The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-03

were helpless before Hubbell. The next game the Giants went down by the biggest margin in B years of world series competition.
 The Yankee siege guns wrecked a complete pitching staff in this stun ming shift of strength. They col 1ectpd IT hits off five Giant pitchers in overwhelming the National league champions yesterday at the Polo Grounds before President Roosevelt and 43,543 other spectators, IS to 4. Twelve world series records were broken or tied, the most important of which was a new mark for runs scored by one team. The highest previous number of runs scored in Q world series game was 13-by the Athletics in 1911, the Giants in 1921 and the Yankees in 1892.
 Reverberations from yesterdays diamond cataclylsm were reflected in today's odds which sent the Yam kees soaring back into favoritism at 3 to to win the series and to 5 to take the third game.
 The Herculean task of checking the merciless Yankee attack today fell to fat Freddy Fitzsimmons, mas ter of the knuckle ball who staged one of the greatest comebacks in the majors last season. Out of action early in the season with an ailing arm, Fitzsimmons came to the Giants rescue when they needed him most and wound up the season by winning g out of his last 10 games.
 FitzsimmonS, 8 roly-poly, 185 pound right-hander, saved the Giants once before. Maybe he can do 1t again. If he does, the hopes of the National league champions, which seem so forlorn and desolate in the light of yesterdays Yankee batting carnival, will rise again for on the morrow King Carl Hub- bell himself comes back to the pitch ing throne.
 But if Fitzsimmons fails, where Hal Schumacher, Al Smith, Dick C0ffman, Frank Gabler and Harry Gumbert also failed yesterday, then the whole burden of carrying the Giants pitching load will be on Hubbell's lean shoulders. As it is Manager Bill Terry faces monu- mental job of winning three games necessary to annex the title with Hubbell and Fitzsimmons. It seems reasonable to assume that there is no point in counting on the other five members of the staff after what happened to them yesterday.
 Whatever the Giants get out of the rest of the series Hubbell and Fitzsimmons must give them. To- gether they might spike the Tanks guns. and pitch the Giants to the world championship. The task seems too much for Hubbell alone, great pitcher that he is.
 Manager Joe McCarthy's selection to pitch the Yankees into the lead in the series was Irving (Bump) Hadley, 32-year old veteran from Lynn, Mass, who has been kicking around the American league for 10 years with the Senators, White Sox, Browns and back to the Senators before he came to New York last January in a trade which seemed of little consequence at the time.
 Joining the Tanks as a relief pitcher, Hadley proved one of the most valuable men on the staff and gradually worked himself into a starting job. He finished the sea- scn with the best percentage in the league with IS victories and 4 defeats. He says Mccarthy is the ! fiist manager he ever played under 1 wao let him pitch like he wanted | to and did not interfere with his delivery. He hopes to demonstrate ! his gratitude to Mccarthy today.
 Whereas, the Giants will be | q sperate in the box If Fitzsimmons IEzes. with only Hubbell to stem the Ei6e of defeat, the Yankees have Monte Pearson, Pat Malone and fphnny Murphy who haven't yet ! srlzed. and Red RufIing. who'll ; oba1iy return to the mound Mon-
 Shaking off the last traces of his {, 1cx ailinent. Pearson, the small-
 t nf the Yankee pitchers. will :e res sy to take the mound against |
 IlbSN.s Sunday. Pearson. who came | =z he Tanks the past winter from |
 Cleveland. is familiar with the l Hiant team. having pitched against #70s in several exhibition games
 len the two clubs came north to-
 lller after the spring training sea-
 st last spring.