Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1936, Page 12

Yankee Power Is Series Menace : COLORIS DRAINED | BY PLAY T0 FORM Even Hubbel’s Pitching Is Too Near Calculations to Provide Thrills. BY BURTON HAWKINS, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. EW YORK, October 3—Pro- gressing in a style bordering on the stereoptyped, with Hub- bell holding one victory and the Yankee bats evening the annual party, as prophesied almost unani- mously, New York's subway series was threatened with an awful letdown to- day unless the Giants can unveil & pitcher who can miss the Yankee bats as successfully as the lean left-hander upon whose shoulders has fallen the burden of pitching the Terrymen to the world championship. With five of his throwers effectively disposed of yesterday as the Yankees unleashed a 17-hit, record-breaking barrage to bury the helpless hosts, 18-4, Manager Bill Terry cast a hope- ful eye in the direction of Fred Fitz- simmons and Slick Castleman, who now remain as Hubbell's only probable aides in prolonging or winning the series for the Giants. The friendly chatting between op- posing players on the base-lines, the expected batting shower of the Yankees and the true-to-form hurling of Hubbell in a large measure has deadened the series thus far. But the Jack of a an outstanding hero, & la Pepper Martin, is responsible mainly for the wholesale feeling of mild dis- appointment that reigned here today as the teams renewed their so-called civil war. Actually, the civil war has de- veloped into nothing more than a cou- ple of mediocre ball games that have revealed, along with the more com- mendable performances, a caliber of fielding and pitching that would shame the Rinkydink A. C. Hero Yet to Be Revealed. ANKEE followers, in their search for a hero, could worship any one of a half dozen manufacturers of runs, or perhaps Lefty Gomez, while Giant fans somehow are reluctant to place Hubbell on a pedestal because he's been producing so steadily and ereditably they now expect it of him. Somehow this series lacks the lus- ter of its predecessors. Lou Gehrig is an effective robot at first base, nearly as steady as a Naval Observatory timepiece and just about as thrilling to watch. The aging and ailing legs of Bill Terry, Travis Jackson and Tony Lazzeri are not conducive to fancy flelding. They're colorless, but capable, m a machine-like way. You'd have a pretty tough time picking & fight in either crowd un- less Jake Powell or Dick Bartell were around. Until an acute situation is solved in something more than auto- matic fashion, however, the Yankees and Giants doubtless will continue to represent robots on a mild ram- page. The stage now has been set for the series hero to come forth. Perhaps | Fitzsimmons or Castleman may pro- | vide something out of the ordinary by throttling the American League | champions’ vaunted stick assault. On | the other hand, the Yankees may | The Poening St Sporis at New York’s Polo Grounds ye: something to happen. 2.—It hi that high foul. Here are some tntimate shots of President Roosevelt takin WASHIN Nation’s No. 1 Fan Is Typical of S sterday. No. 1—His eigarettegi appens. 3.—“See those Yanks circle the bases.” SA' GTON, D. C, L] pecies rd BUSHERS PROVIDE PITCAERS PARADE Terry Crew’s Plight Sorryl Unless Fitzsimmons Can | Stop Clan McCarthy. BY GRANTLAND RICE. EW YORK, October 3.—The President of the United States, Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, yndoubtedly had heard about the famous quintuplets of Canada. He must have been interested in this phenomenon. He had no idea that he was to look upon & much more phenomenal phenomenon, if such a detall is possible, when he decided to inspect the second world series game between the Yankees and the Giants. So he saw the Glant quintuplets pass by on parade—Hal Schumacher, Al 8mith, Dick Coffman, Frank Gabler and Harry Gumbert. ‘The President saw this set of quin- tuplets issue 9 passes, 17 hits, includ- ing 2 home runs, and 18 tallies, as he looked longingly and earnestly in lhe‘ direction of all exits. The President | of the United States and some forty- | odd thousand fans had the distinct | privilege of looking at something unique. They had heard of the mop- up of Thermopylae and the Fall of the | Alamo. In the course of world his- tory there have been y massacres, | slaughters, annihilations and volcanic | forces, but this was about the record | 30 far as base ball is concerned. ‘The Giant quintuplets, relying al- most exclusively on a base on balls. a base hit and a home run, passed from the rifle pit to the cooling solace | of the shower bath in such quick | succession that only an expert ac- countant could check the line of march. They gave Lefty Gomez an | eight-run lead in the third inning and they gave him a 14-run leaa in | the ninth, which is a situation the | Canada quintuplets and Shirley Tem- ple could have handled withoui any | heavy strain. Up to Fitzsimmons. before that the Giants had to find one pitcher who could come to Carl in the Yankees’ rout of the Giants ghted, he sits back and waits for 4.—Look out for —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto. DESPERATE CUBS CALL UPON DAVIS Rampaging Chisox, Winners of Two in a Row, Rely on Veteran Lyons. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, October 3.—Their | backs to the wall as the re- | sult of two straight defeats in | as many days, Chicago's Cubs FROM THE PRESS BOX Gomez Gloats Over “Scientific” Hitting, Ignoring Hurling That Stumped Giants. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, October 3—Out of the welter of bruises and base hits, I give you Don Vernon N Goofy y Gomez, the pride of Aragon and the toast of Castile. Please don't say “keep him.” Don Vernon deserves kinder words than that, on the strength of his perform- ance in the second game of the world series of 1936. Not only did he pitch fine ball, but he gave the show its | only touch of strong native humor by | great Gomez lurking nearby and be- | having in s most peculiar manner. | Lefty kept taking off his cap and hold- ing it out to the Giant manager. You would have said that the man was begging, except that begging is un- | known to any one who carries in his veins the bluest blood of Aragon and | the most exclusive corpuscles of | Castile. But Mr. Terry finally caught on. In a moment of folly, he had wagered with El Gomez that Pat Malone, an- Hubbell’s help. If Fred Fitzsimmons can't check the Yankee tide in the third game there seems little hope. King Kong Carl Hubbell can't carry the entire load on his thin left shoulder. Bill Terry did all he could. He had the Giant bull pen packed tighter than the bleachers. He had all his talent warming up, coming in—and going out. But all they had was a base on balls, & base hit, or a home run groove. It was a great game for | the morbidly inclined. The big league had suddenly gone bush—especially on the Giant side. The high spot of the series goes into the third game. If Fitzsimmons TURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1936. Hubbell-less Giants Palo L3 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK (AMERICAN LEAGUE). G.AB.R. H. 2B. 3B. HR. 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L) Stolen base—Powell H.R.ER. BB. SO.WP.HB. Pet, 000 1.000 1.000 .000 000 000 000 .000 coooommog cooo~oo N -208 010 001 311 20619 0 4 0—10 Sacrifices—Rolfe, Di Maggio, Ripple (2). Double plays—Whitehead to Terry; Leiber to Jackson to Bartell. Left on bases—New York (A. L), 13; New York (N. L), 16. | (American League): Pfirman and Magerkurth (National League). Y’OUR correspondent has suggested | times—First game, 2:40; second game, 2:49. Umpires—Messrs Geisel and Summers Game Gloating While the Gloating’s Good. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. | flower of the Nation's base ball writers, assembled here N 400 strong as counted by the bartenders in press headquarters and | can win, Terry will have Hubbell all | set and ready for the fourth game. | If Fitzsimmons loses the third start, | the Giants will be facing a hole deeper and darker than the mouth of a rail- | road tunnel. | | Hubbell won 16 straight and car- | ried them threugh to a pennant. Hub- | | bell won the jump game in the series | under murderous weather conditions. | He will be ready to give the Yankees | | all they care to look at in the fourth | game. But he must have one help- having a grand time guzzling and wolf- | ing in the dignified and sumptuous | breadlines established by the Giants'| Mr. Horace Stoneham and the Yan-t kees' Col. Jake Ruppert, seriously | started thinking today of taking up | & collection among themselves for commemorate this blissful event | | known as the 1936 world series. The mere fact that news- paper men entertain an idea like squeezing dough from themselves is startling in itself, of luck and it looks nmow as if the Today Terry was to dust off old fat Freddie Fitzsimmons to see whether his knuckle ball can silence the Yanks’ big guns. Outside of Hubbell and the risky Clyde Castleman Terry has no pitchers who might deliver un- less somebody in the quintet he tried yesterday can do a great deal better. The Giants had hoped that Hal | purposes of building & monument to Schumacher would duplicate what he | did to the Senators in the 1933 series, ! but in the lop-sided second game | he was a lost chord. Hal, together with the rest of the Giants pitchers, | resembled the guys who would pitch | in the annual Elks’ game between the 000 | okas DIMAG TOTAKE N SAD00 FOR YEAR Tap Dancing After Series Will Add to Base Ball, Radio Earnings. 1‘ BY PAUL MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. { EW YORK, October 3.—After | N each world series game a shy ! youngster with a dead “pan” \ that success can't thaw out | practices tap dancing in preparation | for the grandest clean-up in cash and | glory ever struck by a big league base ball freshman. He’s Joseph Paul Di Maggio, strictly no tap Gancer when taking his cut along Yankee “Murderers’ Row.* | training for a vaudeville tour that, il‘l!h a fair share of almost certaia | success, promises to send his first- | year earnings to $40,000—or even more. No first-year ball plaver in his- | tory, not even the immortzi Babe | Ruth, ever got anywhere aear the glory or cash that is coming like a | veritable windfall to the 21-year-old | fisherman’s son from the North Beach district of San Francisco. Everything he touches turns to gold and base hits. Gets $15,000 From Game. JOR his invaluable base ball serv- ices to the Yankees alone “Dead Pan Joe” will collect $15,000 or more, depending on the outcome of the series. Radio, advertising and “ghost” written articles on the series already have assured him another $10,000. As soon as the sert over he and his brother, Vince, who patrols the outfield for the San Dicgo Padres, will go on a vaudeville tour. If Joe goes like he did yesterdav, | when the Yanks came back to com- mit first degree murder against the Giants, that tour should net him even more than $2,000 a week. And four years ago the youngster bragged about getting $300 a month | with the San Francisco Seals. f “I've been pretty lucky this year. I | guess.” savs Joe, “and maybe I'll do ‘all right with this dancing business.” Veterans Praise Joe. VmRANS who have watched his rise were hailing him today as the greatest first-year player—by a city block—ever to land in the majors. | Arlie Latham, who started big time | base ball in 1882 and who was the Ty | Cobb of his day, paid a rare tribute. | “Well, I've seen them come and go —oh, 50 many, many great stars—but this boy is the greatest first-year play- EW YORK, October 3.—The National Leaguers are facing a crisis. o e sich. Bis Tourvelone” | Through all his success, Di Maggio | hasn't lost the common touch. | “Well,” he said after yesterday's | game as his memory must have flown |back to the all-star game when he ranked as the goat, “guess I'm & major leaguer now.” | 'FIVE GREAT MILERS IN ATTACK ON MARK Lovelock and Cunningham in Field That Will Run Prior to i | pluck a pitcher from among the re-| c4)ieq on Curt Davis today to stop other Yankee pifcher and a person of | ing pitcher who can give his a chance. | | crashing a wicked single to center ¥ iacsi aikt the licits ones. maining curving crop to cope with Hubbell. Either would inject new life into a series already squashed some- ‘what by the wholsale fulfillment of predictions. Hubbell Needs Help. NLESS the Giants bob up with another pitcher capable of quell- ing the vicious Yankees, you probably can count the junior circuit standard bearers as world champions in six games—the forecast of form-following experts. It's asking much of the screw-ball ertist to squelch the Yankees more than twice, although there are those who believe he will do it if the op- portunity presents itself. Despite Hubbell, however, the Yankees appear too strong for the National Leaguers. | That the power of Joe McCarthy's machine has not been over-estimated ‘was graphically illustrated yesterday as those 17 hits poured off the Yankee bats with monotonous regularity to establish two new series records and equal two others in compiling the overwhelming victory. | Lazzeri and Dickey, each batting in five runs, cracked the former mark of four, held by nine players, while the total number of runs scored by the Yankees eclipsed the old record of 13 shared by three clubs, including the Yankees. Crosetti Ties Run-Scoring Record. 'ROSETTI tied the number of runs scored by one individual by cross- ing the plate four times, while Laz- reri’s home run with the bases loaded was preceeded only by Elmer Smith | of the Cleveland Indians at the ex- | pense of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1920. That hectic third inning, in which | Dicke the Yanks scored seven runs, saw | Crosetti leading off with a sharp sin- gle to left. He advanced as Red Rolfe walked, and the bases were filled when | Jackson juggled Di. Maggio's bunt. Gehrig greeted Southpaw Al Smith, who replaced Schumacher at this point, with a liner to right that scored | Ott. Crosetti and Rolfe and moved Di Maggio to third. Dickey singled to right, scoring Di Maggio and sending Gehrig to third. Selkirk fiied to Leiber in short center, both runners holding their bases. Powell then walked, again filling the bases. Coffman replaced Smith and Laz- peri said hello by slicing a home run into the lower tier of the right ‘field stands. Gomez fanned and Crosetti grounded out, Bartell to Terry, to end the inning. The Giants gave their followers a faint glimmer of hope by scoring - three runs in the fourth inning, but | ) the Yankees’ bats erased that with one run in the sixth and two more in |Gos the eighth, and then rubbed salt intc an open wound by scoring six more in the ninth. LIONS HAVE RUNAWAY. DETROIT, Mich,, October 3 ().— Detroit Lions, professional foot ball champions, routed the Springfield Biscos, 48-6, in an exhibition game here last night. / i the rush of the hustling Chicago| | White Sox toward a third straight city | | series championship. The Sox -won | | yesterday by an 11 to 3 count. ! | Serving them up for the Sox, the | | veteran Ted Lyons could, by a win today, put the Sox within one game | of the title, being determined on a| four best out of seven games affair. In 1931 the Sox won the title by| taking the seventh game. In 1933 | they swept four straight from the | National Leaguers. Yesterday's vic-| tory, achieved through a big eight run | outburst in the sixth, followed a 5 to 1 win in the opening game Thurs- | | day. Lon Warneke, Cub ace, was victim of the Sox bats. He knocked out in the sixth, and Henshaw and Clay Bryant, who lowed him on the hill, had little more luck against the South Side clouters. | Luke Appling led the Sox attack | with three hits in five trips and drove in three runs. The Cubs collected 10 hits off Monte Stratton but he was effective in the pinches, PEPCO SQUAD TO REPORT. Candidates for the Potomac Elec: tric Power Co.’s 1936 foot ball team | are to report, to Coaches Bert Coggins, | former Central High mentor, and | | Artle Wondrach at 11 o'clock tomor- |Tow morning on the Fairlawn field. | Official Score d Game. AT AE R | | one | was Roy fol- | S NEW YORK (. Groseuti, ss. ] ss0sreswmomrusp b | sussssss-p DEPTEIS | Lazzer, | Gomez. s 5l gy 2] o SrmsnmaB | cosncosrensccsoy » B L TCE T " | Mancuso, | Whitehead: Jackson. 3b. _ Schumacher, Smith, oHOHSIoRRIIMREY e ] g Gumbert, ©. Totals __ _. 33 Score b. lnn[t‘nl | coocooerosssssc ol oocssssse > 8 Runs batted Lazzeri (5). Bai ). Gomez' (2! b anmie (3) Fie O Terty (). " Rolte. ; York (1 , 9. Bases s—Off Schumacher. 4 (Rolfe (2). kirk Lazzer)): off Smith. 1 (Powell): mez, 7 (Leiber ~Mancuso (2), Scl macher. Bartell (3), Gabler): of Dickey, Gehrig); el), Struck ouf Barte um: . B Tl nings (none out in thi runs, 2 hfll in 2 inning; 1 run. 2 hits in 1% innings; “14 innings: of 3 ff Coffman. :fl Gabler, 3 lumbert. Wild pitches— her, ing | “When I strike out, it's because the 1| eral times, and finally perceived the field in the ninth inning. The victim of Don Vernon's brutal assault was Harry Gumbert, and El Gomez an- nounced a few minutes later that he felt very sorry for Harry. “I hate to wreck the future of a young fella like that,” said the Goofus. “I am always doing it. I don't know my own strength at the plate. | It always comes as a surprise to me, | when the season is over, that I am not hitting 400 or better, because I have no real weakness up there at that | plate.” y The theory that Senor Gomez has no weakness at the plate is known to science as the Gomez theory, because nobody can follow it but Senor Gomez. When Babe Ruth played with the ‘Yankees, he used to bet money every year that the peculiar Castilian would make no more than 8 or 10 hits for the season. Gomez always snapped up the bet, and pretty nearly always lost it—but he never abandoned his theory. 1t’s Science, Says Lefty. "Hn'rn«} is a scientific business,” Don Vernon {frequently says. pitcher is not throwing me the scien- tific stuff I expect. He is too dumb for me.” In the second game of the world| series with the Giants, the Toast of Aragon struck out twice, grounded out to Bartell and Whitehead and finally unleashed his savage single, & blow which would have dented mdl well nigh pierced a stout paper bag. Also, he drove in two runs. It was the greatest slugging orgy that the eccentric Spanish-Hibernian has ever experienced. It went to his head like strong Basque wine. “Joe,” said El Gomesz to Joseph Di Maggio after the game, “I wish you would let me give you a few pointers on your hitting at practice tomorrow. “You have lots of promise and all you need is the scientific point of view.” This was not the first time that a member of the Giants has felt the sting of El Gomez's latent slugging power. Willlam H. Terry felt it once before. Then Terry Remembered. HEN the Giants came out to prac- tice for the first game of the series on Wednesday, Mr. Terry seemed 1o sense a hidden presence dogging his footsteps. He peered about him sev- Sports Mirror. By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Tigers evened world series by winning second as Tommy Bridges held Cubs to six hits. Three years ago—W. L. (Billy) Stribling died as result of motor | far more robust frame than Lefty, would outhit the haughty Iberian southpaw for the season. He had not reckoned with Gomez's hidden punch, which always works best when there is a finnif—=five dollars—at stake. Gomez outhit Malone. “All right, Lefty,” said Mr. Terry hastily. “You win. I will slip you the fin at the first opportunity.” Mr. Terry thought he had laid the ghost of Slugger Gomez with that promise, but the ghost came back in the second game and pitched the Job. “But to hell with my pitching,” said Lefty, when it was over. “Did you see me hit? Power, hey? scientific.” (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) CARDOZO IN TIE GAME. Yankees over the top. It was & nice | And it’s all! | He can't be a Caesar, an Alexander and a Joe Louis, rolled into one mold. | T | Game Is Lingering Agony. | OU might ask why a set of big league pitchers should give up 16 bases on balls in one game. There isn’t any answer to this. In many de- | tails it was the worst pitching a world | series ever saw. ‘This also goes for the fried chicken | league in the class D sector. It was| one of those things you see and still | | don’t believe. { that bad—but this was even worse. { The game was slow and dull—a lin- gering agony after the third round. It was a record-breaker in the way | of a defensive collapse—Minnesota | playing Alfred—Ohio State against a | high school. (Ccpyright, 1936, by the North Americaa Newspaper Alliance, (nc.) SOUTHEAST A. C. TO TOIL. | In a hard-fought game Cardozo High School’s eleven and the Manassas Institute gridmen played to a 6-6 tie yesterday at Walker Stadium. Southeast A. C.'s foot ball team will | | scrimmage at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning on Fairlawn Field. They will | open their season October 11 against the Silver Spring Merchants. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 3.—Some of the scribes hardly saw yes- terday's game after the first few innings. They were too busy thumbing through the record books. The final count was an even dozen broken or equalled series marks. ‘Tony Lazzeri appeared three times, hitting a homer with the bases filled to equal Elmer Smith's 1920 feat for Cleveland; driving in four runs in one inning, also equalling Smith's record; and batting in five runs in one game for a new record also equalled by Bill Dickey before the game ended. ‘When Jake Powell stole the first base of the series, Catcher Gus Man- cuso’s face was seen to turn a bright red back of his mask. Gus had pledged that no Yankee would steal second on him during the series. At that, it was mighty close. And & short time after Jake stole his base, someone stole Jake's car from in front of base ball headquar- ters. The police car-finding depart- ment came up with it two hours later, way uptown, where the pilferers had left it. TH!R! was plenty eyebrow raising in the press section during the Giants’ batting practice. Although they were slated to face a Southpaw in the game, they batted only right- handers during the warm-up. Not for nothing is Lefty Gomes known as the “Beau Brummel” of the diamond. He spent almost as much cycle accident; Giants beat Sena- tors, 4-2, in first world series game. Five years ureen Orcutt won Canadian women’s golf title acher, itcher- Schumacher. Gelsel. Magerkurth. Time of game—32': ez. ‘Umpires — 3 Sommers and Pfirman. for second straight year; 69,000 saw St. Mary’s defeat Qalifornia, 14-0. time straightening out the crease in his pants as he did trying to get his smoke ball over. m:mufiy.thuemunkm thing to that policy “El Goofy” has L) High Lights of World Series The series’ two flelding gems to date: Whitehead's double-play stab of Di Maggio's liner in the eighth in- ning “break” of the first game . . . Di Mag's pretty running catch of Jojo Moore’s looping liner to kill of & pos- sible two-bagger in the sixth frame of the second. ’I‘Hl pre-game smile on Joe Mc- Carthy’s face looked.like the sun coming out. He had just heard that Monte Pearson, his No. 2 right-hander, is about rid of his injuries and will be available for series duty. Hal Schumacher, the pride of Doigeville, N. Y., had to do a lot of handshaking with a home-town dele- gation that came down to wish him luck. Could that exercise have done all those terrible things to his sinker ball? Not & base ball writer missed that Al Smith-F. D. R. angle. When Lefty Al was driven to the showers in the third they all came up with the same thing: “Smith takes s walk as Presi- dent watches.” 1} Nothing could be quite | but that is not all calculated to knock an eye out, as the literati | would say. | You see, the flower of the Nation's | monument to the flower of the N. B. B. W. (see first sentence), because for the first time since the moon Wwas of prognosticating is being done in this | series between the Giants and Yanks. | Of late the writing stiffs, who must | be bedeviled with an innate desire to pick things, had been showing & batting average about as high as Jo | Jo Moore’s in the series. To brush| up memories a bit they picked Baer | over Louis, the Queen Mary over the Hindenburg and Eleanor Holm over | Brundage, to mention & few. . |of eating a steak before every nme:‘ he pitches. He claims it gives him | power, and he had plenty of that yes- terday. What he ought to do now is find a diet that'l help his control. He was as wild at times as an Indian tribe on the warpath. (ONE big surprise of the series s that Dickie Bartell, the Giants’ bag-of-pepper shoftstop, has met his match for noisemaking on the fleld. Frank Crosetti, the Yankee shortstop firebrand, can be heard all the way out at the club house when he starts giving the “attaboy” to the particular pitcher of the day. ‘Would Resemble Toothpick. NOW things are looking up. Taking s long chance, heh, heh, they all said that Carl Hubbell was a great pitcher and that he might win the opening game. Shooting at the moon again they said that power lurked in the Yan- kee bats and that after Hubbell had finished throwing screwballs on open- ing day this dynamite might explode and the Yankees would keep on win- ning until Hub ambled back into the box. So far, since Carl last threw a pitch at them, the Yanks have | smashed a flock of records and scored an 18-to-4 decision to even the series at 1-1. Preliminary plans call for the structure to be built to resemble the Washington Monu- ment, only it would be thinner. This, then would remind you of a toothpick, which is symbolic and goes hand-in-hand with the whole idea because, of course, picking Hubbell to win and the Yankee bats to bark is about as hard as picking teeth. Nevertheless, it remains an achieve- ment in the face of long months of consistent setbacks and the writing boys are proud of themselves if they only stay this way they might raise the dough for the foundation any day. If not some of the slugs that will be dropped into the hat might fit in a subway turnstile. King Carl Needs a Helper. A MORE momentous worry today belonged to Col. Bill Terry, who was face to face with the problem of somebody to help Hubbell finding Not even a pitcher of King Carl’s picked over Miami, a successful piece | A accepted ability can win four games in & world series without a good deal Schumacher could not last three innings. He was wild and consistently behind the hitters and when he did was well powdered. Like Namesake, Al Took a Walk. L SMITH, who relieved him, was a relief only to the Yanks. He couldn't get a single batter out. Dick Coffman, next to march from the bull pen, distinguished himsel! by going down as the second pitcher in series history to feed a batter a home-run ball with the bases loaded. Tony Laszeri, first to face Dick, rammed a drive into the stands with the bases loaded to duplicate Elmer Smith's feat in the 1920 Cleveland-Brooklyn se- ries. Burleigh Grimes was the pitcher that day. Frank Gabler looked the best of the Giant pitchers yesterday, but he didn't look good enough to start a game and hold an even chance of winning. Harry Gumbert, the other pitcher, possibly suffered in his job of mop- ping up because he had pitched bat- ting practice before the game:; but even while recommending leniency on this score, Gumbert hardly can be counted upon to help Hub stem the tide. Castleman is mentioned in the Hub- bell-Fitzsimmons group of possible winners, chiefly because he was not given & chance to be knocked around by the Yanks yesterday. Actually he must be put down as s big question mark because he did little quring the regular campaign to help and this is a late date to be recovering any past effectiveness. Thus it seems to narrow down to Fitssimmons as the chief hope to help Carl. If fat Fred- die wins today, the Giants stand s chance. If met, it probably will be over in six games (con- coding Hubbell a second vic- tory), and that menument will be built for fair. Nine out of ten of the writing boys called it that way. What's that? Did somebody say so did nine out of ten other barbers and shoemakers? s NET TEAMS BATTLING. ‘Washington's two league champion- ship tennis teams, Monument of the Public Parks and Treasury of the De- partmental, were to meet for the local team title at 2 o'clock this afternoon on the Potomac Park courts. \ ‘ Grid Game at Princeton. Bv the Associated Press RINCETON, N. J, October 3 — Running in what may be the last great “all-star” mile race for several | years, five great runners meet todav |in an effort to set up a world record :th-t will stand until a new crop of speedsters come along. The race was scheduled between the | halves of the Princeton-Williams foot ball game on the speedy cinder path in Princeton’s Palmer Stadium. The five runners are Jack Lovelock of New Zealand, Olympic winner and | world record holder at 1500 meters; | Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, who established the 4:06.7-mile record base ball writers want to erect the|come in there with his delivery, 1t pocre aiming to beeak: Archie San Romani of Emporia, Kans., Teachers: Don Lash of Evansville, Ind, and Glen Dawson of Tulsa, Okla. Series Leaders By the Associated Press. Batting (regulars) Yankees, .714. Runs—Crosetti, Yankees, 4. Runs batted in — Dickey and Lazzeri, Yankees, 5. Hits—Powell, Yankees, 5. Doubles—Crosetti, DiMaggio and Powell, Yankees; Bartell, Ott and Mancuso, Glants, 1. Triples—None. Home runs—Dickey, Selkirk and Lazzerie, Yankees, and Bartell, Giants, 1. Stolen base—Powell, Yankees, 1. Pitching—Hubbell, Giants, and Gomez, Yankees, 1-0. e Facts and Figures On World Series | By the Associated Press. Won Lost 1 1 — Powell, Pet. 500 " 500 Giants 1 Pirst game (Polo Grounds): Runs HRs Errs. 1 3 9 1. Hubbell and | -6 Ruffing and Dickey; Mancuso. Second game (Poio Grounds): Runs Hits Errs. 17 0 6 1 Gomez and Dickey; Schumacher, Smith, Coffman, Gabler, Gumbert and Mancuso. Second game figures. Paid attendance Gross receipts. Players’ share Commissioner’s Contending clubs’ share. Leagues’ share Total series figures 43.543 -$184,962.00 94,330.62 27,744.30 31,448.54 31,448.54 60,715.23 60,715.23