The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-07
DyerHopes
 To Get Even On Brecheen
By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor

an effort to make it two straight over the St. Louis Cardinals, who were banking on Harry "The Cat Brecheen to pull even.
 The second game weather forecast was partly cloudy and cooler"
 Manager Joe Cronin of the Bo-Sox admittedly was gambling when he sent Harris out against the Red Birds, for all season long the left handed ace of the American League pennant winners has been an in and outer.
 As they say in the trade, when he is good, he is mighty good and when he is bad-well, even the Philadel- phia Athletics can drive him out of the ball park.
 All Set
 But Cronin wasn't worried He was sitting in the drivers seat and if he should lose with Harris he had Dave (Boo) Ferris, his winningest pitcher, ready to go when the series shifts to Boston Wednesday.
 It was different story with Dyer. He had to come back with his best, and his best was the cagey left han der with the Cheshire grin.
 Al season long, Brecheen has been his clutch man behind Howie Pollet the victim of lot of bad breaks in the 10th inning to loss to the Red Sox yesterday.
 And all Dyer was hoping for was that Brecheen would be as ready" today as Pollet was yesterday, even though he lost. For Howie was with in one pitch of beating the favorite Red Sox. BasebalPs world series has seldom seen as game an exhibition as Pollet turned in until Rudy York caught one of his SloW-up curve balls that didn't break and sent it into the left field bleachers for home run.
 That blow may have broken the back of the CardinalS-only the future games will tell-but the Red Birds, downhearted as they were, felt they were the victims of bad breaks.
 Just A Bounce
 It depended upon how you looked at it, but either ball club with a bounce here or bounce there could have won yesterdays game.
 There was the bounce in the ninth inning that Shortstop Marty Marion was waiting for when Pinky Higgins had hit Pollet curve. But the ball didn't bounce and went through Higgins for a single. That set the stage for the Re- Sox to tie when they looked like dead ducks.
 When Roy Partee, pinch hitting, struck out with men on third and first in that ninth with one out, it looked like Pollet was going to make it. But after getting over two curves on Tom Mcbride for strikes, Howie, trying to get low one through, made pitcn too good and it was a single which brought in the tying run. It wasn't until an inning later that York made sure that tying the game wasn't in vain.
 But it took one of the most dis puted plays in world series history to make that tying run important. Ex- cept for that one pitch to Mcbride Pollet would have won the game on an umpire's decision.
 That decision came in the eighth inning. With two men out, George (Whitey) Kurowski drilled a single to left and up to the plate came sQuatty Joe Garagiola. the Cardinal catcher who, two innings earlier, had goen down swinging with the bases loaded. But this time he hit one.
 Dom DiMaggio, as good a cen- terfielder as there is in baseball, lost it in the sun and when he saw it again it was too late. It fell for a double but DiMaggio rifled a throw to Higgins who tagged out Cara giola with feet to spare.
 AS that was going on, Kurowski was headed for home. The question was whether he made it before Cara giola was out. The Red Sox led by Cronin, began mass protest when umpire-in-chief Lee Ballanfant sig naled that the run counted.
 Obstruction
 Suddenly the protesting group broke up and then it developed that Ballanfant was not ruling on whether the run scored before the out was made but was calling "ob- struction" on Higgins. The Red Sox third baseman, he ruled, had im- peded Kurowski on his dash to the plate.
 Once Ballanfant made it clear how he was ruling Cronin and the Red Sox went back to the dugout. There was no argument after he explained his decision Most of the people among the record throng of more than 36,000 who witnessed the game, saw Higgins slow up the Cardinal base-runner by standing in his path. That run looked like the big one then. It was getting bigger and big ger until Mcbride golfed that single when the Red Sox came up in the ninth. AS things turned out, Pollet | couldn't cut them down in the first | extra inning opening World Series | game since 1924 when the New York | Giants defeated the Washington Senators, to 3, in 12 innings.
 For after he had an easy time re- tlrln8 the dangerous Ted Williams | and DiMaggio he went to work on | York. Twice his breaking curve ball | hit the corners and the big Cherokee Indian was behind. Then came the | pitch that wound up in the left field bleachers.
 York said he thought it was fast ball. Pollet said it was a Slow-up curve ball that didn't break. Any how, it wound up out there in left field so the Cardinals were one down as they took the field today.
 It may be as close as they will come-the Sox are 20 to favorites- but they figured they could get even with Brecheen today and it will be little Murry Dickson in the third game at Boston.
 HOwie And Tex
 After that? Neither Cronin nor