The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-02
TODAY'S CAME
 WAS BIG TEST. FOR A. |. CHAMPS.
BettOrs Feel Series. Will Be Even But Final Is
 TOssup Now
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

Limited Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Oct. 2,-(UP).-Yankee artillery-those siege guns which TO ted destruction during the Am erican League campaign but be- came toy cannons before Carl Hub- bells wizardry-wheeled back into world series action at the Polo grounds today, hoping to shell away the Giants one game lead.
 Unless theJ find the range before President Roosevelt, attending his first world series game as chief ex- ecutive, and 52,000 other spectators l today, the Yankees will plummet towards a calamity which would rock the baseball world.
 Even yesterday, when the two rivals were idle because of wet grounds, fandom, recalling the Tanks impotency in the first game, asked:
 Can the Yankees really hit or is their reputation founded on in- ferior pitching?"
 Lou Gehrig, Bill Dickey, Joe Di- Maggie and the rest of the Tanks who were handcuffed by Hubbell, planned to answer that question with their big bats. With King Carl Hubbell, Nheir to the pitching throne of Christy Matthewson, Iron Man Joe McGinnity, Rube Marquard and other Giant immortalS, safely in the shadow of the dugout, the Tanks had their chance to prove that it was Hubbells masterful pitching and not their own collapse at the plL.. which caused their downfall in Wednesdays rain-soaked opener, Hal Schumacher, 24-year-old fight-hander who was discovered on the campus at St. Lawrence Uni 1 versity b ythe late John J. McGraw, moved up to the firing line today armed with the only overland .'sinker ball'' in baseball in an ef- fort to repulse the Yankees big berthas for the second straight time. It has been ten years since the Tanks lost two world series games in succession-way back in 1926 when the Cardinals won the sixth and seventh games and the world title.
 Even though beaten once, the Tanks still retain their swaggering confidence as exemplified by Man. agr Joe McCarthy's willingness tc gamble with Vernon Oefty) Gomez, of Rodeo, Calif.. problem child of the Yankee pitching staff through out the year. From one of the greatest southpaws in the majors in 1854 when he won 26 games, Gomez slumped into mediocrity.
 He apparently was through at 26 one of the mysteries of the ma l jors, when he suddenly regained l flashes of his former form near the end of the season. He finished the season with five straight victories, and allowed only hits in the last 1 13 innings he pitched. He was wild bus had his old fast ball blazing l again and he showed Mccarthy enough to almost win the opening ] day pitching assignment.
 Gomez has been aching to pitch against the Giants. He was disap- pointed when he did not get the opening day assignment. Again yesterday he was crestfallen when Commissioner K. M. Landis, who is being criticized on all sides for his Judgment in allowing a game to be played in the rain and calling one off when the sun was shining, posi- poned the second game until today
 If Gomez is as good as he thinks he is, the world series will be dead ! locked at one game each as it moves to Yankee stadium for the next three games, starting tomor- xoWrow.
 The Giants became known as lucky team during the closing days ofof the pennant race. And luck seems still to be riding with them The days postponement was two- fold blessing for them. It gives Hub. bell an extra days rest, and means lie is likely to pitch three games in the series. It also enabled Manager Bill Terry to rest his crippled knee for another day. And the Giants <, need Terry directing them on the Id. They are different team with Terry managing them from