The Washington times., 1936-09-05
Schedule Favors
Giants 10 Win
Pennant
By DAVIS J. WALSH

By DAVIS J. WALSH
International News Service Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-As the
fellow said when he got a hair
cut, it won't be long now.
It was to begin today with a
doubleheader between the New
York Giants and Boston Bees in
the sympathetic atmosphere of
the Polo Grounds. The end, for
the st. Louis Cardinals, four
games in arrears, and perforce
the Chicago Cubs, will come by
tomorrow a week and possibly be-
fore. 1t is the tell-tale week of
the entire Is that make up the
National League schedule. What
has gone before is just prelimi-
nary parrying. This is to be the
coup de grace, the knockout and,
by this time, a lot of people sus-
pect who's going to be knocked.
1t is not good taste to go out
there limb-sitting in baseball, but
who am I to argue with destiny?
Even the schedule has conspired
to send the Giants into the 1896
pennant and world series. BY the
looks of things, they can just
about turn around and back in.
Anyhow, the week starting to-
day and ending next Sunday will
settle all that, with the Giants
playing II games and the Cardi-
mails Is. The former win play
four double headers, the latter
no less than five-with a pitch
ing staff that looks like the wind
up of a clambake.
Cards Play Two
The Cards start the tWo-in-one
program at Cincinnati tomorrow
and follow with two more in
Pittsburgh the following day.
At the end of next week, they're
to play three double headers in a
row from Friday to Sunday with
the Dodgeds and Giants. Few
clubs can qualify for a pitching
assignment like that, with the
Cardinals positively comical.
All they can do is start a series
with that guy Dean and finish
with a petition.
The Giants and Cards, by the
way, each have 26 to play, with
the former starting their last
home stand this afternoon. That's
where they'll play Is of the 26
and, while they have been very
good everywhere for the last
month and a half, at home they're
tougher than a month in jail.
Their double headers, for which
they are well endowed with pitch
ing, are with the Bees, Phillies,
Cincinnati and st. Louis. They've
won Is out of 80 from the first
two this year and ought to be a
cinch. And by the time the Cards
get here at the close of the week,
they probably won't be feeling so
rugged.
OF course, the Cubs might figure
to profit during the general excite
ment but it happens that they
only have "a games left at time
when they need more instead of
less than the others and, besides,
the Cubs are in an unfortunate
position. They might expect one
rival to blow; they can't look for
both to do it.
Nor can either Cubs or Cards do
much about it personally, since the
former play the Giants only twice
and the Cards three times. So all
they can do is sit down and wait
and, as I say, it won't be long.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-While
the Giants and Cards idled yeSter-
day, the Cubs moved up to within
four and one-half games of the
National League lead with an
8-to-0 victory over the Pirates.
French was the winning pitcher
and allowed only seven hits, in
the only National League game Of
the day.
In the American League the
Yankees moved seventeen and one
half games in front with a 9-to6
win over the Red Sox and now
need only seven more to clinch
the pennant. The YankS were
outhit II to 8 in scoring the vic
tory, with Murphy being credited
with the victory, although he
failed to finish, and Ostermueller
getting the defeat. He, too, failed
to go the route.
VOTE AMERICAN
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