Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1938 — Page 6

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YANKEES HEAVY FAVORITES TO RETAIN TITLE Heavy Odds Placed On Yankees To Defeat Cubs (Editor’s Note: The Now York Yankees, one of the groat baseball teams of history, figure on paper ; to push over the Chicago Cubs with ease in the world series. George Kirksey, United Press baseball expert, writes in the fol lowing dispatch. The only hope for the Cubs, in Kirkey’s opinion j is Gabby Hartnett’s inepirational • leadership and the chance that , ,he Cub pitchers, including Dizzy I Dean, rise to the heights. Follow- j ing is the first of two dispatches | analyzing the Cubs and Yankees.) By George Kirksey United Press Staff Correspondent Chicago. Oct. 3— (U.R)’ —Every- ’ body’s building a coffin for the | Chicago Cubs. Their demise is I set tor approximately Oct. 10. i They are playing the New York Yankees in the world series, beginning in Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Five games should be enough for the Yanks, the soothsayers say In the last 11 years the Yankees have engaged in five world series, played 23 games and won 20 ; of them in capturing five world’s I championships. That’s why everybody considers it suicide to challenge the supremacy of the Yankees. The gamblers are betting 2 l a to 1 that the Yankees become the first baseball team in history to! win three worlds championships in succession. The best odds you can get from Jack Doyle. Broadway price maker, that the Yanks won’t win four straight are 5-1. Y'et every so often a hated I underdog, a team without a conceivable chance on the cold dope, comes along to prove the adage ihat nothing can be taken for granted in baseball. Remember the White Sox of 1906. those hitlcn3 Wo*.dcl*3, who upse. 1 Chance’s great Chicago Cubs, considered invincible after they —————

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had won 116 games to set an all time record? Remember the BosI ton Braves of 1911, 1-3 shortend- | ers, who humbled the mighty Philadelphia Athletics in four I straight? The chances of the Cubs ending the Yankee dynasty are about the same as were those of the 1906 1 White Sox ami 1914 Braves ! They can do it blit It would bo an upset which would rock the baseball world. From almost every standpoint the Yankees have the Cubs outnanned and outclassed. The more you look at the records the more it looks like no contest. In rebuttal the Cubs’ partisans cite the naming spirit of Gabby Hurt- | nett’s team as the factor which will offset the apparent supremacy of the Yankees in virtually I every other department, j Most Yankee supporters will I take exception to any tendency to j give the Cubs the edge in spirit ! and they have tacts to back them i up. No team has ever been hardier to beat than the Yanks with the blue chips on the line. Over I the past three seasons the Yanks | have gone from city to city in : the American league and broken i the heart of every team which | challenged them. As is usual with the National I league entry, the Cubs arrive at the world series tired, weary and crippled. The dog-eat-dog fight to overcome the Pirates in the National league race frazzled them. Their swashbuckling leader, Gabby Hartnett, has two fingers of his meat hand split by foul I tips. He will play in the world I > series, but how long he’ll last is I lin the hands of the gods. Left Fielder Augie Galan. the Cubs’ | best outfielder, is out with an in-i jured knee. Captain and second baseman Billy Herman has a 1 spiked toe. Pitcher Vance Page I Is favoring a twisted ankle. Win-1 ning the National league flag took • a lot oftt of the Cubs. The Yanks move into the series fresh, rested, relaxed. They’ve just been kidding for the past two weeks. The team that lost three in a row to the Browns in < tnid-September won’t be the team ’ the Cubs will face. 1 o STANDINGS I NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. 1 Chicago 89 63 .586 ! Pittsburgh .88 64 .573 2 i. New York S 3 67 .553 5 ( I Cincinnati 82 68 .547 6 Boston .. 77 75 .507 12 . St. Louis 71 80 .463 18*2 Brooklyn 69 80 .463 IS*» Philadelphia 45 105 .300 43 i; AMERICAN LEAGUE New York . 99 53 .651 ; J Boston 88 61 .591 Cleveland 86 66 .566 13 Detroit 84 70 .545 16 Washington 75 76 .497 23’2 ' Chicago 65 83 .439 32 St. Louis 55 97 .362 44 1 Philadelphia 53 99 .349 46 I YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 7-7, Philadelphia 3-2. Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 4. New York 3, Boston 2. St. Louis 7, Chicago 5. American League Detroit 4-10. Cleveland 1-8 (secI ond game seyen innings, darkness) Washington 5-2. Philadelphia 2-4. | St. Louts 4-0, Chicago 3-3. (Sec- , ond game six innings, darkness). I, New York 6, Boston 1. LEADING BATTERS Player Club G AB R H Pct. Foxx. Red Sox 149 565 139 197 .349 i Heath. Indians 126 500 104 172 .344 ! Lombardi. Reds 129 489 60 167 .342 Chapman. R. S. 127 480 92 163 .340 Myer, Sen, 127 437 79 148 .339 HOME RUNS Greenberg, Tigers 58 Foxx, Red Sox . ............. ............. 50 I Ott, Gians 37 Clift, Browns 34 I York, Tigers 33 —o Trude In * Uond town — n-otnl

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808 FELLER IS STRIKEOUT KING Young Cleveland Hurler Fans 18 To Set A New Mark By United Press A private niche in baseball’s hall of fame was reserved todav for Bobby Feller, new strikeout king of the major leaguers. Ringing down the curtain or. the 1938 season in a blaze of glory, the 19-year-old Cleveland firebailer fanned 18 men. Feller, who struck out 11 Philadelphia Athletics in 1936 to tie the record created by Dizzy Dean in 1534, set his new record against the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader. Despite his performance Cleveland lost bcth ende of the twin bill. 4-1 and 10-8. It was a typical Feller pitching job—Spotty. When he was good, ho was perfect, once fanning six straight men. but when he began to lose control the other side began to make runs. Bob gave up five ’.ases on balls. three of them in the sixth inning when the Tigers made two runs Chet Daabs was the chief v.ctim of Feller's fireball, striking out five times. Big Hank Greenberg •.lie man who most of the 27,003 Clevelands had come to see try and i reak Babe Ruth's home run record, tanned twice, and his longest hit was a double, leaving his homer total at 48 for the year. The New York Yankees nosed the Boston Red Sox 3-2 to make their American League winning margin 9*4 games. The d -teat left Boston runnerup by 3% games a- ' head of Detroit. o I Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore New York, Oct. 3 —flj.R)—Scoop! ' Flash! Copyright! In one of the greatest “beats” in journalistic history it is our privilege today to print — even before they have said them — the last minute world series statej meats of such men as Ford Frick, Will Harridge, Judge Landis, Joe McCarthy and Gabby Hartnett. Never before has any column been able to bore its readers' so far in advance. Get the jump on your neighbors! Yawn over the pre-battle statements of the league presidents and rival managers a full 48 hours before they actually utter their carefully worded tripe. Here are the sensational and, as yet, unuttered, statements, right down to the last cliche: Ford Frick, president of the National league: The Yankees are a great team, everybody knows that. But don’t count the Cubs out. A team that won't be licked can’t be licked, and the Cubs proved they were tremendous fighters by the way they won the National pennant. I think it will be a great series right down to the last ditch, with the Cubs thrilling all fandom by winning in seven games over the mighty Yankees. Will Harridge, American league president: The Yankees are a great team — possibly the greatest team in the history of baseball. I feel sure that they will win tUeir third world series in a row,

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and I wouldn’t be surprised if they ■ did it in four games. The Cubs are a good team but the Yankees have : too much power for them. Judge lamdis, high commissioner of baseball: I look for one of the most exciting world series in , the history of baseball. Every I game should be thrilling, with the I outcome in doubt until the final ' play. The Yanks are great and so are the Cubs. Gabby Hartnett. Cubs manager: The Yanks are a great team, but we’ve got too much fight and spirit for them. Sure, they can hit? but so can we. Give us our share of the breaks and nothing can stop us. We’ll take two here and then end it in New York. Looks like the Cubs in five or six games to me. Ou7 gang is really' hot and itching for a crack at those Yankees. Joe McCarthy, Yankees manag-1 er: The Yanks are a great team, the best I ever managed or ever i saw. They have worked together lik“ a happy family, and are ready to make history by winning three world series in a row. The Cubs are a fine, scrappy team. But our pitching and our hitting will be too much. We ll take two in Chicago and end it in New York, probably in four games. Phil Wrigley, Cubs' owner: I am mighty proud of Hartnett and all the other players. Everybody else had given up on us when the Pirates took such a long lead, but Hartnett fired his men to fighting pitch and won. Now I think we'll win the world series. Jacob Ruppert, Yankees owner: It should be a fine series but I think the Yankees will win in four games. They better had. Tim what's-his-name, Cubs batboy: We re a cinch. We re in. Say. nothing can stop this gang now. Jack something-or-other, Yankee batboy: It’ll all be over Sundaynight. Four in a row. Just a breeze. Dizzy Dean, celebrated right arm with body attached: Bring those bums on. I wanta crack at ’em.

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I’ll pin their big ears back. (Copyright 1938 by United Press) Decatur’s Yellow Jackets have a man's size inh this veek, with twn games on the schedule, both to be f layed at Worthman Field. —oOo—- — Jackets' first tilt of the week will be played Tuesday night, with the Garrett Railroaders providing the opposition. The opening kickoff tomorrow night is scheduled promptly at 8 o'clock. Decatur’s second foe of the week wklll be the Portland Panthers and will be played Friday night. Reserve teams of the two schools will clash in a preliminary, starting at 6:45 o’clock, with the varsity clash to get underway at 8. Garrett and Portland apparently' are about on equal terms, judging from their clash earlier in the season, when the Railroaders edged 1 out a one touchdown decision over, the Panthers by scoring in the closing seconds of the game. —oOo — The Yellow Jackets gave Decatur fans a real thrill last Friday night, when they held the vaunted Central Tigers from Fort Wayne to a 13-13 tie at Wortlunan Field in the home

INDIANA LOSES. PURDUE WINNER Ohio State Edges Indiana; Purdue and Notre Dame Win Indianapolis. Ind., Oct. 3 - (U.R) — Indiana and Purdue tackle big ten foes away front home tills weekend while other Hoosier schools engage in several intersectional battles and five state conference games. Purdue at Minnesota and Indiana at Illinois hold the Big 10 spotlight. The Boilermakers face their first, and probably toughest conference rival in the owerful Minuesota crew which already has swept aside Washington and Nebraska in effortless fashion. Purdue conquered Butler, 21 to 6. Saturday, but showed little improvement from the preced7ng week when it toppled Detroit. The j Boilermaker backfield was fast : and deceptive but was afflicted by ; fumbilitis which would have been I costly against a stronger team. Indiana, still regarded as a topflighter despite the 6 to 0 loss to Ohio state, will have a chance to even the record at Champaign with the Illini. Notre Dame cracked through for 52 points while holding Kansas university scoreless in its opening game this weekend will travel to . Georgia Tech for one of the nations biggest intersectional struggles. Manchester and Depauw, leaders of the state college' conference i with two wins each, will retain their positions over the weekend by meeting out-of-state foes. Lawrence Tech visits Depauw and the Spartans who whippeji Earlham Saturday, 27 to 0. go on foreign soil to Buffalo. Depauw. beating Evansville. 41 to 0. ran the southern school’s strfng of consecutive scoreless quarters to 44. o Quarterly Deficit Is Seven Hundred Millions Washington, bet. 3 —(UPj—The federal government closed its books tor the first quarter of the 1939 fiscal year today with a gross deticit of 1700,983.352.72. the treasury disclosed today. The figure for the first quarter indicated the strong possibility that a new Roosevelt deficit record may be established when the accounts tor the 1938 fiscal year finally are balanced next June 30. onener. . The final gun apparently deprived the Yellow Jackets of a victory over the Tigers, as Decatur has possession of the ball on the Central 4-yard line- less less than two yards to go for a first down and four yarcs for the winning touchdown. The outstanding feature of Saturday’s college football card in the midwest was Notre Dame’s crush I ing defeat Kansas by 52-0 score. Kansas had been picked to give ' the Irish a tough battle tut Elmer Layden used more than 80 palyers in piling un the lopsided score. i -000— I. U. disappointed its followers by dropping a tough 6-0 decision to I Ohio State, although the Hoosiers I outplayed the Buckeyes throughout 'most of the contest. Purdue was ' none too impressive in handing ButIler a 21-6 setback, while the Minne- ' sota Gophers revealed great power in downing Nebraska, 16-7. Home games Tuesday, Friday! Actor 11l f/ I — , Errol Flynn Screen Actor Errol Flynn has been seriously ill in Hollywood after being taken ill while on a fishing trip. Pneumonia was feared.

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Umpires Are Named For World Series — Chicago, Oct. 3 —(UP) —Baseball commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis today announced umpires for the Cubs-Yankees world series would be Lou Kolls and Cal Hubbard of the American League and Charles Moran and "Ziggie” Sears of the National League. * Employment, Payrolls In State Increased Indianapolis. Ind., Oct 3—(UP) — Employment and payrolls in 2312 Indiana establishments expanded for the second successive month during September, Martin F. Carpenter, Endiana state employment service director, announced today. Employment gained 6.1 percent and payrolls 6.3 percent from midAugust to mid-Septembei. The survey covered 132.496 wage earn- . ers. ’’While September is considered

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