The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03

IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

4 ' two teams just do not belong
in the same company. For the third
successive time, the Yanks have won
world series in four straight
games, which is par for the course.
The Cubs went overheard in the
windup game of the annual fall
campaign Sunday, and the score
was Is to 6. Thus the Chicagoans
join the Pirates and the Cards as
sudden death victims from the
powerful New York offensive.
No other team in history comes close
TO the Yanks in world series play. They
have won twelve straight games. II this
keeps up there will be no need to play
the series Where one team Is 50 vastly
superior the result becomes foregone
And this was certainly true Of the series
which has just ended. The first game
II '' was evident that one team was real
championship outfit and the other was
This was most pronounced in the spirit
and attitude Of the players. The Yanks
had their chins up from the start, whereas
the Cubs we're almost apologize. II was
as II they we're satisfied merely to appear
on the same card with such distinguished
people as the Messrs. Ruth and Gehrig.
It is a popular theory that anything can
happen in a short series and that no
team can ever be so superior in natural
ability as TO stand out as 10 ! favor
iie The YankS b hsye pretty well at den
a short series is Just like any other
series to them. And in this particular
series they we're or should have been
The boys are asking what happened to
the Cubs; They we're absolutely out
classed-thats what happened to them
It may be that they never were ball club
A number OF critics have insisted all
along that PITTSBURGH was the best club
in the National League, and that the Cubs
We'll. anyway Charley Grimms young
men failed to show any class in the
gained and outhustled. No team ever
made a more unimpresslve exhibition and
as a result there was little zip to the
games little drama, little color.
TIME windup game Sunday was
Il in keeping with the general
pattern of the series, except that
it was worse than any of the other
three. For the most part, it was
remindful of a Saturday picnic
game between the married men and
the single men.
Even the home fans were making
a mad rush for the exits before it
was over and in the seventh inning
when the Yanks batted around and
completely clinched the game,
Grimm and his young men were
roundly booed and jeered These
are the same young men who were
given a Lindbergh welcome home a
week or so ago.
Grimm pinned his last huttering hopes
TO the angular soup bone of Guy Bush.
first inning.
Combs greeted him with a rousng sin
gle to center. This was the beginning of a
batting assault that tore the Cubs to
pieces. Before 1T was over. the Yanks had
accumulated nineteen hits, including two
homers by Lazzeri and one by Combs. and
hve different Chicago pitchers had come
and gone. The Yanks had been making
succeeding day But Sunday they decided
to give the boys both barrels. The Ma
tional League champions are still wonder
For six innings it was fight The
ming later. 1t was in the sixth that Gro
Gehrig made a wild heave on a play at
hrst. Strangely this cratic playing fol-
lowed what was probably the greatest
fielding inning in the world series his
Crosetti started the thrills by racing
clear to the stands in snort let. f1elu ~
pull down a drifting foul from English's
stick. He gave it the old college try
crashing into the concrete wall with alarm
ing violence just as he squeezed the ball.
Then, on the next play. Crosetti came in
fast on the run to make a one-handed
pickup and throw that robbed Cuyler of a
hit: It was one of those plays that place
a nigh premium on speed and dizziness.
The way Crosetti handled the play it was
a meGnif1cent thing,
Lazzeri brought the inning to a close
with play that was only slightly less
spectacular than the two preceding ones
Going at full speed to his right, the
Frisco Italian threw himself through the
air sideways and grabbed Stephenson's
roaring drive for put out. 1t will be
a long time before any gallery of base
ball fans again sees three such stirring
plays crowded into one inning one after
The full fury of the Yanks offensive
burst over the staggering Cubs in the
seventh. They batted around, slammed
t fSr tye hits hits and four runs; This broke
vestige of resistance by the National
Leaguers. They were through and
THE Cubs were whipped before they
even stepped on the field" said Ruth to-
day, happy in victory and in the realiza-
tion that he had Just completed his
tenth world series, an all-time record.
Yes sir, they knew from the start we
were too good for them. and I don't be-
lieve they ever hoped to do any better
than win one ball game"