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~ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1936. D^l~ Series Delay Gives Giants Break, Yankees Morbid Fancies ■■ Big _ ■ .. —— -- -— ■ A

Cubs, Cold Fail ON THE RECEIVING END. —By JIM BERRYlVfAN. easy to hit as a snipe in a midnight I roll. He expects his heavy and light swamp. artillery to shell away any remaining - In the face of this somber picture, Giant with the same all- IN UNE -___I SCREWBALL the Yankees can't afford ■ELL To AWES to let an- season Stop Kennedy blast that wrecked the Amer- other Giant pitcher run the blockade ican League with scattered debrl* October 2 OP).—The only ^(. before Carl moves into the rifle pit left. secret has leaked out why for his second start. Joe doesn’t believe that any othec Vernon Kennedy showed such a 10 RIVAL m M’CARTHY’SCROWD With this extra day of rest tossed Giant pitcher can put the deadly the liking for damp, 50-degree into the act. Bill and his silencer on r big Terry bats handled by Gehrig, breezes which whirled through Giants are confident that Hubbell can Di Maggio, Dickey, Powell, Lazzerf Field when he set the MAKES IT Wrigley HE win three games. He will need out- and others. Gets Great Chance to Beat down with four hits LOOK SO EASV Fears Carl on Facing King side help on at least one occasion, and He rates Schumacher and Fitzsim- in the White Sox 6-to-l WHEW HE yesterday if he can get this help the Yankee mons as first-class —but Hub- A. L. Three Times the series. JUST STICKS After His Champs victory opening city Bright Day outlook won't be any too brilliant. bell is something different. Here la The Sox hurler and Mrs. UP A MIITT The value of this postponement to the a great pitcher down the VAMP YANKS in Rain. spinning After Postponement. Kennedy have been camping out Showing Giants cause is easy to see. stretch of his In A 3>OWN A greatest year. place in an auto trailer parked on the 1 DENMAN PASS,,.. BY GRAN'TLAND RICE. of winning 26 and losing 6 through BY THOMPSON, shore of Lake Michi- J The Star. wind-swpet 71 No Chance to Rest. > the Spring and Summer count, he Sports Editor of EW October 2.—If Field gan. They’ll make a trip to Cali- YORK. YORK. October 2.—Not TJUBBELL had to scrap his way might easily have won 30 and dropped fornia in the trailer after the series Marshal of the A A did the Giants a big through a tough afternoon in the but 2. His pitching deserved these only get is ended—which will be within Giants can scrape together break from the weather man starting show. He had no chance to returns. He sprayed the National three more games, according to one winning pitcher from his rest against Red Rufflng's able - League with green mamba poison all NEWin their quest of next two starts in the world series he Kennedy. ing, with only a one-run advantage the year and then injected the same cash and glory through postponement will have the Yankees clinging to the but a little more moving into the eighth. He had to quick killing virus into Yankee sys- of yesterday’s game, edge of a their finger- precipice by travel with all he could There ! tems at his first chance. of the same assistance may enable nails. carry. to do the “impos- are no breathing spells when you are Carl's Rest All Carl Owen Hubbell The second game's postponement Important. a pegging a slippery ball in the general is a who revelj sible" by single-handedly pitching gave an extra pitcher King day direction of Yankee bats. J-JUBBELL to the title. in the heat. one hal team of rest, and this extra day in a brief Any vho the turn of the a Without Thursday's postponed ac- ; known the Back near century series can be vitally important. With Summer suns of Missouri, named Mathewson tion Hubbell would have been called Oklahoma and has fellow Christy either Schumacher or Fitzsimmons Texas a heritage established an enduring high for to the colors again on Saturday. Now of heat. Give him a GEORGETOWN’S "UNSUNG’SENIOR digging up a victory for the Giants, warm, sunny effectiveness through the he can take his regular season's turn, and can slabbing WHOSE MAGIC FINGERS SEEM TO Hubbell will be in a rare spot to make day he make that apple sing. a trio of shut-outs that fresh and ready for his second whirl. This medium of it three out of four. King Carl still also goes for any kind of day, HAVE A MAGNETIC ATTRACTION It Is no certainty, of that made it easy for those early vintage looks like course, including an Alaskan Winter, pitch* VAftSITy King Kong to the Yankees. a formidable ag- FOR PIGSKIN,,,,.HIS » King Kong Carl will strip the Yan- on skis or snowshoes. Giants to conquer They are beginning to wonder—if the ing EXPERIENCE kees in his second turn. There are Under or gregation of Athletics. BASKETBALL Meeker Marauder could turn out such ordinary normal condi- no no sure in the wnat was termea a HIM A WHIZ supermen, things tions this jump game isn't so Employing HAS MAPE a masterpiece in rain, mud and a impor- the Matty championship sport. But as an able tant. It became much more fadeaway, right-handed AT PASS RECEIVING. chilling wind. Just what might he do impor- the situation philosopher once said, ''The race is tant when handed thoroughly dominated on a afternoon with the they Carl those balmj’ sun not to was but he had to the swift—but that is where extra 24 hours off when he officiating, beating down, the day that Hubbell duty. Christy other to look.’1 The next game may not lean on a moundmate for the likes best. Mathewson won three games in five to Hubbell—but that is still ; essential victory. belong days back In 1905, but Matty then the saner Stressing what is known as a screw pick. was just 25 years old. Hubbell now Tough on Bad Day. ball, the left-handed counterpart of Is 33. Those eight added years doni can't blame the Yankees for Fears Hubbell. Christy’s pet pitch, it is a bit more Y°u Only park any new stamina in fiber or these morbid fancies. have MANDARIN MCCARTHY is ex- * than remotely possible the hurling ace They muscle or nerves. found out that even under i of the current Giants will achieve • —/ Hubbell, tremely grateful that there are (Copyright, 1936. by the North Americas men of bad weather conditions, is about as not two Hubbells on the Giant Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) four wins over even mightier HAGERTV SEEMS pay maul than the ancient A's—these "FAIRLY WELL PLEASEP" WITH record-battering 1936 Yankees. HIS AERIAL FORCES.. Need AH the Breaks. He’d *- 'T'O THUS indelibilty inscribe his name in the archives of base ball, it would be necessary for Hub- bell to sidestep a single frown from Fate and to be the recipient of smiles /vuh hurciedN BREWERS PREVAIL in wholesale lots, but if the feat ever IT TOO /MUCH \ Is to be accomplished, no more favor- TOM —ITS ALMOS) able situation could be presented than A HALF INCH J none OFF LlUE / that existing now and better IN UTILE SERIES' equipped for the herculean task could be conceived than the modest mounds- man from Meeker. Okla. Right off the bat, a win for Hal American Association Flag Schumacher over Vernon Gomez in the delayed second tilt of the set Winners Beat Buffalo Four would scotch the scheme as effectu- ally as a subsequent defeat for Don Games to One. Carlos himself. Ey the Associated Press. But if Hubbell, with one notch on n. y.. October 2 — his rod already, should come back The ‘'little world series" went following a Yankee victory to into the records today as a register No. 2, successfully relieve Buffalo,four-to-one victory tor the a faltering mate for his third Milwaukee Brewers and the third con- set of brackets in the wake of GREAT GRIDIRON ... secutive triumph in the interleague an additional pair of Yankee tri- LITTLE Tommy keating doing don doing classic for the American Association. umphs and then get another bad- the "Pitching” and | THE'CATCHING- The hard-hitting Brewers sewed up ■ U'eather respite to recuperate for the the series by running roughshod over final clincher, the deed would be the Buffalo Bisons, International done, -- ■ .a ■ 4 In the flfth a League champions, 8-3, and Anal last Carl Interesting, Though, Eh? was having game night. ace "asted T WOULDN’T know what the odds trouble keeping his throws in Fischer, Buffalo's Muthpaw, three should be against this coming to the ball park. Pepper was run- only innings. The defeat of the Bisons gave the pass and a professional percentage ning wild on the base paths Brewers a grand slam In their expert might run out of ciphers and 'POPPING w, with the utmost placidity of post- season activities. Into a lame wrist in trying to figure * mind. Previously they ($45) 6-PIECE SET MACGREGOR PACE * cleaned up two play-off series after It out, but there will be plenty of You recall bumping into Powell MAKER P-5 IRONS. Stainless steel heads, light M j the association's •’• along this line when, in last month. The Yanks winning bunting. •'' V' oak sheathed. True calf- conjecturing Chicago ... •:'• :...;;.. Temper shafts, genuine and if, Hubbell hurls the Giants to SMS*' had an off-day and were lounging in skin grips. List at $45, 50% reduc- OFf Brewers Make Triple Play. their second win. the hotel lobby or leaving for the IN ADDITION to their long-range $22.50 Dallying with such dope could be Jake's Just That Kind a races. It was nice to see Jake again of Guy. the Brewers reeled off a condoned on the score of its utter and you asked him how he felt with hitting ($60) 1937 MACGREGOR WEIGHT-RITE AND Immensity or justified by the sheer EW YORK. October 2—What unmatchable temperament and cool- his first series approaching. In reply perfect triple play last night that MODEL WW IRONS. Sets of eight irons, all the most serious uprising magnificience of the thought vistas with a postponement, a fight- ness under fire, stamps him as a likely j he asked you whether you ever heard squelched with a beautiful flange sole head and True Temper the Bisons during the entire unveiled, but perhaps it had better ing heart and the most baf- prospect. In contrast, Powell rates | of a horse named Sun Chance and staged by mahogany sheathed shafts. List at $60, series. be charged to forehandedness in the fling slab repertoire in the [ far from the top among could he run in the mud. 50% reduction_ yJV/ indulgence of intriguing speculation. world all working in his favor, Carl and hitters. Later in the month you bumped The Brewers collected three more better still, dismissed as one of Owen Hubbell stands a fair chance there is the home runs—two Chet Laabs and Or, Secondly, in very into Jake in New York. The Yanks by ($30) 1936 LADY MACGREGOR 6-PIECE the minor manifestations of a bilious now of emerging from this series as make-ups of the two athletes a had on off-day and over at another by Wimpy Wilburn. Tot again IRON SETS. One of the most popular ladies, attack. one of the heroes in the contrast Hub is modest Ebbits Reid in the Giants Pressnell, right-hander, was credited outstanding striking Brooklyn, v / irons on the market, a modified sole head v‘ flange down out of the V^ v Getting clouds, history of the annual affair. He is a and unassuming and, in the op- were the Dodgers. Di with his third series victory, although / .,: .'. :*v playing Mag- with a stif flex sheathed shaft. List at $30, d* I there are certain signs and he was in the flfth when (■ however, pretty good bet to win his second start posite that he U, may lie Powell’s gio and Gehrig and Crosetti and the yanked • *7 evolve 50% reduction_ ▼ portents that this series may and if he does the trick Carl may get saving grace. rest journeyed across to watch the Buffalo threatened. con- into one of the most stubbornly a third crack at the Yankees and be- A world series game is different Giants and compare notes on Hub- The Bisons did all their scoring In ;; in the of what it ($48) 8-PIECE SETS OF LADIES’ MAC- tested long history come the only southpaw in series an- than any ordinary American or Na- bell. who was pitching that day. the sixth, shelling Pressnell from the once was au fait to refer to as Au- GREGOR NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPION nals to win three games. tional League game; Ball players will You asked Jake why he didn’t go box with four hits good for three ; tumnal classics. M ;:: MODEL IRONS. Dull finish, sole But, as far as picking Hubbell to say. oftentimes, that it is “just an- along. tallies. flange head, That Hubbell is the sole stand-out dark finished shafts. List at $48, 50% re- A wind up with a halo as a Giant saviour, other game,” but they rarely mean It. "Shucks, "he answered. "He The rally ended as suddenly as It d*7 be In a pitching way may disproved jt is natural. A “dark horse” for There is a natural tendency to tighten will be in the series, won’t he. started when the Milwaukee infield none other than the Ruffing he by similar honor in the Yankee camp, I’ll look him over then.” executed the triple play. Hope stab- mastered in the All Red opener. Big our own Alvin (Jake) Powell, grad- That's typical of Jake and It bed Crouse's liner and threw to Wil- ($25) 5-PIECE SETS MACGREGOR FARGO needs is a ball and firm dry footing— ually is being suspected by observant might be a blessing. Di Maggio and burn to nail Dickshot off second. Wil- IRONS. High polished flange sole blade with ma- he has the class and the courage. series eyewitnesses as a stand- may try to guess when Hub burn then wheeled the ball to York hogany sheathed steel shafts. 5 irons d* I O PA possible Gehrig * out on a ball club furnishing far more is to throw his screw ball or a to nail Boland at first for the third list reduction. 5 irons_ *r Ruppert Rifles Primed. going $25, 50% competition to any single individual curve and be crossed up. Both struck /~\R IT might be Schumacher or killing. than the Giants do to Hub. out the other day. But Powell never Fitzsimmons. Or Gomez, Pear- 5 AND 8 PIECE LADIES’ AND MEN S MAC- On the Yanks must out- tries to outguess a pitcher. If the son, or Malone. None of these, you held the but Harris was GREGOR AIRWAY IRONS. Also a high- Hadley he position, shade Di Mapgio and pitch looks good swings. That sole model a considered merely off this season’s Gehrig going to give the younger, polished flange iron, straight taper % and may account for his three hits be- records, is eligible to even carry Carl's Dickey and Gomez and at faster Powell all the best of it. mahogany-sheathed steel shaft, real leather grip. up, accounting for the sheer medioc- said he couldn't least two or three others. cause Hub fool Jake. sets list at $30. sets list at glove. But each has, at some point of that is hidden beneath the 5-piece 8-piece $48. rity play He threw him a screw ball and Opportunity knocked but Jake reduction. in his career, flashed the form essen- The trend toward regarding Powell 50% glamour and equalizing tightness of Powell singled. He threw another wasn,’t listening. Training in a big- mmmmmm tial to world series stardom, and with thusly is not without reason. _". Already rival players. Imaginations are awak- and Jake doubled. he threw’ league camp was fun and Powell made 5-piece d I C 8-piece dog so much at turn Finally, sugar stake, might Jacob has bashed two singles and a think of what rests course of ened and players a fast ball and Jake got another the most of it. During the sets- sets on the heat and display a really hot double off Hubbell t and, typically on their every move. the homeward. Harris caught up hand. single. trip cocky, he promises more fireworks. and the His Time with Jake, fined him, gave ($24) 1936 6-PIECE MACGREGOR NOKO- when take the tested under fire Took Coming Up. It Is inconceivable that any brand Moreover, you guy Hubbell, himself, back to but a few days is with a job Schulte, RODE IRON SETS. A genuine stainless steel box work can muffle find there is reason to be- in series battles in the was TAKE gifted measure of eg®, ©f consistently apart, you past, J before the season opened Fred hurt hacked blade as well as lack of He straight with mahogany the Ruppert rifles. With all that lieve he might carry on. As different visibly nervous in the Giants’ dugout imagination. his and Jake started and finished in the leg sheathed steel shafts. List $24, 50% reduc- I A ammunition are bound, from Hubbell as is from before the opener. On what he threw spent five years minors when ^ heavy they day night, the campaign batting .312 and having < * tion _ Y break Jake rested thousands of dollars in bets. almost all the while he was good somewhere along the line, to out nevertheless is just the kind of a glorious time. for the show. But Jake into a rash of base hits for the issue- a guy who might do a lot of things enough big Last he cut up a little again m ! a Spring ! Not Worried About Hub. no model of Y. M. C. A. secre- i 8-PIECE POPU- settling big innings that landed them in a world series. was S* ($3.50) SETS MACGREGOR was but no v is the of 10 and that s®oner or and reprimanded, thought LAR IRONS. finished on their closest pursuer DOWELL envy players tary figured later, A dull finish blade, black 19>2 games up of his job bothered him. in the title chase. They Strike Sharp Contrasts. in that he has little or no imagi- regardless of his escapades, they'd possibly losing steel shaft. List $3.50 each, 50% re- d* I "TC He on and played fair ball and TP Powell should happen to threaten nation and this is a tremendous have to bring him up. They did. kept $6 DOZ. duction. sets of 8 only). Each-t!*'^ Gehrig can’t be bottled up by any was traded. Now he is Jake (In the claim of Hubbell to the There is, then, a loose- In 1935. he went to finally staff of for more than a tilt halo, advantage. Bolls stingers with Powell of the New' York Yankees, not Golf he will present a striking contrast to ness and naturalness that might tend camp Washington and Bucky 7-PIECE SETS MACGREGOR NA- or two, and all young Di Maggio needs merely of the Washington Senators, ($35) the lean left-hander from the Ozarks. to set him apart from players who Harris threw open the centerfleld job TIONAL AMATEUR CHAMPION IRONS. is a fair shake in the matter of luck and Hubbell is just another pitcher, In the first place, there is a matter of are Pepper Martin en- to him. $1.95 to function effectively. He connected “pressing.” of the Dull finish flange sole blade, mahogany finished Fred Schulte, a like Van Atta Browns. I dozen solidly twice against Hubbell Wednes- comparative records and, status. joyed this advantage when he ran dependable steel shaft. List $35, 50% reduc- player and a cog in the 1933 It helps. Ask any ball player, man • Robert- day, and if that eighth-inning double Among big league pitchers, Hub is wild against the A’s. Andy $17.50 and his an While the strung pennant-winning team, had to man. son play drive hadn't gone directly to “tops” ability, along with highly —-a- • Tournament Whitehead, it would have spilled the ($24) SETS OF THREE MACGREGOR CHIEF- j • Mercury beans for the Giants. TAIN AND MODEL 40-S WOOD CLUBS. One • Jack Alexan- But while on the of clout- best model both with True subject j der of Maogregor's heads, ing, it seems fitting to observe that a All But Gomez When He’s Dubbed “El Temper shafts and calfskin grips. List $24 d* I guy named Ott measures up with any Goofy” reduction- t * *- Right set, 50% of them, in the estimation of your a swntsmith. agent, as Gets First With Yankees After He Fails to Recognize Gehringer at Bat. ($18) SETS OF THREE 1937 MACGREGOR And proceed'ng with the views of Tag Day WEIGHT-RITE WOOD CLUBS. Probably Mac. Col of the Giants this bureau, Terry BY PAUL MICKELSON, Joe won’t think I forgot what he Ruffing also tells how he used to “Why,” he’ll tell his mates, re- gregor's most popular medium priced wood model, like a has It over Marse McCarthy Associated Press Sports Writer. said.” borrow Lefty’s car so often that the peating from memory, “Louis, dug and easily one of our best values. List $18 of keen, d*Q tent in the employment inspi- YORK, October 2 — garage attendant thought the car In, feinted with his right and set, 50% reduction_ T' and our own little “Gehrlnger?” exclaimed Gehrig, rational direction, They call Vernon Gomez belonged to him instead of Gomez. shattered the air with a tremen- •: be for at “he’s the guy that just pumped you Jakle Powell should good and here’s dous left hook that toppled his “Goofy,” why: for a double. He's behind you “You’ll have to get written per- ($15) SETS OF THREE MACGREGOR FARGO least one interest-engendering brawl. right I I NEW The handle of "El Goofy” mission from Mr. before giant foe. WOOD CLUBS. A black medium-sized —on second base.” Ruffing i finished, to be a Yep, all in all. it promises was applied almost from the day we can let you use the car,’’ the "Goofy” reads all the newspa- head with a tone finish steel shaft. Buck O’Neill, veteran base ball deep CA of a series. the Yankee southpaw first him when £7 humdinger reported was attendant told Gomez one rainy pers. Writers get soie List $15 a set, 50% reduction_ T for For his expert, now in Washington, duty. first Important day when he came after his own they talk about his “condition.” credited with hanging the handle assignment he was sent against the automobile. At an exhibition game at West of “Goofy” on Gomez Detroit “Goofy” j -■ J Mirror. hard-hitting Tigers. Point he hunted his writer _ from that Gomez was pitching in a tight up pet Sports "Now these so day. Press. guys aren’t tough* and demanded: By the Associated game at Boston one day. As he x warned Joe McCarthy be- Charlie (Red) Ruffing, who got Today a year ago—, his started to wind up an airplane “Well, how’s my condition to- fore the game, "except Charlie licked by Carl Hubbell and Cubs ace, blanked Tigers 3-0 with of sped overhead. “Goofy” looked up. day?” Gehiringer. Now when he comes up Giant mates in the first game hits in World Series opener, As he did so, the runner on third almost four pitch to him like this .” the current world series, tells many Gomez drives McCarthy series record with eight used to stole home with the winning run. to distraction on he is to equalling The first Tiger dp smacked one stories about “Goofy,” who days assists. His “I'm glad the fiddles dashes of Gomez’ slants for a single. The be his roommate on the road. pitch. He around, Mc- one is flair is not next door to an air Held,’’ and down the dub house and Three years ago—Marty next one rammed a double to left prize about "Goofy’s” up for McCarthy said in disgust. asks Marse Joe a million ques- Manus released unconditionally field. came over to clothes. Gomez is a fan. He tions. winds up as manager of . Gomez and gave him that "don’t "One day,” recalled Ruffing, “he great light usually. McCarthy ’em.” time reads expert fight stories over, by him out. During a Five years ago—Cardinals worry, fellow, we’ll get kept changing his suit every he went I asked picks out what he thinks is the Spring exhibition game, McCarthy blanked Athletics 2-0 on Bill "Oh, I’m not worried.” confided outdoors. Finally him so often. best one and memorises the expert missed him. He sent the club* Hallahan’s three-hit pitching; Gomez. “But tell me when that why he changed opinion on crucial or house boy on a search. He found died at Oehringer comes up. I want to ‘Why, I gotta mall some letters,' points Sir Thomas Upton, 81, in • tree. to him like McCarthy aaya ao he said.” knockouts, “Goofy" perched ( London. pitch

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