The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05
THOMPSON MUST TAME TIGERS OR.
 SERIES IS DONE.
Detroit Club Intends to Finish Up Sunday; Power
 Hitters "There"
BIZ HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor)

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 Detroit, October. 5-(UP) = The Cincinnati Reds called upon . youngster named Junior Thomp- son today to risk life and limb by striding into the Tigers lair anc attempting to. twist ms tail.
 Leading two games to one ir the World Series, playing on theil home grounds before a friendly crowd and banging base hits against familiar fences the Detroit Tigers predict they will chew Thompson and the Reds to pieces and sew ur the championship of baseball to- day and tomorrow.
 We don't want to go back tc Cincinnati to play any more bal games" said Del Baker, manager of Detroit, "so we are going to fin ish it quick"
 Thompson, a young right handler who got pasting from the New York Yankees in the World Series last year, was on the spot. He mol only had to face the awesome ar- ray of Detroit hitters but he didn't know who would be out there pitching against him. Going in fol a bit of psychology, Baker refused to name his starting pitcher all though he did say it would be either Buck Newsom, victor in the first game, or Dizzy Trout, a talk ative young man who can pitch inspirted baseball when he thinks the stars are right ].
 Newsom, if he goes, will be car- rying a heavy burden. His father died Thursday in Cincinnati just after watching Buck pitch the Tig- CTS to victory. A funeral was held in Cincinnati Thursday and New som came on to continue in the series. The Tigers are in a position to gamble now and they will really be taking 8 gamble if they start Trout. He can be very good but he also can be very bad and it's possible for him to lose ball game before another pitcher can be warmed up.
 Hard Hitters Day
 The story of the World Series so far is that you can baffle the power hitters temporarily - as Bucky Walters did in the second me-but sooner or later they will knock the brains out of a pitcher Detroit is loaded with power hit ters and yesterday the law of aver ages was working on their side They hit for everything in the book-singles, doubles, a triple and and two home runs = and when two home runs and when the debris was cleared away the Reds were on the short end of 2 to 4 score.
 Three pitchers worked for Cin- cinnati = Jim Turner, Whitey Moore and Joe Beggs - and the Tigers plaStered them all with a fine and reckless impartiality. The brunt of the attack fell on Turner 8 34-year-old veteran, who was go- ing along nicely until the seventh inning when the roof fell on him
 Hank Greenberg's single, Rudy ,York's home run, Bruce Campbells single and Pinky- Higgins home run produced four runs before Turner could get a man out. Moore yielded two more hits before he got the side out but escaped with out having any. more runs come across.
 As if they didn't have enough men on the hospital list already, the Reds suffered another injury yesterday. Ival Goodman was pain- fully hurt in trying to field a bouncing liner off the bat of Rudy York, but reports early today were that he would be abel to start the game this afternoon.
 Ernie Lombardi, the Reds big catcher and their best power hit- ter ,limped through yesterdays game and it is fifty-fifty bet whether he will he in there to-day