Show I St. St Louis Manager Isn't E Exactly Downhearted I 1 n 1 as S 'S Sa a n a a. a s S 4 S Sp p w J 4 I W oI r i U JOW A Yo Associated Press W Manager Billy Southworth beams amid a crowe crowd of reporters and wishers well-wishers after his Redbirds Redbirds Redbirds Red- Red I birds had taken the third straight game from the Yankees 9 96 Sport Parade Slaughters Slaughter's 2nd Game Throw Turned Series By JACK CUDDY NEW YORK Oct 5 UP Terry UP-Terry Terry Moore key man for the St St. Louis Cardinals in the current world series was in his pajamas white with purple stripes when we barged into his hotel room and asked him to give us the highlight the highlight the most significant moment in the class to date Terrible Terry and captain of the club that has been performing with unexpected ef effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness ef- ef against the widely publicized publicized publicized pub pub- Yankees never batted a alight alight alight light brown eyelash despite his robust batting average when he said The big moment in the series was not in the ninth inning of the first game at St. St Louis When we picked up four runs then filled the bases and had Stan Mu Mu- sial at bat with what might have been the winning run if he hit a homer was homer was important It sent the Yankees back to their showers figuring figuring figuring fig fig- that maybe they were in a fight after all But mister when Slaughter threw that strike from way out in right field to nail at third base in the second game that game that broke t the their h e i r hearts Moore one of the greatest cen- cen in major league history history history his his- tory and a handsome six-footer six who could pose for red-flannel red ads replied to another pertinent question as follows Its wrong to make fun of the Brooklyn Dodgers because we came on to beat after they had a a. game 10 10 game lead on August 5 6 Listen those Listen those Dodgers gave us a lot more competition In the stretch than the Yankees have inthe in inthe inthe the series And that's no reflection on the Yanks who have a very good team Certainly the Dodgers ers would have given the Yanks a great fight if they had beaten us out for the National league pennant Well what's wrong with the Yanks now we asked Moore replied I Theres nothing wrong with the Yanks But they're not as strong as we expected Our boys think they're very weak in pitch pitch- ing After four games in which the boys sampled the deliveries of their best throwers they say they'd rather face Yankee pitching pitching pitching pitch pitch- ing every day in the National league season than bat against those Cincinnati mounds men Could Moore give us a quick centerfield picture of the series and his reactions as field captain Moore could He said he was confident the Cards would take the series now that they had an advantage of three games to one But he said this confidence was nothing new because We played the Yanks exhibition exhibition exhibition tion games in spring training and we beat them six out of nine The Yanks complained that they were not in condition although they were using their key play play- ers And of course we were not In condition either But were we're a thousand per cent better team now than the experiment outfit that beat the Yanks in the spring Now the trouble with most National league clubs in the past was the fact tact that they were satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied to win the pennant satisfied pennant satisfied merely to enter the world series with the Yanks Our boys weren't satisfied They wanted the title tille and the extra two thousand dollars dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars that goes to each player on the winning series-winning team Sure they're money hungry hungry everyone everyone of them They weren't satisfied with the flag They wanted the world title and the big dough that goes with it it |