The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-09-29
By CHIP ROYAL Ap Features Shorts Editor


 NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-Shades oi
 service mans favorite pln-up irl! The coming world series has more angles than Betty Grable has uryes. Just cast your glimmers ,ver a few opinions advanced by major league players, coaches, man agers. and baseball writers. They say:
 eThe first three games in New York favor the Yankees
 "The Cardinals have the edge In ,outh, speed, and playing skill
 "The Tanks can't lose because they'll be able to use Spud Chand- CT three times in seven games
 Tt all depends on whether Mort Cooper can win the first game oil she Cardinals. If he breaks that American League jinx, the Yanks will never see daylight"
 Joe Mccarthy is too smart for Billy Southworth."
 Billy Southworth is too smart for Joe Mccarthy"
 eMcCarthys reserve are better than Southworth's.'
 "St. Louis has better outfielders.'
 Probably the smartest and truest remark made to date is that by a Yankee writer who. after failing to buy box seat for a friend at the Yankee offices as early as Sept. IA, said:
 "The players will share in the argest receipts of any world series"
 Brother, that's more truth than poetry Poor Ed Barrow, proxy of he Tanks, has been buried under an avalanche of ticket requests ;ince Labor Day All the war workers and their children's child ren want tickets-and the best in .he house is none too good for them.
 How about the ball games? Well sir, all we know is that the Tanks have been talking nothing but re- venge on the Cardinals since they went to Asbury Park, N. J., for spring training last spring. < Spud Chandler, the present ace of the American League champs pitching staff. echoed the senti- ments of all the players when he yelled clear across the cold Jersey high school gym last April:
 Bring on those Cardinals! All I want is another crack at them-and [ hope we are the underdogs We'll give them series they'll never for get!'
 Since then I have heard practic- ally every member of the New York lineup say the same thing Man ager Mccarthy has kept his public thoughts to himself, but it is no secret that Joe has been planning his series strategy for months.
 This will probably be his starting lineup: Weatherlyi (waiting six years for a world series role) Il Metheny, Ca surprising rookie from iNSWdihy cOliiloOll, NttlC lOthlt Ol the year) Keller, Ga clutch cloutep; ; Etten, Ca Phillv discard) I Dickey, tthe leading hitter in the league); Gordon, ready to flash again) Crosetti, Ca tired veteran) !; and Chandler, Cthe ace of hurlers) :.
 Southworth limits that he doesn't know who'll start for the Cards.
 I've had too many injured play CTS in the. last few weeks to decide who to use" declares Billy. 'sBut 1 don't see where those fellows get that stuff about Cooper not start Ing in the series. Who else could i use? Mort's my top mani"
 As for being afraid of the men of Mccarthy, Southworth says:
 We beat them last year and don't know why we can't do it again. The first three games in New York shouldn't make any difference to ,,s We won the last three there"
 Although the Cards manaoer won't hazard a guess as to his starting lineup, he admits he fip- ures these men as his regulars Klein, (rookie replacement for Jimmy BrowD, H. Walker. cTerrv