The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-14

screwball again puzzling the Sox
sluggers, needed no more encour-
agement than that.
The deciding game will not be
fought out until Tuesday, Monday
having been set aside, as custo-
mary, for the sale of tickets. An
other damned crowd such as the
3 .768 who watched the home town
boys rally Sunday was expected
to witness the final fray. It was
the second straight year that the
series had gone the limit. The De-
troit Tigers having needed all
seven to subdue the Chicago Cubs
a year. ago.
Brecheen, in delivering his second
classic performance, recovered
from a shaky start in the first two
innings and went on to win impress
sively. He struck out six and was
never in danger after the Red Sox
made four of their seven blows in
the opening frames. Thereafter he
spaced out three safeties, includ-
ing a single by Ted Williams in
the ninth inning.
Infield Clicks
Superlative work by the Card
infield spared the little portsider
possible embarrassment on several
occasions. Three times the Red
birds reeled off classy double
plays, including one that wound up
the game after Williams had got
on.
Cardinal hearts missed a few
beats at the outset when Johnny
Pesky, second Soxer to face Bre-
cheen, raked a single through the
right side of the diamond and Dom
DiMaggio followed with a blow in
to left. Brecheen pitched too care
fully to Williams and walked him
to load the sacks. George Munger,
Card Highlander, jumped up and
began working in the bullpen as
Rudy York stepped up with his
menacing war club.
Down Brecheen came with a
curve, and Rudy slapped it square
ly at Whitley Kurowski on third,
and it turned into a double play.
Again in the second Bobby Doerr,
recovered from the headache which
kept him out of the final game in
Boston, greeted Brecheen with a
single to right, his seventh hit OF
the series. Pinky Higgins blast
ed a single to left and it looked
like curtains for The Cat. But he
was saved when Doerr, o%ver-esti-
mating Higgins smack, tried to
reach third, and was thrown out
by Erv Dusak's rifle throw to
Kurowski.
With that, Brecheen took a fine
deep breath and struck out Roy
Partee, swinging, and caused Har-
ris to loft out to center. Aker that
he was off and winging. He re-
tired 10 straight Sox batters, most
ly on infield popouts, before Tex
Hughson, who relieved Harris, got
lBoston's fifth hit.
Harris, who gave Brecheen a
tussle in the second series game
before being lifted for a pinch-hit-
ter, looked exceedingly tough for
two chapters Sunday, during which
only one Card reached first, on a
walk. But in the third he got his
Jumps properly.
Del Rice, young St. Louis catch
er, started it with a clean single
to left, and was forced at second
by Brecheen. Red Schoendienst fol-
lowed with a slashing double down
the rightfield line on which Bre-
cheen, taking it easy, held up at
third.
Terry Moore, the Cards crippled
up captain, lifted a towering fly
to the outfield on which Brecheen
scored easily. Stan Musial then
beat out a deep infield roller to
shortstop, and Kurowski came
through with a blast to left to score
Schoendienst. When Enos Slaught-
er drove the third run cross with
a smash to center, it was curtains
for Harris.
Hughson put out the fire, thanks
to a superb running catch by Dl-
Maggie off Dusak, for the third
out, and he pitched great ball for
the next 4 1-3 innings before giving
way to a pinchhitter. But his fine
work came too late. Hughson al
lowed only two more St. Louis
hits during his tenure. The Cards
made their fourth and unneeded
run off Earl Johnson in the eighth
on a walk and Marty Marlon's
double into the rightfield corner.
Had the veteran Moore been just
a little more agile, Brecheen might
have had another shutout. York's
smash to open the seventh was a
towering product which hit the
centerfield wall at about the 425-
foot mark. Moore, giving it the
old Cardinal try, reached the point
almost simultaneously with the
ball, and leaped high against the
wall in an effort to haul it down.
But he failed, and limped back to
his position. York trotted in on
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