The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-10
Cardina ais
Win Series
In6th.Came
THREE-TIME CHAMPS
Come From Behind To
Send Fans Home With
out Final Contest

SPORTSMAN . GARA, O1
LOUIS, Oct. s.-tREBacking up
.hree nit pitching job with on
auick offensive thrust, the st. Lou
u cardinals today won their thire
World series iii three years with ;
IN / decision over their home
.own rivals, the Browns. The vic
. . gave the National leaguers {
nargin of four games to two over
,be American league champions ir
,no 41st baseball classic and first
IN which both St. Louis teams par
ticipated.
Max Lanier. veteran southpaw
and Teddy Wilks, rookie right
handler. combined to put a fitting
olimay to a series dominated by
nitching. With the two cardinal
twirlers striking out nine Brownies
md the American leaguers' pitch
srs tanning five, the moundsmen
hang up a new series record for
The strikeouts.
In the six games they famed 90,
five more than the previous mark
set by the Cardinals and Philadel-
mia Athletics in the seven game
set in 1881. Lanier whitfield five be-
fore developing a streak OF Wild
rer7 v the sixth. Willks took over
with one out and Brownies perched
m second and third and added
four more strikeouts, including
pinch hitters Milt Byrnes and Mike
/ ak to end the game and the
series. ....
The top coat weather (the tenn
perature was in the neighborhood
of 60 degrees was not pleasing
10 the smallest crowd of the series,
81 $50, but Lanier and Wi1ks were
plenty hot. So were the Cardinal
bats in the fourth.
Trailing 10 as the result of Chef
Laabs' 422 foot triple to center
and George McQuinn's single in
the second, the Redbirds lashed
out with one down. Walker Cooper
started the rally by coaxing the
first base on balls from Potter.
Ray Sanders promptly moved him
around to third with a single to
center.
Vern Stephens made great stop
of Whitley Kurowski's hot grounder
but pulled Don Gutteridge off Sec
ond base for a error and Cooper
romped home with the run that,
tied the score.
After Marty Marion had flied out,
the usually weak hitting Emil YER
ban came through with the second
Of his three singles. 1t travelled
into left and scored Sanders. Lanier
helped his own cause with his Sec
oAo straight nit and Kurowski
crossed the plate with run No. 3.
That was all for Potter n d
brought Bob Muncrief onto h e
scene. He forced Danny Litwhiler
to end the rally but himself. was
III trouble in the fifth and sixth
innings before giving way to a
pinch hitter. Jack Kramer, who
won the third game for the
Browns, hurled the last two inn
lnss and also had a hard time
holding the new champions.
After yielding the two second
inning hits that gave the Browns
mar lone run, Lanier gave up a
double to Mike Kreevich in t H.
tnrd and from. there on the south
paw and Wilks had control of the
Situation despite Lanier's wildness.
Areevich's double and the first
u flve walks handed out by La
ner placed the portsider in slight
trouble in the third but he made
sen Stephens hit into force play
Tor the third out.
Lanler got into hot water again
m the fourth when a walk, sacri-
nce' an infield out and another free
ucket to first put Brownies on first
ana third out Potter failed to come
through The fifth was easy for
I nIln put in the sixth he walked two,
ana let loose wild pitch to send
.aaos and McQuinn around to
'lla and second, respectively.
manager Billy Southworth made
WV 'flps to the box before signal
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