Show SPORTS MIRROR By JOHN MOONEY Editor or Editor Note Sport Editor John Mooney looney 1 is vacationing in inthe inthe inthe the east enst After the StLouis St St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers Dodders in the first two games of their cr l serIes Aeries this week ho lie has hns written n the following follow I ing article It will be recalled that after watching the Cards and nd Bums in a R header double at nt St. St Louis a year car ago 50 ye C ed re returned ic- ic turned t to tG pick the tho C Cards rd to win the National league flag flap and beat bent the Red Sox In the world which the they did proving that thet the age Rge gc of is ir still upon us UJ Lips That Thai Touch Wine BROOKLYN N. N Y The The Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- BrookI I lyn fans rans who specialized In l p service for so 0 many years have taken to the barney stone slone as is the Beloved Bums of or Flatbush avenue continue to lead lend the National league flag lag race This is a left- left handed way of or saying that the Flatbush faithful have turned- turned lock stock and barrel from barrel from Leo Leothe Leothe Leothe the Lip Durocher to capable Barney Bar Bar j ney Shotton I Shotton sans sans' all the antics and confusion which led Durocher cl fans fansto fansto fansto to call him colorful has kept the flock ahead of ot the thc National le league gue pack most of the season by bythe bythe bythe the simple expedient of at managing magin g n. n a baseball club rather than a three-ring three circus I Whale Whale-uv Whole difference difference We e talked with Shott Shotton n n for tor n a minute or two l aft afternoon as au tho Bu Ii J add thid the Cards Cardi squared off oU for their afternoon afternoon- night header double header which Ich was yas S supposed to settle lettle the pennant Issue once and for r rall all Shotton in in in the calm cairn confident manner r of the Uie poker player looking down the of a beat beaten n. n rival rii-al Sure tho the Cards will be tough right d down the stretch b but t were we're on top and the thee they've e got to catch us to win the flag That was the pilot who saw 5 his club take both ends of or the header double from th the Cards that day And that was J all there Was to it itu Remember 1946 L u I.- Just a a year ac ago ag th the Dode Dodgers Invaded In St. St Louis with I I believe a similar game four lead and Dur Durocher Du Du- r rocher cher screamed at the off orr the Cards Well spike cm em diamond Our pitchers will dust em of off Were We're the Dodger toughies s and we we areat 2 afraid of or the Cards Thus Thus' did Durocher show the Cards Cards' he wasn't afraid of their challenge Just like a a kid whistles his way p past st a gr graveyard in the witching ho hours r And Us history how the he Cards beat out the unafraid Dodgers in ina ina a National league pI playoff aYo fC B But t calm and confident Shotton be harder to beat Observation Ward Walking the ial saloon n n beat bent beat after niter the Dodger night triumph and listening to the fickle tickle fans Inns Inns' laud Shotton to the skies kl leads s one 10 to believe that Durocher was one e of those thole lips that pass pau in th the night a Small Smail World Theres There's a saying that if it you stand standon on one of the corners In NewYork long enough someone will pass pass aSs by from your home town Th That's t true The other evening rubberneck rubberneck- rubberneckIng ck- ck lag Ing down Broadway a young lady tagged us with Dont I I. I know you Remembering our mothers mother's advice and anyway Ahe wife was along we started to 10 lilt lift our nose and slowly walk away I when we recognized our a acquaintance acquaint ance of the moment She was Mrs Clyde James wife of the No 2 B BYU Y U booster Bingo Oss is Js still sUll No 1 land and he should live m in in Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn The Jameses are visiting in the Big Stem and watched the Giants beat the Yanks in the benefit ball game Monday night Happy appy Daze Iaze Are Here Again Commissioner Happy Ahm CAbin a friend of baseball Chandler has decreed that barnstorming barnstorming barn barn- storming tour cant can't go JO on on as scheduled Sorta a a ease case ase of when a I Feller eller needs eeds a friend huh Na Native Turns Kent Peterson Salt Lakes Lake's contribution con con- t to 10 0 the Cincinnati Reds Reds' mound staff reached us this week via la Salt SaIt Lak Lake That is Kent in New York to pitch against the Giants Tuesday night called us in Salt Lake only to find we were a four-bit four cab ride from rom his his' hotel In New York When we finally connected Peterson Peterson Pe Pe- Pe- Pe terson said he was to oline line lineup lineup an star all baseball up tour to include in clude dude Salt Lake City on its its' agenda after the regular season closes Kent and his cronies want to play a picked nicked semipro S Salt lt Lake City right after the he end of f the regular season How about it t t. t Earl Ear Owen Pete and Lou Lot Collins |