Evening star., 1935-10-08
NEW CHAMPS NOT
CLUB WITH CLASS
GIaring Weaknesses Seen
in Outfit That Trimmed
Foe None Too Smart.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
sta1 CORRESPONDENT Of The Star.

troit today celebrated its
- first world championship,
but by the same token. paradoxical
as 1t may sound, the Tigers base ball
dynasty seemed to be crumbling in
the moment of their greatest glory.
For two years rulers of the Amer
lean League, the Bengals today be-
came the first junior circuit team
since 1882 to down the National
League for world supremacy. Yet
base ball critics. stolidly analyzing
the four -games-to-two conquest of
the Bengals over the Cubs, could not
predict, with any assurance, that
Micky Cochrane's tossers will repeat
as contenders, much less as cham
pions.
The Tigers won the championship
fair and square. Umpire George Nor
iarty Notwithstanding. but it wasn't
q great ball club that clinched the
title yesterday when Goose Goslin
singled home Cochrane in the ninth
inning for 4-3 victory. On the
contrary, it was team in the state
TO capitalize on the mistakes OF a
potentially stronger team which has
much to learn.
TO-DAY the 1885 world series is
dead and buried, only a memory.
Fans will talk far into the Winter Of
Moriartys almost unbelievable con-
duct, of Phil Cavarretta's doubtful
plays, of Augie Galans over -ambi-
ton and of Hank Greenberg's flop,
but already the Tigers American
League rivals confidently are plotting
and expecting the downfall OF the
winnahs and new champions.
Weak spots which more or less
escaped critical eyes in the regular
league campaign stood out in the
post-season classic. Marvin Owen
proved such a pitiful figure, for in
stance. that not even the stanchest
Detroit rooter could laugh off his per-
formance. Jo-Jo White was no bar
gain and Bill Rogell has shown that
he will get no better.
Flea Clifton played a nice defen-
sive game in the series, but Flea does
not appear to be a major Lacquer,
day in and day out. and. to stick the
old chin out bit farther, even the
ow-immortal Goose Goslin and AL
win Crowder have not many days OF
stardom ahead of them.
Schoolboy Rowe seems to have
reached his peak, as has EIdon Auker.
Hank Greenberg has several good
years ahead of him and probably will
continue to be star-in play against
everyday pitchers and ordinary ball
games-but Hank Is one of the few
exceptions on the new champions.
Cubs Play Lacks Smartness.
THE vanquished Cubs never will be
convinced that they were beaten
by better club and in this belief they
are Joined by many critics and all
Chicago fans. Too often the breaks
Of the game. plus what seemed bad
decisions by Moriarty. were the diff
ference or appeared the difference be-
tween victory and defeat.
This is not intended to belittle the
Tigers victory. Detroit, most loyal
base ball town in the world, waited
patiently for decades for a world
champion and stuck by its various
contenders to the last. The Motor
City deserved its victory and so did
the Tigers. who won without the serv-
ices of their best hitter, Greenberg.
But this very handicap" under
which the Bengals worked may serve
TO strengthen the belief that Mickey
Cochrane's club is not so good as 1t
might be. 1t certainly is not f1atterlng
to the Cubs to have been beaten by a
club with 25 per cent of its power
missing.
THROUGHOUT the series, even
L down to the last couple of plays,
can be traced weaknesses In the Chi
cago team and odd circumstances that
helped toward the Bengals' triumph
There was Moriarty's silly act OF
throwing valuable Chicago players out
of the game in the third tilt OF the
series There was Cavarretta running
down a base runner between first and
second while another runner scored
In the same game.
There was the overconfidence OF
young Galan when he dropped fly
ball for a two-base error in AL Crow
GERS game, putting the winning run
on base and in a position to score
when Bill Jurges made his only bad
play Of the series.
Not once was there any burst of
power on either side that would def
nitely indicate the superior ball club.
Rather, the team that got the break"
won out, and that team, four Of six
times, was Detroit.
Grimm's Strategy Odd.
LAD even victory-mad Detroit cared
to pick apart the thrilling finale,
.-l,k L, Soly al off