The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-24
Bronco Moy Be Choice 

NeW 4OrK, sept. Z4-(UP)- Deep in the heart of Flatbush to- day the die-hard Dodgers stuck to their guns, fully aware that they must be 400 percentage points better than the St. Louis Cardinals Tn their remaining games to win the National League pennant.
 As things stand now, the only way Brooklyn can capture the pennant without a playoff is to win all four of it's remaining games, playing at a 1000 pace while the Cardinals are winning three of their five for a 500 pace.
 If the Cardinals win four games they can clinch tie and a sweep of their five games will put them in regardless of what the Dodgers do.
 Denied for 71z Innings
 But there are no faint hearts among the "embattled Bums," who are convinced that they are a team of destiny and do a good job of proving it every time they take the field.
 The Dodgers were tired and jit- tery when they took the field against the fighting Philies yes- terday and for 71k innings they had hard time holding their own, in a tense pitching battle between Rube Melton and lefty Ken Raf- fensberger.
 Then the ScoreboarG flashed the l to 0 St. Louis victory over the Cubs at Chicago and the Dodgers forgot they were weary. Knowing that they had to win to stay alive in the race, they put on a five-run rally with weird and daring col lection of bunts and cheap hits for to 1 victory.
 Blunt Turns Into Hit
 The first safe bunt was an acci- dent. Carl Furillo had walked and Peewee Reese was trying to sacri- flee him to second. He bunted- too hard for a sacrifice-and Raf- fenSberger came charging in, seek ing to snatch the ball and try for a double play or at least a force out at second. He charged too hard and the ball went over his head for single.
 Catcher Bruce Edwards did sac riflce, sending the runners to Sec- ond and third, and Howie Schultz was walked. Manager Leo Duro- cher called on another oi deStiny's children, raw rookie Stan Rojek to bat for Melton and he came through by dumping a Texas League single behind first to score Furillo. Eddie Stanky brought in Reese with a squeeze bunt in front of the plate which he beat out for hit. Then came the only solid hit of the inning, a sharp single by Cookie Lavagetto which scored Schultz and Rojek. Augie Galan brought home the fifth run with a long fly which scored Stanky.
 Hunch player Durocher called on dark-horse Melton, saving his better pitchers for later, because big Rube had beaten the Phils three times. Although he was in hot water frequently he came through for his fourth triumph against them and his sixth of the season.
 Durocher is counting either up- on Hal Gregg or Ralph Branca to SSP OAAS LILO III UOOcJ SdlIl6 anu the job may be tough one. Philadelphia Manager Ben Chap man is going to use another lefty, Oscar Judd, who has scored two Of the four victories that the Phils possess over Brooklyn.
 Gregg has lost one game to the Phils but was batted out in two others while Branca hasn't faced them i'll a starting role. Rilin' Ralph, however, is the current hot man." of the Dodger staff with successive shutouts over the Cards and Pirates in which he has given up total of eight hits.
 In the only other major league game yesterday, the Yankees topped the Athletics at New York, to 6. Rookie Larry Berra hit his second homer in as many dave