1946 World Series

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The Wilmington Morning Star (October 10, 1946)

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BOSOX DEFEAT CARDS 4-0
Rudy York blast out three-run homer in first inning; Dave Ferriss blanks Cardinals with six-hit performance

Red Sox take 2-1 lead in World Series; fourth contest scheduled today at Fenway Park; George Munger to hurl for St. Louis against Boston’s Tex Hughson

BOSTON, Mass. (UP) – The home run bat of big Rudy York crushed the St. Louis Cardinals again Wednesday when the muffin-faced Cherokee powdered a first-inning pitch that gave the Boston Red Sox a 4-0 triumph and a two to one game edge in the World Series.

With two men on base in the cloud-filtered sunlight at chilly Fenway Park, the big Indian who won the first game of the classic with a 10th inning round tripper, stepped up to the dish and slammed a three and two pitch over the left field wall.

That was the ball game, although the Red Sox got another run in the eight.

Burly Dave (Boo) Ferriss, the cut-rate pitcher from Shaw, Mississippi, blew through the Cardinal batters with a six-hit shutout. Murry Dickson was the losing Cardinal flinger.

The Cards were in there swinging all the way, before a noisy, well-bundled crowd of 34,500, but theirs was a prosaic procedure with the outcome a foregone conclusion. That three-run homer loomed larger and larger as the innings ran out.

So two of the biggest guys on the Boston squad sent the Red Sox out in front in this best four out of seven series – two fellows who had been called “lucky” to be with the club. York was bought from last year’s world championship Detroit Tigers, a so-called “has been,” and Ferriss originally was a wartime fill-in who wasn’t expected to last.

Ferriss disproved that theory this season – and Wednesday. Winner of 21 games in his freshman season, he copped 25 this year to become the first pitcher since 1937 to capture 20 or more in his first two years in the big time. And “Has Been” York had one of his best seasons to become a World Series hero.

The partisan crowd hardly had settled in its seats when the Cards went down and led off for the Red Sox with an outfield fly to Harry Walker. Johnny Pesky rapped a single along the left field line and streaked to second when Dom DiMaggio grounded to first. Ted Williams came up and the crowd roared in protest when Dickson gave him a walk.

That brought up York, the 33-year-old veteran from Cartersville, Georgia, who is second among active players in total home runs. He had showed the Cardinals his power with that winning homer in the first game at St. Louis and he dug in grimly again.

Then came the three and two pitch. Big Rudy levelled off. There was no question where the ball was heading as it rattled off his bat, sailed to the top of the left field fence and bounced over while Pesky and Williams loped home ahead of the Smiling Indian.

Boston, whose bats had been muted by Harry (The Cat) Brecheen when the Cards evened the series in the second game at St. Louis, threatened again in the second. Pinky Higgins, the first man up, walked and took second on a pass ball. Hal Wagner sacrificed him to third but Ferriss fanned and Wally Moses grounded out.

Slats Marion came up with the first Cardinal safety in the third inning with one out but Mr. Shortstop died there. With Ferriss in complete control, two men went out with fly balls.

Williams, passed in his first time up, beat the Cards’ “modified Boudreau shift” in the third. In this stratagem, the Cards sent all their infielders to the right of second base. So Ted bunted down the third base line. He died on first.

Once again in the fourth the Red Sox put their first man up on base – and once again failed to score. Bobby Doerr opened it with a base hit into right field, taking second as Higgins grounded out. But Wagner popped to Red Schoendienst and, as Doerr jittered in scoring

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Chief Injun York slapped on back for slapping hit

By Carl Lundquist

BOSTON (UP) – It was the same story with the same hero but with different scenery Wednesday when the back-slapping Boston Red Sox pounded home-run smashing Rudy York until he hollered for help.

The raw-boned Cherokee Indian from Cartersville, Georgia, “finished” Wednesday’s World Series ball game with the St. Louis Cardinals almost before it started with a three-run first inning homer. And it was York who won the opener in St. Louis with the only other homer hit in the series to date.

“It was a curve ball, a fat one, right down the middle, and I conked it,” York said.

Manager Jet Cronin and the day’s pitching hero, Dave (Boo) Ferriss, came over to congratulate York.

“You did it, Rudy Boy. You took that pressure off of me in a hurry,” Ferriss said.

Cronin praised Ferriss.

“He won the big one, and it looks good for us now,” he said. “We’re plugging along day by day taking each game as it comes. Texas Hughson goes for us tomorrow.”

Ferriss was handed a pile of congratulators telegrams and grinned like a kid on a picnic.

“Somebody must of been listening in,” he drawled in his best Mississippi manner. “These are mostly from the folks back home all right. Boy, what a thrill.”

Ferriss said that until today his biggest moment in baseball was when he pitched a 2-0 shutout over Bobo Newsom at Philadelphia in the first big league game he ever appeared in.

“Bobo came in to wish me luck today,” he said. “I guess maybe he got me off to the right start.”

The youngster’s mother, Mrs. W. D. Ferriss, and his sister, Martha Ann Ferriss, were at the game and Big Dave got the ball after the last Cardinal had been retired and presented it to Mrs. Ferriss.

She gave him a kiss.

“Only one thing I sincerely wish could have happened,” he said. “My dad had always dreamed about seeing me pitch in a world series game, but he’s dead now. I guess I won it for him. I had to do that.”

There were no tears in the Cardinals dressing room.

“I made one bad guess and Dickson made one bad pitch,” was the way Manager Eddie Dyer of the Cards summed up the game.

“If I hadn’t told him to walk Ted Williams, maybe York would never have come to bat in that first inning, who knows? And when he did come up, Dickson broke off a three and two curve that was a little too good.”

Then, apparently recalling the team’s erratic base running, Dyer smiled: “Boy, we certainly got plenty of bad baseball out of our systems this afternoon.”

Centerfielder Terry Moore spoke for all the Cardinals when he said: “Tomorrow’s another ball game – and we’re going to win it.”

Missing from the losers’ dressing room was the gloom that hung so heavy when the Cards dropped the opener in St. Louis.

“Why anybody feels bad after a game like this,” said Coach Mike Gonzales. “We get no runs – how were we gonna win?”

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Play by play

First inning Cardinals: Schoendienst bounced right back to the box and Ferriss tossed him out easily. Moore hit the first pitch to Doerr who threw him out. Musial walked. Musial stole second base as H. Wagner’s throw bounced in front of Pesky and rolled into center field. With Slaughter at bat, Musial was trapped off second base and finally run down, Ferriss to Higgins who made the tag near third base. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

First inning Red Sox: Walker gathered in Moses’ long fly. Pesky singled inside third. DiMaggio bounded to Musial, Pesky sliding into second. Williams was purposely passed. York hit a tremendous home run over the left field wall connecting on a three and two pitch, the ball travelling about 400 feet. Pesky and Williams scored ahead of him to put the Red Sox ahead 3-0. Doerr went down swinging. Three runs, two hits, no errors, none left.

Second inning Cardinals: Slaughter grounded out to Pesky. Kurowski rolled to Doerr, but York had to make a fancy catch of the second baseman’s throw to make the out. York scooped up Garagiola’s slow bounder and stepped on first for the out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

Second inning Red Sox: Higgins walked. Al Brazle, a lefthander, started warming up in the Cardinal bullpen. Garagiola allowed Dickson’s first pitch to H. Wagner to squirt through his legs enabling Higgins to take second. Garagiola was charged with a passed ball. H. Wagner sacrificed Higgins to third. Ferriss struck out. Moses bounced out. Schoendienst to Musial. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.

Third inning Cardinals: Moses galloped into right-center field to haul down Walker’s high fly. Marion single to short. Dickson filed to DiMaggio in center. Schoendienst sent a long fly to Moses in deep right. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

Third inning Red Sox: Pesky lined to Slaughter in right. Marion threw out DiMaggio. With the Cardinals again in their special Williams shift, Ted bunted Dickson’s first pitch down the third base line, the ball rolling into short left field which had been left deserted. Williams was credited with a single. York forced Williams at second, Marion to Schoendienst. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

Fourth inning Cardinals: Doerr threw out Moore. Doerr also threw out Musial. Slaughter fouled to H. Wagner. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

Fourth inning Red Sox: Doerr blooped a Texas league single over Schoendienst’s head in short left. Dickson grabbed Higgins’ bounder and threw to first for the out, Doerr moving to second. It was

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Game 4

Thursday, October 10, 1946, 1:30 p.m. ET
Fenway Park, Boston

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston Red Sox (2-2) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 9 4
St. Louis Cardinals (2-2) 0 3 3 0 1 0 1 0 4 12 20 1
BOSTON RED SOX (AL):
Hitters AB R H PO A E AVG
Moses, RF 5 0 4 1 0 0 .500
Pesky, SS 5 0 0 3 2 2 .111
DiMaggio, CF 4 1 0 3 1 0 .235
Williams, LF 3 1 1 0 1 0 .231
York, 1B 3 0 1 9 2 0 .308
Doerr, 2B 3 1 2 4 6 0 .400
Gutteridge, 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0
Higgins, 3B 4 0 1 2 1 2 .231
Wagner, C 4 0 0 5 2 0 .000
Hughson, P 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Bagby, P 1 0 0 0 1 0 .000
Metkovich, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Zuber, P 0 0 0 0 0 0
McBride, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Brown, P 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ryba, P 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dreisewerd, P 0 0 0 0 0 0
Culberson, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Totals 35 3 9 27 16 6 .257
Batting
2B R. York (1, off Munger)
HR B. Doerr (1, off Munger, 8th inn, 1 on, 2 outs to Deep LF)
TB B. Doerr 5; W. Moses 4; R. York 2; P. Higgins; T. Williams
RBI B. Doerr 2 (2); R. York (5)
2-Out RBI B. Doerr 2
Team LOB 8
With RISP 1 for 4
Fielding
DP 2. B. Doerr-J. Pesky-R. York; J. Pesky-B. Doerr
E T. Hughson (1); J. Pesky (2); M. Ryba (1); P. Higgins (2)
Outfield Assists D. DiMaggio (Kurowski at home plate); T. Williams (Garagiola at home plate)
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (NL):
Hitters AB R H PO A E AVG
Schoendienst, 2B 6 1 1 1 4 0 .167
Moore, CF 4 1 1 3 0 0 .133
Musial, 1B 5 1 1 6 1 0 .176
Slaughter, RF 6 4 4 5 1 0 .333
Kurowski, 3B 5 2 4 2 0 0 .400
Garagiola, C 5 1 4 4 0 0 .500
Walker, LF 2 1 1 3 0 0 .429
Marion, SS 4 1 3 2 1 1 .286
Munger, P 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250
Totals 41 12 20 27 7 1 .488
Batting
2B W. Kurowski 2 (2, 1 off Hughson, 1 off Bagby); S. Musial (2, off Hughson); E. Slaughter (1, off Bagby); J. Garagiola (2, off Zuber); M. Marion (1, off Ryba)
HR E. Slaughter (1, off Hughson, 2nd inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep RF)
SH M. Marion (2, off Hughson); T. Moore (2, off Hughson); R. Munger (1, off Bagby); H. Walker (1, off Ryba)
IBB H. Walker 2 (2, 1 by Zuber, 1 by Bagby)
TB E. Slaughter 8; W. Kurowski 6; J. Garagiola 5; M. Marion 4; S. Musial 2; R. Schoendienst; T. Moore; R. Munger; H. Walker
GIDP M. Marion (1)
RBI M. Marion 3 (3); J. Garagiola 3 (4); S. Musial 2 (4); H. Walker (1); E. Slaughter (1); W. Kurowski (1)
2-Out RBI J. Garagiola
Team LOB 10
With RISP 9 for 19
Fielding
DP 2. R. Schoendienst-S. Musial; E. Slaughter-J. Garagiola
E M. Marion (1)
Outfield Assists E. Slaughter (York at 3rd base)

Boston Red Sox

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Hughson, L (0-1) 2 5 6 3 0 1 1 4.50
Bagby 3 6 1 1 1 1 0 3.00
Zuber 2 3 1 1 1 1 0 4.50
Brown 1 4 3 3 1 0 0 27.00
Ryba 0.2 2 1 1 1 0 0 13.50
Dreisewerd 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Team Totals 9 20 12 9 4 3 1 9.00

T. Hughson faced 3 batters in the 3rd inning.
M. Brown faced 3 batters in the 9th inning.

St. Louis Cardinals

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Munger, W (1-0) 9 9 3 1 3 2 1 1.00
Team Totals 9 9 3 1 3 2 1 1.00

Balks: None
WP: None
HBP: None
IBB: B. Zuber (1; H. Walker); J. Bagby (1; H. Walker)
Pickoffs: None
Umpires: HP - Berry, 1B - Ballanfant, 2B - Hubbard, 3B - Barlick
Time: 2:31
Attendance: 35,645

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The Pittsburgh Press (October 10, 1946)

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CARDS WIN, 12-3; SERIES TIED UP
Slaughter slaps homer in 2nd inning

Big George Munger wins for St. Louis

BOSTON (UP) – The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox today in the fourth game of the 1946 World Series to square the series at two games apiece.

The final score was 12-3.

The Cards tallied three runs in the second, drove Boston’s Tex Hughson from the mound with three more in the third, then added single counters in the fifth and seven off Jim Bagby and Bill Zuber.

Enos “Country” Slaughter slammed a home run into the right field pavilion for the Cards in the third. It was the first Cardinal homer of the series.

The Cards continued their assault on Mace Brown and Mike Ryba in the ninth to score 4 more runs. They had blasted five Red Sox pitchers for 20 hits and tied the World Series record for most hits in a single game.

The Red Sox tallied one run off big George Munger in the fourth, then added two more in the eighth when Bobby Doerr cracked a homerun to score Dom DiMaggio ahead of him.

The game in detail:

FIRST INNING

CARDS: Schoendienst grounded to York. Moore popped to Doerr. Doerr threw out Musial.

RED SOX: Moses flied to Moore. Pesky flied to Walker. DiMaggio flied to Slaughter.

SECOND INNING

CARDS: With the count of 3 and 2, Slaughter hit a homer into the rightfield pavilion. Kurowski doubled to left. Garagiola flied to DiMaggio. Walker singled to right-center, scoring Kurowski. Wagner threw to Pesky who then threw wild to first. the ball going into the Boston dugout, and Walker was sent to third. Marion squeezed home Walker, bunting down first base line and being thrown out by Doerr. Munger struck out. Three runs, three hits, one error, none left.

RED SOX: With Williams, Marion moved to the right side of the infield. Williams walked. York flied to Moore. Doerr flied to Slaughter. Higgins lined to Slaughter. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.

THIRD INNING

CARDS: Schoendienst singled to center. Moore sacrificed and Schoendienst went to third and Moore to second when Hughson threw the ball wide of first for an error. Musial doubled to center, scoring Schoendienst and Moore. Hughson was replaced by Jim Bagby on the mound for the Red Sox. Doerr threw out Slaughter, Musial going to third. Kurowski fouled to York. Garagiola singled to center scoring Musial. Walker struck out. Three runs, three hits, one error, one left.

RED SOX: Schoendienst threw out H. Wagner. Bagby flied to Moore. Moses singled to right. Pesky struck out. No run, one hit, no errors, one left.

FOURTH INNING

CARDS: Marion singled to left-center. Munger sacrificed, Bagby to Doerr, who covered first. Schoendienst flied to DiMaggio. Moore also flied to DiMaggio. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

RED SOX: Schoendienst threw out DiMaggio. With Williams, the Cardinals took their special defensive positions to the right. Williams then singled to right. York doubled to deep center, scoring Willams. Doerr walked. Higgins flied to Walker. H. Wagner flied to Slaughter. One run, two hits, no errors, two left.

FIFTH INNING

CARDS: Musial lined to Higgins. Slaughter doubled to left-center. Kurowski doubled to left, scoring Slaughter. Garagiola singled to center but Kurowski was out at the plate, DiMaggio to H. Wagner. Garagiola went to second on the play. Walker was passed intentionally. Marion singled to left and Garagiola was out at the plate, Williams to H. Wagner. One run, four hits, no errors, two left.

RED SOX: Metkovich, batting for Bagby, flied to Walker. Moses singled to center. Pesky lined to Musial. DiMaggio popped to Marion. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

SIXTH INNING

CARDS: Bill Zuber went to the mound for the Red Sox. Munger was called out on strikes. Schoendienst fouled to Higgins. Moore flied to Moses.

RED SOX: Schoendienst, playing about 10 feet left of first, threw out Williams. York walked. Doerr singled to left. York stopping at second. Higgins singled to left, filling the bases. H. Wagner flied to Slaughter and York was out at the plate, Slaughter to Garagiola. No runs, two hits, no errors, two left.

SEVENTH INNING

CARDS: Doerr threw out Musial. Slaughter singled to center. Kurowski singled to left, Slaughter stopping at second. Garagiola doubled to left, scoring Slaughter with Kurowski stopping at third. Walker was passed intentionally. Marion hit into a double play, Doerr to Pesky to York. One run, three hits, no errors, two left.

RED SOX: McBride, batting for Zuber, grounded to Marion. Moses singled to right. Pesky lined to Schoendienst and Moses was doubled off first. No runs, one hit, no errors, none left.

EIGHTH INNING

CARDS: Mace Brown went to the mound for the Red Sox. Munger singled to right. Schoendienst, attempting to sacrifice, forced Munger, H. Wagner to Pesky. Moore walked Musial lined to Perky and Schoendienst was doubled off second. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

RED SOX: DiMaggio was safe when Marton fumbled his grounder Williams, trying to hit to left, popped to Kurowski. York struck out. Doerr hit a homer over the leftfield wall, scoring behind DiMaggio. Higgins fouled to Garagiola. Two runs, one hit, one error, none left.

NINTH INNING

CARDS: Slaughter singled to center. Kurowski beat out a bunt to Higgins who then threw wild to first, Slaughter going to third. Garagiola singled to right, scoring Slaughter. Kurowski stopped at second. Mike Ryba replaced Brown on the mound for the Red Sox. Walker sacrificed, Higgins to Doerr, who covered first. Marion doubled left, scoring Kurowski and Garagiola. Doerr threw out Munger, Marion going to third. Schoendienst was safe at first when Ryba failed to touch first on the throw from York, Marion scoring. Don Gutteridge replaced Doerr to second for the Red Sox. Moore singled to left, Schoendienst stopping at second. Musial walked, filling the bases. Clem Dreisewerd went to the mound for the Red Sox. Slaughter popped to York. Four runs, five hits, one error, three left.

RED SOX: H. Wagner popped to Marion. Culberson, batting for Dreisewerd, lined to Kurowski. Moses beat out a hit to Musial. Pesky was out, Musial to Munger who covered first. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

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Cards put Munger against Hughson

Fastball artist tries to restore Red Birds on series even keel
By Leo H. Petersen, United Press sports editor

BOSTON (UP) – Under lead-gray skies the Boston Red Sox, holding a two-to-one edge, met the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the World Series today.

There was a threat of rain but the weather forecast was that showers would hold off until after the game.

With the temperature in the 60s, George (Red) Munger, fastball pitcher, who came back from Germany only two months ago, went to the mound for the Cardinals in an effort to get the National League champions even in this best four-of-seven series.

Hughson hurls for Red Sox

Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox sent Tex Hughson, his opening game hurler to the mound.

Hughson, a 20-game winner in the Red Sox campaign for the American League pennant, was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the first game which Rudy York, the batting star of yesterday’s game, won with a 10th-inning home run.

Earl Johnson, a southpaw relief expert, was credited with he victory which came on that mighty blast by the Cherokee Indian, first baseman of the Red Sox.

York did the same thing yesterday, this time his out-of-the-park blow coming with two men on base to sew up the decision in the first inning for Davie Ferriss, who went on to shut out the Cardinals on six hits to win, 4-0.

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The Village Smithy

By Chester L. Smith, sports editor

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CARDS WIN FOURTH GAME
Slaughter pounds home run; Munger tosses nine-hit run

Three World Series records equaled in 4th game as Dyer’s Red Birds blast out 20 hits off six Red Sox pitchers
By Oscar Fraley

BOSTON, Oct. 10 (UP) – Pitcher George (Big Red) Munger and the record-blasting bats of the St. Louis Cardinals scored a 12-3 victory over Boston’s Red Sox Thursday and squared the World Series at two games all.

Those Cardinal bats blasted 20 hits during the afternoon off six Red Sox pitchers that equaled the World Series record set by the New York Giants against the New York Yankees on October 7, 1921. The six Red Sox pitchers also equaled a world series record.

The Red Sox got nine hits – a total of 29 safe base knocks for the afternoon.

Field day

It was a hitter’s field day. Every man in the Cardinal lineup hit safely at least once. Country Slaughter had four hits, including a home run. Swarthy Little Joe Garagiola, the Cards kid catcher, also had four. So did the veteran Wally Moses of the Red Sox. Bobby Doerr got two for four, one a two-run homer.

Munger, a tough Texan out of the Army less than two months, had little else but a fast ball to uphold the faith of manager Eddie Dyer, who gave him the assignment in order to rest his weary hill stars. But big Red had a heart as big as a watermelon and it carried him out of repeated jams through the cloudy, chilly afternoon before the 33,654 fans.

It was a daring gamble by Dyer, whose mound corps was worn and weary from a desperate stretch drive against the Brooklyn Dodgers which necessitated baseball’s first playoff series. He had injured Howie Pollet and Harry Brecheen in the bull pen and he was trailing by a game. They could have been used, but he went with Munger.

The Red Sox had him in trouble in almost every inning. But with sparkling defensive play behind him and those 20 Cardinal hits, there was never a moment when the outcome was in doubt.

Slaughter opened the hit parade in the second first up, he powdered a three-two pitch into the right field stands, 400 feet away. Whitey Kurowski, the husky third baseman, doubled off the right field wall. After Garagiola flied out, Harry Walker thumped a single to right which scored Kurowski the throw in trapped Walker off first but Johnny Pesky threw wild to first for the first of four Red Sox errors and Walker went all the way to third. Slats Marion’s sacrifice scored Walker with the third Cardinal run of the inning.

The Bosox tried to get back in their half of the third when Ted Williams walked. Rudy York, winner of two games for the Bosox, belted what looked like a base hit into center. But Terry Moore came up with a dazzling shoestring catch. He fell, but held the ball and Slaughter made two successive put-outs in deep out field to retire the side.

Red Schoendienst, pink-cheeked second baseman, started another Cardinal scoring spree in the third which delivered three more runs and sent big Tex Hughson, the Bosox starter and losing pitcher to the showers. He singled over second and went all the way to third when Hughson errored in fielding Moore’s sacrifice attempt. Moore got all the way to second. Stan Musial, baseball’s learing hitter, walloped a double to the right field wall which scored his two mates. Hughson retired and Musial went on to third when Slaughter grounded out off Jim Bagby’s delivery. After another out, Garagiola came up with his first hit which scored Musial. Walker fanned but the Cards were out ahead by six big runs.

Munger gave up his first hit in the third when Moses singled. It resulted in nothing.

Sox score in fourth

In the fourth, the Sox scored their first run. With one away, Williams rifled a double to deep center which sent him across the plate. Doerr walked and with two aboard. Pinky Higgins worked the count to three and two as the crowd roared. But Munger hitched up his pants and threw Pinky a fly pitch which Slaughter got with a running catch in right field.

The Cards added four hits in the fifth which produced only one run because the Red Sox cut down two potential scorers at the plate. With one out, Slaughter doubled off the right field wall and Kurowski duplicated, to score him. Garagiola singled to center. Dom DiMaggio caught Kurowski at the plate with a great throw. Walker was passed purposely. Marion singled and Williams threw out Garagiola at home.

The Red Sox threatened in the sixth. Yorke walked and Doerr and Higgins singled to load the bases with Wagner’s fly deep in the left and threw York out at the plate.

The Cards added one more in the seventh. Slaughter and Kurowski singled with one away. Garagiola doubled to score Slaughter.

The Red Sox got their other runs in the eighth when Marion’s error put DiMaggio on first. Williams popped out and York went down swinging. But Doerr pounded his homer over the left field wall.

The Cards rally laid it on in the ninth – coming up with five hits and four runs while the frustrated Bosox added two errors to their inglorious total.

Slaughter singled, leading off, Kurowski beat out a bunt when Higgins errored on the throw to first and both runners got an extra base. Garagiola singled, scoring Slaughter. Marion doubled to score Kurowski and Garagiola. Schoendienst was safe and Marion scored on Mike Ryba’s error. Then came Moore with a single which tied the series record and meant that every man in the Cardinal lineup had hit safely. Musial walked to fill the bases but Slaughter – up for the second time in the inning – popped to end the parade.

Dyer, happy over squaring the series said he would use southpaw Howie Pollet in the final Boston game Friday. Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox will use either Joe Dobson or Mickey Harris.

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Play by play

Cards first: Schoendienst grounded down the first-base line and was out, York unassisted. Moore popped to Doerr on the outfield grass. Musial grounded out, Doerr to York. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

Red Sox first: Moses hitting the first pitch sent a high fly to Moore. Pesky flied to Walker. DiMaggio flied to Slaughter, who caught the ball on the right field foul line. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

Cards second: Slaughter going after a three and two pitch, hit a home run into the right field stands, about 400 feet from home plate. It was the first Cardinal homer of the series. Kurowski doubled off the left field wall, Williams throw to Doerr was in plenty of time to get Kurowski at second but he slid under the tag. Doerr protested umpire Hubbard’s decision on the play. Garagiola flied to DiMaggio, Kurowski holding second. Bob Klinger began warming up in the Red Sox bull pen. Walker on a three and one pitch drilled a single to right center, Kurowski scoring. Walker was almost caught off first, but he got back on the bag safely, and when Pesky’s throw went by York for an error, Walker went all the way to third. Marion squeezed home. Walker, bunting down the first base line and being thrown out by Doerr, Walker scoring without a play being made on him. It was a sacrifice for Marion. Munger struck out. Three runs, three hits, one error, none left.

Second inning Red Sox: Williams ran the count to three and two and then drew a walk. Terry Moore made a running dividing catch of York’s terrific smash to right-center and Williams had to scramble back to first to avoid being doubled up. Al Brazle, a lefthander, started warming up in a hurry in the Card’s bullpen. Doerr flied to Slaughter who made a running catch near the right field stands. Slaughter raced into right-center and hauled in Higgins’ long drive. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.

Third inning Cardinals: Schoendienst singled to center. Moore sacrificed Schoendienst to second but when Hughson first fumbled his bunt, then threw wild to first, Schoendienst raced to third and Moore continued on to second. Musial scoring Schoendienst and Moore increasing the Cardinals’ lead to 5-0. Jim Bagby, a righthander, replaced Hughson on the mound. Doerr threw out Slaughter, Musial going to third. Kurowski fouled to York near the Red Sox dugout. Garagiola singled to Center scoring Musial with the third run of the inning and St. Louis’ sixth of the game. Walker struck out. Three runs, three hits, no errors, one left.

Third inning Red Sox: H. Wagner grounded out to Schoendienst. Moore took Bagby’s hoist. Moses singled. Pesky went down swinging. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

Fourth inning Cardinals: Marion singled. Munger sacrificed, Bagby to Doerr who covered first. Schoendienst flied to DiMaggio in short center, Marion holding second. Moore flied deep to DiMaggio. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

Fourth inning Red Sox: Schoendienst threw out DiMaggio. Williams lined a single into right. York walloped the first pitch in to deep right-center field for a double scoring Williams with the first Red Sox run, making the score 6-1. Doerr walked. Higgins flied to Walker in about left. The runners held their bases. Munger caught York asleep off second base but threw wide to Marion and York scrambled back to safety. Slaughter came in fast to gobble up H. Wagner’s short fly to right. One run, two hits, no errors, two left.

Fifth inning Cardinals: Musial sent a terrific liner right into Higgins’ glove. Slaughter doubled against the left field wall. Kurowski rattled the left field wall with a double scoring Slaughter. Garagiola singled into Center but Kurowski was out at the plate on a fine throw by DiMaggio from center field. Garagiola ran to second on the throw to the plate. Walker was purposely passed. Marion singled to left but Williams’ perfect peg on one bounce to Wagner caught Garagiola at the plate. One run, four hits, no errors, two left.

Fifth inning Red Sox: Metkovich batted for Bagby. Metkovich flied to Walker. Moses singled. Musial made a leaping gloved-hand catch of Pesky’s wicked liner and narrowly missed doubling up Moses who slid back to first under the tag. DiMaggio popped to Marion. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

Sixth inning Cardinals: Bill Zuber went in to pitch for the Red Sox. Munger watched a third strike breeze by. Higgins made a nice catch of Schoendienst’s foul close to the Cardinal dugout. Moore flied to Moses in short right. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.

Sixth inning Red Sox: Williams rolled out to Schoendienst. York walked. Doerr singled into left field, sending York to second. Higgins shot a hard single past Kurowski into left field but Walker’s fast return forced York to stop at third and the bases were filled. H. Wagner flied to Slaughter in deep right. York tried to score from third after the catch but was out at the plate when Slaughter uncorked a tremendous heave to Garagiola. No runs, two hits, no errors, two left.

Seventh inning Cardinals: Musial grounded out to Doerr. Slaughter singled. Kurowski lined a singled into left field, Slaughter stopping at second. Garagiola dumped a looper over Higgins imo left field for a double, scoring and sending Kurowski to third. Walker was purposely walked. Marion rapped into a double play, Doerr to Pesky to York. One run, three hits, no errors, two left.

Seventh inning Red Sox: Tom McBride batted for Zuber and bounced out to Marion. Moses singled. Schoendienst polled down Pesky’s liner and threw to first easily doubling Moses. No run, one hit, no errors, none left.

Eighth inning Cardinals: Mace Brown, a righthander, became the fourth Boston hurler. Munger bounced a single past Doerr. Schoendienst attempted to sacrifice but forced Munger at second, when H. Wagner picked up his bunt and threw to Pesky at second for the putout. Moore walked. Musial lined to Pesky whose throw to Doerr doubled up Schoendienst. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

Eighth inning Red Sox: DiMaggio was safe on first when Marion fumbled his grounder for an error. Kurowski took Williams’ high pop. York went down swinging. Doerr slammed a home run high over the left field screen, DiMaggio scoring ahead of him to make the score 8-3. Higgins fouled out to Garagiola. Two runs, one hit, one error, none left.

Ninth inning Cardinals: Slaughter singled to center for his fourth hit. Kurowski beat out a bunt to third and when Higgins threw wild to first for an error, Slaughter raced to third beating Doerr’s throw to H. Wagner who had raced over to cover third. Kurowski remained on first although second base was left uncovered as Doerr had backed up York. Garagiola singled to right scoring Slaughter and sending Kurowski to second. Mike Ryba, a righthander, replaced Brown on the mound to become the fifth Boston pitcher. Walker sacrificed the runners along, Higgins to Doerr who covered first. Marion doubled to the left field corner scoring Kurowski and Garagiola. Doerr went back of second base to scoop up Munger’s grounder and threw to York for the out, Marion going to third. Schoendienst, up for the sixth time, was safe at first when Ryba failed to touch first after taking York’s underhand Toss. York was credited with an assist and Ryba charged with an error as Marion came in with the fourth run of the inning. It was not a run batted in for Schoendienst. Don Gutteridge replaced Doerr at second base for the Red Sox. Moore slammed a single past Pesky sending Schoendienst to second. Moore’s hit was the Cardinals’ twentieth of the game and tied the record for most hits in a World Series game made by the New York Giants against the Yankees October 7, 1921. Musial walked to fill the bases. Clem Dreisewerd, a left hander, became the sixth pitcher for the Red Sox when he replaced Ryba. Slaughter, up for the second time, popped to York. Four runs, five hits, two errors, three left.

Ninth inning Red Sox: By using six pitchers, the Red Sox tied a record held by three other clubs. Marion caught H. Wagner’s pop fly making the catch directly behind the mound. Culberson batted for Dreisewerd and lined to Kurowski. It was announced over the loudspeaker system. Doerr was replaced because of a migraine headache. Moses beat out an infield single, beating Musial’s toss to Munger who covered first. Musial made a nice stop of Pesky’s grounder and threw to Munger who covered first for the putout. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

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Odds reduced

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10 (AP) – The Red Sox still are World Series favorites with the bettors – but at greatly reduced odds.

Betting Commissioner J. J. Carroll of St. Louis announced after the Cardinals squared the series at two games each that a $20 bet on Boston to win the world championship would win $11 and that $2 backing St. Louis would win $8.

The odds on tomorrow’s fifth series game, with Harris pitching, were 3-5 on Boston, and with Brecheen or Pollet pitching, 7-5 on the Cards.

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‘I never will’

BOSTON, Oct. 10 (AP) – Ed Barrow, who managed the Boston Red Sox to their last world championship 28 years ago, said Thursday night owner Tom Yawkey assured him he never would trade Ted Williams.

“I told Yawkey to give the boy his head,” Barrow said. “He’ll straighten out, I said, don’t trade him.

Yawkey smiled and replied “I never will.”

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The Evening Star (October 11, 1946)

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Cardinals shooting for sports upset of year after Boston massacre that evens series

By Jack Hand, Associated Press sports writer

BOSTON (AP) – Eddie Dyer can face his 46th birthday today with the knowledge that his St. Louis Cardinals rate a solid chance of scoring the sports upset of the year.

All even in games after their first four meetings with the Boston Red Sox, American League champions, the Cardinals now can fall back on their southpaw aces, Howie Pollet and Harry Brecheen.

The 20-hit barrage the Cards loosened on big Tex Hughson and five successors sent the “experts” digging into the record books. They found that only one other team, the New York Giants in 1921, ever had collected 20 hits in a World Series game. Never before had two teams pooled a total of 29 safe blows as happened yesterday in St. Louis’ 12-3 rout of the Sox.

For today’s fifth game and last at Fenway Park, Dyer has Pollet ready to go after four days of rest.

Outfielding spectacular

Manager Joe Cronin of the Sox passed out the word he will use either Micker Harris, a lefthander who lost to Brecheen in the second game, 3-0, or Joe Dobson, a righthander who won 13 and lost 7 during the regular season.

No matter who wins the Boston getaway game, Brecheen and Dave (Boo) Ferris will hurl the sixth game at St. Louis Sunday.

Although the 35,645 Fenway customers won’t agree, yesterday’s game in many ways was one of the most interesting of the series that had been dominated by pitching.

Leading the parade of St. Louis hitters were Rookie Catcher Joe Garagiola and the veterans, Enos Slaughter and Whitey Kurowski, each with four hits. Wally Moses of the losers also chipped in with four, joining 22 previous stars in the record books.

George (Red) Munger, husky Cardinal righthander, was in trouble several times yesterday, but was able to strong arm his way through with the help of some sparkling defensive play.

For the first time in the series, the outfielding was spectacular. Throws to the plate by Slaughter, Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio each caught a baserunner diving for home. Terry Moore, favoring his swollen left knee, made a tumbling catch of a Rudy York drive in the second that was a classic.

Cards swing with vigor

Slaughter’s first hit was a 370-foot home run into the right-field seats that broke a scoreless tie and started the Birds off on a three-run inning in the second. Kurowski’s first double a single by Harry Walker, a costly wild throw by Johnny Pesky and a squeeze bunt by Marty Marion had Hughson on the ropes.

When Musial’s two-run double followed Red Schoendienst’s single and a two-base wild peg by Hughson in the three-run third, Cronin yanked his 20-game winner and called on Jim Bagby, who yielded the third run on Garagiola’s single.

The real riot came in the ninth when 10 men batted and Cronin hurriedly shifted from Mace Brown to Mike Ryba to Clem Dreisewerd. Four runs came home.

Boston broke Munger’s shutout in the fourth on York’s double to center following Williams’ single, his only hit of the day. The other two Sox runs came in the eighth on Bobby Doerr’s homer.

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Win, Lose or Draw…
When the Cardinals’ pilot gambled and won

By Francis E. Stann, Star staff correspondent

BOSTON – You sort of have to like the St. Louis Cardinals. You can’t even work up a grudge against them for taking this wild World Series back to St. Louis. The Cards keep getting up from the floor, and you like them for it, and, as a matter of fact, you have to like them to beat the Red Sox – now.

If it were not for Rudy York the series might have ended yesterday with the Red Birds triumphant. They’ve done everything better than the Red Sox so far – fielded better, hit better and pitched better. And by a wide margin, too. Yet, because York has stood fast with his thumb in the dike the series continues.

You have to like the Cards now because with the series tied at 2-2 in games the National Leaguers have a big paper edge in pitching. That was a gamble by Manager Eddie Dyer yesterday, sending George Munger against Tex Hughson. Dyer’s impulse must have been to counter with Howie Pollet, reasoning that if Joe Cronin can use Hughson with only three days’ rest so can he use Pollet.

But Dyer resisted the impulse and gambled with Munger and won. And now he’s got Pollet, theoretically rested, and he has Harry Brecheen, too.

Redbird pitchers are superior in depth

What gave Dyer the pitching edge he seemingly holds is that he went down the line with his four starting pitchers – Pollet, Brecheen, Dickson and Munger. On the other hand, Cronin skipped somebody, probably Joe Dobson.

Cronin pitched Hughson, Mickey Harris, Dave Ferriss and Hughson again and apparently Hughson didn’t have his stuff yesterday. He bore no resemblance to the overpowering hurler who did so well in the opener in St. Louis.

There can be no criticism of Cronin’s handling of his pitchers. Even the smallest kiddies must realize that Boston didn’t win the American League pennant with its superior pitching. Humpty-Dumpty could have won games with that powerhouse team behind him and except for Hughson and Ferriss, the Sox staff chiefly is composed of Humpty-Dumpties.

Cronin had to concede before the series started that Dyer’s pitchers were superior in depth, at least. He had to place his hopes in his sluggers. Could they manhandle the Card hurlers as they buffeted those in the American League? So far only York has.

The Red Sox may win this series yet but that won’t alter the fact that there was something pathetic about the parade of toe-platers who followed Hughson yesterday as records – and Red Sox – fell like flies in a 12-3 travesty.

Garagiola a boy doing a man’s job

It may be a fallacy to believe the Cardinals are on a batting rampage because they tied and broke records as they sprayed 20 hits, good for 29 bases all over Fenway Park. Were they that terrific, or was Boston’s pitching so poor?

That’s a question which could be decided today, or the next time the Missourians face a pitcher with good stuff. In the meantime, they’ve jumped from a club hitting a puny .200 to a .280 team.

The fact that St. Louis yesterday tied a record of 25 years’ standing for most number of hits by a team in a series game, and set another by producing three players – Enos Slaughter, Whitey Kurowski and Joe Garagiola – who made four hits apiece, had interesting aspects. But the feature of the entire slugging exhibition, to us at least, was Garagiola’s work.

The Cards have a positive knack of digging up good young catchers, and Garagiola may be the best of the lot. The young man’s age is listed at 20, making him the youngest player in the series, but he plays as if he were playing in these classics all his life. He’s hitting .500 in what has been a pitcher’s series, except for Boston’s pitchers yesterday, and if you think he isn’t a boy doing a man’s job consider the fact that Granddaddy Ryba of the Red Sox started playing professional ball two years before Joe was born.

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Cards, Bosox to split smallest pot since classic of 1918

BOSTON (AP) – It doesn’t matter whether the St. Louis Cardinals or the Boston Red Sox win the World Series, the players’ share will be the lowest since the war series of 1918 between the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs.

With the Cardinals dividing the money into 34 shares and the Red Sox into 41 (highest in history), a total of less than $4,000 a player is assured.

With $304,141.25 set aside for the players – 60 percent of the gross receipts of the first four games after the commissioner’s share has been deducted – the winning share of each Cardinal player will amount to $3,736.45. Should the Red Sox win, each Boston player would receive $3,098.52.

In sharp contrast, the members of last year’s World Champion Detroit Tigers netted a record $6,443.34 share.

The largest losing share was enjoyed by the Dodgers of 1941, each player coming out of the series with the Yankees $4,829.40 richer.

No World Series split in the last 28 years has failed to net the winning players less than $4,000 apiece.

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It seemed Cards had 30 men in outfield, Williams says

By Ted Williams

BOSTON, Mass. – That 25-hour train ride to St. Louis is going to seem longer than ever now that my initial prediction that the Series would go six games has become a reality.

But don’t get the idea that the Red Sox are down in the dumps because of yesterday’s shellac king. I’d much rather lose 12 to 3 than 2 to 1. We just had our ears pinned back.

With so much power on both clubs, I felt sure a couple of days ago that one would cut loose.

This has been a pitchers’ Series so far. But now that we know the hitters and fielders are beginning to go to town, we are confident that well begin knocking the cover off the ball, too.

That Munger was just a little bit better than I expected. Some of our fellows hit the ball hard against him, but every time you looked up there was a Redbird in flight and grabbing a line drive. It seemed that the Cardinals had 30 outfielders and that at times the whole infield was packed with ‘em.

That catch by Terry Moore was as great a one as I’ve seen. It might have been the game-saver because just before it, Munger had walked me with none out. If that wallop by Rudy had gone through Terry there might be a different tune to this story.

The way the Cardinals played for me yesterday it seems they’ve eliminated the possibilities of my bunting. At least, they had Kurowski guarding third base when I came up. Maybe that bunt of mine Tuesday educated ‘em.

We’re going to take it out on the Cardinals for that trimming.

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Game 5

Friday, October 11, 1946, 1:30 p.m. ET
Fenway Park, Boston

Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston Red Sox (3-2) 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 X 6 11 3
St. Louis Cardinals (2-3) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 1
BOSTON RED SOX (AL):
Hitters AB R H PO A E AVG
Gutteridge, 2B 5 0 2 0 2 0 .400
Pesky, SS 5 1 3 2 2 4 .217
DiMaggio, CF 3 1 1 3 0 0 .250
Williams, LF 5 0 1 4 0 0 .222
York, 1B 2 1 0 8 0 1 .267
Higgins, 3B 4 1 1 0 1 0 .235
Culberson, RF 3 1 2 2 0 0 .400
Partee, C 3 1 1 8 1 0 .167
Dobson, P 3 0 0 0 1 0 .000
Totals 33 6 11 27 7 5 .333
Batting
2B D. DiMaggio (2, off Brazle); P. Higgins (1, off Brazle)
HR L. Culberson (1, off Brazle, 6th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep LF)
SH J. Dobson (1, off Brazle); D. DiMaggio (1, off Beazley)
IBB R. York 3 (3, 3 by Brazle); L. Culberson (1, by Brazle)
TB L. Culberson 5; J. Pesky 3; P. Higgins 2; D. DiMaggio 2; D. Gutteridge 2; T. Williams; R. Partee
GIDP D. DiMaggio (2)
RBI T. Williams (1); L. Culberson (1); P. Higgins (2); R. Partee (1); D. Gutteridge (1)
Team LOB 11
With RISP 3 for 19
Fielding
DP 1. R. Partee-J. Pesky
E J. Pesky 2 (4); R. York (1)
Baserunning
SB L. Culberson (1, 2nd base off Brazle/Garagiola); J. Pesky (1, 2nd base off Brazle/Garagiola)
CS J. Pesky (1, 3rd base by Brazle/Garagiola)
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (NL):
Hitters AB R H PO A E AVG
Schoendienst, 2B 4 0 1 3 1 0 .182
Moore, CF 4 0 0 2 0 0 .105
Musial, 1B 3 1 1 7 0 0 .200
Slaughter, RF 2 0 0 0 0 0 .300
Dusak, LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Kurowski, 3B 4 1 0 3 1 0 .316
Garagiola, C 4 1 0 7 1 0 .375
Walker, LF-RF 4 0 2 1 0 0 .455
Marion, SS 4 0 0 1 7 2 .222
Pollet, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Brazle, P 2 0 0 0 1 0 .000
Jones, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Beazley, P 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 33 3 4 24 12 2 .121
Batting
2B H. Walker (1, off Dobson); S. Musial (3, off Dobson)
HBP E. Slaughter (1, by Dobson)
TB H. Walker 3; S. Musial 2; R. Schoendienst
RBI H. Walker 3 (4)
2-Out RBI H. Walker 3
Team LOB 5
With RISP 2 for 6
Fielding
DP 1. M. Marion-R. Schoendienst-S. Musial
E M. Marion (2)
Baserunning
SB E. Slaughter (1, 2nd base off Dobson/Partee)
CS R. Schoendienst (1, 2nd base by Dobson/Partee)

Boston Red Sox

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Dobson, W (1-0) 9 4 3 0 1 8 0 0.00
Team Totals 9 4 3 0 1 8 0 0.00

St. Louis Cardinals

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Pollet 0.1 3 1 1 0 0 0 3.48
Brazle, L (0-1) 6.2 7 5 4 6 4 1 5.40
Beazley 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Team Totals 8 11 6 5 6 5 1 5.62

Balks: None
WP: J. Beazley (1)
HBP: J. Dobson (1; E. Slaughter)
IBB: A. Brazle 4 (4; R. York, R. York, R. York, L. Culberson)
Pickoffs: None
Umpires: HP - Ballanfant, 1B - Hubbard, 2B - Barlick, 3B - Berry
Time: 2:23
Attendance: 35,982

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RED SOX WIN, LEAD 3 GAMES TO 2
Culberson hits homer; Pollet knocked out

Next game Sunday in St. Louis

BOSTON (UP) – The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals here this afternoon in the fifth game of the World Series to take a three-to-two lead in games won.

The final score was 6-3.

The two teams will be idle tomorrow as they travel to St. Louis for the sixth game Sunday. The series crown goes to the winner of four games.

The Red Sox took an early lead today, tallying a run in the first inning on singles by Gutteridge, Pesky and Williams.

Cards score

The Cards scored in the second after Garagiola singled, went to second as the ball went through Pesky, and tallied on Walker’s double.

The Red Sox added another in their half of the second on Partee’s single, Dobson’s safe bunt and Gutteridge’s single.

Culberson hits homer

Culberson opened the Red Sox half of the sixth with a home run into the net in left field.

The Red Sox added three more in the seventh. DiMaggio doubled, and, after Williams fanned, York was passed purposely. Higgins then doubled to score DiMaggio. Culberson was passed purposely to fill the bases, Partee then grounded to Marion who threw wild into right field, both York and Higgins scoring.

The detail follows:

FIRST INNING

CARDS: Schoendienst singled to right. Moore struck out and Schoendienst was out trying to steal, Partee to Pesky. Musial flied to Williams. No runs, one hit, no errors, none left.

RED SOX: Gutteridge singled off Musial’s glove. Pesky singled to right, Gutteridge stopping at second. DiMaggio forced Gutteridge, Kurowski, unassisted. With Williams up Marion went to the right side of second. Williams singled to right, scoring Pesky and sending DiMaggio to third. Williams took second on the throw to the plate. Alpha Brazle replaced Pollet on the mound for the Cards. York was passed intentionally filling the bases. Higgins forced DiMaggio at the plate, Kurowski to Garagiola. Culberson forced Higgins, Marion to Schoendienst. One run, three hits, no errors, three left.

SECOND INNING

CARDS: Gutteridge threw out Slaughter. Kurowski popped to York. Garagiola reached second when his grounder went through Pesky. Walker doubled to left, scoring Garagiola. Marion flied to Culberson. One run, one hit, one error, one left.

RED SOX: Partee singled to center. Dobson bunted to Kurowski whose throw to second was too late to catch Partee. Gutteridge’s single scored Partee. Dobson stopped at second. Pesky forced Dobson, Brazle to Kurowski. DiMaggio hit into a double play, Marion to Schoendienst to Musial. One run, two hits, no errors, one left.

THIRD INNING

CARDS: Brazie flied to DiMaggio. Pesky threw out Schoendienst. Moore struck out.

RED SOX: Marion threw out Williams. York popped to Marion. Higgins lined to Walker.

FOURTH INNING

CARDS: Musial flied to Culberson. Slaughter was hit by a pitched ball. Kurowski struck out. Slaughter stole second. Garagiola struck out. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.

RED SOX: Culberson singled to left and then stole second. Partee flied to Moore. Marion threw out Dobson, Culberson going to third. Marion threw out Gutteridge. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

FIFTH INNING

CARDS: Walker bunted and was out, Higgins to York. Marion flied to Williams. Brazle flied to DiMaggio.

RED SOX: Pesky singled to center. Pesky stole second. DiMaggio walked. With Williams up, Marion went to the other side of second and Schoendienst to short right. Wiliams struck out. Pesky was out trying to steal third, Garagiola to Kurowski. York was passed intentionally. Marion threw out Higgins. No runs, one hit, no errors, two left.

SIXTH INNING

CARDS: Gutteridge threw out Schoendienst. Moore flied to Williams. Musial doubled to right-center. Slaughter flied to Williams. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

RED SOX: Culberson hit a homer into the screen atop the leftfield wall. Partee walked. Dobson was called out on strikes. Gutteridge forced Partee. Marion to Schoendienst. Pesky fouled to Musial. One run, one hit, no errors, one left.

SEVENTH INNING

CARDS: Kurowski was called out on strikes. Garagiola grounded to York. Walker was safe when York dropped Dobson’s throw. Marion flied to DiMaggio. No runs, no hits, one error, one left.

RED SOX: Dusak went to left field and Walker to right for the Cards. DiMaggio doubled to left. Williams was called out on strikes. York was walked intentionally. Higgins doubled to left, scoring DiMaggio and sending York to third. Culberson was passed intentionally, filling the bases. Partee grounded to Marion, who threw the ball into right field. York and Higgins scoring. Culberson reaching. Culberson reaching third and Partee second. Dobson fanned. Gutteridge flied to Moore. Three runs, two hits, one error, two left.

EIGHTH INNING

CARDS: Vernal Jones, batting for Brazle, struck out. So dd Schoendienst. Pesky threw out Moore.

RED SOX: Johnny Beazley went to the mound for the Cards. Pesky beat out a hit to deep short. DiMaggio sacrificed, Beazley to Musial. With Williams up, the Card infield shifted to the right. Williams fouled to Garagiola. Pesky went to third on a wild pitch. York struck out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left.

NINTH INNING

CARDS: Musial walked. Dusak fanned. Kurowski was safe when Pesky fumbled his grounder. Musial stopping at second. Garagiola bounced to York. Walked singled to right, scoring Musial and Kurowski. Marion popped to Pesky. Two runs, one hit, one error, one left.

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Cards, Bosox battle for series edge

Red Birds’ Pollet fails in second bid to put mates in lead
By Leo H. Petersen, United Press sports editor

BOSTON (UP) – Joe Dobson, a husky righthander who won 14 games while losing six this season, and Howie Pollet, a 21-game winning lefthander, were the opposing pitchers in the fifth game of the World Series today.

The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals were all even at two games each.

Pollet, however, was chased in the first inning and relieved by Alfred Brazle.

It was Dobson’s first start in the series and the second for Pollet, who lost the first game, 3-2, in 10 innings last Sunday on Rudy York’s home run.

Both Joe Cronin, manager of the Red Sox, and Eddie Dyer of the Cardinals made their pitching choices definite after pre-game clubhouse conferences.

Pollet ‘ready’

Before Pollet assured his boss that he was ready, Dyer had said he would warm up both Pollet and Al Brazle, another lefthander, and then make his selection.

The weather was the best it has been in the three games played at Fenway Park. The sun was shining and the temperature was in the, high 60s or low 70s.

All bleacher seats were sold by 9 a.m. and at noon the line of standing-room customers was three deep and extended for two blocks.

Crowd slow filing in

As usual, the bleacherites were the first in the park. There were some open spaces in the centerfield bleachers, however, for those persons lucky enough to buy two tickets were keeping one and trying to sell the other for as high as $10.

There were only a couple of hundred persons in the reserved sections when the Red Sox began their hitting drill.

The Cards were scheduled to leave on a special train for St. Louis at 5:30 p.m.

Sixth game in St. Louis

The sixth game will be played there Sunday and a seventh, if necessary, also will be played there Tuesday, with Monday open for ticket sales.

Some of the Red Sox were going by train, leaving at 6 p.m., but the bulk of them, led by owner Tom Yawkey and Cronin, were going to fly to the National League city.

Dyer and Cronin said that, regardless of the outcome of today’s game, the sixth game pitchers would be Harry (The Cat) Brecheen, who shut out the Bosox on four hits to win the second game, 3-0, and Dave Ferriss, the ace righthander, who won 25 games during the regular season and then won the third game of the World Series, 4-0, letting the Red Birds down on six hits.

If a seventh game is necessary, it will be Murry Dickson for St. Louis and Tex Hughson, yesterday’s loser, for Boston.

Bosox look sharper

York, whose two home runs won the first and third games for Boston, led the Sox in their hitting drill, blasting several drives over the leftfield fence.

Ted Williams found the range, too, sending several towering blows into the rightfield stands.

The Red Sox looked a lot sharper than they did yesterday and Cronin was sure his club “was going to snap out of it.”

“We’ve been hitting too well all season long so I figure this light hitting can’t last any longer,” Cronin said.

Bosox switch lineup

Doerr suffered a recurrence of his headache during the Red Sox batting drill and was replaced at second base by Don Gutteridge.

As a result, Cronin shook up his batting order, leading off with Gutteridge. Pesky, DiMaggio, Williams and York followed in their usual order with Higgins moving up to sixth.

Cronin also made two other last-minute switches, sending Leon Culberson to rightfield instead of McBride and putting Roy Partee, a righthanded hitter, in to catch, instead of the lefthanded hitting Hal Wagner. Culberson batted seventh and Partee eighth.

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Red Sox slaughter – ‘Enos, that is’

Boston outplayed in every department
By Joe Williams

BOSTON – It was the ninth inning of the fourth game of the World Series and an announcement came over the loudspeaker.

“Bobby Doerr, the Red Sox second baseman, has retired from the game because of a severe headache.”

That made it unanimous. At the time the score was 8-3 in favor of the Cardinals, Everybody had a headache and none more painful than Joe Cronin, the Boston manager.

Throughout a long, dull, dreary afternoon Cronin had thrown one pitcher after another against the N.L. champions, six in all, only to see them torn limb from limb by a resurgent Cardinal team bouncing back from a depressing defeat of the day before.

Perhaps this was not the worst game ever misplayed in a World Series but any attempt to make a comparison would surely result in a photo finish.

Sox massacred

To paraphrase Hemingway’s book title, it was “Slaughter in the Afternoon.” Enos Slaughter, that is.

The Cardinals’ rightfielder originated the massacre in the second inning with a home run off Pitcher Tex Hughson, who, in Cronin’s book, is his most talented slab performer.

What happened from then on should not happen to any team which calls itself the champion of the American League.

There are second guessers today who claim Cronin kept Hughson in there too long. Perhaps he did, but looking back it wouldn’t have made much difference, because the Red Sox were never in the ball game. They were outpitched, outhit and outfielded.

Williams a symbol

It reached the point where, as has been noted, Doerr quit with a headache. And if you had looked at the moment you would have seen Ted Williams, out in left field leaning disconsolately against the score board, idly fingering the numerals thereon.

Out of these two incidents came a revealing symbolism. A team had quit.

It was Slaughter, always a nemesis to all ambitions in these things, either with his bat, or his throwing arm, who applied the first hot foot to Hughson.

First up in the second inning he cracked the ball out of the park. As it turned out the young man had merely taken an option on the Boston pitchers.

Before the day was done his record read: One home run, one double, two singles. Slaughtered by Slaughter is the way to put it.

Never got a break

Of course, today is another day. There are times when everything goes wrong and a team can be made to look very bad indeed. Maybe yesterday was such a time and such a day.

But you keep on thinking about how the breaks have been going against the Cardinals. They should have won both games in St. Louis. Right now, they should be leading three games to one. Had the fates been with them they could close out the series today.

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The Village Smithy

By Chester L. Smith, sports editor

BOSTON – The hands of the clock at Fenway Park pointed to 3:59 yesterday afternoon when Bobby Doerr, captain and second baseman of the Red Sox, mysteriously disappeared from the field.

Since there was a mild congestion at the time, the bases being filled with Cardinals, his absence wasn’t conspicuous for a moment. Then the press box announcer divulged the information that Don Gutteridge would finish out the game at second.

“Doerr,” he intoned, “has a severe headache.”

He might as well have gone on from there to add that so did 35,645 fans.

The Cards walked away to their showers not long afterward humming snatches from an old tune, “Meet Me in St. Louie, Louie.”

No matter what takes place today, the World Series is going back to the Mississippi. And so a hope that they could finish the job here has been blown apart for the Red Sox. They have no hankering to return to Sportsman’s Park, All season long they have done their fanciest playing at home. The road has been hostile and frequently downright unkind.

St. Louis with the Cardinals also there, could mean disaster, no less.

Base hits, records and pitchers were strewn over the premises like paper plates at a strawberry festival yesterday. The Cards’ 20 hits equaled a mark held by the New York Giants since 1921; Joe Cronin’s hurling parade, totaling six by actual count, has been duplicated in but four other series games. Enos Slaughter, Whitey Kurowski and Joe Garagiola, for the Red Birds, and the Sox’s Wally Moses joined a distinguished group of 22 who have made four safeties in a single engagement.

Take their own medicine

The Red Sox were shocked. This was the medicine they had mixed for the Cardinals and now they were swallowing it.

Such a body-beating as the American Leaguers took might easily have a decisive influence on the outcome of the Series. It was one of the worst maulings any pennant winner has ever been subjected to. Boston’s dressing room reflected that attitude for an hour after the final putout.

Manager Eddie Dyer played for all the money on the table yesterday and won. The little head man of the Red Birds also proved that Leo Durocher, the manager of the club the Cards had to whip to be where they are, is a bad prophet.

When George Munger came home from Germany last August and rejoined the Cards, Durocher said: “He got there too late. He can’t help.”

Then on September 4, Munger defeated the Cubs, 8-1. On the eighth, he won from the Pirates in 11 innings, 5-4. When the Cardinals moved to Brooklyn he was knocked out in the first inning. He had bad luck in the Polo Grounds and at Boston, but he finished strong against both Chicago and the Reds.

Munger’s record was two won and two lost, but he had served a purpose that did not show in the statistics. He allowed Howie Pollet, Harry Brecheen and the other pitchers who had gone through the whole campaign and were tired, that extra day to recuperate. They were the stronger when their turn came because of Munger’s appearance.

Fans applaud Moore

Munger could not have asked for more from his backers-up. In the second inning, Terry Moore put on exhibition one of his specialties, a copyrighted head-first dive to turn an extra base hit by Rudy York into a put-out.

Even the highly-partisan New Englanders had to stand and give Moore a hand. But it broke their hearts to see the hero of the series subjected to such an abrupt brushoff.

Again in the sixth the Red Sox’s fortunes were rising after York walked and Doerr and Pinky Higgins singled to fill the bases. But Slaughter took Hal Wagner’s fly and pitched a perfect strike to the plate to down the rumbling York.

The implications of Munger’s victory are deeper than appear at first glance. Pollet and Brecheen are ready now with a normal period of rest. The former, who pitched well enough to win in the first game, was to be used this afternoon, leaving Brecheen as the “kicker” for the sixth game in St. Louis on Sunday.

Instead of the Cardinals being plagued with their pitching, it is now the Red Sox. Dave Ferriss can’t be reckoned with until Sunday and Hughson is scratched for a race that won’t be run this year. Cronin is left with Mickey Harris, the loser in the second game, and Joe Dobson as his stoppers at a time when he would appreciate having his best.

The Sox are not accustomed to being pressed. They used their league for a one-way street and all the lights were green. But unexpectedly they have come to a stop sign. They have found an opponent that can outrun, outfield and, as of now, outhit them. Of all their pitchers, only Ferriss has had entire control of his game.