Evening star., 1933-10-05
Strategy Plays a Large Part
In Determining Victor, With
Honors Going to Bill Terry

| season I,have seen Cronin pull the un-
| expected and get away with 1t, making
himself look mighty smart. Twice last
season Cronin beat our Cleveland club
with the very same play. But when you
! try something unorthodox in a world
series and fail. several million fans de-
| eide you should have played safe.
Kuhel Ordered Passed.
T WAS mighty glad when Pitcher Hal
Schumacher obligingly uncorked a
wild pitch and placed the runners
where they would have been had
Cronin sacrificed.
With the stage set for a two-run
rally, Schultz popped to Catcher
Mancuso for the second out. Terry
ordered Kuhel passed to fill the bases,
preferring to take chance with Bluege,
always considered in American League
Bluege made Terry look brilliant by
striking out.
Hardly had the thrills furnished by
the Senators died out when New York
decided to supply a few of its own.
Crowder, who had been pitching a beau
| tiful game, apparently Stlffened up as
a result Of the long half-inning wait
on the bench and lost his stuff. Moore
hit sharply to left but was forced at
second on Critz's bunt to Kuhel. Terry's
pop double, just out of Manushs reach,
then provided the break of the game,
| putting runners on second and third
with one down. In the first half of
| the inning Washington was In the
same scoring position but lacked the
punch.
Manager Joe Cronin ordered Crowder
to pass the dangerous OFT. loading the
bases. Bill Terry chose to call on his
reserve strength rather than trust to
his starting lineup. Lefty" O'Doul
was sent to bat for Davis. He singled
| to center. made Terry's strategy look
wise, sent two runs over the plate and
started a rout that didn't end until
eight hits against the ace Of the Wash
| ington staff. a pitcher I consider one
of the very best in the American League.
| Just before O'Doul hit safely, foul
tip for the third strike eluded Catcher
Sewell's grasp.
Gambled and Failed.
TN losing the second game, Manager
Joe Cronin saw all his strategy go
wrong He gambled for big in
ming and failed. He elected to stick to
his regulars and they couldn't deliver
the punch. AS any manager would, he
kept pinning his hope on his ace, AL
Crowder, to snuff out the New York
uprising, but the Giants bats raped
off a sharp negative.
In winning, Terry saw all his strate-
gic moves work out exactly as he hoped
they would. He strung along with the
brilliant, if unsteady Hal Schumacher
when the Senators threatened IN the
sixth and Schumacher rewarded his
managers faith by striking out Bluege
with the bases filled.
Terry saw his pinch hitter, Lefty"
O'Doul supply the hit that decided the
ball game. And late in the big sixth,
just as the Giants were hitting the
ball to all parts Of the field, he called
for the squeeze and it worked to per-
lection when Mancuso laid down q
perfect bunt and beat it out.
Managerial strategy Is good or bad
according to the results attained, and
in the second game all credit goes to
Bill Terry, who was backed up by the
punch the Giants were able to deliver
in the crisis.
In all my preliminary articles on the
series, I stressed the fact that Al
Crowder, ace of the Washington staff.
was off his game during the last month
of the season. He carried much Of the
load in the winning Of the pennant.
He didn't have his usual stuff at the
start Of the game and lost what he had
In the sixth.
| (Copyrieht, 1888. by North American News
l paper Alliance, Incl