The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-20

The Yankees have Babe Ruth, batter extraordinary and veteran of world series, Earl Combs, one of baseball's best ball hawks and leadoff men, and Benny Chapman, the major leagues fleetest player and leading base stealer.
 The Cubs have Riggs Stephenson, a courageous and hard-working player, Johnny Moore, neither a great batsman nor outfielder, and Kiki Cuyler, finishing his worst season in nine years in the maj ors.
 The only uncertain element about the Yankees outfield is Babe Ruth's physical condition after a recent touch of appendicitis. If the Bambino is back in shape, he alone will carry enough power to wreck the Cubs single-handed.
 All by Himself
 Tn nine previous series, three with Boston Red Sox as a pitcher and six with the Yankees as an outfielder, Ruth has made 37 hits for an average of 1925. The only series in which he failed to bat 300 or better since he has been with the Tanks was in 1922 against the Giants when he hit only :llS. In every other series he has been the batting terror, making 13 home runs and twice making three hom- CTS in one game. games at Wrig1ey field because right field is the sun field. If Ruth should be unable to play, or retire for any reason, Sammy Byrd, q faster man in the field than Babe hut only A run-of-the-mill hitter, will replace him.
 Offensively, the Cubs outfield can't hold a candle to the Tanks trio. Ruth, Combs and Chapman have scroed 351 runs, batted in 294 and made 501 hits as against 210 runs scored, 195 batted in and 425 hits by Stephenson, Moore and Cuyler.
 Tanks Have Edge
 Yankees Cubs lf-Ruth .34s Stephenson 1885 cf-Combs .321 Moore, 1909 rf-Chapman 1902 Cuyler .280
 Average 1924 Average 1901
 Stephenson, who perhaps has been the most valuable player on the Cubs team despite the fact that he is near the end of his major league career, is Chicago's most dangerous batsman. He has driv- en in only 83 runs in the clean up position. 16 less than Chapman, who hits in seventh position for the Yankees.
 Two members of each teams outIeld. have had world series >ex- perionce. In addition to Ruins long world series record, Earl Combs has played in three series, but he got in the 1928 series only as . pinch hitter. In 1926. he hit 1857 and in 1927 he hit .313.
 Cuyler has played in two world series, and he saw another from the bench. He batted .269 for the Pirates against Washington in 1925, was kept on the bench in the 1927 series against the Yankees, and batted 300 for the Cubs in the 1929 series. Stephenson bat ted .316 in the series against the Athletics.
 First Time
 Chapman and Moore will be playing in their first world series. Chapman, who has stolen 37 bases this year, only six less than the entire Cubs team. is the youngest of the regular outfielders, being only "A.
 Moore, left-handed hitter, probably will be benched when Gomez or any other southpaw pitches for the Yankees in favor of Frank Demaree, 21-year old right-handed hitter. Demaree joined the Cubs in July and has played in only IS games and bat ted .250. He is very speedy.
 If Cuyler, who has been bothered by a broken bone in his foot which laid him up for several weeks early in the season, should regain his old time form in the world series, the Cubs chances would become considerably brighter.