Evening star., 1932-10-02
Miss Van We$ Title Hous Opener
RUTH, GEHR|G Down
CUBS WITH HOMERS
Dynamite Twins Each Get
Two as $4,000 See Yanks
Win Third in Row, rs.
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as it rose and scared almost out Of the
big inclosure. That was the first shock
that shook Charley Root to his heels.
It was poison in one way to $4,000 fans.
but roaring swirl of cheers followed
as the grinning Babe sauntered around
the bases. paving his compliments to
each Cub that he passed en- route to
the plate
Gehrig's first homer of the game
came in the third, long drive into the
right field stands, but the big act of
the spicy afternoon took place in the
fifth. With one cut Ruth took two
strikes as the crowd howled at his i'm
pending downfall All this time the
big Babe was exchanging quip and jibe
with the Cub bench. And after each
exchange the sunny atmosphere was
full of sulphur.
Then Root turned on a fast one and
the. Babe took his cut, a full, free
wallop that carried everything he had
The drive started for center field. dead
on the flag pole 1t seemed entirely
too low to clear the fence but Ruth's
timing had been so perfect that the
ball held the same elevation all the
way as it Whistled over Moore'S head
and vanished from sight beyond the
guarding fence of wire 1t was one of
the hardest balls that even the sultan
OF swat ever lashed beyond the reser-
walton. It carried more than 400 feet
on line never more than Is or 18
feet above the ground. Here was the
Babes fifteenth world series home run.
new record added to long list of
other records that he broke before the
day was over. On the next pitched ball
Gehrlg picked up where his plastering
pal had just left off. Lou struck the
next pitch into the right field stands
for the fourth home run of the day.
all from the bats of the two greatest
Sluggers base ball ever has known.
This last detonation of ash and leath-
er drove Root from the field as Malone.
May and Thinning took up the burden
IN turn. The Cubs. meanwhile, refused
to surrender, even in the face of a de-
vaStatlng barrage that blew out their
trenches and left them at the mercy of
a whitening fire. They put everything
they had into game and gallant up
hill fight that carried the issue to the
final play as Pennock rolled the ball
from the danger zone just in the nick of
time.
Battle Flashes With Action.
The battle carried action from the
start. 1t sparkled with rare fielding
plays like sunlight on morning frost in
the harvest field. Young Bill JurgeS
put his mates on the spot in the first
inning when he picked up Combs in
field tap and pegged the ball far over
GTimms anguished dome Sewell drew
pass and then the Babe fired his first
gun. a blast into the bleachers that
scored three runs.
The Cubs came claWing back Guy
lerS double scored Herman for the first
Cub tally. Cuyler'S homer and hits by
Stephenson and Grimm added two more
in the third. Gehrig'S first homer had
given the Yanks one-run lead and the
crowd was III flutter of growing ex-
cltement. This, at least, was to be no
Yankee walkaway. There was a battle
to look at as Lazezri Jurges, Crosettei
and others began scampering all over
the lot for sensation stops and catches
that cut off impending runs.
The count was knotted at 4 and 4
when the fifth arrived as Ruth and
Gehrig kicked the can Of nitro-glycerine
that almost shook Cook County apart /
Those were the two final salvos that
turned good pitching and Cub hopes
into shamble.
All this time Pipgras had been
moving along steadily. He grew even
more effective from the fourth to the |
ninth, when the last Cub charge, a |
desperate offensive launched before a
raving crowd drove him from the field. |
Hartnett opened this last stand with a
home run, and Jurges doubled with |
none out The Yankees had added |
another run in the eighth on errors by |
Hartnett and Herman's, plus Chap |
mans double, but with the score to'5
and the tying run at bat with no one |
cut, Mccarthy rushed the veteran Pen
mock into the fray to stop this last
savage countercharge and Pennock re-
sponded by retiring the next three men
in order.
The heavy hitting of Gehrig and
Cuyler featured the afternoon, but the
eminent Babe still dominated the stir
ring drama in his nineteenth year of
big league base ball. He continued to
inform the Cubs that they had looked
at the Yankee Stadium for the last
time They rode him, and the Babe
came riding back with verbal volley
that never stopped until the final play.
Cubs Face Forlorn Hope.
Ruth and Gehrig gave Root and the Cub
crowd clear warning OF the tate In store
in batting practice Ruth first hit five
successive blows deep into the right
stands as the spectators cheered and
booed Gehrig then followed with four
more into the same spot These two,
the Sultan and his grand vizier, liter
ally peppered the populace packed and
massed in this right-field sector. These
were all in practice, but the echolng I
crash gave Root and the stands some
thing to think about that had no merry |
picnic touch.
1t was the drum beat leading the I
funeral march of Cub hopes 1t was /
the tocsin sounding the coming CT ce-
struction Of any Chicago dream, and
the mauling Babe had one OF the hap
piest afternoons of his long career as
he mixed his homers and his merry,
razzing uuips round after round.
AS a result of this third successive |
defeat the Cubs now are facing a for |
lorn hope, fringed with indigo. They |
need four straight to win the main |
money and the Yankees haven't lost /
four straight all the year.
There has been too much might in |
Yankee bats. If the Cub pitchers re-
fuse to pitch to Ruth and Gehrig, they I
fill the bases and others drive them in. |
If they do pitch the ensuing disaster is
even more certain. So far they haven.
been able to break up the greatest Of
fensiye strength base ball has ever |
known. There is nothing to be done
about it except throw and duck. Any
way the big crowd got one of its great
est thrills from one of the best ball
games and one of the hardest battles
Of the year.
The last Cub hope now rests upon
Guy Bush and Lon Warneke as Nc
Carthy is priming young Allen to take
his turn.
Unless Grimm's team can win this
next game, this afternoon, the Yankees
will carry the remarkable record OF
beating National League rivals IL
straight times in a series of three COM
plete clean-ups. And there is only an
outside chance that any Cub pitchers
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