The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-28
Brecheen In Mound Job Against Cubs

St. Louis, Sept. 28-(UP)-The St. Louis Cardinals, locked in first place tie with their Brooklyn rivals, today faced twin hazards on the path to the National League pen nant-the loss of batting punch and fielding f1nesse.
 The club, aided by consistently excellent pitching and flawless work in the field, has won games in the last week that were not earned by stick work.
 But last nights combination of weird play af1eld and puny work at the platter raised serious doubt about their ability to recover and win.
 Brecheen Easy Over Cubs
 Fortunately, their selection of Harry CThe CaD Brecheen as g pitcher has the virtue of putting an intuitive and skillful inf1elder as well as a money pitcher into the lineup.
 Brecheen's record of IA and 15 seems unimpresSive until 8 glance at the record reveals that five of his victories and only one of his defeats were in games with the Chicago Cubs.
 He will face the Cubs Paul (9-6) Erickson in a chips-down, all-out effort to keep the Birds abreast of the Flatbushers tonight.
 Besides being a good pitcher and an excellent fielder, the Cat can and does hit and he might add a lit- tie power to an outfit that has lately been as inoffensive as Sum- day school joke.
 Blister Aids Cards
 Most observers who witnessed the Cards 2 to ? defeat by the Cubs last night are convinced that only a blister kept the Birds from a Shutout. The fateful blister was on the thumb of Hank Borowy's pitch ing hand and caused his removal in the eighth inning after Harry Walk CTS single and Stan Musial's 18th home run of the year had counted the only Cardinal runs.
 It was after a third and unpro- ouctive hit by Whitey KuroWski that Borowy's ailment caused Manager Charlie Grimm to yank him and insert Hank Wyse originally scheduled to pitch tonight's game into the lineup.
 Wyse, a hurler with a steady hand, had no trouble ending the eighth with a strikeout of Terry Moore. Then he set the side down in order in the ninth.
 Borowy had scattered the Card !nal hits harmlessly and was never in real danger until his equipment broke down.
 Proves Cards Powerless
 Wyse's success proved that the Cardinals batting slump is still in effect since he's always been an easy mark for the Redbird hitters.
 But it was in the field that the Cardinals gave their supporters the screaming mmemies. Five of the Cubs runs were unearned and the offenders-with a costly error apiece were the usually dependable Marty Marion and Whitey Kur- cwsk
 The Cubs were ahead by one run on legitimate hits in the second when they came to bat in the fourth.
 Lowrey opened the frame with a fly to Terry Moore. Bill Nicholson walked and then Marion opened the flood gates by dropping double play grounder of Bill Jurges' bat Borowy's sacrifice and Stan Hacks single plus Harry Walkers high throw to the plate-which put Stan in position to score on Lou String CTS hit-counted three more for the Cubs.
 The third man in the Cardinals pitcher parade-Ted Wilks-was the victim of their generosity in the sixth. Lowrey started this one with single through the box Nicholson went down on strikes, but Bill Jur- ges walked. LoWrey and Jurges scored and Borowy reached second when Kurowski's wild throw on the pitchers nicnic hopper went six feet out of Musials reach to the grand stand wall. Borowy then scored on Hacks single.