The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-06
TWO DECISIONS
 IN TENTH GAVE { GIANTS VICTORY
Schumacher Pitched Great !! Game - FitzSimmOnS ! Choice to Tie Series
By GEORGE KIRKsEY

uiants won't quitI The Tanks have bo beat them.
 That's the way the World Series stood today as the teams moved into the sixth game at the Polo Grounds. The Tanks were still in the drivers Beat,, three games to two, but no nearer the worlds championship than they were 24 hours ago.
 The Giants, beaten, battered, be- Ntlted, still barred the door to base balls throne. They are clinging on from pitch to pitch, from play to play from inning to inning.
 But they are still there with a Eiddled pitching staff, 8 tottering ii1field and a seemingly hopeless cause. And the Tanks, repulsed in yesterday heart rt-throbbing battle, made another attempt to storm baseballS pinnacle.
 It's an old story for the Giants fighting with their back to the wall. They were counted out of the Ma tional league pennant race on the afternoon of July IS in Pittsburgh when they were laundering in fifth place, but at the finish it was the Giants who received the checkered flag. A sunrise ago the Giants were being counted out of the World Series from all sides-the gamblers, the scribes, the technical baseball men. The Tanks had the power, the records and the class. They were cinches. The Giants were game that was all.
 How far can they go on game ness? Can they keep going with a crippled man at first base, a second baseman with a batting average of .056, 8 third baseman with batting average of .167 who plans to retire when the last bali is thrown in the World Series, and a 35-year-old pitcher who goes back to the mound today with only two days rest?
 As incredible as it may seem this crazy-quilt, patchwork team, which must be rebuilt during the winter, may overcome all its obstacles to chOck the boastful, battering Yam ke0 crew and win the worlds title.
 Destiny watched over the Giants yesterday as they emerged trtun1- phant in 8 dramatic 10-inning bat tie, 5-4. The Tanks reserved the game on play, but lost.
 Today will tell. For if Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons, the Arcadia, Calif., chicken-fancier, can come back with two days rest and beat the Tanks, the World Series will be all even three games to three. And King Carl Hubbell will mount the mound for the deciding game tomorrow. The Tanks will use Vernon (Goofy) Gomez against him
 Yesterday Hal Schumacher, shelled into retreat by the Tanks big guns in the second game, came back to conquer them in 8 nerve tin9ling struggle in which the Giants seemed to be hanging by a slender thread until the very last out. For courageous pitching under Ire, Schumaker wins baseballs highest decoration. Few pitchers have ever matched 1t in ,S3 years of World Series play.
 He pitched his way out Of holes as deep as the Grand Canyon, never tottering or trembling-not even when the bases were filled and Joe DfN6aggi, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey were up in succession. He moved down DiMaggio and Gehrig on strikes, and retired Dickey on a feeble outfield fly. At the end, he Rasped between puffs of a cigarette tn the dressing room and asked:
 @rIow did I do it?"
 That question is as unanswerable as two other vital queries:
 How did the Giants win the pen- nant2
 Whats keeping the Giants in the battle for the worlds champion 'ship2
 But Schumacher, the man who came back when he got his second chance, won and now he passes the dice on to FitZsimmonS for his Sec- und roll. FitzsimmonS pitched the outstanding game of the series in his first shake, losing a 4-hitter, 2-1, in the third game Saturday. The Tanks found his knuckle-ball baf- 1itng, and they had to have com- hination of breaks to win on @ scratch hit in the eighth.
 Gomez, selected to hurl back the { Giants desperate bid to deadlock the series, remains 8 problem de- spite his victory in the second game massacre, 1894. In that game Gomez, hAmpered by lack of control and a dartin pain in his side, had to have plenty of runs to win. He walked seven men and being in trouble on several occasions despite his huge lead. If Gomez falters, Johnny Mur- phy, Q right-handed curve ball pitcher, will be on deck as a relief nlan-h But Murhpy has never be- fore pitched in World Series game, and he is as much of a agmble as Gomez.
 The aftermath of yesterdays tense struggle before 5O,024 fans at Yankee Stadium centers around the pitch Pat Malone, who relieved Red Ruf1ing at the start of the seventh inning, made to Bill Terry in the tenth with Joe Moore on third base, one out and two strikes on the batter.
 Terry didn't take his bat off his shoulder. Umpire-in-chief Cy Pflr- man called 1t . ball. But Malone, and the other Yankees, claim 1t was . perfect strike, and Terry should have been out.
 'T never threw Q strike if that wasn't one," said Malone.
 Then Terry filed to left-center, and Moore scored with the winning run after the catch while DiMaggio was heaving the ball wild back to the infield.
 Another Yankees squawk is that Giants haven't yet made the third out to retire them in the tenth. Bob Seeds, . pinch-runner. was called out by Umpire Magerkurth. ate tempting to steal second but not
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