Evening star., 1938-10-10
NEW YORK POWER
| CRUSHES CHICAGO
Bruins 0utcIassed in All
Departments as Bronx
Band Sweeps Set.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer,


NEW YORK. Oct. 1o.-The 1888
World Series Of baseball passed away
quietly last evening at the Yankee
Stadium before so 1000 bored relations,
with Rufus Rufnng pitching and Bill
Dickey catching. Please do not send
flowers.
The fact that the New York Yam
KEGS, in beating the Chicago Cubs
four straight, established q record Of
three consecutive World Series tri-
umphs over the struggling National
League does not somehow seem ex-
citing. The only happy feature Of
the series lay In the fact that none
Of the Cubs was seriously hurt by an
infield grounder.
1t never was contest, from the
time the Cubs intield blew up in the
opening game at Chicago until the
Yankees scored four runs OF four
(oount 'em) pitchers in the eighth in
ming yesterday to make the final re-
suit to 3.
Cubs Completely Outclassed.
The Cubs, facing q team that now
has won "a Of its last ~ World Series
games, were . lightweight trying to
stand up to a heavyweight. They
could only take few quick kicks at
the giants shins before they got wal
loped.
They got stretches of magnificent
pitching from Bill Lee, Dizzy Dean
and Clay Bryant, and they banged
out . lot Of good hits, first and last.
But their pitchers invariably were
knocked for q loop before the end of
the game, and their hits for the most
part were futile, pecking blows that
only annoyed the Yankee moundsmen.
There are many today, including
eight National League managers, who
are viewing with alarm the strangle-
hold the Yankees have taken on base
ball. They were equally gloomy about
the future of the game year ago, when
the Yanks beat the Giants. 4 games
to /. Still, there seems a ray Of hope
in the fact that the players will divvy
up q purse Of s434 4,o94.66, which is
. record for . four-game affair.
No Yank Crack up Looms.
Oh their play against the hapless
Cubs, there is no sign of the long
heralded crack-up of Joe McCarthy's
great team. Maybe it will go on for
ever, like . cricket game.
Lou Gehrig, the old iron man"
first baseman, is supposed to be op
his last legs, but you couldn't detect
it by his play the past week One Of
his final acts in the ninth inning
yesterday was to nearly break his
neck diving into the stands after .
foul ball.
There was sort Of unofiicial con-
test last night, trying to pick the
individual Yankee hero Of the mas
sacre. 1t was called OF because it
threatened to wind up in a fist tight
among the supporters Of Charley
Running, who pitched two victories:
Joe Gordon, the rookie whose home
run upset Bryant in the third game,
and Frankie Crosetti, whose fielding
at shortstop cracked the Cubs spirit
in the first game and whose home
run wrecked Dizzy Deans f1ne effort
in the second.
Power Hitting Fells Cubs.
Never did q club more vividly dem
onstrate the value Of power-hitting
than did the Yanks this time. They
belted five home runs, and three of
them virtually were game winners.
Tommy Henrichs four-master OF
Charley Root in the sixth inning
was the winning run Of yesterday 5
game, Notwithstanding the Cubs blow
up in the eighth.
The blow-up, incidentally, came just
when it looked as though the Cubs
might get into the ball game. Ken
O'Dea, substitute Chicago catcher,
had smacked home run in the first
Of the eighth with Phil Cavarretta
on base, reducing the Yankees lead
to 4 to 8, and the crowd was root
ing the visitors on, hoping for at
least one thrill in the series.
And that was when the Cubs began
using their pitchers in squads and
the game became q shambles. Doubles
by Hoag and Crosetti, sandwiched
between singles by Di Maggie and
Gehrig, two walks and a wild pitch
by Tex Carleton, closed the series
on q high, hilarious note.