The Washington times., 1932-09-24
GOMEZ STUDIES
WIND CURRENTS
Of STADIUM
BY VERNON ("LEFTY") GOMEZ
Star SGHthpaw Of the Yankees

Dy NEhNOEN LEE NSNAAA
Star Sdnthpaw of the Yankees
Copyright 1892. by International
New ServiceJ
Editors Note: This is the first
of a series of three articles by
Gomez, giving his ideas relative
to the outcome Of the world
serieS).
NEW YORK. Sept. 24.-What 1
am doing most Of right now Is
studying wind currents which
Manager Joe Mccarthy told me
to do. I guess not many people
think that wind currents mean
much one way or the other in g
world series, but Joe is some
body altogether different
Wind currents is what a
pitcher. especially while in Chi
cago, should know all about be-
cause there's a lot of wind in
that town coming off the lake
and if it is at all breezy it inter-
feres with the break of pitchers
curve.
So I am studying all about cur
rents, and what they do, and
what to do with them if you
are pitching in Chicago. and Joe
figures if I do this and learn
my lesson real we'll it is going to
be tough for the Cubs if I take
them on in Chicago.
Pitching lunches
1t is my hunch that the pitch
ing order in the first two games
will be Charley Ruffing against
Guy Bush and Johnny Allen
against Lon Warneke. Perhaps
the third game will find Charley
Root on the hill with either
George Pipgras or myself against
him, and I look for Pat Malone
in the fourth game with either
Pipgras or myself.
OF course, we can't overlook
the great hero of past series,
Herb Pennock. I for one, don't
want to overlook him. Pennock
took me in hand when I joined
the Yankees, and if I have de-
veloped any real pitching ability,
I want to say right here and
now that Herbie Pennock helped
wonderfully. He knows more
about the true science of pitching
than any man 1 know.
A lot of folks wondered what
went wrong with me in my last
two starts. 1t just was a case
of lack of control. Maybe be.
fore this series is over I'll tell
you how a pitcher helps himself
to get control and how catcher
can help him. Anyway, Mccarthy
shipped me home for rest and
I'm ready right now for the big
battle. They say a lefthander
can't beat the Cubs. But just let
me say that if a lefthander has
control, he will beat them.
One of Best Games
All Ruffing has to do is pitch
to his average form of the last
six weeks to win. In six weeks
Ruffing has had one bad ball
game and that was when his
control went wrong. On the
other hand, just a month ago,
the Redhead pitched the greatest
game of the season, shutting out
Washington in ten innings, and
winning his own game with a
home run.
We know the Cubs have some
fine curVeball pitchers, and that
when curve is breaking right, it
is hard to beat. But how many
hitleSs games have they pitched
this year? Where do they figure
to stop the Yankees if they can't
stop the National League hitters?
Well beat them on power. No
club in baseball has greater hitters
then we have.
We broke all records in scoring
in consecutive games, and if the
great stars of the American
League couldn't stop us, where do
those Cubs figure?
The Cubs may go loco and win
the series, because a series is often
won by the team that gets hot and
stays hot for four games. If the
Cubs develop into nine Pepper
Martins for a week, they may
crash ahead and win. But if they
just remain Cubs, We'll whip them
in four out of five.