Detroit Loses Crucial Series as Greenburg Fans At Critical Moment Derringer in Great Form Shanghai, Oct. 10.
HE Cincinnati Reds, who lost four straight games to the New York Yankees in the 1939 World Series retrieved honours on Tuesday by trimming the Detr tied their contending series, 3~ it Tigers, with whom they had 3, in a sensational grandstand finish in the seventh ning (when all fans stand up), scoring the odd run in three.
Pandemonium reigned in the south Ohio town and cushions and soda water bottles filled the air at the end of the first half of the ninth inning as the Tigers went {o oblivion. without the necessary run to tie the score.
Averill, batting for Newsome, was retired without a chance.
The game was a pitcher's battle, each hurler allowing seven hits, but Cincinnati bunched theirs while Detroit could do nothing. The Tigers could not connect with Derringer's offerings in the crucial moments, but they did not go tamely to defeat: instead they fought every inch of the way.
Having scored their first run in the third inning, Cineinnati-not having dented the platter, Detroit were in a fine position to take home the gonfalon in the same frame, but the brilliant pitching of Derringer caused their downfall.
With two men on bases. having in hand the first run of the game, and two men down, Detrolts's home run king Hank Greenberg, suc cumbed! to three strikes from the powerful right-arm of Derringer. That was the last and apparently the only chance the Bengals had of winning, Such Is the touch of the World Serles—Had Greenberg con nected. each Tiger player would have had the equivalent of nearly Mex. §180,000—now each Red player will olléet that much asa bonus and the Tigers will have to be, content with a mere Mex. $120,000. seress the plate and Mr. Greenberg The Score:
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