Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1936, Page 14

COCK O’ TH> WALK. —By JIM BERRYMAN. — < L] —_— POWELL, WITH 425, SLIGHTLY BOOSTS and Rolfe Also Are Bitter Staff Correspondent of The Star. preferable, if not necessary put it mildly, for you can match the supposedly more learned teammates tumnal classic were chiefly respon- Perhaps it is wholly unnecessary to “Tony Lazzeri, Frankie Crosetti, Lefty enough to win the subway series. kirk and Monte Pearson to accom- “history into world series annals With a fine disregard for their top honors in that respect, Rolfe bat- creditable averages of .332 and .346, bing is the rather puny batting of .300 class, Gehrig for the first time -IN FACT, had it not been for the | have ended in five games. It was | with a single to right. Mel Ott to third. plafe. Halfway there, however, he taking Schumacher’s throw to get that Selkirk followed with a home in nine innings instead of losing in series, of course, but in the final championship. The psychology em- for one victory. able misery, thought he would not be be missing. Coming back to the bench at the to face him, Dickey went over to the Yankee trainer. of my hand.” Pearson allowed only was typical of the eficient manner in Prior to the parting blast of the two-run lead at the outset, it was second inning. Gehrig and Dickey then tied the score with a home-run The American leaguers added an- Giants, making a last desperate bid, tying or going ahead only because of O'rr's homerun into the left fleld planted a double in left and sprinted ambled to second, then advanced to walked, to place what then looked to WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936. 1S SWATTING HERO i G R Doses for Giants. EW YORK, October 7.—The N cogs in a winning world series series actions of the Yankees' young Bnd readily agree that Marse Joe sible for the American League’s ‘deflate their victory balloon some- Gomez and Charley Rufing, the It took the youth of Jake Powell, | plish that feat, and the manner in ®hould erase forever the idea that elderly brethren and the Giants’ out a neat .400 average, and Sel- respectively, Crosetti, Gehrig, Lazzeri and Dickey, since he has been a series figure. wheels in Gehrig's head becoming | ‘Gehrig, you remember, who opened allowed the ball to go through him | Dickey, next up, grounded to hesitated almost long enough to light Dickey, whipped to Mancuso in plenty run, rubbed it in. With Gehrig’s run ten. analysis it was the youth of the ployed by Dickey on Pearson, however, Pearson, recently healed after an effective against Hubbell and the | Psychology Used on Pearson. end of the sixth inning, after Monte water fountain, turned, and yelled the “Hey, get a sponge for my mitt or seven hits in trimming the Giants, 5-2. which the Yankee fledglings have ninth, the game was closely fought. Selkirk and Powell who put the flied out, but Selkirk blasted a triple clout that landed in the upper tier other in the third and two more in narrowed the gap with single runs notoriously weak pinch-hitting. stands pulled the count to 3-5. home when Terry singled to center. third on Lieber's sacrifice. be the winning run on first. Leslie, Y nTi TeamKeeps S s P Wi ] Younger Yanks Turn Tide as Team Keeps Season’s Pace to Win Series ’ Di Mag, Pearson, Selkirk| BY BURTON HAWKINS, theory that veterans are machine apparently is overrated, to bloods with the performances of the McCarthy's newcomers to an au- second straight triumph. what, but Lou Gehrig, Bill Dickey, veterans of the new champs, were not Joe Di Maggio, Red Rolfe, George Sel- | Wwhich they wrote record-breaking Previous experience is essential. pitching, Powell batted .455 to take 'fl:k and Di Maggio swung for the Contrasting that sensational club- none of whom edged into the select Gehrig Pulled Prize Boner. ® bit jammed, the series might well | the second inning of Monday's game and Lou carried his hefty hips around Bchumacher and Gehrig broke for the = cigarette, then started again, Terry, of fime to double Gehrig. The fact across, the Yankees could have won ‘The veterans helped to win the Yankees that carried them to the was in no small measure responsible ailing back had caused him consider- Giants, He thought his steam would DICK!Y soon made him forget that. had fanned four of the first six men entire length of the bench to the that guy will make hamburger out Yesterday's 13-5 pay-off triumph eonducted themselves. After the Giants had jumped into a Yankees back in the game in the to the Giant bull-pen in right. Powell of the left-field stands. the fourth to take a 5-2 lead, but the in the fifth and seventh and missing Giant Pinch-Hitters Flop. Leading off in the seventh, Bartell Di Maggio booted the ball and Terry With the tying run on third, Ott batting for Mancuso, popped a foul to Rolfe and the rally flickered. Ripple | picked up Whitehead’s bat and drew a walk to fill the bases, but Koenig, up | {navis for Jackson, watched a third strike float by to kill the threat. The Yaunkees combined & walk to Dickey and singles by Selkirk and Laz- zeri to push across a run in the eighth, but Moore nullified that with a home run that bounced off the top of the Special Dispatch to The Star. EW YORK, October 7.—The better team won, of course, and of this observation there can be little doubt. Lurking in virtually every Yankee bat was power and the threat of extra-base punch. On the base paths there was speed and in the field there was agil- ity, especially in the infield. The Giants had none of these assets in comparative measure. The Giants merely had a limited source of pitching and when Hubbell and Fitz- simmons were rushed back into the fray before the weariness left their venerable arms, they were unveiled to be not unlike any other hurlers. And, yet, when you perform the autopsy, you are amased to realize how close the Giants came to stringing out the series and even winning it teday in- stead of heading homeward with the losers’ end of the record spoils. A week from today the Giants drew first blood. That was the day Hubbell, on a damp, dark afternoon, shook the mud off his spikes and pitched the National Leaguers to a 6-to-1 victory. That was as it should have been—as everybody figured. The Third Game Hurt. next game saw the famed murderers’ row commit its frst and bloodiest butchering. A cold, and heartless crew the Yanks were that day. They chased Hal Schu- macher from the premises and ecruci- fied Al Smith. They slaughtered Dick Coffman, knifed Frank Gabler, and crushed poor Harry Gumbert to win, 18-4, and either break or tie a dozen world series records. That, too. was to be expected, although perhaps the sheer fierceness was not anticipated. But the murderers’ row had to break loose sometime. It was the third game that wop the it. He held the Yanks to four hi He outpitched Hub and all the rest. But when a timid and almost apolo- bounced off his own glove for a hit with two out in the eighth inning and Jake Powell on third base, Fitz lost, 2 to 1. You do not figure to lose these kind of games. Except for the game which the Giants outhit the yanks. They made 11 hits off Hadley and Malone but only got one run. = So Far and Yet So Near, If— YOU picked the Yanks to win, but the Giants must be given their dues. If they had won Fitz's first game for them it would have given them a 2-to-1 lead in the series. Then, on Sunday, Manager Bill Terry would not have been forced to series—Fred Fitzsimmons’ game Sat- | urday. Fat Freddie deserved to "m“ Hubbell pitched, it was the only time | "POPPING OFF" “@Tfan.. Giving the Series Its Autopsy. Old men of Manhattan describes them. Travis Jackson, a great ball player in his day, was pitiful. He couldn’t move off a subway slug, couldn't hit, and, when he did get his hands on & ball, he was wont to muff it or throw it away. Terry at first base really was a hospital case, what with his knee. Fitz gave all he had in one mighty effort and had nothing left. Even the great Hub’s arm lacked what it teok to come back. After the series ended and the Giants disbanded last night you got the impression that they, themselves, had not taken themselves too seriously. The defeat that really hurt—Fits's first game—had been forgotten. Joe Moore strutted out of the club house with a grin on his face. Dick Bartell cut up with & party of friends when he had dressed and started for his hotel. They knew, once the Yanks nosed out Pritz and pounded the weary Hub, that it was all over. Series Newcomers Steal Show. TH‘!‘ Yanks overpowered the Giants. There was youth on the Ruppert Rifles and it surged to the pinnacle of achievement in the series whereas the tired old men of the Terrymen merely went through the motions. Jake Powell was new to series play, but he was not blinded or awed by the glamor and importance of it. Instead, he not only outplayed the veteran Moore in every way, but led both clubs in batting with a 455 average. Red Rolfe, at third base, played rings around Jackson, who may have ended his days as a Giant regular. And it was no contest between the pair when it came to hitting. Gehrig is no youngster, but the Yankee power house was by far stronger and spryer than Terry. Crosettit held his own with Bartell at shortstop and did almost as well | on the offense as the little Giant. Dickey didn’t hit much, but he | matched the faultless Mancuso behind | getic bounder by Frankie Crosetti | the bat. In center field, the youthful Jimmy Ripple stood out in eon- trast to most of the Giants with his batting and fielding and speed, but Jimmy had no edge over the Yanks’ Di Maggio. Even in right field, where the Giants’ Mel Ott was supposed to stand | in & class by himself, the Yanks pro- duced a match for him in George Selkirk, who hit two homers to Ott's one and played a great game all the way. So Shanty Couldn't Run? THERE was criticism directed at the manner in which Marse Joe McCarthy ran the Yanks, but if they were mismanaged somebody ought to use Hub again after only three days of rest. He could have Dpitched Castleman, or somebody, and con- ceded the game to the Yanks. Thus the series would have been evened at 2-2, and yesterday, instead of the tired Pitzsimmons, the Giants could have used a well-rested Hub- bell and undoubtedly they would have won, making it 3-2 in games. Then Terry would have been able to pitch a fresh Fits and Schumacher, in the order he preferred, and probably the Giants would have won. This is what could have happened and didn't, and, perhaps, it was Jjustice done. Throughout the series you get the impression that New York's American League outfit was far superior to the Giants. Some- times you wondered how the Giants 8ot into. the thing, in the first place. Other times you wondered whether Clark Griffith, f'rinstance, is right when he says the National is “just & bushwhacker league.” Old Men of Manhattan, N TRUTH the Giants probably were not as bad as they looked. They won their pennant the hard way and rost of them were tired. Official Score AB, = - EETRCAR-TEreey.) Selkirk, rf Powell. If. Laszeri. Gomez. p. Murphy, L o] 2335230~~a [ PTOEE sunoo2329-P> 0909m020129330Ru0> K @ - seventh. tBatted for Castieman in' eiphih. New York (A.). 200 017—13 ). 010 110— 3 . Powell (4), right fleld stands in the Giants' half | Gehris. G of the eighth. Five mighty hits, coupled.with four walks and an error, then sent seven nominate Marse Joe for the presi- dency and let him mismanage the country. In the final analysis, the two clubs did not belong on the same ball field. Aside from outhitting and outfielding their rivals, the Yanks ocould run bases, and this was an import- ngle. In Pitzsimmons' 2-to-1 defeat, for example, Moore opened the game with s single, moved up on a sacrifice, and could get no farther than third when Terry followed with a good long single. A double-play ball by Ott changed the complexion of not only that game but the entire series. The Giants, in truth, were a slow- running ball club. Sixteen times in the series Terrymen had chances to run from first to third, or second to home, on singles. They did it only five times, while on 11 occasions they advanced only one base on & hit, It was difficult to see how the Giants ever let Shanty Hogan get away be- cause he couldn’t run. . The better team won all right. It’s only the idea that it might have lost if Fitz had fielded one ball cleanly that surprises you. As it was, the Yanks got the break, and they always say the better team makes its breaks. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Tigers won first world series, ‘beating Cubs, 4-3, in sixth game on Goose Gos- lin’s ninth-inning single scoring Mickey Cochrane. Three years ago—Giants nosed out Senators, 4-3, in fifth game and won world series, 4-1, as Mel Ott hit homer in tenth inning. Pive years ago—Cardinals took 3-2 lead in world series by beating Athletics, 5-1. salute to the Giant pitching and placed the 1936 series- title far out of the National Leaguers’ reach, HAS NAVY GAME TICKETS. Tickets for the Naval Academy- Virginia foot ball game at Annapolis, Saturday at 2 o'clock, are avallable to the general public at the Keystone ~, Automobile Club headquarters, 1643 Connecticut avenue. ¥ L ended the inning that might have o WELL, I GUESS THAT SORTA SETTLES TH' QUESTION OF WHO'S BOSS AROUND HERE! AVERAGE IN RUNS Figures for Year 6.9 Per Game, Clouts 43 in Six Tilts in Classic. BY GRANTLAND RICE. EW YORK, October 7.—1If you want the answer, beyond all alibis and all excuses, you usually can turn to the vital statistics. They may be drab, minus all romance or color, but they seldom fail the practical soul. During the course of the season the New York Yankees in 155 ball games scored 1,085 runs. This lacks only a few meager decimal points of averaging seven runs per game. The actual figures are about 6.9 runs from April through September. In the now defunct world series party with the Giants, the same set of Yankees scored 43 runs in six games—slightly better than seven runs & battle. The National League was supposed to have the big bulge in | pitching, yet the Yankee attack kept | rolling along at the same pace, after the manner of Old Man River in full motion. This Yankee power has never been concentrated in one or two spots. It is likely to emerge at any sector of the batting order, from top to bottom. It has been that way all year. No rival pitcher can tell where the explosion will take place—where the nitro- glycerin is parked. For example, in the final game Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey—the two star Yankee hitters—collected just one single in 10 times at bat. But. as these two big blasters fell away, Red Rolfe, Joe Di Maggio, Jake Powell and | Tony Lazzeri turned in 12 hits. The | lower end of the Yankee offensive con- tributed 10 of the 17 hits and 8 of the 13 runs. The Yankees give you no resting spots—no vacations—no re- cesses, Complete Series Composite Score By the Associated Press ' NEW YORK (AMERICAN LEAGUE). G. AB. R. H.2B. 3B. HR. Rbi. BB. PTORE- RS 22332333 e R TS L SomimDisnnD: 923~33335m95 ° - =522 Shore smGRelsERE 3 EPTTPIPCA A EE S B T LRty PN EPeEY Totals - 621543 65 ® *Batted for Hadley. eighth inning, +Ran Afth same. aloss3333smumpsae ~loss3222> 41 26 35 .302 162 57 973 third game. for Ruffing, eighth inning, third game; batted for Rufing, sixth inning. | piace in the backfield in doubt. Player IRan for Dickes, ninth inning, Afth game. NEW YORK (NATIONAL LEAGUE). . R. H.2B. 3B. HR. Rbi. 2 IR DD DDA D BB 3B I B R L TeE L ETHEC AT WHEEIDI3NoARHITADIARD BB. SO. Pet. . B Pet. e sy Qo O33R S o WoBRED » B N L T T 1 HennE) 3 ,====-”-==_=~=-.,u..u-., 3 B e [TC ILET PRty P TP PP PP S sl 529329259050393020us Totals 6 203 23 50 *Batted for Gabler. el tBatted for Jackson, taning_ fourin game, ninth inning, sl 2095395235559935225325 »lo992593393559900~0ms~m alo23530302-2u23m020m0m HE 20 21 33 246 159 62 batted for Whitehead. ninth ighth inning. second game. third tor Coftman. fourth inning. second game: ran for Leslie. minth inning. e: ran for Lesiie, eighth inning. fourth same; batted for Castieman, eight] th game. tBatied o Fitzsimmons. ninth inning, third game: batted ing, fourth game; batted for Mancuso, seventh inning, sixth game. PITCHING %EORD. cG. IP Saa i £ [T - L PPN YO p New TomP AT . New York (N. L. Final game standing—New York Powell. 8acrifices—Rinple (2), Bartell i, Whitehead: Ba Yore o L) 35 and Magerkurth. N third game, 2:0! League. on HOAASIOT D30 145 Ly ble plays—~Whitehead and Terry; Lei Doul n:n.’wmul: iber. Jackson to pires—Messrs. Geisel and Summers, ation: Game times—First ; fourth game, 2:12; Afth game, 2:45 for Hubbell. eighth in- 0 o o o 0 0 1 =N PR Y o R P RUTE P 59350ummama2 1 88 Lsvusanrars B O ST ©93509-ma S § 0 o o 0 0 [} 0 1 ©2 gussmaa s - 313 4+ 6 0 4; New York (N. L), 2. Btolen base— ncuso, Terry, Leiber, Rolfe. Di Maggio, Bartell: Mancuso and ead to Terry (3): Schumacher. Terry t ; Crosetti it), Lasser! to Genrig. Lef tesNew Fork AL T 4 t on bases—New York 43: New el Le Pfirman American e 3 ; secons ixth game, 2:50. SOFT BALL BERTHS OPEN. ‘Managers of all teams interested in SPORTS LEADERS TALK. Jim McNamara, physical director of joining the new Community Center | the Jewish Community Center, and soft ball league, which starts the end of this month, are requested {o attend, or send representatives to a meeting at Langley Junior High School tomor- row night, starting at 7:30 o’clock. League champions “swept to rec- ord-breaking 18-4 _victory before President Mush Dubofsky, line coach at George- town University, will address the reg- ular monthly smoker of the Phi Sigm: Fraternity at 8 o'clock tonight at Sholl's cafeteria. Drama Marks Every Game in World Series Hubbell’'s Seventeenth Win in Row, Yanks’ Big Rallies, Schumacher's Victory Feature. PFifth game—Hal Schumacher’s achievement in retiring Joe Di’ Maggio, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey in order, the first two on 00 | team which will line-up against Vir- 000 | ginia here Saturday. VIRGINIA AIR GAME IS WORRYING NAVY, ‘Phnninz No Changes in Starting Eleven for Last Home Tilt of Season Saturday. NNAPOLIS, Md., October 7.—Tom | Hamilton said yesterday that he contemplated no change in the Navy At present there is no question about the first choice linemen and only one and Soucek are the ends, Lynch and Hessel the tackles, Capt. Morrell and Dubois the guards, with Miller lti center. Schmidt, Case and Antrim are -fire backfield men. Thomas, Reimann and Ingram still are possi- bilities at the other halfback places. Yesterday the special preparation Series Leaders By the Associated Press. Batting (regulars)—Powell, Yank- ees, .455. Runs—Powell, Yankees, 8. Runs batted in—Gehrig and Laz- zeri, Yankees, 7. Hits—Rolfe and Powell, 10. Doubles—Dimaggio, Bartell, Giants, 3. Triples—Selkirk, Yankees, 1. Home runs—Gehrig and Selkirk, ‘Yankees, 2. Stolen bases—Powell, Yankees, 1. Pitching—Gomez, Yankees, 2-0. Yankees, Yankees, and for the Virginia game, the last for the varsity on the home grounds this sea- son, was begun. It was featured by a defensive scrimmage. The Navy's chief worry is the passing attack of the Cavaliers. FROM THE BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, October 7.—When it ended, the Yankees swarmed into their half of the club house and began to wreck things. They ripped up shirts, threw shoes around, jumped up on benches, yelled like Mohawks, pounded backs and pulled ears. No one was safe. Massa Joe Mc- Carthy, who: likes to keep his dig- nity even in moments of supreme triumps, backed off into a corner and began to beam steadily. He was still beaming when night fell. “That's a good ball club, isn't it, hey?” said Massa Joe, looking around at the world champions, his second assortment of same in five years. “It's better than any one thought. Say, that was pretty good pitching they were hitting out there. They make good pitching look like bad pitching.” _.“What good pitching are you talking about?” yelled Don Ver- " mon Gomes, the singular Span- Jard, from ascross the reom. “Mine?” “Naw, you were terrible, Lefty!” said somebody else. “I was all right!” hollered Gomes. ‘My curve was just too wide for them Giants, that's all. They never seen nothing like it. They couldn’t get their bats out of the way.” A Car for Lefty. “WHAT are you going to do with your dough, Lefty?” “Maybe a car,” said Lefty, still talk- ing as though his audience were in California and & bit hard of hear- ing to boot. “Maybe I'll buy a car.” “You already got a car,” said Lou Gehrig. “You got two yalla cars, a blue car and a red car. You can't keep your hands off them yalla cars.” “Maybe Il buy me mm.\mh';we Gomez. “Maybe I'll buy me & house. explained PRESS BOX What to Do With Their Dough Is Big Concern as Jubilant Yanks Disband. Arthur Fletcher, the third-base coach and leading Yankee jockey, who jeered and jibed at the Giants throughout the series for purely prac- tical reasons, but is a nice enough guy off the ball field, came storming down the middle of the room through & hail of flying shirts and towels. He grabbed Jake Powell's neck. “Too bad this guy can't hit,” he roared. “Too bad him apd Rolfe can't hit. They were both uhder .500 for the serfes.” “What did I hit?” demanded Gomez. | “Has anybody got my average?” “That lying bum has got 20 copies of his average. Whenever Gomez gets a hit he clips all the newspapers and hands the clippings around to guys on the street. Just a Slugging Fool. couldn't keep track of all my hits this series,” said Gomez. was a slugging fool.” * “What did Di Mag' hit?” asked Pletcher. +.345," yelled somebody. “A news- paper guy was just here and said .345." “How about that home run they stole off Lou?” “Yeah, that looked fair to me, that one in the stands in the ninth,” said Gehrig, “but they called it foul. I wisht they had called it right.” “That would have tied the record,” said a visiting statistician. “If that poke of Lou's had gone fair it would have been three more runs, and that would have made 10 runs for the inning, and that would have tied the Athletics—" “Should’ve and would've have had bellies like eels,” said Tony Lazzeri. “That’s what Jack Quinn used to say.” “That's all right,” said Gomez, still yelling. “We" win the series.” “And what are you going to do with one another when they finally had their clothes on and were leaving the ball park. ‘What are you going to do with by 4| The Giant Defense. 'HE Giants had to take their gamble on the pitching defense of Carl | Hubbell, Hal Schumacher and Pred Fitzsimmons. Each one of pitched a fine ball game. these But there | wasn't a member of the trio who could handcuff the Yankees for two games in a row. Hubbell gave a brilliant ex- hibition in the rain and mud of the opener—but they had his number in | the next start. Fitzsimmons pitched the best game of the series in his first appearance. He held the Yankees to four hits, but in his second turn, meaning the final game, they ham- mered him for nine hits and five runs in less than four innings. Schumacher, driven to the showers abruptly, came back with one of the best exhibitions of the series. Yet he needed 10 innings in which to win a tough game. Yankees Also Faster. & YOU looked at the two ball clubs through six games, the wonder |is that the Giants ever carried the series to the ninth inning of the sixth | game. They were not only outclassed | in power—but also in sped. And they | had no edge in pitching. Bill Terry jon first base was hobbling around on one leg. Travis Jackson at third was in the same fix, a star veteran who was only a ghost of the once great infielder. Whitehead, a brilliant defensive man at second, couldn't hit the sifp of his hat. There was noth- ing consistent about the Giants. They could start a rally—but they had no one left to carry it along. ‘The best example of this is shown (See RICE, Page A-15. Factsand Figures On World Series Bv tne Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 7.—Facts and figures on the world series: Final Standings. W. L. Pet. 4 2 667 2 ¢ 33 First Game (At Polo Grounds). R. H E AR Rl | - 6 9 Ruffing and Dickey; Hubbell and | Mancuso. Second Game (At Polo Grounds). Yankees Giants Gomez Smith. Coffman, Gabler, Gumbert. and Mancuso. Third Game (At Yankee Stadium). R H E 218 ¢ 2 4 0 Pitzsimmons and Mancuso; Hadley, Malone and Dickey. Fourth Game (At Yankee Stadium). R.HE 8 9 5 10 Hubbell, Gabler and Mancuso; Pear- son and Dickey. Fifth Game (At Yankee Stadium) 1 1 Schumacher and Mancuso; Ruffing, Malone and Dickey. > Sixth Game (At Polo Grounds). R. H E Yankees D B Giants S e D Gomez, Murphy and Dickey; Pitz- simmons, Castleman, Coffman, Gum- bert and Mancuso, Danning. 3 Sixth Game Figures. Paid attendance, 38.427; gross re- ceipts, $169,213; commissioner’s share, $25,381.95; contending clubs’ share, $71,915.52; leagues’ share, $71,915.53. Note: Players share in receipts of only first four games. Final Figures (Six Games). Paid attendance, 302924; gross re- ceipts, $1204,399; commissioner's share, $180,659.85; players’ share, $424,737.18; contending clubs’ share, Radio receipts: Players’ share; $35.- 265.48; commissioner’s share, $15.000.