The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-02
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 Sports Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE

RY HENRY McLEMORE
 fEnIted Press Stan Correspondent)
 Detroit, oct. 2.-(UP)-Hats off. ladies and gentlemen, to the most honest baseball player in the world. In fact, the only honest baseball player in the world, so Tar as know.
 I mean Hank Greenberg. the firgt baseman of the Detroit Tigers, who play the Chicago Cubs in the first game of the World Series here to-day.
 I must have talked to 25 play CTS yesterday as the rival teams worked out on Navin field. and Hank, the head sluRger of the American league, the home run king, was the only one who talked any sense. The others spouted the usual blather-you know, the bIather about how the series Is just another bunch of ball games with the Reds, how they couldn't help but win in four straight, and how, with any luck, they'd field d thousand and bat damn near that much.
 NOL NIT. fl5 SAiS 'Sos hitter on the Detroit club, and as a man who was just voted the most valuable player in the American league, he has the right to spout blather if anyone has. But he didn't. Leaning against the dug out, and with three fine rivulets Of tobacco juice coursing his chin, he admitted the series had him nerv- ous as a cat, twice as jittery, and "ail turned round inside.
 "What's the use of trying to be so damn sophisticated about the series?" asked MT. Greenberg. "The thought of playing before all those people, and for all that money, gets me excited as hell. I'm shaky right now, and I'll be worse by tomorrow when l go up there to bat for the first time.
 "Listcn. Last year was so nerv- ous before the series started that I couldn't eat. And you know what happened. That Dizzy Dean made me look like monkey. So did all the other St. Louis pitchers [ was so anxious to hit a ball that I'd strike at anything. They tell me t HWuHk dL U0Aio LNo AOSt o'NA a'' head, I don't doubt 1t. Speaking of that Dizzy, ain't he q hell Of q pitcher? It ain't so much his stuff that bothers me as his attitude. He walks out there and looks at you with an attitude ha says:
 "'You ain't got chance to hit q thing I throw up there. guess I'll strike you out on three straight ones down the middle'."
 Did MT. Greenberg plant to be as futile this year as he was last year?
 "No, I don't think I will. No air. don't. Maybe I'll be too 1urnpy to be any godo the first time or two I'm at bat, but l be- lieye I'll settle down faster this year. was pretty good after two games had been played last year Got over my Jitters. This year sorta believe I'll be all right after I've swung one time. Lawd knows | hope so. After all, when you play in the World Series you're supposed to be the best in the world, and wanta prove I'm pret- ty good. anyway"
 OuISB8 yV0 w hbVAVAOVS0 s'NsAN Series players, you'll never know how refreshing MT. Greenberg was He admitted he was human, and hhad human reactions. After all, if you were playing in the World series you'd be scared, and so wouid I. But to listen to all the pIayers except MT. Greenberg, you'd think they played for all the chips every day. Mir. Grimm thinks tie Cubs are a cinch. MT. Coch- fane can't see how the Tigers will take more than four games. And the Messrs. Goslin, Fox, Rowe, Ca- yaretta, Hack. Gehringer, etc, are the same according to their con nections.
 But MT. Greenberg will be satis- 1ied # the Tigers win in seven games, and he manages to get one hfk out of three. For as he said, "A guy what gets one out of three is batting 1888. And that's pret- ~ good batting for any league" ftspyrlght 1D3b by United Presg)