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Show PI FOR the last six years, if you feel strong enough to turn back the calendar to 1941, the Cardinals and the Dodgers have taken over most f the pennant interest in the National Na-tional league. By some odd turn, the Cubs slipped safely into port in 1945, but even then the Cardinals were breathing not fire on their seeks. It must be admitted, that in most of the Cardinal - Dodger pursuit races, the Red Birds from St. ! 1 1 .""""MtT' j Louis have shown f s more wing power jf - 1 in the stretch.They 5 had the extra nut- i J ter needed. A year '-k, Jj ago, around this V. time, the Dodgers ; vyJ j were seven-and-a- ..v A , half games in front )K,, V y? ?'J, of their Cardinal V 'i pursuers, but this M. Li ?2i lead wasn't enough, GramlandRlce as they finished in a dead heat with the Cardinals winning win-ning the play-off. Whatever happens in the foggy future, and all futures are foggy, the Dodgers have stolen the National Na-tional league show up to this spot. Just before the season opened, their manager, Leo Durocher, was ordered to Elba, ok St. Helena, the Napoleonic hide - out, by Happy Chandler, who, right or wrong, also was wrapped op in a fog. This forced Branch Rickey to reach out and drag In Burt Shptton, the most 4 underrated manager In baseball who knew nothing about his team. Shotton stepped into the middle of a strange squad. He soon lost his star, Pete Reiser, who still believes his head is harder than a hydrant or a concrete wall. Then Shotton began looking around for a pitcher who could travel four innings almost al-most anyone who could locate the general direction of the plate. |