GEHRINGER BAILS OUT NORTH DALLAS

DALLAS, TX(AP): Charlie Gehringer homered in the bottom of the 10th to lead the North Dallas 40 to a 6-5 victory in Game 1 of the 1933 World Series. The 40 had been down 5-2 going into the 8th before the comeback victory, climaxed with Gehringer's home run. It was a rough start for the heavily-favored North Dallas nine, as 21-game winner Carl Hubbell was touched for a two-out double to Knights' rookie first-sacker Hank Greenberg, who scored when Chuck Klein singled to denter 2 pitches later. King Carl retired the next 7 batters he faced before facing Greenberg again, who hit a 1-1 pitch into the left-field bleachers, giving the Knights a 2-0 lead.

Knights pitcher Lefty Grove was cruising along until the 5th frame, when second baseman Charlie Gehringer followed a one-out single by Terry with a blast of his own to knot the score at 2.

Hubbell continued to struggle, finding ways out of jams in the 4th and 6th innings without allowing a run. However, the 7th inning, Hubbell retired Carl Reynolds and Grove before rookie Pinky Higgins homered to center, giving the Knights a 3-2 lead. Joe Cronin then singled, stole second, and scored on Greenberg's third double of the game.

In the 8th, Carl Reynolds reached second on a throwing error by third baseman Bill Werber, and scored on a single by Pepper Martin, who was pinch hitting for Grove. Going into the bottom of the 8th, Harlem had a 5-2 lead.

Tom Zachary came in to relieve, and immediately ran into trouble, giving up a lead-off double to Rick Ferrell and a walk to the diminuitive slugger Mel Ott. Babe Ruth, a former Knight on the 1931 championship team, flew out to deep left, allowing Ferrell to advance to third. Fred Lindstrom walked, loading up the bases with only one out. When Zachary struck out Terry, it appeared the Knights might get out of trouble. Unfortunately, Charlie Gehringer had other plans.

Gehringer singled to left, scoring Ferrell, to cut the deficit to one. Werber then atoned for his error in the 7th with a single of his own, scoring both Ott and Lindstrom. Ben Cantwell then grounded out to Buddy Myer to end the inning, but the damage had been done as the score was tied, 5-5.

The ninth inning had it's drama, as Cantwell had two men on with two out before being replaced by Bill Burke, who got Roy Johnson to pop up to end the inning. In the bottom of the ninth, Zachary was still wild as he walked Luke Appling and Ruth before being relieved by Clint Brown, who got out of the inning.

Burke set down the Knights in order in the top of the 10th, and Silas Johnson came in to pitch in the bottom of the 10th. He got Terry to fly out to center before Gehringer homered down the rightfield line, his second of the day, to snatch the victory for North Dallas.

Gehringer and Werber did the damage for North Dallas, going a combined 7-9 with 6 runs batted in. Greenberg went 4-4 with 3 doubles and a home run, and Myer also added three hits. Grove was very effective in his start, whereas Hubbell struggled.

9/24/1933, Har33-NDa33, Polo Grounds
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10     R  H  E   LOB DP
1933 Knights           1  0  0  1  0  0  2  1  0  0     5 12  1    10  1
1933 Forty             0  0  0  0  2  0  0  3  0  1     6 11  2     8  0
 
Knights              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Forty                AB  R  H BI   AVG
Higgins           3b  5  1  1  1  .200    Appling           ss  4  0  0  0  .000       
Cronin            ss  4  1  1  0  .250    Ferrell           c   5  1  2  0  .400       
Greenberg         1b  4  2  4  2 1.000    Ott               rf  4  1  0  0  .000       
 Hurst            ph  1  0  0  0  .000    Ruth              lf  4  0  0  0  .000       
Klein             rf  5  0  1  1  .200    Lindstrom         cf  4  1  0  0  .000       
Dickey            c   4  0  1  0  .250    Terry             1b  5  1  1  0  .200       
Johnson           cf  5  1  0  0  .000    Gehringer         2b  5  2  4  4  .800       
Myer              2b  5  0  3  0  .600    Werber            3b  4  0  3  2  .750       
Reynolds          lf  5  0  0  0  .000    Hubbell           p   2  0  1  0  .500       
Grove             p   3  0  0  0  .000     Cantwell         p   1  0  0  0  .000       
 Martin           ph  1  0  1  1 1.000     Burke            p   0  0  0  0  .000       
 Zachary          p   0  0  0  0  .000                         38  6 11  6             
 Brown            p   0  0  0  0  .000                                              
 Walker           ph  1  0  0  0  .000                                              
 Johnson          p   0  0  0  0  .000                                              
                     43  5 12  5                                                    
 
Knights                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Grove                            7.0  7  2  2  0  3  90  65  2.57
Zachary          BS 1            1.2  3  3  3  4  1  59  30 16.20
Brown                            0.1  0  0  0  0  0   1   1  0.00
Johnson          L 0-1           0.1  1  1  1  0  0   7   5 27.00
                                 9.1 11  6  6  4  4 157 101 
 
Forty                            INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Hubbell                          7.2 11  5  4  1  5 130  85  4.70
Cantwell                         1.0  1  0  0  1  0  19  11  0.00
Burke            W 1-0           1.1  0  0  0  0  0  13   8  0.00
                                10.0 12  5  4  2  5 162 104 
 
Har: Martin batted for Grove in the 8th
     Hurst batted for Greenberg in the 9th
     Hurst moved to 1b in the 9th
     Walker batted for Brown in the 10th
 
E-Myer, Gehringer, Werber. 2B-Greenberg 3, Ferrell. HR-Higgins(1), 
Greenberg(1), Gehringer 2(2). SB-Cronin(1). K-Higgins 2, Klein, Grove 2, 
Ruth 2, Terry 2. BB-Cronin, Dickey, Appling, Ott, Ruth, Lindstrom. 
SH-Hubbell. 
GWRBI: Gehringer
Temperature: 65, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: none.