Evening star., 1932-09-29
SHEER POWER APT
TO VANQU|SH CUBS
Without Stellar SIabbing,
New Workers Rifle Way
to First.TiIt Win.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sports Editor, The Star.

n yEW YORK, September 90
M There may be an entirely
Y different story told today
with Lon Warreke, youth
full prodigy, who topped all Ma
tional League hurlerS this season
with a total of % wins, on the
firing line for the Cubs, but 1t
would be difficult to convince any
of that depression restricted
crowd of 1,459 which saw the
Yankees triumph in hollow fash
ion in the initial game yesterday
that the American Leaguers will
not win this twenty-ninth world
series pretty much as they please.
After conceding that the Yankees
would be at a disadvantage so far as
flinging was concerned in the second
game of the set this afternoon in being
represented on the hill by Vernon
Gomez who tailed off badly toward
the close of the regular campaign, their
followers still were convinced the gun
fire of the Rupert rifles could be de-
pended upon to offset this handicap
through the sheer power that carried
them to a lopsided pennant victory
and swamped the Cubs yesterday by a
count of II to 6.
Gehrig's Homer Only Kick"
For about half the distance yester-
day it was a ball game, with the Cubs
rushing to the front at the outset
through a trio of singles off Red Ruff
ing and an error by Ruth. while Guy
Bush set the Yanks down in order for
three rounds. 1t seemed the ace of the
Chicagoans' chucking corps would in
scribe classic for the annals of the
Fall title sets with his two-run lead
and hurting in hitless fashion. but
that idea was dissipated abruptly in
the fourth when Lou Gehrig provided
the only real kick in a pastime that
otherwise was long -draWn-out and
drab affair.
Combs had opened the round by coax
ing a pass. advancing on Sewells
death and riding home on Ruth's sharp
single toward the sector he guards
Gehrig was up and the count had gone
to two and two when Lou larruped
one in characteristic fashion high up
into the open-faced stand in right CEN
ter. scoring the Babe ahead for lead
that not only was never relinquished,
but grew until at the end of more
than two and one-half hours Of pastim-
ing it totaled twice as many tallies as
the visitors were able to muster.
Yanks Sew Up Game in Sixth.
Bush seemed to settle down after that
lethal lunge as he retired the next
fTn ond thro,,uh
unscatched, but his control levers got
jammed in the following frame and be-
fore Burleigh Grimes could get the side
out the Yankees had showed over
counters with nothing more in the
form of ammunition than a pair of
singles, most of the damage being due
to the quartet Of passes issued by Bush
before he was removed from the hill
Grimes. himself, proved no bargain,
for he was mulcted for trio of tallies
in the seventh. He walked one athlete.
uncorked a costly wild pitch, yielded
a brace Of bingles and winged batter
before giving way to Bob Smith This
third Cub pitcher got a dose of the
same medicine in the eighth when
Combs got sun-double and coasted
home on SeWell's only safety of the day
Although he whitfield a total of 10
Of the Cubs, victimizing Cuyler, Grimm
ana Hartnett twice each, the VICTORIOUS
Red Ruf1ng wasn't any too impressive.
He allowed 10 safeties and was threat
ened in all but three frames
But Rufing didn't have to hurl in
tight form. considering how he was
aided by the enemy and abetted by
his mates. The two runs he allowed in
the seventh were unearned, being at
tributable to an error by the youthful
Crossetti, and he finished in good style
after yielding pair Of merited mark
ers in the eighth.