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When Manager Billy Southworth chose the Beaze for the second game of the series, even his staunchest admirers feared he would blow up with World Series jitters. The kid was walloped for ten hits, got into one jam after another, but at the last out he was still on the mound, the first rookie to win a Series game since Paul Dean trimmed the Detroit Tigers for St. Louis...
...Cardinals have less power but a better all-round team. Last year, thanks to their fertile farm system, the Cards came up with three rookie pitchers (Ernie White, Howard Krist, Howard Pollet) who proved to be poison to rival clubs. This year, Manager Billy Southworth has up his sleeve a pair of sluggers who look just as dangerous...
...appeal for cooperation is being used rather than the force implicit in a rationing system. "Rationing would be difficult to enforce and it might entail considerable hardship for indiduals," said Lyon Southworth, assistant director of the Laboratories...
...their beloved "Bums" could take three games, Brooklyn fans figured, they might pull far enough away from those pesky Cards to shake them off in the homestretch, give Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years. In the first doubleheader, with cagey Cardinal Manager Southworth starting two southpaws (poison to the Dodgers' three left-handed power hitters), "them Bums" were lucky to break even-3-to-7, 3-to-2. In the second doubleheader, it was do or die for Brooklyn. But the best they could do was split it again...
...Critics say the Cards might have been the Yankees of the National League, if money-minded General Manager Branch Rickey, founder of the farm system, had not sold so many ($4,000,000 worth) of their promising farm products. Still, St. Louis has nothing to mope about. Manager Billy Southworth, a paternal oldtimer with infectious enthusiasm, has a green thumb for ripening green players. This year's Cardinals have six regulars batting over .300; Creepy Crespi, a rookie second-baseman who has made the infield click; Ernie White, a 24-year-old South Carolina southpaw who, in his first...