Satchel Paige – Daily Worker 10-8-1940 Pg 8
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1 i it ‘Wish We Had Satchell Paige to Pitch Pay - Off Qame for Us/ Tiger Players Say (Special lo lhe Daily Worker) Schoolboy Rowe started it when he called “it then tvhen he only had one day's rest.” the screen test baseball handicap in 1933 and Rowe chimed in with the remark that also a/fain in 1934when Paige was the out CINCINNATI. Ohio. Oct. 7.—With their looks as if Satchell Paige will pitch for us at McMullen,a catcher then playingin Cali standingstar. star pitchers. Newsom, Rridges and Rowe, 1:30 tomorrow.” Ruck Newsom, Tigers' fornia, never hit a foul off Paige in half a This call for the great Negro pitcher who insufficiently rested for the seventh and crit pitching hero who hails from South Carolina, dozen games. Newsom added: “Charlie Ruck Newsom called the Negro Rube Waddell ical game of the world series, the cry “Satchell took it up, saying “I wouldn't mind seeing Gehringer was the only one who could hit came Del Raker, manager of the Tigers of the greatest in the Paige could win for us,” rose in the Tiger him pitch. He's him. He's got great stuff and we could use frankly admitted that the Detroit pitching dressing room this afternoon after the Detroit country. 1 pitched against him many times him right now. Rirdie Tebbetts joined in the situation was desperate and that he could only team lost. 4 to 0. to the Cincinnati Reds. out on the roast and only beat him once and praise for Paige saying that he remembered pick a pitcher out of his hat. f# MM WOHKEH S14HUS NEW YORK. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1940 WALTERS BEATS TIGERS AGAIN, 4-0 * * ^ Hard Games on ■¥ THE STARS 'ÇcüteK j/calzs Hurler Clouts Homer as * * Next Week’s SPEAK + Grid Schedule Út the Relies Series Is Evened, 3-3; Rowe * -¥■-* -У·**·-*-*-*·*·*-* By Al Stillman OtUj Worker) After nil those upeete Cinen Fang EnthuHlaHtlc Routed in 1st; Werber Stars (ExclusiveDaily WorkerFeature) l Ionel gridiron* te*t Saturday In Cincinnati 1* greeting It* world serle* win* with wild enthn- what for the moet partshould have slaam. Ticker■ tapeand confetti pour from office windows down- HU E. MvKECIIME SAYS: been "bree theirs” Ы*К«* ln- street* before the baseball headquarters at the Three Fast Double Plays Stop Tigers—Newsonţ It’s Derringer for tomorrow and that's about all 1 Netlierlands-Plasa are lined with people—mostly women and girl*. stltutions will overjoyed at тик itox Cincinnati Is probably the biggest small town In America. It or Bridges to Face Derringer in Serie« say for my voice is gone after that battle with the the tougher part* chance to get is a prettysad town, with miserable slums and an unprepossessing ■ ps.but they were right and had to call the playon of their schedules where, at least, Finale Today at Cincinnati business section Despite large war order*, unemployment Is as SCORE Averill in the eighth that a loes is a læs and not a drop wide*spread aa ever. And Series ticket* selling at *15 a game on V in preelige. CINCINNATI. Oct. 7. (UP).—The Cincinnati Red· way . Before the series Wed netday, and standing room at Crosley Field cost IS.45 per clubs felt the heavy TH.EIIS had an agreement with Lan persi came bounding back today on the strong right arm of Buckf of the mildget schools to an AR R H ГО A E As a result the common people of Cincinnati took their Series Walters, the bow-legged, pale-faced pitcher who hurled th« dis that the fielder must . n r:i,.Ing extent. We mean specIfl- in absentia. It represented lo many of them a means of letting off BartoU, ss ... .3 0 2 0 4 0 National League’s first world series' shutout in five year«» i η ■ up with the ball. Mc- rally Manhattan ’s 21-18 defeat m, of celebrating something —and they have had little to celebrate Croucher, as , ....о о о о о о the hands of George Washing for a long time. The Series win was followed by a renewal of that With Walters pitching a 5-hitter and completely mas* Cormick dropped it and McCosky, cf . ...,4 ooioo unknown for part tin 'l'-likhtful carnival flavor which marked the Series of 1039, when (¡ehrlnger, 2b, ■, .4 0 0 1 1 0 tering tlie Tigers' long-range hit-t------------------------------------------------ - that’s that, Walters game, Tuffy Leemans had the youngsters danced in the street* around Fountain Square —and you If ...,3 0 0 2 0 0 ters, the Reds won the sixth very fast today. I just told and evened up the ies at mind to graduate and Join the pro could Join any partyof strangers and be made welc Vork lb . .............4 0 2 11 0 0 4-0. three h. Thus the 1940 him to go home and have a Giants. Then there "They ought to win, for the sake of the people down here.” pbell, rf..........3 0 0 2 0 0 World come* P"yoff good sleepbecause I’m ¡going set pulled by little Lafayette said an old-timer. Baseball Is Redland ’* great game, for there Higgins, 3b .. 2 0 game for the first 'n" trimming NYU. Well aU no big college football teams nearby. And most ev Tebbetts, c .. ...,3 0 0 8 2 0 to keep him ready to ipitch _ glad when Bucky Walters, who is a sturdy, m Cardinals conquered the Tigersfour done wiUi Rowe, p . ...,0 0 0 0 1 0 relief tomorrow if we need hope* for undefeated seasons have teliig;ent young American, pitched his team to victory. Corsica, p...........2 0 0 0 5 0 gam es to three In 1934. Walters mp the first Na- him. Frey is also ready to gone into the archivée ot football Ilutchlnsor p .9 0 9 0 0 pjteher to register history they’ll playout the rest of Averill .. 0 0 0 0 0 ttonal Lea* play for a few innings if ål rin ff я und ihr C. f. åå. two world f< triumphs •lr season —of that Sullivan . 0 0 0 0 0 needed. Walter O. :Briggs, who own* the Detroit Tigers, Is the same walw ■ American since Lon War O. Briggswhov heads the Briggs Manufacturing Co., makers of neke of the Tigers MriååKMåå К Во let's see what’s coming TOTALS .31 О 5 24 15 О ille bodi He ha* a beautiful ball park remark twice In 1935 clakslc. The ex week. bove accepting Ballanfant was calling the able for the absence of advertising, for Mr. 1 third baseman and American League decision on Averill from the Tlie aforementioned Mlanliattan, small chi —being a very multi-millionaire, IK EIES castof f tied the Tigers into knots. lose no doubt ght to task by It is said that he had so much money that he prefers AB R H PO A E He was a better pitcher today than coaching box. He was in my r that defeat, r than make it. Thus his parkhas the largest Herb Kopf fo ball rather Werber, 3b . 2 13 9 I in the ond game and way and I had to veer aside to avoid hitting him, other alnst Boston Uni- ushers, hot dog girls, privatepolice, gro with a boopilng win the game ag number of attendants, M. Met'ormick, icf 3 0 14 9 0 pped off the Job verslty—not to be confused with lyes, of any in the big leagues. The salaries ng hornhomer. wise, I might have killed him. Our defense is clicking keepers and other i"team Goodma 2 2 0 0 eightghth Inni the powerful Boston College—In also the hlghesit, higher even than those о Detroit players г now with three double plays. Thank heaven for the man he pays his ball F. McCoirmlck, lb 4 0 1 1 the Polo Grounds Friday night. the Yanks. ed third on i Watters. Only 12 balls paid to Ripple, If ................2 0 2 2 0 0 who invented those two way killings, I’ve been hitting in of the Infield — NYU will try agnin, this time This Walter O. Briggs put up a big light to prevent Wilson, о ··■· 114 9 0 were hit poor luck mostly to fielders but there's big game' lef t. organising Ms plant. And he also waa penalised four singles, a double by Dick against Syracuse hi the Yankee UAW-CIO from Joost, 2b .... ....3 0 0 2 4 0 is for monkeying around with the contracts of BartelI ami seven easy outfield Stadium, and their chances of win by Judge Myers, ss 0 0 2 4 1 ålåΊ ΚΥ \УAİ jTERS SAYS: h 01 players,ineluding Benny McCoy and Roy Cullen- chances. The hardest hit ball ning are good what with the Ohief* íe 90 Walters, p ......... 4 1 0 2 0 The biggest thrill of the aeries for me and of the The baseball esar released the playersby an edict, which Rudy York’’* fly to IIval Goodman showing very little In thst lop season too was that home run. I made two others during sided 40-0 score run up against leflectrd greally on the honesty of the Briggs front offlee. TOTALS ___ 32 4 10 27 14 2 In the second and H after Goodman took a fen- them by Northwestern. So you see very plainly that Mr. Briggs, like the aristocraU of out the season, but when I that ball sail over the fence lisck steps.