Show Card Pitchers Stopped Yanks U q 1 p A i r 1 3 f s. w I ak Lk 4 v I Associated Press Pitchers Howie Pollet left and Max lax Lanier arent aren't mad at atan an anybody body Sunday as they dress after stifling the Yanks 9 96 Yanks Emerge Beef ers After Third Defeat By ROBERT C. C McCORMICK NEW YORK Oct 5 INS INS For For the first time in their baseball baseball base base- ball dynasty the New York Yankees emerged Monday as a team of squawkers and you could tell it from the way they sat around their dressing dresing room after dropping their third straight to the St. St Louis Cardinals 9 to 6 t I A short mashie shot away from losing osing their first world title joust since the Cards beat them in 1926 1928 the he boys filed slowly Into their cubicle and sat around quietly squawking about how they were losing But it was the yelling they did to the various umpires involved on the field that really marked them Never before in world series play lay or throughout the long season season season sea sea- son have the Yanks reacted to close decisions as they have in inthis inthis this his classic There hasn't been a game including Sundays Sunday's in which everyone from Manager Joe McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Ic- Ic Carthy down to the bat boy hasn't taken time out to curse the he umpires And that Buddy isn't the Yanks First there was McCarthys McCarthy's opening game howl that Mort Cooper top Cardinal pitcher was committing a balk every time he brought rought his arm down to pitch with a man on base Then there was the dispute over Kurowski's Kurowski's Kur- Kur tremendous triple down the left eft field foul line in the second game game game-a a blow that McCarthy swears will be proved foul by the motion pictures Yell at Close Plays Saturday the Yanks really had hada a a. chance to yell when there were two wo close plays at second and nd third hird They set up such a squawk on each that it looked for tor a minute minute min min- ute as if everybody including bushy Ed Barrow president president dent lent of the team would be thrown out of the ball park Yesterday when Stan beat out a bunt to open the Cardinals Cardinals' Cardinals Cardinals' Cardinals Cardinals' Car Car- big fourth inning In which they hey scored six runs you'd have thought the roof root fell in on the club Jerry Priddy Joe Gordon and Hank Borowy the pitcher yelled as long as they could It took ook a w warning wave from McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy in the Yanks' Yanks dugout to quell the riot Afterward everyone concerned argued that was really out and that they were only playing up heads-up baseball in protesting Umpire George Magerkurth's decision de de- But you knew from the way they talked in th the dugout that for the first time in in 10 years they were a beaten team and Were only playing out the string Of course they came to life in the sixth and tied the score but that was only an unsuccessful flurry No for a team that used to bowl over all opposition with no nomore nomore nomore more concern concern for close decisions by the umpires than a General Grant tank the Yankees right now are a beaten ball club Forgetting Forgetting Forgetting For For- getting their particular talent for forgetting forgetting forgetting getting their runs in clusters they are playing now for one at a a. time and yelling to high heaven when the breaks go against them Babe Cheers Em Up In the dressing room afterward the club sat around dully fidgeted inwardly and cursed outwardly It took the majestic entrance of Babe Ruth number one Yankee of all time to snap the boys out of their lethargy even if only for an instant Come on Guys boomed the Babe as he pushed aside the gloom that permeated the room Go out and get at em tomorrow You Youcan Youcan Youcan can do It It You aint kidding yelled Lefty Gomez as he tried furtively to pick the team up and put it on the victory level it has enjoyed for forso forso forso so long Yet after acter the Babe had left the gloom again settled over the gang like a London fog You knew then that the mighty Yankees Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees the team that built a baseball baseball baseball base base- ball dynasty on the simple premise that there is no defense for tor a ahome ahome ahome home run finally had become just another ball club that yells yel like hell when the umpire calls a close one |