The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-10
STEPHENS AND GUTTERIDG
 BLOW FINALE
DY LEO U. REIERsEN


 World Series vent down in the Blly Southworth and the St, Louis Cardinals, but at should credit on assist Go tho second base ooFnhlnA. ton of the SC, Louis Browns,
 For tho men of Manager Luke SeweN failed Go reach the top tn their rags to richest baseball climb because one ot the major weapons In their last ditch drive Co their first American league pennant failed them when the blue chips were down.
 Those weapons reading from left Go right, were the clutch hitting of Vernon stephens and the fielding ot Don 0Utteridge, their ohatterhox second haSeMAn, In Q manner ot speaklng, they struck out yesterday when they could have come up with the play which would have saved the ball game and the world ohana~ plonships hopes of the Browns,
 The setting was the fourth inning with Q $l,l00 differential riding on every play. And the Browns failed to come through with the play that counted, .a
 southworths speedy ReahlrdS took aevantage of the fielding Mllsue to beat the Browns out of their chances of making Q Cinderella finish Co their most successful season,
 The leAA edition of the American LeagueS hltlesS wonders were sail- ing along under Q to Q lead in the sixth game of the first all St, Louis series when Stephens and Qutterldge let them down,
 Nelson Potter, the Browns lead- ing winner, had Q one-run lead on Chet LaahS' triple and George Me- Quinn's single In the second Inning. Then came the fourth and he started by getting Stan MNsial on Q fly ball to center field,
 Although lt has been around for Q long tune, he couldn't Ind the plate when he pitched to Catcher Walker Cooper of the 0arinals, Cooper walked after four pitches.
 Ray Sanders, who turned in the most consistent hitting for the Ma tlonal league tltleholderS, came through with Q single that sent Cooper to third, That set the stage for tho play that meant tho ball game,
 Whitey Korowski, more or less of c series bust, stepped to tho plate and sent grounder down to ste- phens, The Brownie shortstop, who lod the American League in runs hatted la, had two choleeS-for Cooper at the plate and keep the tying run from scoring or to shoot for . double play to retire tho side, He chose the latter, and it turned out to be Q bad deelslon-At least in tho Judgment of the otacial scorers,
 He threw the ball to second base lR an attempt to force Sanders and start the twin killing. The idea was good-but the execution was faulty.
 Stephens flelded the groundoe eleanly and threw Co second base. The scorers decided his throw was wide and drew dutterldge off the bag, but Q lot of others thought that Qutteridge, in his haste to eom- plete tho double play, took his foot off the bag.
 But stephens got the error and it led to two unearned Cardinal runs and that proved to be the dif- ferenee-just like two unearned tale lies in tho second game kept the Cardinals In the running and ens abled them Co win out in n tns nings S to 2, So in the final analyS- is it added up Co thls-the Browns lost the series on their fielding.
 The failure to complete Q double play permitted the tying run to come home-the failure to get even one man out led to the winning and extra tallieS, For Emil Verban and southpaw Max Lanier followed with singles that scored two runs.
 Those hits made it 3 to l and that was ono more than the Cars dinals needed, Lanler allowed only three hits in the five and one third innings he worked and when he did falter Rookie Tod Wilks came in and saved the day.
 The Browns made their final dys ing gesture in the sixth when attes one man had been retired, Laabs and George MeQuinn walked,
 Southworth walked out to the mound to confer with Lanier and decided to leave him in the game. But when his next pitch was Q wild one which permitted Laabs to 90 to third and MeQuinn to second, Bils iy the Kid decided to take him out.
 If there were goats of the series l lk v..aa Gkaphapaa Fw aaHkkaNtfl0A fTVhA former went to the plate 22 times, got five hits, but failed to bat in Q single run. And he had three er- TOTS in the field and oil of them costly. Qutteridge ran Q close sec- ond for he had only three hits in 2i times at bat, struck out five times, and also failed to drive Q single tally over the plate while committing three errors.
 It was @ million dollar series, The Cardinals, although they never ans nounced how they had split their share, received approximately SA,l00 each. The consolation for the Browns was about 5000 each. It was hard to pick out series hero 1t could have been one of Q half dozen men of the Cardinals. Ver- ban, one of their weakest hltters, came through when the dollar sign was down yesterday. So did Wilks. The day before 1t was the fire-balling Mort Cooper-bef0ge that Harry Brecheen and Kaa O'Dea and Ray Sanders and Danny ritwhiler. Summing it ell up lk was team play that won for the Cardinals, fielding errors that lost for the Browns.
 When I4 Browns and Cardinals went down on strikes yesterday 1t made Q total of 02 for six gameB 6 new record, five more than went down that way in the 1881 series