Evening star., 1940-10-05
Reds Hold Own
Except for 7
.Uprisings
A. L. Champs Sitting
Pretty With Rowe,
Newsom Rested
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star

DEIROII, MICH, OCu. 0.-1Hc
Detroit Tigers may not be up to
the all-around standard of recent
American League pennant winners
but they have one characteristic
of their Yankee predecessors-that
beginning habit.
Jim Turner, the Nashville milk
man, is the latest TO have become
painfully aware of the similarity.
Paul Derringer was the first. Today
Gene (Junior) Thompson was to
see if he couldn't avoid making their
mistakes, as he prepared to face
Paul Dizzy Trout in the fourth
game of the World Series.
The betting Bengals were out IN
front this morning, two games to
one, because they have staged two
big innings. Against Derringer in
the opener at Cincinnati they put
on five-run show in the second in
ming and clung to lead to win, 7 TO
2. Against Turner yesterday they
we're being neatly muffled when, in
the seventh, they put on four
run splurge. Result: Detroit, Z;
Cincinnati, 4.
Okay in 25 Innings.
If the Reds could have avoided
two of the 27 innings played so
far. the chances are they would be
within one victory of the National
Leagues first world championship
since 1884 They have matched or
surpassed the Tigers run-making
ability in the other Is frames. Some
of their pitchers have outhurled
some of Detroit's and, defensively,
they have nothing for which to
apolofiize except two wierdly planned
throws by Right Fielder Ival Good
man.
But that one-inning habit is
hurting. Bucky Walters. alone Of
the three Cincinnati starters. so
far has escaped having his slants
driven all over the premises-the
same slants which had been fooling
the Tigers up to a certain point.
Turner, a 34-year-old right
handler who was saved from the
minors this year when the Reds
took him after he had outlved his
usefulness to the Boston Bees, was
. on his way to a pitching master
piece. For six innings he stood the
Tigers on their heads and, going
into the seventh, the game was tied
at IL with little Tommy Bridges,
another Tennessean, moving along
as smoothly as Turner.
Reds Could Only Plug.
But then a safe was dropped on
poor Jim. First up in the seventh.
Hank Greenberg hit line single
to center that sounded like those
whistling bombs must sound. Rudy
York walked up and dropped a
high. wind driven fly into the lower
4. left-field stands for a home run.
Bruce Campbell followed by bang
ing a single to center and Pinky
Higgins made it the pay off when
he homered into the upper deck
of the left-feld stands. Four men
Up, four runs across, and the score
to l.
The Reds never could match that
exhibition. They kept plugging
along, gathering a run here and a
couple there as Bridges tired, but
they couldn't get back into the
game.
1t may be that yesterdays battle
was the important victory of the
set. Certainly it gives Manager Del
Baker of the Tigers a little leeYay.
Barring a last-minute change, Baker
was to have pitched Trout, who
won only three games and lost
seven during the season. Even II
today's game went to the Reds, the
American Leaguers would be sitting
pretty. They would have Buck New
som and Schoolboy Rowe available
for tomorrow and Monday.
Fortunes Shift Fast.
The fortunes have shifted with
bewildering frequency so far. First
the Reds were moaning because
Ernie lombard and Lonnie Frey
were hurt. Then came the death
Of Newsom's father in Cincinnatj
to cast a pail over the Tigers.
AS the series opened here the
Reds believed themselves able to
make it a seven-game set. If So"
they jubilated, well win. Well
get our full strength back. We're
fresher than the Tigers because
they had to fight down to the end
to win their pennant."
But today it seemed probable
that Goodman, who was injured
in the groin yesterday as he fielded
a hit by York, would be on the
bench for at least one day. And
lombard, who came back yester-
day limping forlornly, may not play
at all Despite his first-inning double
he was a pathetic figure as he at
tempted to move around the bases
and back of the bat and by the
eighth inning. when he was forced
out, his ankle was swollen double
It's normal size. Only a miracle
seemed likely to bring lombard
back into the series as regular.