The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-04
S P Q R 7 S
WALTERS HURLS REDS
TO WIN OVER TIGERS
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in the 4 2-3 innings ne WORKED. Du'
his matchless performance came
too late.
The National league champions
who pulled Walters out OF his open
ling lam with a minimum of dam
age by means of a fast double
play, put up a tight defense there
after and never we're in danger
of being overtaken.
It was the first time that a club
representing the senior circuit in
baseball's big autumn classic won
a game from the American league
since the New York Giants TOOK
the fourth game of the 1887 series
from the Yankees.
These same Yankees last year
belted Bucky for nine hits and
mopped up the Reds easily in the
second session of their series. His
fast, low pitching VIZ thought to
be considerably to the liking of the
hulking sluggers of the American
league.
Only Fault
But today his only fault was that
first unfathomable wildness. His
very first pitch sailed past Catcher
Jimmy Wilson like a shot and he
passed the first two batters, Dick
Bartell and Barney McCosky, on
ten pitches.
Then Gehringer smacked a sin
gle far into right field to score
Barteu and young Gene Thomp-
son went into action in the Reds
bull pen. But before he could get
ready, Bill Werber grabbed Green
berg's grounder for a double play,
on which McCosky scored, a n d
Walters found himself to strike out
bullying Rudy York on four pitches
From that point on Walters new
er gave the fans or his teammates
a worry. He pitched carefully to
the biggest guns of the Tigers,
working the corners and keeping
the ball low when he came in with
his fast one. Though he walked
Greenberg in the fourth and Nc
Cosky in the sixth, it was because
he preferred making them look at
bad pitches rather than hit a good
one.
He struck out four batters, in
GLIDING York again in the ninth
and the two Detroit pitchers.
The run Walters allowed in the
sixth started by walking McCosky,
who was forced at second by Geh-
ringer in what was almost a double
play. Then Greenberg looked over
five corner-cutters to a count of
80 and belted the fast one for a
double that rolled right up against
the big black scoreboard in left
center, some $50 feet from the
plate. Gehringer scored from first.
Bats Muffled
Big Hank also hit a tremendous
fly to the same spot to lead off
the ninth. But, in general, Detroit's
mighty bats were muffled to vir-
tual silence and except for three
hits, only seven balls went to the
outfield.
The Reds onslaughter against
Rowe by contrast was widespread
with every Cincinnati batter ex-
cept Mike Mccormick getting one
blow. Wilson got the only hit off
Corsica and it could have been
scored as an error as well as not,
because Higgins simply couldn't
handle it on his left.
The second stanza teeing = off
against Schoolboy was started by
Frank (Buck) Mccormick, who
slashed the first pitch along the
ground like a billiard ball into left
field. Ripple popped up, but Will
son, Eddie Joost and Billy Myers
nit consecutive singles to all three
fields for two runs.
This blast might have been big
ger, because Catcher Birdie Teb.
belts tried to catch Joost off Sec
ond and threw the ball through
Bartell and into center field to
send the runners to third and Sec
ond. But Walters flied out and
after Werber walked, M. McCor-
mick popped up with the bases
loaded.
Third Inning
Goodman led off the third in
ming by beating out a drag bunt
toward first and. after McCosky
had pulled in F.. McCormick's hot
liner, Ripple pounded the first
pitch over the wire fence in front
OF the right field bleachers, $40
feet from the plate.
The next two outs came easily,
but Rowe was obviously in for a
bad afternoon. Myers hit the first
pitch in the fourth and Bruce
Campbell had to make a nice run
ring catch to pull it in. Then Wal
tiers needed a double along the
third base foul line and Werber
knocked a liner in the same direc-
ton and good for the same distance
when it bounced off The fence with
in a yard of the foul line in the left
field corner.
What happened after Corsica.
came in didn't make any differ