Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 13

jNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH. PAGE ELEVEN ra nk Infield Has Edge Over Either Of Its Series Rivals Gordon Guiding Force I of Brilliant Inner forks; Brooklyn Has in Slugging i the second of the prospective J'serles rivals.) Bv OAYLE TALBOT l-rtpw YORK, Sept. 24, iTthe fact that Dolf Camilll, rlally considered the, most val- in the National Mf holds down first base for the Yankees Will go into aching World Series with inf leld than eliher fhelr prospective rivals. I That mig nt sound trlfle dog ji but if an article of this going to be of any real to a fan, who still finds 1 fuzzy on the subject this the season, it needs to be still concern- L'ffith'thV classic, therefore, may Iterated in this hnkees; the Brooklyn Dod- the St. Louis Cardi- The Yanks' infield has a rookie, Phil Rizzuto, at shortstop, and.

an- lolher freshman, Johnny Strum, on irs It has a veteran With a col- JLjble stomach, Red Rolfe, on FlhU-when he isn't in the hos- loltal And it has Joe Gordon, perhaps the most brilliant defensive Lccond-baseman the game: has seen, I to pull this queer aggregation and make it something al- fmost sublime. Gordon All-Time Great It would be difficult to exagger- Jate Gordon's fielding- wizardry or importance the American league champions. Old-timerfrwho lave seen them all in so-called I modern era say he makes stops and throws they only faintly im- before. Brooklyn has a fine, steady in Billy Herman, who Jas the added advantage of having 1 played in three previous World Series, and the Cardinals possess one of the year's outstanding rook- i in their keystone, Frank Crespi. But neither, ig quite Ji Gordon's either as a player or as an inspirational force.

Because of such impregnable defense, the Yanks' inner works must be rated in the even though it has no slugger in the flass with Camilli, with his 34 pomeruns and 118 runs knocked in, lor a third-baseman quite as good I as Jimmy Brown of the Cardinals. ICamilJi can came every, so with his dangerous" bat, Lwhereas the Yankee defense will operating through every inning the series, choking off rallies land making very'few mistakes. I Quartet Hits, Too I They are better than fair' at dis- llance hitting, tod. The Yank.quar- to today had biffed 36 home puns, only four fewer than Brooklyn's infielders. I If Brooklyn gets in-the series, I as now appears likely, its weakest Ipoint threatens to be at shortstop.

Wee Reese is a fine boy, pme little fighter and fast as a But he has made entirely I loo many errors crucial I games. I Rizzuto'has fulfilled every expec- Uation of the Yankees, both afield at bat. After being benched la rly in the season, he'came back In powder the ball at-better than a clip in the closing months of race and to team sensationally i'ith Gordon, Rolfe's stomach should keep out of the series, the Yanks' superiority would be reduced, though Gerald Prid- Ihe Rookie from Kansas City, Msn't lookod at all bad at the hot wner, Brooklyn's Cookie Lava- setto would have it over him by a considerable margin, and Brown St, Louis by; an 'even wider one. Tell of Sno wat Front LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23.

A Moscow radio broadcast picked by NBC's western listening said heavy snows were falling on wue areas of the Russian baltlefront. Rotary Clubs of River Clash on Meet at Rock Spring Course Beginning at 1 P.M. Thursday By hook or by slice, as Manager Robert Gouldlng put it, Alton's Rotary Club golfers seek their third successive victory Thursday afternoon over an. aggregation of fellow-clubmen from Wood River, at Rock Spring Country Club. As usual, the Altonians go Into game fearsome of the outcome, because, Captain Goulding points out, more of the Wood Riverites are members of the Country Club than therefore are more accustomed to the course.

The match, is scheduled for 1 p. m. Captains Goulding for Alton and Herb Wick'enhauser fpr Wood River have agreed that matches will be decided by the nine-hole scores in case of interruption by 18 are played. Both captains joined in urging- players to be'ready for a prompt 1 o'clock start because of the increasing earliness, with which darkness, is accustpmed to these autumn days. Pairings as announced by the captains today are: Jim Mulroy, Alton vs M.

Bodine, Wood River; Glberson vs Horace Dale; Bill Catron vs Herb Wickenhauser; Father Sloan -vs C. H. Hale; Geo. McKlnney' vs Russ Durham; A. F.

Brown vs Ray Sheer; Tom Butler vs Herb Paton; Bob Goulding vs W. A. Harley: Gerard vs Lloyd Rye Milnor vs Frank Tfoder; Harry Johnston vs Eggmann; Ralph Jackson vs Clinton Tucker; Charles vs -Francis Manning; Dr. Grove Smith vs Joe Caeds KnewIt Was Over When Miscues Began By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK; Sept.

Special News can forget about the pennant race concentrate on the World Series dope or on picking those 10 winners in Saturday's football pool The Bums can clinch the flag tomorrow if the Cards blow another one The Red must known it was over as soon as they started kicking grounders around yesterday. The tension finally got Feller has been taking flying lessons and his instructor says he soloed for the first time.a week ago From the looks of the box scores, he's been soloing most of the season Brooklyn isn't the only place where they take, their baseball seriously. A judge in White Plains, N. interrupted a Bearing yesterday to announce from the bench, that the Cards had lost Today's Guest Star Kenneth' Jones, Peoria (HI.) Journal-Transcript: "What is this cosmic punch of Nova's? Someone has suggested that it contains vitamin B-l. That eminent scientist, Joe Louis, has concocted another vitamin in his punch namely KO." Out in Louisville they're convinced the weather man tried ruin the baseball season for the Colonels There were only two days all season when was playing at home that he didn't pre- rain, showers or threatening PC was wrong most of The time -vunil the first playoff eame then he said it would stayt to fain at-game time and missed by only 45 minutes.

Service Dept. Henry E. Isola, HlflH RAM KINO IK Battalion Browns Casual should mean comfortable, and the shoe below'fills the bill. It's a Moccasin type seam, very-heiavily stitched, and pol' 8 deep, dtfll: shadf of Battalion Brown. $7.95 Bostoniwts at THE MEN'S BEST ALTON 'Pep' Smiles That May Win Games The leaders in front ot the cheering section that football teams on to victory are these toothsome specimens.of femininity.

get megaphones later, but quite obviously they won't really need'em. They are, left to right seated: Dorothy Betty Ann McConnell, and Jean Scott; standing, A nitaSchmidt, Francis photo). iiipiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHHHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipiiiira 1 Tonigkt RADIO Program I iiiiiiyiiiiiiii Up-to-the-Minute Baseball Scores; Sentimelodies. KM- OX, News. WIL, Scores; MacGregor's Fairy Tales.

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Last Laugh Up at Newburgh, N. Pete Tarsio manages a softball team called Pat's Allstars and his brother Pat pilots Pete's Allstars When they met in a city championship playoff game, Pete's Pat's beat Pat's Pete's because a third Tarsio brother, Bill, patted Pat's Pete's pitcher tia'n. WIL, Review. KXOK, Manhattan at Midnight. KFUO, Moonbeams Trio.

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KXOK, Continuous 7-11 p. 100 and 200 NORS1DE The Most Modern and Most Beautiful Theater In Alton TO-NITE THURS. SEE if again! DOUBLE your fun! CHARLIE RUCHES BARRY FITZOERAID MAY ROBSON WALTER CATU.TT FRITZ ftltt AIR-CONDITIONED TONIGHT AND THURSDAY THE COOLEST SPOT IN TOWN HOLT YKMHE0N KORSIBIKK Defeat By Pirates Virtually Erases Flag Hopes Brooklyn of Only Having to Pull Trigger Now in Series With Braves, Phils By JUDSON BAILEV Associated Press Sports Writer The Brooklyn Dodgers are almost at the place where they can pull the trigger on the St. Louis Cardinals and ybu can practically hear them panting at prospect. Afl along the Dodgers have been insisting that the Cards could not sweep through the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn had It figured exactly.

The Cardinals came a cropper at Pittsburgh yesterday, 4-0, in the first game of a' doubleheader and this made standings: flames to Wan tout Pel. Behind Play Brooklyn .81 53 .841 i HI. 64 4 Any -combination of three games in the remaining will clinch Brooklyn's first pennant in 21 years. If. the Dodgers win three out of four, they are in, no matter if the Cards If.St.

Louis loses a game, Brooklyn needs win only ttoo contests. Should Win Three Since Dpcl-evs at Boston today and tomorrow against the seventh-place Braves and, then tackle the tail-end Saturday and Sunday, they should have no trouble winning three of On the other hand tackling the again tdday and tomorrow, and into face the Cubs in a final pair, have no assurance-that they can win all four. The Cards whipped themselves yesterday. They made five, errors, two by shortstop Martin. Marion, and Mort Cooper, their most reliable righthander, got knocked put of the box in the first Marion made one of his errors on the first Pittsburgh player to come to bat, then Elbie Fletcher doubled and both scored on a single by Vince DiMaggio.

Another single, by Debs Garms scored, DiMaggio and chased Cooper to the showers. After that, the Pirates made only two other, hits, but the game was gone out the window as far as the Cards were concerned. Lefty, Ken Heintzelman, a Missouri boy himself, pitched six-hit ball for the shutout. In the nightcap the Cards came back with the fierceness of aven- iNews. KMOX, Music After Mid 45 Minutes 'Til One KSD, Weather Report.

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Adunw I'corla, for Booklet gers. Max Lanler, a southpaw, pitched fine eight-hit ball, the Pirates made four errors, and the Cards'made two, home by Stan Muslal with oil and the other by Estel' Crabtree with two aboard. But It was like blowing a whistle after the train had passed the station. The Dodgers had an open date and just sat around in their hotel lobby at Boston and gloated. The Chicago Cubs clipped the Cincinnati Reds 5-1 with Big Bill Lee keeping eight hits scattered and the Reds making four errors.

The New York Giants and Phillies divided a doubleheader. Cliff Melton gave six successive singles in the first inning of the first game and the Phils paraded to victory 8-2, then New York turned the tables and won the nightcap 8-6. The Philadelphia Athletics spoiled Red Ruffihg's Worlo! Series tuneup by batting horn out' of the box in the ninth inning and winning 9-8. Washington score'd twice in the ninth to beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 and Detroit rallied for three in the tenth to stop St. Louis Browns 4-1, lifting the Tigers Into a tie for third place.

Columbus Beats Out touisville By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Association is sending Its league and payoff champion Columbus Red Birds to the Little World Series, starting Friday at Montreal. For the first time Irt three years the Louisville Colonels are not representing the middle west circuit in this post-season battle of the International League and American Association playoff winners. The Colonels were in the running up to the final 1941 series, but the Red Birds took the decisive playoff, -four games to one. The score of the clinching don- test, played last night at Louisville, was 8 to 1. The first three Series games will Montreal and the Columbus.

Little World be played at remainder at Collective Bargaining; Petition WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. MP) The Labor Board today dismissed a' the International Association of Machinists for certification as collective barganing representative of employes of the- Quincy Compressor Qulncy, Of the 3,000,000 farm-tenant in the United States, 1,000,000 move every year. TO-DAY! 25c to 6, Then 8-8782 'THAT UNCERTAIN KEIIN6" SUKOfSSMHtfDITft VntiuxA DiiMtei VT- ERNST LUBITSCH 9:40 2nd HIT! ANGELS WITH BROKEN Shown at 2:35 8ll5 TO-DAY! I Day Only 20c to 5, Then 8-7882 PRINCESS SPARKS Haijorii EAVER Tid NORTH Joan DAVIS Shown 1:00 6:30 7145 10:00 3 BIG DAYS STARTING THURSDAY VWWNM MMOMUr GREY-DUMONT BROUGHT It's "DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR" with MARGARET LINDSAY and FRANK McHUCH Shown at I Nile Only Merle Obenin Dennis Mortcnn "Affectionately Yours" Itlla HujHortli Ituljih lli'lluiny OTTO KRUGER as "THE BIG BOSS" with Cllurla Dlekson mid John Lllel THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MAISIE'S MAIN EVENTI ANN SOTHERN MURPHY Priscilla LAS Jeffrey LYN Ronald REAGAN TO-NITE! TJiur. Frl.

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