Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1937, Page 46

D-2 =x s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1937. SPORTS Yanks Have Amazing Mark of .900 for 20 Tilts in Five World Series | YANKS FOLLOWING | Notre Dame, Ohio State, Duke, Pitt, Army Seem Grid Victors; G.U.Rated Loser, Ter ps Picked | S 0 s | | | | IN FOUR STRAIGHT EW YORK, October 8.—It all year later they whipped the Cardinals 8ix last Fall and, on Wednesday and League, ball has ever known | Giant Wins Last Year Only Defeats—Well Distributed Power Tells Tale. began just 10 years ago, back in 1927, when the Yankees beat Pittsburgh's Pirates in four straight. In 1932 they beat the Cubs four straight—making it 12 in & row. Thursday, they shot two more voi- soned arrows into quivering Giant flesh to make it 18 out of 20 in their This happens to be a world series | percentage of .900 up to today's game, | Eighteen out of 2C games over ng 10-year run is something beyond all | imagining against i{ne star clubs of a, HAVE TAKEN THREE BY GRANTLAND RICE. four straight world series games. A They beat the Giants four out of last 5 stands against the National the most astonishing performance base | rival major league. No Rest for Pitchers. VHAT'S the answer to this devas- ¥ tating march? The main answer Is well-distributed power where the opposing pitcher finds no oasis in the desert, no respite along the line of march. He has to bear down on every man who comes to bat from top to bottom. In the first two games, Carl Hub- bell and CIff Melton stopped the Yankees abruptly in the first four or five innings. Hubbell limited them to one hit in five innings—Melton to a pair of hits in four innings. Added up, this makes only three hits in a total of nine innings. Three hits and | no runs. But in the remaining seven | innings of the two games where. the | Yankees came to bat they ran up 16 | hits for &5 many runs. The heavy pressure of giving every- thing they had to every man up was more than Hubbell or Melton could face. Sixteen runs—sixteen hits—in the last three innings of one game and the last four innings of another— tells the story much more eloquent- ly than a large bale of words could ever hope to do. You can't circle or crash through the granite wall of fact. No Coasting Spots. AS A RULE there are a few tough spots in a batting order—then coasting places where the skiis can travel on downhill momentum. This doesn't apply to the Yankees. Here is a definite and concrete example. In the second game, Melton, Gum- bert and Coffman held the top of the Yankee batting order to three hits and no runs driven in. This Yankee top embraces Crosetti, Rolfe, Di Mag- glo and Gehrig, where most of the cobra-tinted poison is supposed to rest in death-dealing fangs. When you can choke down the top of a batting order you are gen- erally pretty well off. It is in the case of most ball clubs. But what happened in the second game? Only Di Maggio held his place. The top four got only three hits, of which Di Maggio got two. Lower Order Delivers. 'HE walls and the roof were blown away by the lower order. The lower five accounted for 9 of the 12 hits—and the lower five drove in all eight runs Even the Yankee pitchers are not eafe. In the first game, Lefty Gomez | garted all the trouble by drawing a | base on balls to lead off the sixth | inning. Lefty loves to hit—but he | was willing to wait Hubbell out. The | fact is that he drew two passes in | this one round. In the second game it was Red | Ruffing’s hot single that started early | trouble for Melton in the fifth—that drove him from the box. In the sixth, Gumbert decided to pass Tony Lazzeri, always dangerous, and get a pot shot at Pitcher Ruffing. Ruffing’s response was a line drive over the left fielder's head—a drive that left & trail of fire behind and bounded off the left-fleld wall for a two-base hit. Here we have a pitcher | ifriving in three runs—more than | .‘naugh to win a ball game, Pitching Is Great, Too. ‘When you have two pitchers start- ing two winning offensive drives— and still holding their opponents to one run a game—you begin to get | the all-around angle, The Yankees have power—but they have something more than power. In their first-two games they scored 16 runs against 2 for the Giants. But don't forget that Gomez and Ruffing held the Giants to one run a game— which is pretty fair world series pitch- ing—or any kind of pitching at any time. And, on the side, the Yankees in their first two games played error- less ball. Joe McCarthy's team has absorbed most of its base ball glory on the £ide of offense, where it can certainly hold its own. Yet the Yankees have | no three men on offense to match | Gehringer, Greenburg and York of | the Tigers. Look over the records. ! Gehringer led his league in hitting. | Greneburg led in runs driven across. | York had the best home-run average, per game played in. All-Around Combination. ONCE again it was the all-around combination—power, pitching and defense. Few teams have a Gomez and a Ruffing to call on. And few pitchers have the support that can handle around 70 chances without a misplay in the first two games of a world series. - ‘The power still is there. Hubbell and Melton each scored 20 or more victories in the last National League race. Yet neither could hang on be- yond the fifth or sixth inning against ‘Yankee bats. Gomez and Di Maggio were among the star. performers Wednesday—Ruffing and Di Maggio were around the top Thursday. But the two main stars so far have not been Yankee sluggers—but Yankee itchers, both on offense and de- fense. Before the series opened, Babe Ruth told me the best bet on the series was to .back the Yankees for four straight at the best odds open. The third game will give at least a fair line on the Babe's dope. {(Copyright, 1837, by the North American Wewspaper Alliance, Inc.) | 4 GRID BILL HEAVILY SPIGED THIS WEEK Buckeyes, Trojans Resolute Foes—Vols Would Ruin Duke’s Bowl Hopes. BY DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, October 8.—The daring young men on the far- flung foot ball trapeze are about ready for the big acts. The early entertainments on the gorilia vs. man play are about ended and old rivalries and intersectional clashes with interesting possibilities vie for the edification of this Satur- day’s millions. Minus the tub-thumpings of other (and less happy) seasons, Ohio State invades Los Angeles for a tiff with Southern California. Each party wants this one. The Scarlet Scourge appears to be getting better each week, but Southern Cal must win or be sub- merged in the lower ranks. Notre Dame meets an old and high- ly respected enemy in Illinois. This is not Bob Zuppke's best team, but he always gives Notre Dame all it is look- ing for, and a little more. He will make it tough, even for what appears to a nascent “Irish” champion. Tough Spot for Indiana. 'UGH times ahead for Bo Me- Millan’s men of Indiana. They meet Minnesota and if you don't think Bernie Bierman isn't going to have his young men hustling. The final answer is liable to be “they're off and still running at Minneapolis.” Tennessee and Duke play a game that may rend the Solid South. The Duke Blue Devils have Rose Bowl fever again and nothing would please Dr. Bob Neyland more than a chance | to administer a quick cure. Here's a game with a tradition of high-scoring play that should attract one of the day’s best crowds. Moving into the Eastern sector there are plenty of games of sectional im- portance. Cornell meets another tough one in Princeton. but Carl Snavely’s team, currently the most talked of in the East, is a heavy favorite. When the alumni start placing s team above the hearties of the Kaw-Pfann ers, Cornell has something. Yale and Penn should make it in- teresting for all involved. Yale has Clint Frank, a few experienced line- men and, as susal, a tricky attack. The Quakers are long an solid line play and possess s backfleld that will —By JIM BERRYMAN. g Gridiron Games Aired Tomorrow Via networks. 4 pm-—Army vs. Co- lumbia. WEAF—N._B._C. Michigan ve. Northwestern. WABC—O. B. 8. N, %70 Carnexle Tech vs. Purdue. WiZ— 5—Notre Dame vs. WOR— 5:30 and _7_Southern California_vs Ohio_State, WABC—Cas B. 8 Wiz— N. B C_ Western network, WADC. WHK. WHKC. WSPD. 5:15 Other station groups. 1'45—Holy Georgetown, Tllinois, and 2.15—Syracuse vs. St. Lawrence. WGY. WSYR. WHAM. WBEN: F. & M. vs. Drexel WGAL, WORK: Dike vs. Tennesses. WRVA. WBT. ' WDNC: ~Western Maryland vs Maryland, "WBAL. WJEJ 2:45—V. M. 1._vs “Davidson, WBTM WCHV, WDBJ. WGH, WLVA, WRNL. WSVA in WSB. WDRW. 3:15—Geora: WTOC. 3 Note—In case of the networks broad- casting of foot ball is to be delaved until after world series game running from approximately 1:15 to 4 TROY FEARS BUCKEYES Ohio State Seen Ready to Make U. 8. C. Third Grid Victim. LOS ANGELES, October 8 (®).— Ohio State's undefeated Buckeyes ar- rived here today, favored by most ob- vs. Clemson, servers to make the University of [ Su! Southern California their third vic- tm of the 1937 grid campaign. Coach Francis Schmidt sent word ahead his players would work out to- | day, probably in the coliseum, scene | of tomorrow's inter-sectional confiict. Loyal backers of Troy hope for vic- tory, but others see it as a faint prayer. _ Coach Howard Jones indicated he would try speed with a dash of aerial maneuvers. His starting backfleld is pegged around Ambrose Schindler. He has revamped his passing game. be tough to stop, whenever it learns to loosen up in a game. Army Meets Columbia. ARMY'B light cavalry, headed by the beau sabreur, Jim Craig, clashes with Columbia’s bombing squadron led by Flight Comdr. 8id Luckman. Line reserves may win this one despite the offensive pyrotechnics on display and the Army is reported to have the better reserves. Again hosts to an inter-sectional rival Manhattan's Jaspers hope to get going against Michigan State. The S8partans, long & bogeyman to Eastern teams, have an especially choice pass- ing combination, Pingel to Nelson. The rumor is around that Coach Chick Meehan has heard about it and has prepared accordingly. In other top notch games: Nebraska will taper off against Iowa State's Cyclones, Texas A. and M. tests & highly touted Mississippi State team, Rice and Louisiana State, and Baylor and Arkansas tussle in two Southwest- ern thrillers, and Stanford attempts a comeback against U. C. L. A. miLANO now only *1—once $3.50 Hovi: it ible? Enormousdemand. Economies inmanufacture thatdo notaffect the quality. Vast production greatmodernfactory. Andtheskillac- quired in 75 years of making high grade briar pipes. NEW Range of Beantiful Shapes& Finishes! " | oldest rivals, here tomorrow at 2:30. 1. | Coach Hardwick intends to start the NAVY TO PLAY SAFE IN VIRGINIA BATTLE| Decides to Start Veteran Backs Instead of Second Group at Annapolis Tomorrow. ANNAPOLIS‘ Md., October 8.—The Navy, with a considerably changed line, will meet Virginia, one of its| Despite the fine showing of the sec- ond backfield quartet, made up of | Cooke, Wood, Whitehead and Franks, | | veterans Case, Ingram, McFarland and Antrim. He said. however, that the second group would get plenty of playing. It will be the tenth game between the teams, the series beginning with two games in 1893, with an even split. In the five early games, each team won twice and there was a draw. The Navy has won all four of the recent games. Irwin Fike, big end of last year's team, will play for the first time this season and Heber Player will take the place of Dick Gunderson at left ard. Dick Fincher will fill the hole at center causdd by the injury to Wallace. Probable line-up: Navs. Virginia, Fike Sargeant | L ergner ~_Plaver _Fincher Dubois (c) Hysong Powell Case Ingram 7 McFarland Antrim ACIOIBIOCY Sharroetts McLaugherty C. U. LOSES SARELAS FOR LA SALLE GAME Team Will Leave Tomorrow and Many Rooters and Band to Follow Sunday. 'HOUGH lost for the La Salle game in Philadelphia Sunday, Nick Sa- | relas, colorful Catholic University full- back, will be available for C. U.'s out- standing home game with the Univer- sity of Detroit October 16. Such is the report of Trainer George Lentz today as the Cardinals prepared to step through a final Brookland workuut prior to entraining for Phila- delphia tomorrow morning. The Cardinals are to quarter at the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia and will stage a final workout at La Salle’s new stadium late tomorrow afternoon. Some 500 enthusiastic Catholic U. fans are expected to be present Sunday along with the 54-piece band. CAVALIERS HOPEFUL FOR NAVY CONTEST Practice Offers Encouragement. Murray Depending Mainly on Sophomore Backs. CHARLOTT!SVELE. Va., October 8—Virginia's foot ball squad, approximately 35, was scheduled to cepart late this afternoon for An- napolis, scene of tomdrrow’s annual battle with the Navy. This week's work on Navy assign- ments has not been devoid of encour- aging results, but Frank Murray, Cavalier coach, regards Navy as his most formidable opponent for this season. Only three of the 10 backs who have figured prominently in Murray's plans to date have had previous var- sity experience, although several of the sophomores have kept pace with the letter backs, Bus Male, senior quarterback, and Harry Dinwiddie and Peter Nistad, junior halfbacks. The sophomore ball carriers are Walter Smith, quarter; Jim Gillette, Ted Sharretts and Bev Tucker, haif- backs, and Harry McClaugherty and Art Bryant, fullbacks. Joe Pinder, reserve quarterback, is also new to the varsity squad. The starting line probably will be the same seven who distinguished themselves last week at Princeton, with Jimmy Sargeant and Woody George, ends; Billy Weeks and Billy Hoback, tackles; Ray Schmidt and John Acree, guards, and Tom Edwards or Al Berkeley, center. All are vet- erans of last season except Edwards, who is a sophomore. Terrors See Even Game With Terps WESTMXNSTER. Md., October 8.— Western Maryland's foot ball team will invade College Park to play Maryland Saturday, confident it has an even chance of licking the Terps. The Terrors, who played last Friday night, have had plenty of opportunity to rest up and prepare for the game and, with the exception of Swede Han- son and Joe Fegan, guards, the entire squad is in fine fettle. Hanson is suffer- ing from an abscess and Fegan has some minor bruises. The latter could see action if needed. Most of the student body and many fans from this section will go to Col- lege Park to root for the Terrors. TERMS AS LOW AS 16% DOWN 'AND To% PER MONTE. Open from 8:30 A.M. 20 6:00 P. M. P{lnlv of Purklu’ Space NATIONAL - TARGET:SUPPLY EO 1255 25th 8t. (Between M & N) RACINGATLAUREL TOMORROW—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th $ 500 RICHARD JOHNSON 25 Minutes to Track by Spee! Union Station at 12:10, B. & O. Train; leaving 35 and 1 P.M.—FIRST RACE AT 1:30 P.M. INC. TAX HANDICAP SYSTEM Spot Giants Run, Then Wait Until Midway of Game to Go to Work. BY BILL DISMER, Jr., Btaft Correspondent of The Star. EW YORK, October 8.—Tony Albano, who calls himself New York’s No. 1 base ball fan, climbed the 60-foot flagpole in Yankee Stadium’s centerfield “in order to get & good seat.” He held the stratosphere record until the fifth inning. Then Clff Melton blew up. They finally lured Albano down from his perch and dragged him to a hospital for observation. Now there is s talk of putting Bill Terry in the same ward. People are beginning to wonder if a guy can be all right and yet show up to play the Yankees, Power in “Sacrifice.” 'HE Yanks have a patent on a new play. Twice now batters have failed to sacrifice, on account of foul- ing the first two strikes. 8o the Yanks had to be content with hitting singles on the next pitches. Louje the Louse thinks the Yanks ought to loan Jake Powell and Tommy Henrich to the Giants and see if they can't work up closer ball games. 'HERE is a rumor afoot that this series is being played under a handicap system. The Giants are allowed to get a one-run lead and the Yankees don't go to work until the game is half way over. The Giants apparently do not read the batting averages. They must think Red Ruffing is a bum at bat. When Ruffing singled in the fifth, the Giants yanked Melton. When Red doubled in the sixth they pulled out | only pitcher in series history who | ball yard. Giants Never Loaf. N UN-AMERICAN Leaguer be- rated the Giants for loafing down to first base on infleld rollers. “They're not loafing,” snorted a National Leaguer, indignantly. “They're run- ning as fast as they can.” Izzats0? Maybe the Giants ought to consider themselves lucky. McCarthy hasn't thrown his machine out of second gear. The Yanks have made 19 hits s and 15 have been singles. quoted as saying the Yankees did not give him a fair trial when he reported to McCarthy for Spring training in 1935. Well, better late than never. The Yanks gave him that trial yesterday. Mr. Phil Troy, the Red Sox' secre- tary, claims that every club in the American League except the Browns can beat the Giants. Them's fighting words, Bottomley. TH! Giants like to pull their infield in. Doing that against the Yankees is like going to China on a vacation, with about &s much good judgment. s ST. THOMAS' ELEVEN AHEAD. 8t. Thomas gridders scored a 6-to-2 victory yesterday over the Cleveland Clippers. | Gumbert. The Ruff probably is the | chased two other pitchers out of the | MIGK!.’Y MOUSE MELTON was | BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Write: TW YORK, October 8.—Like the Glants, this foot ball cor- ner may be down, but it's not out—yet. With a quick and maybe effective shift from speed to screwballs, here's how this week's slate seems to shape up: Iilinois-Notre Dame: If pure mathe- matics could be trusted, the Ramblers’ triumph over Drake last week and II- linols’ scoreless tie with De Paul should 2dd up to another Notre Dame victory here. But Bob Zuppke has been gun- ning for this one and will shoot the works. Perhaps it's sheer perversity, but we still like Notre Dame. Southern California - Ohio State: The Buckeyes, paced by clever Mike Kabealo, appear to be one of the coun- try’s really fine teams, but whether they can stand the long trip and the Los Angeles brand of weather remains to be seen. With fingers crossed, Ohio State. Duke-Tennessee: One of Saturday’s outstanding battles. It threatens to be as close as last year's thriller, which Tennessee pulled out of the fire, 15-13, minutes. Harp will be on hand again, but this time we take Duke, Ithacans Are Powerful. PRXNCI'I'ON - CORNELL: The re- built Tigers do not appear to have the strength up forward to cope with what 100ks to be one of Cornell’s finest, arrays. It may be close, but Cornell gets the nod. Dugquesne-Pitt: Throw out all the records on this and start from scratch. Duquesne handed the Panthers their only defeat a year ago, but somehow we fell it's not in the cards again. Pitt after the toughest kind of battling. Army-Columbia: Columbia’s team | may be just about as good as any in the East, but Army rates an edge with more and superior reserves. Yale-Penn: There's no use trying to pick this one. Penn has an all-veteran line and a young but promising back- fleld. Yale has Clint Frank and no Larry Kelley. This vote goes to Yale on the theory that the Elis will come up with enough tricky stuff to turn the tide. Manhattan-Michigan State: The enough to come from behind twice with a passing combination, Pingel and Nelson, that may give Manhattan sev- eral headaches. The nod goes to State. N. Y. U. Given Edge. YORK UNIVERSITY-North Carolina: Another one calling for a little intensive coin-tossing. Heads itis, N. Y. U. Villanova-Auburn: That gruelling scoreless tie with Tulane Monday may have taken more from the Plainsmen than they could afford. Villanova. Northwestern-Michigan: The Wol- verines are on the up-grade, but do not appear ready yet for competition | of this kind. Northwestern. | Purdue-Carnegie: Maybe the Boiler- makers’ passes will click this time. Purdue. Minnesota-Indiana: That Nebraska set-back may have convinced the it on the gridiron. All of which in- dicates disaster for Indiana. The ballot is cast for Minnesota. Chicago-Wisconsin: Wisconsin. Towa State-Nebraska: The Cyclones of Towa State appear outclassed Nebraska. Texas A. and M -Mississippi State: with Aarln the New High Speed Super Luxury Blade! on Tom Harp's loug run in the closing | Spartans travel East with a team good | to whip Michigan and, 1nddenully,i Grophers a great team has to prove | The Aggies came through their first test in courageous fashion, beating Manhattan with two long fourth period marches. Mississippi State hasn't yet tackled major opposition. A faint-hearted vote for the Aggies. Rice-Louisiana State: We'll take Louisiana, Good Spot for Upset. Baylor-Arkansas: Ditto Arkansas, but this is the spot for sn upset. ‘Texas-Oklahoma: Eenle, meenie.., Texas. Texas Christian-Tulsa: Close enough. Christian. Stanford-U. C. L. A.: Climbing down off the Stanford bandwagon, perhaps at the wrong time, U. C. L. A. California-Washington State: No choice, but California possible. Washington-Oregon State: Washe ington. Kentucky-Georgia Tech: The Wild- cats lack scoring power. Georgia Tech Georgia-Clemson: Probably but Georgia is indicated Alabama-South Carolina: The Gamecocks take advantage of every scoring opportunity but they appear outgunned here. Alabama. Virginia Military-Davidson: much to choose, Davidson Furman - North Carolina State: State has played the harder schedule and gets the nod Virginia Tech-William and Mary: Tech Mississippi-St. Louis: An edge to Mississippi. Maryland - Western Maryland: Maryland, breezing. Harvard-Brown: Harvard appears | adequate for this one. | close, Not | Hoyas Seen as Losers. | HOLY CROSS-GEORGETOWN: | We'll take Holy Cross and hope the Crusaders look better than they | did against Providence Penn State-Bucknell these but Penn State stronger. | Temple-Florida: The Southerners | haven't shown anything yet to indi- | cate they can whip Temple | Navy-Virginia: The Tars should hold this one safely. West Virginia-Washington and Lee: West Virginia Detroit-Texas Tech: Not much line but the vote goes to Detroit Washington University - Southern | Methodist: 8. M. U. | Gonzaga-Oregon: Scoreless ties with Washington State and St. Mary's in- dicates Gonzaga has a swell defense if nothing else. On a quick reverse | to the weak side, Oregon. | _San Francisco- Santa Clara: Santa Clara, old seems rivals the | Some Random Pickings. | GKIPPING blithely over the chalk- | lines otherwise: Colgate over St. Bonaventure, Dartmouth over Spring- fleld, Fordham over Waynesburg, Syra«- | cuse over St. Lawrence, George Wash- ington over West Virginia Wesleyan, Boston College over Temple in their game on October 12, Iowa over Brad- ley, Marquette over South Dakota, Kansas over Wichita, Tulane over Mississippi College. GOULD KATHANODE ‘ BATTERIES Guaranteed ar long s vou own your car. L.S.JULLIEN. . ! 1443 P St.N.W. 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