Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-05
NEW LINEUP SEEN
DETROIT BOLSTER
Greenberg's Loss Forgotten
as Club Battles With
Renewed Vigor.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
- HICAGO. October 5-The
delicate task of driving home
a dizzy theory before some
body orders the black wagon
Is today's little chore. 1t has to do
with Detroit's Tiger having Chicago's
Cub in caAter as the world series
goes into the fourth game.
1t might be fatal to come right out
and say that Hankus Pankus Green
berg has sprained wrist and can't
play and that the Tigers are better
ball club because of it. After all,
Greenberg is their best and only first
baseman, their best hitter, their
longest swatter and the most valuable
player in the American League.
So it might be better to circle about
0 bit and suggest that. in winning the
third game of the series yesterday, 6
to S. in II innings, the Bengal showed
his teeth for the first time.
The Tiger looked the part of a
champion. He was clawed and
knocked down, but he arose in devil
may-care mood and ripped his fangs
into the gallant Cub. He was loose
and easy. not tight and choked up.
And Mr.. Greenberg was not in the
lineup.
THE theory in mind is simple and as
L follows: For couple OF weeks
now the Detroits have been in a
slump. The harder they tried the
worse they looked. When the Cubs
won the opener of the series the
Tigers looked terrible. They didn't
even look as good as the Bruins in
the second game, which was won by
the Bengals.
The team was jittery, uncertain and
tight.
Imagine, then, what must have
been the reaction when it was learned
Yesterday that Greenberg's wrist was
40 swollen and sore as result of JAM
ming it against the stable Gabby
Hartnett in slide the day before yes
terday, that he couldn't play.
Detroit fans moaned. The Tigers
themselves moaned. 1t looked as
though it was all over. The spear
head of the attack was gone.
This is not to be construed now as
meaning that Mickey Cochrane & Co.,
chorused what's the use?" or any
thing like that. but it merely Is to
suggest that different attitude set in
Tigers at Last Carefree.
THE howitzer Of the Detroit often
sive Is out, or at least he was yes
terday and maybe today and tomor-
row. Wouldn't it be natural enough
for the Bengas to feel that. with
Greenberg out. there was nothing in
the way Of prestige to lose?
A year ago the Tigers emerged from
a world series with the headlines
doubling their ability to play under
pressure. They've been trying vainly
to correct that impression ever since
and all Of a sudden they find that
n deal OF the pressure Is of.
II looked that way yesterday. The
Tigers weren't the same players who
fell apart last year and who began
to fall apart again in the first inning
of the first game in the current series.
They had Marvin Owen. third base
man and not very good one at that,
playing on first base. On third they
had Flea Clifton. a good little fielder.
but a weak hitter.
But they were loose for the first
time. If the Cubs won, how could it
be taken as an honest victory without
Greenberg? That seemed to be the
thought.
A S IN the opening game, the Cubs
n got of to an early lead. They
opened the second frame in bewild-
ering fashion. Frank Demaree. with
two strikes on him, reached out for
Eden Auker's waste ball. and
slammed it into the bleachers for a
home run.
The next man, Cavaretta, lined out,
but Hack singled. stole second, and
moved to third when Clifton booted
Jurges' hard grounder. When Lee
grounded out, Hack scored and there
was q 20 lead.
1t was discouraging and worse so
in the third inning, when the Tigers
got two men on base and Augie Galan
committed sheer robbery by leaping
high and almost against the low
bleacher barrier in center field to pull
down a hoist by Goslin for the third
out. The ball would have cleared the
barrier.
Then there were little matters OF
Hartnett reaching into the boxes fol
q great catch of Auker's foul, another
run by the Cubs in the fifth and
Hartnett's feat of picking Pete Fox of
third after he had tripled Goslin
across. thereby taking the sting Out
OF a rally.
There was the loss of an argument
with Umpire Ernest Quigley and Coach
Del Bakers dismissal from the park
There was the Cubs record of not
losing a game in Wrigley Field since
September 2, of losing only 20 here al
season, and Of winning Is in row.
Always Fight Back.
"A LII these we're heart-breaking turns
"A of events. yet the Tigers baret
their fangs in a go-to-hades style
snarled, and fought back. The,
couldn't lose much and they stood tt
gain ali.
They came back not once, but twice
In the eighth inning they wiped away
the Cubs 3-to-l lead by scoring foul
runs, chasing Bill Lee from the box
and hitting Lon Warneke, the ole
Tiger tanner. In the ninth they saw
the Bruins tie the score, and still the
Bengals came back in the eleventh
to triumph.