Evening star., 1940-10-08
Schoo|boy's Slip
Stunning Blow
To A. |. Entry
Walters, Red Infieid
Steel Show as Set
Again Is Evened

By a staff Correspondent of The Star.
CINCINNATI. Oct s.-Del Baker
sat on the marble steps leading to
the mezzanine floor of the head
quarters hotel and grimly watched
the milling hundreds gaily getting
themselves in the mood for the series
finale
Rowe hurt u.s." he said, IF Rowe
had been himself either time he
pitched we wouldn't be playing
seventh game. We wouldn't have
come back to Cincinnati The series
would have ended in Detroit"
Baker shook his head. Il can't
figure it. he said Il pitched Rowe
for a couple of innings on the last
day of the season against Cleveland
and he never had more stuff in his
life. I know that Cleveland can hit
as we'll or better than the Reds But
he hasn't had anything on the ball
in the series and I don't care how
good club YOU have. if one Of your
two best pitchers is beaten twice
you're in hole"
It's Been Eventful Enough.
This has been strange series.
In the first game the Reds didn't
look as though they belonged on the
same field with the Tigers. In the
second it was vice versa. Back
bounded the Bengals Back roared
the Reds. Up again. down again.
There have been mediocrity. excel
lence, pathos. humor, boredom and
spine-tingling moments.
1t has been a series singularly shy
OF goats. Rowe is the only one so
far, and he stood a chance of escap-
ing the horns by a final Detroit
victory. On the other side there
have been plenty of heroes.
Perhaps the greatest at the end
of six games was Third Baseman
Billy Werber of the Reds, the fell
low who was waived out of the
American League two years ago. He
was within two hits of the seven
game World Series record of II
shared by Sam Rice of Washington
anu CpPNl Wal iii VI 81 AoulS anu
this does not include what he may
do today. He reached base IA times
IN q appearances at the plate in
the first six games and he scored
five runs.
BObO in Line, Too.
Buck" Newsom won two games
and stood a chance to win a third,
which isn't bad for fellow who
was kicked around by the Cubs.
Dodgers, Browns, Nationals and
Red Sox. Big Paul Derringer was
beaten. but he came back to pitch
the game that kept the Reds in
the series and today he also stood
a chance Of winning again. Forty
year-old Jimmy Wilson was physic-
ally heroic in filling in for the in
jured Ernie lombard.
Pinky Higgins has been setting
fielding records at third base for
Detroit. Today he held a new one
rs assists for six games. This breaks
even the 8-game record of IS set
by frankie Frisch in 1921, and far
exceeds the 7-game mark of 13
shared by Fred LindStrom and Pie
Traynor. Pinky today was only
two total chances from the 80 made
by Ossie Bluege of the Nationals in
1924 His $50 batting average and
six runs batted across. together with
his f1eldingS. represent fair job
from veteran Shunted around by
the Red Sox and Athletics.
Ripple Bellies His Name.
Jimmy Ripple is another in line
for the heros wreath. Jimmy. the
Giant and Dodger castoff. After
slow start. Ivan Goodman began to
hit. Young Barney McCosky, play
ing in series for the first time, has
been terrific at bat
There is no way of going very far
in any series discussion without
getting around to Bucky Walters.
whose 4-to-0 triumph yesterday was
the first shutout by National
League pitcher since Lon Warneke
did it in 1885. In two games Walters
held the Tigers to eight hits. which
is some kind of good pitching.
The heroes run on and on. For
non competing managers and club
owners there is some embarrassment
attached to it. The Red SoX had
and let 60 Higgins, Werber, Walters
and Newsom. If they only had had
the latter pair this year there would
have been no last-ditch fight for
the American League pennant.
Reds Infield Is Brilliant.
The two Philadelphia teams, each
buried in the mouldy confines of the
American and National League base
ments. contributed Werber. Wilson,
Walters, Higgins, Bartell and Arno-
vich, which just about makes no
sense at all
Walters. and the Cincinnati infield
playing the kind Of defensive ball
that is seen only once in decade,
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