The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-02
Chicago Drills Make Them EDen Money Bet For Opene,
DETROIT CLUB IS CHOICE TOCAPTURE
 SERIES WITH CUBS
Warneke, Rowe Starting Pitchers ~ Short Left
 Field to Aid Greenberg
By HENRY 1fcLEMORE United Press Stan Correspondent

(United Press Stan Correspondentl
 Detroit, oct. 2.-(UP)-The 1883 world series opens at Navfn Field today with every element-even the weather-uniting to make 1t one of the grandest autumnal classics since Abner Doubleday in- vented the national pastime.
 Assurance of warm, fair weather after several cold wet days, elim- mated the only possible inperfec- ton.
 Chicago and Detroit, champions of the National and American leagues, are 50 evenly matched in this series of clashes for baseball's world championship that even money may be quoted at game time. Early today the home team was an 11-19 series favorite.
 A carnival atmosphere of pros- perity surrounds the thousands of actual and would-be customers thronging the city, and for days the series has been a sell-out.
 Completing the true American setting, two husky farmer boys, Lon Warneke of the Cubs and Lyn- wood Rowe of the Tigers are the pitchers named to battle it out on the mound where the spotlight's glare is brightest.
 When these two leather-necked country lads, born but 80 miles apart in the Arkansas hills, start their right-handed hurling duel, Managers Charlie Grimm of the Chicagoes and Mickey Cochrane of the Detroits-and the 50,000 spec tators--will watch with electrified intensity. Because baseball history says: As the first game goes, so goes the series. Of 34 series played, 21 have been won by the winner of the first game.
 So there is no master-mindinE today. Grimm Is going out with his best, and Cochrane is meeting him with his top man. The similarity between Warneke and Rowe doesn't end with their birthplaces. Both are big, raw-boned, unim- aginative guys, who, when the clutch comes, hist their pants, rear back, and fog 1t through. And both have taken series lickings-War- neke from the Tanks in '32, and Rowe from the Cardinals last year.
 To make room for 50,000, in a field which was built for little more than half that number, the Detroit owners, have overrun the outfield with white pine bleachers which cascade down from what was the left field fence, into ground hal- lowed by the assorted vegetable at- tack on Ducky Wucky Medwick of the Cards, in the last series.
 As result, the left field boun. dary offers a lovely target for any and all batters. As Coos Goslin put 1t, Any guy without sore arm. could throw a cabbage for a home run. And with his left hand" Local ate barrier is a tremendous advan- tage for the Tigers, for in Green- berg they have a dead left field hitter, and brace of capable place-hitters n Cochrane nd Gehringer. In the final practice yesterday, players of both clubs were peppering it with potential two-baggers, and clearing it with potential home runs. N
 The Detroiters are the choice of the gamblers as well as of the peo- pie. It is true that in the figure books, the Tigers have the edge. They are-if figures don't lie-bet- ter defensively and extensively. But past series have proved that in the mad spring over seven games. reg ular season averages mean nothing, and the laurels go to the team with the fight and breaks, and the team that happens to be hot at the moment.
 If ever a team was hot, it is the Cubs. They are riding the crest of a streak which rocketed them from fourth place to first, which saw them sweep 21 straight games, they started, and which saw them out-wrestle, out-fght, and out-play the famed toughies of St. Louis. More remarkable, they are not mond in the final drill yesterday with the nerve of a college team. Detroit's final workout was spir- itless. and even Manager Cochrane expressed fears over their lethargy. Chicago goes into the series for tified by the knowledge that Cub team never lost to Detroit in h world series. In 1907 the Cubs took four games and were tied in one, and in 1908 they whipped the Tig- CTS 4 games to it.
 Today's games will be attended by the largest crowd in Detroit baseball history. A crowd of 50,000 is assured. The scalpers have been working overtime. and their de. mands of $16.50 for $5.50 seats have been met with alacritY.