The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-16
Pesky
Gonzales Gets OK. On Winning Run

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 today and this one, the sixth tha
 has come to the Redbirds, was tn
 best of them all.
 For it came the hard way in on
 of the most dramatic seven-gam
 Series in major league history. Tn
 boys who weren't supposed to vii did, and the fellows who figured t.
 take the championship were on tn outside looking in.
 Those fellows were the Boston Rex Sox and they lost their chance fol
 baseball glory because one of then didn't have it when the chips wert down. Harry (The Cat) Brecheen Harry Walker and Mike Gonzales of the Cardinals, were the heroes, bu they couldn't have won if it hadn't been for the Bosox'S shortStop Johnny Pesky.
 Two Goats for SOx AS things turned out, he was the goat of the Series along with tht heralded Ted Williams. The differ ence was that Pesky cost the Rec Sox the championship on an error of commission. Williams just didn't live up to advance billing, for he got only six hits in the Series. Pesky'S mistake was responsible fol the Cardinals winning the seventh and deciding game yesterday to 3 A key figure in Boston's drive to the pennant, he became the goat in their loss of the Series.
 Erratic in the field although he lived up to his name at bat, PeSky failed to get rid of the ball quickly enough in the eighth inning, allow ing Enos Country Slaughter to score with the winning run.
 The Red Sox had come up in their half of the eighth to tie the score and drive little Murry Dickson from the mound. But in doing so, Mana ger Joe Cronin had to pinch hit for his pitcher and brought Bob Klinger who wasn't good enough to hold on with the last place Pittsburgh Pirates, to the hill.
 Walker Last Minute Hero
 Facing a team he knew well-for the Cardinals were mighty rough on him during his stay in the National LeagueAKlinger yielded a single to Slaughter to open the Cardinal eighth. It looked as if he would work out of that trouble when he retired George (Whitey) KurowSki on a pop fly and catcher Del Rice on fly ball. But then Walker, who turned out to be the big gun for the Cards, stepped to the plate, caught hold of one of Ringers fast balls and drove it into centerfield for g. hit.
 It looked like an ordinary single. It turned out to be double and the ball game.
 Leon Culberson, playing center field in place of Dom DiMaggio, who pulled up lame after banging the double which had brought the Red Sox from behind in the eighth, came in fast to pick up the ball and rifle 1t to Pesky on the outfield grass. Pesky, not thinking that Slaughter would try to score on the hit, held the ball until he saw the Cardinal outfielder speeding for home.
 He let go with 8 desperate peg which was wide of the plate as Slaughter crossed with the run that gave the Cards the Series. A good throw would have had Slaughter by feet and had not Pesky held the ball Slaughter would have been out by yards.
 While that throw was being made, Walker galloped into second SO he was credited with a double.
 Gonzales Redeems Self
 AS it happened, Gonzales, the third base coach who has been under fire for the way he had been direct ing traffic on the bases, also played a major role. He waved Slaughter on when probably every other coach in baseball would have held him up. But this time 1t turned out to be the right thing to do, so instead of being a goat he was hero.
 There was plenty of honor, too, for Brecheen, the first pitcher since 1920 to win three games in a World Series. Coming in in the eighth inn ing when Dickson faltered, he saved the day for the Cardinals.
 Their clutchman all year, Bre- cheen, who had won the second and sixth games yielding only one run and Il hits, came through when it looked like he was going to fail. After giving up that tying double to DiMaggio, he closed the door with the score even. Then after Slaughter, Walker and Pesky corroborated to get that fourth run in the eighth he was only three men away from his third victory.
 It looked bad when the first man to face him, big Rudy York whose home runs won the first and third games singled. It was even worse when Bobby Doerr followed with another single on which Paul Camp bell, running for York, stopped at second. Pinky Higgins hit into force play at second so there were men on first and third with only one out.
 Mcbride Fails
 Having run out of pinch hitters and catchers, Cronin was forced to let Roy Partee bat for himself. The best he could do was a pop foul to Stan Musial which left Brecheen only one out away. He got that one a minute later when Tom Mcbride, ,,ioab I,jttian fo, Usor1 T0hrc1y, tha fourth hurler Cronin had used, grounded into a force out. Even then 1t took a nice play by Marty Marion, still baseballs MT. Shortstop, to close out the game. Red Schoendienst, who fielded the grounder, threw low to second, but Marion managed to catch the ball and step on the bag to force Higgins.
 Brecheen was carried from the