The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-05
Tigers Are New Team; Greenberg Is Hero
7igers' Trucks Teaches
Bruins Pitching Lesson

law OF Manager 0teVe ~ NELL VI
the Bengals, strengthened his fam
lily ties by lining a clean single
into left field to start it. Mayo then
worked Wyse for walk, and
Cramer singled lucky single in
to left to score Webb with the tying
counter and send Mayo around to
third.
That was the setting when Green
berg, still limping slightly on an
injured ankle, strobe to the dish
and answered the pleas of the yell
ing stands with his towering smash
into the seats.
After IN t, Trucks, who signed
his Detroit contract only last Sat-
turday, settled down to hurl great
ball. Hack got to him for another
infielo single with two out in the
third, but Trucks bore down and
struck out johnson to retire the
side.
1t was extremely doubtful the
Cubs would have scored their sim
gle run in the fourth if either Cram
er or Cullenbine had taken charge
of Cavarretta' looping hit into
right centerfield, and held the Chi
cago first baseman to a single. He
would not have scored from first
on Nicholson's hit, and probably
would have been retired on a dou-
ble-play ball which Andy Pafko
raped to shortstop Immediately
after he got on.
The only other time Trucks was
even mildly menaced was in the
eight inning, when the Cubs got two
aboard on a walk to Hack and a
hit into left with LoWery with home
out. A home run by Cavarretta
would have tied up the game at
that point, but the best the Cubs
leading swatter could manage was
weak roller to Rudy York or
first. Pafko extinguished the rally
by rapping one down to Webb
whose throw to first beat him by
| several steps.
Trucks fast ball, which the I'll
gers declare is fully as fast as Boz
Fener's on some days, was reall,
: smoking all afternoon, and he wa
cutting off the corners with curv'
! th,t snapped like a black snak
U whip. His brilliant performance &C
tually did more to change the com
S plexion of the series than Green
berg's big blow. With the Tiger
very much back in the contention
;, the ex-gob was certain to star
u another game, and the way h
y looked today the Cubs will be
: long time beating him.
y Tomorrow's third tussle, the las
- :. before the two clubs hop to Oh!
a cago to continue the play-off, wi.
;, see the Tigers Frank "Stubby
!. Overmire, lefthander, paired OF
against Claude Passeau, vetera
q Highlander of the Cubs. From tn
4 manner in which the Cubs teed Of
i. on Newhouser, another southpa1
:. yesterday, Overmire's prospect
j. scarcely could be called promising
e The Cubs may have lost the serv
S ices of Paul Gillespie, one of thei
t two regular catchers, for the re
e mainder of the series when he half
E fell after hitting ball down t.
S first base in the ninth inning ant
a hurt his left knee, aggravating al
: old injury. Manager Charlie Grimm
j, announced after the game tina
: Mickey Livingston, who caught the
, opener, probably would work in al
: the remaining contests. This weak
ems the Chicago batting ordel
| somewhat, as Gillespie hit highly
! respectable .288 for the season
4 against Livingston's .254.
Aside from Greenberg's 10-tor
belt, the Tigers otherwise showed
some signs of recovering their hit
I ting eyes in the second game
. Cramer, who has been in painful
:. slump for weeks, smacked thre
successive singles off Wyse ant
Erickson, one of which produced
the tying run. Skeeter Webb hit two
singles and Jimmy Outlaw knocked
one in the second inning for thu
first hit off Wyse. Rudy York failee
to hit safely, but the husky frs
, baseman poled one tremendou!
distance in the sixth inning an wa
deprived of at least a double by ;
4 brilliant catch by Andy Pafke
against the fence in left center.
Hack, always dependable Worlc
Series performer, led the Cubs at
; tack-such as it was-with his two
infield hits and a double. His other
time up he drew walk. Lowrey.
with two clean singles into left, was
the only other Bruin to solve Trucks
more than once. The Tiger hurler
was stingy with his walks, not is.
suing single pass for the first
six innings and then giving up one
in each of the last three frames.
Detroit got to Wyse for five hits
and all its runs in the six innings
he worked before being lifted for
; a pinchhitter. Erickson yielded two
more safeties in the seventh, but