Evening star., 1945-10-04
Bengals in Bad Spot
After Newhouser'
Sound Licking
By JOHN b. KELLER,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.


Star Staff Correspondent.
DETROIT, Oct. At was up to
Virgil Trucks to curb Chicago's
rampant Cubs in the second game of
the chilly World Series, or Detroit's
Tigers could forget about collecting
anything more than the short end
of the players pool accruing from
the first four engagements.
The way the National League
champions mauled four Detroit
pitchers In rolling up a 9-to-0 win
yesterday, the Tigers will need close
to super-slabbing from Trucks. And
other than Trucks, they appar-
emily have no hurler who reasonably
could be expected to tame the Cubs.
And making the outlook more
gloomy for the Tigers with their
dearth Of hurlers is the full COM
plement of pitchers the Cubs still
have available. Hank Wyse, a strong
right-hander, was ready for the
second set-to and after him Man
ager Charley Grimm could call on
Claude Passeau, Paul Derringer and
Ray Prim, all with fine records built
up in pitching their club to a pen
nant.
The Tigers had their best box
man on record beaten yesterday and
beaten so badly 1t does not look as
though Steve O'Neill, Tiger pilot,
could rely on Hal Newhouser again
In the series. He was licked after
hurting to seven batters in the first
inning. Though he rallied in the
second to strike out the side, New
houser was raked so thoroughly by
the Cubs artillery in the third he
had to get out of the game.
Hal Briefly Himself.
Only in that second inning did
the Detroit lefthander In any way
resemble the pitcher who won Is
games while losing 9 during the
American League pennant cam
paign.
In the first and third innings, the
humping Cubs landed on New
houser for eight hits, one a triple
and two doubles. In neither of these
rounds did they let Newhouser get
his bearings. He was wild to begin
with and when the count on a
batter forced him to get the ball
across, the Cubs smacked it.
Don johnson got the first hit after
one was out and stole second with
Catcher Paul Richards making a
throw poorer than anything he had
thrown during the championship
season in his league. With two out,
Phil Cavarretta got an infield hit.
Then Richards let a Newhouser
pitch get away for passed ball and
johnson tailed.
Where the Tigers had been be-
lieved stronger than the Cubs, they
were proving weaker-in the CATCH
ing department. Richards, almost
unanimously accredited with being
the man who made Newhouser such
a fine catcher for the Tigers and
with developing others of the Detroit
hill staff, was at his worst. He threw
out Mickey Livingston twice in theft
attempts. but there were two steals
at Richards expense and two passed
balls were charged against him.
Cullenbine Appears Lax.
And Richards certainly did not
make good pitcher of Newhouser
yesterday. After that first run
crossed, the Tiger hHler deliberately
walked Andy Pafko, so when Bill
Nicholson tripled, two more runs
crossed. Incidentally, it did not
appear that Roy Cullenbine put
much into his effort to get Nichol-
sons loft that became a hit when
it dropped behind the right fielder,
who had stopped yards away from
the screen in front of the stand.
Another step and Cullenbine prob
ably would have made a catch for
the third out of the inning.
Came another single by Livingston
to score the fourth run and then
the Cubs remained quiet until the
third when a double, sacrifice and
another double and two singles
meant three more runs and got rid
of Newhouser. The Cubs got nothing
more than one hit off the relieving
Al Benton, who hurled through the
fourth frame, but they got four off
Jim Tooin with three made after
two were out in the seventh figuring
in their last two tallies.
The first of the three was home
run driven into the right field stand
by Cavarretta. Then Pafko singled,
stole and moved up on a passed ball
to count when Nicholson singled.
Those seventh-inning hits were
Cavarretta's and Pafko's third in the
game.
Les Mueller pitched two innings
after Tobin went out and yielded
nothing more than one base on balls.
But the Cubs already had done
enough to the Detroit pitching.
Borowy in TrousIe at Start.
While all this plastering of the
Tiger hillmen was taking place, the
Tigers did little with the offerings
of Hank Borowy, ex-New York
Yankee sold out of the American
League in mid-season. They got just
six hits off Borowy, a total in sharp
contrast to the Is accumulated by
the Cubs.
Trouble loomed for Borowy at the
outset. for the first two Tigers got
to him for singles. But Doc Cramer
drilled into a double-play to ease
the situation for Hank. He made ii
tough for himself again by walking
Hank Greenberg and Cullenbine to
load the bases, but Rudy York
fouled to the first baseman to kill
the most promising Tiger rally OF
the game.
After that first inning, a Tiger
runner got as far as second only
/ four times. Bnrnwv WAS wild In The