Show S FAR BACK as 1834 1934 the ram AS pant spirit ot of the st LOW cardinals brought them the title of the gas house gang their 1948 outfit a dean aboard me ime and paul a dolan delan coy a pepper martin but it h has a much of the same spirit that liag has carried the team along so go many years spirit Is almost as indefinable as color but it lasts longer it can become a heritage which color cant As eddle eddie dyer put it it was nothing but sheer spirit that carried our team from a bad last to second place last summer when we lost nine straight games to sink deeper into the cellar there was every excuse to quit especially as we hal had so many sick or injured men on the squad but the team refused to quit and that gave me further proof it was about as ga game me a bunch as ai I 1 ever saw we anve have many of the same men on our squad this year ear that came from 10 games behind in august to win some six years ears ago marty marlon Marion terry moore stan country slaughter wiltey lu burowski some of our pitchers although weve lost lanier white and beazley from 1 that 1942 squad but the same old spirit Is still there remember last spring in st petersburg ducky medwick was the lie be best at conditioned man in camp and nd one of the best hustlers A lot of ye years rs had passed since but they affect ida his spirit ive seen een too many of our men out there hustling when they should have been in a hospital ill admit we the youngest I 1 team in the league but it too old it still has the spirit of six I 1 x years year ago when they beat the Y yankees four out of five world series games this Is still an OP open en race tha big improvement in the pirates and phillies will make a difference and the reds no longer will be a soft oft touch with blackwell blackwel eU back its it a tough league to in which to set up a winning streak there are too many good teams and too many good pitchers in your road this will will oe be the toughest of all races disappointing 0 red sox last year it was the cardinals cardinala this year its the red eed sox th tha a cardinals a 3 to 5 odds on favorite still were trying to wiggle off the tha last place book around this a date last year the red sox would have been last at the quarter mark this season if the ignoble white sox been in the same league the worst team in big league leagea baseball yet the boston hall ball club carries ted williams bobby doerr dom dimaggio johnny johan y pesky and vern stephens rated among the best men in baseball all ali this plus joe JOB mccarthy yet for or tile the first six weeks 0 of I 1 the race this club keep pace with the browns tabbed dabbed as the all time jokes it might ie be mentioned here that the home support given tho the browns has proved again this franchise must I 1 leave st louis and let the cardinals have an elc exclusive I 1 naive roost but this his Is vt explaining the red sox one answer Is shoddy pitching but this cant be the only answer they did far b otter better last summer with about the same pitching the red sox dropped from second place in team bat batting ting to filth fifth despite sp ite ted williams consistent hitting their first pitcher was in the spot in the league ranking and they have only one regular who was above but still they had the same staff as they had last year plus kramer and kinder mccarthy broods joe mccarthy has nearly always alway been a winning manager there Is no other manager who broods as much over defeat so anyone can see the miserable spring and early summer e r the buffalo leader has known to date have his red sox dumped themselves out ot of the pennant race that the problem now the problem is can they finish in the first division certainly none 0 of this red sox misery can be laid to williams at last reports williams was leading the american league in individual batting and in runs batted batte ln di he was second in home homa runs he was well above his record of a year ago and hot on the trail of ken keltner ot of the cleveland indians it be williams but doerr stephens and DiMagg lo were no not too hot they ere are better than hitters johnny pesky Is also more than 60 points below his bis normal average the red sox have nothing like the te team am spirit carried by the athletics the indians indian or the browns they lack the urge and the alf lift the desire to win they have looked dazed and bewildered in many games game as if they hlll still dont believe they have spent over six alx weeks headed beaded tor for the die cellar callar |