The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-04
Pitchers Vs. Power
 Is Story Of World Series To Date
BY JoE WILLrAMs

Detroit, Oct. 4.-From the begin- ing this was supposed to be series between pitcher and power and it's working out that way. When the Reds get the pitching they can win as they showed yesterday behind a masterful three hit job by Bucky Walters.
 Sparked by Walters performance they played heads up, brisk, ener- getic baseball and became the first National league team to win a World Series game in three years. The fielding was sharp and sure and the hitting was timely and sustained. They looked very different, from the way they did the day before when the great Derringer unexpectedly and Shockingly failed them.
 They didn't have any real big in- ming because they. are not big in- ming club. They got their runs in neat, attractive parcels of twos and ones. This proved sufficient be- cause all the time Walters was dis organizing any attempt on the part of the Tigers to gang up on him That's how they've got to win; they must gang up on a pitcher and knock him cold.
 Walters wasn'tt hat kind of a pitcher yesterday. A year ago at this time the. Yankee sluggers handled him without a great deal of trouble. Since the Tigers, at least at bat, are much like the Yankees we used to know, 1t was expected they would smack him around quite a bit. But they didn't He didn't give them a chance to set the stage for any big inning.
 The slender, bow-legged young man from Philadelphia, who was a mediocre infielder for years before he vas persuaded to take up pitch ing, got off to a faltering start in the opening inning when he passed the first two Tigers but after that he was the boss of the diamond.
 .s Big Four
 To beat the Tigers you must stop McCosky, Gehringer, Greenberg and York who come to the plate in that order. Walters stopped McCosky cold, held Gehringer to a single, Greenberg to a double and pitched to York as if he owned him. York actually looked feeble. He hit only one hard ball and that directly into the hands of an outfielder. Twice he famed, once to end what had started out to- be one of those big innings.
 There was a nice little human in terest story in the game. Jimmy Wilson caught Walters. He's the old coach who, had to come out of re- tirement for this series when Lon- hardi hurt his ankle. It was vii. son who almost literally forced Walters to quit playing third base and take up pitching.
 Wilson was managing the Phillies att he time and Walters was his third haseipan. Wilson didn't have too much pitching and he was i'm. pressed by the way Walters threw the bal around the infield. 'FEell, you've got more stuff on the ball than any of my pitchers" Wilson said. From ow on you aren't Q third hasemar, you're a pitcher"
 But Walters was reluctant to make the change. He was good enough to get by as a big league third base man on tail end club and that was better than sleeping on park bench. He didn't share Wilson,s optimism about his pitching possi- bllitles. He decided to lst well enough alone.
 "so you're going to be a dlme-a. dozen infleIder n1l your life" bada gored Wilson. "whon you could he great pitcher and mako yourself e18. 900 e yoar2 Q. K.. that's nl| fIaht with nc. rt that's the Way sou ieol 60 back 10 third base and