Show e R CE WHETHER TX it is Eddie Dyers Dyer's Cardinals or Leo Durochers Durocher's Dodgers who will be called on to meet Joe Cronin's Red Sox this fall there is one basic Idea you can keep keepin in mind neither mind neither National league team Is going to surrender in ad vance No other teams in baseball have been so well seasoned under fire from April into the final September stretch There has been no 00 resting spot pot for a either club no loafing time or any A 1 recess in the day- day l. l day by-day battle for forthe forthe the top Both Cardinals Cardinals Car Car- Il and Dodgers 0 by should M now have steel shod nerves Stan under the pressure that has kept both teams hustling to the limit in an all summer dog dogfight dogfight dogfight fight that has been one of the best in hi inmany inmany many years Both Cardinals and Dodgers are loaded with game dead-game ball players out to give all they have such have such men menas menas as Pete Reiser Ed Stankey Dixie Walker Stan Marty Marion Country Slaughter Whitey Kurowski Terry Moore and others from bo both h scrappy camps Their batting records show no such power as the Red Sox command com com- mand Howie Howle P Pallet POllet lIet may be their only 20 game 20 game winner But there is more than enough class on either team to give anyone a battle over the sprint route that a world series calls for While neither nor Walker has been able to turn on Ted Williams' Williams power both have been the Red Sox star through the greater part of the Year Tear The averages tell you that Reiser In condition is one of ot the most valuable ball players layers baseball can show when n you consider his worth at bat in a pinch in the field and around the bases The averages and the records atthe of at the field also prove that Is quite likely to out-hit out Williams by bya a rather wide margin not in the way of ot home runs but in league leadership is one of ot the finest hitters weve we've seen in many years His lifetime average is close to Williams' Williams who has slipped a trifle from to something around which isn't too soggy for tor several several several sev sev- eral years Outside of and Walker neither Cardinals nor Dodgers has other run-making run hitters to match Pesky Doerr and York slashing Teds Ted's three aiding musketeers Eddie Dyer on Pitching b After all the pitching can play a astar astar astar star part in any world serIes as pitching usually does We were talking with Eddie Dyer the Cardinal manager about this section of the world series mentIn mentIn ment meat In the first place Dyer said the Cardinals haven't yet won the National league pennant this season The Dodgers are a tough team to catch and shake loose They dont don't seem to discourage easily But if it the Cardinals do manage to break in and get a shot at the Red Sox I have a rather hazy Idea our pitchIng pitching pitching pitch pitch- ing staff can worry them a lot lol We have some left handers that Williams and aDd a number of others might not like too well welt And if it George Munger can work back to his old form In the next few weeks well we'll have our share of oC good right rIght- handers banders to rya match any staff stall and that includes the Red Sox staff No one can be sure yet just how good the Red Sox pitching is is There have been too many games where a Red Sox pitcher could dish out a aock flock ock of hits and runs and yet breeze home borne We were rather astonished to see that Dave Ferris I and Tex Hughson two Red Sox mainstays had allowed more hostile I hits than any two pitchers in their circuit Both had been tapped safey safely safely safe safe- ly iy well over times where Spud Chandler had allowed only hits and Hal N only far farbelow farbelow farbelow below the Hughson Ferris totals The Red Sox have wrecked the American league through a killing margin in runs base hits and runs batted in Their stampede has been based on raw power on attack not noton noton noton on defense Hughson undoubtedly one of ot the best pitchers now at work has had hada a rather spotty year being slightly over the mark with a great run making machine at his back 1 Ferris Perris has been their star workman but even the able Ferris has his share of ot manhandling more than once Red Sox No Cinch Bet The Red Sox will be favored to vin but anyone who makes them I. I lopsided favorites can be labelled a atri tri trifle c curious in the cupola As all alli i round good as the Red fled Sox are arc nd hd they are arc good enough up and own the line they are arc no invincible invincible ble hIe overwhelming force torce against either ei ei- ther lher of the two fast game outfits The main mail burden of ot proof Is also alson n u broad Red fled Sox backs hacks who arc are by too many camp foU follow follow- wn w- w r rs n lu tu win a four or ur five game romp |