The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-11
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Hal Newhoussr
Sets New Series
Stvikeout Record

Stvikeout Record
DETROIT, Oct. 11-(P-The
Detroit Tigers, dog tired but
hilarious after dragging down
baseballs richest prize by beat
ing Chicago Cubs in the World
Series, arrived home just before
! q. m, today to find q milling
mob of fully 10000 fans-band
and all-stagins an impromptu
victory celebration in and
around Union Station.
Although the Tigers special
train, bearing the club home
from Chicago, was more than
an hour late the thronS that
jammed the depot and filled
Fort and third streets for a block
each way continued to swell
with pennant-waving, horn-toot-
ing celebrants even as the play
ers were hustled along a police
lined aisle to waiting taxicabs.
MOB AWAITS TRAIN
Manager Steve O'Neill, who
hasn't had a team in a World
Series since he caught for the
Cleveland Indians champion
ship outfit of 1920, couldn't be-
lieve his eyes when he first saw
the wall of humanity through
which police blazed a trail to
the sidewalk.
There's nothing in the world
like it," O'Neill marvelled.
"Now there's a reception. They
love US, don't they?"
Wild cheers arose from the
crowd as their heroes came IN
view O'Neill, Newhouser,
Greenberg, Richards, Y ork,
Trout.
Players, many of them accom-
panied by their wives, grinned,
waved and yelled with the rest
but were glad to get out OF reach
of the jostling crowd.
Baseball's takeoff on the nine
old men-eight old men and
boy, in this case-brought the
world championship back to De-
troit today for the first time in
10 years, all because the Chicago
Cubs ran out of gas and pitchers
against the Tiger trigger-men in
the clutch.
That, plus some of the fanciest
flinging of this fall frolics by
Lefty Hal Newhouser, for a
new series strikeout record TOR
seven games, meant the ball
game and the set in the finale
yesterday. Prince Hal was the
boy in the cast-he is 24-and
the boy turned out to be quite
a man as he racked up his Sec
ond win of the scramble.
That was the story in yester-
days 9 to 3 payoff. jolly Cholly |
Grimm was so desperate for pit
cheers, after using most Of them
Sunday and Monday, he finally
had to reach into the barrel and
come up with heaving Hank
Borowy for his third consecu-
tive game.
Good as Hank was in this SER
ies-he won twice and lost TWICE
the Tigers got to him early.
They drove him from the hill
after nine pitches which three
Tigers converted into singles and
one run. Five other Cub pitchers
followed him TO the mound.
That's the way those doddering
Detroiters were. They ran, most
ly as if they were dragging
their anchors, but their bats
were loaded with high explo-
sives.
The Tigers hitting power
when ii was needed, and tight
pitching in the pinches, was
what made the Cubs lose their
seventh series opportunity in 81
years after beating the Tigers
in 19O7-O8. The Tigers-all the
regulars except the pitchers are
owe 30-put on some great ex-
hibitions of dizziness out there
in the field from time to time.
But when the final chips were
down they picked them up with
alacrity.
GREENBERG STARS
It wasn't only one Of them,
although Hank Greenberg was
in the forefront. The big guy Is
a slowed-up IS now, but he was
the glamour boy of the series
in anybody's book. He hammer
ed one homer that won q game,
another that kept his ball club
in it; thumped three doubles In
one tilt; scored seven runs and
knocked in seven. He wound up
with q .304 batting mark, which,
with his 1884 and 1910 failing,
made him one Of Is men in all
series history to 20 for 800 or
better in three or more series.
Phil Cavarretta, the Cubs first
sacker and probably the most
moderated man in the set, went
Hank one better In this depart
ment. He was the No. ! ball
buster and came to the wire with
q .423 mark, the second time
he's run through . series At Q
snappy 400 or better. Now he's
one Of only eight hitters ever to
turn the trick twice, and at the