The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-05
SECOND STRING PITCHERS MAYCO TOMOUND TODAY
Tex Carleton, Alvin Grove der May Get Call; l; French
 Seems Logical for Cubs
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United Press Staff ,Correspondent)
 Chicago, October s = (UP) -
 The Chicago Cubs and the Detroit
 Tigers may get down on the grass
 of wrigley Field today and wrestle for the fourth game of the World
 Series.
 Or they may stand up and fight 1t out with their fists and spikes. For the series, as dignified and mannerly. as your Aunt Winnie's Browning society the first two days, definitely passed into the rough
 house stage in that mad and bois-
 terous extra-inning affair of yes terday.
 Today both camps are ready to
 close in for a bit of man-to-man
 work. None too friendly from the
 start, the two clubs dropped their
 masks of gentility and barred their fangs yesterday in a game which
 saw merciless riding of the, oppo-
 sition from the bench, and wound up with four of the combatants beinRv chased from the park. That eleven inning battle com pletely disorganized the pitching staffs of both teams. The Cubs were forced to use both Lonnie Warpeke and Larry French, a pair
 they had planned to save for later
 dates. The Detroits had to drag Schoolboy Rowe eff the bench and throw him into the breach.
 Today, unless there is last min ute switch, the Cubs will call on
 Tex Carleton, and the Tigers on General Alvin Crowder. The Cubs
 will use Carleton in desperation; the Tigers will summon the general on gamble. Neither Tex nor the general is much shakes of pitcher, and the experts have
 dubbed their meetinfg the Battle of the Incornpetents." Crowder, a
 veteran whose regular season rec
 ord was shoddy, has started two world series games, and. finished both of them under the shower, the merry sound of base hits ring ing in his ears. The New York
 Giants knocked his offerings all the top man of the Washington
 Senators staff, and the Cards
 slaughtered him in the series last year.
 Carleton barely beat par during
 the National League season, win
 ming eleven while losing eight. Dur
 ing the Cubs run of 21 straight Tex turned in but one victory. A mem- Der of the Cards last year, he
 started against the Tigers and had
 his ears pinned back.
 It is a safe bet that if Carleton
 and the General start, relief pitch-
 CTS down to the fourth and fifth
 generation will see service before the afternoons fun is completed. If Grimm starts Carleton (and
 he says he. will) he is certain to be the victim of much banning. The experts insist there is only one
 logical choice for him to make =
 Larry French. French pitched but two innings yesterday, and is fresh as a daisy. Too, he is a southpaw, and with Greenberg out of the lineup, the Detroit power is concentrated dn the hands of left
 handed hitters. Goslin, Gehringer and Cochrane all hit from the
 portside, and the experts argue that
 Grimm should play the percentages
 and throw a southpaw in their
 faces.
 Win or lase. Cochrane is smart in calling on Crowder. If, by some
 miracle, the General should stagger through nine innings to 8 victory,
 the Tigers would be all but in, for
 they would have Bridges and Rowe
 to throw.in against the Cubs in the
 fifth game. With Bridges, say,
 starting the fifth game, and Rowe
 ready for relief, you could almost write your own ticket on the chances of the Cubs. If Crowder loses. the Tigers still are no worse off than even.