The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-06
POOR WEATHER GREETED START OF WORLD SERIES
Landis Sole Authority on POstpOnement; Hubbell
 Has No Worries
By GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press Stan COrrespondentD

United Press Staff COrrespondentD
 New York, oct 6--(UP)-The weather man threatened the first game of the 1887 world series today scheduled to open in Yankee sta- alum ct 1880 p. m. (EST) before 80,000 fans between the New York Yankees, champions of the Ameri-. can league and of the world, end the New York Giants, champions of. the National league.
 The world series atmosphere per-, vaded the town. Fans were here from as far away as Alaska and British Columbia. Practically every. peanut and hot dog Nin town had been carted into the stadium. By dawn hundreds of rabid bleacher fans were lined up waiting for the bleacher seats to go on sale. One. man--Anthony Aldano, Q taxi- driver--had been waiting there since Friday The reserved seats and the. grandstand seats were all gone. But the weather man, instead of join-, ing happily in this gala festival, predicted showers. It had rained internationally through the night.
 The Yankee siege guns were all ready to start smelling. The Giants had their famed defensive bulwarks up. Those two left-handed pitch- Ing masters, Carl Hubbell and Ver- non Gomez, were oil ready to start firing.
 Takes His Time .,'
 But, because of the miserable playing conditions of last years first game, Commissioner K. M. Lands, sole arbiter on postponements, was expected to take extra caution to prevent c repetition of that rains drenched opener which started in . cold shower and wound up In a down-pour, with Hubbell hurling back the Yanks, 6-l. a
 Any advantage gained by either side from Q postponement will 60 to the Giants. The unperturbable Hubbell who never frets, worries or allows anything to disturb him will Do ready come what may--rair, mud or sunshine. Gomez is high.strung, . nervous and inclined to tighten up. Sometimes the more nervous he gets the better he pitches, but two days of carrying the opening battle around on his mind may not send him to the mound at his physical and mental peak. a,
 As always when the Yankees move into c vital test, they have drawn the favorite's role. They beat the Giants last year four games to two. They slugged their way to the American league title by Q margin of i3 games. They average six runs per game. They have the deadliest hitters in baseball. Their home run circus alone iS enough to send shud- f ders down the spine of almost any pitcher. They have two great pitchers in Gomez and Red Rufflng, second game choice. and two other smart ones, Monte Pearson, who, beat the Giants last year, and Bump Hadiey. ,,,
 Those are the paramount reasons why the man in the street is bets ting 2--1 that the Tanks retain their world title and 7---6 that they win the first game. Jack Doyle, the par- tially bald little man who has been quoting odds on the world series ever since the first one in 1903, places the price in his book ct 2 to against the Tanks and to 6 against the Giants. For the opener it's 1 to 2 against the Tanks and 2 to 6 against the Giants.
 Doyle reports the betting as light
 Bill Terry, glum, moody pilot of the Giants who is directing his forces from the bench for the first time, scorns the rep of the Yankees.
 We are going to give them Q hell of c battle," he predicted. This is c far better club than we went into the series with last year."
 Promising ..,
 Two factors weigh heavily on the Giants side. They are manned with two ace southpaws, Hubbell and Cliff Melton, to take advantage of the Yanks' acknowledged dislike for left-hAnded pitching. Hubbell, although some claim he isn't quite the pitcher he was year ago, still