Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-09
"A. |. Champs Strike
New Low in FutiIity
with 5hiIIaIah
BY JOHN b. KELLER,
Star Staff Correspondent.

BY JOHN b. KELLER,
Star Staff Correspondent.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. Oct. 9.--It was
lup to Nelson Potter. right-hand
hurler. to try to get the Browns back
In the World Series this afternoon,
but II the American League cham
pions failed to recover the punch
that had them one up on the Cardi-
mails after the third game Friday,
Potter might as well have remained
home. And making the situation
more difficult for Potter, the Browns
were to face the left-handed Max
Lanier, who was no soft touch for
them last Thursday.
The Browns scoring efficiency
sagged badly Saturday: it,never was
in evidence yesterday as the Ma
tional League pennant winners
swung for homers to cop, to 0, for
their second successive win, their
third in the series, and to put them
selves in position to grab baseball's
most coveted title in the sixth game
of the Al-St. Louis struggle today.
For sheer futility in attack, the
Browns yesterday struck new low
as they absorbed the first shutout
Of the series. Ten of them managed
to get on the runway and nine were
stranded, one being the victim of
a force-play. They outhit the Card
inals, seven safeties to six, and they
got two passes to the Cardinals
one. But when wallop meant a
run the Browns couldn't produce.
Twenty-Five Strike Out.
Big Morton Cooper with his fast
ball moved down the American
League champions with strikeouts,
Keeling of dozen. Five times, bat
tiers Of the Browns stood motionless
at the plate as the third strike
whizzed by.
1t was a sad defeat for Denny
Galehouse, cool right-hander of the
American League forces. He, too,
had a strikeout ball. Ten of the
Cards were victims of it. But each
OF the ten Cards went down swing
ing.
The only serious pitching mis-
takes by Galehouse came in the
sixth and eighth innings. In the
sixth with two out he pitched too
good to Ray Sanders and the Card
first sacker lofted the ball to the
top OF the right field pavilion. In
the eighth, Danny Litwhiler hit the
first pitch to send the ball into the
pavilion.
The pitching by Galehouse was
more than good enough to win
almost any ball game, but it was an
utter waste against Cooper's per-
Torrance.
Five OF Cooper's strikeouts came
in the last three innings after he
had taken the heart out of the
Browns in the sixth, with his superb
recovery of effectiveness after the
American League flag club filled
the bases with only one out. This
was the lone inning in which the
Browns were able to cluster two hits.
Mike Kreevich opened 1t with
single, only to be forced out when
Gene Moore tried to sacrifice, and
bunted directly to the pitcher. Here
Vernon Stephens, who got three of
the Browns hits, singled to move
Moore to third. Along came George
McQuinn, who, with a homer, had
broken up the opening game for
Cooper. McQuinn had two strikes
against him, then waited out four
pitches to walk and crowd the sacks
Fans Two in Pinch.
Cooper looked in plenty of trouble
with Al Zarilla, a batter who had
hit .299 during the pennant season,
coming up. But Cooper braced and
Zarilla stood by as a third strike
came over. Along came Mark
Christman, .271 batter, and he,
too. let the third one go by.
The Browns had muffed their
big chance.
They had another good scoring
opportunity in the eighth when
Stephens doubled after Moore
struck out. McQuinn took healthy
swing to send the ball high into the
upper stand for a foul. Had Nc
Quinn not pulled" SO strongly the
score would have been tied then
and there, for the ball was hit hard
enough to send it over the pavilion
roof, had it gone in that direction.
Then McQuinn hoisted to the CEN
terfielder, and SO did Zarilla, to
leave Stephens on second.
Cooper, who had struck out pinch
batter Floyd Baker in the seventh,
rose to strike-out heights in the
ninth, when he disposed of three
pinch-batters in row. Milt Byrne
and Chef Laabs watched the third
one slip past. Mike Chartak took
a cut for his last strike.
1t was a fitting climax to pitch
ing masterpiece.