The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-10-03
CHARLEY ROOT TO
TRY FOR SECOND
CHICAGO VICTORY
I'VE Looked at Nearly Per-
feet Pitching" Was
COchrane's Tribute
BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

Omitted Press Stan correspondent
Detroit, Oct. 3-(UP)-The De-
troit Tigers today called on Tommy
Bridges, the game rooster of the
Tennessee hills, to stem the terrific
momentum of a Chicago Cubs team
which threatens to blaze through
the world series in four straight
games.
The Cubs, the first game their,
as a result Of yesterdays four-hit
masterpiece by Lon Warneke,
gambled with Charley Root, the
81 year old side-armer who blows
hot, blows cold. This is the one
the Detroiters must win to retain
more than u fighting chance for
the gold and the glory, for IL the
Chicagos roll out of here for home
tomorrow night leading two-love,
even Henry Ford wouldn't care to
risk dollar on the Tigers.
e' Solid Stuff
The record books say they
should win it. for Bridges is bet
ter pitcher than the veteran Root.
Tommy has won 81 and lost IL this
season to Is and for Root. 1t
was Bridges who pitched the finest
game of the 1894 series when he
beat the mighty Dizzy Dean in the
fifth contest at st. Louis last year.
Root has started two world series
ames and failed to escape the
showers on either occasion. 1t was
Charley who was on the mound in
1929 when the Philadelphia Attn
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scored ten runs in the eighth in
ming; and it was Charley who was
shelled numerically by the Yam
KEGS big berthas in '32.
Charley, with philosophic calm,
says this Is another and different
day, and perhaps he's right. Given
a warm day, which will cause the
bleacher boys to shed their coats
and give him a white-shirt back
ground to screen his delivery, he
may come through. If he docs,
who'll deny that the Tigers number
is almost up, what with big Bill
Lee and Warneke waiting for them
in the friendly and familiar acres
Of Wrigley field
Tribute to Lon
But Mickey Cochrane, boss of
the Tigers, isn't worried. He feels
and his belief is shared by most
of the fans and experts-that
Bridges will level the series. Coch-
rane was disappointed over the de-
feat of his ace, Schoolboy Rowe.
in the opening game, but not
down-hearted.
I'VE looked at nearly perfect
pitching" he said, land that kind
usually beats you. / don't think
wen have to look at any more of
the same kind, even from Warneke.
The schoolboy pitched we'll enough
to win 80 games out of hundred,
but had the tough luck to run into
Karneke, who was hotter'n july"
But the Tigers were more than
out-pitched and out-hit yesterday.
The Chicago youngsters out
hustled, out-fought, out-smarted,
and out-fielded them and they
didn't allow their unfiagging zeal
to upset their smoothness.
They gave Warneke flawless sup
port and not even those immortal
Cubs who streaked through the
Tigers in four straight in 1908
showed faster, tighter defense. 1t
was Detroit's veterans, supposedly
hardened to world series tension by
the seven game brawl with the gas
house gang last year, and not the
callow youths OF the Cubs, who
cracked under the pressure. The
Tigers infield parted at the seams
on the first play of the game, and
it never did settle down to the
smoothness 1t displayed over the
regular season. Compared to the
National leaguers, who ran the
bases with speed of jumped deer,
the Tigers were slow and lead-foot-
cd AS in the opening game last
year, the American leaguers SEEM
ed absolutely unable to lift them
selves to fighting edge.
Odds Shift
Warneke's magnificiently pitched
victory of yesterday, in which he
shackled the top sluggers of the
Tigers without a hit, and gave the
lesser breatern but four. has caused
radical switch in the odds. I'm
derdogs at the start. the Cubs now
are Q to favorites to take the
series. The Tigers, however, are
z to 10 favorites to win with
Bridges today.
Warneke's blanking of the Tigers
extended the consecutive world SER
les innings in which the Tigers
haven't scored to 81. The last time
the supposedly ferocious Tigers
chased a man acrd ,TNme plate
was IN the sixth 81 the
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