VX7HETHER it Is Eddie Dyer's
' * Cardinals or Leo Durocher's
Dodgers who will be called on to
meet Joe Cronin's Red Sox this tall,
there is one basic idea you can keep
in mind?neither National league
team is going to surrender in ad
vance.
No other teams in baseball have
been so well seasoned under fire
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final September
atretch.
There has been
no resting spot for
either club ? no
loafing time or any
recess ia the day
by-day battle for
the top. Both Car
dinals and Dodgers
by now should have
steel - shod nerves
Stan Musial
(aider the pressure
that has kept both teams hustling
to the limit in an all summer dog
fight that has been one of the best in
maay years.
Both Cardinals and Dodgers are
loaded with dtad-game ball players
out to give all they have?such men
as Pete Reiser, Peewee Reese, Ed
Stankey, Dixie Walker, Stan Musial,
Marty Marion, Country Slaughter,
Whitey Kurowski, Terry Moore and
others from both scrappy camps.
Their batting records show no
sack power as the Red Sox com
mand Howie Pollet may be their
only ?0-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 Mnsial nor
Walker has been able to torn on
Tad Williams' power, both have
boon outhitting the Red Sox star
through the greater part of the
year.
The averages tell you that.
Reiser, in condition, is one of the
most valuable ball players baseball
can show when you consider his
worth at bat, in a pinch, in the
field and around the bases.
The averages and the records of
the field also prove that Musial is
quite likely to out-hit Williams by
a rather wide margin; not in the
way of home runs, but in league
leadership. Musial is one of the
finest hitters we've seen in many
years. His lifetime average ia close
to Williams', who has slipped a
trifle from ,3Sd to something around
.333, which isn't too soggy for sev
eral years.
uaignc 01 musial ana walker,
neither Cardinals nor Dodgers hat
other run-making hitters to match
Peaky, Doerr and York, slashing
Ted's three aiding musketeers.
Eddie Dyer on Pitching
After all, the pitching can play a
star part In any world series, as
pitching usually does.
4 We were talking with Eddie Dyer,
the Cardinal manager, about this
section of the world series argu
ment.
"fa* the first place," Dyer said,
"thp Cardinals haven't yet won the
National league pennant this season.
The Dodgers are a tough team to
catch and shake loose. They don't
seem to discourage easily. But if
the Cardinals do manage to break
in and get a shot at the Red Sox,
I have a rather hazy idea our pitch
ing staff can worry them a lot
"We have some left-handers that
Williams and a namber of others
might not like too well. And if
George Monger can work back to
his old form In the next few weeks.
well have our share of good right
handers to match any staff ? and
that Includes the Red Sox staff."
No ooe can be sure yet Just how
flood the Red Sox pitching is. There
have been too many games where
a Red Sox pitcher could dish out a
flock of hits and runs, and yet
breeze home. We were rather
astonished to see that Dave Ferris
and Tex Hughson, two Red Sox
mainstays, had allowed more hostile
hits than any two pitchers in their
circuit. Both had been tapped safe
ly well over 200 times, where Spud
Chandler had allowed only 131 hita
and -Ha) Newhouser only 173, far
below the Ferris-Hughson 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
on defense.
Hughson, undoubtedly one of the
best pitchers now at work, has had
a rather spotty year, being slightly
over the .300 mark with a great
run-making machine at his back.
Ferris has been their star workman,
but even the able Ferris has
absorbed his share of manhandling
more than once.
Red Sox ISo Cinch Bet
The Red Sox will be favored to
win. but anyone who makes them
lopsided favorites can be labelled a
trifle curious in the cupola. As all
around good as the Red Sox are,
and they are good enough, up and
down the line, they are no Invinci
ble, overwhelming force against ei
ther of the two fast, game outfits.
The mala harden of proof is also
on broad Red Sox backs who are
uspoeird by too many oamp follow
ers to win a foar or Its game romp.
BOBBY
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Peach Tree Borer
PDB Control Urged
Pest Biggest Peach
Problem in America
Br W. J. DRYDEN
Fall Is the time to forestall the
1946 peach borer. Material increase
in the average productive life of
peach trees can be brought about
Dy uie enecuve tw
trol of peach tree
borers.
Masses of gum
mixed with sawdust
like refuse at or near
the base of the trees
reveal the presence
of infestations. The
injury may extend
about a foot above or
below the ground
linp
Best control is obtained by apply
ing powdered crystalline paradi
chloro-benzene (PDB) to the ground
in a ring around the tree as shown
in the illustration. The ring should
be mounded with three to five
spadefuls of earth.
The amount of PDB to be used
will depend upon the age of the
tree. For trees 1 year old, use 14
ounce; 2 years old, 14 ounce; 3
to 5 years old, % ounce, and for old
er trees, from 1 to 2 ounces.
Know Your Breed
Jerseys
Originating in the Island of Jer
sey, the Jersey breed of dairy cattle
first was imported into the United
States about 1850.
Jerseys are said to be more even
ly distributed in the United States
than any other breed. They pos
sess to a great degree those quali
ties ideal for dairy types. Alert,
clean-cut, angular and refined in
conformation they still have large
barrels.
Their milk test is right and cost
of butterfat production is low. Aver
age butterfat content is 5.35 per
cent, highest of all breeds.
Fall Versus Spring
Fertilized Pastures
It is becoming increasingly evi
dent from tests at New Jersey sta
tion and other states that except on
very sandy soils fertilizers contain
ing nitrogen for grassland and pas
ture sods, may be applied in late
summer or early fall.
Fertilizers containing phosphoric
acid and potash only, such as the
mixtures usually recommended for
alfalfa and Ladino clover fields, can
be even more efficiently applied in
the faU than in the spring.
Mineral Hopper for Hens
Laying hens and growing chicks
need a constant supply of calcium
in form of oyster shell or limestone.
This hopper may be hung on the
wall of the chicken house.
Conquering Flax Wilt
By Resistant Strains
During the early 20th century the
flax industry was faced with a seri
ous problem. Flax-sickness" was
making the industry unprofitable.
It was found that "flax-sickness"
was the result of a flax disease
called adit. This wilt fungus was
introduced into the new soil when
cropped to flax, where it lived and
multiplied ready to attack later
flax crops. The remedy was the
introduction of new wilt-resistant va
rieties of flax.
Double-Cross Corn Not
Fit for Reproduction
All plants in a field of com plant
ed with hybrid seed of a given
strain are related?first cousins. The
seed coming from such a field is
definitely inbred and should not be
saved for seed, points out the
USD A. Reduction in vigor and
grain yield is always the result of
inbreeding in com. The alternative
is to plant each year the freshly
crossed seed of tested strains of hy
brid corn.
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