The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
Cards,
WiII-to-Win Hos Red Birds Flying High

called them "destiny's babies" back in 1942 when as one of the greatest kid teams ever to play in the majors they came out of obscurity to win the National League pennant and world championship.
 Today, four years later, they are no longer the rollicking happy-go- lucky hill-billy singing gang they were before most of them faced grim interlude of war.
 But 1t would be hard to deny that destiny still is in their lineup as they charge once more with a sud- den will-to-win that is more char acteristic Of them and their pre- decessors than of any other team in the majors. Destiny is there as surely as Stan Musial, Red Schoen- dienst, Whitey Kurowski, Slats Ma rion and the rest of the guys-the Cardinals of l946.
 Cards Still In West
 If not, how could one reasonably account for the fact that young ster who wasn't even in the lineup, broke up last nights finale. with the Dodgers hitting three-run homer that gave the Cards 5 to victory, a sweep of the four-game series and cut Brooklyn's lead to 8 bare half game?
 Fry Dusak, pinchhittIng for pitcher Howie Pollet was the kid who had the home plate date with fate in the ninth inning Marion had been hit by pitched ball and catcher Clyde Kluttz slashed a sin gle to put men on first and second with none out. Dusak. trying to work the strategy that the situation called for, failed to drop a sacrifice bunt, then stood up and drove in both runners with his game win ming homer. It was Pollet's 10th victory and his third over Brooklyn Hard-luck rookie Joe Hatten suf- fered the defeat. the ninth for the Dodgers In l2 games with St. Louis.
 It was blank day elsewhere in the National with three pitchers, Bill Voiselle, Lynn Rowe and Mort Cooper pitching shutoutS.
 Voiselle hurled the Giants to a 1 to 0 victory over the Cubs at Chi cago when his opponent, Johnny Schmitz, weakened in the ninth and let Johnny Mize double and Bill Rigney single home the ruh. VoI- selle permitted six hits, but Schn1tz gave up only five in losing
 Rowe Shades Blackwell
 Rowe, pitching with fine control and excellent knowledge of the hit ters to offset his long gone fast ball. hurled the Phils to ? to 0 win over the Reds at Cincinnati. He gave up five hits to shade rookie Ewen Blackwell who yielded six Singles by Ron Northey figured in both Philly tallies.
 Cooper, who also operates without most of the fast stuff that made him kingpin of the National League hurlers several seasons back, turned m a seven-hit, 10 to 0 victory for the Braves at Pittsburgh and he got first rate support from Johnny Hopp, the leagues leading hitter Hopp boosted his average 10 points to 1881 with four straight hits. Mike Mccormick drove in four runs.
 It took Bobby Teller to stop the latest seven-game winning surge of the Red Sox at Boston, role the Cleveland fire-baler played on his teams last road trip there when he stopped them after l2 straight wins. His to 3 victory yesterday was achieved with a minimum of effort because his mates backed him with e comfortable lead on homers off Tex Hughson. Ken Keltner, whc also got a later round trip smash off relief pitcher Mace Brown, tag ged Hughson for the first homer in the second and Pat Seerey got an- other in the sixth. Teller gave ur nine hits and struck out seven tc run his total whiffs for the season to 202. The Indians again played Ted Williams with shift to the right, but this time he crossed then up and pushed single into Jeff field, after which he was played more conventionally. He alsc smacked a triple.
 Kramer Beats Senators
 Jack Kramer pitched the Brown; 10 6 to win at Washington, giv- ing up eight hits while his mate; collected IT, Al zarilla and Verr Stephens getting four each. It wa Kramer's ninth victory.
 Lefty Ed Smith, helped by four. run fourth inning rally in which Taft Wright hit homer, turned 1T 6 to 2 victory for the White So, at Philadelphia, holding the As te five hits.