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Show Backseat Driving D (Continued from Preceding Page) Gowdy of thoae; amazing 1914 Boston Braves . .'. They were the firat to win a aeries four-straight which ii old gtuff now that the Yankeei have done It twice, in row against the Pirates and Cardinal. beating the million-dollar Athlelici . . . thanks in large part to Gowdy'g .S45 batting average. For real heroei, one should not overlook little Dickie Kerr, who pitched two victories for the ill-fated Blaek Sox, who were trying to lose bark there in 1919. Then there was Old Alex . . . Grover Cleveland Alexander, Alexan-der, to be polite . . . shuffling out to the hill In St. Louis one sunny afternoon back in 192 Just to strike out Tony Las-teri Las-teri with the sacks loaded te give the Cardinals the series over the Yankees ... and five days later, Old Alex, the hero of a home-town welcome, was shellacked out ef the box by a bunch of aandlot players la a game staged Just for the big fellow's edification. Other figures flit acrosj the screen of memory . . . The 'Big Train . . . Walter Johnson coming back after repeated re-peated disappointments to save for Washington the capital capi-tal city's first championship . . . Pepper Martin tearing past just as he ran rampant over Mickey Cochrane and the other A's to spark the Cardinal victory in 19)1 . . . Ruth again declared ready for the shelf four years before be-fore his dramatic act at Chicago bombarding the Cardinals Car-dinals with ten hits, six of them for extra bases, in 1928 . . . hitting three home run in one game and driving in nine runs alone, just one less than the whole Cardinal team got. Therein lies the glamor and the tradition which captivatsrs the sports public every time the world series is at hand. |