Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1936, Page 55

WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION e ] The Foening Star Yankees BIG CUNS PRIMED TOBLAST GIANTS Attack Apt to Succeed Now That Screwball Hurler Is Out of Way. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor of The Star. EW YORK, October 1.—Out- pitched, out-batted, out-fielded and out-smarted, not to men- tion out-scored. That, suc- cinctly, tells the story of the Yankees’ 6-to-1 rout in the opening encounter of the campaign for the championship of the base ball universe at the hands of the Giants in the Polo Grounds here yesterday. Yet the world series, in a manner of speaking, really does not get un- derway until the second game. How come? Well, that first victory for the National Leaguers virtually was conceded, at least by practically every- body but the Yanks themselves. ‘With Carl Hubbell, the best pitcher in either league this year and. for that matter, in all base ball, as even the redoubtable Dizzy Dean has admitted, fit and ready, the outcome was more or less of a foregone conclusion. Even while quoting the Yanks as 1-to-2 shots to emerge with the title, the odds-layers installed the Giants as 3-to-5 favorites to cop the opening encounter, due solely to the presence on the mound of Hubbell. The cxplanation was that the fork- handed exponent of the screw ball packed too much box wizardry for even McCarthy's murderous maulers to cope with, at least the first time they faced him, but that with this slick southpaw out of the way the homicide squad would revert to type and literally smash its way to tri- umph. As Predicted, Up to Now. THE first premise proved only too accurate for the complacency of the Yankees who, with big Red Ruffing, their right-handed slab ace, serving as a sacrifice, were not only beaten, but overwhelmed. Whether the other half of the generally accepted conten- tion now will be borne out, however, remains to be seen. Until Hubbell, spare of frame and considerably worn from his season- long task of almost sirgle-handedly piteching the Giants to the pennant, can generate sufficient strength and stamina to resume chucking chores— Baturday, by the earliest—the Yanks are supposed to forge to the front through the sheer weight of weapons. Whether in the next two games it is Schumacher or Fitzsimmons .against “= Gomez, -or -Hadley* or Malone”ls not supposed to make much difference, for the Ruppert Rifles, who established so many slugging records in the campaign just ended, afe touted to power-house their way to a pair of vietories that will put them out in front. Then, even if Hubbell again proves & stumbling block, they are supposed to pick up where they left off and crash through to the heavy end of the pay-off. It Wasn't Just Hubbell T MUST be said they bore no re- semblance to the ultimate victors in that initial affray yesterday, how- | ever, they were up against tougher pitching than they could muster, 'tis true, but they also suffered in com- parison with their rivals in the matter of direction, imagination and plain mechanical execution, topped off by a school-boy exhibition of fielding in the eighth when their defense crumbled along with a fast-tiring Rufing and the Giants slipped over four runs to clinch the verdict. After George Selkirk, doubt of ;- Whose ability to hit southpaw style 71 against the equally left-handed Hub- *. bell influenced Manager McCarthy at the last minute to drop him to eighth place in the batting order, lined a homer into the upper right field stand * to give the Yanks a one-run lead in the third, they were completely balked at every turn. They threatened again that inning, with two down, when Rolfe and Di Maggio singled in succession, only to have the mighty Lou Gehrig, held hitless all afternoon, roll weakly to the box. Again in the fourth, an opening was presented when Washington’s own Jake Powell rapped out the double he compiled along with two singles, but this was frittered away, after Lazzeri walked, when the always overly ambitious Powell failed on the front end of a double steal. B B Powell—Hero and Goat. OWELL'S third hit in round seven was nullified when Selkirk drilled into a force play, and the biggest Yankee chance of all went , @glimmering in the eighth when, after Crosetti opened with a double and Rolfe got & life as his sacrifice was fumbled by Hubbell, two of the mightiest of the Yanks encountered bitter frustration—Di Maggio by awatting into a double play and Dickey by being held to an infield roller with Gehrig on first through being hit with & pitched ball and Crosetti waiting wainly on third. Ruffing proved a tough foeman for Hubbell until Dick Bartell picked out one to his liking in the fifth and parked it in the upper reaches of the stand in left to tie the score, and Mancuso came through with a single, 's double in follow- lead that never eighth, however, after successive sin- gles by Terry and Ott, followed by Ripple’s neat sacrifice, set the stage. Here Ruffing gave further evidence of his weakening by walking Man- cuso and Whitehead to force in one run. Jackson's long fiy to Di Maggio produced another tally and two more sccrued when the Yanks blew up completely. Lazzeri started it by his failure to handle a soft bounder by Hubbell, which was scored as a hit, and bum chucks by Retriever Cro- . setti and Backstopper Dickey com- pleted it. _ ; ‘The Yes and No of It. ONSIDERING the miserable weather, Hubbell, who functions « ) v WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER -1, 1936. THAT WAS THE ONE. GRIFFITH NOT QUITE AS SICK AS YANKEES Maintains World Series Record for Attendance in Spite of Aching “Tummy.” pecial Dispateh to The Star TEW YORK, October 1.—Reported “near death’s door” in a wild ru- mor, while actually riding out the ef- President Clark Griffith of the Wash- ington ball club still is a thoroughly interested and hardy spectator at the world series here. While Capital sports circles were agog with a report that Griff was in a | “critical condition” yesterday, the Old | Fox sat in an unprotected box seat at the Polo Grounds watching Carl Hub- bell and the Gianis defeat the Yankees in a downpour-of rain. To a query re- ferring to his health as reported, Griff | answered, in the big eighth inning, “It | looks as if the Yanks are in the critical condition.” 3 Earlv yesterday morning Griff suf- fered an attack of indigestion and, al- though advised to skip the opening | game by-his physician, he insisted on going, thereby keeping intact his rec- ord of never having missed a world se- ries inaugural. He seemed today none the worse for having done it. HEURICHS NOT JOKING | Post $500 for City Base Ball Set With Sleuths. Accepting a facetious challenge of a | member of the Bureau of Investigation base ball team with all seriousness the Heurich Brewers have posted $500 | as a bet that their nine could whip the week-day series champions in a three-game series, which would decide | the District sandlot diamond title for | the year, Although it was a Brewer that first mentioned the proposed game, cne of the sleuth players said, in jest: “Put up a couple hundred bucks and we might consider it.” The posting of the $500 followed. Financial Angle Of Opening Game - 25,823.55 87,800.07 Attendance (paid) - Players’ share. Clubs’ share: 29.266.69 Leagues’ share_ 29,266.69 Th_e official paid attendance at the opening game of the 1936 world series fell below the total of 47,391 for the initial contest at Navin Field last year. However, the gross receipts for yesterday's game greatly exceeded the $145,~ 432 paid for the 1935 opener. By the Associated Press. 8 NEW YORK, September 30.—If ever a town was in a frenzy over base ball, this is it . . . You see best in the hot sunshine, ‘performed | “(Bee YANKEES, Page D-3) | fects of an exaggerated stomach ache, ' i SERIE MuD Special Dispatch to The Star. | EW YORK, October 1—They | were expected to win the opener, but now that Col. Terry’s Giants have gone and done it, the case for the Yankees some- | how seems weaker than it did “on | paper”—or before the game, when | people merely were awarding the first clash to Hubbell and saying the Amer- jcan Leaguers still had the power to win the series. In the victory the Giants' thin man | carved out, there was a note strongly reminiscent of the last time the Terry- men were in a world series. That would be in 1933, when the Senators | were favored to beat them and went {down in a five-game set, with only | Earl Whitehill winning for Wash- ington. First, for all of the early in- difference with which the Sena- tors regarded Mr. Hubbell, there was no hitting him, and ever since there has been no hitting ‘Carl by American League bats- men, In the all-star games of 1934, 1935 and 1936 he reigned supreme, and yes- terday he did again by not only win- ning an opening game but by breaking a 12-game winning streak of the Yan- kees in world series competition, and, by the ame token, boosting his own series winning streak to three in a row. Pitching Plans Even Similar. 'ERRY plans to send Hal Schu- macher against the Yanks in the second game, and Washingtonians, at least, vividly will recall that Hal fol- lowed Carl in 1933 with considerable success. In the third fray, the Giants will shoot with fat Freddy Fitzsim- mons, who made it three in a row over —By JIM BERRYMAN. Q,TCH, AL upm SHA NPT J. PLUvIUS HIT ALMOsT I.0o0 CARRYING OFF HONORS IN THE S OPENER....HIS SCREW BALL SET THE YANKS DOWA IN THE WITH SPOTS BEFORE THEIR EVES... The Yanks Probably Aren’t So Cocky. 4 Washington three years ago. At least the first punch and the prospective one-two wallop to follow are similar. Only Schumacher and Fitz can add further to the similarity. In 1933 Washington went into the world series with the highest team batting average in the American League. Now the Yankees are carrying the same kinds of guns into the same warfare, | In '33 the Senators’ 99 game won | victories of the number the Yanks | compiled this season, which would in- | dicate nearly equal strength. Three years ago the Senators heard | a lot of watch-out-for-Hubbell stories, t00. but they sniffed, pointed to the power of Manush, Myer, Cronin, Gos- lin, Kuhel, et al, and predicted that Carl would be unveiled as merely an average sort of a pitcher who might win on a good day and get his ears pinned batk when he wasn’t right, Yet when the Washingtons didn't hit Hub at the start of the game they grew panicky, lost the opener, and ex- cept for the respite furnished by ‘Whitehill, they never recovered. Yanks Grow Panicky, Too. TBE ‘Yankees also grew panicky. You could see it with a pair of smoked glasses on in the eighth inning, when they started to throw the ball around and weund up lucky to keep it in the Polo Grounds. They were charged with two errors and it should have been three boots. A contrasting chord in the methods of going haywire is struck, however, when you compare the Yanks of '36 and the Griffs of '33. Hubbell had ‘Washington stage struck from the start when he whiffed Myer, Goslin and Manush in the first inning of the opener. The Yanks’ panic did not set in until after the Giants had wiped away the 1-0 lead given the American Leaguers by George Selkirk’s home Tun in the third inning. Unconsciously the Yanks must have feit, all down the line, that experts . . . President Ford Prick dashes back and forth between National League headquarters and the press room . . . The guy can't gy away from the newspaper ys. Moe Berg, educated catcher of g g £ 3 : i ‘B B 3 : H 4 v 1 3 il e I i K T i T2 " i E B Coin Circulates at Series as in Old Days New York Base Ball Crazy—Powell Wanted to Quit Diamond and Become Cop. Mrs. and Babe Ruth and his passed under the stand on the way out and nobody spoke . . . (Babe didn’t have on his raccoon coat) ... That explosion you heard along about 4:05 p.m. was just the Yankee ih- field blowing up . . . Col. Ruppert paid Joe McCarthy a pop call just before the game and wished Joe “Goot luck.” Ja? Burgess Whitehead’s private and mmu ’lfllml‘ mmthumoucm force, no but to hire a detective to stand guard in front of his house so he could get some sleep , . ,When he woke up ms:“rdly he found 22 notes and 53 lost was a record within three | e 7. N F s~ f '5127*”2 47 CUBS, CHISOX GLOAT OVER SUNDAY CLASH See Big Money Resulting From Rain That Delays Start of City Series. By the Associated Press. 'HICAGO, October 1.—Delayed a day because of rain—not at all | to the sorrow of the athletes—Chi- cago’s city championship base ball series was scheduled to get under way today at Wrigley Field. Yesterday's postponement disap- pointed thousands of fans, but the delay made it possible for the players to share in the receipts in a Sunday game which is expected to attract the biggest turnout cf the series. ‘The postponement made no differ- ence in the pitching plans of the rival managers. Charlie Grimm of the Cubs stuck with Bill Lee, while Jimmy Dykes had his young right-hander, Vernon Kennedy, refdy. when Selkirk pickled that pitch by Hubbell, it was all over. In the first place, the day wasn't the kind in which Hub goes well. It was over 33 years old and already had gone on record as saying he couldn't reach the peak of his effectiveness on a day such as yesterday. | And in the second place, Selkirk | had no license to bang & home run off | Hub. There is not a good left-handed batter in the American League who is | rated less effective than Selkirk against | a southpaw pitcher. To themselves the ‘Yanks must have put down the hit as a sign that Hubbell was not what he was cracked up to be. . Game Has Comical Finale. IP THEY thought thusly they were bitterly disappointed. After the third nning Hub mowed them down, giving up only three hits and striking out seven hitters, including Mr. Sel- kirk. Then, in the fifth, Dick Bartell tied it with a homer. In the sixth Ott doubled, moved up on a sacrifice and scored on Mancuso's single, to make it 2-1. When the eighth rolled around the ‘Yanks were washed up. Terry opened with a single and Ott dragged a bunt for a hit, while the Ruppert infield looked on helplessly. Then Ripple sacrificed, Man- cuso was }mmcely passed to fill the bases, and the panic was on for certain. Ruffing never came close to getting the ball over to Whitehead and a run was forced across the plate. No second baseman of similar experience to Laz- zeri's ever looked worse on Hubbell's easy grounder, which followed a long fily by Jackson for a secoad run that inning. Tony owes & box of cigars to the scorer for escaping a boot on that ball. Nor was that all. Crosetti made a half-wild peg to Dickey after recover- ing the ball, and Dickey let it get away. Mancuso and Whitehead scored. Dick- ey retrieved the ball and made an un- pardonakle throw back to Ruffing at the plate, Hub moseying all the way to third in the confusion. Washington’s panic set in early, the ‘Yankees’ a little later. It added up the same as far as the opening game is concerned. It now seems to be a ques- tion of the Yanks getting over their fright earlier than the Senators, who never did. Owens Is Scared Fou tay, keep out of airplanes when it’s raining.” “No, sir—I'm not so brave, I £ cold and wet and sloppy and Carl is | Southpaw Rises to Heights When Giants’ Cause Is Near Disaster. BY GRANTLAND RICE. EW YORK, October 1.—A champion takes it as it comes. He has no alibi for man, the elements, or fate. He rides through on a friendly or an adverse tide. That's why Carl Owen Hubbell of Meeker, Okla., and the New York Giants is a champion who belongs. Hubbell started a 16-game winning streak for the Giants back in July. He carried his mates on his scrawny left shoulder for 10 weeks. He put them back in the running and he carried them on through. Then he stepped in adainst the Yankees on a raw, rainy, windy day with all the odds against him. I watched Hubbell warm up before the game. “This isn't my weather,” he said, “but I can't pick the weather, T'll be out there throwing the ball, anyway. Red Ruffing has to use the same weather. So it's an even break. No pitcher likes this weather—a wet ball—a cold wind—rain falling—where you need control of everything you've got. But it’s the same for both of us. Maybe the batters won't like it either,” Carl added with a slow grin. A Long Strain. I SAW Matty work in the world series of 1905. I saw Ed Walsh, Nick Plank, Chief Bender and Jack Combs. Or Art Nehf, Herb Pennock, or Waite Hoyt—but you can't take it away from a long, lanky, gra-eyed, brown-haired | started this world series carrying more than his share of the load. He had pitched the Giants into a pennant. He had won 16 straight games. was still resting on his lean left arm. If Hubbell lost, the Giants’ cause was shot as full of holes as your moth-eaten Winter suit left in a muggy closet. Any one connected with sport knows what it means when you've run into a long winning streak—nerves—psychol- ogy—the mental and the physical side are all against you. Especially nerves— | which so often tell the story—the | human' telegraph wires between brain and muscle. No Soft Road. UBBELL had no soft road in this opening game. Red Ruffing was pifching magnificent ball. When Sel- kirk nailed Hubbell for a homer in the third on a wide curve, Carl was on the hot spot. Later on in this inning both Rolfe and Di Maggio singled. “There goes the great Hubbell,” some Yankee fan bellowed out through the falling | rain. But he didn't know Carl Hubbell. In this tough spot he retired Lou Gehrig, who had a slow start, but who will be heard from later on. You al- | ways hear from Lou Gehrig—sooner or | later. He's something like taxes. In the fourth inning the irrepressible | Jake Powell hammered out & double. | Tony Lazzeri walked. This was a per- fect spot for a hard worked pitcher to take the big dive. But Hubbell lost no time striking out Selkirk in this rough spot. “ Kept on Pitching. FROM the third inning through the seventh Hubbell struck out seven men. He was still trailing most of the way, but he refused to weaken. He kept pitching. What a pleasant world this would be if every one kept pitching, against all the odds, as Carl All First Line Tires All Fresh Stock 18-Month Unconditional WRITTEN GUARANTEE Against Every Road Hazard Serving Washington Motorists - for 15 years! Serving Motorists Altrock ond Reulbach & year later. In| the course of 31 world series you e | a lot of pretty good pitching, includ- | g ing Smoky Joe Wood in 1912, Eddie | La: left-hander by the name of Carl Hub- | 2 bell. Hubbell is 33 years old. , He |Ott The entire burden of this first game | * D—1 Favored After Defeat : Hubbell Proves True Champion < Some High Lights of Opener By the Asseciated Press. NEW YORK, October 1.—They're thinking of drafting Yankee Short- stop Frank Crosetti for the 1940 Olympic diving. He showed cham- pionship form with a half-Gainor he used in swooping back to third base after Joe Di Maggio hit into a double play in the eighth inning of the opening game of the world series yes- terday, ‘There were four generations of the Bartells on hand to watch Dick do his stuff for the Giants at shortstop. In the stands were Dick’s 4-year-old son, “Skippy,” the shortstop’s father and his grandmother, aged 80. There was a big cheer from that section when Dick parked the ball in the upper stands in the fifth to tie the score. First error of the series: The pro- gram listed Harry Danning, Giants' reserve catcher, as a pitcher. STAT!STICIANS still were ga-ga today trying to figure out how many balls were used before the final out. A safe bet is that whoever is footing the bills will have a severe headache when he sees the total. It was almost one to every batter when the going was wettest. Before the game, Vernon (Lefty) Gomez suddenly recalled he had won a hat from Bill Terry back in 1935, when he outbetted Pat Malone. He dogged the heels of the Giants’ man- Official Score y Bl corsmacsiano L cossrcocwl o 2 001 000 000—1 New York (N. L 000 011 04x—6 Runs batted in—Selkirk, Bartell. Man- cuso. Whitehead. Jackson, Two-base hits Powell, Ott._ Crosetti. Home runs—=el- kirk. Bartell. Sacrifices—Ripple (2). Rolfe, Double plays—Whitehead and Terry. Left on bases—New York (A. L.). 7: New York, (N L) 7. Bases on bal ufing, 4 gff Hubbell 1. Strikeouts =By Hubbell ; by Ruming. 5 Hit by pitcher—By Hub bell (Gehrig). Umpires—Messrs. Pfirman, Qejsel. Magerkurth and Summers. Time— moooo00ecl e ager until Terry finally took the hint and promised a pay-off, ‘The wisest man seen in the stands was the spectator who strolled in wrapped up in a raccoon coat. That wind bit through anything lighter. A few firsts of the series: First putout, Bill Terry; first assist, Travis Jackson; first fly ball, Jojo Moore; first walk, Mel Oftt; first strikeout, Tony Lazzeri. THE man with the very red face was the bleacherite who had been waiting at the front of the line since September 18 to make sure he'd get a seat. The storm kept the crowds away in such numbers that he'd have had no trouble at all, even if he were quintuplets. The rule about no fraternizing among members of competing teams didn't mean a thing to the pitchers huddling in the right field bull pen. When the overflow made a lake of the left field pen, the elbowers of both sides crowded onto the same bench and got wet together. Frankie Frisch, who saw some of his greatest base ball days with the Giants, didn't give the series half as much attention as his new yacht. Re= porters who asked the Cardinals’ manager what he thought of the Yanks-Giants get-together got in re« ply only explanations about the trip he’s going to take to Florida. . SPECULATORS LUCKLESS Rain Hits Sales of World Series Scalpers—Fourteen Pinched. NEW YORK. October 1.—Ticket | speculators suffered because of yes< terday's rains. Few fans wanted to buy tickets at box-office prices, much less pay the cvercharge which the agencies and street salesman asked. If the weather does not improve the world series of 1936 may go down as the worst in speculating history. Fourteen men were arrested for ate tempting to make unlicensed sales near the Polo Grounds. Police said one man had 15 blocks of three tickets each and was asking $31.50 for each $16.50 set. i BN o - HORSESHOE SHOW OFF. ! The horseshoe pitching exhibition of World Champion Ted Allen, scheduled last night at Brentwood, was called off because of the weather. Powell Hits Hubbell Legend Three Straight Bingles Prove Slab Master Not Invulnerable to New Foeman. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, October 1.— ‘When Jakey Powell was a kid in his teens he sneaked into a world series game one day—"“behind a big fella that ran interference for me.” The scene was Washington, the time was 1924, and the team that Jake wanted to see was John McGraw'’s famous and glamorous New York Giants. He saw them all right, from a seat that he burrowed and squeezed for himself between two larger and stouter fans. He saw the Giants 12 years ago, and now the Giants have seen Jakey, and they don’t like him a bit. Swing- ing his club in a lost cause, Mr. Powell established what must be a national record in the opening game of the current world series by getting three straight hits off Carl Hubbell in his first three ap- pearances against the great maes- tro of the screwball. “I was lucky,” said Jake, “I just had one of those da: “He’s a tough kid,” said Hubbell. “Tough and smart.” Jake must be tough. It is a legend in base ball that Hubbell is almost invincible for hitters who have never seen his stuff before. Remember the All-Star game of 1934? Remember how Ruth and Gehrig and Simmons and Foxx and Cronin swung in vain at Carl's strange and dazzling slants? The greatest siuggers in the American League couldn't touch. him. Nor could any of the greatest sluggers in the National League, the first time they tried. That makes Powell's record all the more imposing. Some of the Yankee hitiers were expected to annoy Hubbell, but not Jake. The fans looked for trouble from the iron horse, Lou Gehrig, who cun sock a bad pitch out of the park, and from bad Bill Dickey, the cool, heady pull-hitter, and maybe from the old red fox of the base ball racket, Tony Lazzeri. These fellows are smart veterans, and they've seen Hubbell’s stuff before. FRIDAY & SATURDAY SALE! 507 OFF! MANUFACTURERS’ LIST PRICES Tire Sizes 4.75x19 Sale Price We will make 5.25x18 an extra allow- $8.15 5.50x17 6.00x16 52517 5.50x19 6.00x17 $8.95 ~$9.95 "$7.90| $9.35 $10.10 ance up to 26% for your old tires depend- $12.45 $13.45 6.25x16 6.50x16 ing on their condi- SIL.15 $12.30 $14.85 $16.40 7.00x16 tion. $17.80 |$13.35 All Of All nzes in_ st ther Sizes Proporti w! tock, but mot every size in every make. OPEN 8 P.M. onately Low! EVENINGS UNTIL NDLEY 3446 14th St. N.W. @ 621 Penna. Ave. N.W. PHONE ADAMS for 15 Years 8100 at the Same Location