The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-01

tional league; Joe Mccarthy,
 manager of the Yankees and Travis Jackson, captain of the Giants.
 New York, Oct. 1-CUP)-It is a 10 to shot that there'll be no World Series game today, that there'll be no duplicate of yester- days rain drenched contest in which the slender left arm and the stout heart of Carl Hubbell snapped the New York Yankees skein of 12 con- secutive World Series triumphs. If there is 8 game the Yankees will send in Lefty Gomez to halt the Giants, and the Giants will use Hal Schumacher, hoping he will demonstrate Hubbells mastery over the Yankee batsmen.
 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, base ball high commissioner, will decide the question at noon. There had been an all night rain and Commits sioner Landis had been severely cri- ticized for allowing yesterdays game to be played under such adverse climatic conditions. The elderly baseball Czar seemed likely to cali halt in the subway series awaiting a change for the better weather. Ii the weather mans forecast of another rainy day proves wrong and the second game of the World Series goes on as scheduled, the game will be pitched by the two rival moundSmen-Gomez and Schu- macher.
 Uncertain
 Disappointments during the sea- son, Gomez and Schumacher played minor rolls in the pennant races. Gomez, once rated as the peer of American league southpaws, was buffeted from pillar to post during most of the season, but came back In September to show flashes of his once blinding southpaw speed.
 Gomez'S record was 13 won and 7 lost, but many of the games he won he never finished. But at the seasons end he was pitching with the old time efficiency which made him a $20,000 8 season man.
 The big question concerning Gomez is his control. With this in mind, manager Joe Mccarthy plans to have Johnny Murphy, the Irish lad from Ford ham University in the bull pen ready to meet the first emergency. Unless Gomez is right, he won't be allowed to tarry long.
 Schumacher won II and lost 13 during the season, and in September was perhaps the worst pitcher on the Giants staff until the last week or the season. He lost four straight games and then overnight he found himself and pitched the game which clinched the pennant, beating the Boston Bees, 2-1, in 10 innings. That game convinced Bill Terry that Schumacher was back in form.
 Schumacher's forte is 8 sinker ball, which drops off with the same deadly precision of Hubbell's screw ball. Terry is banking on this pitch to muffle the Yankees big guns as effectively as did Hubbell in the opener yesterday.
 With Gomez pitching for the Tanks, Hank Leiber, right-handed batter. will replace Jimmy Ripple in center field for the Giants and bat in the clean up position. Mel Ott, who came out of the first game with batting average of 1000, will drop from the clean up position to fifth.
 The Tanks batting order also will be shifted against Schumacher, right-hander. with George (Twin- kle-Toes) Selkirk, who hit home run off Hubbell, batting sixth in- stead of eighth. Jake Powell, who got three hits off Hubbell, will bat seventh and Tony Lazzeri eighth.
 The betting gentry stood solid be- hind the Tanks today despite their 6-1 setback in the opener and quo- ted the odds on the series g to 10 and take your pick.
 Jack Doyle. Broadway betting commissioner, quoted the odds on the second game as to 5 against the Yankees and.6 to 5 against the Giants.
 Slick Work
 Hubbells mastery over the Tanks had been forecast in advance. Re- garded as the greatest pitcher in baseball, a left-handed ChriSty Mat thewson, the lean Meeker, Okla, farmer, blazed away in spite of drenching rain and chill winds to transform the Yankee cannons into futile popguns.
 Until Hubbell hurled back the Bronx bombers, the Tanks had roll ed up 12 straight World Series tri- umphs-four in row over the Pi- rates in 1927, Cardinals in 1923 and the Cubs in 1932-and this current edition had shattered numerous bat ting records in winning the Amer ican league pennant by the widest margin in history.
 A slircease in World Series war fare today because of weather con- ditions will enhance the Giants chances of winning the series. It will mean that Hubbell will get three days rest before making his second mound appearance and vir- tually assure the screwball king of three shots at the Tanks.
 And Giant supporters insist that three Hubbell shots mean three Yankee defeats, leaving only one victory to be salvaged by the rest of the national league champions pitching corps.
 A postponement also will give Terry's injured knee, which was swollen and stiff after yesterdays play in the rain, at least a 24-hour respite and possibly permit him to continue on through the series. Ter " has a torn cartilage in his left knee, suffered during spring train ing. Giant supporters insist that Terry who hobbled to first base during the dark days in mid-July when the Giants were battling to get out Of second division, vas the inspiration of their pennanE march.