Show arren ii NOt t I Curse on Yanks Tanks or r Cards ports Writer Picked Dempsey Jones Collett I and Many Other Ex-Champions Ex toe to e I Win but They Lost By HENRY L. L FARRELL ted Press Staff Correspondent NEW EW V YORK Oct 1 After I.-After After ing ving guessed wrong on the chans chanI chan- chan I 1 swirls swims s Bill Dill Tilden Bobby Dobby Jones a k c Dempsey and Glenna Collett Le writer hesitates to place a jinx one of the teams in the tho worlds world's Ties ries by picking it to winI winI win 01 I hope all you Dempsey picks pick's pick- pick s 's 8 in n there fall In behind the Car- Car and were welo sure to win Milr Mil Mil- 1 r Huggins manager of the Yanks ij tot t at a group of newspaper men meni i fa a. a box at the stadium yesterday 4 Considering everything very thing however technical physical and moral allocations the the St St. Louis Cardl- Cardl lIs l- l Is ls are picked as a slight blight faT fa- fa rite Tito o to o win ln over tire the American T i ue champions In a series that ly ay go the limit It Its It's s almost a sure 1 eel that it will not be over in four SJ m s. s I The IThe he Yankees have the advantage antage ha h outfield the Cardinals have ta ede eth a slightly in the infield the they y have a big margin behind the theand theand Ip and they have more moie good pitch pitch- S' S tiTan Uran the Yankees But there no way to tell that Waite Hoyt nd nil Sam Jones who have ha not been so w well ell w will not return to toni rift ni The IThe he Yankees have more n e but they haven haven't t the spark of and the fire of ambition that ought the Cardinals through a ar ar r fight the first pennant that CB t Louis Louls ever has seen Tragedy ll as is it descended upon the Louis club with with- the death of t moth r oth r of Rogers Hornsby ma may eve ove an additional inspiration in- in ead of a spirit-breaking spirit blow he club w will ill be play playing ing for Raj naj d l will play its head off because ji e ft boys bOs know what a terrifIc sac- sac rice their young manager made to o stay with them and help them In their greatest battle The fhe case is mindful of tragedy that hit the Cleveland Indians In hi 1920 when In the heart of a torrid tor- tor rid lid pennant race lace Ray Hay Chapman a was killed by a pitched ball It was wai a blow that would have killed a less stout-hearted stout club es especially es- es when Tris Speaker 1 tad lad ad to grab Joe Sewell an on untried youngster youngster young young- ster from a college diamond and trust him with the most vital position position position tion on the club The team rallied to Sewell and to Speaker and they won the pennant pennant pen pen- cn- cn nant and the worlds world's championship and young oung Sewell was one of the thereal thereal thereal real heroes of the series There is another angle also A Avry Avery very vry smart man traveling with with- the Yankees said that the he Dempsey Dempsey- Dempsey lunne Tunney fight t ed saved the pennant for tor the Yankees The club was n a horrible slump and a commanding commanding com com- manding mandin lead melted away almost to nothing The players were fretting fret fret- I and couldn't couldn t get ting and ind pressing I out of it lt They day dav before the fight they started talking and arguing fight and rot got ot their minds off orf baseball The day of the fight and the day after they the talked nothing but fight In tire hotel and with the strain relieved they started to play baseball baseball base base- ball The grief of Hornsby has taken much of or the strain off the St S1 Louis club They haven't haven t been thinking or worrying about ba baseball and they may he be in much better moral condition condition condition con con- than the Yankees when they go on the feld field i It ma may mav be an injustice to 1 hang ang a curse on the Cardinals by picking them to win in a season that h-a h has marked marled the fall of one great favorite after another Anyway An way the championship will re remain remain remain re- re main in America |