The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-04

week and IS Strlctly manager SteVe O'Neill's gamble.
 O'Neill sent ex-Sailor Trucks out after the pennant clincher at St. Louis Sunday-two days after he left the sea and got an honorable discharge from Uncle Sam. And while the fast ball king could not last the route, he played @ major part in the victory which put the Tigers in this money series.
 So today, the tough-looking IriShman who led the Tigers to the American league pennant reached deep in the hope that Trucks could quiet the bats that neither his ace i, ,hurler, 25-game winner Hal New houser, nor three relief pitchers could do yesterday.
 In the October chill which blank eted Briggs stadium yesterday, Bor- owy showed the Tigers that he was winner after mid-season no mat ter what the weather-hot or cold. When the New York Yankees sold the silent New Jersey pole to the Cubs, President Larry MacPhail said he wouldn't finish game after July 4th.
 Borowy has paid dividends ever since he joined the Cubs and he did more than that yesterday as he pitched Chicago to the first open ing World Series victory a National league team has won since 1886. Fordham Hank was merely in his usual form, however, when he turned back the Tigers in the opener before an overflow crowd of nearly 55,000 in the windswept stad- iun.
 Cards Trumped
 For after all, 1t was Borowy who gave the Cubs the National league pennant with Il victories. His tri- umphs included two over St. Louis whec the Cardinals were making a bold bid for first place plus the pennant clinching victory over Pittsburgh only last aSturday.
 Trucks was pretty much the same sort of pitcher as Borowy before Uncle Sam called him to a bigger job after the close of the 1943 sea- son. His type of delivery, his as- sortment of fast ball and curves were as deadly to American league hitters as those Borowy used yes- terday to defeat the man generally considered the top pitcher in the majors this season-Prince Hal, who had taken 25 of the 87 games the Tigers needed to win the Amer ican pennant. He couldn't carry on that form yesterday, but as his boss said, he will be back for another crack at the Cubs and this time Big Steve is sure that Hal will make up for what he couldn't do yesterday. :. Charley Grimm, Cubs manager, who was strumming his banjo in high glee, was just as sure as the sun set on Briggs stadium yesterday thas Cherokee Hank would do just what Fordham Hank did in the opening.
 The boys who pour the money in the betting mart made 1t an even money shot that the Cubs would make 1t two in @ row and four dol- lars would get you f1ve If you bet on the Tigers.
 Warmer
 The prospect was for another sell- out crowd today. The weatherman promised more favorable conditions for the second game. Against the 47 degrees in which the series op. ponents played yesterday, the weatherman played yesterday, the might make 1t around 65.
 And as in the opener, 1t appeared that yet another game could be de- sided in rightf1eld. Roy Cullenbine's s failure to catch a long and lofty fly ball from the bat of big Bill tSwish) Nicholson was the break turning that g to 0 Cub victory into easy going. Had Cullenbine caught that one ball, 1t might have been g different game. But 1t went for a triple and accounted for the big runs.
 Perhaps 1t was only fitting for Big Bill" who had rough going In the Cub pennant drive. It may have oeen poetic justice that this time, I at least he hit one somewhat like the old drives that made him the rrins-bs ited-in-king for the 1oAs and i944 seasons.