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WORLD SERIES BEGINS TODAY New York Yankees Versus Chicago Cubs in Opening Game, With Ruffing and Bill Lee the Opposing Pitchers Weather Conditions Ideal J ; New York Yankees Chicago Cubs Player. Position. Bat. A v. Player. Position. Bat. Av. Crosetti, ss .263 Hack, 3b 320 J Rolfe, 3b , .311 Herman, 2b. . 277 ; Henrich, rf .268 Demaree, If ...... . .273 I J DiMaggio, cf 324 Cavaretta, rf .243 j Gehrig, lb ..295 Reynolds, cf 302 j Dickey, c .314 Hartnett, c .274 " Selkirk, If 254 Collins, lb .,.267 I Gordon, 2b .257 Jurges, ss... : .243 j Ruffing, p Lee, p UMPIRES Moran N.L. at plate; Rolls A.L. at first base; Sears N.L. at second; Hubbard A.L. at third, j GAME TIME 1:30 oclock. : ! The World Series of 1938 starts today with Lee pitching for the Cubs against Ruffing for the New York Yankees. The announcement of the starting pitchers for the initial game of the series came shortly after the noon hour Tuesday. Manager Hartnett decided to rely on his mound ace, big Bill Lee, who won twenty-one and lost nine games this season and figured importantly in the sensational victory drive of the Cubs. Ruffings record is twenty-one victories against seven defeats, and it will be the second time he has pitched a series opener. Manager "Gabby" Hartnett will be behind the plate for the Cubs when the game is called, while Bill Dickey is slated to catch for the Yankees. Both the Cubs and Yankees went through limbering up drills Tuesday at Wrigley Field. The Yanks arrived from New York without mishap and manager Joe McCarthy said his team was in shape and ready for the series. After practice besides announcing that Lee would pitch for the Cubs, manager Hartnett also said that Phil Cavaretta would play right field and bat in the cleanup position. The lineup for both teams is shown in box above. MILLION DOLLAR GATE. The gate for the 1938 series is expected to reach or pass the million mark. From the Cubs office comes word that the fans of the country, particularly from Chicago and New York, have poured in the very imposing sum of 59,000 for reserved seats for the first game today, the second on Thursday and the sixth to be played here if the teams return after three battles in New York. If the series is decided in four or five games, 19,667 will have to be returned to holder of pasteboards for the sixth game. All the reserved seats at Wrigley Field have been sold and it depends on the weather how the standing room ducats and bleacher admissions will go. The gross receipts for the series depend on the showing the Cubs make against the Yanks. The immense Yankee Stadium should be packed for each game, providing they do not run off with the series as most of their admirers predict will be the case. If the Cubs furnish real serious opposition and prolong the series beyond five games it is certain that the gate will be tremendous, perhaps a new record. UNIQUE CEREMONY. Those who attend the world series opener will see a ceremony no one ever saw before, the unfurling of the pennants of both the competing teams. Until the 1935 world series no team ever raised its pennant until Continued on thirty-fifth page. WORLD SERIES BEGINS TODAY Continued from first page. the following season. That year the Cubs raised theirs before the first series game In Wrigley Field. The Yankee pennant will be hauled to the top of the left field flagpole, attended by appropriate didoes. Then the Cub penant will go up on the right field pole. K. M. Landis, commissioner of baseball, yesterday announced the umpires for the world series. Louis C. Kolls and Cal Hubbard will represent the American League, and Charles B. Moran and John William Sears the National League. Mayor LaGuardia of New York stands to lose a box of cigars if the Yankees dont win the world series. He made the bet with Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago by telegram Tuesday. It reads: "Will bet you box good cigars against box stogies that New York Yankees are and will remain worlds champions. See you at the game tomorrow. F. H. LaGuardia." The mayor left for Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited from Grand Central Station at 6 p. m. Tuesday night. He will return here Friday to. attend the New York opening at the Yankee Stadium on Saturday.
