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Show Brooklyn, Boston Could Cinch World Series Today ' , j v Bosox Can Do It by Beating N. Y.; Bums Have to Win, Cards Lose Br W Cen-lgaa Arreoeiated Pre R porta Writer This could b the day of decision In the major league pennant races. - The Boston Red Sox can clinch the American league flag by the simple expediency of knocking off their challengers, the New York Yankee, Saturday at Yankee stadium. sta-dium. If they ml, they stIU have a ' chance on the last day Sunday since Yankee victory Saturday would only throw the race Into another tie. Over In the National, a combination com-bination of a Brooklyn victory and a St. Louis Cardinal defeat, could win the championship for the Dodgers, who now lead by one plump game. The Dodgers play the tough Phillies Phil-lies in Philadelphia, while the Cards, with three straight defeats i I haunting them, take on the tail-end tail-end Cubs in Chicago. I Could Be Tie A loss for the Dodgers In one of the remaining two games and a sudden come-to-life for the Cards could force the National race Into a best-of-three play-off. Arrangement already have been made for such, should developments .warrant. The play-off would open Tuesday in St. Louis and then move to Brooklyn. I The world series I scheduled to begin Wednesday In the park of the American league representative. representa-tive. Had the Yanks or Cards Uken advantage of th situation and won .Friday their last big chance to make any headway th races stIU would be up In the air. But the Athletic polished off the New Yorkers, 4-1, while the last-place Cubs throttled th Cards, 6-5. The Red Sox helped themselves by drubbing the Washington Senators 11-9, whJI th Dodger had an open date. Nothing to Chance Bosox manager McCarthy Is leaving nothing to chance. He's winner, against th Yank Stur-dag, Stur-dag, in an effort to nail th flag -down: Th harrassed Casey Stengel, In hi most desperate spot of th season, sea-son, will send his top winner, Allle Reynolds, to th mound In an effort to atop Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and company. Desalt hi woes, Stengel had on ray of sunshine. Joe DiMaggio will rejoin the team and may play. It's all according to how the Clipper Clip-per feels. "I want to sink or swim with th gang," announced Jo. Said Stengel: "If Jo feel little better, he may start, I don't know how long he'll play. No sense leaving him out there If hes weak." In the National league race, the Card are a dispirited crew. They realise that, no matter what they do, th final outcome will hinge on the performance of the Dodgers. I Harry Brecheen, 14-game winner, will take the hill for the Cards jagalnat Bob Chipman, who baa won only six game this year. Card manager Eddie Dyer commented com-mented after Friday's debacle: "Ther just ln't anything to say." As for th Dodgers, they're In high spirits. Barney Shotton has elected Ralph Branca, th big right-hander from New York university, uni-versity, recently released from the doghousa to work Saturday' game In Shibe park. Th Brooks will have no easy path, though, for th Phil will be represented on the rubber by Ken Keintselman, a gentleman who ports a 5-0 record against th Flat-bushers. Flat-bushers. They knocked him out of the box last Sunday, but th Phils rallied to win. If th race goes down to th last day, Shotton would be ready to giv th Phil1 Don Neweombe, who pitched five Innings Thursday. It still would be no easy matter for th Dodger, for the Phil would counter with Russ Meyer, a tough bloke who currently Is sporting an eight-gam winning streak. Shotton was jubilant H attributed at-tributed much of the Dodgers' recent re-cent successes to Peewee Reese, who has snapped out of a batting alump. Friday' doings In Washington amazed everyone, except perhaps McCarthy, who muttered at the end of th gam: "What difference doe It make how you win 'em? It doesn't nutter nut-ter If you win, 11-B or 11-0." Easy Way McCarthy doubtless was right, but th Sox certainly scored their runs the easy way. they collected exactly Ov hit off the combined offering of fiv Washington pitchers. Their run cam In two big Innings In-nings flv each In th second and third and these were garnered on three, of the hits. Of course, there wr eight walks, plus a couple of errors, a wild pitch, a passed ball and a mental lapse by a Washington player. The chief culprit wer Mickey Harris. Sid Hudson and Dick Weik. They couldn't find th plat. Joe Hayne nd Lloyd Hilda mopped up in workmanlike fashion. At that, th Sox needed the runs, for the Senators came to life In th eighth and ninth and scored two runs in each chapter. When It was over, the Senators counted 18 hits, ln-cluding ln-cluding fiv double. |