Evening star., 1935-10-01
ETROIT, October 1.-THE gates
to the sporting meuagerie
now are unlocked where you

now are unlocked WIltIe yOu
- can step into the main zoo
and take your pick between the
tigers and the cubs.
In the zoo or in the jungle tiger
can always whip a cub, although
Western hunters will tell you a tiger
would have all the trouble he cared
to handle i'll tackling grizzly bear.
And for the last three weeks these
Cubs of Chicago have been a COM
bination Of grizzly bears, lions and
king cobras as they started from no
where to run out string OF 81 VIC
torious contests and earned their right
to a large world series split. whether
it will be the winners or the losers
end.
Along that line, which will 1t
be? Ten days ago there was a
definite feeling that Mickey Coch-
rane's two-time winners would be
too strong for either Cubs or
Cardinals.
They were all set for the Cards this
time and probably would have beaten
them, with the two Deans worked into
a creamy froth and no che else de-
pendable in q pinch.
Before settling any argument or
closing out the debate abruptly, 1t Is
just as well to begin little sizing up.
Team for Team.
THE Tigers have a slight edge In
L attack. The Cubs have no cluster
that can quite match Greenberg,
Gehringer, Cochrane, Goslin and Fox.
This edge isn't overwhelming, but
still it is there.
The Tigers on copypaper also have
a bright edge along defensive lines,
with Schoolboy Rowe, Auker and
Bridges all set to throw against Lon
Warneke, French, Lee and Root.
There isn't much to say when you
get to the fielding support each team
will get.
II should be high-class and
about equal. 1t would be ridic-
ulous for the supporters of either
team to claim any decisive mar
gin, since none exists.
The Tigers have the games greatest
all round catcher in Mickey Cochrane.
The Cubs have one of the best in
Gabby Hartnett, who also knows what
a bat was made for.
Other Details.
MOVING from the physical to the
A'A psychological, we come to these
debatable sectors:
/. The Tigers never have won a
world series. They lost three in a
row to the Cubs and Pirates when
Cobb was king and Wild Bill Donovan
was showing his fast one through.
They lost last year to the Cardinals
when the two Deans removed fangs,
claws and hide. Four starts and four
defeats.
2. The Tigers had the American
League pennant won some time back
as far as all practicable purposes were
involved. They've been coasting for
two weeks, with little opposition since
the first week in August.
8. The Cubs for the last three weeks
have been moving like the wind when
1t swings into the tornado or cyclone
zone. They have had whatever it
took to win a ball game down the
stretch. They are all jammed up
with youth and speed, and in addi-
ton they are chock-full of confidence.
They ran roughshod over their
own league when the storm sig.
mails were up in the most gall
liant rush Of stretch running
base ball ever has known.
Certainly no other team ever picked
up 81 games in a row in winning a
pennant in the three closing weeks.
They have shown speed, courage and
class. They have shown pitching and
the punch. They have shown able
leadership on the part of Charlie
Grimm. They have shown everything
you could ask a ball club to show
and this isn't reaching for superla-
tives. It is merely dealing in cold
and unadorned facts.
Tough Picking.
ALL this makes it tough picking.
On the one side you have the
Tigers, that rate the slightly stronger
club. especially so on the attacking
side.
You have a ball club directed by
one of the best leaders you can find
in the book-strong enough to run
away with two American League flags.
Against this you have a rival
that began clicking nearly q
month ago and ever since has
been rolling ball Of fire, burn
ing up the highway.
Any fan knows that in a short
series anything can happen. In q