Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1938 — Page 8

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DIZZY DEAN TO FACE YANKS IN TODAY'S GAME “Dead Arm” Hurler To Hurl For Cubs Against Gomez Chicago. Oct. 6. —(U.R)—Look for almost anything to happen today, for fate has decreed that a guy named Dizzy and another one called Goofy—as tine a pair of screwballs as ever jawed at an umpire —shall meet on the pitching mound in the second game of your 1938 world series. For the Chicago Cubs —the one and only Dizzy Dean, the $185,000 beauty, the man with the dead arm who is trying to get by on control and cunning now that the zip has gone from his fas' one. For the New York Yankees — I>efty "Goofy” Gomez, the fireball flinger from Broadway, the skinny southpaw who has started five wold series games and never gone to the lockers a loser. The Cubs, outpitched, outhit and outfielded in yesteray's opener, go into today’s game desperately needing a victory lest this whole business end abruptly when twilight closes in on the fourth game in New York. Manager Gabby Hartnett flung his best pitcher. Big Bill Lee, against the Yankees yesterday and when the last out was made the Cubs were on the short • ♦ ’ ! — Last Time Tonight — "DAVID COPPERFIELD" W. C. Fields. Lionel Barrymore. Roland Young. Maureen O’Sullivan. Freddie Bartholomew. ALSO —News. 10c-25c FRI. & SAT. Another Big Special! ISK 4 i * But she said A ' "NoI" when he ' placed his heart Z and his millions 7 r at her feet* j — —o Sun. Mon. Tues.—A Mighty Hit! "SPAWN OF THE NORTH” George Raft, Dorothy Lamour, Henry Fonda. ♦ ♦ — Last Time Tonight — “THE LAST GANGSTER” Edw. G. Robinson, Jas. Stewart ALSO — “Secrets of Treasure | Island.” ONLY 10c » — FRI. & SAT. CHARLES STARRETT ‘COLORADO TRAIL’ BOTH 4 NIGHTS IVC —o—o— Sun. Mon. Tues. — 2 Big Hits! “LUCK OF ROARING CAMP” & “KING OF THE SIERRAS" |

♦ ♦ i SERIES FACTS ! Chicago, Oct. 6—<U.R>— W. L. Pct. | I New York Yanks 1 0 1.000 , 1 | Chicago Cubs 0 1 .000 Today's pitchers: Yankees. | , i Lefty Gomez; Cubs, Dizzy Dean. | Remaining schedule: Today's , ' game In Chicago; Saturday. | I Sunday and Monday In New ; I York; Wednesday and Thurs- | day in Chicago unless one team | wins four games before then. Leading Hitters AB H Pet. , Dickey. Yankees 4 4 1.000 | Hack. Cubs .4 3 .750 T Pitching records: Rutting. Yankees, won one. lost none; | I Lee, Cubs, won none, lost one. j | Yesterday's attendance, 44.232. | | Receipts. $210,025. Commissioner’s share, s3l,- | ] 503.75. Each club’s share. $71,408.50. | end of a 3 to 1 score. What the good citizens of Chicago want to know is if Lee can't beat the Yankees. who can? Everybody, including the Cubs, knows what Gomez can do. Sure, he lives up to his nickname of Goofy by doing things like pausing in the middle of a ball game to watch an airplane fly over the park. But he also is just about the best money pitcher in baseball whose fast one gets faster when the enemy puts men on bases and when every pitch is weighted down with cash. But who knows, save Jerome Herman Dean himself, what Dizzy can do now that muscle and nerve in his long right arm have turned traitor on him and left him a cripple in what could be the greatest hour of his life? Who knows what Dizzy is thinking deep back in his mind? Who knows whether his confidence has disappeared w-ith his speed? Well. Gabby Hartnett i thinks he knows. That is why the Cubs' manager, rolling his words I out around a fat cigar, sat in the clubhouse after yesterday's game and said. "Diz. you go tomorrow." Diz just nodded and kept on knotting his tie. So this is the I day you have been waiting for. the day when old Diz sends his : "nothing ball." big as a balloon i and slow as cold sorghum, up there tu the plate where the most murderous hitters in baseball will be waiting for it. This is the day when Phil Wrigley, owner of the Cubs, finds out whether he threw his money to the winds when he gave the St. Louis Cardinals slßa,000 and some pretty fair ball players for old Diz. The Yankees have a fine contempt for old Diz' ability to stop them and enough people share that opinion to bring about lots of even money bets that he won't be in there today after the fifth inning. But Hartnett is playing his own hunches. He doesn't have to start Dean, for he has a younger, fresher man. Clay Bryant, ready to go. But Hartnett is an Irishman to ride his hunches hard and this morning he has one that old Diz will jam the Yankees’ contempt- ■ nous words down their th - oats. Unless the Yankees regain their batting eyes overnight it shouldn’t be such a tough job. They looked like the "hitless wonders” out there yesterday, popping puny little singles over the infield and driving lucky hits through shortstop and second. The walls and bleachers at Wrigley Field, which were scheduled to take such a thumping i from the Yanks, are still unscarred. ! The 44,000 persons who saw yes- | terday s game couldn’t believe that | I this was "murderer’s row.” Manager Joe McCarthy had his boys put on another act for the fa,ns. He showed them a couple of streaks of lightning named Frankie Crosetti and Joe Gordon —a pair of wraiths who made stabbing |CORTi EXTRA! HELD OVER! - Last Time Tonight Don’t Miss Seeing This Great Attraction. ‘THE BIG DRAMA of Our Times “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND” An American Cavalcade with : Tyrone Power ■ Alice Faye Don Ameche ALSO — Fox News and Comedy, “Romance Road.” I 10c -25 c

CROSETTI IS YANKEE HERO ; IN FIRST TILT Yankee Shortstop’s Fielding Features Series Opener j Chicago. Oct. 6 — (U.R) — The | Yankees today had a new "grande' , bambino” . . . little spindle legged i Frankie Crosetti from Fisher-1 | man’s Wharf. San Francisco. After all these years. In which I | Yankee might prc.ved right and: the home run was the answer toi ' all their problems, along came .dark-eyed Frank Crosetti and ini I me afternoon revealed another : ' side of the great Yaukee machine. With three dazzling plays, exe-i cuted all the way from third to I second base —as wide a margin of j ■ territory as any shortstop ever, covered in one world series game | : —Crosetti stole the thunder from i ' the Yanks' big berthas. His sure) , hands, keen eyes, nimble feet and , i deadly arm choked off the Cubs’' • most dangerous threats in the| ■ opening world series game and , i d me Yanks to win, 3-1. Cross-tti! Long live the I little shortstop' That's what they were saying among the wise men of the Amer-I lean league today. Fellows like | Ducky Harris, Lew Fonseca and Roger Peckinpaugh. who’ve play-; ?d around the keystone sack themselves and know the value of defense were praising Crosetti's work as one of the finest exhibitions in world series history. . This is the fourth time Cro-I setti. a slight, trim fellow who 1 looks out of place among the' bulky Yanks, has played in the. world series but no one ever has | paid much attention to him. He's I always been relegated to the I background by those fence-bust- i ing fellows like Ruth. DiMaggio. Gehrig, Dickey and others. But no longer can you forget Crosetti The three plays he made in the opening game yesterday which undoubtedly saved the day for the Yanks were typical of the kind of ball he's been palying fbr years and for which ne has been getting little or no mention because some brute would come along and knock the ball out of the park. In the second inning Crosetti baited the first Cub threat when he raced near the foul line be-. hiud third base and recovered a hit off Rolfe's glove and threw Stanley Hack out at home plate. t, ' That was one of the smartest , plays I’ve seen in the world set-' ies in a long time.” said Lew', Fonseca, former White Sox man- j ager. “Crosetti recovered the l ball running away from the plate, i Then he stopped fully and recov--1 cred his balance while Hack was speeding toward home with the run which would have tied the game. He didn’t try to throw | until he was set. Many players | would have become panicky and in their haste would have thrown , the ball into the grandstand. But when Crosetti cut loose he had dead aim and made a perfect throw to get Hack." Then in the seventh inning when the Cubs- made threatening gestures again, it was Crosetti ! who put out the fire. Cavarretta ted off the seventh with a single. Crosetti gobbled up Reynolds' grounder, stepped onto second and tossed to Gehrig for a double play. That play became highly important a few minutes later when Gabby Hartnett tripled Then again it was Crosetti who hut the door in the Cubs' face. With Hartnett on third and the Yanks leading, 3-1. Collins got what looked like a certain single through the box. . From nowhere Crosetti raced oehind second, scooped up the ball and rifled to first to get Collins by a step. It was the greatest play of the game—a play that would have been a credit to a Wagner, a Bancroft, or a Tinker. It killed off whatever chance stops, impossible catches and throws standing on their heads. It was one of the greatest world series fielding exhibitions and if it proved anything it was the Yankees will win one way if they can’t another. LOANS $lO to S3OO On Your OWN Signature No Endorsers Absolute privacy. No questions asked of friends or employer—No embarrassing inquiries. LOCAL LOAN COMPANY Incorporated Rooms I and 2 Sehater Building . Decatur, Indiana Phone 2-3-7

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I the Cubs had of making serious ' ' trouble and established Crosetti 1 as the No. 1 hero in the Yanks’ ranks. Move aside Di Maggio. Gehrig. Rolfe and all the rest of - you Yanks. The little bambino I Crosetti stands alone today, w 1 — J Decatur's Yellow Jackets, still seeking their first victory of the I year, face another tough :oe Friday night at Worthman Field. —oOo~■ The Jackets will play their third game in the space of a week tomori row night when they act as hosts to the Portland Panthers. Based on comparative scores, the Panthers will be plenty tough. Portland was nosed out by the Garrett Railroaders a few weeks ago when Garrett scored the winning touchdown in the closing seconds of play. —oOo— The Yellow Jackets showed a decided letdown In their play Tuesday night wiien they were defeated by Garrett, 13-0. The Jackets had looked strong in holding the CenI tral Tigers from Fort Wayne to a 13-13 tie but failed to show,the type of ball Tuesday that they displayed against the Tigers. —oOo — May be that the hard rain cooled the lads’ ardor. If so, it failed to slow down the Railroaders. Tomorrow night’s kickoff is sched-

WORLD SERIES SPECIAL - - -, - - - - -— ‘ !B ’ . ' ■ -jr . % ■ *' ” Lou Gehrtg is shown sliding into third bass on Bill Dickey’s single in the second inning of the world , series opener at Wrigley Field. The Yankees won the first game, 3to 1.

uled promptly at 8 o'clock. A preliminary game will be started at 7 o'clock between the reserve teams of the two schools but will he called in ample time to start the varsity game on scheduled time Only one more home game remains on the Decatur schedule after Friday's game. The Bluffton Tigers will play a return engagement at Worthman Field Wednesday night, October 26. The game was carded for October 28 but was changed to Wednesday because of the annual teachers’ convention at Fort Wayne that week. Three road games also remain on the Yellow Jackets’ schedule. The Jackets will play Central Catholic at Fort Wayne the afternoon of October 14. at Columbia City either the 19th or 21st. and at North Bide of Fort Wayne November 4 in the final game of the season. o —- Today’s Sport Parade By Henry McLemore • « Chicago, Oct. 6. — (U.R) — There was a time when the man had everything. His fast ball all but spit flame as it zinged up to thep late. His curve was sharper than a serpent's tooth and it broke with the suddenness of dawn. His change of pace was as baffling as a stageful of magicians, and his slow ball was just a floating, teasing blob of trademarks and seams. He could go it, too. For nine innings or 19. He was as hard and as enduring as the Arkansas hills from which he came. In his way, which was a basebal way. he was a genius. But that was once upon a time. The Dizzy Dean who’ll walk out to the firing line against the Yankees in the second game of the world series today is just a hollow (or should I spell it “holler"?) shell of the Dean of 1934. All that

remains of the Dean of.that year is his big head and big heart. Time's erosion hasn't lessened the size of these two items. Dizzy could brag and boast in sixteen languages even when he was a busher. coming along, and today finds his gift of self appreciation undiminished. And no one ever questioned the dimensions of his heart. There never was a time when the Dizzy one wouldn’t fight you. wrestle you. cut you high card, or match you. for all the marbles. His chips were always the blue ones, and you can read the record books until you’re blue in the face without digging up an instance where he dogged it. He wouldn’t recognize the word quit if it came up and introduced itself and presented a letter from its pastor. He’s a give-all buy and always will be. But is and head enough to stop the Y'ankees, the team that is making baseball history so fast the press box gibbons scarcely have time to record it? Can mind triumph over matter when matter is armed with a hickory stick?. Wouldn’t Dean be a better bet if what he carried to the mound today was the winging “fog" ball that used to scorch the flannel shirts of the batters as it sped by? But what's the use of specuating about Dizzy? He's as uncertain as a hed-headed gal or a snake on a rock. Only one thing is sure about him today—he won’t be any less effective because of the crowd and the pressure. Dean feeds off crowds, drawing from their shouts and roars strength to perform feats beyond his own powers. The spotlight is a tonic to him; it blinds some men. but to Dizzy it is as benefleient as an ultra-violet lamp. If Dizzy fails, and the Yanks head back to Broadway with a 2 to 0 lead, the series is a mortal cinch to end fn the east, probably in four games. And why shouldn’t it? You can run through all the

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sports you know, from hurling the taber to cocl fighting, and class always tells. And the Yanks have class. They can be brutal and 1 knock the cover off the ball. Or, as yesterday’s opener proved, they can rely on skill and finesse when the bats happen to have an off day. And it requires no mental acrobat to realize that when a team has better pitching, better hitting, and better fielding, it is very likely to win. (Copyright 1938 by UP.) Lad Fights Death To Pull For Cubs To Capture Series «. • Chicago. Oct. 6. —(U.R) —Diz Dean ! will carry more than the hopes of the Chicago Cubs when he steps into the pitcher’s mound to face the New York Yankees today. Unknowingly. he will carry, too. the hopes of Johnny English, a boy who is fighting hard against almost certain death. A Cubs’ victory might do a lot for Johnny. He is only 14 and dying from neuroma, a lightning cancerous disease which follows along the nerves and usually causes death within a few weeks. A month ago physicians gave him three weeks to live. But Johnny has watched the Cubs and. fighting as hard as they fought to win the National league pennant, has hung on. Physicians said his will to live has kept him alive but believed it only as strong as his enthusiasm to see the Cubs win the series. They lost the first game yesterday but Johnny wasn’t upset. Dean is his hero and he believes Dean is sure to win. “Then,” he said, “they'll take the rest of the games easy." He heard the game yesterday

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