The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-06
GOMEZ GETS HIS
CHANCE FOR 9Th.
SERIES VICTORY
Unfolding Of Gordon and
CrOsetti Helped Yanks
Greatly

decreed that guy named Dizzy and
q guy named Goofy-as fine a pair
Of screwballs as ever jawed at an
umpire-shall meet on the pitching
mound in the second game Of your
1898 world series.
For the Chicago Cubs-the one
and only Dizzy Dean, the $ls5,ooo
beauty, the man with the dead arm
trying to get by on control and cum
ming.
FOR the New York Yankees
Lefty "Goofy" Gomez, the fireball
finger from Broadway, the skinny
southpaw who has started Ave world
series games and never went to the
lockers q loser.
The Cubs, outpitched, outhit and
outflelded In yesterdays opener, 60
into today's game desperately need
Ing q victory lest this whole business
end abruptly when twilight closes In
on the fourth game In New York.
Manager Gabby Hartnett sent his
best pitcher, big Bill Lee, against
the Yankees yesterday and when the
last out was made the Cubs were on
the short end Of q 3 to l score. What
the good citizens Of Chicago want
to know Is, II Lee can't beat the
Yankees, who can?
Money Pitcher
Everybody, including the Cubs,
knows what Gomez can do. He lives
up to his nickname Of Goofy by do
ing things such as pausing between
pitches to watch an airplane fly over
the park. But he also IS just about
the best money pitcher In baseball.
But who knows, save Jerome Her
man Dean himself, what Dizzy can
do now that muscle and nerve In his
long right arm have turned traitor
on him and left him cripple IN
what could be the greatest hour OF
his life? Who knows what Dizzy Is
thinking deep back In his mindp
Who knows whether his confidence
has disappeared with his speed?
Well, Gabby Hartnett thinks he
knows. That Is why the Cubs man
ager, rolling his words out around
q fat cigar, sat In the clubhouse
after yesterdays game and said,
'Diz, you 60 tomorrow"
Die Just nodded and kept on
knotting his tie. 30 this Is the day
YOU have been waiting for, the day
when old DIE sends his nothing
ball." big as q balloon and slow as
cold sorghum, up there to the plate
where the most murderous hitters In
baseball viii be waiting for 1t. This
Is the day when Phil Wrigley, owner
Of the Cubs, finds out whether he
threw his money TO the winds when
he gave the st. Louis Cardinals
$is5, 900 and some pretty fair bal
players for old DIE.
The Yankees have o fine contempt
for old Die. And enough people
share that opinion to bring about
lots Of even money bets that hi
won't be In there today after the
NTH inning. But Hartnett Is play.
ing his own lunches. He doesn't
have to start Dean, for he has Q
younger, fresher man, Clay Bryant
ready to 20. But Hartnett Is ar
Irishman who rides his lunches
hard and this morning he has one
that old Die will jam the Yankees
contemptuous words down theil
threats.
Unless the Yankees regain theii
batting eyes overnight 1t shouldn't
be such o tough Job. They looked
like the "hitles5 wonders" out there
yesterday, popping puny little SIN
giles over the infield and driving
lucky hits through shortstop ant
second. The walls and bleachers al
Wrigley Field, which were scheduled
to take such humping from the
Yanks, are still unscarred. The
1900 persons who saw yesterday,
game couldn't believe that this wa
''murderer's row."
But Manager Joe Mccarthy hat
his boys put on another act for the
fans. He showed them o couple Of
streaks of lightning named Frankie
Crosetu and Joe Gordon-a rair Of
wraiths who made stubbing stops
impossible catches and throws
standing on their heads. It was one
OF the greatest world series field.
ing exhibitions and II 1t proved any.
thing II was that the Yankees will
win one way II they can't another
Great support
Red Running pitched reliable but
not brilliant ball for the Yankees
He was IN trouble frequently ant
he gave UP nine hits, but every timt
the Cubs rose UP to smite him from
the box, q gray streak In O Yankee
uniform would come tearing arount
second base and choke on the rally
Il was 0ordons first world serie.
game and In the nth inning h
gave them something to remember
him by. Ripper Collins blasted ont
toward second base that had init
written all over II. Gordon divet
to his right, twisted his LETT hant
around In some sort Of contortionis
position and came up with the bal
TO throw Collins out at first by 9
whisker.
The best Of three great plays b.
Crosetti came In the seventh inning
when he took Carl Reynolds akin
mer on the run and miraculously
rot himself twisted around In TINT
to make double play throw TO Cor.
don as Phil Cavarreta came crash.
ing into second base.
Lee was defeated but not disgrac.
ed. He left the game In the eighth
inning for Q pinch hitter after nc
had given up II hits, some Of them
lucky pop fiies that the wind carried
lust away from outstretched Cubs
fingers. II II hadn't been for the
legerdemain Of the twin terrors,
Crosettl and Gordon, Lee might
have hsen sn tha iens end Of The
eeoges