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SPORTS Majors Bask in Light of Banner Se Qs BASE BALL ENIOYS UNUSUAL SUGCESS Big-Paying Gates, Upsets Galore Mark Progress of Both Loops. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE 1937 major league season is & matter of history, with | only the world series chapter still to be written, but up and down the big time & lot of the things that happened in the last five and one-half months won't be forgotten in a hurry. Aside from little old New York's second-straight championship monop- oly, the developments that seem standouts as you look back over the campaign were its success from & financial viewpoint, the epidemic of injuries that hit every club in both loops, the big surprise that was pulled out of the hat hy the Boston Bees and the high-class walloping of Ducky | Medwick and Joe Di Maggio. When the books are written off on | this season, there seems little doubt that it will top any post-depression mark in fan turnout and financial return. Except in few instances, at- tendance reports through the season have shown distinct improvement. | | [ Yanks' Power Awes Rivals. RIDING high on the strength of their batting might, the New York Yankees' murderers’ row had little trouble finishing 13 games in front in their pennant chase during | the season, largely because the rest | of the American League fell apart| at their approach. The neighbors across the Harlem, the Giants, found the going tougher, but once they climbed inth the sad- | | N.York | —[10/16/14/1 | Pitts'’gh | 611 dle there was no stopping them. This became particularly apparent when the last of a long series of injuries | deprived the Chicago Cubs of their | first baseman, Rip Collins, in earl August, definitely confining the Cul to second place. The Giants wound up with & 4-1 win over their best- hated pals, the Brooklyn Dodgers. terday. An injury also took whatever fight there was in the Detroit Tigers. When an accidental bean ball frac- tured Mickey Cochrane’s skull and removed him permanently from the playing scene, a large part of the Tiger strength was gone. | Bees Spring Big Surprise. OTHERWISE. the fine showing of Jimmy Dykes’ Chicago White Sox in upsetting the dope by winding up | third in the American League, finish- | ing with a 2-0, 7-2 double-header w: over the last-place Browns yesterday, | stood out in the American League. | But the major job of fooling the experts was turned in by the Boston | Bees and Manager Bill McKechnie. Rated a seventh or eighth place outfit, | they finished just a game out of | fourth place on the strength of two 20-game pitching rookies, Lou Fette, who hit the 20-mark yesterday with a | 6-0 shutout over the Phillies, and Jim ‘Turner. | The National League cellar was “won” by the year's biggest bust, the Cincinnati Reds, who absorbed a 4-3, 4-0 twin defeat at the hands of the Pirates yesterday, winding up the | nightmare their pre-season dream had | become. The double win marked the | twenty-first victory the Bucs scored over the Reds during the year, equaling | & major league record. | Allen Misses Sixteenth in Row. 'HE Cardinals, minus Dizzy Dean, | who was of no use after having @ hand in the National League's loss | to the American Leaguers in the all-| star game, just made fourth place,| dropping their finale to the Cubs, 6-4. | Boston’s Red Sox again were the | “gold flops” for Tom Yawkey and finished fifth. Their finale was a 6-1 | beating at the hands of the Yanks ye: terday, featuring Joe Di Maggio's, homer with the bases loaded. | Cleveland's Indians again were a disappointment and rode in with fourth place. Johnny Allen, who had won 15 straight since recovering from | {liness, dropped the season's wind-up, 1-0. vesterday to the one-hit pitching | of Jake Wade for the Tigers. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 193 Final Statistics OCTOBER 4. 1937, AMERICAN. RESULTS YESTERDAY, Philadelphia, 5-—3; Washington, 4—4, Chicago. St.' Lo 0. Detrojt, '1: Cleveland. 0. New York, 6: Boston, 1. FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS. |--x10x may aorTaruse M N.Y.[—/13[13115/15/16/14]_16/1 K Detr [_9/—I14/11110/16/14/_15|_89|_651.578 Chicl_8I_&/—I10/12/14115| 181 86|_681.5. Clev [ 7/11/12/—I11111/13( 18| Bostl_7112/10/11|—1 8/17/_15/_8 W'n 1 61_6l_8I11114/—I131 15 731 Phil | 8 81 7/ 9] 111_ 54| 97 St.L.| 6] 7| 4| 4| Brooklyn, 1. s Philadelbhia. 0. Cl @ St. Louis, 4 Pittsburgh,’4—4; Cincinnati, 3 FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 0. uamastg X0 _MaN 5 wludRpRIY, -~ oaworud - us(y0Ig #39100013d Chicago/12/—| 9117 /13114/14/14/931611.604 —I14111110(11/21/86(681.5: St. Louis! 8 5/ RI—[13115/17115/811731, Boston _ [10]_981111_91—15/14/1117917; Brookl'nl_61_8/12(_7]_7I—10/12/62 Philad'al_7/_S8/111 5| 8/11/—I11/61 Cincin'til 81 8] 11 7/11/10/11|— YANKS IN5 GAMES 5 PONERS GLESS Hubbell Conceded One Win| for Giants, Rated Soft in World Series. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, October 4.—Falling Autumn leaves disclose your correspondent out on a limb again. This time with the | prediction that the New York Yankees will win the world series, and in five games. Your correspondent apparently has learned nothing from previous tumbles, thus justifying the opinion of Miss Smith, our grammar school teacher. But this limb looks very nice and se- cure and there is a friendly family of squirrels in the same tree, so the Win- ter won't be lonely in case the worst comes to worst. So it will be the Yankees games. pions. breezing in from an easy march. would take the Giants under any and all conditions. in five One Win Conceded Hubbell. BUT with Billy Terry's team limp- ing and sore from the bitter fight with Chicago’s Cubs, the popovers for the Yankees. It is conceded that Don Carlos Hub- bell will beat the Yankees in one game. Don Carlos is a pitcher on any rubber and will stifle the Yankee bats just once. If he comes back the sec- ond time, the Rupperts will mow him down. No other Giant pitcher will stop the Yankee artillery unless some dastard blows pepper in the eves of Gehrig, Di Maggio and Dickey. As I see it, the Yankees not only | are superior in batting power, but they have better pitching and a better de- fensive outfield and infield. There is little need going over the line-up man for man. Just Jump them all in the same basket, and the Yanks have the margin, Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Yesterdav's homers—Di Magzio, 1: Athletics. 1: Stone. Senaiors, . Senators. 1: Schumacher. Di Maggio, Bees, 1: Mize. 1 Final ieaders—Di Maggio. Yankees i6: Greenbers. Tigers. 40: Gehrie. Yankees_ 37 x. Red Sox. 36: ¥ Tigers. 35 Troskv. Indians. ' 32: Giants, : Medwick. Cardinals 31} Dickey. Yankees i Clift. Browns. 9: Camilli. Phillie nson. Ath- tics. 25 Moses, 25, Mize, Cardinals Final league totals—American, 808; National. 623. Total. 1.420. : Joh Athietics Seribes Overboard on‘Yanks Fifty of 66 Predict Giants’ Defeat—Broadway Bookies Make Champs 2-5 Shots.. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, October 4 —The Yankees are 2-to-5 shots for the world series in Broadway's betting books, but they are even more pronounced favorites among major league base ball writers to take the Giants over the jumps for the second straight year. Fifty out of 66 experts, polled today by the Associated Press, pre- dict victory for the world cham- pions in New York's fifth intra- mural scramble for prestige and profits. -The remaining 16 think the Giants will win. The consensus points to triumph for the American Leaguers in & six-game series. That's as far as it went last year, which leads to a suspicion many of the boys are making their selections from mem- ory. Most writers emphasize Yankee power is the No. 1 factor in their calculations. Several point out the American Leaguers also are likely to get better pitching with Gomez, Ruffing and Pearson in top form. A minority believes the world champions have slipped since 1936, that their infield is weak, and that the Giants definitely have im- proved their line-up. *“Melton can make a lot of difference this time,” comments oné writer. Another adds: “The Giants are a whale of a short-end bet.” The American League cham- | National | Leaguers will be pushovers and also | KOHLMAN VICTOR AS CURTAIN FALLS Beats A.’s in 5-Inning Fray After De Shong Bows. Case Hitting Hero. Special Dispatcen to The Btar. HILADELPHIA, October 4—Joe Kohlman put a joyous end to the season of 1937 by pitching the Senators to victory in the abbreviated nightcap of the Sunday double-header, 4 to 3. The game was called at the end of the fifth inning because of darkness. The Athletics won the first game in regulation in- nings, 5 to 4. In this final series in which four games were crowded into two days, the Senators won one game, tied one and lost two to the Athletics. Kohl- man's win was the only Washington vietory. Incidentally this was the third tie game between Philadelphia and Washington this season. Last Sun- day in Washington the same battlers played to an 1l-inning draw, while there was another draw at Shibe Park earlier in the season. Books, now closed for the season, show that Washington won 73 games | and lost 80, to finish in sixth place, well ahead of the seventh-place Ath- letics. Last year the Senators finished fourth, only a fraction of a game be- low third. De Shong’s Record Suffers. TN THIS Philadelphia finale Luther ¥Thomas outpitched Jimmy De Shong in the first game to nose him out in a keen fight. Here was a game that just played havoc with De Shong's pitching record. He absorbed his six- teenth defeat as against 15 wins. Had he won it would have been 16 wins and 15 losses, which would put Jimmy above the .500 mark in victories and defeats. Just shows how one game can mar a pitcher’s season's record. De Shong was beaten by Frank Hayes, the stout catcher, and two rookie stars that only lately joined the Athletics. * In the sixth inning Gene Hasson, slugging first baseman, socked a double. Then Babe Barna, the giant | foot ball star from the University of West Virginia, who also can play base ball, unloosed a single. runs scored when Hayes cannonaded a de luxe homer, the masterpiece of the nine he has socked this year. The ball hit the mof of the stands and bounded into the adjoining block. Then in the next inning Hayes drew A pass with the bases fuil to force in the winning run. Hayes was the principal malefactor in the ruin of De Shong's 1937 pitching record. Case Is Hitting Hero. GEORGE WASHINGTON CASE, the new outfielder, was Bucky Harris’ hero during the afternoon. He socked a pair of doubles in the opener and then hit a triple in the nightcap that sent in Millies, who was walked in the fifth, with The Senators scored their earlier runs in their only victory in Philadelphia on homers. Stone hit one in the first with one aboard and Jimmy Wasdell opened the second with an interior round-tripper. Cecil Travis made a hot finish in the batting championship fight. In the last four games of the season he batted .500 as a result of 6 hits out of 12 times at bat Bill Werber, a Washington boy, put on the works in the last two days of the season to nose out Ben Chapman | of the Red Sox for stolen-base honors | of the league. Bill stole three Satur- | day and two Sunday for a total of 35, that topped Chapman'’s 33. . NEWARK NOW FAVORITE Seeks Second Win Over Columbus, Hit by Loss of Jordan. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 4 (£).— The Newark Bears, International League champions, were slight favor- ites over the Columbus Red Birds, pen- | nant winners in the American Asso- ciation, today as the two teams pre- pared for the fifth game of the 1937 little world series under flood lights tonight after a day of idleness because of rain. Although holding a three-to-one edge over Newark in wins, Columbus will enter tonight's game handicapped by the absence of Capt. Jimmy Jordan, crack second baseman, who suffered a fractured right leg Saturday night while attempting to complete a double play. Goslin Not Sure He’ll Quit Game DETROIT. October 4 (#).—Leon (Goose) Goslin, a major league outfielder 50 good he stayed 17 years, many of them with the Senators, looked for a job today after being given his unconditional release by the Detroit Tigers. Goslin's objective was a coaching or managerial job. “Right now,” he said, “I would say I was through as an active player.” Then he added, “But you must remember this is October, not April, and I may change my mind.” Three | left-field | the winning run. | Big Factor in Giants’ Drive to N. L. Pennant exhibition jaunt in 1935. they sold him to Baltimore. Melton had the number of Left-handed Cliff Melton, who went to the Terry outfit from the Baltimore Orioles, has proved just what the doctor ordered. He’s ambitious now to face the Yanks. is shown gripping the ball, talking things over with Catcher Mancuso and southpawing the peliet plateward. The Yankees had Melton for a brief trial on their Spring After testing him against the Chi- cago Cubs in Chattanooga, they sent him to Newark. In the above pictures, he Later the Cubs in the recent crucial series in Chicago. After whitew. game of the series, he came back the following day, in the ninth inning of the third game, to halt the Bruins in their tracks while the tying and winning runs died on the bases. this after Schumacher, Hubbell and Gumbert had failed to stop the Chicago sluggers. Southpaw pitchers, as a rule. are late in reaching the top. | With Melton, however, such is n Giants paid something like $30.000 for him of his showing this season they got a bargain SPORTS A—15 ason as Champs Gird for War TOODUETO S TITLE SERIES OPEN Wise Money Favors Yanks, but Giants Look Vastly Improved This Year. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer, EW YORK, October 4 Whether you're excited about it, the Giants and the Yankees are going to be at it again | day after tomorrow, seven falls to a decision. Indications are that a record crowd of near 70,000 will be crammed into the enlarged Yankee ball park when Carl Hubbell, the Giants’ old reliable, wanders out there on his skinny legs and starts wheeling his serewbhall | across just like he did a year ago, All the other trappings are so fa- miliar that some fan is bound to re- mark that he believes this is where he came in. The only thing that might be ale tered somewhat is the eventual result Last time the brutish Yankees slapped the ears off their little plavmates from across the Harlem River in six games. The Giants, hot as a baked potats right now, don't think that will han- pen again, but most of the so-called smart money around Broadway thinks it will, Judge Landis Knows About It. FVERYTH‘ING else is about as usual. ~ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lan- dis, the high commissioner, has been advised what is coming off and will make his appearance on the scen~ some time today, with his black fedors Bill Terry, manager and master min- | of the Giants, has recovered from a | siege of influenza in the nick of tima ashing the Cubs, 6-0. in the key | All ot the case. He is only 24. The On the strength —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. { Doyle's Book Quotes 8-5 Against Giants—Di Mag Rates Above | | 4‘ | } Ott as Homer Hitter. l By the Associated Press. i INEW YORK, October 4—Jack| Dale, Broadway betting “com- | missioner,” today quoted odds of 2 to 5 against the Yankees and 8 to 5| | against the Giants in the world series | He made the Yankees 1 to 2 to take ‘!he first game, and the Giants 7 to 5 {to do the same thing. | In Doyle's book, it's even money | that Joe Di Maggio doesn't hit two | homers during the series: 3 to 2 that he doesn't kndck three out of the lot.| The odds are 3 to 2 against Mel Ott hitting two, and 3 to 1 Master Melvin | doesn't wallop three. | Other odds Doyle quoted were: 6 to 5 against the Yankees winning the! | first two games; 4 to 1 against the Giants winning the first two; 6 to 1 against the Yankees taking the series in four straight and 16 to 1 the Giants | don’t turn the trick. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR WHILE the Nats were pounding Babe Ruth for 11 hits and 6 runs, Walter Johnson shut the Red Sox out with 7 hits, By virtue of their defeat of Bos- ton, the Griffs are assured of top- ping the second division. The Maryland State foot ball squad jumped to 34 with the open- ing of school. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Frankie Hayes. Athleti tha Ha dro: s in 5-4 opener win: Stone's homer with one on won night- and Jona- cap. 4-3. Joe Di Magelo. Yankees—Hit homer with bases loaded. and two singies in 6-1 win over Red Sox Hal Schumacher. Giants—Won own game with homer with two on in 4-1 victory over Dodgers Phil Cavarretta. Cubs—Drove 12 four runs with two singles in 6-4 win over Cardinals. Thornton Lee. Zeke Bonura and Hank Steinbacher. “White Sox—Lee blanked Browns, 2-0. with seven hils in 11- inning opener as Bonura drove in both runs with two-base hit: Steinbacker hit two singles. oatted in three runs in -2 nighteap victory. Lou Fette. Bees—Shut out Phillies, 6-0. with seven hits. Jake Wade and Hank Greenbers. Tigers—Stopped Indians with one hit and Greenberg's single drove 11 only run_ for 1-0 victory. Chuck_Heintzelman. Jim Weaver and Mace Brown. Pirates—Heintzelman pitched six-hiiter, fanned four in 4-3 opener win over Reds: Weaver and Brown allowed three hits in 4-0 six- inning nighteap victory. -Trouble Looms as Yanks, BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, October 4.— Seems the Giants and Yank's just can’t wait . . . Right now they're em- broiled in as bitter warfare as they'll stage starting Wednesday ++. All over hotel rooms, too...For two years several members of the Yanks, including Frank Crosetti and Joe Di Maggio, have made their New York homes at a hotel, hard by Central Park (where Jimmy Braddock headquarters) . . . With the opening of schools last month, 14 Giants (Mel Ott among them) holed in at the same inn. Bomebody has got to move, for if there is anything against Judge Landis' rules it is for players on opposing world series teams to stop at the same hotel . , . Both eides refuse to evacuate ., . 50 what, jedge? . Brothers, it was quite a foot ball day . . . Minnesota getting its bumps was the big news, of course ... (and what a way for good old BIiff Jones to break in at Nebraska) . . . If Minneapolis and St. Paul papers hadn't had their own-war correspondents at Lincoln they never would have believed what happened . .. (Tulane game post- poned because of floods). ‘Where did Cornell get that line it trotted out against Colgate? . . . Cornell old grads, celebrating for the first time in years, don't give a hoot where they got it. Looks as if Howard Jones will have to postpone Southern California’s comeback for another year . . . Army gave Columbia, Notre Dame, Navy, et al. something to think about with its clean-cut win over Clemson, which is plenty tough Next time Coach Gar Davi starts alibling, give him the air & . Giants Live at Same Hotel One Gang Must Move, Both Stubborn—War Admiral to Race at Laurel on October 29. He's got. 'em up there and don't let anybody kid you . .. Jim Craig will make them do everything but for- get Monk Meyer before “Taps” sounds for the season. Even old Gil Dobie is smiling so we must be in for one “L" of a year . . . One more tip: Don't worry about all those tears Dr. Lou Little is shedding up at Columbia ... Hell do all right, too. First world series arrival is Casey Stengel . . . He wasn’t in town an hour before he was carrying a ban- ner in the line picketing a Brooklyn newspaper plant . . . Fort Worth got into the Texas League play-offs with Oklahoma City with three pitchers, aged 44, 42 and 38, respec- tively. After being tossed by his books at two universities, Orville Matthews, Oklahoma's million-dollar backfield prospect, has chucked the collitch game and found o e with Gloomy Gus Henderson’s Los Angeles pro Bulldogs . . . First foot ball casualty at Loyola (New Or- leans) was.Catherine Bourg, cheér leader, who fell off a platform while sounding the key for a rousing ''sis, boom, bah!" The immediate need of the Cin« cinnati Reds may be a manager, but. the fans out there think it might not be a bad idea to get some play- ers for the manager to manage. Until Mulheim went over for a touchdown against Boston College Saturday, Howard Cleveland was the only man on the squad who ever scored a point for Kansas State . . . Yet they wonder why Coach Wes Fry goes about talking to himself ... Our Feedbox special this week is Tennessee over Duke . .. War Admiral, champion 3-year-old, makes his next start in the Mary- land Handicap at Laurel, Octo- ber 29, BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. ORVAL P. WIGGINTON, treas- urer of the Washington So- | cial Chess Divan, just received an anodyne for his jitters— the embryonic Wigginton weighs 7 pounds and 7 ounces The name: John James. Ah. another addition to the neophytes who read this column. After several months of absence, Is- rael Rosenblum again is active in Di- ! van che He is joined by E. F. Hodgdon, and that makes the mem- | bership of the W. S. C. D. jump to 61. | The November 1 membership goal is 75. | Tonight at 8 o'clock, Parkside Hotel, the chess editor of The Evening Star will resume hi. structional lectures on chess for beginners, public admission be- ing only 50 cents. Vincent L. Eaton, who succeeds young Martin Stark as chess director | of Capital City Chess Club—Stark re- turning to Harvard University " post-graduate study—probabl will enter a strong quintet in the team tourney that opens this Friday at the | Social Chess Lounge, 1336 I street | northwest. It is high time that the Four C's lived up to their reputation of the past | for possessing players of sterling abil- ity. By entering the District team championship tournament on this oc- | | a splendid opportur casion Capital City players will have y to carry off first laurels. As president of the Me Chess Association, your col vites Director Eaton to ent now and mow down the knig Paul Morphy C. Government inting Office, Agriculture Chess Club, Social Chess Divan, Ladies’ | C. C.. Procurement Division C. C. and the Interhigh Chess Association. All the chess club entries join with me in issuing this invitation. C. W Stark, president of the Capital Chess Club, is favora disposed to organized chess, and his quintet se- lection attracts our interest. Divan's General Tourney Begins. GIMON NAIDEL. tournament di- * rector of the Washington Social Chess Divan, declares that formal ‘pla,\' commences tomorrow at 8 pm., Parkside Hotel, and all contestan should be present for immediate pair- ing, whether they will be able to con- summate an evening's play or not Supplementary to the rules an- nounced in yesterday's Sunday Stgr, Director Naidel adds the follow H plaver whose turn it is t his next move and give it ment _director or his Assistant time of adjournment 2. Players who _mayv be unable to plav o at on the appointed Tuesda¥ night must give advance notice o the tournament director to avoid forfeit 3. Recording of games is optional and it is assumed that participants will not consime more than a reasonable amount of time on their moves No sames will be played ahead of the posted schedule except by permission of the tournament director and each plaver will use white and hlack men an eaual number of times throughout the tourney Visitors are welcome to attend the general tournament, the spectator fee being only 25 cents. Griffs’ Records (FINAL, Treshogk Travis Stone Almada Lewis Case Mever Kuhel Bluege Simmons Wasdell W Ferrell Mihalic Sinston Millies R. Ferrell Bloodw'th Linke Weaver DeShong Kohlman Appleton Cohen . Krakau's Chase a3 Jacobs Phebus Lanahan Anderson ooms 2 G. Kohiman 2 o 2 Weaver 1 1 18825 24 Krak'skas 9 4 DeShong Phebus B et N e ) Lanahan Anderson Records for Week In Major Leagues Standings for the week, showing games won and lost, runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs and home runs: MERICAN LEAGUE. A W. L R. H. A 53 R4 Club *Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit Boston Chicago New York *Washington uis = “Played one tle & NATIONAL - N NS 1oz EES SR35335 ame. L 1 2} = AGU] 3 ol Club. Pitisburgh s Brooklyn | Washington | Bloodworth | Stone. "cf. omrwana Fiaizaiazs ettty soaaann £IT25223! @SR coraeamcanins REBRG2RE3 Cincinnatt ~ [ CFSEEEE Official Scores FIRST GAME WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. 0. A ase. If, SEEE [ 1 0 I 0 0 Millies 0 Totals : 4 924 tBatted for De Shong in ninth PHILADELPHIA. Moses. rf. Newsome. Werber. > = bl ' 55, an. Bemuisg | smmmams | smmiamziae | s2a- Totals o 000 001 021—4 000 013 10x—5 in—Moses, Haves (4), (2). " Two-bas¢_hits—Blood- worth. Case (21, Werber. Moses, Hasson R. Ferrell. Home Run—Haves. ~ Stolen base—Werber. Sacrifices—Thomas_ (2). on_ bases—Washington, _9: Phila delphia, 10. Bases on balls—Off Thom 2: off 'De Shong. 5. Struck Thomas, 4: by De Shong. 1. U Messrs. | Kolls, McGowan and Time—1:53. Philadelphia Runs _batted mpires Dinneen. SECOND GAME. ‘WASHINGTON. Case, If 2 Lewis. 3b. ______ Travis.'ss. _ " 4 0 somz! Singion. rf. Wasdell. 1b. Bloodworth, 2! Millies. c. Kohlman. p. 2000 | comarnso-0 = = Totals o PHILADELPHIA. oomomrommmog o] 55omomm— sororsssm-> 4| orusom—ma> e =R PR B ) Smith. *Nelson TOtals, e 20 *Batted for Ambler in fifth. Washington 210 01—4 Philadelphia 100 20—3 Runs batted in—=8tone (2). Werber, Was- dell, Brucker, Peters. Case. Two-base hit— Werber. ~_ Three-base puns—Stone. Wasdell, e, o m Bmith. 5. Umpires—Messrs. Kolls and’ Dinneeg. Time—1:08. Attend- ance—5.000. t City | CHICAGO CITY SERIES | - CLUBS MINUS STARS| Cubs to Miss Jurges, White ScxJ Not Apt to Have Stratton in Annual Scrap. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, October club needs an excuse, the Chicago | White Sox and will be primed with an alibi when they swing into their city series championship Wednesday at Comiskey Park The Cubs will be without the serv- ices of Bill Jurges, ace shortstop, who | 4—1If either Cubs each wielded a potent bat the past season. | Jurges, out of the Cub line-up since ing & shoulder August 7, returned to his home in Brooklyn yesterday. Monty Stratton, the Sox pitching star, who has been on the shelf for weeks, likely will not be available, cutting a big hole in the Southsider's mound talent. The Sox have carried off the win- ner’s share in 14 of 20 series and in the last two Fall skirmishes won 8 games to the Cubs’ none in the four- best-of-seven affairs | Tex Carleton is scheduled to work | for the Cubs against Vern Kennedy in the opener. | and will be in there matching wi as the boys say. with Marse Joe Mc- Carthy of the Yankees, ‘The opposing box offices are run- ning neck and neck. The Yanker office announced two days didn't have a box seat left for anv game, and late last night Secretar: Ed Brannick of the Polo Grounds re- vealed triumphantly that he didn't have any either, As for the two adversaries, they ready now, too, for the great tes The Giants with their sling-shot pitchers and artful defense and the~ Yankees with their bludgeons, Lucky to Guess Winner, "I'HE last several davs have been devoted to comparing the resper- tive infields, outfields and domest habits of the two teams. The papers are full of it, but /& merrv-go- round, it doesn't get you anywhere The eventual conclusion must be that here are a couple fine ball clubs, or else they wouldn't be where they are | for the second year in a row. the digging through the record: would appear to reveal that the Giants maybe, have a slightly better pitching staff and a more compact infield; that the Yankees have a harder hitting outfield because Joe Di Maggio is in center, and possesses the game's out- standing catcher in Bill Dickey. Toss them all together in & seven- game series and you're lucky if you pick the winner in two guesses. Giants Improved Club, "I"'HERE seems slight doubt that ths Giants are stronger this time Where Hubbell was their only real mound ace a year ago, they now have another 20-game winner in Clff Mel- ton, the southpaw mountaineer Melton looks as great a potential | series hero as Hubbell Yet the records show that no fresh- man pitcher ever has won a world series decision. And now where are you? Five years ago—Montreal bid for major league base ball franchise rejected by both St. Louis elubs - Di Maggio Yea r’s Trump Ace ; 4 Yank Dynamiter Is Ment Daily 1 By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, October 4. —De- spite his last-month bat- ting slump, Joe Di Maggio, the New York Yankees' deadpan dnaniter, wound up the big league base ball season as the “star” of the campaign. He was mentioned on 20 occa- sions during the year in the Asso- ciated Press’ daily list of “stars vesterday.” Second to him for the season was Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, with 17 nomi- nations on the dailv list during the season. Ducky Medwick of the Cardinals was third with 16, and t of “Stars Yesterday.’ ioned 20 Times in A. P ’ Lefty Gomez, Di Maggio's team- mate, had 15. Honors for the final month were divided among Gabby Hartnett, the Cubs’ durable catcher; Ben Chap- man of the Red Sox, and Pitts- burgh's pitching rookies, Russ Bauers and Jim Tobin. Each re- ceived three ‘“mentions” during the last month of play. Ranking rookies for the year were Rudy York, the Tigers' home run walloper, and Lou Fette, 31-year- old pitcher for the Boston Bees Each drew 12 nominations on the daily lis t mild enough to satisfy my cigarette taste” Hold everything . . . here’s the answer to your wishs rietta& BLENDED time-seasoned tobacco, with light-color mellow=mlild imported 'IIKIIQFI wrapper.