The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-01
SUBDUES PILLS
IN GREAT GAME
BY LAYTON CARVER

BY LAYTON CARVER
NEW YORK, Oct. National
League pennant winners and par
Elephants, beginning next Wednes-
day, in an all-New York World
Series for the second straight year,
the Giants today no longer were
regarded as setups whose reward
for a gallant battle through the
season inevitably must be slaugn-
ter at the hands of the YANKEES.
Carl Hubbell's performance yes
terday against the Phillies in the
triumph that ended fight for the
flag nearly as close as any in the
history of the circuit answered
the question as to whether he was
slipping and brought a new surge
of hope to Giant followers.
Moreover, the Giants did not
back into the World Series this
time but fought for and earned
the pennant, the third they have
brought here in the five full years
Bill Terry has managed the club
and their thirteenth in the mod
ern era beginning with the turn
of the century.
CAMILLTS SWAT
Hubbell's victory yesterday was
close to perfection, barely missing
by the margin of Dolph Camilli'S
home run in the ninth with two
down. The Giants southpaw
standby allowed only five hits and
famed nine in beating the PhilS
by 2 to in the first game of a
doubleheader.
The Phils won the second game,
6 to 2, but by then defeats didn't
matter. Most of the regulars were
out of the lineup and in the club
house celebrating-over a case Of
soda pop-the championship vic
tory and heaping congratulations
on Hubbell. who, besides pitching
the flag-clincher, became the first
major Lacquer to score % wins
this season, his fifth 20-or-better
season in a row.
The Giants made only eight
hits in the opener, but two were
punched in the first and two more
in the third, and each time John
ny Mccarthy came through with
a fly to drive in runner.
Meanwhile, the Cubs were los
ing the pennant quite as calamity
as the Giants were winning it, the
former beating the Cincinnati
Reds, 4 to l. The champions led
by three games at the conclusion
Of the days work.
The Cubs, with second place
clinched, moved to st. Louis for
a series with the Cardinals
through the seasons end on Sun
day. The Giants returned home
to windup against the Dodgers.
Terry is expected to resume
command of the Giants for the
Sabbath final, after a weeks alb
sence due to illness, during which
time Coach Frank Snyder has
been in charge of the club.
TERRY COMPARED
Although he wasn't in at the
finish, Terry was being given full
credit today for the Giants VIC
tory and more enthusiastic root
ers had begun to compare him to
the late John McGraw, whom he
succeeded in mid-season of 1882,
when the Giants were in last
place.
Under Terry's leadership, the
Giants finished first in 1888, Sec
ond in 1884, third in 1885, and
first the last two years straight.
While the Giants pennant vic
tory overShadowed everything else
along the baseball front yesterday,
equally earnest battles were being
waged elsewhere.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the
st. Louis Cardinals, 4 to 3, to vir-
tually clinch third place behind
the Cubs and shove the Cards
down into fourth place, and Brook
Ign Dodgers slipped to within a
half game of the seventh-place
Phillies by losing their thirteenth
and fourteenth straight to the
Boston Bees, S to 2 and to 2.
The Reds defeat at the hands
of the Cubs was their tenth
straight and clinched the cellar
for them.
In the American League, the
Yankees still were Is games in
front, although they dropped their
first double-header of the year, the
Philadelphia Athletics winning, 8
to 8. and to 8.
The Detroit Tigers clinched Sec
ond place, although they lost to
the st. Louis Browns, 10 to 3, the
Chicago White Sox dropping out
as contenders by losing to Cleve-
land Indians, 8 to 4 and I to !.