The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-05

against the amazing OHlCdSo
Cubs, National league champions
who came from nowhere to cap
ture the pennant in q blazing Sep
tember finish.
The Yanks, who've broken the
heart of every team that has chal-
lenged their supremacy for the
past three years, will lead with
their right handed ace, Red Ruff
fling. The Cubs will counter with
General Bill Lee, the red-hot
right-handel' who notched % vic
tories, more than any other pitch
en- in the majors.
LEE CARRIES FATE OF
ASTONISHING CUBS
Lee, the tall black matched
LouiSianan who learned to pitch
on the campus of Louisiana State,
carries The" fate of the Cubs on
his broad shoulders. I'M their drive
down the stretch it was Lee, call
ed 1.-The General by his pals,
Who came up into the front line
to beat back the Pirates and
bring the Cubs into the world Sc
ries. But there will be no rest for
the weary. ."The General" must
GO back in there today and start
chunking all over again - TINS
time against the most murderouS
hitters in baseball; hitters who
banged out the thunderous' total
of TIA homers during the regular
season. :,
IfrLeg can't win, the Cubs
plight will be three shades deeper
than desperate. But if Lee with
his control, speed and low curve
ball pitching, can send the already
hot Cub team off in front the
very fire and momentum of the
Chicagos might well carry them
to one of the biggest upsets IN
baseball annals.
CUBS CONCEDED BUT .,-.'-
GHOST OF CHANCE -
Few concede the Cubs more
than a ghost Of d chance against
the team that even Connie Mack,
who grew up with baseball, ranks
as the greatest club of all time.
The betting odds are 3 to IA
against the Yanks and ~ to D
against the Cubs for the series
and 10. to II against the 4anks
and 8 to 2 against the Cubs for
the first game. If Lee loses you,
can name your own price but II
you pick the Cubs you are likely
to be picked up as a dangerous
character. Out of nearly 100 base
ball experts polled here yesterday
only five picked the Cubs.
Manager Joe McCarthy's selec-
ton. of Ruffing was a mild sur
prise. Most experts had expected
Lefty Gomez, the canny southpaw,
to get the opening assignment be-
cause of his record Of having
pitched five world series victories
and never lost one. McCarthy.s
principal reason for picking Ruff
fling is believed to be the fact that
the Cubs are a righthanded hit
ting club, mastering eight men
who swing from that side of the
plate against southpaws.
|, When Ruffing was named the
starter Manager Gabby Hartnett
Of the Cubs announced that Phil
Cavarretta, a left-handed hitter,
would play right field and bat in
the cleanup position. Cavarretta's
.23S batting average is slightly
misleading as he didn't play many
games but was hot during the
closing days of the season.
YANKS REACH SCENE
SUPREMELY CONFIDENT g.. 80
The Yanks moved into Chicago
Yesterday supremely confident
that they'd take the Cubs apart
in short order. With a pitching
ALIGNMENT of Ruffing- Gomez :
Pearson Ruffing for the first
four games many of the Yankee
partisans believe that they have
a great chance to repeat their
four straight triumph of 1882!
over the Cubs again. 5ilt
With the Cubs, Lee decides 'ev-
erything. If he can muffle the
roar of Yankee bats in the OPEN
er, there is a good chance that
Hartnett will gamble with Dizzy
Dean, and his trick arm in the
second game. There are two
schools of thought on what Dean
can do with the Yanks. One of
them insists that Dean with his
control, slow stuff and fighting
heart is a cinch to take the Yariks
in one game. The other side thinks
that it would be serious mistake
even to start Dean, and that if he
starts he won't last five innings.
Hartnett will pick his pitchers
one at a time, after each game.
After Lee everything's a gamble
with him. If he doesn't call on
Dean, he probably will use Clay
Bryant, the youthful southerner
with the blazing fast ball but no
experience against a team of slug
gers who dote on speed.
GALANNoUT OF GAME, l>..j .na
HARTNETT is INJURED
The Cubs go into, the series
minus their regular left fielder,
Angie Galan, who has a twisted
knee, and with their rip-roaring
pilot, Hartnett, nursing two in
ju'ed fingers on Mis- right hand.
Hartfett'S digits were somewhat
better yesterday despite thee fact
that he made the bird finger,
where the nail is torn away from
the flesh, bled a trifle in batting
practice. In the series. he will