The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-22

BreadOn Realizes Ambition as Cards Win
World Series With All Farm Grown Club

EWfTUkS NOIki BiN 4,
Keener h emlnently qualified 10
write this interesting and lnfOr-
native series. The Cardinals
grew up with the veteran sports
editor Of the Sc. Louis star
Tlmes.--NEA.
ny SID c. KEENER
patches written for NEA service)
st. Petersburg, Feb. 22--tNEA)--
Fancy youngsters kept arriving at
Sportsman's Park.
With new stars, the st. Louis
Nationals won another pennant in
1923. On that years champions
were outfielders John Leonard
Martin, The wild Horse Of the
Usage: Ernie Orsati, the Man on
the Flying Trapeye and Fred
Farmhouse, q right-hander with a
sweeping curve.
Pepper Martin, developing into
one OF baseball's most outstanding
performers, was discovered by
Charley Barnett playing with a
emi-profeesiona team in the wilds
Of Texas, furnishing q fair idea Of
the Cardinals wide.open scouting
system.
More youngsters were developed.
Another pennant came In 1880.
Charley colbert, a college boy OF
Lebanon, Pa, was found by Char
ley Kelchner, prepared in Spring.
field, Mo-, and Rochester, became
the National Leagues prize short
stop. What a ball player George
watkins in right field and pitcher
Herman Bell were other stickouts
Of 1880.
BALANCED BY EXPERIENCE
To fill a weak spot here and
there, Sam Breadon and Branch
Hickey arranged occasional deals
for experienced athletes-similar
to the transaction that brought
Burleigh Grimes in l930-but, in
the main the master minds were
outSmarting rivals with brains,
not dollars.
A second world championship
was acquired when the club
COPIED its fourth pennant in Ave
years in 1891. Connie Mack's great
Philadelphia Athletics Of that
year were defeated, Martin rum
ming wild on the bases. There
were additions to the 1880 cham.
pions-Jimmy Collins and PAU
Derringer.
1t took the Red Birds of 1894,
however, to really amaze the
baseball world. This was the fa-
nous Gas-House Gang, featuring
Dizzy and Paul Dean and Tex
Carleton, Rip Collins, Burgess
Whitehead filling in for manager
Frank Frisch at second base, Bill
Delaney. remarkable young
catcher and left-hand hitter, and
Joe Medwick, al graduates Of the
chain-store system.
The stretch drive that snatched
the pennant from the New York
Giants was a remarkable feat.
The Detroit Tigers were repealed
In one Of the more exciting
World Series.
III never be satisfied until We
win a pennant with a complete
team developed on our minor
league clubs" said President
Breadon.
The big moment arrived sooner
that Breadon and Hickey ex-
pected perhaps-in 1912
The champions Of that year
the team that bowled over Joe
McCarthy's apparently invincible
New York Yankees in four OF
five World Series games, were
discovered and developed in the
Red Birds minor league organiza-
/ ton.
The one exception was Harry
Gumbert, who figured none too
prominently. Gumbert was OBJ
tanned in a trade with the Giants
for Fiddler MCGEE, a farm pro-
duct, however. and therefore, was
merely a stand-in for home
grown Cardinal.
Pennants were added TO the
string in 1884, running the total
to eight in 10 years, a modern-day
National League record. The ST.
Louis Browns were beaten in ~ in
a streetcar World Series,