The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-04
DESTINY DUE TO
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Walters Is Red "Ace in the HOle"- Arm
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BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Elitorl

NOAASSu ACoS SVVNtS EU1tuKl New York, Oct. .4-(UP)-The Cincinnati Reds, hungry for gold and glory after 20 lean years with out a pennant, make their bid for the world championship of baseball today against that swaggering gang of assassins called the New York Yankees.
 Synical old Broadway, glutted with watching the Yankees blast their way to three straight world championships, established the New Yorkers as 13 to favorites and said it was all over butthe shouting. Flags Tapped from Yankee stadium. but no one along the belt of bright lights called Broadway attempted to make carnival because the World Series starts today. To hear the Yankees and their rooters tell it, US Just another ball game that will be played starting at 1:30 D. m. But among the little band of men Who will take the field in Cincin- natl uniforms the feeling grew that the gods of baseball, over-generous all these years with the Yankees. were about to smile on somebody else. Take it from the Cincinnati Reds-this is the year when destiny peckons and whispers to them that nothing Is impossible They remem- Der the Boston Braves of 1914 who came storming out of last place to win the National league pennant and then defeated the great Phila- delphia Athletics in four straight games in the World Series. History, the Reds are telling each other, oft- times repeats itself.
 TWO big right handlers, two steady campaigners tested in the fires of competition, two cool and cunning pitchers are scheduled to carry the burden this afternoon.
 For the Yankees-Rufus the Red Ruffing, fireball king of the world champions who was defeated only seven times in the 28 games he pitched this season.
 | For the Reds-Paul Derringer, whc throws low, mean cure and whc ca nknock a bug off @ bat with can knock a bug off bat with times Derringer went to the mound this season and 25 times he cam, back Victor.
 Those extra wrinkles in the brown of Manager Joe Mccarthy of the Yankees were caused by the fact that Ruffing has had a sore arm since Sept. r.
 Yesterday, in the gloom and mist at Yankee stadium, Ruffing went to the rubber and tried out his arm. Ready?
 "Okay," he reported to Mccarthy and the manager immediately an. nounced Ruffing would start.
 So Rufus the Red will go today unless there is a last minute tight ening of the muscles in his power- full right arm. In that case, Me- Carthy probably will call on Monte Pearson or Oral Hildebrand. Both teams go into the series with injured players.
 Wally Berger, left fielder of the Reds, turned up yesterday with an infected toe and a physician lanced it. It is possible that Berger may have to be kept out of todays game.
 An injury brought the Yankees a more serious problem. Lefty Gomez, their great left handler, strained . muscle in his side and is wearing a half acre of tape and bandages. Unless he is being held back as an unpleasant surprise for the Reds, Gomez probably will not start game for the Yankees. His loss would be sore blow. Senor Gomez never has been beaten in a World Series game and he has pitched plenty of them. To any other bail club his loss would have been a disaster, but Mccarthy merely will reach into the bag labelled "Pitch. CTS" and haul out Ruffing, Pearson, Hilydebrand, Hadley, Sundra and Donald. With the Yankees, the supply always exceeds the demand. Win or lose today, Manager Bill McKechnie of the Reds still has an ace in the hole. Sitting on the bench, well rested after a brilliant season, is Bucky Walters with his baffling sinker ball, ready to go against the Yankees in the second game.
 Objectives
 The Reds have double incentive to win. A victory this year will wipe some of the tarnish off the world championship that Cincinnati won in 1919. That was the great year of Hod Eller, Eddie Roush, Heinie Groh, Slim Sallee and Dutch Reu- ther-a year that saw the Reds win the National league title. Cincinnati went wild when the Reds won the world championship from what was supposed to be one of the great ball teams of all time the Chicago White Sox with Shoe less Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Buck 1, Weaver, Chick Gandil, Dickie Kerr Bay Schalk and Eddie Collins. Months after the series was over the Reds learned that some mem- bers of the White Sox had turned back and sold out thmselves and the game of baseball by throwing the series for the cash that gamb-