The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
REDSBEAT TIGERS,
Il, TAKE SERIES
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the screen in front Of the right
field bleachers, $40 feet away, and
Mccormick crossed the plate with
the tying rum.
No team is any better at getting
home one vital run than the Reds,
and Manager Bill McKechnie ma
neuvered. the winning tally with
great care.
He had catcher Jimmy Wilson lay
down a sacrifice bunt to bring
Ripple to third. He put in big
Ernie lombard to pinch hit for
Eddie Joost and, when Manager
Del Baker rushed out of the dug
out and ordered lombard inten-
tionally walked, Lonnie Frey was
sent in to run for "Schnozzle."
Ripple Races Home
Little Billy Myers waited out a
3 and l count and then lifted a
tremendous fly that Barney Nc
Cosky caught with his back against
the center field fence, 1856 f e t
away, Ripple racing home after
the catch with the crucial score.
That broke the tension of the
series highest game and n of
the most memorable in many
years. 1t was the perfect climax
to the first million dollar series
since 1887 and the first to go seven
games since the st. Louis Cardi-
nails beat these same Detroit tt
gers in 1884.
Once ahead the Reds were i'm
pregnable. Derringer vas nicked
for a single by Charley Gehringer
at the start of the eighth, but he
retired the next six batters in or
der and in the last inning, while
McKechnie had both Bucky Wal
tiers and Joe Beggs warming up in
the bull pen, Derringer didn't let
the Tigers hit the ball out of the
infield.
He should have won a shutout,
but the early part of the game was
packed with unusual plays and sit
uations and n of them unrav-
elled from the wrong end for the
Reds.
Billy Sullivan, the Detroit catch
er, started the trouble in the third
inning by beating out a grounder
along the first base line ahead of
Frank McCormick's throw to Der
ringer. Newsom sacrificed him to
second and, after D j OK Bartell
popped up, McCosky walked.
Then Gehringer smacked a siz-
cling grounder toward third and
Werber just knocked it down. He
threw badly to first anG before NJ
Cormick could recover the ball,
Sullivan raced home and easily
beat the belated throw.
Eeach Allows Seven Hits
Each pitcher permitted seven
hits, but until the seventh frame
old BoBo actually had out-hurled
his rival and was well along to be-
coming the first man to acquire
three World Series victories since
Stanley Coveleskie did it for Cleve-
land in 1920.
Newsom struck out six batters
and his lone walk was intentional,
to lombard in the seventh. In
the first six frames Newsom al
lowed only four hits, all in separate
innings, and faced only q batters.
The blows that he gave were a
single by Wilson with two out in
the second, a single by Wilson to
lead off the fifth when he was
quickly erased in a double play, a
single by Myers to lead off the
third and a double by Mike Nc
Cormick with two out in the sixth.
This last shot apparently was the
signal that Newsom was firing. He
took the clinching assignment with
one days rest after shutting out
the Reds on three hits in Detroit
Sunday.
Even so, he finished strong, strik-
ing out two of Cincinnati's top bat
tiers in the eighth and giving up
only one other hit, a drag bunt
that Mike Mccormick beat out.
The first run against Newsom
might have been cut off by a little
more alertness on the -crt of Dick
Bartell. 1t looked for a moment
like Bruce Campbell might snare
Ripple's drive in the seventh and
Frank Mccormick lowered near
second until he saw the ball fall
safe. He was only half way from
third to the plate when Bartell took
the throw-in, but the fiery little
sh~ortstop had his back to McCor-
mick and was watching Ripple
slide into second.
Derringer struck out only one
batter and walked three, n in
tentionally, but he pitched his own
kind of a ball game ard with tho
help of fine fielding by his team
mates came through flying.
He was in trouble in the second,
fourth and sixth frames in addi-
ton to the third.
Hank Greenberg led off with a
single in the second on an infield
out but was trapped and run down
when Derringer snagged Camp
bells grounder.
With two out in the fourth Hig-
gins smashed a hopper at Wer-
Der, who just managed to defleu
the ball against the railing of the