Show Cards Resume Struggle By lA TON LAY wrON CARVER INS Sports Editor NEW YORK Aug 27 After 27 After the several thousand words he hollered and whooped while his Dodgers split spIlt a doubleheader with St St. Louis Brooklyn Skipper Skipper Skipper Skip Skip- per Leo Durocher to today ay managed managed managed man man- aged to whisper that the National National National Na Na- league pennant couldn't be won on a single day anyway anyway anyway any any- way and that just as he had expected ex expected expected ex- ex the championship willbe will willbe willbe be decided some time between n now and the seasons season's end The Thc Lip loquacious as ever explained We couldn't have won nor lost the pennant yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- no matter if we had taken both games or blown I them Naturally it would have been a big help to win two But as I see it it the flag will willbe willbe willbe be won or lost over the run of the season the big thing being to win more games than the Cardinals over the next three weeks Manager Billy Southworth of the Cards tacitly agreed on that point and asserted further that the Cardinals now ready to re return return return re- re turn to their own back yard definitely cant can't be counted out A crowd of barely be below below below be- be low the seasons season's tops watched the Flatbush flock score an 8 3 victory in the first game and throw the nightcap to the wind and rain which threatened to wash it out after eight innings with the Cards ahead 3 1 Curt Davis handcuffed St. St Louis with seven hits in the first contest Six of the thc safeties safeties safeties safe safe- ties were made by Don Padgett and Johnny Mize Davis contributed contributed contributed con con- a homer to his own win The Dodgers were rolling along toward a deadlock in the finale when Peewee Reeses Reese's double miscue in the eighth helped the Cards break the 0 pitching duel between Brooklyn's Brooklyn's Brooklyn's Brook Brook- lyns lyn's Fred Fitzsimmons and StLouis StLouis St. St Louis' Louis Morton Cooper with a three-run three assault The net result of the four- four game game series a pair of doubleheaders doubleheaders doubleheaders double- double headers that were split even- even I Steven was that the flock re remained re re- a game and a half ahead and that both clubs will carry their pennant quest over over therun therun the therun run of the season as the Lip expressed I f it Brooklyn entertains Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincin Cincin- nati and St. St Louis goes against New NewYork York at the Polo Grounds tonight Elsewhere in the National league yesterday Cincinnati and New York halved a bargain bargain bargain bar bar- gain bill the Giants taking the first 7 4 and the Reds winning the finale 5 4 with a three-run three rally in the eighth after which the game was called by dark dark- ness Boston and Pittsburgh also split a pair The Braves won the first 4 3 then the Pirates came through 6 l. Only Chicago managed to t gain a notch The Cubs J the futile Phillies tWice 5 and 3 11 Dom Dallesandro t A ba bat ting in seven runs in the night night cap The status changed somewhat in the American circuit BoJ as Boston Bos- Bos thrashed I ton Cleveland gand g- g g oTi i and scrambled over the India Ind- into third place PhiladelphIa phy 1 tripped Detroit twice 9 9 1 1 a 1 2 to move move into sixth d ahead of the St St. Louis Br i iwho who were were polished off s' s 3 Q b Washington and Dutch Leo Leor r New York and Chicago W officially idle but if it j Is e of any significance the Yank were bested 2 1 by their Kansas Kan gap I sas C City ty farmhands and a 2 21 year-old year rookie named u Mho L J o Candini j |