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The Sports Trail Newhouser To Start Tilt By WHITNEY MARTIN Borowy, Payoff By WHITNEY MARTIN the bases full BATTLE OF TRIPS’ and two outs and Livingston Safe At Third , As Outlaw Takes Header CHICAGO, Oct 9—<m—‘The Chica- register the third out? How many EIGHT PREVIOUS |1TICKET SEEKERS Cubs and Detroit Tigers paused games do go you see tied up so dra- to catch their breath before FINAL joday matically with a tremendous home LOOMS FOR plunging into the final game of the run? SERIES WENT TO STORM WRIGLEY Series, there were World although How many games would find fans who had their yoi* AFF Y IN SERIES 50me skeptical ending as the result of the ball tak- that the two teams could a CONTESTS doubts ing freakish hop over an out- SEVEN DUCAT SALESMEN that without an error of dP even fielder’s head? 2 To sort on the play. It was the Betting Odds Go To c0me latter play which CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—4JP>— Wild- fantastic per- raised the Steve O’Neill Denies After yesterday’s tempest in the teapot, In Favor Of The of them the current classic 3 eyed. hardy fans—many in fhat at first formance Greenberg officially New Contract keeping an all-night vigil—storm- destined to go down in Se- was Signing seemed charged with an error on Detroit Tigers Field ticket booths for labeled “Bound to ed Wrigley history Win” a ball he never touched. That in it- ies By JOE REICHLER three and a half hours today to Rocky Road to self was or "The Victory,” a minor matter. Whether By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, Oct. 9—UR—Only up a sell-out batch of 36.- if the Tigers were Hank 9 — (ff) — With gobble although putting Greenberg got an error or CHICAGO, Oct. Series have would eight previous World 200 reserved seats for tomorrow’■ he tag on they Probably not was of no particular only one day of rest, Hank Borowy impor- gone to seven games, each produc- World Series finale between th* ;i "The Ball Done Us Wrong- tance, except to It did will haul his sagging muscles to all Greenberg. ing fireworks in its own way. Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tig- Bounder. not alter the outcome in the the hill tomorrow and try to pitch ihe slight- Here are thumbnail sketches of ers. wasn’t alone the dramatic cli- est. the Cubs to victory over ft Chicago those deciding seventh games of which saw a hard-hit ball It was the bad that told the the Detroit Tigers in the seventh It was the second time in base- ,„3X hop the past. Hack’s'bat the 1945 ball that a seventh World om Stan suddenly leap story, and it is denied and deciding game of history emphatically who won only over the head of that —Babe Adams, Series contest a pre-gam* li oni the ground the Cubs are cutting, the World Series. the produced in 12 games for Pittsburgh during the also Greenberg left field that groundskeeper in for a full Series Charlie Grimm, his sellout, other involving nHank Manager gained his third shivering fans home reel- share. That the would have shot to in regular campaign, the Tigers when they closed t the Tigers curving corps pieces with a six- was triumph of the Series groggy. It the game won even if the ball had continued hectic struggle that against the St. Louis Cardinals in S,anti yesterday’s hit, 8-0 shutout against Detroit. oeneral, which ran the gamut its natural course and been stopped club win out 8 to 7 in 12 the 1934 series at Detroit. in saw his Bo» cop shennanigans to Hank also is The classic, had —This final between the b om Keystone by problematical. innings to deadlock the When the ticket windows open- play. Cubs would have had men on first than to call ton Red Sox and New York Giants a sparkling little choice other ed at 8 a.m. (Chicago time), there most it wasn’t and For the part good third, and although Dizzy again on the slender right-hander had several heroes and goats. With was a shivering, but noisy queue it was the kind of Trout flirted with similar trou- had in three baseball, yet hpd who already appeared the Giants ahead 2-1 as a result of between 6,000 and 7,000 fans that brings the fans back. ble before and unscathed two vic- baseball excaped games and had racked up the on hand. By 11:30, all the reserv- the of a run in the top half of also brings teams back, a guy can press his luck too far. tories. ed ducats were but at 2 and Fred gone, p.m. killer is supposed to return It has been a weird Series from 10th frame, centerfielder as a For the Tigers it will, of course, there were still hundreds of hope- scene of the crime and what the start, with the 9-0 score of the the to the <o the be left-handed Hal Newhouser, Snodgrass earned the right ful fans still straggling around the did to base- first it the his an easy some of those players game making appear famous “invalid” who forgot goat’s horns by dropping ticket booths. was a on occasion nothing short Tigers never showed up, which on Sunday to el- Boston’s Engle for ball pain 1 Tg enough fly by Clyde Approximately 5,000 bleacher murder. they were sorry they did. 4 win in his second try two-base muff. After Harry Hooper of bow an 8 to I seats will go on sale at 8 a.m., In how many games do you see Anything that happens tomorrow There was never a was retired, Steve Yerkes walked. at the Bruins. tomorrow and 3,500 standing room round third base under must of necessity be in the nature Hal would be the man Tris Speaker raised an easy pop | a player doubt that admissions when the game starts of steam and fall flat on of an anti-climax. Two ball clubs would their foul that untouched be- full head in whom the Tigers pm dropped at 1:30 In how do couldn’t two Fred Merkle p.m. his face? many games just put games togeth- ultimate faith if the play-off went tween first baseman men to the field? er like It was one for Manager Charley Grimm and vou see 38 parade yesterday’s. the final day. and catcher Chief Meyers. Speaker down to Third Baseman Outlaw (27) takes a he 1 a the Jimmy ader attempting to get Chicago Cubs catcher in how many games do you see the books, both literally and figur- the flesh, it then singled in Engle with ty- Mickey most of the Cub players appear- As to infirmities of Livingston as he slid into third in the fifth inni ng of the sixth game in the 1945 world series in man come to bat twice with atively. the run and moved Yerkes to third ed at the this leadoff be about a stand-of when ing Chicago. The Detroit Tigers infielder took the thro w from the Bill Summers rules ball-park morning will run pitcher. Umpire for the third whence he scored the winning Livingston safe. The Cubs nosed the o ut 8-7 even to pick up tickets. There was no two aces square off Chicago Tigers to the series three-all. (AP Wirephoto) on a Larry Gardner. however, for either club. time in the Series. While Borowy long fly by practice, man from 1924—A tricky bounder, hit by Grimm was be-set with ticket Bruised Eleven will be a weary young Deacs’ to the Washington’s Earl McNeely, hopped troubles. “Everybody thinks 1 can trying to pitch the Cubs Wildcats Hard At Work Steve O’Neill over the head of New York Giants Denies them he moaned. “I’m championship almost unaided, get tickets,’’ the mound third baseman Fred Lindstrom and out of here before For Duck Newhouser will go to Signing New Contract gonna get quick Drills full of in Muddy Ruel from second I meet even more friends who Affray with his left shoulder brought run that With a base with the 12th inning For Game _____---■* narcotic to deaden the pam of Raleigh want nte to go to bat for them. the Nats a 4-3 CHICAGO, Oct. 9.— GP)— Steve WAKE FOREST, Oct. 9. —<£>>— which lately has made gave triumph. There just ain’t enough tickets, no “lump” BY O’Neill, who concluded his third » 1925—Kiki s eight inning GENE WARREN the remainder of the ’Cats tough how.” Wake Forest’s Deacons, with every inrow Cuyler were With and STATE PREPARING odds on the final game double with the bases loaded scored grim determination schedule. year as Detroit manager by di- t with Tennessee The orty ticket sellers pumped out bruising games With high spirits, the undefeated New While me st were notic- 2 to 3 in favor of the Tigers. three mates and put Pittsburgh spectators recting the Tigers into the world the ducats into greedy hands with to Hanover and Army behind them, expect at fever heat here after ahead for the first time in the game High School Wildcats ing the Hanoverian ground offen- interest series, said today he has not most customers grabbing the maxi- when FOR YMI CONTEST heroic duel, which the Pirates trotted from their new field house sive during the Blackbird tilt, be at top strength Saturday yesterday’s against Washington, yet for the 1946 season.