Sport: Here Come the Cards

For most of the season the big question in the National League pennant race had been: what holds the Dodgers up? They had led the parade ever since May 24, at one time were 7 ½ games out front. Last week, a disastrous road trip—on which Brooklyn's Dodgers won 6, lost 10 (including four straight losses to the Cardinals)—seemed to have reduced the question to old rhetoric. The long overdue St. Louis Cards, for the moment at least were right there with them.

Before the season opened, the 1946 Card trick looked like no trick...