The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-05
SENATORS, CRUSHED
BY TWO TROUNC|NCS,
IN DESPERATE MOOD
Never in History Has Team Lost
First Two Games and
Won Series
SCHUMACHER IS lNvINClBLE
Chances Appear Slim for Sell
out in Disappointed
Washington

Washington, Oct 5.-tP)-Baffled
and slightly shell-shocked. ice Cronin
and his Washington Senators Thurs
day tackled a problem that In its base
ball way was as desperate as any the
capitol legislators are accustomed to
wrestling with in this fcuntainhead
OF political perplexitics.
Their big guns silenced pitchers
battered and morale showing signs Of
decay, the American League cham
pions took deep breath of home air.
q fresh grin on themselves and set out
to do something desperate about these
ever-amazing Giants in the third
game of the world series.
When Carl Hubbell. the master of
the left-handed screw ball. polished
the Senator's off in the opening OF
the annual conflict in the Polo
grounds Tuesday allowing but five
tiny hits in 4 to 2 victory. no one
was genuinely surprised.
Situation Is Acute
But when Hal Schumacher. the 90
year-old boy fresh from the st. Law
renee university campus, handcuffed
them for the second time Wednesday.
cut their allowance to one run and
five hits and then joined In sixth
inning outburst that brought all the
Giants runs in 6 to / conquest, the
situation became acute.
Never In the history of these post
season engagements has a team ever
been able to come from behind In
seven-game series to win the world
championship after losing the first
two contests.
Cronin called Thursday upon Earl
Whitehill, his best southpaw. for the
first Of three games In the Griffith
stadium.
Blu Terry named portly Fred Ftz-
simmons, the knuckle ball veteran, as
the Giants pitcher.
On special trains the athletes. their
followers, and the experts flowed into
the capitol Wednesday night to find
cloudiness and threat of rain hang
ing over populace.
The American league champions
rode home in bitter, discouraged 81
lence. The Giants. transformed, like
old Mike McTigue, into savage punch
ers at the end Of the campaign, were
q boisterous. confident lot, shouting
that they'd end the series certainly in
four straight games.
The Nationals far-from-swamped
box office waited eagerly for word
from President Roosevelt. Flag draped
boxes were reserved for him In hope
that he could find time to toss an
initial ball In the direction of agile
Luke Sewell, the Washington back
stop
Hope For Late Revival
A last-minute revival of the Capt.
tails once-Warm baseball ardor was
counted upon by pennant officials to
send the turnstiles clicking faster.
But at the opening Of the ticket win
dows Thursday the sellers placed a
question mark against the possible
ties Of full house.
The placing Of temporary bleachers
against the permanent stands in left
and center fields has enlarged the
capacity of Griffith stadium to 100000
with standing room tickets for 5000
more printed and ready.
Thursdays probable lineup:
NEW 1Ork I'M washington "a,
Moore If Myer, %
Critz. % GoSlin, ri
Terry, Id Manush, If
OFT, IT Cronin, IS
Davis, CT Schultz, CT
Jackson, 3b Kuehl, Id
Mancuso, Bluege. 81
Ryan. IS Sewell, c
Fitzsimmors. p Whitehill. p
UmpireS-Plate, Pfirnlan (NL;
Ormsby (AL) first base; Moran (NL)
second base: Moriarty (AL) third
base.
John Jacob Aston was probably the