The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-07
CUBS BELIEVE.
BREAKS DUE TO
COME THEIR WAY
Luck Has Been Heavily on
Yankees Side-Bryant
Asks "a Few Runs"
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

UNITED Press staff Correspondent
Aboard the World Series Special,
Enroute to New York, Oct. 7.-(UP)
Nobody loves q loser. They don't
care how you lost or why you lost.
That's why everyone has deserted
the cause Of the Chicago Cubs who
move IN to New Yorok today, q
team without q friend. The series
Is as good as over as far as most
baseball fans are concerned. Their
logic Is sensible, too-if Bill Lee,
the National leagues greatest
pitcher, and Dizzy Dean, with his
enormous heart and greata skill,
couldn't check the Yanks, how on
earth can any Cub expect to do
It?
But every so often In sport some
thing happens TO upset all calcu-
lations and theories. Sometimes des-
peration drives q team TO play bet
ter than 1t could otherwise.
The Yanks aren't as good as they
appeared In licking the Cubs In the
first two World Series games. They
won with luck riding high, wide and
handsome on their side.
Every important break Of both
games went against the Cubs. Every
mistake the Cubs made cost them
dearly.
bad Breaks"
Who would have ever imagined
Billy Herman, the peer Of National
league second basemen, would boot
one In the clutch in the first
game?
Who could have foreseen that
Billy urges and Stanley Hack, who
have played side by side for years,
could collide in trying to field the
easiest kind Of q roller?
Those are the things which have
struck sledgehammer blows at the
Cubs cause. Maybe the worm will
turn and maybe not. Maybe the
Yankees will ride on rough shod
over the Cubs for four straight tri-
umphs but they'll never conquer the
spirit OF this sout-hearted aggrega-
ton led by one of the gamest fight
ers Of the game, Gabby Hartnett.
Don't forget that he's catching
with o crippled hand. Every day
before he goes out to don mask
and gloxe he has to have two fin
gers on his right hand tapped.
'"They haven't got us licked yet"
roared Hartnett as the Cubs special
departed for New York. I'VE were
counted out Of the National league
race and then came on to win.
There's not a ball player on this
club who's given up. Those breaks
like we've been getting can't 60 on
that way forever"
Many of the Cubs feel that they've
contributed more to their own down.
fall than the Yanks themselves
have.
Bryant Ready
In both games the Cubs had the
Yankee ace pitchers tottering on
several occasions. Lefty Gomez was
on the ropes III the third inning
yesterday but the Cubs couldn't
quite finish him. Now with Ruffing
and Gomez out of the way for the
time being, the Cubs will get
chance to look at some Of the
Yanks' second line pitchers.
Hartnett has his No. 2 pitcher,
Clay Bryant, curly-haired Ala
bama boy with cracking fast ball,
ready to toss at the Yanks In the
third game tomorrow.
Few think Bryant has q chance
to give the Yanks much Of an ar
gunent but there's one person who
believes Bryant viii lick them.
That's Bryant himself.
"All ! ask Is that they get me a
few runs drawled Clay. "That's all
I ask, Just get me some runs. I
saw them lick Lee and they were
lucky. I saw them lick Die and
they were lucky again. I got q
feeling wen get lucky from now
on