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Show uu SISLER BE WR0M& GUESS Crack St, Louis Star Favored Yanks in Recent Series George Sisler. selected as the most valuable player In baseball, picked I the New York Yankees to beat the ! Olanta I Like practically every other expert In the country, George was made to I look very bad by the Yankees losing four straight. However, ileorge need not worry over the falluro of the Yankees to I come through. Just prior to the se-I se-I rles 12 players on tho Brooklyn team In tho National !ea.gue were asked for an opinion. Nine of the 12 said the Yankees would win easily. I "I predicted thut either the Ntv I York Yankees or the St. Louis Browns would beat the Giants in a short s-j s-j rles Despite the downfall of tho ' Yankees I stand on the statement I that the Browns could have turned j the. trick." says Sisler. "Thn Yankees have great strength I but seldom muke use of it. Blow thinking has kept them from being a remarkable club. The Yankees during dur-ing the season are either very good or verv bad. In the series they wero very bad. "The overwhelming defeat of tho Yankees casts a reflection on the American league that Is decidedly undeserved. un-deserved. "Iesplte tho fact that the Yankees failed to win a game no contest was decided by a greater margin than three runs. In every game but Scott's shutout and the tie the Yankees Yan-kees were out in front. In two of the games rallies In the eighth inning in-ning by the Giants decided th le-sue." |