The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-05
Potter
LANIER A REAL QUESTION MARK
 FOR 2ND CAME
By LEO N. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor

(Untted Press sports Edit0r)
 st, Louis, Oct. B--(UR) R)--ThN St. Louis Browns, who specialize in get. ting extra mileage out of their few base hits, called on Q former Red Bird today in on effort to make it two straight over the st. Louis Cardinals in their intra-Clty World Series.
 Nelson Potter, who began his major league career with the Cardi- na8 and was sold down the river after he had appeared in one in- ming in i9S6, drew the starting nod from Manager Luke Sewelps rags. to-rlehes boys who won the all-im- portant opening game yesterday 2 to l.
 That victory came on the wings of Q single and c home run, the only hits the Browns were able to make off Mort Cooper, the ilreball artist of the Cardinals, Sewell was hoping that his hitless wonders would be able to do A little better ct the plate today against Max Lanier, Manager Billy SouthworthS southpaW ace who after . brilliant start thls year ran into c late season slump that saw him knocked out of the box seven times in as many starts,
 southworth was hoping that tho back treatments Lanler has been taking for the past week-he was sent home carly from New York where the Cardinals finished their aeHSon--would return the curve- bNlllng southpaw to his usual effect tiveneSs.
 The power that won yesterdays game for Denny Qalehouse came from the Browns only two left handed hltters-Gen Moore and George MeQulnn--and Southworth figured that LNnier may Do the man Go tackle them at the plate.
 But that's the way it has been going with the Browns all season. They haven't power hitter on the club, but when the chips are down they always have one batter who comes through, In the final four game series against the Yankees, which the Brownies swept to nose out Detroit by one game in the closest American League penhRnt race In history, it was chet LaabS, Mike Keevieh and Don dutteridge, But more important than hitting in the Browns drive to the pennant and their bid for the worlds cham. plonship title hos been pitching and fielding. That lack of power hos been putting 0 strain on daleholwe, Potter, Jack Kramer, Sig Jakueki and Bob Munerlef. but thus far these Brownie hurlers have shown no signs Of wear and tear.
 qalehouse allowed seven hits against the two that Cooper yielded, But the husky righthander, who did not begin taking a regular turn in the box until mid-SeaSon because his war plant kept him busy every day except Sunday, turned in Q pitching maSterpeee. He battled hs way out of trouble n the early innings and then shut the scoring door when the Cards made q last ditch stond in the ninth which brought the Na. tional League champions their oaly run
 He pitched with oil the cunning that 10 years of major league eX. perlenee haS given him and always kept enough in reserve to turn back the Cardinal scoring bids. When they finally broke through his fast low ball and change of pace piteh- ing in the ninth to break his streak Of seorele@ innings at 2l-he had won one Of the important Yankee games 2 10 o and had shut out BoS. ton for four innings in another he had enough left to retire the Cardinals one run short.
 It was another heart breaking dee feat for big Mort, but he is getting used to that sort of thing when he faces American League hitters Ills home run ball plagued him in two all-Star appearances and three pre-. vious World Series defeats before he served that fiat" one to McQuinn yesterday. The only thing he had for consolation was the record books which showed that only once be. fore had team won World See ries game on two hits.
 The Cardinals were not down. hearted. Southworth was sure Lanier would square the account this afternoon, and Pepper Mar. tin, the old wild horse of the osage, pointed out, the Cardinals lost the first game in io42 when they event. ually defeated the Yankees. He went back even further to recall that the same thing happened when the Cardinals of earlier championship days whipped the Philadelphia Athletics in 1882.
 Southworth said Lanier was okay, fit and ready" and that he hoped his ball club would be able to get back to its usual hitting form. The chances were that he would shoot with another southpaw, Harry Brechen in the third game tomorrow and his rookie star Ted Wilks, in the fourth game Friday.
 Sewell wasn't looking that far ahead, but the chances were his se- lections would be Kramer and Ja- kuch. He probably wasn't counting on any more hitting either, for the Browns have been going along all season, winning games on two or ] three hits and then having their pitchers do the rest.
 It was Potter who won the clutch game in that Yankee series. That was the second game of a double l header last Friday when the Wash