Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-07

rane. A.,
Bucky Walters, master OF the
sinker ball and victor in the second
game with a magnificent three nit
ter, goes for the Reds this after
noon in what will be an all-or
nothing game for fans here in the
Rhineland.
Leading three games to two ana
needing only one more victory W
win the series the Detroit llgers
staggered into town with their pig
bats last night and announced they
would start Schoolboy Rowe IN an
attempt to end the business. Rowe
was knocked out Of the box in the
second game, but he is we'll rested
and hoping for. a better fate this
afternoon.
Talk on trains that ratified all
night between Detroit and Clncln-
natl was about Buck NeWsom and
the courageous, glittering game ne
pitched yesterday to win an . TO
victory and send Detroit out IN
front. Buck not only threw three
hit game and the first shut out OF
the series, but he did it at a time
when his heart was heavy with
grief and his usually loquacious
tongue was stilled by sorrow. His
father died in Cincinnati on Thurs
day morning after watching Buck
win the first World Series game and
one of the last wishes expressed on
his death bed was that his boy
should go out and win another one.
Grim faced, and for the first time
in his life, indifferent to the re-
quest of photographers for a smile,
Buck went out and made good on
that promise.
Taking a windup like Dutch
windmill, and kicking his leg high
in the air, Newsom assumed COM
mand of the ball game from the
time he faced the first hitter Mean
while, the bats of the Tigers volley-
ed and thundered and in the third
inning Hank Greenbergs towering
home run high up in the left field
stand scored Barney McCosky and
Charley Gehringer ahead of him for
enough runs to win the game.
Give oil Buck a lead like that and
the inspiration of that promise to
his father, and he is unbeatable.
That's the way he was in Briggs
stadium yesterday and toward the
end of the game he was toying with
the Reds, feeding them slow balls
and then driving them back with
his high, hard one when they got
reckless and crowded the plate.
Junior Thompson, a right handler
who is completing his second sea-
son in the majors, was the victim
of the Tigers wrath. After Green
berg hit his homer and three runs
poured across in the third, Thomp-
son thought the worst had happen
ed to him. Little did he know of the
misery still ahead. In the fourth
Tiger power exploded again when
Dick Bartell whammed double
down the left field foul line scor-
ing Billy Sullivan who had walked
When Thompson got ratified and
walked Barney McCosky, he was
through and Whitley Moore came in
to try to stem the tide for the Reds
He didn't improve the situation
any by walking Gehringer and Rudy
York and allowing Bruce Campbell
to single. Before the inning was
over four more runs had scored
and the Reds were out of the game
That has been the pattern ot
this World Series-when the Tigers
win they do it by having one or two
big, blasting innings and after the
debris is cleared Cincinnati is hope
lessly out of the running. The Reds
on the other hand, win on tight
pitching such as Walters gave them
IN the second game and Paul Der.
ringer in the fourth.
II precedent and luck mean anv.
thing, this should be the Reds day
Even numbered dates are luck,
for them for they have won the
second and fourth. The Tigers have
taken all the odd numbered games
first, third and fifth.
But today the Reds are countine
more on Walters dipsy- doodle thar
on luck or anything else. If Buck,
can halt the Tigers march TODAY
Derringer will be ready for the sew.
enth and final game.