sinker- ball" artist, who won the opening game at Yankee 5ta- dium in an effort to close out war times second October classic this afternoon.
 Chandler, with the best earned run average in the major leagues this season, faced Morton Cooper, the Cardinal ace who won the sec ond game Q few hours after his father died.
 The Cardinals, lacking the dash their play in the series last year when tAley turned back the heavily favored Yankees in five games, were hoping Cooper again would break his old American league jirlx and keep them in the running. Until he defeated the Yankees last Wednes- day, Cooper had faced American league teams four times without winning once.
 With their ace on the mound Manager Billy Southworth believed his Cardinals would "snap out of it." If they don't they will have lost to far different Yankee team than in former years. Whereas the Bronx Bombers used to rely almost exclusively on power, they have shifted the burden to pitching and 1t has been more than adequate.
 The caliber of the Yankee hurl- ing corps was demonstrated yester- day when Marius Ugo Russo, an Italian stringhean from Brooklyn who had been of little use to Me- Carthy in the American league pen- nant race because of a sore arm, came through with a seven-hit per- formance that gave the Yankees 2 to victory in the fourth game and their three to one series lead.
 Russo not only took care of the pitching, but most of the hitting, the second one led to the winning run after the Cardinals, taking ad- too. He blasted two doubles and vantage of two Yankees errors, had come from behind to tic the score
 He was in trouble in the late in- nings but he always had enough to carry through.
 While Russo should have had c shutout, the Yankees weren't knock ing down the fences against Max Lanier, the chunky southpaw who lost to Chandler in the opener, and Harry Brecheen, the rookie left handler, who was charged with the defeat.
 Walker Missed
 The Yankees had scored oil LanieT in the fifth inning, due to poor judgment on the part of the Cards centerflelder, Hary walker. Joe Cor. don, goat of last years series whoss fielding In this one has been sensa. tional, hit e low line drive to left center. Walker tried to make . Shoestring catch and missed by inches SO what could have been held to Q single, playing 1t safe, turned out to be a double. Bill Dickey, the veteran catcher. immediately singled to center, Gordon scoring.
 The Cards were lucky to tie 1t up in the seventh. Frankie Crosetti dropped Sanders easy pop fly which should have been the third out. Danny Litwhiler doubled down the right field line but Sanders, despite the fact two men were out, was slow getting started and Southwortn held him at third. Last year the Car dinals, playing free and easy, would have sent him home.
 Martin Marion, the Cardinal 'shortstop, was passed purposely tc fill the bases and when Frankie Demaree, pinch hitting for Lanier grounded weakly to third it looked like Russo was out of the jam. But Bill Johnson, the rookie third base man and leading hitter of the series, fumbled a grounder and the score was tied with the bases still full of Redbirds. Second Baseman Lou Klein then grounded out.
 Russo took things in his own hands. First man to face Brecheen in the eighth, he doubled down the left field foul line, went to third on Tuck Stainback's sacrifice and scored on Crosetti's long fly.
 Important Stop
 Tn the very next inning, CrosettI saved the ball game. Stan Musial, with one out, had beaten out a high bouncer to third base. Catcher Walker Cooper lined one at second base which seemed sure to go into centerfeld. But Crosetti came over fast and stopped the ball, prevent ing Musial from going to third. Russo bore down then and although he was in trouble again in the ninth when Marion doubled with one out, had enough left to retire the side. The southpaw's control was uncanny and he had thA Cardinals O1iessinC