The Washington times., 1933-10-05
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BY GARRETT WATERS
Times Baseball Writer and
Official Scorer

Official Scorer
The history books tell us that
a guy named Custer made a last
stand once. That was many,
many years ago when Stands"
were the most heroic things in
the minds Of our countrymen.
The gallant Washington Griff.
men, flag bearers of the Amer
ican League, hope to duplicate
this history business in a baseball
way today as they stack up
against the New York Giants,
National League titlistS, in what
will be the third game Of the
1888 world series.
And a "last stand" they'll have
to make if they expect to beat
down the Giants for the baseball
championship Of the world. The
Terrymen hold a two-game adj
vantage in the series because of
victories at the Polo Grounds
yesterday and the afternoon be-
fore.
Tuesday they got off to a very
auSpiciouS start when Carl Hub
bell, lanky left-hander, lived up
to all expectations by holding the
Griffs at bay while the Giants
socked Lefty Walter Stewart for
4-to-1 victory. Yesterday they
increased their lead to two games
when Hal Schumacher, ace right.
handler, outpitched General Alvin
Crowder while a six-inning scor-
ing bee Of six runs put the con-
test far out Of the reach Of
Cronin and his gallant soldiers.
Shifts to d. C..
The scene shifts to this city
today and the Giants are hope
full that the same success which
characterized their play at New
York will hold sway here in that
the series will be ended by to-
morrow when the fourth and
deciding victory will have been
won by that time.
@NO" w 0oAC d S4d1u COLuS'
back the Griffs must not only
win today's game, but tomor.
rows as well. And after that
Is done the next days must be
won and so on down the line
until the series is taken right
out Of the Giants hands.
Il the Griffs turn the trick it
will mark the first time in world
series play that a team has won
. championship after having lost
the first two games. But the
Griffs feel that they'll break the
Ice (believe it or not) even
though the odds are greatly
against them.
The pitching responsibilities for
today's game will be entrusted to
Earl Whitehill, crack left-hander.
and Freddy F'itzsimmons, stocky
Highlander. It has been rumored
about that Whitehill will 60 into
the box for the Griffs after hav-
Ing just recovered from q sore
arm-Sustained while pitching
that great game Of his against
the New York Yankees last week,
An analysis Of the Griffs' fail.
ure to crash the winning column
shows that they haven't received
the pitching supposed to win ordi-
nary games, much less world
series contests, while second and
most important Of all, they
haven't been the hitting team
the pre-Series records told the
world that they were going to be.
Tuesday for example, they only
gathered five hits off the pitch
ing of Hubbel. Yesterday only
five were collected off Hal Schu.
macher.
Oddly enough Cronin, Goose
GoSlin and Fred Schultz have
been the lone Griffs to gather
more than one hit in the series
thus far. Cronin grabbed him.
self two in Tuesdays contest as
did Schultz, while Goslin crashed
through with two yesterday-his
home run being the only earned
run for the GriffS since the
series began.
Goslin's homer was the lone
bright spot of the Griffs' play
yesterday.
Had EN- Stopped Cold
Just what happened to General
Crowder in this sixth is difficult
to explain. He had the Giants
stopped cold during the first five
innings. But in the sixth he lost
all his stuff and it became just
a case Of when the Giants were
going to be stopped.
The batting order went com.
pletely around during the orgy
and after Crowder had given up
seven hits for six runs, Tommy
Thomas finally stepped into the
picture to retire the side.
The "meat" Of the rally was
delivered by Lefty ODoul. q
pinch batter for George Davis.
ODoul came through with a
beautiful hit - center field with
the bases filled and one out and
the two runs that he drove across
seemed to set off the Giant spark
that couldn't be extinguished I'M
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