Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-01
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAW BY FRANCIS STANN
The Wounded Don't Cry


desoate baseball park after the
it done in Busch Stadium and Milwaukee
Braves Oddly, perhaps it gloomy the Braves
clubhouse a outside.
AS early the sixth inning the Braves knew that
Brooklyn had the pennant went up when the
final of the game was posted Bobby
Thomson who may have by the sudden mass
cry swung at bad pitch and struck out Then Ed Mathews
followed and hit home The Braves were trying
to salvage second place all for themselves
In the dressing room only Manager Fred Haney looked
as he had been weeping under the shower tap His
rec and his face weary Haney kept reporters
out of the clubhouse for full 20 They're holding
meeting" custodian at the door explained
You mean wake somebody amended
NO" came the reply, The wake Saturday night
after Spahnnie Warren spahn got licked"
LOU PERRIN PRESIDENT of the Braves flew down for
the finale 4 still think the better club said
impetuously NO. he fastened to add Brooklyn real
good team They deserved their victory We didn't
to win. We made too many mistakes down the stretch"
The man was being honest about his club. The Braves
did real bad job in the stretch Going yesterdays
wrapup they had lost 10 of their last "a
increasingly futile September grew shorter their
big pitchersBob Bull and Lew Burdettewon only total
of two games since Labor Day.
Bull got both of them in relief although Burdette
finally got his 10Th win yesterday the
his sixth shot at the mark and he needed help from
Ray Crone The the Braves staggering they
lucky they did not have to split runnerup money with
Cincinnati
We came to ST. Louis with one-game lead" Haney
was saying land lost the pennant ourselves There's
nobody to blame"
SHARPER CRITICS TAKE a different view There are
the ones who feel the Braves oense is all that its
cracked to be- This is supposed a power club
Mathews Thomson Adcock Aaron" baseball writer from
Milwaukee pointed out the sacrifice more than
any club in history believe
They've sacrificed lao times How many times they've
tried to sacrifice and failed can't guess Anyway Mil
waukee has hunted exactly 100 times this
the Cardinals"
1t is true Haney plays close to the vest He has often
ordered Aaron best hitter in the National League
Ditto Adcock, Thomson and even Mathews who is geared
for distance, nept at bunting the other hand lot
of those hunts called when Haneys pchers-Spahn
Burdette, Bull Gene Coney ct al hot
edged to be the best the business After all Haney
won II in row at one point.
Cautious or not, Haney has job year contract
anyway His boss Perini had kind his manager
after the tears dried.
THIS WAS THE YEAR" Perrin stated that thought
we'd begin our string thought we'd this pennan and
get the string going
reporter asked, Lou what do you mean by stringp
Three four-maybe five pennants in a row?"
That's right" Perrin answered Something like the
Dodgers have going. Or like the Yankees
This is good ball club We've got the MANAGEMENT
now, Lou said nodding toward the somber Haney who
was sitting deiectedly in front of his locker.
How about repacementsP' man asked. do you
think any changes will be necessary"
Not necessary Perrin replied, but of course you see
certain players other clubs that you'd like to have on
your side What said about string is that we have
A-e%'s tto"
our farm system we have requirements who ought
care of us for years"
IN THE ST. LOUIS DRESSING ROOM Fred Hutchinson.
manager Of the Cards LACED in his private Office and held
court while reporters who denied immediate entrance
to The Braves clubhouse killed the time.
The Braves beat themselves" writer remarked Lou
Perrin just said his way to visit his warriors
Well guess they did, Hutch drawled but that's
another ball club and l can't talk for them"
You could" yentured another tourist tell us how YOU
think the World Series will wind up-now that its all
settled who'll play"
"A man Is fool 70 bet way or the other" Fred
said, because in that censored ball park in Brooklyn
anything happen"