Evening star., 1946-10-16
Cardinal Ace 5 Hustle
In Final Game Caps
Fine Performance
By jock Hand
Associated Press Sports Writer

who have stolen the 1916 series from
the favored Boston Red Sox on thu
sheer hustle of Enos Slaughter.
The score was tied at 3-3 in the
eighth inning of yesterdays decisive
seventh game and the full pressure
of baseball's 18th million-dollal
series was riding heavily on every
pitch when Harry Walker lined 6
base hit into left center. Emo,
who had singled to open the inning
catapulted off first base, rounded
second and headed for third while
Leon Culberson retrieved the bal
and made a quick relay to Shortstor
Johnny Pesky.
Making the full sweep at thirC
while Coach Mike Gonzalez tapped
the come-on sign like an excited
mother hen, Slaughter lit out for the
plate.
Pesky's Peg Too Late.
Pesky, apparently not expecting
that sort of daring base-runing,s ,shac
dropped his arm halfway, watching
Walker run toward second, before
he realized Slaughter was hot-foot-
ing home with the tie-breaking run
His peg to Roy Partee was too late
as Slaughter topped off his magnif1-
cent heads-up running with a fine
slide that scored a run worth $3,-
757.04 to each Cardinal share holder
Harry Brecheen, making a relief
appearance when Murry Dickson
weakened, clung grimly to the a.
margin through threatening ninth
to become a three-game winner
Not since 1920 when Stanley Gov
eleskie whipped Brooklyn three
times to give Cleveland the title, had
any hurler picked up three victories
in single series.
Oddly enough, a two-run double
by Dom Di Maggie that almost lost
the game, actually gave Brecheen
his chance to get into the record
books.
Dickson, like Brecheen a pint
sized workmen, had handcuffed the
Bostons for six innings after giving
up a run in the first on singles
by Wally Moses and Johnny Pesky
followed by Di Maggio's run-scorine
fly to Slaughter. After Bobby Doerr
led off the second with a scratch
single, Dickson did not allow base
hit until the eighth when two pinch
hitters drove him from the box.
RusselPs Single Starts Rally.
Rim Russell, hitting for Catcher
Hal Wagner, started it with single
and moved to third when George
Metkovich, batting for Relief Pitcher
Joe Dobson, doubled.
Although Manager Eddie Dyer
knew Brecheen was weary from a
full nine-inning victory Sunday, he
had faith in the little left-hander
to subdue this sudden threat. After
striking out Wally Moses and taking
Pesky on fv, Brecheen yielded the
tying runs on Di Maggio's two
bagger.
Gone was the two-run edge that
Dyer had been coddling since his
Cardinals knocked Dave Ferris out
of the box in a twe-run fifth inning.
Instead, the score was knotted, with
a man on second and the mighty
Ted Williams at bat. Brecheen dug
in and forced the kid to loft high
pop to Red Schoendienst.
After Slaughter's brilliant base
running on top of Walkers double,
Brecheen once more had the series
in his hip pocket, but this most
thrilling of any closing game in
several years was not over yet.
Successive singles by Rudy York
and the troublesome Doerr created
delicate ninth-inning situation.
But Pinky Higgins forced Doerr at
second, Roy Partee popped to Stan
Musial and the game ended when
Pinch Hitter Tom Mcbride bounced
to Schoendienst for series-clinch-
ing force of Higgins at second base.
JubiIant Celebration.
The pitching mound was the
scene of a jubilant Cardinal cele-
bration as his mates lifted Brecheen
on their shoulders. 1t was a great
moment, too, in Cardinap history,
the fourth straight time they had
won out in a seven-game series and
their sixth triumph in all.
For Boston, defeat was doubly
bitter because of the knowledge
they were the first Red Sox club
ever to lose World Series after
they had made show of the rest
of the American League in coasting
to pennant by a 12-game margin
Boston also had been made 7-20
series favorites by the odds makers.
In a sense it was a personal tri-
umph for Dyer, the soft-spoken
Texan who was lured back to base
ball from the oil business by his
wife.
But more than that personal tri-
umph for Dyer, whose team had
overcome 7h-game Brooklyn lead
on July finally to tie for the Ma
tional League flag and win the play
off, it was an inspiring example OF
team success.
800 Mark for Slaughter.
Slaughter, the best player in the
series in this book, summed it up
before the season ended when he
said. There's only one thing to
playing ball. That's hustle the
only way I know to play"
Slaughter hit 800, tied a record
with four hits in Boston and took
care of the final victory despite
a painfully swollen right elbow that
almost forced him out of the lineup
for the last two games.
Pesky probably will wear the
goats horns because he committed
four of his teams 10 errors, hit only
.233 and cost the Sox the final game
by his moment of hesitation In re-
laying Culberson's peg to the plate.
The 36,143 last-day sellout at
Sportmans Park boosted the series
over the million mark at 81 ,052, 900,
not counting the SITS, 900 for radio
rights which ordinarily is split up
among the players. It is being held
in escrow to be used in the proposed
player pension fund.