The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-09
CUBS PRAISE HACK
FOR HIS SINGLE
IN 18th INNING
Grimm Will Not Announce
His Starting Pitcher For
Final Game
By CHARLES DUNKLEY

series at three games apiece.
Grimm, hilariously happy, said
it was the widest game with the
most thrilling finish he'd ever ex-
perienced. He was intensely proud
of his Cubs and their courageous
fighting spirit to come back to
win after blowing a four-run lead.
cts wonderful, isn't it? Grimm
asked. "Just wonderful"
'Im proud of Borowy and Pas
seau, Borowy really put it in there.
Just think, he had less than days
rest since he started yesterday"
When Grimm YEARLY dropped
onto a stool in front of his locker
and began ripping open kilograms.
The first was from St. Louis, Mo-,
and read:
"Dont pitch to Greenberg.
(Signe6 Paul Murphy
Grimms frame shook with laugh
ter.
"That advice arrived a little too
late for me-" he said.
Grimm wrapped his arms around
smiling Stanley Hack, Cubs a.
year third baseman, whose screech-
ing single with two out in the 18th
inning bounced over left-fielder
Hank Greenberg and scored Bill
Schuster with the winning run.
Grimm said he looked at Green
berg just long enough to see him
turn around and to see the number
''5'' on his back.
Then I yelled, Come on Schus-
ter -
''The ball must have hit a wa
terspout, or anvil or something to
take such a bounce, and I'm not
going out there tonight to look at
the spot, either"
Grimm had warm admiration for
right-handed pitcher Claude Pas
seau, whose third finger OF his
pitching hand was split at the end
and the nail cracked clear across
when he attempted to field Jimmy
Outlaws sizzling grounder in the
sixth inning. Passeau gamely con-
tinued to pitch into the seventh. At
the time his finger was turning
black and blue, swelling badly and
he was losing control.
"When he went out for the sew
enth," Grimm explained, "he said
to me, watch me skipper After
he allowed two singles and walk,
I knew he couldn't 60 any further
because he was suffering terrible
pain"
Hack probably was the happiest
of all the Cubs in the yipring and
yelling going on in their dressing
room.
"When hit that ball, wasn't
worried about myself, but about
Schuster, I was worrying abou'
how far he could CO."
Bill Schuster, Cubs relief IN
fielder, dressing in the adjoining
locker, yelled: Il just dug my
spikes into the ground and never
stopped running
Grimm doesn't know who he'll
start in the seventh and deciding
game against the Tigers IN Wrlg
| ley Field Wednesday. He said n
would make no announcement unit
tomorrow afternoon. There will b.
no practice for the Cubs tomorrow
either.
1.-THE way those guys played to
day, I'll let them 60 home ant
sleep all day tomorrow, Grimm
beamed.
There were only two men in tn
Detroit dressing room who Wer
not the picture of complete de]ec
ton after Hacks hit had score
Schuster with the winning rur
They were Manager Steve O'Nel
and Pitcher Virgil Trucks.
Big Hank Greenberg, who's
; homer tied the count to send tn
game into extra innings, dldn
want to talk. He didn't even want t
answer questions as to why Hack
ball took a bad hop out in lei
field-a bad hop that kept the Cub
in the series.
DIZZY Trout slumped detected,
into a chair in front of his locker
and said nothing.
! O'Neill, his usual CAIN, quie
self, went over various phases Q
the game as he undressed.
eve had our chances, plenty G
them" he said. eve just dldn'
make it.
He singled out two particula
plays as the probable cause OF tn
defeat.
81 tried to wave Hostetler bac]
to third after he fell when he triet
to score from second O. Cramer'
single in the seventh, but he wa
caught. He'd have scored on Ro!
Cullenbine's single if he had stop
ped at third.
Gin the eighth, Mayo tried tt
stretch his single into a double ane
was out. Then Greenberg hit hi:
homer. That would have been the
ball game if Mayo had been or
base"
Trucks took the entire blame on
himself for the Cubs four-run fifth
inning.
II didn't field Roy Hughes bunt
after Livingston had singled, and