Evening star., 1945-10-10
By JOHN B. KELLER.

CHICAGO, Oct. 10. - Nothing
other than wet weather or darkness
could prevent the windup of a
weird World Series at Wrigley Field
this afternoon, but nothing could
prevent the wild second-guessing
bound to follow the strange struggle
for baseball championship.
The experts, who only sit by and
watch Chicago's Cubs and Detroit's
Tigers scrap it out on the playing
field, will have their innings long
after the decision due in today's
seventh and final game. From the
outset, they have questioned the
judgment of both club managers,
found fault with players for per-
formances under pressure and even
panned the opinions of the official
scorers to an unprecedented extent.
Second-guessers never had a
greater time of 1t in any other
World Series.
Questioning managerial judgment
carried on into this afternoons en-
gagement when the eyebrows of
many sideline experts were lifted
over the Cub slab choice of Hank
Borowy, ugh! AS though it made
any great difference aftef what has
happened, The Series long ago
reached the point where 1t doesn't
matter who starts. He isn't around
at the finish.
AS for putting the finger on the
lads who did not play as the experts
hold they should have played, much
of the criticism has been pretty
rough. After all, there is a pile of
dough riding on every play and
some OF the players are bound to be
dazzled by dollar marks. Then again,
many of the players weren't so good
through the championship seasons
of their leagues.
Official Scoring up to Four.
And the scorers? Well, they are
veterans in the business. Decisions
are being made by Mike Haley of
st. Louis, Ed Burns of Chicago and
Henry Salsinger of Detroit, with
Fred Lieb Of the Sporting News as
an alternate ever ready to lend a
voice. They may have made some
mistakes, but what scorer doesn't
at times?
The one big criticism of their work
has to do with the decisive play in
Mondays sixth game. Originally
Stan Hack was credited with only a
single and Hank Greenberg charged
with an error as Bill Schuster raced
from first base to home In the 18th
inning to win for the Cubs. To all
but the scorers, it was two-base hit,
for the ball bounced over Green
berg's shoulders and went on to the
left field wall.
And in reversing the scoring deci-
sion, the scorers might have done
better than wait until five hours
after the game ended before chang
Ing their minds. A lot of unpleas-
antness for the players involved and
for baseball writers doing spot re-
porting for their papers could have
been averted.
Borowy, in starting this afternoon,
had an opportunity to match the
record made by seven other pitchers
in World Series, that of scoring
three wins in classic.
Newhouser's Back Novocained.
Bill Dinneen did it for Boston's
Red Sox in 1903, the initial World
Series Of the modern string, when
ne beat Pittsburgh's Pirates. Christy
Mathewson did 1t for New York; S
Giants against the Philadelphia
Athletics in 1905. Babe Adams
equaled the record In 1909 as he
hurled for the Pirates against the
Tigers. Jack Coombs chalked up
three wins for the AS in 1910
against the Cubs.
Smokey Joe Wood, hurting for
the Red Sox in 1912, turned back
the Giants three times. In 1917
Red Faber of Chicago's Red Sox
licked the Giants in as many games.
And in 1920, Stan Coveleskie, pitch
ing for the Cleveland Indians, set
back Brooklyn's Dodgers three times.
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got a licking in their series pitch
ing, too, so should Borowy win to-
day his record would be comparable
to theirs.
Hal Newhouser was to return
against the Cubs today with his
back muscles dulled by novocaine
and with large swelling on his left
shoulder. The swelling may be a
growth, as the lefthander is in
clined to believe, but Tiger Man.
ager O'Neill holds that it is an over
developed muscle.
Newhouser's back muscles an
noyed him so much during the
American League campaigning that
he called on doc" Ray Forsyth,
Tigers trainer, weekly for novo-
caine injections. Nov don't know
whether I have any more pain in
my back" Newhouser says. I'll have
to wait until the dope clears out
to learn that"
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