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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938

TN Too Optimistic The odds on the Yankees were ex=

started and even more so today. Someone 18 liable to think they can take it in three str

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(CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—In addition to more base hits for the Cubs, what this World Series needs to make it interesting is a stove for every fan... . Plus a wind breaker. . . . It was that cold and breezy at the opener yesterday and since the spectators got air cooled it’s up to the Bruins to get hot to even the thing up before the Yankees obtain a strangle hold. The American League champions look unruffled and contented under any kind of going and apparently intend to continue blasting the ball, come snow or what not. . . . The Yankees played like they have set four in a row as ¢ goal. «+ . . They did more storming than is their custom and were particularly critical of Uncle Charlie Moran's decisions on balls and strikes. . . . Uncle Charlie used to coach the Centre College footballers in the days of the Praying Colonels when Bo McMillin of Indiana was his star pupil. It was football weather yesterday and fans and newspaper men in the upper deck of the grandstand fought a near gale throughout the game. . . . Pregame ceremonies included the raising of the American flag followed by the hoisting of the championship pennants of the rival leagues. . . . The old bedlam broke loose when the Cub’s pennant went up but it was a case of leaden silence after the last out of the tussle.

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R ED RUFFING, the wininng pitcher, worked in an Illinois mine as N\ a kid is now a resident of Chicago. Ford Frick, the H r president of the National League, is bearing up well under the After is over, one way or the other, I plan to go dewn * DePauw to trounce Butler in football,” he told Hoosier here. . . . President Frick is an alumnus of DePauw and the Tigers lose to the Bulldogs last fall. riden, former Indianapolis manager, who is a coach worked the third base line yesterday and prior to that i infield during the warmup. . . . Vance Page's American Asiation friends hope he gets a chance at the Yankees and makes i AA boosters thinks the Cubs acted selfish in cutting hare of the World Series swag... .. Vance said his in- ; Is all right now and that he'll be ready if the call comes. Epperly of the Hoosiers 1938 mound staff is doing some of the p tice pitching for the Bruins. He is ineligible for cham-

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NDIANAPOLIS club officials are bemoaning the loss of outfielder LeGrant Sc in the draft, but have their finger on another fly haser to replace him Doc Prothro, new pilot of the Phillies, saw play in the Southern League and snatched him away from the Scott cost the Indians $7500 and they will not be out

Phils will have to hand over the same amount to the Tribe eep the player and $2500 if they return him. . . . Scott joined ans from Birmingham on their last 1938 road trip and IndianSs saw him he playoff. . He takes a good cut at the ball

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HE Congress Hotel lobby, World Series headquarters, is alive with Indianapolis fans and others from the Hoosier capital who are tified ] baseball business . Harry Geisel, American ; d McGrew, Brooklyn scout; Ownie Bush, part owner lle club, and Indianapolis club officials, led by President a General Manager Leo Miller, are on hand. a vs no big league club has made him an offer, but that to listen. .. . “I still represent the Indianapolis club and for me to remain at the Tribe helm if I don't move up,” Ray 1 yesterday Schalk’s Chicago bowling vlant is doing a rushing baseball bowling party was held there last night.

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m Il Augu 0 the Bostc t- eligible. uer, former Tribe secretary and ex-Marion County Treasied a ring side seat at the Series opener. . . . Jack Hendricks, ianapolis and Cincinnati pilot, played host to old friends in a} y last night . American Association cities are here in a large way. . . . Association sports writers are ce mixing football and baseball chatter. 1, the highpowered press agent who used to dole polis 500-mile dope blew in from New York to watch ra change of pace. . He was greatly chagrined when y a Chicagoan who never heard of him. . . . Steve Harter, s, who used to be in the baseball and prize fight business, World Series press section and lasted the full nine in-

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Yanks’ Best Hit a Double

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer Cd). { vy bowl series. 1t usually do that. Their technique is to knock the out long hits. The longest hit they made in iouble. For them this is practically fungo hitting. Cubs had the Yankees in an ideal spot yesterday. where their fierce power wasn’t overpowering anything.

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6 —The Yankees figure to be hard to stop from now They won a ball game on defense yesterday. other guy the opener

They had They had he Kind of game they ought to boss—and when they failed to

of the Yankees rolled one between first and the mound in the sixth inning, pitcher Bill Lee of the Cubs left the mound and ran nearly to

Henrich of the Yankees is shown second, caught stealing in the third inning of the ' Sears of the Nationals is the umpire. =

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Capacity Throng of 44,232 Sees Opening Game

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An air view of Wrigley Field, Chicago, taken during the ceremonies

between the Cubs and the Yankees.

first base to toss safe. Selkirk is caught

being put out at | opening game.

Blues and Bears Even in Series

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of that one even lower than the start, which was pretty the odds of 3 to 1 against them indicated.

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out, to win the game. Score on Herman's Error With

The Cubs the elements on their There was a vigorous wind blowing in from the iake that t much of the vitality out of bal the air. Even if the Yankees had in a slugging |. mood the stubborn a

wind would have shortened the distance of their blows.

The Yankees won because their defense rose to scintillating peaks. Red Ruffing pitched a good game, | not one of his best, but certainly competent enough. The redhead was in several dangerous spots— spots where the game hung in the well-known balance but always his support rallied to his aid. They might still be playing the game if it had not been for Frank Crosetti, the Yankee shortstop. Oldtime series addicts were still trying to recall todav when, if ever, they | had seen a more glittering performance in the infield. Crosetti was literally all over the infield; he backed up third, he played short, an

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a run came over. a hit scored another. was the big break of the game.

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General's support. It came in

the second inning when the Yankees 3 ‘ : . scored two runs, enough, as it turned | Tne Little World Series, which this

men on second and third and only ene out, Billy Herman, the!

| Cubs’ second baser, came in fast on a tricky bounder, failed to hold it, A moment| This If Herman had held the ball he might | have got the runner coming home!

The Yankees would have made lone run in the inning anyway on account of the subsequent hit bu this would have kept the Cubs more snugly in the ball game, since they

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their only! It was re- ir hal rettable Herman had to make the in their half of th } error because this was the one blot | Catcher Johnny Riddle drove a sin-

on an otherwise remarkable run of |8l€ over the infield to score Joe Gal- la slight, trim fellow who looks out play on both sides around second |l@gher, who was on base on his third |

It has been a long time since an | World Series has developed two such | talented keystone combinations as! these games.

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 6 (U. P).—

year is a battle for the championship of the New York farm system, was all square today, the Newark Bears and Kansas City Blues each {helding two victories.

would start Joe against the Blues tonight, while Al | Piechota is expected to be the choice of Bill Meyer. After blowing a four-run lead, the Blues came on to square the series by winning 9-8 here last night before a crowd of 15.272, largest at- | tendance of the series. Jim Gleeson hit his second home irun of the series to tie the score 8-8 | for the Bears in the first half of but the Blues won out the ninth when

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Merrill paced three singles.

up the play and when Stanley Hack tried to score from second Crosetti

made plays back of second. So already the series has started out a strange note. The team that was supposed to win by its hitting won by its field score was 3 to 1. least two runs. In short, he kept the National Leaguers from tying the score. What they might have done if they had tied it is a guess. It can’t be said the Yankees completely bossed the game. The fact is it was a touch and go game and the chances are Manager Joe McCarthy, third straight World Series, something that has never been done in baseball, didn’t feel altogether secure until the last man was out. Bill Lee was doing the pitching for the Cubs—they call him General Lee out here, of course—and, like Ruffing, he was getting great support. For the most part anyway.

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Herman and Billy Jurges, the shortstop, make up thes best pair in the National League, and Crosetti and Joe Gordon, the second baser, are tops in the American League. Crosetti and Gordon handled 16 chances between them without a | bobble. Herman and Jurges handled 12 with only one boot. give you some idea of how much

activity there was in the region of |first baser.

sceond base, and will important roles the keystone combinations played in the support of | the pitchers. { Certainly it is impossible to ov stress the importance Crosetti played in the Yankee victory. To repeat, he saved two runs and possibly the game. In the third with one run in and two down Herman handcuffed Red Rolfe, the Yankees’ third baser, with a hot drive that bounded through his legs.

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stress what|through the box and Crosetti,

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over and made a one-handed, run- halted the first Cub threat when he jning catch of. the ball back of sec-|raced near the foul €T | ond base.

There was one lamentable break in! Crosetti was in short left to back]

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nailed him at the plate in a close play. If he had been less alert and agile in backing up the play the play wouldn't have been close; Hack would have scored standing up, even admitting it was probably foolish of him to attempt to score in the first

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Anyway Rip Collins, the Cubs’ slashed a sharp grounder off

with the crack of the bat, raced

Still running, he cranked up his arm and threw to first to get Collins by two feet.

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After all these years, in which Yankee might proved right and the Newark Manager Johnny Neun home run was the answer to all their problems, along came dark-eyed Beggs | Frank Crosetti and in one afternoon revealed another side of the great

| Yankee machine. | With three dazzling plays, exe= ‘cuted all the way from third to second base—as wide a margin of ter[ritory as any shortstop ever covered lin one World Series game—Crosetti stole the thunder from the Yanks’ |Big Berthas. His sure hands, keen eves, nimble feet and deadly arm choked off the Cubs’ most dangerous (threats in the opening World Series |game and enabled the Yanks to win, 13-1. | This is the fourth time Crosetti,

of place among the bulky Yanks, {has played in the World Series, but [no one ever has paid much atten(tion to him. He's always been rele- | gated to the background by those fence-busting fellows like Ruth, DiMaggio, Gehrig, Dickey and others. | But no longer can you forget | [Crosetti, The three plays he made lin the opening game yesterday {which undoubtedly saved the day for the Yanks were typical of the kind of ball he’s been playing for years and for which he has been |getting little or no mention because [some brute would come aiong and knock the ball out of the park. In the sccond inning Crosetti

line behind (third base and recovered a hit off | Rolfe’s glove and threw Stanley Hack out at home plate.

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Herman of the Cubs is tagging him.

Crosetti Hailed as Hero For Series Defense Work

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—The Yankees today hac a new “Grande Bamlittle spindle-legged Frankie Crosetti

A capacity crowd, more than 44,000,

winners bow to the New Yorkers, 3 to 1.

the ball to Collins, but Selkirk was

Lee Is shown at left, Collins on the sack, and

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again, it was Crosetti who put out the fire. Cavarretta led 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 shut 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 behind 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 Ban-

croft, or a Tinker. |

saw the National League pennant

RUFFING EM UP

CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Box score of yesterday's first game of the 1938 World Series follows: NEW YORK YANKEES R 0

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Totals: ..eves RAEN, 27 13 xBatted for Lee in eight New York .. Chicago . Runs Batted In—Dickey, Gordon, Hack. Two Base Hits—Gordon, Henrich, Crosetul. | Three Base Hit—Hartnett. Sacrifice Hit—| Rufling. Stolen Base ickey. Left on| Bases— New York, 8; Chicago, 4. Hit by Pitcher—By Lee (Crosetti). Struck Out—| By Lee, 6: by Ruffing, 5. Bases on Balls—| Lee, 1. Hits—Off Lee, 11 in 8. Winning Pitcher—Ruffing. Losing Pitcher—Lee. | Double Plays—Jurges to Herman to Col-| ling; Collins (unassisted): Crosetti to Gehrig: Gordon to Crosetti Umpires—Moran (N.), Kolls v z (N.) bard (A.). Time—1:53. Attendance—

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CHICAGO, Oct. 6 (NEA).—Its| Only one bat boy was originally | the club left the park for a 5 o'clock! donning no traveling clothes. him he wasn't going. | lad for traveling expenses. coud HE

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Dizzy Dean’s | Pitching in Biggest Test

Still Has Big Head and Big Heart, but It’s Hurling That Counts Today.

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—There was a time when the man had everything, His fast ball all but spit flame as is zinged up to the plate. 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 baseball way, he was a genius. But that was once upon a time. The Dizzy Dean who was to 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 16 languages even when he was a busher, coming along, and today finds his gift of self-appreciation undiminished.

Heart Still Big, Too

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. He's a give-all guy and always will be. But are heart and head enough to stop the Yankees, 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

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