Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 18

A—1I8 Foening Stap Sporis WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936. Giants Picked to Win in 6 Games : Southpaw Duel Looms in Opener ” Called Due to “Softer Hurling in A. L. Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, September 29.— picked to finish third this year in their respective pennant tomorrow in the first all-New York series since Babe Ruth and John year rivalry in 1923. On their way back to the top nevertheless effective methods, the Yankees and Giants not only upset but hung up a flock of records. With Pop Knickerbocker all worked | impending events on opposite banks of the Harlem River and crowds | likely there will be a fresh anack: on world series marks. The teams each other's fields. Will Rake in Cash. prosperous season since pre-de- pression days being climaxed by the size of the players’ pool as well as for total attendance and gate re- All reserved seats at both the Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds than half the capacity of each park already has been disposed of at top $6.60 for box seats for six games. Lines already have been formed in Grounds, where 24,000 unreserved seats will go on sale tomorrow morn- The stadium can accommodate 71,767 fans, including some 6,000 s 51.856. If the series goes no more than four around $1,000,000, including the $100,- 000 already in the bank for the sale Big Batting Margin Also Is BY ALAN GOULD, Two base ball clubs that were races will start the big-money battle McGraw ended a spectacular three- this year, by sharply contrasting but several barrels of base ball “dope” up to a high pitch of excitement over pouring in from all sides, it is | hold their rival work-outs today on ALL signs point to base ball's most smashing all previous records for eeipts. have been sold. This means that more prices of $5.50 for reserved seats and front of the windows at the Polo ing. standees. The Polo Grounds’ capacity games the aggregate receipts will be of radio rights. Six-Game Series Seen. THE general expectation is that it will take six games to reach a decision, with Yankee power arrayed against a Giant defense that fea-| tures the great Carl Hubbel. A full eeven-game battle would send the “gate” to $1,500,000, as compared with the record of $1,207,864, set 10 years ago in seven games by the Yankees and Cardinals. The players, as usual, share only In the first four games, so that they will have no incentive whatever to prolong the proceedings for the bene- fit of the club owners. If the parks are jammed, as expected, the com- batants may split close to $450,000. The highest previous player pool was | $419,000 for the 1928 series between the Cardinals and Yankees. The Yankees that year were in the | middle of a streak that now stands | at 12 consecutive world series tri- umphs. They will be bidding for their thirteenth in & row against the screw- ball pitching of Hubbell, who closed ' the National League season with | an unbroken string of 16 straight triumphs. The law of base ball averages fig- | ures to be operating against both | streaks tomorrow, but thesbetting is | that the Yankee string is more likely | to be broken than Hubbell's. Giants Favored in Opener. WHE'I'HER Manager Joe McCarthy decides to send Vernon (Lefty) Gomez against Hubbell in the opener or shifts to his right-handed ace, Charles Rufus (Red) Ruffing, the Giants will be favorites to make a wvictorious start on.their own stamp- ing grounds. The pressure will be on Hubbell, but the slender Oklahoma master of major league base ball's most baffling delivery has borne up pretty well un- | der the burden thus far. There is less reason to figure that Hubbell will crack under the strain than there is to sup- pose that the Yankees, a compara- tively youthful outfit, will be “press- ing” from their anxiety to justify the series odds in their favor. This writer favors the chances of the National League champions for the following reasons: (1) That Hal Schumacher and Freddy Fitzsimmons, with their “downers,” will combine with the peerless Hubbell to give the | Giants more consistently effective | hurling than any three men the Yan- | kees can send to the box; (2) that the Yankee advantage of virtually 20 points in team batting, over the sea- son, is misleading because it was com- piled at the expense of “softer” pitch- ing; (3) that the Giants’ more re- sourceful and steadier defense makes up for the comparatively weak spots in the batting order, and (4) that Memphis Bill Terry is more apt to have the right managerial “hunches” than Buffalo Joe McCarthy. “Breaks” May Change Aspect. HERE are the “breaks” to consider in any reckoning of rival chances. season performances, individually or collectively, cannot arbitrarily be tak- en at their face value. Any club with 8 pitcher of Hubbell’s caliber enters a world series with a psychological edge. But there’s no guarantee attached. Even the great Christy Mathewson in his prime, and with pretty fair support, could not turn the scales in favor of the Giants in three consecu- tive years, 1911, 1912, 1913. The Yankees have a great reputa- tion as world series sluggers to up- hold. They have set most of the rec- ords for long-distance clouting and just finished a year in which they took the record books apart. The cele- brated iron man, Lou Gehrig, is a hold-over from the powerhouse teams that flattened the opposition 12 times in a row, in 1927, 1928 and 1932. Gehrig Should Top Hitters. G!.'HRKG, despite his September slump, figures to set the hitting pace for the Yankees. The big ques- tion is whether the sensational rookie, Joe Di Maggio, can fill the world series { | vania had not been hurt so much he RIPPLE MAY PROVE TIDAL WAVE. \ o S e THE ROOKIE CENTERFIELDER OF THE NATIONAL LEA&U? CHAMPS MAY SWAMP Mc CARTHYS HURLERS “ecmeeode- UNDER A 'FLOOD OF BASE HITS.. e . P S Cracked Bone, Spiking, Cinder Blurring Lieber’s Eye Provide Giants With Big Gunin Rip ple BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. | EW YORK, September 29.—Add | to goofy reasons why and how ball players get into world series the following: One broken collar bone, one artistic carving by spikes and a cinder in somebody’'s eve. | Goofy? Sure, but that nevertheless is how Centerfielder Jimmy Ripple will crash New York's first “subway series” in 13 years and, probably, how the | Giants got on the annual Fall gravy train. Ripple and the Giants, you see, | J' are interwoven, because if the red- headed house painter from Pennsyl- wouldn't be playing for the Giants, | and if Ripple hadn't been swinging his | big bat the Giants, very probably, | wouldn't have beaten out the Cardinals and Cubs. Ripple shares with Joe Di Maggio of the Yanks the distinction of being | regarded as the most interesting new- | comer to world series competition this year. In a less raucous sort of a way, he is the Blondy Ryan of 1936, except that Jimmy probably is a better ball player. Early in Autumn, when the Giants thredtened to climb out of the second division, Ripple climbed off the bench and created not a ripple but a splash. He was the cog the Terrymen needed. The Giants’ change in fortune thereafter is too well remembered for retelling. ‘White Sox, Cubs Eyed Him. RIPPL! got in the game because of the cinder, but before going into that item, as it went into Hank Leiber’s | eye, there is first to be discussed a | matter of a broken collar bone. Back in 1932 Ripple was playing for Montreal, which was Pete Apple- | ton’s old club in the International League. He was going great guns and the White Sox, needing outfielders, were interested in him and planned to buy. Then one day Ripple tried one of those diving catches that make an outfielder feel great if he negotiates it, and like a darned fool if he doesn’t. Ripple not only felt like a sap, but he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and, lo and behold, his collarbone was broken and the White Sox suddenly lost interest in him. ‘The Cubs were next to become in- trigued with Jimmy. They were re- ported ready to buy him at the start of the 1933 season, but in Spring shoes left by Ruth, who will be a spectator for the first time since the Ruppert Rifles began figuring in tne championship scuffie. The Babe finaily reached the point where he could “call his shots” in the world series. Di Maggio won't try anything like that, but he has a big chance to be a hero in his fi year. If home runs prove the most effec- tive strategy, Mel Ott of the Giants may have as much to say as Gehrig, Di Maggio or Bill Dickey, the back- stopping bombardier of the Yankees. “Little Mel's” bat decided two games in the Giants’ favor in the 1933 series. The only thing certain sbout the Yankee pitching plans is that Monte Pearson, the talented right.hander, will not be able to start befcre Satur- day or Sunday. The former Cleve- lander has a lame back and is under a doctor’s care. This puts the issue squarely up to Gomez and Ruffing, with Rat Malone, Johnny Murphy and Bump Hadley next in line, about in that order. training with Montreal Ripple collided | with Pitcher Claude Passeau, now of | the Phillies, and Passeau wrote his | name in capital letters on Ripple’s | leg. Inasmuch as he used his spikes, | Jimmy was laid up for quite a while | and when he returned he wasn't in | good shape and consequently put in his worst season in professional ball. He hit less than .300 and the Cubs | looked elsewhere for an outfielder., Home Runs Won His Job. IMMY came back strong after that accident. He played good ball for | Montreal in 1934, and in 1935 he batted .333. The Giants bought him | and carried him as a spare fly-chaser. | He never got much of a chance to play for Terry until the New Yorks reached | Boston early in August and a cinder flew into Hank Leiber's eye as he was sitting on the bench. Now Leiber had been a disappoint- ment to Terry, but Bill still figured he was & better bet than Ripple. With a cinder in Hank's eye, however, he gavs Ripple a temporary edge and Jimmy promptly took steps to make it a per- manent one. Before barging into center field he hit a home run on his first trip to the plate. The next day he hit another one. Thereafter he was too hot to take out, as they had taken the cinder dut of Leiber's orb. Ripple hit safely in 19 straight games befor he was stopped. Now he’s the Giant's regular center | flelder, except when a left-hander fs | pitching against them. Next to Burgess Whitehead he is the fastest man on the team. He drives in runs so well that he bats fifth, right behind Mel Ott. He'll be 27 on October 14 and if the Yank’s don't keep an eye on him he may start celebrating early. | Batting, Fielding Marks of Rivals Ey the Associated Press. YORK, September 29.—Here are the club batting and flelding rec- ords of the Yankees and Giants for the 1936 season: Batting. Giants— AB. G, HR RBI 154 5450 R. _H. 2B 3B 742 1.520 240 48 97 692 Yankees— 155 5.501 1.1€5 1.676 312 §3 182 993 Fielding. PO A B 4158 2.067 165 4108 163 Pet 280 299 DP. Pct. Giants 161 974 Yankees 147 FANS GROW EXCITED OVER CHICAGO TILTS Sales Brisk at Both White Sox and Cub Parks—Kennedy and Lee to Pitch Opener. By the Associated Press. 'HICAGO, September world series starting Wednesday in New York may draw plenty of at-| tention, but the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs won't be playing to | empty stands in their city's series opener tomorrow at Wrigley Field. Brisk ticket sales were reported to- day from both the Cub and Sox front offices, stimulated by the announce- ment that series customers will be kept informed between innings of the New York Yankees-Giants battle. ‘The Sox, who hold a big edge in past | eries, will pitch Vern Kennedy, their ce right-hander, while the Cubs will lead off with Bill Lee. Four victories out of seven games will determine the winner. R, GRID SQUAD IS CALLED. Candidates for the Hessick Coal Co. 150-pound foot ball team are re_ quested to report for practice tonight at Eighteenth and Otis streets north- east at 7:30 o'clock. ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN EW YORK, Se you! THOMPSON Btember 29.—Don’t say we didn’t warn Take the Giants and win yourself a mess of potatoes—to fritter away at Laurel, Yeh, we know that: The National League champs “backed in.” Jackson has a collapsible leg. Terry sports a balloon knee. Mancuso is an ice wagon. Ripple a jittery rookie. Fitzsimmons flopped tuning u g Not even the great Hubbell can win four games. LSO, we are aware that: Gomez is himself again. Hadley has turned hot. Ruffing is ready. Dickey’s having his greatest year. Ditto Gehrig. Ditto Crosetti. Ditto the whole team, with its new flock of slugging records. ATURALLY it’s hard to laugh off the fact that so astute a base ball man as Clark Griffith opines the Bronx Busters will win without suffering a single loss, and that of the great army of self-admitted “experts” only a few concede more than a pair of brackets for Hubbell. Then there are the. odds, set by the diamond-wise Broad (high)waymen who tell you the Rupper t Rifles are 1-to-2 favorites, but are guilty of woeful understatement. All in all St i e ation. e S w'fm plcking the evidence points so overwhel Stadium’s Homicide Squad steam-rollering the Polo ly to the rounders the Giants needs a bit of ex- i 29.—The | By JIM BERRYMAN. 1 “ JIMMY WAS CALLED FROM A +2 MONTHS SNOOZE ON THE BENCH TO FILL N FOR HANK LEIBER. NOT IRON' PITCHER, HUBBELL ASSERTS Lacks Speed of *33 Series, Needs Sunshine, but Has Improved Curve. BY SCOTTY RESTON, __ Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, September 29.— Carl Hubbell said today he is not the pitcher now he was in 1933. On the eve of another world series, | cimaxing the most successful season — | of his career, he spoke longingly of D AND SMACKED OUT A HOMER IN HIS FIRST TRIP TO THE PLATE. HiS SPEED ON THE RUNWAYS HAS GIVEN HIM MANY EXTRA | BASE BLOWS. ... ~—C& e | G’@oooo AU DEALT BLOW, LOSING FIVE ACES Dick, Leading Back, One of | | Two to Wed—Another to | Coach in China. IVE American University foot | | F ball players upon whom Coach ‘Walter H. Young was count- ing as regular members of his starting eleven this year have left school, leaving the Massachusetts avenue team hard pressed for its opening game against Washington College at Roosevelt High School | faster. a time when weather made no differ- ence to his pitching. “Three years ago I wouldn't be wondering what kind of weather we'll ave for the opener. Now I like the sunshine,” he said. This was the Hubbell who won 26 games and lost only 6 this season, who carried and inspired a crippled Giant team through one of the great- est late season drives in recent major league history. Still he said: “They're all wrong about me being I had more speed in 1933 and it didn't take long to get them going about where I wanted them. Now when it's cold, I feel the difference.” Now Has Good Curve. UBBELL said he has changed his style since he pitched in the 1933 series. Then he relied, he said, almost entirely on his “screwball,” a “fade away” reminiscent of the great Christy Mathewson’s favorite pitch, which way to left handers and another to the righthand swingers. “But you can't get by in this league on any one pitch,” Hubbell continued. “They learned to hit the ‘screwball’ by standing up in front of the plate and hitting it before it broke. Then I tried to throw them iast ones inside. What I really needed was a curve, but I didn't have one.” For the past two years Hubbell has been working on his curve. “I was in the bull pen quite a lot in 1934 and 1935, and I worked on that curve every chance I got. Now I think I've got a better curve than I ever had. That's why I had a good year ™ Likes to Work Before Crowd. JH UBBELL. 33 now. was playing for the Cushing. Okia. team in a class “D” league in 1923, when the Giants and Yanks met last in the world series. “I'll say one thing for these years. | They help your confidence. I love to go out there before a crowd like well ready to pitch. I guess a good ball player’'s like a good race horse. In a race like the series, you kindo outdo yourself.” Hubbell said he did not think he could pitch his best without three days' rest. He scotched the suggestions of some critics that he go to the mound every other day against the Yankees. =X doubt it,” he said. Stadium Saturday afternoon. Two of them Walter Dick, A. U's, best back last season, and Chick Yackel, an all-Chesapeake Confer- ence tackle, have married and dropped out of college. Bugs Hana- | walt, another all-conference lineman, | accepted an offer to coach at Lingan | University in Canton, China. Benny Benscotter, 215-pound tackle, decided | | to study forestry at Penn State and | Jim Applegate, who was to have | started his third year at guard, has | an eye injury that will keep him out | of the sport this season. Reserves Are Scarce. ITH but four days in which to prepare for the curtain-raiser, Young today had a tentative first team on the field, but with reserve material conspicuous by its absence. Hal Toner, 190-pound triple-threat quarterback; Wade Hansborough, Barty Bartlett, Ralph Wmslow,I Johnny Struble and Larry Howard ‘were scrapping for the backfield posts, with the line settled except in two positions. Joe Carlo and Kimber Shoop prob- ably will fill the tackle posts, with Jack Rhodes and Sammy Maize at guards. Red Rauche, an alert, hard- hitting freshman, is crowding Joe Britton for the latter's old center position, while Leroy Cooke, George Brown and Pete Sitnik are com- peting for the end assignments. D. C. PROS LOSE STAR Cumberland Breaks Wrist—Two Others Are Ailing. ‘With the loss of Frank Cumberland, triple-threat fullback, the Washington Pros’ hopes of capturing first place in the South Atlantic Foot Ball League have been dealt a severe blow. Cumber- land will be out eight weeks with a compound fracture of the right wrist, received Sunday, when his club lost to the Richmond Arrows, 6-0. Bill Andorka, center, with a slight ankle injury, and Wade Shaeffer, tackle, with a split hand, may miss the Pros’ Sunday league fray against the LIONS ROAR AT START Pro Grid Champions Rout Chicago Cardinals, 39 to 0. Br the Associated Press DETROIT, Mich., September 29— Off to a successful defense of their National Professional League foot ball title by a 39-0 rout of the Chicago Cardinals, the Detroit Lions demon- strated to 15.000 fans last night that apparently they will be just as hard to stop this year as they were in 1935. ‘The Lions’ greatest piece of defen- sive work came in ,the last quarter, when they halted the Cards with a yard gain in three attempts after a 45-yard pass had given the Cardinals & first down on Detroit's 4. SEEKS FOOT BALL FOES. Foot ball games with crack 125- pound teams are sought by the Wolverine A. C., 115-pound champions of the District last year. Call Charles Kessling at Lincoln 7862. Punters Pointed By Duke, Colgate BY ANDY KERR, Head Foot Ball Coach, Colsate University. AMILTON, N. Y. September 29.—In one of the two main intersectional games of the day, Colgate and Duke proved last Sat- urday that major teams can get ready for a contest early in the season and play good foot ball. ‘The punting in this game was a great feature. In recent years I seldom have seen so many long high, spirals as were booted by Parker of Duke and Marshall of Colgate. g Parker and Hackney, Duke's two splendid backs, lived up to their fine reputations, and they were ably abetted by a third potential- ly great back, thq Fullback Tipton. For Colgate, Jaeger carried the ball well, and the punting and passing of Marshall were well above average. The defensive of Norfolk Clancys at Norfolk. the Duke team was brilliant. Hubbe]l can make drop and curve one | have in the opener and start getting | @ Sports Program For Local Fans TOMORROW. Bdse Ball—World Series. Yankees vs. Giants, Polo Grounds, 1:30. THURSDAY. Base Ball—World Series. 1 ;{Ankeu vs. Giants, Polo Grounds, :30. Foot Ball. ‘Washington All-Stars vs. New York Giants, Griffith Stadium, 8:15. Wrestling. Rudy Dusek vs. Hans Kampfer, fea- ture match, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. FRIDAY. Base Ball—World Series. Giants vs. Yankees, Yankee Sta- dium, 1:30. Foot Ball. Elon vs. George Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 8. Gonzaga vs. Eastern, Eastern Sta- | dium, 3:30. St. John's vs. Western, Western Stadium, 3:30. Washington-Lee High vs. Central, | Central Stadium, 3:30. | Tech vs. Episcopal, Alexandria, Va., i 3:30. | BOXING. Billy Eley vs. Lambertine Wil- liams and Tiger Sullivan vs. Joe Tinsley, feature bouts, all-colored card, Turner’s Arena, 8:30. SATURDAY. Base Ball—World Series. Giants vs. Yankees, Yankee Sta- | dium, 1:30. | Foot Ball. | Delaware vs. Georgetown, Griffith | Stadium, 2:30. Shenandoah vs. Catholic University, Brookland Stadium, 2:30. | Washington College vs. American University, Roosevelt Stadium, 2:30. Maryland vs. Virginia Tech, Roa- noke, Va. Wilson Teachers' College vs. Gal- laudet, Kendall Green, 2:30. Howard vs. Tuskegee Institute, Tus- kegee, Ala. NAVY PLANS T0 STOP LAFFERTY, DAVIDSON Aims to Strengthen Flanks for | Game Saturday—Backfield ! Make-up Uncertain. Srecial Dispatch to The Star ANNAPOLISA September 29.—Tom | Hamilton and his aids. strongly impressed by the strength of the Davidson team, which their charges will meet here Saturday. were to start this afternoon to prepare the team for that contest. Marty Karow and Lou Bryan were the Navy scouts that saw Davidson win from North Carolina State by | ‘6 to 2, and they brought back serious | | reports from the scene of the conflict. | Both Karow and Bryan said that | Davidson was very strong, and Karow, former Ohio State backfield star, said that Lafferty of Davidson was an extremely fast and clever runner. | Lafferty will be specially watched made to strengthen the ends. It is probable that Zeke Soucek and Heber Player will start, as they did Satur- | day, but it is hoped that Irwin Fike and Bill Bringle, among the best of the Navy's flankers, will be in shape to be held in reserve. Verner Soball. Frank Blaha, Asbury Coward and | John Beard are other ends. Sneed Scmidt, Frank Case and Bob Antrim are almost certain starters in the backfield. but the fight still is on for the fourth place among Bill In- gram, Charley Reimann and Newell Thomas. All three were tried against William and Mary, and Ingram seems to have a slight edge on account of his passing and pass defensive play. MORE SOFT BALL Community Center Is to Promote Indoor League at Tech. Indoor base ball, one of Washing- | ton’s leading sports 10 years ago, will | be revived this Fall and Winter, when | augurates a soft ball league at Tech High School’s gymnasium on October 13. According to Pete English, starting his second year as an athletic director of the center, soft ball will play a lead- | ing part in the center’s athletic activ: ties, with league games planned Tues- day and Saturday nights. Five teams, including the local soft ball champions, already have signified their intentions of joining the league, which will be limited to eight teams. They are Ehrlich Poultry, the Capi- tal's champions; Census Bureau, Pear- son & Crain, Federal Surplus Com- modities and Victory Post of the Ameri- can Legion. Managers of prospective members may fle applications for franchises at the Community Center office in the Franklin School Building. FOOT BALL BERTHS OPEN. Teams desiring franchises in the League are requested to have repre- sentatives present at a meeting tomor- row night at 8 o'clock, at the Atlas Sport Shop, 927 D street. Northeast Boys' Club, Palace A. C., Georgetown Boys' Club, Cardinals and Ballston A. C. elevens already have signed. Yanks Will Win Series, Diz Dean Gripes Playing Third Best National Club—No ’37 Contract Will Please Him. By the Associated Press. KLAHOMA CITY, Septem- ber 29.—Tall, talkative Dizzy Dean drawled to- day that he will be the first big 1937 holdout, that the Yanks will win the world series and that the Cardinals have too many “bush leaguers” on the team. The temperamental St. Louis hurler exploded with a bang at the first question and raitled right on from there: 1. About the holdout business— “No matter what they have on their contract, I'm not satisfied. “They’ll havs to Go better by & guy who pitched his arm off trying to get them in the world series than I think they're going to do.” 2. About the world series— “The third best pall club in the National League wili play the New York Yankees in the world series. The Cardinals and jhe Cubs are better than the Giants. “And I think the Yankees will beat them.” 3. About the Cardinals— “Well, if we weren't going to win the pennant, I'm glad it was this way, where we weren™ carried right up to the last day of the season. Injuries beat us, even if we are s bunch of bush leaguers, except for four guys.” (Dean didn’t name the four, but at Wichita, Kans, yesterday he said Leo (Lippy) Durocher was the only first-class player in the infield. Also his present barnstorming tour with Pepper Martin indicated his high respect tor the “Wild Horse of the Osage.”) But the usual Dean boastfulness Was gone. “Carl Hubbell?” he repeated ‘when asked concerning his opinion of the Giants’ ace hurler. “Hubbell's the best pitcher in the game, including Dean,” said the modest “great one.” [} | the Community Center Department in- | National City 150-pound Foot Bail | GOMEZ INDIGATED Rival Plank-Marquard, N EW YORK, September 20— duels as those waged in bygone Vaughn, may be added the portside at the outset of New York's “subway Ruth-Vaughn Tiffs. To the luster of such memora= days between Eddie Plank and Rube picture of the great Carl Hubbell in series” tomorrow. Battle With Hubbell Might By the Associated Press. ble southpaw world series Marquard, Babe Ruth and Jim a match with Vernon (Lefty) Gomes There 15 no doubt the Giants will | send their famous left-hander to the | first firing line. The National League | champions figure to stand or fall upon | the performance of the “pitcher of the year.” Hubbell's presence on the mound in the opening game makes the Giants betting favorites, at least for | the day. Whether the screwball wize | ardry of the Oklahoman can carry | his team to the base ball heights, as it did in 1933, depends upon subsequent developments. Gomez a Pressure Pitcher, THE possibility of Gomez getting the No. 1 assignment for the Yane | kees, 1n preference to the right-hande ed Charley (Red) Ruffing, seems ine | dicated by a number of factors. Gomez, | like Hubbell, has been most effective in the interleague all-star games. The slim southpaw has had an erratic year, but showed a sensational speed | ball recovery in his last two perform- | ances. He is a “money pitcher,” apt to be at his best under pressure. Yankee followers believe Gomez, if | he is right, has the best chance of any pitcher to outpoint Hubbell in a close game, where a “break” might prove | the deciding factor. | Aside from the prospect of a classic | southpaw start to a series that prom- | ises to shatter all money records if it goes over five games, the latest | pitching developments seem to favor the chances of the Giants to overcome the heavier hitting threat of their Bronx rivals. Hal Schumacher's return to form, after a mediocre season. rounds out a three-man starting staff that will carry the burden for the National Leaguers. The third member is Freddy Fitzsimmons, who more con- sistently has aided Hubbell than any | other member of the Giants' staff in the campaign's closing weeks. Offer Variety of Pitching. HUBBELL'S screwball, Fitzsimmons® knuckler and Schumachers sinker combine to furnish a type of pitching with which the Yankees have | had little experience this season. They | may prove especially baffling to the | younger batsmen in the Yankee line~ might get away with it, but I|by the Navy and every effort will be |y, to such an extent that the Giants | would have opportunity to gain quick | command. Moreover, all three are | masters at fielding their positions, a | factor that looms vitally in the Giants’ defensive scheme. Unless Gomez comes through. the Yankees may have to keep their bull- pen busy throughout the series. Ruffing rates the No. 1 or 2 starting role, but Joe McCarthy, the Yankee pilot, faces a problem otherwise. His most con= sistent right-handed winner outside of Ruffing is Monte Pearson. but the ex-Clevelander has a sore back. Of the other Yankee prospects, Fordham Johnny Murphy and the | veteran Pat Malone, who had world series experience with the Chicago Cubs, may be the best bets. Both have registered comebacks. Bespece tacled Johnny Broaca, the Yale grade | uate, and Irving (Bump) Hadley, who ran up a big early winning streak to everybody's surprise, are unlikely to | get starting calls. Coffman Heads Rescue Squad. ‘LEF'I'-HANDED Al Smith has won more games than any member of the Giant staff, aside from Hub- bell, but his form this month has | relegated him to a subordinate spot in series calculations. Heading the | rescue squad, if and when needed by | the Giants, will be Dick Coffman. | Prank Gabler, Harry Gumbert and Clyde Castleman also will be on call. Hubbell is certain to start the first and fourth games, as he did three years ago against the Senators. He | also may be thrown into action as a | relief man. His chance to become a | three-game winner, however, probs | ably depends on the series going seven games. The great Christy Mathew- son hurled three shutout victorties for the Giants in 1905 in a five-game series, but it is doubtful if Hubbell | could stand that much work, eve: if the Giants had the chance to put over such a quick triumph. On the receiving end of the series pitching are two of the best workmen in the majors. Yankee Bill Dickey, with & .360 batting mark, has a big slugging edge over his Giant rival, Gus Mancuso, but Gus has a more impressive defensive record. Mancuso, heavy of foot, is less brittle than Dickey, and more resourceful than colorful. Conaenser cleans, purifies smoke. Traps moisture. Noclog- 9ing. Notrouble. Prove It yourselfl