Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-10-03 | Page 11 | Cardinals Can't See Yankee Superiority

0 to i i fi f o C Cardinals Cant Can't CantSee See Yankee Sup Superiority Join in 2nd Front By PAUL NEW YORK Oct 3 UP The UP-The The St St. Louis Cardinals as cocky a aall ball all club as ever came In from the lie west looked over the stadium that Babe Ruth built today and expressed confidence that their unorthodox baseball would be goodenough good goodenough goodenough enough to finish the world series in n the three games scheduled for New York There is no defeatism among us Manager Billy Southworth said We Ve have come here with only one view view view-to to end the 1942 world series and I mean in our favor H His s players felt the same way So did a lot of other National leaguers Durocher Confident Leo Durocher manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who battled the Cardinals right down to the wire said the Cardinals will take them They threw off their first game jitters when they won the second game jame Durocher said i Youve got em now he said to Jimmy Brown the Cardinal second second sec see ond baseman I r hope so Jimmy replied Ford Frick National league president predicted the Cardinals would win in six games He said the two games he had seen at St St. StLouis Louis were enough to convince him that he would prove a a. good prophet Despite the betting odds which kept them on the short end the Cardinals were gaining support Hand to hand bettors on Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way were helped in their swing to the Cardinals by the amazing rebound that carried St St. Louis to triumph in the second game They viewed as extremely significant the fact that the Redbirds lost with their ace Mort Cooper and then triumphed over a a. series jinx by winning with a freshman Johnny Beazley 11 to 5 on Yanks The same observers whose street corner wagering furnishes a pretty accurate line on series odds put up 11 to win 5 on the Yankees A 5 bet on the rapid Redbirds would net 9 If you pick the Yankees to repeat as series champions you can win 5 by laying 12 A dollar bet on the Cardinals will bring you 2 Another and more potent detail in the Cards' Cards favor is their untapped untapped un un- tapped pitching power Manager Southworth has Max Lanier Murry Dickson and Howie Krist Kristin in addition to Ernie White He also has both Mort Cooper and Beazley to call back for another shot at the Yankees if the series goes that far