The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-20
To-day's Sport Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE

BY HENRY McLEMORE
 Limited Press Stan Correspondent New York, Sept 2O-(U. P.) - Lou Gehrig likes eels but is weak on ground balls to his left. Charlie Grimm dotes on grounders but des- pises cells. This gives Gehrig a great advantage. Mark Koenig sends money home each week put comes in too fast on slow rollers, which gives Lazzeri an edge over Joe Mccarthy.
 The Chicago infield is composed of Georgia clay over a layer or cinders, whereas the New York in- field is made of Georgia clay over a. layer of cinders. This forces us to favor the Cubs infield. But in the outfield, it's different. The Yan- kees have a 400 700 tarpanlin, an electric lawn mower and Babe Ruth, The Cubs must depend. on a 200 500 tarpaulin, a hand driven grass cutter and "old Hoss" Cuy- Ter. It looks like the Yankees In five games.
 Think I'm crazy don't you? We'll I am. Crazy from reading nothing but comparisons between the Tanks and the Cubs for the past two weeks. Every sports writer from Zanzibar to Cos Cob. Conn, has ripped the teams apart, com pairing their inf1elds, outfields, pitchers, catchers, reserves and managers.
 even saw one monograph com pairing the rival mascots. The Tanks were picked to win because they had Eddie Bennett's lucky head to rub on the way to the plate, while the Cubs would be forced to depend on the crinkiy noggin of some pickanninny picked up before the series. :.
 That's nonsensical, of course, but not any more so than selecting a winner by comparing Gehrig with Grimm, Root with Gomez, Cuyler with Chapman, and so on.
 The world series is short thing of not more than seven games. A players average, on which most or the comparisons are based, is com piled over @ season of 154 games. A man may bats.300 in the regular season and wind up hitting .122 in the series. By the same token he may run wild and bat at a 400 clip. The same goes for fielding.
 You don't have to go any farther back than the 1881 series to prove how silly this business of compar- ing the teams is. This time last year the experts were busy check ing up on the relative merits of the Cards and As. Go back in the files and try and find one writer who gave Pepper Martin anywhere near an even break with Mule Haas. When these two centerfielders were stacked up, it was Haas who was given a tremendous edge, in f1eld- ing and hitting.
 You know what happened. This Guy Martin, just another ballplay- CT over the seasons span, went crazy at the bat, on the bases and in the field. Ty Cobb, in the best year he ever had, never played the baseball Pepper broke out with in those seven games. He not only outplayed Haas-he outshone them all. Simmons. Hafey, Cochrane and the rest. His play this year has shown that Martin was mighty nigh to flash in the pan. But that flash-that sudden mad drive dur ing the series-was enough to put the Cards on top and smash old man Mack's big dream.
 And that's the way it's been in good share of the series-the big shots outshone by the lesser lights. If had a pick "hero" Of the one that's coming up. I'd just as soon name Gudat as Ruth, Hoag as Grimm, Allen as Grimes. In other words, I'll take luck and you can have the statistics.