THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE I II11 Battle Of Southpaws Is Prospect As Series Gets Under way Rain Is Threat As Gothamites AwaitOpener Speed Of Gomez Versus Hubbell's Craft Assures Fans Of Close Battle NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-(IP)-Every body but the weather man manifested the cooperative spirit today as finish- ing touches were applied to prepara~ tions for New York's fifth exclusive World Series, due to be unveiled to- morrow in the Yankee Stadium. . The opening "battle of left hooks," otherwise identified as a southpaw pitching duel between Vernon Gomez of the Yankees and Carl Hubbell of the Giants, presaged a long-awaited "natural" that required only a fa- vorable break of weather to attract the populace in possibly record- breaking numbers. Officials optimistically predicted a record crowd of 70,000 fans. A "near sellout" of reserved seats was report- ed late today, with 30,000 unreserved grandstand and bleacher seats, at $3.30 and $1.10, respectively, to be put on sale tomorrow morning. A forecast of showery weather, however, made it appear unlikely the series record for cash customers, set at 66,669 in the stadium last year for a Sunday game, would be surpassed at the outset. The best guess was that between 50,000 and 60,000 will witness the opener of the best-four- out-of-seven whirl. The Giants won last year's open- ing game in the rain, with Hubbell pitching, and the second game was postponed, but all hands were hop- ing the getaway would not be spoiled by bad weather again. While the Giants went briskly and quietly about their warmup at the stadium, the Yankees all but tore the cover off the ball and the paint off the grandstand facades at the Polo Grounds. The power that has made the Yankees firm 2 to 5 favorites was in evidence despite complaints of sore throats, head colds or other min- or ailments. The. Yankees figure to win, not alone on their run-making ability but because they have pitching forces well equipped to match the best the Giants can produce. But there's a growing conviction that the Giants have what it takes to check the world cham- pions. GRID MANAGERS CALLED All second semester freshman and first semester sophomores in- terested in trying out for the foot- ball managership please report to me at 3:30 p.m. today in Yost Field House. Fred Columbo, Senior Mgr. First Yearling ScrimmageIs Set For Friday The members of the freshman football team will be given their first real chance to show their ability this Friday afternoon when Coach Ray Fisher plans to hold the initial intra- squad scrimmage at Ferry Field. So far the freshman have been somewhat segregated with one squad practicing plays while other teams were engaging in scrimmage sessions with the Varsity. These scrimmages with the Varsity, while not highly competitive in any sense, have brought to light several good yearling prospects. Among the linemen to see service in these battles Forest Evashevski, a big center from Northwestern High in Detroit, has been outstanding. He is over six feet in height, weighs 195 pounds and has looked very good at backing up the line against the Varsity onslaught. Forest was given all-state recognition while playing with Jack Heston's amateur squad in Detroit. Ralph Fritz, a guard, and Chuck Jones, all-state halfback from Loius- ville, Ky. have also shown up well. Jones is only five feet, eight inches tall, weighing 160 pounds but is fast and looks good on the defense. Tom Harman, highly publicized all-state fullback from Horace Mann High in Indiana has not seen any scrimmage action. as yet but will be given his chance Friday. In Monday night's session, Dave Strong was a member of the frosh backfield. Strong is the boy who transferred from Illinois this year after playing regular quarterback on the Illinois squad last season, scoring the field goal which won the Mich- igan game. He has been working out with the freshmen this fall about three days a week. ARMORY A L 1 - 1 Terry's 'Meal-Ticket' 6 ridders Work Hard To Pr epare For If ildcats I Entry Blank- Intramural Sports Independent Men's Organization. Coaches Like SSquad's Spirit jI Long Drill Participants are eligible for to their respective division. any number of sports but are limited O._______________ { z U r a n r. Chec ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ck Sports Golf Tennis (singles) Riding (Instruction) Soccer Gymnastics Badminton Volleyball Squash Twenty-one Sigma Delta Psi *Divisions of competition: Division Offered'* U. ---F. U. - F. U. G.-- U.- -- U. G. F. - - F. - G. F. U. G. - U. - -- U. G. F. Entries Close Oct. 1 Oct. 1 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 11 Oct. 14 Oct. 28 Nov. 1 Nov. 14 Nov. 14 by Faculty Directory) Pass As Use Defense Is Stressedz Varsity Sees Frosh WildcatPlays Golfers To Vie For Trueblood Trophy Competition in the second annual Trueblood Cup tournament will get under way this week with the first round of play scheduled for Saturday at the University golf course. Open to all scholastically eligible men except "M" winners, the tour- ney, won last year by Bill Yearnd, is 72 holes of medal play. Yearnd's score last year was 309. The play extends over two week-ends, starting at 1:30 on Saturday, with 18 holes to be played on Sunday, starting at 8:30 a.m., and with rounds to be played at the same times on the following week. Pairings will be made at the tee, but entries should be in by Oct. 8. Competition is expected to be very keen, according to Coach Emeritus Thomas C. Trueblood, as the crop of freshman golfers, is the best since the days of Johnny Fischer and ChuckKocsis. One of the favorites for the cup is Bob Palmer, who Just turned in a hot round of 69. Entries may be made at the clubhouse, by leaving name, telephone number, ad- dress and class. Charlie Who?0 Turn to page 5 Carl Hubbe::, veteran screwball artist of the Giants, is the man on whom Bill Terry will rely to get his club off to a flying start in the first game of the Series. Terry'st"meal- ticket" will face the Yankees "El Goofo" Gomez. Hubbell won 22 games while losing only eight games over the season's play and pitched the "clincher" game last week. The battle with Gomez is expected to draw a record mid-week series crowd. ( ( ( ) ) ) (U) (G) (F) Undergraduate. Graduate. Faculty (as indicated Drawings will be completed and entrants notified as to their op- ponents, time and place of play. (Name) (Address) (Phone) Mail or bring this entry to the Activities Office, Intramural Sports Department or Room 306, Union, 3-5 p.m. ASIDE LINES _________By IRVIN LISAGOIR _____ Series Line-Up NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-(AP)-Prob- able starting lineups for the New York Giants and New York Yankees in the first game of the World Series tomorrow afternoon at the Yankee Stadium, with batting averages and won-and-lost records of pitchers: The Wolverines went through the entire football gamut yesterday in1 their regular Ferry Field workout in preparation for the Northwestern game this weekend. Passing, punt- ing, tackling the dummy and block- inF all came in for work as the squad was sent through its paces. The praying phase was noticeably absent, however, as Coach Harry Kip- ke, who seemed well pleased with his gridders' showing, worked with the men. According to him, the team was shaping up better, and has been showing a good deal more fight and spirit. Use Wildcat Plays Kipke and Hunk Anderson sent the freshman squad, armed with North- western plays, against the first string men in a long practice. On the Var- sity during the drill were Smick and Nicholson at ends, Siegel and Savilla, tackles, Heikkenen and Brennan, guards, and Kodros at center. Ritchie, Renda, Farmer and Barclay held down the backfield posts. Coach Kipke was especially pleased with the showing of Danny Smick at the end post, and expected to use him Saturday if he continues to play as he did yesterday. At the same time, second and third team men spent the time running through plays and smoothing out dif- ficulties wherever they appeared. Olds Still Out While some of the men changed positions during the workout, start- ing lineups included on the second string, Nickerson, Levine, Piotrowsky, Trosko as backs, and Capt. Joe Rin- aldi, Pederson, Kuhn and Floersch in the forward wall. The condition of Fred Olds who was injured in the State game was still far from satisfactory, according to Coach Harry Kipke. Both he and Fred Janke are suffering from leg in- juries. It will probably take Olds another week to recover, while Janke will no doubt be fit to see action this week-end. Yankee Guns Oiled,... YANKEE GUNS begin their annual bombardment of the Giant fort- ress today, and strangely, some of the "know" boys think Col. Bill Terry and his Coogan Bluff roughies might withstand the assault. These men, who spend their daylight hours in dark, window-grated cigar stores, like the Giants to the extent of laying some of their "go-easy, come-easy" lettuce on them. There's always a variety of opinion on mooted things like a World' Series: One willing ex- pert claims that the Yankees are unstoppable by a motley crew like the Giants, which won a pennant with an outfielder, Mel Ott, on third base, and a third baseman, Lou Chiozza, in the outfield. An- other avers anything can hap- pen in a short series, and any- thing does. He adds Cliff Melton will make the game difference be- tween this series and last year's. Pitching is generally conceded to be 90 per cent of a ball club, and al- though Melton and Hubbell won 42 games between them this season, the Yanks still needn't start crawling with apologia. For Gomez and Ruff- ing, fair country flingers themselves, boast a combined record of only one less. Pitching differences are the only measurable ones between the two clubs, because no unit has yet been devised which can calculate the dis- tance between both teams' batting. DiMaggio, Gehrlg, Dickey, Selkirk, Rolfe, Lazzeri, et al are sluggers of merit, and where will the Giants get sufficient power abat to match them? So your venturesome columnist likes the Yankees. Wanta Bet?.. . Jack Doyle, the Broadway bookie, comes up with some interesting odds on the Series, to-wit: Series-Two to five against the Yankees; eight to five against the Giants. First Game-Seven to ten against the Yanks; eleven to ten against the Giants. Winning first two games-Six to five against Yanks; four to one against Giants. Winning four straight-Six to one against Yanks; sixteen to one against Giants. Home runs-Even money Di- Maggio doesn't make two homers in series; three to one DiMaggio doesn't make three homers; three to two Ott doesn't mke two homers; three to one Ott doesn't make three homers in series. Retort Acid: Jim Doyle, Cleveland Plain Dealer's sports columnist, un- der the caption "Lachrymose Arbor- ites, writes- "A squad of gendarmes up in Ann. Arbor were forced to use tear gas last Friday night for the dispersal of a mob of University of Michigan stu- dents who had gotten all the way out of line after a wild football rally. "Michigan State's grid gang had the same mob weeping even more co- piously the next afternoon but with- out calling a single tear gas bomb into play ...'' -0- Dots and Dashes-If two backs camp under a punt, and one raises his arm to' indicate a fair catch, but the; other grabs the ball and runs with it, what's the ruling??? . . . It's been bothering Bud Benjamin, and now he's got me doing it . . . Bob Cooper plans to enternlaw school next year and prefers not to hobble into the Quadrangle-for which we admire him . . . Hunk Anderson has one of the worst cases of athlete's foot seen in the training room in years ... Cappy Cappon believes Bernie Jefferson, colored Northwestern star, was the most improved Wildcat player ... Jeff returned a kickoff 85 yards for a score last Saturday ... Charlie Gehringer is the eighteenth Detroit man in 38 seasons to win the batting title, Ty Cobb doing it 12 times .. . 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"If You Write~ We Have It" Giants Moore, If .....310 Bartell, ss . . ..306 Ott, 3b .......294 Leiber, cf .....293 Ripple, rf .....317 McCarthy, lb .281 Mancuso, c ...283 Whitehead . ..289 Hubbell, p ....216 (won 22, lost 8) Yankees Crosetti, ss ..235j Rolfe, 3b . . ..277 DiMaggio, sf .346 Gehrig, lb ...353 Dickey, c . . ..338 Hoag, If .....301 Selkirk, rf ...328 Lazzeri, 2b . ..243 Gomez, p ....200 (Won 21, lost 11) Time of game-1:30 p.m. (E.S.T.). Probable weather - Cloudy and warmer, with probable showers. Series schedule - Second game, Thursday, Oct. 7, at Yankee Sta- dium; next three games, Friday, Sat- urday and Sunday, Oct. 8, 9 and 10, at Polo Grounds; Sixth and seventh games (if necessary), Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 11 and 12, at Yankee Stadium. Betting odds-first game: Yankees, 1 to 2; Giants 7 to 5. 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