Evening star., 1936-10-07
POWELL, WITH .455,
|SSWATT|NG HERO
Di Mag, Pearson, Selkirk
and Rolfe Also Are Bitter
Doses for Giants.
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
Stafi Correspondent OF The Star.

n YEW YORK, october THE
theory that veterans are
~ preferable, If not necessary
' cogs in q winning world series
machine apparently Is overrated, to
put it mildly, for you can match the
series actions of the Yankees young
bloods with the performances of the
supposedly more learned teammates
and readily agree that Marse Joe
McCarthy's newcomers to an au-
turnnal classic were chiefly respon-
sible for the American Leagues
second straight triumph.
Perhaps it is wholly unnecessary to
debate their victory balloon some
what, but Lou Gehrig. Bill Dickey,
Tony Lazzeri, Frankie Crosetti, Lefty
Gomez and Charley Running, the
veterans of the new champs, were not
enough to win the subway series.
1t took the youth of Jake Powell.
Joe Di Maggie, Red Rolfe, George Sell
kirk and Monte Pearson to accom-
plish that feat, and the manner in
which they wrote record-breaking
history into world series annals
should erase forever the idea that
previous experience is essential.
With a fine disregard for their
elderly brethren and the Giants
pitching, Powell batted ASS to take
top honors in that respect, Rolfe bat
ted out a neat 400 average, and Sell
kirk and Di Maggie swung for the
tt~1a Ia af "A
respectively.
Contrasting that sensational club
bing Is the rather puny batting of
Crosetti, Gehrig, Lazzeri and Dickey,
none of whom edged into the select
800 class. Gehrig for the first time
since he has been series figure.
Gehrig Pulled Prize Boner.
IN FACT, had it not been for the
= wheels in Gehrig's head becoming
. bit jammed. the series might we'll
have ended in five games. 1t was
Gehrig, you remember. who opened
the second inning of Mondays game
with a single to right. Mel OFT
allowed the ball to 60 through him
and Lou carried his hefty hips around
10 third.
Dickey. next up, grounded TO
Schumacher and Gehrig broke for the
plate. Halfway there, however, he
hesitated almost long enough to light
q cigarette, then started again. Terry,
taking Schumacher's throw to get
Dickey. whipped to Mancuso in plenty
of time to double Gehrig. The fact
that Selkirk followed with a home
run, rubbed 1t In. With Gehrig's run
across, the Yankees could have won
IN nine innings instead of losing in
ten.
The veterans helped to win the
series, Of course, but in the final
analysis 1t was the youth of the
Yankees that carried them to the
championship. The psychology en-
ployed by Dickey on Pearson, however,
was in no small measure responsible
for one victory.
Pearson. recently healed after an
ailing back had caused him consider
able misery, thought he would not be
effective against Hubbell and the
Giants. He thought his steam would
be missing.
Psychology Used on Pearson.
nICKEY soon made him forget that.
Coming back to the bench at the
end OF the sixth inning, after Monte
had famed four of the first six men
to face him, Dickey went over to the
water fountain, turned, and yelled the
entire length of the bench to the
Yankee trainer.
Hey, get a sponge for my mitt or
that guy will make hamburger out
of my hand" Pearson allowed only
seven hits in trimming the Giants. So.
Yesterdays 1876 pay-off triumph
vas typical of the efficient manner in
which the Yankee fledglings have
conducted themselves.
Prior to the parting blast of the
ninth. the game was closely fought.
After the Giants had jumped into a
two-run lead at the outset, it was
Selkirk and Powell who put the
Yankees back in the game in the
second inning. Gehrig and Dickey
flied out, but Selkirk blasted a triple
to the Giant bull-pen in right. Powell
then tied the score with a home run
Of the left-field stands.
The American leaguers added an
other in the third and two more in
the fourth to take So lead, but the
Giants, making a last desperate bid,
narrowed the gap with single runs
In the fifth and seventh and missing
tying or going ahead only because of
notoriously weak pinch-hitting.
Giant Pinch -Hitters Flop.
nTT'S homerun into the left field
stands pulled the count to 3-5.
Leading off in the seventh. Bartell
planted a double in left and sprinted
home when Terry singled to center.
Di Maggie booted the ball and Terry
ambled to second, then advanced to
third on Lieber's sacrifice.
With the tying run on third, OFT
walked, to place what then looked to
be the winning run on first. Leslie,
batting for Mancuso, popped foul to
Rolfe and the rally hickered. Ripple
picked up Whitehead's bat and drew
. walk to fill the bases. but Koenig, up
for Jackson. watched third strike
1loat by to kill the threat.
The Yankees combined walk to
Dickey and singles by Selkirk and Laz-
zeri to push across run In the eighth,
but Moore nullified that with home
run that bounced OF the top of the
right field stands in the Giants half
Of the eighth.
Five mighty hits, coupled with four
walks and an error. then sent seven
Yankee runs scurrying across the plate
as the Rupert rifles fired mocking
salute to the Giant pitching and placed
the 1896 series title far out Of the
National Leaguers' reach.