Evening star., 1938-10-09
BRONXMENBLAST
BRYANT OFF SLAB
Gordon's Home Run in Fifth
Starts Rout of Bruins,
Held to 5 Hits.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
Special Correspondent OF The Star.

BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent OF The Star.
NEW YORK, Oct. s-These mur-
derous, blasting Yankees have done
something more than slaughter the
Cubs three in q row.
They have cost the two owners and
the concessionaires over 100000 They
chased away over $4,000 spectators
from the Yankee Stadium by trimming
the Cubs both games in Chicago with
long rows Of vacant seats today.
For the third game was the same
morbid story. They whipped the Cubs,
to 2, without taking an extra
breath. They made it three in a row
ana IL of their last IA World Series
games for grand average Of .786.
The big part of this story is that
Monte Pearson famed nine Cubs and
gave up only five hits as the Yankees
piled up flve runs on seven hits, fea-
tured by home runs from the bats Of
Flash Gordon and Bill Dickey.
Yank Riot Starts in Fifth.
For the first four innings, with two
out in the fifth, Clay Bryant plastered
the Maxim silencer on Yankee bats.
He held them hitless and runless. Clay
was pitching his arm of and his heart
out. But you could sense in some way
that the dynamite was going on at
any moment. 1t couldn't miss
At the last half Of the nth the
Cubs we're leading. to o, through Stan
Hacks opening double. Then. with
two out in the fifth, and the Yankees
still trying to get their first hit OF
Clay Bryant, the trouble started.
With 55,236 spectators waiting for
the show to open, Flash Gordon hit
a home run. One hit, one run. Just
one punch and the Yankees had caught
the Cubs.
Then Pearson singled, Crosetti
walked and Rolfe singled for the
second tally
This quick, rushing attack broke
Bryant's heart. From that point on
he could sense the worst In the next
inning singles by Di Maggie, Gehrig
and Gordon, with a brace of passes,
added two more, and just about the
last spike had been driven into the
big autumnal show that so far has had
almost everything except the elements
Of q contest.
Pearson Mows Down Cubs.
Later on Marty of the Cubs and
Bill Dickey Of the Yanks added two
more home runs. but the game was
over when the Yankees cleaned up
Bryant in the fifth and sixth, where
they picked up four runs on six hits.
Unhappy Gabby Hartnett rushed
Russell and French to the rescue, but
at this spot the curtain already was
coming down. Even Yankee rooters
were pulling for the Cubs to score and
give them some sort of a show, but
the Cubs we're too far outclassed. They
might as well have been q welter-
weight fighting Joe Louis.
Monte Pearson opened with the call
of the wild as he passed the first two
Cubs. But after that the eminent
Virginian struck his stride. He famed
three Cubs in the first, two in the
second and two in the third. His fast
ball had 4 tail of flame and his curve
was breaking perfectly. He struck out
Reynolds and Gabby Hartnett in the
first with the bases filled and this was
the last Cub chance to get under way.
Bruins Have No Chance.
No one could say the Cubs quit. They
never had a chance to start. Pearsons
smoke ball was blowing them down
at every threatening moment and later
on Yankee bats again took care Of the
rest.
The Yankees already have fiattened
out the World Series in four straight
games, dating back to 1927, 1928 and
1882, when they ran roughshod over
Nrates. Cardinals and Cubs. Now
they are on the verge of iattening
the Cubs again as big Red Rufiing
steps out against big Bill Lee, the
Bayou sniper. If the Yankees win
again they will have cost club owners
far over half a million dollars in
their four years of pulverizing, pre-
dominant pressure.
They not only have the better
pitching, the stouter defense and the
extra speed, but almost any man on
their ball club can break up a game
at . seconds notice. 1t was Dickey
in Chicago, then Crosetti and then
Gordon. Any opposing pitcher is un.
der more pressure than he can face
for nine innings. Bryant had them
collared for the better part of i've
rounds. but Bryant always knew the
worst was still to come.
Cubs Are Outclassed.
The Cubs final gamble Is on Bill
Lee, their crack pitcher, who worked
his way through nine shutouts this
last season. Lee fell before Rufing
in their first clash, but he will make
q desperate effort to give the Cubs
at least one winning start
The answer Is that the Cubs have
given about all they had. but it wasn't
enough by so per cent. They have
been outclassed by a far better ball
club in every needed ingredient that
belongs to the game.
In their last two starts, the Yankees
have scored II runs on IA hits. That's
all the answer you need.
Copyright, 193sJ