Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-01 | Page 18 | Joe Not Popular with Lady Luck

Joe Not Popular With Lady Luck B By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Oct 1 1 Frankie I-Frankie Frisch picked the Giants Gianta to win the first one before it started The tough boss of or the tough Cards a chunk of cut plug the size of or your fist in his jaw his feet draped over the railing gave his hIs' opinion during the Giants' Giants infield I practice In High Spirits They wont won't miss today he said I as Bartell dove to his left and came cam up with a hot one got it it I know those punks and when the they r warm up like that you aI aint t gonna gonn I beat em S Someone 0 m e eon o n e challenged Frisch's Frisch S ability to call the turn on a te team m 1 by the way it act acted d in practice Okay Have it your way But Bu t Ive I've been In a few of these series and give me the nervous jerky guys L You play better ball when youre you're scared and your belly's turning over I why but you do Those Giants are in today dose Close to Wrong I It turned out that Frisch was right but a right guy never came closer to being wrong He missed by just one inch for one inch more to the right and that curving line drive of Joe DIMaggio's in the eighth inning would have gone zinging zing zing- ing on to right field Frankie Crosetti would have scored the ty ty- ty ing run Red Rolfe would have bave been on second DiMaggio on first none would have been down and Biscuit Pants Lou have been up That the Frisco Kids Kid's hit didn't go jo one more inch to the right al allowing al al- lowing Burgess Whitehead to stab It Jt out of the mud and make it a double play ball is due to that most fickle tickle of or all gals Sister Luck LucIe She doesn't like DiMaggio not DiMaggIo-not not this year anyway It was his luck Juck you will remember who pulled the strings in the star all-star game earlier in the year and placed th the horns of or the goat instead of or the halo of or the hero on the Frisco fishermans fisherman's head I In that game with the bu bases s loaded he caught one smack on the nose and Leo Durocher got it A few Inches either way and the bases were cleared But it wasn't a few Inches either Continued on Following Pare Page Joe Not Popular With Lady Luck Continued from Preceding Page way so he lie was a sucker The same yesterday He left the field fielda a chump Carlos Hubbell left it a hero The he positions might well have been reversed Even the most frantic frantic frantic fran fran- tic Giant fan wouldn't go so far as asto asto to say that Hubbell called the turn I Ion on that one I But he won it and theres there's no rio denying that the long-legged long screw- screw bailer from Oklahoma deserved it I It wasn't his kind of f a day because it was cold and a thin curtain of ofrain ofrain ofrain rain bathed him most of the way Hubbell has reached an age where his arm needs the hot sun to be at its best But up and down w went nt the homicide squad Lou Gehrig didn't hit the ball out of the infield Neither did Bill Dickey And Tony Lazzeri didn't get a scratch Blake l One Mistake l He would have had bad a shut out but but for the fact that a curve slipped off his bis fingers and gave George Selkirk the kind he he can powder powder powder-a a straight one chest high C That was Hubbells Hubbell's only mistake Yes his only one for that error they called on him when ho he handled Red Rolfe's bunt in the eighth was an error for the scorers not for Carl It was a base hit and should have been recorded as such I am arm still glad I called the Giants in six The only thing Im I'm afraid of is that they'll win it in five and mar my reputation reputation-as as a picker