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Show Waraeke Bests Schoolboy Rowe In Pitching Duel Arkansas Smokeball King Handcuffs Tiger Sluggers With Blinding Speed; De-maree De-maree Hits Homer in Ninth NAVIN FIELD, Detroit, Oct. 2 (U.R) The Chicago Cubs, with Lonnie Warneke, the Arkansas smokeball king on the firing line, picked up right where they left off in their sensational sen-sational drive to the National league pennant today, to defeat de-feat the Detroit Tigers, 3 to 0, in the opening game of the 1935 world series. Pitches Four-Hit Game A crowd of 50,000, which packed every inch of the spacious spa-cious stands, saw Warneke, given a two-run lead in the first inning, handcuff the famed Detroit sluggers with his blinding blind-ing speed and wicked hooks and curves. Over the full nine innings the Tigers touched him for but four hits, and they came at the futile rate of one an inning. , While Warneke was blinding the Tigers, his mates worked on Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe, giant right handed act of the American leaguers, for seven hits, one a tremendous home run by Frank Demaree in the ninth inning. But the Cubs didn't need this blow, which sailed high into the left field bleachers, for with Warneke in invincible form, the game, to all intents and purposes, was settled set-tled by the first inning attack of the Cubs. The Cubs, playing with the fire and dash of the Cub team which blazed through four straight games in the 1908 series with Detroit, De-troit, wasted no time today. The game was scarcely a minute old when Augie Galan, left fielder and lead-off man, slashed a double that ripped off Rogell's glove and bounced into centerfield. The Tigers, nervous and jittery, failed to cover second base on the throw in. Galau Scores Galan was home with the first run a few seconds later when Rowe threw wild to first on Herman's Her-man's easy roller. Freddie Lind-strom Lind-strom sacrificed Herman to second, sec-ond, and then Gabby Hartnett, catcher and spark plug of the National Na-tional leaguers, drove him home with a sharp single to right. The Detroit G-men Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane, Hank Green-berg, Green-berg, Goose Goslin and Charlie Gehringer who were expected to carry the brunt of the attack, did not get a hit between them, and the only one of the four to hit a ball past the infield was Cochrane, who lifted a short fly in the second. sec-ond. Warneke personally threw out the G-men six times on weak little taps to the pitdher's box. The only Tigers who could solve the brilliant slants of Warneke today were Pete Fox, Jo Jo White, and Rowe. Fox got a double and a single, White a single and Rowe a double. Tigers Weak Threat The Tigers only threats, and they were weak ones, came in the fourth and fifth innings. In the fourth, Warneke got himself in trouble. After Gehringer had roiled roil-ed out weakly, Warneke temporarily temporar-ily lost his superb control and walked Greenberg and Goslin in succession, the latter on four straight balls. Unperturbed, Warneke War-neke took a solid chew on his cut plug, hitched up his pants, and went to work. Pie made Fox roll weakly to Jurges, and Rogell dribble a gentle little grounder to Cavarretta. In the fifth inning, with one away, Rowe made a bid to wm his own game. With the count two and three, Schooboy straightened straight-ened out one of Lonnie's curves for a double. Jurges made a stab for the ball but it spun him 'round and richocheted to center for a double.' Warneke then made White hit softly to Herman, and followed by handling Cochrane's feeble little bounder himself. The Cubs nicked Schoolboy for hits in every inning save the fifth, seventh and eighth. Jurges singled in the second, Lindstrom in the third, Demaree in the fourth, Hartnett Hart-nett in the sixth, Demaree hit a homer in the ninth. Sensational Play The Cubs would have picked up a run in the third inning had not Greenberg turned in the most sensational sen-sational bit of fielding of the game. Herman, first man up, lashed a whistling drive to Green-berg's Green-berg's right. It was marked for a double but Hank, dashing to his right, leaped high in the air for a one-handed stab. Had he missed it, Herman surely would have scored on Lindstrom's long single a minute min-ute later. |