The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-10-04
DIZZY DEAN IS
WORLD SERIES
QUESTION MARK
Wisdom and Worth Of
$1S5,OOO Deal Will Show
Soon; Bryant Easy

BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

y
Chicago, Oct. 4 - tuP1 - The
biggest sucker deal of the base
ball season may make suckers out Of
the mighty New York Yankees.
Everybody laughed at p. K. Wrig-
ley, Cubs owner, when he shelled
out $i85,000 and three players for
Dizzy Dean. It looked like the big
gest chump deal since the city slick
er sold the Brooklyn Bridge TO q
hayseed. Yet 1t may make the CUBS
worlds champions.
All Dean did this year with ailing
arm was to win seven games but
he won one of the big ones--that
vital first game which started the
Pittsburgh Pirates TO their down.
fall, Now shrewd baseball men from
both leagues figure II the Cubs are
to throttle the Wanted Yankee
machine Dean will have TO be the
key man.
His fast ball Is gone, but not his
cocky staggering air and his I'M
erring accuracy. He can still throw
that nothing ball like old Howard
Ehmke Of the Athletics did against
the Cubs themselves In the 1929
world sberies.
The Yanks thrive on speed. The
pitchers who've had the most sue
cess against them IN the American
League have been those who throw
slow, tantalizing stuff and seldom
walk O man,
oscar Wit, Cleveland manager,
who knows what the Yanks can do
TO speed-ball pitching, summed up
the prevailing opinion voiced In
numerous hotel lobby huddles by
predicting that Dean would be the
vital factor.
Psychology
Because OF Deans presence -
don't care what they say about his
arm-f look for hard series with
the Yanks winning In six or seven
tough games" Wit said. II would
MT be O bit surprised II Dean start
cd. He may be another Joe Hevlng
TO the Yanks, Heving beat them
with the same type OF stun Dean
will serve them. Tn telling you
boys watch Mr.. Dean
Two pitchers can win q world SER
les and the Cubs ore banking on
Dean and Big Bill Lee, who won q
games, more than any other pitcher
In the majors, TO turn the trick. Lee
Is the Cubs ace. the man who
blaged the trail 10 the pennaiit In
that whirlwind finish. The Cubs
third pitcher IL Clay Bryant, who
relays principally Oh speed Because
OF that reason and the fact that he
Is an untried youngster In world
series competition he may not DO q
vital factor In the series. The wise
boys are predicting that when Bry-
ant starts against the Yanks he
won't last FIVE innings.
The Yanks' two top pitchers ore
Lefty Gomez who has never bowed
In world series competition, and Red
Rufiing, the big righthander who
won 81 games. Gomez, who beat the
Cubs In 1889 and the Giants twice
each In 1885 and 1887, will BIO gun
ming for his sixth straight world
series triumph. II ho succeeds II will
DO O new record. Only other pitch
ers 10 win five world series games
without o defeat were Herb pennock
and Jack CoombS.
Rufiing has two world series tri.
umphs 10 his credit, beating the
Giants last year and tho Cubs In
1892. In the 1885 opener no was
beaten by Carl Hubbeii.
The other Yankee pitchers who
may figure In the series are Monte
Pearson, who pitched O fio-hit, mo-
run game during the season, and
Bump Hadley, O wise old hombre
who may get the nod for the third
game. The Yanks' relief man IL
Grandma Johnny Murphy, who fg.
ured In three innings OF relief
pitching against the Giants the past
two years.
With o day OF travel between tho
two cities, its not likely that more
than three starting pitchers will
figure on either side. The man who
pitches the opening game on each
side will more than likely como back
In the fourth game with three days
rest, and II the series goes seven
games he'll DO back In there In the
In the final Dean, however, may not
DO physically able 10 take on this
kind OF O burden for tho Cubs but
Lee, O workhors0 who pitched In
four straight games during the
height OF the Chicago drive, can
shoulder that kind Of O load.
Master-Afind
One OF tho intriguing angles about
the Cubs pitching ID Tony Lazzori,
IL years O Yankee, and now O Cub
who ID likely to DO the fnaster-mlnd
behind Chicago pitching strategy.
Lazzeri knows tho strength and
weakness OF every Yankee batter
and this information IL certain 10
prove highly valuable. Leo and
Dean are both control pitchers and
they can dish the ball 40 10 the
Yanks' blind spots, II any.
Behind Ice, Dean and Bryant tho
Cubs have Charley Root, the 30 year
old veteran who pitched the Ma
tioilal league pefinaflt clincheF; Tex
Carleton, who has O sore arm; Larry
French, tho s0uthpaw who expc-
ffenced an unlucky year, losing 10
games; Vance Page, o rookie, and
Jack Russell, On American league
castofs None OF them figure 10 get
into the series except In relief roles.
Because Of their past world series
triumphs, their famed powerhouse
attack and their record Of wrecking
the opposition whom the pressure n
on, the Yanks must DO conceded O
biz edge over the Cubs, But dismal