The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-21
YANKEES GREAT DESPITE LOSS
 OF FIVE GAMES
Browns, White SOx Beat World Champs Five
 Straight
By GEORGE KIRKsEY


 United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, Sept. 21-(UP)-rIf you met fellow who just got in from Czechoslovakia today and he asked you, How come the Yankees are American league champs when they can't even beat the White Sox and the BrownsP" here's a little narra- tive you might give him.
 Tell this fellow, who has just read that the Tanks have lost five striaght for the first time in eight years, that the American league race is all over and the blue chips won't be down again until October 5. Tell him that the Tanks are cooling of for the world series.
 That Yankee team you read about losing daily probably is the great est aggregation of ball players ever to don spiked shoes, you tell him. Then you quote Ed Barrow, master mind behind 10 Yankee pennant winners in IS years, Connie Mack, builder of nine championship teams himself, and Jimmy Dykes, oldest active player in baseball harness who guides the uncertain destinies of the Chicago White Sox. They all say the Yankees of 1888 com prise the greatest baseball team of our time.
 Five Honor Men
 If our friend asks Why" you can give him this:
 "The Tanks have the greatest balanced batting order the games ever known, with five players whove hit more than 20 homers each. Never before has one team had so many home run clouters. To get an idea of the dynamite in the Yankee batting order consider Joe Gordon, their eighth place hitter. He's hit 9 home runs, scored 79 runs and batted in 89 runs.
 "The Tanks have clouted 165 homers, which averages a homer every week day and two on Sunday. Every man in the batting order is a potential home run hitter, even slim Frankie Crosetti. So much for the Tanks power. Their pitching is tops Red Ruf1ng is the greatest right handler of the year. Lefty Gomez has been the best southpaw for the past two months. Monte Pearson is the author of the Amer ican leagues only no-hit, no-run game. Spud Chandler is one of the brightest of the leagues young right handlers. Johnny Murphy is the loops best relief man.
 Infield Stars
 And here's a point they all for get about because of the Tanks brute strength on offense. They have the best second base combina- tion in baseball, Gordon and Cro- setti, and one of the smartest all- round defenses. Not to mention Bill Dickey, basebails all-America catcher, and you remember Joe Di- Maggie, George Selkirk and Tommy Henrich."
 n NutoAAui ACnBuCt, we Hay dS- sume, might walk in here and ask, How about that red hot race in the senior circuit?"
 Tell him "Rain-no game today and then drop hint to the Pirates, who are floating into the pennant behind their 3h game lead, not to try to take any extra bases on Di- Maggie, Heinrich and Selkirk, be- cause they throw strikes from the outfield.
 In yesterdays American league games the White Sox beat the Tanks, 5-4, the Red Sox took a doubleheader from the Browns 12-8 and 7-2 and the Indians scalped the Senators, 9-l.
 YESTERDAYS HERO - Gabby Hartnett, Cubs manager, who turned down chance to play off two games with Brooklyn, saying: "Well take our chances on beating the Pirates in the three games we play them. If we can't beat them we don't deserve to win the pen- nant."