Evening star., 1936-10-04
Record World Series Throng
Sees FitzSimmonS' Fine
Pitching ThWarted.
SCRATCH HIT SETTLES
HIS DUEL WITH HADLEY
Yields Only 4 Hits to II Off
Rivals, but Fails-Gehrig,
Ripple Clout Homers.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Stan Correspondent Oh The Star.

NEW 1Ohh, OCUODeT -lHt
mighty Yankee juggernaut, an awe
striking machine of destruction only
"a hours previous. emptied no broad
sides into the Giants defenses to-
day, nor did it break world series
records. Instead the mightiest slug
gers of modern time broke only a
mans heart-a fat fiorid-faced man
who hypnotized Yankee bats and a
record crowd together, only to go
down to defeat by a 2-to-l score
that now puts the American Leaguers
ahead for the first time.
Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, with a
funny jerky delivery. held the Yanks to
four hits today while the Giants raked
the offerings of Irving Bump" Hadley
and Pat Malone for IL. He struck out
five batters while the Yankee hurlers
whitfield three. He walked only two
hitters and yet when it came time for
reckoning the 35-year-old Ftzsim-
mons was left out.
A dinky little bounder. no kin to
the kind Of the base hits that are won't
to boom of Yankee bats, struck the
heel Of his frantically outstretched
glove in the eighth inning and bounced
away. With speed borne Of despera-
ton Fitzsimmons raced after it ard
so did second baseman Burgess White
head. They tangled, groped and FUN
bled. Frankie Crosetti the hitter, sped
to first base and across the plate, with
the winning run, sprinted Jake Powell.
Huge Throng Transfixed.
Two were out at the time and 64,642
spectators, the largest number ever
to see a world series game, were sit
ting transfixed at the sight of fat
Freddie single-handedly pulling HIM
self out of the only real hole in which
he fell along the way.
| He had weakened and George Sell
kirk banged his first pitch of the
! inning to right field for a single
Powell had tried to sacrifice but he
fouled 1t of and Fitzsimmons try
ing to work carefully. had walked him
to put two men on base with nobody
out. Tony Lazzeri, cool as ice, sacri-
feed and base hit would bring two
runs across and sink the Giants.
To produce that base hit the Yanks
sent Red Rufing to bat for Hadley.
Even long fly would have been well
| coined. or a deep grounder. Instead
Fitzsimmons made Ruflng tap to him
and in a fash Freddie grabbed the
ball and whipped it to the plate to flag
Selkirk.
Two out. Only one man to retire.
He was Crosetti, minor member Of
/ the "murderers' row." Giant fans
prayed that Fitz could do the same -
him as he did to Ruffing. Even Amer
ican Leaguers found their sympathy
leaning toward the florid-faced man
with the short arms and wind.up
that reminded you of spinning swivel
chair.
Fitz and Frankie fenced and then
Crosetti hit it and the ball went toward
the box Fitzsimmons broke to his
left and stuck out his nit. II he
grabbed the ball or knocked 1t down
the rally was over. but he didn't. Hs
cuffed it and it rolled away and to
the Yankees went the first big break
of the world series.
Rally Never Materialized.
Fat Freddie kicked the resin Gag.
A great undertaking had been smashed
beneath him just as he thought he
would realize success. Calamity he
disposed of Red Rolfe and hopefully
waited for the Giants to come back in
the ninth inning and stage a rally.
They did. but it was with two out
when Pinch Hitter Sam Leslie singled
and it was all over when Crosetti
scooped up Joe Moore's hard grounder
and forced Leslie's pinch-runfer,
George Davis, at second base.
The crowd, smashing the previous
world series record that was made in
1925 when the Cardinals played the
Yanks In the Bronx Stadium. paid
$235, ,l08 to see this third game and
they got their moneys worth but most
of it was in pathos. No pitcher, not
even Hubbell, could do a greater JOB
than Fits did today.
The decisive blow, puny and lucky
tinged, was in sharp contrast to the
swift, sharp thrusts that mad sent the
two teams, fighting tooth and nail,
into the fatal inning in a 1-to-l dead
lock. Early enough in the game u
create fear and hope of another
slaughter such as that on Friday, Lou
Gehrig gave the Yankees q flying
start by ramming tremendous homa
run into the new center field bleachers.
The wallop came at the start Of the
second inning, after Fitzsimmons had
retired the Yanks one-two-three in the
opening frame. Gehrig's powerful
wrists sent knuckle bail roaring on
line and Yankee rooters gleefully sat
back to watch more fireworks. Fftz
was Just another Giant pitcher. He
couldn't squelch the dynamite in the
Yankee bats.
Fitx Continues Misery.
But he did. In the third inning
he set them down, l-2-3 again. Two
Of the hitters, Lazzeri and Cros-
etti, whitfield. In the third inning
with one out, Joe Di Maggie lined q
hit to center and made two bases
when Ripple threw poorly back to
the infield. But Joe never got be-
yond second base and he represented
the only Yankee to reach base from
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