Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1935, Page 49

WASHINGTON, D. ING EDITION Foening Stap FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935. Classified Ads D—1 Frigid Series Shifts to Chicago, With Rivals Relying on Young Moundsmen NEW HOPES FILL COCHRANE CREW Slab Edge on Foe Is Seen After Bridges’ Pitching Evens Game Count. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, October 4 —The cur- tain for Act III of base ball's biggest annual pageant rolled up today revealing new scen- ery, new hopes and two new charac ters who loom as contenders for the hero role The scene now is Wrigley Field and the new hopes are those of the Tigers, following their 8-to-3 victory yester= day over the Cubs. The new charac- ters are Bill Lee of Chicago and Elden Auker of Detroit. One of these young men, virtual newcomers to sport page headlines, may decide the series, directly or in- directly, for without much question | the 1935 scrap for world supremacy | on the diamond depends on- pitching. The Cubs, in victory and defeat have shown a lack of power which would prove fatal to a club blessed with less spirit. less luck and a less highly - developed habit of winning. The Tigers, as in 1934's world series, now are playing the kind of ball in the field that they play during the regular league season. So FAR, this seems strictly a pitchers’ and a “snowball” series and in the next few hours the turning voint may be reached. If Lee can whip the Tigers today, thereby giving the Cubs a 2-to-1 edge in the classic, then Manager Charlie Grimm can go ahead with his plan to start Larry | French tomorrow and save Lon War- neke for Sunday's game. If Lee loses, then it is suspected that Grimm will pass up French and shoot back Warneke tomorrow after two days’ rest 1f Auker can lick the Cubs, Manager Cochrane may gamble with the vet- eran Alvin Crowder tomorrow and &hoot back Schoolboy Rowe on Sat- urday. If Auker is beaten, then Cochrane may turn to Rowe tomorrow. In one respect the Bengal pllozi seems to be better off than Grimm. | He knows that Rowe and Bridges are | certain to give the Tigers at least a | fighting chance. Grimm knows that | Warneke gives the Cubs a break, but all illusions concerning the veteran Charlie Root seem to be smashed defi- | nitely after yesterday's battle. Grimm’s Gamble Futile. Tm—: Cubs gambled yesterday in start- ing the 36-year-old Root, eldest pitcher in the series. While Charley won 15 games and lost 8 during the National League campaign, he was not conceded much of a chaace| against the Tigers. Root is the type of pitcher upon whom the Bengals have feasted all season. Even his own teammates—Fred Lindstrom, | among them—made a pre-series pre-‘ diction that Root would have his troubles. In fact, he never has been & world series pitcher. If Root had been able to beat| Bridges yesterday, then the series| might as well have been called right then and there, for Grimm would have Lee, French and Warneke ready to| grab the other two necessary Eflmes‘ while the Tigers, with their two best hurlers beaten, unquestionably would | be broken in spirit. | As it was, however, Root couldn't get a man out and with Bridges pitch- | ing brilliantly the Bengals preserved their first inging scoring spree right down to the finish to even the series. | 'HUS is the stage set for Lee and Auker, both young righs-handers and the leading percentage pitchers in | their respective leagues. Lee finished | the National League campaign with 19 | victories as against 6 defeats, while | Auker had a record of 18-6. | Lee already has made Grimm look | g0od as a result of Charley’s purchase | of Bill from Columbus late in 1933, but | by winning in the series the intrepid | leader of the Cubs might well be hailed | @s a sort of David Harum. When Grimm gave $25,000 for Lee, Mmany critics arched their eyebrows, as it was believed the Bruins were get- ting “damaged goods,” something the St. Louis Cardinals didn't want. Lee had belonged to the Cards and despite his record of 41 wins against 18 losses | In 1932 and 1933 in the American | Association, the Red Birds let him go. | During 1934 he won only 13 and lost |, 14 for the Cubs, but this season he | blossomed forth as one of the best slabbers in the senior circuit. Greenberg Finally Hits. EE would not have to be very good to better the pitching displayed Yyesterday by the Cubs. The first four ‘Tigers to face Root—White, Coch- rane, Gehringer and Greenberg—hit safely and scored. ‘White singled, Cochrane doubled, Gehringer singled, and Greenberg, after 18 futile trips to the plate in league and series campetition, finally made a hit. It was a home run into the bleachers. Thus was the game really over in the first inning, although the Tigers| Hack. made certain by jumping on little Roy Henshaw in the fourth for three more | Tuns and a 7-to-0 lead. Some sandlotter-ish fielding by Hank Greenberg in the fifth thelped the «+ Cubs to get a run, and in the seventh . the Bruins managed to put together two of their six safeties off Bridges and a base on balls for two more Tuns, | Gosiin, The final tally | £ ‘was made in the Bengals’ half of the | Owen. but they were licked. seventh off Fabian Kowalic, who was far and away the best hurler to work for the Cubs. NAVY TICKETS HERE. Having been designated by the Naval Academy as an official distrib< utor of tickets for foot ball games played at Annapolis or Baltimore, the Keystone Automobile Club has seats < for the Navy-Mercer game tomorrow < Upper: Bill Rogell, Tiger shortstop, out at the midway sack in Round 5 of the second game at Detroit yes- terday. Rogell had singled over Hack’s head and was nipped trying to stretch it on Left Fielder Galan's peg to Center Flelder Jo-Jo White of the Bengals safe at the initial sack in the sixth White had dribbled the ball along the line and got a life when Pitcher Fabian Kowalik retrieved the tap and hit White in the head with the bail, which can be clearly seen caroming to foul territory. later he dashed for second, only to die there when First Baseman Phil Cavarretta recovered the ball and fired Shortstop Bill Jurges. session. Lower: it to Second Baseman Bill Herman. 5,000 FANS SHIVER IN'BLEACHER LINE Night Vigil Outside Cubs’ Park Drives Detail of Police Frantic. BY WILLIAM WEEKES, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, October 4.— The backbone of base ball fan- dom —the bleacher custo- mers—stepped up with $1.10 each to purchase the 12,000 sun seats necessary to produce a capacity crowd | of 50,000 today as the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs renewed their bat- tle for world series loot. The backbone was a big, noisy, well-bundled one, so big and noisy that 50 policemen were detailed to watch over them from last night to 7 o'clock this morning. At midnight, more than 5,000, disdainful of freez- ing temperatures, were lined up—to some extent. At least the coppers tried to keep them in line, but they milled about, attempting to sneak up ahead, until the “law” was almost frantic. Specs Boost Prices. FTER showing signs of softening up yesterday, speculators, encour- aged by reports that most of the Loop hotels were filled and that a transient population of at least 15,000 had fil- tered in, boosted prices of box and grandstand seat strips a little. Some disposed of holdings at close to orig- inal prices of $19.80 a strip for boxes and $16.50 for grandstand seats. Later, however, the prices arose to $45 for boxes and $30 for the grandstand strips. Second Game > (ol i RSl it (8 et et Hartnett, Demaree. 1| Cavarretta 1b_. ack. 3b_ i i 1l cocooncooM | onossscocsss & & Elvonconmoo> & cumonmomscans ol morrmorunit &l oroormormonoll » e RS SRR OReR, . H { i b B ol mroocorumem ol orosmorasscsn “*Batted for Kowalik in th. 25 888 182 Runs batted in—Cochrane. Gehringer (3), gre 2. Jurges. Herman (2). Fox ! for the public as well as members at| & the club headquarters, 1323 Connec- ticut avenue. SEEKS 135-POUND FOES. Stella Maria A. C., 135-pound fot| & ball team, wants to schedule games with elevens in its class. Call Man- ager Dillon at Adams 1816 after 6 p.m. o Struck out-By Henshaw. 2 (Ow by Kowalik. 1 (Bridges): Lindstrom. 35 i . L), sec Shse imenis HICAGO, October 4.— The sixth -glacial period moved in on top of the world series and the Tigers pulled the smartest trick of the year. polar bears, clawed the hide off the frozen Cubs and moved into Chicago on even terms. Their main job now will be stopping | the Cubs on their own turf, where the ! Cubs haven't lost a ball game for a month. The Cubs were smoking hot until | the Aretic Circle fell on their necks in the second battle, and the wind that roared in from the barren lands re- moved all the steam from their sys- tems in about 10 minutes. ‘Tiger bats and a young fellow by the name of Tommy Bridges, from Gor- donsville, Tenn., also figured in the day'’s results. . Outside of the bitter, blasting gale that blew fly balls all over the lot |nnd slipped incipient pneumonia to 47,000 customers, the second contest had one distinct feature. This feature has a direct con- nection with the punching power in Tiger bats. In the first game, if you care to go back that far, Lon Warneke turned these famous bats into cheese straws. But in the second game, the same set of bats won the ball game before a man was out. This may be a world serles record. At least it should be. Bats or bludgeons that were as silent as the grave only a day ago sud- denly turned on the expected thunder By the Associated Press. Q > o tt, maree. rt Cavarretia, 16 Hack, 3b Jurgees, ss Warneke, p.. Root, B Henshaw, Kowalik, lein Totals *Batted for Kowalik in | [RESTTR—— 1 MR al orooomarrosmmm 1l cosooosom0s0n & B & crocoornonumrni 5@ B ith innf shssRansail ol THE SPORTLIGHT Iey Gale, Bridges Blow Cubs From Lead, But Grimm Sees Victory in Home Tilts. BY GRANTLAND RICE. They turned into | It might be suggested here that | The composite box score of the first two games of the CHICAGO (NATIONAL LEAGUE). 2b. 3?. Hr. R«l;‘l BIB. 80. [ B olsocsssssssss s~ , second u 1 1 A moment —Wide World Photos. | at the expense of Charlie Root, a vet- | eran, who had no liking at all for a | Winter wind that apparently turned | | his right afm into an icicle. Four Hits, Four Runs. EFORE Root started for the warmth and shelter of the club house the first four Tigers moving up to the plate had nailed him for four hits and four runs. | White singled and Cochrane dou- | | bled. Gehringer singled and lank | Hank Greenberg fired a home run |into the left-field bleachers. Thers was the ball game. Four runs in, with the ball game over and nobody out. The smart move here would have | been to call off the game, award it to | the Tigers, and possibly choke off | some 10,000 cases of pneumonia. There was nothing to it the rest of the route. The unleached Tiger | attack drove Roy Henshaw in the gen. | eral direction of Charlie Root in the | fourth with a three-run attack that left the score 7 to 0. If there had been any doubt about the final result, this was the clinching turn. Up through the fourth inning Bridges, the Tennessee rifleman, had the Cubs stopped with one hit, a solid | blow from the 38-ounce mace that Gebby Hartnett swings, yleu in his home bailiwick not long With the seven-run lead Bridges put on the wraps and pulled up. He had the Cubs in a cage and he merely kept the door locked for the rest of " (See SPORTLIGHT, Page 2.) world series. k] @ 1 2| conoramuirnmund 24 ':':'g':'c" 233338 23838335+ e et sabenEnt g3gssss2 2] ovromemerioem> rloroscsssssscan ol soocomsskran ‘l CODDD DD H [ P . o ® & £ : 3 - HOUNRND NS [ % o £ sonosumenl] SE3TR3IRAGF . e, 2920 £233 333 © reooeeesee® o] horoooruE wl onorrooon: 3 3 1 O @ wrBocerd el 0ssc0m0sss! 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Associated Press Sports Writer, HICAGO, October 4.—It took | < world series to cool off the hottest club in base ball—that | ball heaver named Tommy Bridges— | so today, on a new and perhaps chillier the Chicago Cubs might just as well be starting all over again. difference—the Tigers came to town with their big first baseman and clean- | home-run hitter who helped blow the American League race apart, suffering little danger, though, of the dynamo of the Tigers’ power house being out In more ways than one it's a simple question of who's going to break the stand on the home grounds of Wrigley | Field against Mickey Cochrane's If it's any colder here than it was in Detroit—and the weather man says | blamed shebang is liable to wind up | on skates. Young Hefties Chosen. MAYBE that's why Cochrane and happy Charlie Grimm. a couple of fellows old enough to chill easily and warm slowly, have entrusted this vital day and third game to youth, with its warm blood and rubber pitching arms. The youngsters are Big Bill Lee from Plaquemine in the bayou coun- try of Louisiana, and Elden Leroy Auker, an underhanded fellow in a pitching way only, from Norcatur, Kans ! They're newcomers to this frigid | fracas, but as far as records go they were the best pitchers in their re- spective leagues last season. ‘They may wind up just more fodder for the frozen free swingers, just as the veteran Charlie Root, little Peewee Henshaw and a big elemental- looking right-hander named Fabian Kowalik, finished up all covered with lumps, after that 8-to-3 trimming yesterday by the revived Tigers. ‘Hurling Records Smart. AUKEB won 18 games for the Tigers during the warmth of the lamented Summer, Lee 20 for the Cubs. There's a marked resemblance in the careers and statures of the two youngsters opposing each other in the vital job of getting that second victory. Each was a famous all-round ath- ago. Lee, late of Louisiana State University, is 26 years old, stands 6 feet 3 inches high, weighs 198 pounds. Auker is only 25, a famous Big Six athlete from Kansas State, 6 feet 2 inches tall; heft, 195 pounds. He (See LEE-AUKER, Page 2.) |and an outfielder in Cramer who is Some High Lights of Second Big Series Setto QI_EEAUKER—i]UH_ SPORTSCOPE L Costly Cronin Deal Now Checks Big Trading in Base Ball. BY FRANCISE. STAN. HICAGO, October 4—To draw a crude parallel, base ball's big shots — the Griffiths, Terrys, Breadons, Yawkeys and Bradleys—are remindful of sea gulls chasing the Normandie as the world series parade moves to Wrig- ley Field. ~ No word is spoken, publicly, but the wheels of base ball's front-office machinery are turning, only this year, at least in the American League, the wheels require much more ofl. Tom Yawkey's purchase of Joe Cronin last year for $250,000 and Lyn Lary was responsible for this, which may explain the difficulty that | Yawkey now is encountering in at- | tempting to coax from Connie Mack | anywhere from three to seven of his | Athletic stars. After years in the big leagues a ball player can read the signs, or at | least he should, and there is no ! reason to believe that the veteran speaking in the lobby of press head- quarters here today was ‘“popping off” for the sake of hearing him- self talk, Claims Yawkey Hurt Market. “I'VE nothing but good feeling for Joe Cronin,” spoke the diamond gent, whom we shall leave anonymous | for obvious reasons, “but when Yaw- key overpald Griffith for Joe it hurt trading and buying of ball players. | Joe got a great break, but Yawkey has discovered that he made a mis- take. Only it's too late now. “They say he’s just offered Phila- delphia $300.000 in cash for Foxx, | McNair and Cramer. And they say | that Connie Mack wants $400,000. “Maybe this isn't confirmed or true, but here’s one thing that is true — Yawkey could easily have bought these men a year ago for his original offer. “But that was before the Cronin | purchase. | “Boston bought a shortstop who had passed his peak. That has been proven this past season. Joe isn't even | a first-class shortstop any more, and that's why McNair's name is bob- bing up. “If Yawkey last year had gone to Mack and offered that $250,000 or, at most, $300,000 and Lary, he could | have gotten Foxx to play first base | and bunt home runs over the Fenway Park fence, McNair to play short- | stop better than Cronin's been doing | far and away better than anybody the Red Sox now have. “As for a manager, Yawkey got a | good one in Cronin, but he also had one just as good, if not better. in | Bucky Harris, and Boston probably | would have won the pennant. For Joe's sake, I'm glad he was bought,’ but it will be a long time before base ball recovers from that sale:” Fate Against Root. THERE was something more tragic to that first inning yesterday than | the usual sight of a pitcher throwing his heart out and watching his pitches hit back at him twice as hard. It was because old Charley Root was tak- ing the lambasting. For 10 seasons now, year in and yeay out, Root has been Chicago's best | pitcher. He became sort of a land-| mark in the Windy City, like Ossie Bluege in Washington. Yet his greatest ambition seems mever to be realized, and that is to win a world series game. Old Charley’s had three chances now, dating back from 1929, and he isn’t likely to get another crack. In 1929, it may be recalled, he went into the seventh inning of a game with the Athletics with his team, the Cubs, leading by eight runs. Before the in- ning was ended, the A's had staged the biggest one-inning uprising in world series history, collecting 10 runs and winning the ball game. In 1932 he tried to redeem himself against the Yanks, but after four in- nings he was out of the game. New York made six hits and six runs off | him. Then, yesterday, in weather perfect for ski jumping or bob sledding, came the rudest thrust of all. He couldn’t get & man out. Base ball is filled with comebacks Maybe before this classic is ended Charley will get another chance What a fitting climax to a fading career it would be if Root could emerge as the hero of the series, Schacht Is “Crossed.” ROF. ALOYSIUS SCHACHT. Red Sox comedian-coach. didn't think he was able to “take it” until today. But he can—and did Washington fans well remember Schacht’s solo boxing act, undoubt- edly. He boxes an imaginary oppo- nent in a little ring on the ball field, finally is “knocked out.” and the cli- max occurs when Schacht's dumps a pail of water on him to re- vive him. Before hopping onto Navin Field yesterday attired in nothing more than trunks, shoes and boxing glove Schacht filled the bucket with warm water. Outside the weather was al- most freezing. A baby gale chilled spectators to the bone. The fight was a good one, Schacht, as usual, was kayoed. but His second picked up the bucket. Aloysius, | flat on his back. probably grinned a bit as he contemplated the “Oh's!" of sympathy to come when the “cold lwater was doused on him The water came, but it wasn't the water Schacht put in the pail. Detroit players—Goslin and Crowder are suspected—emptied the warm water, filled the bucket with ice water from the dugout drinking fountain and then topped it off by dropping chunks of ice into the pail One piece of ice hit Schacht in the eye and another in the chin, nearly actually knocking him out L PRISON SERIES IS OFF “Underworld” Battles in Texas Balked by Rodeo. HUNTSVILLE, Tex., October 4 (). —The “underworld series”—for the prison base ball championship—is off. ‘Texas Prison officials declined yes- terday to accept the challenge of the Oklahoma Penitentiary nine. They explained it's rodeo time in Texas and there'd be no place to play. The park at Huntsville Penitentiary has been cut to half its regular size to make room for bleachers for rodeo fans. "WINGS over WASHINGTON" That swank wing tip has a flare for style that apparently all of Washington wants. g fast! You'll see ¢ Special everywhere! Another point i It's sprea: favor—it comes in ers—Norwegian calf, Scotch grain, Cor- dovan and reversed calf. A Smart Hahn Special’ 530 Hahn all your favorite leath- Brown or black. Men's Shops ¢ Open Evenings 14th & G Tth K ® 3212%4& the | second | you ett arot DESPITE DEFEAT Face Tigers Again. CHICAGO‘ October 4. —Eaves night with the Chicago Cubs: Root and tells him it's all right. French tomorrow rl; we've still got to pa table in the d: nd tel the You never were bef Charlie.” berg—and that’s all that beat you.” Grimm Still Grins, Players BY PAUL MICKELSON, dropping as the special train Charlie Grimm, his big grin still “We'll beat them with Bill Lee to- ‘Warneke will p Catcher Gabby joins the crowd that Root had >n1 lot of stuff in says Gabby. “You just threw two bad “I thought I had good stuff, too.'” S CUBS UNSHAKEN Peppery—Root Eager to Assoclated Press Sports Writer. rolled onward through the there, walks over to downcast Charlie day and shoot :'71' E of Larry Charlie get anot fast collec! nd Roo yesterday’s game. balls—to Cochrane and to Greene replies Root, “but that's the way it | goes. I'd like another crack at them.” Some Bad Blood Between Clubs. TRAINER Andy Lotshaw (you can't take him too seriously, as is &n enemy of any ball player who treats his boys badly) bristled “I'll get that Greenberg. you wait and see. He thinks he’s smart, but he better not get tough with old Andy.” . ‘Aw, g'wan,” says a newspaper man. “If you saw Hank coming, you'd run a mile.” “Run?” shouts fight that guy right n before the crowd t rrow with our world series cuts at stake. He's got me mad.” Manager Grimm admits there is a _ little bad blood running between the two clubs, but waves aside any talk of reprisals against the Tigers, figur- ing the Cubs already have the best of the exchanges and vocal baiting. Cub rookie pitcher, aper boys. something to worry about y Field,” warns Casey at the mound. “We've won 36 out of our last 40 games there.” Tex Carleton says the Cubs won't have any trouble with Elden Auker. “He pitches ike I do.” explains Tex, who is slated to relieve Lee, if needed, today. Faot Boll SPECIALS Shoulder Pads 85 Others at $£1.65 p:.' 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