Evening star., 1937-10-08
PILOT CAN'T FIGURE
WAY TO HALT R0UT
Schumacher on Hill Offers
Only Slim Hope to Club
Twice Trounced.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, October 8-The
Giants were in bad shape, in
" deed. today as they threw
4 their sinker-hall artist, Hal
Schumacher. against the Yankees in
desperate attempt to stave off what
looked an inevitable world series de-
feat.
The National Leaguers were on
their home grounds under. Coogan's
Bluff, but after the plasterings ab-
sorbed the last two days on the
opposite bank Of the Harlem it was
doubtful whether they could derive
much comfort even from familiar
surroundings.
They looked licked last night after
Rufus (the Red) Rufing had pitched
and pounded them into their second
straight 8-to-l defeat. The painful
but unavoidable conclusion Of $1,000
odd fans who saw them Inundated
again by sheer Yankee power was
that the Giants didn't belong in
the same ball park with the disciples
Of swat.
Although the Yankees still needed
two victories, there was no doubt In
anybody's mind that Schumacher had
to come through admirably today and
his teammates to start knocking the
cover OF the ball if the Giants were
to escape the ignominy of a four
straight trouncing. Nobody seemed
to doubt that the Yankees would win
eventually.
Terry Is at Sea.
MONTE PEARSON. a right-hander
like Schumacher, was Manager
Joe McCerthys logical choice to fol-
Sow in the footsteps of Lefty Gomez
and Ruffng. Monte isn't rated as
great pitcher as Lefty and Red, nor
mally, but there was no reason to
think he might not handcuff the
Giants, the way they had played dead
at the plate the last two days.
Neither was there any tangible
reason for believing the Polo Grounds
would prove a tonic to the Giants.
True. the walls are shorter than at
the Yankee Stadium and home runs
come cheaper. Yet no one ever has
accused the Yankees of being short
hitters.
Manager Bill Terry, downcast at
his teams collapse, apparently had
no more idea how to pull them out
OF 1t than you have. He wasn't even
predicting that Schumacher would
stem the riot today. He only spread
his hands hopelessly and croaked:
They've beat hell out Of us for
two days. They're hitting and we're
not. There's nothing you can do
about that, Is there?"
Pressure on Giant Hurlers.
THERE didn't seem to be, at that,
- unless the Giants could have all
world series games shortened to four
innings Carl Hubbell had the Yanks
absolutely baff1ed for five frames in
the first game, and Cliff Melton, young
and innocent. stopped them cold for
four chapters yesterday. Then each
of them got knocked around violently.
What seemed to unsteady both pitch
ers, observers agreed, was the strain
OF having to work on every Yankee
batter like the game hung in the bal
ance. There wasn't spot they could
let up. Eventually it got" Melton
yesterday. just as it unsettled even
ehe veteran Hubbell the previous day.
Their catcher, Gus Mancuso, related
sadly that each suddenly lost his stuff.
That's fatal against the Yanks.
Even Ruffing Joined in yesterdays
hombardment. His single, the Yam
KEGS fourth straight safety, was the
blow that sent Melton to cover in the
nth inning, and in the next round he
bounced a double off the left wall to
dispose Of Harry Gumbert. There is
no solidarity, apparently, in the
pitchers union.