The Washington times., 1933-09-28
BY DAVIS J. WALSH

BY DAVIS J. WALSH
NEW YORK, Sept. % GN.S).
One man says the Washington
Senators, another the New York
Giants, but after thinking very
deeply behind locked doors and
drawn blinds, I'm beginning to
suspect that if anybody's wrong
it's both of them. Now that we
understand each other on that
one, perhaps I ought to add that
I also think the world series of
1893 is liable to be won by
neither team.
Disclosures of an equally
startling nature will be made
later but, in the meantime, I'm
very earnestly of the opinion that
the real winner of the series will
be the National Leagues dead
BALI and I'm therefore going to
like the Giants until such time
as somebody may happen along
and make a chump out Of botn
Of us.
The dead-ball thing is nothing
to the Giants. They've had it
all year, lived with it; even won
with it. But, either way, it will
be no novelty. The Senators,
however, will be getting it for
the first time-not once, but in
four of the seven games, includ-
ing the very important two at the
start and the all-important two at
the finish. I think the series
will be won and lost in these
games.
Greater ADVANTAGE
Everything, in fact, seems to in.
dicate that the Giants will enjoy
a much greater advantage with
their ball than the Senators will
when the scene shifts to Washing
ton for the three middle games
and the more agile American
League ball comes into use. For
one thing, the Senators will think
they're hitting what the bays call
a tomato-surprise at the Polo
Grounds. They'll hit 1t with their
Sunday swing, with those nearby
fences waiting, and if they con-
meet Solidly and the wind is fav-
orable, it may even go all the
way to first base. Better ball
t ms than the Senators have
been discouraged by less.
For another thing. the Giant
pitching has been so calculated
as to discourage anybody under
these conditions. It has been
hand-picked to make all teams
hit into the dirt-Hubbell
with his low S crew-ball, Schu-
macher with his overland Sinker,
Fitzsimmons with his knuckleball,
If Hubbell is at all right in the
first game, the Senators won't be
able to get that ball of his in the
air. They might even have trou-
BILE doing this against him with
the lively ball in Washington but,
if he's really curling them around
the knees here, the result is al
most ordained.
Anyhow, with Hubbell and
Schumacher working the first two
under conditions ideal for them,
it doesn't seem likely that the
Giants will do worse than an even
break before heading for Wash
ington. T-ey might even win both,
in which case you can write the
rest of it off and turn your at
tention to something important.
think the Pirates won the
first two in 1903 and then blew
the series, but otherwise the per
formance is without precedent
and the Giants are not the club
that can't protect a winning
hand.
Should Like Lively Ball
But, assuming that they split
the first two, they'll move on to
Washington where the Senators
will get their own ball for the
first time and also their own
fences, meaning that the ball
can go further and so can the
rival outfielders. Giant pitching
also can take greater chances
here and Giant hitters, coming
up against live one for the first
time. ought to do a lot of punch
hitting.
Frankly, I think Fitzsimmons
will lose his game at Washing
ton to Stewart but that either
Hubbell or Schumacher will win
at least once, thus bringing the
series back to the Polo Grounds
where, getting their second shot
at a club that is not at it's best
under the conditions prevailing,
I don't think the Giants can
miss.