The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-30
CUBS HOPE TO
EVEN SERIES
ON HOME LOT
Battered Bruins Always Are
Formidable at WrigIey
Field.
YANKS SEE a IN ROW
PipgraSS and Root to Be
Slab Foes in Third
Tilt of Classic.
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CHICAGO, Sept 30.-The New
York Yankees heavy artillery was
silent today and the rout of the
Chicago Cubs was interrupted while
the world series cast was moved
from Yankee stadium to Wrigley
field.
The wearisome, one sided worlo
series of 1882, bereft of baseball
drama and thrills in the first two
games at New York, will be resumed
Saturday with the Yankees holding
two victories and needing only two
more to capture their fourth world
championship.
After twenty hours spent in
travel, the two clubs were to ar
rive today, the Cubs at 12:45 p. m.
and the Yankees at 1855.
For the Yanks the intermission
was an unwelcome respite from
their triumphant march over the
befuddled National League cham
pions.
Relief for Cubs
For the Cubs it was great re-
lief from the sad events of the last
two days and an opportunity to
gather their forces for a spirited
comeback in the friendly surround
ings at Wrigley field, where they
have scored their greatest triumphs.
The Yankees have the Cubs on
the run, and plan to keep them
there until they close out another
world series victory in four straight
games-a feat they accomplished in
1927 against the Pirates and again
in 1928 against the Cardinals.
But the Yanks may find the Cubs
at home a radically different OPP
ponent from the laundering almost
pathetic ball club which fell before
the American League champions,
1876 and So.
The surroundings at Wrigley field
have a strange effect on the Cubs.
They play like well-oiled, smooth
functioning machine on their home
grounds, with their pitchers per-
forming at the peak of their ability
and their hitters swinging deadly
bludgeons.
Never Good on Road
Wrigley field is a tonic to the
Cubs. The Cubs never have been
terrors on the road, and their dis
astrous invasion of Yankee stadium
was thoroughly true to form.
1t is we'll that the Cubs are more
powerful at home than abroad, for
there never was a time when they
needed great pitching. timely hit
ting, and stout defensive play more
than the present.
With their two most formidable
pitchers, Guy Bush and Lon War
neke, beaten, their batsmen-with
the shining exception of Riggs
Stephenson-rendered helpless by
the Yankee pitchers, Red Ruf1ng
and Vernon Gomez, the Cubs out
look is far more dismal than it was
when they made their great come
back to win the National League
pennant.
Two world series pitchers of
other years have been selected to
oppose each other in the third
game. George Pipgras, the Denni-
son. Ia. farmer boy who became a
great pitcher under the tutelage of
the late Miller Higgins, will be on
the firing line for the Yankees.
Root Is Cubs Hope
Charlie Root, out of Middletown,
o.. who reached his greatest fame
under the direction of Joe Nc
Carthy, when the Yankee manager
was at the helm of the Cubs. will |
attempt to stem the New York adj
vance.
Pipgras never has lost a world |
series game and Root never has won
one. Pipgras beat the Pirates in
1927 and the Cardinals in 1928, |
allowing only eleven hits in two
games.
Root was beaten by the Athletics
In the opening game of the 1929 |
series, 81, and hammered out of the
box in that fatal ten-run rally the
AS put on in the seventh inning
of the fourth game of the same
series.
Root is curve ball pitcher, with
D quick delivery. He used to have
dazzling speed, but uses it conserva-
lively in his declining years. He has
GOOD control.
The weather forecast for Saturday /
Is for clear skies and moderate tenn
perature. The capacity of Wrigley |
Held is $1,000 and, if a full house at
tends, as expected, it will be the /
largest crowd thus far of the series.
The betting odds are almost pro-
hibitive on the Yankees, with the
American League champs to 10 to /
win the series, and to to win the
third rama