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Show CMIMEIkL MOLL CTW FK OAMYg Lefty Gomez Apt to Face Terry's Ace By CKORGK KIRKSEY I nltrd Press Hporte Writer NEW YORK, Oct. Carl Hub-Bell Hub-Bell has been officially named to tart for the GianU and tha price shortened' today on tha Yankees winning tha opening gamt of tha world Hrin at Yanke itadium Wednesday. Bill Tarry, Giants' managar. puked Hubbell and ended rumora that Cliff Melton, the aenaatlonal rookie aoulhpaw who won 20 gamea, might draw the flnt game assignment. assign-ment. Attrr Terry's announcement. Jack Doyne, Broadway prl re maker, mak-er, readjusted hie odda and made , the price 7-1 against tha Yankees Yank-ees and 11-18 against the tilanta for t ehopener. He had previously quoted 1-1 agalnat tha Yanka and 1-S agalnat tha tilanta. Manager Joe McCarthy will name tin atarting pitcher today. Ha will pick between Lefty Gomel, who won 21 gamea, and Red Ruffing, hefty right-hander who acored 20 Victoria, Victo-ria, Paynes, who beat the Giante POUR SERIES UMPS NAMED NEW YORK. Oct. 4 (iW-The four umpirea who will officiate in the world'a aerica were named by Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landia toduy. George Barr and Bill Stewart were appointed from the National lengue and Emmett Ormsby and Steve Baail from the American. twice last fall, is favored to get the assignment Ruffing lost once to the Giants and failed to finish the ether game. Every box seat has been sold for the first six gamea, club officials announced. The Yanks have aold their aupply of 4748 at 46 60 each for the first, second and sixth gsmes which will be played at Yankee atadium. The Giants' supply of about 5000 boxes has been disposed of for the third, fourth and fifth games to be played at the Polo Grounds. Seating rapacity of Yankee stadium for world aeries games la 71.SOS. The largest crowd ever to aee world aeriea game la 66,66a at the fourth game last Hubbell has opened two previous world series, pitching the Giants to victory over Washington in 1933 and beating the Yanks In last years rain-swept opener, 6-1. The Yanks beat Hubbell in the fourth game. 5-2. In 16 innings against the Yanks be hss allowed IS hits and five runs. Terry Is expected to follow up with .Melton In the aecond game and Hal Schumacher, who waa knocked out of the box by the Yanka In the second game lant year hut won the fifth game, in the third game. McCarthy's pitching assignments re likely to call for Gomes in the opener, Red Ruffing In the second game, and Monte Pearson in the third game. With Hubbell pitching the first game, Myril Hoag will play left field for the Yankees and George Selkirk right field. When a righthander right-hander works for the Giants, Tommy Tom-my Henrich, a left-handed hitter, will replace Hoag. The Giants also will make one shift against southpaw south-paw pitching, with Hank Leiber or Wally Berger playing center field when Gomes pitches. When the Yanks have a right-hander no the mound Lou Chiozza will patrol center cen-ter field. Jake Powell, hero of last year's aeries when he hit .4SS, may not play in the aeriea because of ainua trouble. Texans Hold Lead In Title Playoff FORT WORTH. Texas, Oct a4 UP Southpaw Clyde 8moll, treated rather roughly by th Little Rock Travelers in th Dixie series opener four dsys ago, cornea back to the mound tonight for th Fort Worth Cats. Byron Humphries, who won - 18 and lost 7 this year, is ths Trsv . elers' choice. The Cat, Texas league titltsta, won their second gams of th playoff play-off yesterday, 3-0. It waa tha third ahutout of the series, ths Southern association Travelers winning the opener, 10-0, and Fort Worth the aecond game, 3-0. Ed (Beartracks) Grser, hoary Cats' hurler, kept the Travelers within ths first two bsses for eight innings in-nings aa he limited them to lix hit. |