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The Sports Trail By WHITNEY MARTIN By WHITNEY MARTIN DETROIT, Oct. 2—(JP)—One thing are pretty sure of after rustling around this bustling metropolis for a couple of days. After the world series starting tomorrow there will be no cries of “break up the Ti gers’’ or “break up the Cubs.” In fact, you gather there is at least a scattered opinion the Cubs are pretty well broken down al ready, and that’s a difference only in the direction of the break. This idea is fathered by the fact many citizens who have seen only the Tigers, probably on off days, are picking the Cubs on the theory the Cubs couldn’t be quite that bad, and vice versa. With them it's just a question of not knowing what they want, but knowing de finitely what they don’t want. Anyway, the situation adds up to the prospect of a fine series from a competitive standpoint, which is the important thing. And the fans aren’t going to see a col lection of 10-thumbed jitterbugs out there with the galloping heebie-jee bies. The boys have been through this season and each club had its dress rehearsal in fag end games with the pennants at stake. “We’ll be the most relaxed club ever to enter a world series,” Steve O'Neill said of his Tigers to day. “We were in first place 110 days and sometimes by only half a game. The boys are so accus tomed to tension a w^rld series will be nothing new to them.” It isn’t to be gathered the Tigers are so relaxed they’re- practi cally limp and ready to be i*ssed around. As Steve says, the club, which he r^tes about on a par with his last year’s team, believes jn iiself and won’t be stampeded by the size of the stakes. O Neill also said he believed that w^ei^Hank Greenberg hits a home ♦vf”. “e does it by guesswork. Not that Hank gets up there and says to himself, "I guess I’ll hit a home run now.” It is a case of guessing against the pitcher and catcher. That s Hank’s only hitting weak ness — his guessing — but that has been the weakness of all great hitters, Steve Maintains. “He’ll probably deny it,” O’Neil] said. “They’ll all deny it, but I know all exceptional hitters try to guess what the pitch will be. That goes for Cobb, Speaker and the rest. Cobb used to insist he never guessed at a pitch, hut I remembei in Boston back in 1924 I was out in the bullpen when Cobb popped up and came out to his position sputtering and fuming. He said the pitcher had thrown a curve when he was expecting a fast ball. That proves my point.” Accepting Steve’s opinion as true, the series looms as a battle between guess stars, as there are enough power hitters on each team to break up ball games if they happen to be guessing right. The Tiger pitchers, too, O’Neill indi cates, will have to do a little guess ing themselves. He hasn’t an of ficial scouting report on the Cubs. “I’ve picked up some informa tion by inquiring around here and there.” he said, “and Jim Tobin has helped me out as he knows the national league hitters. But we never really scouted them.” Which may or may not make much difference. They’ve been scouting the weather here for days and think they have the right dope on it — cool and sunny — for to morrow. But sometimes they get crossed up. "tar ting Lineups For First Series Contest DETROIT, Oct. 2.—(TP)—Starting lineups for the first game of the 1945 World Series here tomorrow (batting averages and pitchers' won-lost records in parenthesis): CHICAGO (NL) DETROIT (AL) Hack. 3b (.322) ...Webb, ss (.200) Johnson, 2b, (.302) - Mayo, 2b (.285) Lowrey, If (.282) _Cramer, cf (.275) Cavarretta. lb (.355) ---Greenberg, If (.309) Pafko. cf (.297) _ Cullenbine, rf (.272) Nicholson, rf (.243) - York, lb (.264) Livingston, c (.254) - Outlaw. 3b (.272) Hughes, ss (.248) - Richards, c (.252) Borowy, p (21-7) -Newhouser, p (25-9) (Borowy record with both Cubs and Yankees). ----- Shellhorse To Attend University Of Maryland George L. Shellhorse will eniei the University of Maryland after leaving his position with the United States Maritime commission re cently. He joined the commission in 1941 and was assigned to the Ma terial Supply division and attach ed to the Norfolk division, working at the North Carolina Shipbuild ing company's plant here. He was gen and upon Mr. Roentgen’s sud I assistant to the late A. E. Roerit I den death in Washington, was act ling Supply Officer for some I months. Mr. Shellhorse intends to com I plete his studies and obtain a de | gree in Chemical Engineering. £% ——————————————————— War Date Wins Ladies Handicap At Belmont NEW YORK, Oct. 2.— (£>)—War Date, the Maine Chance Farm’s victor in the modesty and matron Handicaps in Chicago, won the $15, 000 Ladies Handicap at Belmont park today. Ridden by Arnold Kirkland, War Date defeated six other Fillies apd Mares by a length and a half in the feature for three-year-olds and up ward and returned $3.80, $2.80 and $2.50. The winner stepped the mile and a half in 2:34 3-5. Surosa, with Eddie Arcaro in the Saddle, was second, paying $3.90 and $2.90. One Scribe Predicted Cubs In National Loop NEW YORK, Oct. 2. — UP)— The Detroit-Chicago world series open ing tomorrow is not what the na tion’s baseball writers predicted last spring when another all-St. Louis classic between the Cardinals and Browns was forecast_ Newhouser Selected To Oppose Borotvy CAPAC {CROA S TO AT ND OPENER Tigers Favored In Betting To Win First Game Of Series By GAYLE TALBOT DETROIT, Oct. 2. —This Motor City was jammed to the rafters with baseball World Series fans today as the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs went through their final limbering-up for to morrow’s opening tussle of the sev en-game championship set. Not a hotel room was to e found by late arrivals, and two lake steamers being used as floating hotels were similarly packed by the crowd that had flooded in to see the first peacetime series since 1941. Briggs Stadium, with its more than 55,000 jeats, including some 14,000 bleachers, was certain to be a sell-out at game time, 1:30 p.i— Eastern Standard Time. The rival managers, Steve O’ Neill of the Tigers and Charlie Grimm of the Cubs, stood pat on their pitching choices for the open er. Hal Newhouser, Detroit’s 25 game winner, was to face Hank Borowy, the $100,000 beauty who won 11 for the Cubs while losing only two in the final two months of the National League race. He won 10 for the Yankees before the Cubs got him. With Newhouser, a slim south paw, prepared to bear down on the Cubs’ left-handed hitting array of Phil -'■'avarretta, Stan Hack and Bill Nicholson, the Tigers remained firm 5-to-7 favorites to win the opener, and 10-13 choice of the bookmaking gentry to capture the series. The first three games will be played here, after which the clubs will jump overnight to Chi cago to finish the set. Borowy will have the important advantage of having pitched against the American league cham pions for a number of years while he was with the Yanks. He knows their batting weaknesses, and Grimm has never wavered in his belief that the youthful - looking, mild-talking righthander will get the Cubs off on the winning side. The Tigers, speaking privately have expressed a lot of respect for Borowy’s skill. While O’Neill predicted flatly that his Tigers, who had to fight right down to the final day to sew up their flag, would capture the series by four games to two, Grimm preferred to let the Cubs’ bats speak for themselves. Neith er would hesitate to say .who might pitch the second game for him. O'Neill was on record that Stubby . Overmire, another lefthander, would face the Cubs in the second bout if Newhouser should win the first. Otherwise, he said it would be Virgil Trucks, a righthander. Claude Passeau was Grimm’s sec ond game nominee. Series weather prospects were fairly promising. Although a chill wind blew today and a drizzle fell on the Tigers while they worked out before noon. Selfridge Field ad vised that the sun would be out to morrow and that it likely would be no colder than GO degrees at game time. Manager Grimm arrived at the park early today, swathed in an overcoat, and watched the Tigers go through a lengthy hitting and fielding drill. He and O’Neill con gratulated each other on winning their pennants and posed for a bat tery of cameras. Grimm at least pretended to be greatly impressed as he watched Eddie Mayo, Roy Cullenbine, Hank Greenberg and other Tigers slam a dozen balls into the stands. “They sort of massage that ball, at that,’’ he commented. “Of course, we might show them a lit tle better pitching tomorrow.” Grimm thought he would be able to start his crack second-baseman Don Johnson, in the cpener. John son’s neck, injured in a collision with Umpire Babe Pinelli in Cin cinnati last Thursday, was just about mended. Otherwse the Cubs reported in top shape for thi bat tle, and the Tigers were getting around fairly spryly, too, except that Greenberg still limped on an injured right ankle and promises not to cover a great deal of terri tory in left field. rri ...Un V»1 flW the Cubs down in the second series game, toiled hard with Catcher Paul Richards today in an effort to get his curve working properly. He threw nothing but fast balls in his single post-Navy eff*rt against the St. Louis Browns two days ago. Though he was pretty impressive, the Browns gave his fast one a long ride every time they got hold of it. Richards, the veteran player, coach and Minor league manager, was slated to catch the opener for the Tigers, and possibly every game of the series. Mickey Living ston, a right-handed batter, was to wear the mask for the Cubs in each game that a Southpaw pitched for Detroit, with Paul Gillespie doing the honors against Tiger right-handers. Umpires for the opener figured to be Bill Summers, American League veteran, behind the plate, with Lou Jorda of the National on first, Art Passarella of the Ameri can on second and Jocko Conlon of the National, on third. On the record, the Cubs ei. er the series with a heavier hitting outfit than the Tigers, and per haps a better rounded infield and outfield. The Tigers appeared to have the greater pitching staff, with a man like Newhouser stand ing an excellent chance of shut ting out any team he faces. Ee blanked St. Louis and Cleveland successively in his last two starts of the season, He is certain to wojk twice unless the series is wrappe ' up in four games, and he has ask ed that O’Neill let him go three times if the play-off goes the full distance. In Cavarretta, their first base man, the Cubs have the year’ heaviest hitting regular in either league. He wound up with the lofty mark of .355 and slugged across 96 funs in 132 games. He or Andy Pafko, who hit .297, or till Nichol son, who hit only .243 but ho poles a long ball, all can break up a ball game. Stan Hack, the veter an third baseman, clouted .322 for the year, and he has proved in past world series that he is at his best in the big-money classic. As Greenberg so dramatically demonstrated in St. Louis on Sun day, the Tigers also can break up a game with one titanic swing. Al though their averages are some what anaemic, men like Doc Cra mer, Roy Cullenbine, Rudy York and Eddie Mayo can pour a lot of wood to ball at times. As for the comparative league batting figures, the Tigers are dead certain they have been looking at finer pitching in the Ameerican league than the Cubs saw in the Na tional. * Tiger s’ Lair 9BRIGGS STADIUM .... HOME OF THE TIGERS__ For Chicago HANK BOROWY US Athletic Gpmes Kept POW’s Going WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. — UP) — American Athletic games helped keep prisoners of war going in Jap anese camps, Lieut. Col. James A Devereux told Washington’s Touch down club today. Devereux, a hero of the Wake Is land battle, said the Red Cross and other .International organiza tions provided the better Japanese Camps with equipment for base ball, basketball, horseshoes, ping pong and other games. Jimmy Conzelman, nationally known sports figure and speaker, said that courage shown in the wai by men like Devereux “puts our all American tackles to shame.” An autographed football and baseball were presented to Deve reux’s 11-year-old son, Paddy, by Sammy Baugh, Washington Red skin passing star, and Clark Grif fith, owner of Washington’s Sena tors. Johnny Longden Leads ‘ Hollywood Park Riders INGLEWOOD, Calif., Oct. 2.—UP, —Johnny Longden maintained his Hollywood park Jockey lead with 21 winners in 96 starts through Iasi Saturday. Another veteran rider, John Adams, was right on Longden’s heels with 20 firsts in 106 mounts Adams, moreover, had 15 seconds and 12 thirds to Longden’s 11 places and nine shows. WORLD SERIES AT-A-GLANCE By The Associated Press Teams— Chicago Cubs, Na tional League, vs. Detroit Tig ers, American League. Playing schedule—Oct. 3, 4, 5 in Briggs Stadium, Detroit; Oct. 6, 7, 8 and 10 in Wrigiey Field, Chicago. Starting time of games—1:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. First game batteries — For Chicago, Hank Borowy and I Mickey Livingston; for Detroit, Hal Newhouser and Paul Rich ards. Umpires—Bill Summers and Art Passarella, American Lea gue; Lou Jorda and Jocko Con ion, National League. Attendance— Briggs Stadium capacity 55,000; Wrigiey Field capacity 44,000. Capacity crowds expected at all games. WEATHER EXPERT PREDICTS ‘FAIR’ DETROIT, Oct. 2. — UP) — The world series got a cheerful go ahead from the weather man to day. W. W. Oak, U. S. Weather Bureau chief, said that for the series open er tomorrow between the Detroit Tigers snd Chicago Cubs it would be “fair with sunny skies.” The temperature will be about 60 de grees, he said. For the second and third games here Thursday and Friday Oak pre dicted “partly cloudy and warmer, with showers likely Friday.” Scalpers On Duke-Navy Ducats Warned By King DURHAM, Oct. 2.—(JPi— Chief of Police H. E. King today issued a warning to football ticket scalpers that special federal officers will as sist local police here during the week end in arresting all persons who are caught selling Duke-Navy tickets above the normal price of $3. No leniency can be expected in court for those convicted of profit eering on the tickets,” Chief K.ng declared. _ For Detroit - X / m Hal Newhouser Philadelphia Eagles Strong In Grid Race CLEVELAND, Oct. 1. — (TP) _ There may be a reshuffling of the deck in the National Football lea gue this season. Since the origin r" (he league’s divisional system in ^ 1, no team other than the New sfork Giants and the Washington Redskins ever has won in the east and only one club (Detroit in 1935) has bro' n the monopoly of the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears in the west. Prospects for a change are bright this year. The Philadelphia Eagles have indicated they’ll be a power in the east while if any team is go ing to stop the Bears and Packers in the west the Cleveland Rams will have to do it. BUY U. S. VICTORY BONDS Detroit Jammed To Brim; Labor Upsets Forgotten DETROIT, Oct. 2.— UP) r-' \merica’s first peacetime World Series in four years set Detroit >n edge emotionally today and breed the city into a veritable balancing act to keep control in i \yhirlwind. All over big and joyful Motor town the talk concentrated on the Detroit Tigers’ chances of beating the Chicago Cubs for’ the world baseball championship in the series starting tomorrow, and ignored strikes and the threat ol strikes. t A capacity crowd of 55,000 fo: Briggs stadium was expected, and that typified Detroit in General For the Motor City was loaded down to the point where it couldn’t take much more. Detroit was just beginning to catch its breath from its tremen dous war job when the World Series came along, and tonight a man couldn’t buy of beg a place to sleep because of the congestion All hotels were filled to the last room, and harried managers were dodging out of sight of more patrons. Two Great Lakes passen ger steamers, pressed into ser vice in the emergency, were moor ed at the foot of downtown Wood ward avenue in the Detroit rive: taking on some of th eoverflow, One hotel said it had turned down 10,000 applications for reser vations within the last two weeks Others had similar experiences To confuse the situation further the oil workers strike had upsel the city transportation systems Buses and streetcars carried ab normal loads because thousands o: private cars with empty gasolim tanks were out of service. Calls on taxi-cabs were heaviei than ever, and the cabs worrie: about fuel supplies. Cafe and bar men got set fo: a terrific demand, and it was suri that that chip of butter with eacl dinner order was going to be slice; thin if it was to go around. Detroit loved it, however, an< pid more attention to the weathe: man’s forecasts than t othe labo difficulties in its No. 1 industr; —automobiles. Tomorrow will bi ‘‘fair with sunny skies,” the weather man said. Scalpers of World Series tickets : were busy. The ball park was sold out of reserved seats long • ago for the three games here— I there had been 300,000 applications for tomorrow’s game—and scalp • ers were reported asking as high « as $50 to $60 for strips of three i tickets. The straight price is $18. I Crews at Briggs stadium hard by the downtown section worked I at shining up the big layout for • the series opening. Others were • packing in vast supplie sto take - care of the hot dog and soda pop ! demand. CITY TENNIS PLAY COES INTO FINALS Second round of the Men’s Sen ior division of the Second annual tennis tournament which is spon sored by the City Recreation De partment was completed over the week-end it was announced late last night. All matches were play ed on the clay courts at Robert Strange Playgrounds. E. C. Adams, defending cham pion won over L. B. August. Sr. 6-1, 6-1; R. N. Getty defeated W. R. Fountain 6-1, 6-1; M. V. Barn hill registered a win over J. T. 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