The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-06
TANKS, GIANTS
 LL-EvEN GOING INTO 9TH SERIES
Giants Can Win With Aid of Breaks" s"-Master.
 minding Important
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press Staff COFrespOndent)

NoW Xork, Ootobee 6, - (Up)- Baseball's biggest shop opens today with the Yankees, Q crew of mur. derous sluggers who dominated the American League, battling the Giants, . gang of opportunlsts who snatched the National League pen. nant from the Cubs by . dramatic comeback, for the worlds champion. ship.
 It will be the fifth time New York has held c monopoly on the world series. The Yankees and Giants were world series rivals in 1921, io22, 1928 and ioS0. They are all square in the biz series, the QiantS winning in 1921 and le22 and the Yankees in 1928 and last year,
 From Q financial standpoint tho 1887 series Is likely to break all records. Yankee Stadium, scene of the first two games, has Q seating capacity of 7i,S0S, the addition of new right held stands making DOS. sible the largest throng In world series annals, The Polo Grounds, where the third, fourth and fifth games will be played, seats b0,AS7. It the sixth and seventh games are necessary they will be played Rt Yankee Stadium.
 Tanks After 9th Title
 The Yankees have on oppor. utnlty to win their sixth world championship, c new record for one team, With five world titles tie2S, 1927, 1928, 1882 and ieSG to their credit, the Yankees are now tied with the Boston Red sox and Philadelphia Athletics for the top honor.
 The Giants have c chance to tic the Tanks, Red soX and Athletics by winning the series which would give them five world championships, They won the world series under John J. Me0raw in 1905, 1921 and 1922 and under Bill Terry In 1888,
 From almost every standpoint the Yankees are rated Q superior team to the Giants, They are heavy betting favorites again this year and many experts feel that they'll do c more thoroush Job of polishing of the Giants than | they did c year ago when it took them six games to do the job.
 Over c long stretch of games the Yankees undoubtedly would prove Q better team than the Giants, but In Q short 4.out-of-7- game series, | the breaks play such an important part that the 0lants' cause lS fer from hopeless.
 Giants May Surprise
 Indeed, some of the gamblers rate the Giants the best short- onder in world series history, They figure the Giants 60 better balanced club than last year and Q calm survey at this tirne of last years world series reveals how close the Qiants came to taking tho Yankees Into the seventh game in ieS0.
 The Giants lost c heart-breaker h the third game whom the Yan. keeS boat Freddy FitESlmmons on four hits, 2-i, to take Q 2.l lead in the series, If the Giants had won, this game they might have eoneolv- ably captured tho championship. Even in the sixth and deciding game tho Giants were very much In the series until the ninth inn. Ing, The turning point came in the seventh inning, with tho Yanks ahead, b.S, Bartell led off with Q double. Terry followed with . single, and DiMaggio lot the ball get away from hlm, Dartell scored, and Terry, hobhllng on c crippled knee, could only maFke second, Terry then ordered one Of his longest hitters, Leiber, to sacrifice him to third. two walks filled tho bases with two out, and pinch. hitter Mark Koenig famed to end the. threat,
 One Significant "If"
 But what If Lelber had swung, and driven Terry home, Terry gambled and lost Maybe he'll play it right this time.
 This has been Q lucky season for tho Giants. They oVerhauled the Cubs, who had Q 7.game lead in August. The Chicago team wont to pieces after Rip collins fEao- tured his leg sliding into the plate In 6 game against Pittsburgh Au. gust i0 The Giants proved tenaei. ous Scrappers by taking c crucial September series from tho Cubs at WFigley Field, two games to one.
 The Giants really found them - selves after Mel Ott was shifted from right field to third base, and Jimmy Ripple placed in the out- Aeld. This was only one of the desperate moves made by Terry which proved startllngly suceeSs- tui.
 When Gus Mancuso was hurt, he had to turn to Harry Danning, who ct that time was hitting .lo7, to do the catching. Danning be- came the teams sparkplug for several weeks. Tn the second game of the critical Cub series Lou Chi- ozza, who had failed ct third base, was posted in center field. He de- llvered with 6 vengeance. Johnny Mo Carthy, benched for weak hit- ting, returned to the lineup when Sam Leslie hurt his wrist, and came through beyond all expecta- tons.
 Power Yanke' Forte
 As always with Yankees teams, they depend on power. Their long, distance clouting carried them even when they were riddled with injuries and were getting successful pitching only from Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez.
 The Yankees big guns were Joe DiAGaggio, Lop Gehrig and Bill Dickey. They terrorized the oppo- sition with their long distance hit- ting. It was typical of the Tanks that when they had to have homer on an extra-base hit to win . game someone always came through. They