Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 7--Strike up the band down in Smith County, Tennessee. Stand up and cheer, you 283 citizens of the little hamlet of Gordonsville.
For little Tommy Bridges, your pride and joy, beat the Great Dizzy Dean today, 3-1, and put the Detroit Tigers out in front of the St. Louis Cardinals, three games to two, in the 1934 World Series.
The two teams moved back to Detroit tonight to finish the series, with the Tigers needing only one more victory to capture the world's championship.
The Robert Darnell Company, Wall Street betting commissioners. tonight quoted Detroit the favorite to win the World Series for the first time since it was known the Tigers and St: Louis Cardinals would be series opponents.
The Tigers were quoted 2 1-2 to 1 favorites. Before today's game the Darnell's quotation favored St. Louis, 13 to 10
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