Evening star., 1946-10-15
.Fayorite Role Retained
By Boston as Clubs
Stage Final Contest
By jack Hand
Assoeiated Press Sports Writer

Associated Pfess Spofh WffsT
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15.-The world
championship and $127,739 in. cold
cash awaited the winner today as
Dave (Boo) Ferriss, the amazing
Boston Red Sox sophomore, opposed
pint-size Murry Dickson of the st
Louis Cardinals in the finale Of the
43d World Series.
National League prestige, rocked
to its foundations by the al-star
game rout, made a remarkable re-
covery in the Redbirds' split Of the
first SIX games, but the power-laden
Bostons remained the oddmakers'
favorite at a 13 to 40 price.
Ferriss' 40 shutout victory in the
third game and his ass regular sea
son win record gave the Sox an edge
over Dickson, a renovated bullpen
artist who piled up most OF his Is
decisions since his first starting
chance June Z.
On top of Ferrisss past perform
ance chart that included series win
over Dickson, there was solid sus-
picion that the Sox, who never have
lost a series, were due to break out
at least once with splurge OF extra
base blows.
Hurlers Outguess williams.
Not even the stoutest members OF
the KNOCK Ted williams Society
would have figured he'd be going
into seventh game with only five
hits, all singles. Williams had been
stymied by the variations of the
Dyer shift" and heady pitching by
the Cards who had given him very
little to hit at. Most of his team
mates joined "the kid" in thinking
he was due to tee OF on the right
handed Dickson.
In the first six games the box
score figures show the Cards COM
pletely outplayed the vaunted Sox,
who breezed to their pennant. st.
Louis enjoyed an edge in club
batting, .254 to .242; club fielding,
987 to .957: only three errors to 10
and in both total hits and runs.
Seven Card pitchers gave fewer
earned runs and pitched more COM
plete games than the 10 Sox hurlers
used by Manager Joe Cronin.
Only In the game Ferris worked
did the Red Sox show a marked
superiority. All through the reg
ular season the 24-year-old right
handler from Shaw, Miss, was
noted for pitching just hard enough
to win. whether it was 10 or 1913.
Cards Game In Pinches.
He was what Cronin happily de-
scribed as winning pitcher" De-
tractors have pointed out that
he does not have real blazing
fast ball, but his Il freshman vic
tories and Is wins this season pro-
vide a Notwithstanding rebuttal.
Eddie Dyer's Cardinals were an
unpredictable lot following spring
training. Yet when backed up
against the wall they fought back
magnificently. That was why you
could not count out the Birds, even
with Ferriss giving the Sox the
pitching edge.
Dyer's closing pitcher, Dickson,
often has been called a right
handed Brecheen," although he
really does not have as much "stun"
as the catlike southpaw who kept
the Cards in the series with two
important triumphs.
George Munger and Brecheen were
ready for st. Louis and Tex Hughson
and Joe Dobson for the Sox as
reliefers.
Precedent said the Sox never lost
a series and the same tradition also
revealed that the Cardinals never
failed in seven-game classic"
More in Victory for Cards.
Although the players shares will
be the smallest since 1918 because
the s175,0O0 radio money is being
placed in escrow for the pension
fund. the winning pot amounts to
$l27, 739 IS compared to $85. .160 for
the losers. Victory for st. Louis
meant each share would amount to
approximately 3,736 Is but a Boston
win would net each man only
3,O98.52 because they split it 41h
ways to "a for the Birds.
With that kind of dough as stake,
Enos Slaughter's right elbow injury.
Marty Marion's back and Bobby
Doerr's headache were bound to i'm
prove. Slaughter, the most serious
casualty, insisted he'd be able to
throw "as soon as any of those guys
start running"
Not since 1925 when Pittsburgh
beat Walter johnson of Washington
in the rain and mud at Forbes Field
had a series lasted as long as October
Is. Once it dragged out as long as
October 26 after a week Of rain at
Philadelphia in 1911.