Show I Yankee Cause Cause Cause- Made Easy By Card Boots By Jy Lawton Carver I INS N S Sports Editor ST. ST LOWS Oct 11 There hasn't been a time within the memory of the oldest baseball fan when a club has changed so ob- ob from one season to the next ext The oldest the baldest the shakiest spectator at Sportsmans Sportsman's park ark today today those those who go back nearly a half century to the birth of f the world series wont series wont won't be able to o recall a time tim when an unbeatable unbeatable able ble team tean such as the St St. Louis Cardinals had last year year has tailed off ff into the effectiveness of the present resent Cardinals who cant can't beat beathe the he New York Yankees' Yankees in the world series because they are so so bUsy beating themselves By this time they have made nine errors and most of them have figured in the scoring That Is a record ecord for four games By now they hey have seen the best catcher in n the National league e commit I practically every sin there is except except ex- ex ept step In his mask on a pop foul and fall on n his head Stalwarts Falter That's Walker Cooper who has made his mates mates' groan inwardly with anguish for him as he repeatedly repeatedly re- re does the things a busher bushel wouldn't do The Cards have seen seena a ball go through the legs of Slats Marion at shortstop Hes He's the guy they call Octopus because nothing can an go through around his tenta- tenta cles des les In fact when the Yankees won yesterdays yesterday's game by 2 to 1 to take ake a 3 games to 1 edge in the series eries the Cards w watched themselves themselves them- them selves elves like a man just about to be garroted parroted by his own efforts Garroted This a fate worse than that for the Cards s have just about played themselves out of the winning sh share re of the players' players pool and that will mean the difference difference dif- dif ference between and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps For a none too affluent affluent affluent ent bunch of players that is a terrible terrible ter ter- ter- ter lible thing to face These are not the Cards the Yankees met last year or at least they haven't been up to now The Cards of last year wouldn't I Ilet let et themselves be caught in the same park with themselves the theay way ay they are playing no now Cards Cards to Blame They are are about to be consigned to o the heap where the discards discards- C the he beaten teams in the world ser series se se- se- se 1 r ries languish res languish and it is nobody's B fault but their own The Yankees f are good as they are going now with hustling tough baseball but buthe the he Cards Cards' are making it easy with the he way they are playing the game I r still dont don't see how they ever won the series series' last y year ar after looking at them in this one ne unless Terry Moore and Johnny Beazley and the rest who are gone made i up the difference the argument against that being that the Yanks s had Joe DIMaggio and Phil Rizzuto 1 to and a few more better than fair hands As for Rizzuto he isn't even missed Perhaps that is the difference difference difference differ differ- ence between the two clubs The Yanks have come up with better replacements in general although their outfield is nothing to go into a rave about However they do have Frank Crosetti at shortstop to take the place of Rizzuto and the elderly elderly- in a baseball sense sense sense-Crosetti Crosetti re remains remains remains re- re mains a terrific man out there He muffed one yesterday but to offset offset offset off off- set that he has been an offensive star and a working smooth-working man manin manin manin in the short field day after day He started both scoring rallies in the first game which the Yankees Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees won he made two hits and scored the first run in the second game which the Yanks lost he figured in the Yanks' Yanks winning eighth inning rally in the third game and he banged in the win win- ning run yesterday y with a long fly Crosetti Returns On what has happened up to now he has been the Yankees' Yankees key keyman keyman keyman man in the replacements since last year Hes He's the partially bald fellow who lost his shortstop job to Riz Riz- then came back this season to play it about as well as he ever did and to be a whale of a man manIn manin manin in this series He has done a Job on the Cards one way and another from the start through yesterdays yesterday's game If the Yanks Yank win it today or any anytime anytime anytime time thereafter dont don't overlook him Much of what he has done doesn't even appear i in ih the box box score such as steadying Bill Johnson the rookie third sacker offering a heckling threat to the pitcher every time he goes to bat and the other things that do not show but still are there Other than that it looks as though it must be all over today or tomorrow at the latest The answer is the Yanks are just pretty pretty pret pret- ty good but the Cards are pretty awful as they have played up to now |