The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-05
Browns Win
First Game
Of Series
OVER 10000 SEE GAME
Calehouse Is Victor Over
M. Cooper To Defeat
The Cardinals
nv ORLO ROBERTSON
cpORTSMAN'S PARK. ST

SPORTSMAN'S PARK, ST.
LOUIS. Oct. 4.-P) - One
home run blast off the bat of
George McQuinn which sail
Cd over the right field stands
cave the Browns, champions
nj the American league, a 2
to l victory over the Cardi-
nails. kings of the National
league, in the opening game
of the first all-St. Louis world
series today.
The home run wallop, and sin
ole bv Gene Moore in the fourth
inning. were the only hits off Mort
rooner. ace of the Cards mound
staff and Blk Donnelly but they
were enough to settle the issue as
s2.year-old Denny Galehouse work
Cd himself out Of holes in the first
three innings and then finally
Welded run in the ninth.
A crowd of 33,342 paying SAG,
9ss and sitting in on perfect base
hall weather after an early morn
ing rain had threatened postpone
ment Of the first of the best four
ot.seven series, saw the National
leaguers hammer Galehouse + o r
five inning in the first three in
nings, loading the bases with only
one cut in the third.
There was every evidence that
it would be only a matter OF time
until the Redbirds crossed the
ulate but the Browns were the first
tc spike the home platter and once
they had done so, Galehouse set
tied down and pitched hirless ball
until the eighth frame.
With two out in the fourth, Moore
dashed single between First Base
man Ray Sanders and Second
Baseman Emil Verban. McQuinn.
the next batter, picked out one OF
Cooper's fast pitches and sent the
ball high over the right field
stands. That was all for the Brown
les as Cooper, blanked them
through the next three frames be-
fore leaving the game for pinch
batter and turning tn pitching
chores over to Donnelly. Blk con-
tinued the withdrawing through
the final two innings.
Galehouse, a Sunday pitcher at
the start of the season because of
war plant job in Akron, Ohio,
and holder of an unimpressive sea-
sons record of nine victories and
10 defeats, seemed to gain conf
dence after McQuinn's blow h a d
sent the Brownies out in front. He
set the Cards down in order in the
fourth and fifth frames with the
help Of the only double play of the
game in the fifth. He aced four
men in each of the sixth and sew
enth innings, snuffing out minor
threat in the latter as Manager
Billy Southworth sent in Aug e
Bergamo to bat for Emil Verban
and Debs CAIRNS for Mort Cooper.
In the eighth he yielded a single
to Whitley Kurowski and then fl
nally gave up run in the ninth
as Stats Marion drove the ball into
eenterfield for his second double.
Marion moved up to third on Der.
samo's infield out and scored aft
er Pinchbatter Ken O'Dea flied out
10 Mike Krevich in center.
Mort Cooper and Donnelly def.
nltely had the better of the pitch.
ing argument as they turned in the
ninth two-hitter in World series
history. 1t was the first time that
. 1Wo-hit pitching job has ended
In defeat. Cooper struck out four
and gave three bases on balls
while Donnelly added two m
Slrlkeout victims. Galehouse yield
GU seven hits, famed five anc
walked four, one of them inten.
,Ionally when the National leaguers
"aoed the bases in the third.
Inc Browns victory made them
eo'iavorites' at 9 to 10 to take the
series, the first ail-St. Louis affai,
.Mce the baseball classic was in.
'usurated in 1903. But the Cards