Evening star., 1943-10-12
Fight Gone, ST. Louis
Is Not in Class With
Business-Like Foe
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Write

! handed the bouquets and half 8
dozen Redbirds tried on sets of goat
horns from the late lamented WorlC
Series.
One and all greed no blockbust.
er ever went off any louder than
the explosion of the Cardinal myth
in this years fall classic. Wher
the New York Yankees wound it uI
on Bill Dlckey's homer to win, 4
games to /, for the 10th world
championship in their history, the
Cards were as we'll beaten as the
parlor rug in spring housecleaning-
the same Cards, mind you, who hao
been built up as the runningest
flghtingest, never-say- -dieingest COL
lection 10 come down the pike in
quite piece.
1t was nice fairy tale the St
Louis -So-sWiftieS had writer
by taking the 1912 series-about
how they were the most sure
footed, sure hitting, sure-everything
around; about how they never beat
themselves. 1t was a nice fairy tale
while it lasted, but the ending had a
new twist. Instead of the old they
lived happily every after" tag line
this one wound up with I'VE were
only kidding"
Cards Not There in Pinches.
If ever a club beat itself, this
years Cardinals fit the picture
Mostly, they missed Terry Moore
and Enos Slaughter in the outfeld
After the second game last Wednes-
day, which Mort Cooper won with a
magnificent competitive perform
ance. they folded up like straw hat
that's been sat on. AS running
specialists they practically were
stationary. They appeared to be
only going through the motions in
the fourth game On Sunday. And in
yesterdays convincer they had Spud
Chandler on the ropes in six of nine
innings. yet failed to throw big
punch and were put on ice for keeps
by 20 score on ancient DlCkey S
tWc-run siXth-inning homer, which
gave him record of having been on
eight series winning clubs since 1928
And while the Cards were COL
lapsing all over the place like the
pins in bowling alley, the YAM
KEGS reminded the folks that when
you're talking about teams that
don't beat themselves. the Bombers
are better than green hands. They
may have been overconfident last
year. but they went at it like buSi-
nessmen in this set. The result was
while the not -sWifties were max
ing errors that cost them two games
and almost ruined a third. the Yanks
got to the paying teller's window
for the seventh time in eight series
tries since 1882.
CrOsetti Is Series Star.
Dickey was right up there in the
voting for the series hero's spot
because in addition to catching five
tough games, he got four Of his five
hits with men on bases and three
of the four brought ducks home off
the pond. So was Joe Gordon uI
there, for his first game homer and
his all-around second-base magic
and Rookie Bill johnson, whose bat
was the loudest of them all and
Spud Chandler. who chalked up two
pitching victories.
But the majority of the boys and
girls. while we'll divided on which
Card was the No. l goat, pointed to
the old guy at short, Frank Crosetti
Of the San Francisco Crosettis, as
the top hero. He's 33 and before the
series one fellow said he was so
banged up they had to tie him to-
gether with strips of tape and little
pieces of wire. In fact. he wasn't
supposed to be Yankee regular at
all this year, but Joe Mccarthy
finally had to send out the alarm
for him to take over.
So he did. And going into the
series. the smart boys said shortstop
was the weak link Well, chums. it
was weak like Joe Louis. Frankie's
base running was the big factor in
the first-game win He scored one
of the runs in the second game.
He was one of the key men in the
big five-run eighth inning that won
the third game-the batter the
Cards had to walk with one away
and runners on first and third so
they'd have play at any base.
Generally Dull Affair.
His stop back of second on Walker
Cooper's hit in the eighth inning of
the fourth game and the way he
held Stan Musial at second on the
play was the big break of the tilt
the spot Manager Mccarthy said
was the turning point of the game
And yesterday he came up with
three chances he had absolutely no
right to get to haul Chandler out
Of the stew. He hit in four of the
five games, scored in three and was
defensive brick wall.
He told couple Of pals before
the series that he expected this was
going to be his last fall classic. Well,
he bowed out with the bells ringing
Generally, the series was a dull
affair. 1t set new attendance
record for five-game fuss by draw
ing 277,312 through the turnstiles
including the all-time one-game
high of $1,000 who saw last Thurs
days scramble in New York. And
1t paid off the players on a record
pool of $488,00574. from which each
Yankee received s6,1232O and each
Cardinal $432199. But for the
customary series thrills and chills,
1t was strictly in waltz time-no
jumping jive.