Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-03
Series Notes
Players Keep Under
Wraps During Bat
ting Practice.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
DETROIT, October $50 cold was
the weather as the Cubs and Tigers
went through their batting pracJice
that all players except the men actually
hitting were CARRIED in their heavy
jackets.
So strong was the wind that Navi1
Fields mammoth press box, accommo-
dating approximately 400 newspaper
men and as many telegraphers, shook
constantly. 1t is located high above
the field.
Detroit school children got break
yesterday and were hoping for the best
today. Approximately $685. 900 Of the
youngsters were permitted to lay aside
their Latin books and biographies aud
listen in on the big diamond show.
Add victims of life's little ironies-
Frank Reiber.
The little ird-string catcher OF
the Detroit Tigers is member in
good standing of the American League
champions and, as such, Is entitled to
a full share of world series receipts
But he hasn't seen a play in the cur
rent world series yet.
Reiber, who has little chance to
play, has the bull-pen job and when
a series crowd is damned into Navin
Field the bull-pen is moved behind
the left-field pavilion. Reiber, along
with a couple of reserve pitchers, goes
behind the pavilion and listens to the
game over the radio.
An automobile is driven into the
bull pen and its radio is turned on
In that way the "flremen" and Reiber
find out what's going on.
Reiber was somewhat relieved to
learn that he finally will see some OF
the series tomorrow, when the scene
shifts TO Wrigley Field in Chicago
The bull-pen is on the playing field
in the Cubs park, regardless of the
size of the crowd.
Manager Charlie Grimm of the
Cubs has been in the big league since
1919. but he never saw Navin Field
until the day before the opening game
when the Bruins staged their last
practice.
Popular choice for the most beauti-
full wife among the ball players: Mrs.
Tuck Stainback.
The wife of the Cubs utility out
fielder is a dead ringer for Joan
Crawford. In fact, she was stand
in for Joan in the movie, Chained"
Hank Greenberg, big first baseman
Of the Tigers, is ready to play ball on
October 7, which is Yom Kippur.
If the world series extends the sixth
day it will include the day of Atone
ment. which is revered by Jews.
I'VE are orthodox Jews and, while
not fanatical, We always celebrate Yom
Kippur," said David Greenberg, father
OF the ball player. The boy has
talked to officials and while they tell
him they can't make him play, they
explain they have no substitute fol-
him. After all, he belongs to the pub
lie and not just TO himself"
Lon Warneke, the Owl Of the Ozarks
who pitched the Cubs to victory ir
the opener yesterday, has been painted
as an Unconditional gent with all OF
the loquaciousness of Joe Louis. Bu
It's not always so.
Last year. after losing his seventh
or eighth game by one-run margin
Lon stormed into the Cubs club house
kicked over the stove. broke bats anc
tore all the hats and shirts that hi
could lay his hands on. The next day
he was presented with plumbers anc
haberdashers' bills, as well as a clut
fine.
So bad were the dust clouds, due Il
the chilled winds that swept tht
field, the ground keeper was forced t.
turn hose on the infleld to keep thu
dust down.