The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05
O'NEILL TO
 GAMBLE AGAIN
 WITH OVERMIRE
BY LEO H. PETERSEN Limited Press Sports EdItOrl

AANe@AASNA SN%~r
 Detroit, oct. 5.-(UP)-Claude Passeau, "or NO. lS" and Frankie Overmlre, a little guy with q strong left arm, were nominated today to go out after the third game of the World seriesD with the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers even at one all.
 Passeau, a Mississippi tung-oil farmer who stayed in baseball this year through the efforts of group of physicians, won l7 games for the Cubs in their drive to the National league peYinant, Tiger Overmlre, better known as "Stubby" because he stands only five. feet seven inches tall, meanwhile captured only nine for the Tigers.
 The Cubs, who won the opener 3 to only to drop the second game to ex-sailor Virgil (Fire) Trucks yesterday, { to l, were even money shots to win the all important tnird game. The Tigers were 5 to 4 un. derdogs. Tn other words, you pet S5 on the Cubs to win A, but you only had to put up $4 against s5 if you were Q Tiger fan.
 Gambles Again
 Manager Steve O'Neill, having won a biz gamble yesterday with Trucks, who had been off the high seas less than a week, decided to take aHf- other outside chance by senoing chunky, lefthanded OverTnire against the Chicago club which had most of It's power on the lefthand sioe of the plate.
 O'Neiil figured that if he could find a pitcher to stop Stan Hack, Phil Cavarretta and burly Ell Nicn" olson, the Cubs power hitting leItiss, he could still the thunder in the Cub bats as Trucks throttled It yes- terday.
 ft was a long shot because Oyer. fnlre was one of his second line pitchers during the hectic season m which the tired Tigers won the pennant on the final day.
 Passeau, who insists on wearing No. l3, figured to give the TlgefS plenty of trouble, despite some cal. cified bone in his right elbow, condition which almost kept nim off the mound this season. He is pitching master of the old scnool when 1t comes to control ana g nvs likely to groove one as Indian AanK Wyse did yesterday to rangy hank
 For 0reenberg's booming bat and Trucks pitching put Detroit back m the race just when gloom was se!- fling over jampacked Briggs Stad- iurn. Greenberg hit the home run which gave the Tigers the game Just like he hit the ball that won the American League pennarlt, last Sun- day.
 The was the combination which carried the Bengals back into the thick of the fray-two service men from the wars. Greenberg rejoineo the Tigers July 1 after serving as an Ar Forces captain with the bombeH command in the CBI theater. Ana Trucks for two years was a bell bot" toned trouser guy who had reacn- ed his peak two years ago by wln- ming i6 games for these same Tigers before joining the Navy. He came back last week, swapping his blues for Bengal fiannels, and pitched but five and one third innings in the pennant clinching game before step- ping into Q world series starring role after two years absence.
 It was e terrific gamble for O'Neilt whose Tigers came home Q year later after blowing the pennant on the final day of the 1924 season to the long searching St. Louis Browns. He had started Hal New houser, the ace of his stan and the leading winner in the majors this season with 25 triumphs, against these well rested Cubs-aI1d lost.
 And then he gambled and won, with Trucks. so Steve figured he'd gamble again.
 Overmire, on his record, is strict ly 0 gamble too. But Steve is going with him. If 1t works. 1t leaves Paul Dizzy Trout, second man on o'Neili's staff, to pitch the first game in Chicago Saturday in this best of seven series, with Newhouser rested sufficiently to be a good bet in the following tilt. How Steve's strategy develops will be decided starting at i:3o ?. ia., EST today.
 The lineups:
 CHICAGO DETROIT Hack, SD ................. ss, WepD Johnson, 2b ............. 2b. Mayo If ..."........ cf. Cramer Cavaretta, ist ....... If, 0reenberg Pafko, Of .......... If, Cullenbine