The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 1, 1921, Page 6

e & * ship makes the @ ; Smoothby, | RRR RR RR ’ THE GIANTS STAR OUTFIELD GIANTS GAME, BUT NO GREAT BASEBALL CLUB Billy Evans, Famous Umpire, Sizes up World Series Con- tenders for Tribune‘ STRONG BEHIND THE BAT Outfield is There From all Ang- les, Says Veteran Arbiter of National Game "BY BILLY EVANS American League Umpire and World's Greatest AutHority on Baseball | New York, Oct. 1—Ability to knock | off its leading contender, was the de- | ing factor in the winning Natignal Le Was easy picking for) the Giants through-, out the year. Me- ‘Graw's team. won out of the 22° 3, That wide of “differ- hetwean the} two: clubs decigel the issue, That would make ‘ it seem that New) York was, much the | superior -club. | ‘There seems to! Wut ¥ ference of opinion on that point. The fact remains that the Giants could) beat the Pirates almost as they plea: ed. With scarcely a month to pla: Pittsburgh enj a seven and on half game lead. , Then | followed. a five-game series between New York! and Pittsburgh, the former, winning { i raight. That was the blow that the Pirates. { Not Great Ball Club The New York Giants are not a great ball club. There are no great; teams in either the American or Na-! tional League. However, the Giants are a game, hustling aggregation, led ‘KVANS be considerable dit-|/Parly in the s Many is Meusel fron mixes with telling effect. Once he |gains the upper hand he is poison. son he discovered ithe Pittsburgh club was made to order \for him. ‘He made a careful study of jthe Firates. Then he put into execu- tion his observations, coupled with his pitching mastery. The result was seven victories over the Pittsburgh team. That is certainly a very re- markable performance for a_ pitcher. ito make against his tear leading contender. It stamps 'Nehf as a southpaw, who on form, should make all kinds of trouble for the American | League opposition. Great Spitball PitcHer Phil Dougla is a great spitball pitcher, but inclined to be erratic. Douglas has a most deceptive deliv- by two of the most aggressive ma . ‘ 4 agers in the game, John McGraw and/e@ry, and like Coveleskie ot the (Hughey Jennings. Such a combina- |Cleveland team, is a spitball pitcher tion of playing st ‘pure and simple. He slips over the pretty formidable aggregation to beat | in a world series, which calls for; gameness and aggressiveness more than anything else. Good pitching ;is most ‘essential for a pennant-winning team, During the greater part of the 1921 campaign the Giants did not get. good.,,.pitching. Don’t get the impression from ;that statement that the Giants are; lacking in capable pitchers. It just seemed that at no one lime*was McGraw able to have four pitchers working ‘During the greater part of the sea- son, the last month of play excepted, McGraw, usually had only two. piteh- ers on whoin he could. depend. The dependable pitchers were not dlways the same fellows, For perhaps a month two certain pitchers would car- ry the burden, and then, as two others would round into form, -the two de} pendable would develop a mediveré |: streak. Game Despite. Hurling It takes a game ball club to -keep ! plugging along with a pitching staff | lacking in consistency. At one stage | of. the race it seemed the Giants were hopelessly out of it. It seemed impossible for McGraw’s club to com- fast one every now and then, but well knowing that the spitball is, his one st bet, depends on’ the moist deliv- jery almost entirely, they say ith a spit- That goes It there In-the American League, of Coveleskie, “he starts ter and finishes with one.” for Douglas in the National. is one flaw in the k of Dot is his lack of control at’ tim club that waits him out, very often proves most troublesome, and a wild pitch often is fatal to his chances. In the final meeting of 1921 between the Giants and . Pirates, Douglas wild- pitched ‘himself to a defeat with the sadre a tie. Wonderfu) Right-Handers In Toney and Bar IcGraw has two corking good right-handers. These two veterans are going rather than goming, and‘! doubt if either is as good as he was three or four years ago. They have passed their peak. ‘Pitching sooner or later exacts its ‘toll on the good old arm. The rough going that the great iJohnson and Alexander have had in spots during the past.season, is mute evidence of ‘the fact. Toney at one time had terrific speed, and depended on it to a vi Since bine hitting with pitching. Thea | his style cons‘deraply. lonally there camé a break, the pitchers {lie busts 4 fast one thro svat to} ie rounded into form, Good pitching | Temind-‘the batters that old | was aided by timely hitting and bril- | “stoke ball” is still there. However, | liant fielding, and the Giants were on! fair speed,\a ‘good curve and-a nice | ball clubs. are often harder “BURNS xperts declared that McGraw’s outfield, since the acquisition-of' the hardhitting Emil the Philadelphia club during the season, has the classiest outfield in baseball. I doubt if any clud can offer a gréat- éi combined strength. Both are fine regely “good throwers--and — hard hitters!“ Smith, a left-handed hitter, is used by (MiGraw with a right-hand- er opposing; while Snyder draws the ignment. against a southpaw. The ‘New York infield is a bit lop- sided. On the right side of the dia- mond are two of the greatest ball- players in the business. On the left side of the infield are two good play- ers, but far fnom great. I regard Frank Frisch as the peer of the thir ‘kers in either. major Meazue. ortstop it would be im- possible to improve on the brilliant Bancrott. At secoud is Rawlings, who. has seen service with a number of Na- tional League clubs. Rawlings is far from a great player, but.he is of the winning type, so much desired by McGraw. Kelly~ flelds well, and is the slug- ging type as a batsman. ‘Despite the disparity between the right and lett side of the diamond, I would say the New York infield was sabove the aver- age. _ “Outfield There In the outfield Néw York \will be represented by Burns, Meusel and Young. This trio makes up an out- ifield that compares. favorably with that of any other major league club. lIt isn’t weak in a single department jof the same. - The addition of Meusel from Phila- delphia rounded out the New York club, despite the fact. that | Meusel failed dismally at the bat fior two or three weeks, A natural hitter, he wasi’t to be denied, and he struck his stride just at tho time the Giants went into high as a team. ‘George Burns has always been a great favorite of mine. In my opinion he is a great ballplayer, who has mev- er attracted the attention his work merited, Burns, Meusel and Young can hit, throw and field, also run, and dre sure to be heard from, in the ser- ies. In conclusion | again want to say 1 the Giants are good, but not great. | However, they are game, and game to beat than great ones. (Co ght, 1921, .N. FE. A. Service) BILLY EVANS SIZES UP GIANTS SERIES CHANCES BATTING RACE noon with Bismarck high school. The Casselton team is light, but is said to be fast.” This was to ‘be the first, real test of the season for Bisniarck. LAURELS WITH NEW YORK CLUB Pep Artist-an Important Factor New York, Oct.'1—A great deal o! the credit for bringing the New Yor' Giants sugcesstully ‘thiough the 192: i pennant enpeiee is being given to Hughey Jenning: the grass-chewii jumping-j wlio, won. managerial fame as leader of ‘the Detroit Tigers. In October of 1920, Jennings signed a contract to’ servé as ager of the Giants, taking the place made vacant by Johnny Evers, who had been ‘selected to tttunage the Chi- cago cee The acquisition of Jen-| nings bysthe Giants;came as a surprise to the fans aud itwas. generally pre- dicted that he would be.one of tha most able passternya John McGraw}, eyer had. . i McGraw ‘in no wise relinquished his jJob’as manager but Hughey began at to do all the.;work afield. His -yaah” and grass, pulling had been seen before at: the Poly grounds but with Hughey as a Giant, the tans took him differently. It «was Hughey” where before it had been “Aw go and lay down. The , good-natured: ings soon won. favor with. the ‘players and his fighting spirit helped: them to pull through many tough'gismes. Jennings is considered a great Utile general and | son, Chicago, who finished in 1879 with sistant man-}* “Atta-boy || a AMERICANS NPA AND TUCK ” ene Ballet May Not Be} tte real Known Until Last Game is Biayed. << ‘COBB, HEILMANN AHEAD i Bees |. Chicago, Oct. 1.—The chanipion tat lis J, Smith, st. Louts, 333; , Pittsburgh, 5; Johnston, Brook: , 324, Jay. Rite ot Louleviito, appears 0 have a gafe hold of the vatting honora of ‘the American Association, as the averages released today which. include games of Wednesday show him hitting 383. ‘He “also is out in front/ for total base honors with 408 bases, ac- quire. on 273 -hits,| which include’ 42 doubles, .15 triples and 21 home. runs. face’ is,on for second place Honors’ be wéen' Rel: Russellof Minnc- polis, who is hitting .368, Art Butler af Kansas City, with..363, and Bunay Brief,.another Kansas. City. slugger with’ .363. Jim Thorpe vt Toledo is on the jh Is of: tle trip with 260, | ter of the American: League may not} be known until the last game of the | season has been. played this season, the race has settted down to a nip) | and tuck battle. bétweén'’y Cobb, pilot ne Detroit Vigers and his. hard | hitting outfielder, Harry” Heilmann, ' BabeHuth is the dark horse ior preniic t hotiors. ‘The Detroit sluggers, tied a. ‘week ago, afe separated by one point,.'a atid which include gaui¢s of Wednl \ day, Heilnianin 13 hittiig: 391, while i boss has a mark of .390, the for- er having pirtl pated in’ mora | Samed than the Georgia’ peach. Ruth trailing the pait with: an’ average | ‘Of .380,.a gain over hig thark of @ -week ago of two points, Heilman ooo ls “ped th¥eé poitits while Cobb lost four, George Sister, the St. Louis star, sat | fered a slight: falling: off -fa his ‘stick | work, but. _retaing fourth Place" with 3, while Tris: Speaker, inmandgeér 0? tie World's Chathipions, is holding atte Place with .868,°a lds8:of eight poidi two, Home: rans tion of averages The big Yankee slugger is far iM the | yo. Iéad as a run gettér, aavinig counted 176. times while his201-hits have giveic him a total of 448 bases. Besides’ hi circuit drives, Babe hay alammed ou 44, doubles and: 16 triples. Sisler kept pace with Washington for the stolen base ho! ‘St. Louis Player 1s, showing the with 28 thefts, one in front of hig rival. Other leading batters for .200° or more games: - Tobin, St. Louis, .352; St. Louis, 348; Williams, Si Lonis, 345; E. Collins, Chicago Al Veach, De- troit, .336; ‘Strusk, Ch! cago, 336, Rogers Hornsby, of ‘St.’ Louis, is making, a stroig bid to bé the ‘first hitter to fifiish the National League | season with am ayerage above the .400 | mark since the days of Delehanty, whic while with Philadelphia {n 1899 top- Red the batters with’ an average of -408. If the St. Louis star, who is hitting .406, according io the averages released today and which include Wed: nésday's\ \games, maintams his_pace, e will enter the Natidnal’ League hall of fame .with.such mien ‘as Barnes, Chicago, who hit .403 in 1876, Cap An 407; Stenzel, Pittsburgh, who. aver- 93, Ditty, Boston, with rKett 0: Clevelana. hip in’ 1896: and 1896, wit’ averages of.438 und’ .419, respectively, and Willie iieeler, who as |a: member, of the Baltimore club. inj 1 yf her ‘ledaing batters. for; 100 or more games: Fotirnier, St. Lot 48; ‘Meusel, ‘New York, .343;. Frisch, New cording to the averages released today |i Each added‘ one to his string, but the |’ < ‘AG Rinne” AMERICAN ASARCIATION. Louisy ie Oiinneapolis Katisas City . Indianapolis Toledo. Chicdgo. “al ‘ 892. Philadelphia TBBe 340 atid now lids-a season's record of "88, by Bost Brooklyn Cincinnati : RESULTS YESTERDAY Anierican Ansseiation Minneapolis 7, Toledo 1. ‘St. Paul 6, Colin's ‘Milwaukee: 9, 4 American ‘Leneus Cleveland 3, Chicuzd 2. ‘Washington 6, Bos'on. 4. New York at Phila‘lelphia,, rain. ‘Othors not’ scheduled.. SLATE ‘ National League St. Louis 12, Pittsburgh +. Boston’ at New York, rain. Others not scheduled. ‘ i REALIZE LARGE- SUM AT GAME . _ FOR MATHEWSOH| ‘Polo Grounds, New “New York, Oct. 1— Old Timers defeated the Giants in an exhibition. game for Christy Mathow- son, here: yesterday afternoon 2 to. 0. Old’ Gedrge Wiltse, erst while Giant pitcher held the national league, cham- pions to sevéral hits. ‘A crowd: of' 20,000 witnesséd the game. A baseball autographed by ‘President Harding, Vice-president. Coolidge, Babe. Ruth, Mathéwsor and George Kelly .was auctioned off for $750: < Another ‘balf autographed by Hans, Wagner sold’ for $250, | shadow. of, Dickinson’s goal line. Dospite the disappointing weather, between $40,000 and $50,000 was real- ized for the Mathewson. fund officials Of the Glaiits stated. ta MANDAN BEATS. DICKINSON TEAM (Mandan high sh schiool defeated the Dickinson football team Friday after- noon.at Dickinson by a score of 33-ti0 ®, The Dickinson team was no match, for the plunging Mandan — playors. When the: whistle blew at the end of each quarter Mandan was within the BASTERN TEAMS: GO INTO ACTION New Yark, Ovt, 1=Chiet initorest in today’s eastern college football games cénters.in the initial appearance of « Priheeton, Columbia, Corneil, Army and Navy upon tile 1921 gridiron. THe schedule also .is featured ‘by the debut of a number of the smaller institution’ clevéns und a second test- ing: of football’ machines which had their first Aryouts:a a week : BE 0. i STARK COUNTY. CHECKS SEED > LOANS ISSUED Dickinson, Oct. 1—Cétinty’ offi have during the past week been n ing a those check’ on ail loans ‘made by the’ county. to farmers with which to’ purchase seed and reeu: grafts dur- itig the past week and liuve takén the matter up with the different elevators and grail Wiyérs: tivoughout the 4 county in view td makinig.as many col- “ lections as possible quring fhe fal months, €. C)° Turner, conaty ane 5 states that there is _approximtely $127,215 due county. on sted and fecd ‘loans. with added’ interest: Some of: these loans have heen ;vunning for a period of three years. B vailing hard times, farmers who m- tend to remain on their farms will not be hard pushed, Mr. Turner said, al- though they are urged to liquidate their loans wherever possible. On the other hand those who have become discouraged and plan to leave the country will be asked io pay up at once, It is the desire of the county offi- cials to be:as lenient as possible with farmers who have faith enough in Stark county to hold on despite, the advers: conditions with whic they have to contend but they do not propose to-let borrowers leave the county without paying their loans. A_ British, company. claims hn chalk can be used asa‘ coal. substitute. their way. Some idea of the clip. at which the | iNew York team traveled during the | x weeks of the campaign can; ned by consulting the “fig- wes.” With fess than ‘50 galnes> to play, | i (McGraw’s team sliced away the, Pitts- burgh margin of seven and one shalt | games ‘und was able to win with a! couple to spare. The Giants in a short space of time accomplished al seemingly impossible. task:, In that stretch of gaines, New York | beat Pittsburgh in eight ott of nine; clashes, Ability to knock off the leading contenter. decided the issue inj favor of the Giants... } Figured on Enlarging Park, Let us look over this teath, which; was able to come with such a renfark- able rush, after.the pennant had prac- Hl tically been conceded to other quar-} ters. So certain had it seemel that} Pittsburgh would win, at one stage of} the race, that Owner Dreyfus of the! Pittsburgh, club had started arcang, ments to enlarge his ball park. However, fhe sudden reversal of] form on the part of the Pittsburgh, club, and the “Garrison” finish of the! New York team, stand out as the two; big events in the closing days of the | National League ri t Pitching ustally decides the out-! come of every world series, so it is; fitting that the Giants pitching. staff | be given first consideration, While there are perhaps.a dozen pitchers,on the New York siaff at present, seldom’ are more than four pitchers regarded 4§ world scries possibilities. McGraw’s Great Quartet It seems certain that McGraw will, call upon Artie Nehf, a mighty stylish left-hander, Phil Douglas, leading ex- ponent of the spitball, and. Tonoy and Barnes, two veteran right-handers. ible that some of the other of the Giants staff. may break into the box score, but I seri- | ously doubt if any pitcher other than the four mentioned will be called up-! on to start a game. > The New York staff is not a great pitching staff. There no members of it who stand out like Walter John: ! son or Grover Cleveland Alexander, : It is, however, a well-balanced, staff that combines every type of pitching. There is a marked difference in the style of all four men. Nehf is a fine’ leftzhander, who car- rics 2 WBipwedDesortment, which he i change of pace are now his strong points... ‘Which simply means that! : Toney is pitching more intelligently | 'than when speed was his main at “Phe casé of Barnes is very much ‘ilar to that of Tqney. All of which! — tiercly goes to hove that the New| York pitching staff is good but not! great, PROFESSIONAL GRID LEAGUE IS CONSIDERED Columbus, Ohio, O —Profession + al football ig to be plicit ott a basis; ‘f Beni B: similar. to that of organized. baseball. Back ory Le aa is woll | according to plans of the Amer fortitied: There may be individual | pcreeeenal ae ASO RLDED catchers in both leagues Who have a/ eh ae Mee tltcyoraumize Hon Bau shade on either Smith or Snyder, but | !ovated here. j; A comprehensive coils of rules, in- NOW—THEN ! cluding strict. prohibitory clauses ; against: the playing of men who are j enrolled at, any college or .university, thas. been! éstablished, uccording to Jo- seph Carr, president, and mote than ; 400 contracts hive bees signed by for- ‘mer university stars who will play on jthe nincteen teams whicir are members lof the association. Garr, who is a former cfficial in sev- }eral minor .baseball leagues in Ohio | and’ Pennsylvania, says that organiza; ition and adniinistrative plans of the i(professional baseball leagues will be | folldwed out as closely us possible. Every player who. participates in |games played by association teams | must be under a contract similar to ; that of major league baseball players. Carr says, and all contests will be i carefully regulated and conducted oniy {by officials sanctioned vy the associa- } tion. ; , Starting last week, the teams in the crganization began climination con- ‘ tests on a.schedule arranged among| (themselves, and afer Taanksgiving, a series to establish thc championship will be played. The association is mice up of teams in«the following Citic: Roche*ter, Buffalo and Towawan : New Hayen, Conn.; Canton, ‘on, Cleve ; land, Dayton, Columbus and Toledo, Ohio; Hammond and tvsnsville, Ind.: | Detroit, Mich.; Chicago, Decatur and Rock Island, Ul.;\ Louisville, Ky.; Green Bay, Wis., and Minneapolis, Minn. ‘ |\CASSELTON HERE TO PLAY B. HLS. ¢ EIEN ES The Casselton high school football team arrived in Bismarck early for the. MANAGER JOHN MGRAW NOjgame which was to be played at the LONGER DONS ACUNIFORM, | baseball park at 3 o’clock this after- i \ American’ has proved an:able*second-hetmsman. |! This. is), Jénnings’ “15th year as a leader. He won -penuahts in the American League with Détroit in 1907, 1908, and 1909. He'is:not exactly a stranger in the Nationa League, hav- || ing spent several seasoay with teams representing Baltimore, Brooklyn and Vhiladelphia in the older ‘circuit. 11 was.a comrade of McGraw’s on the |; tamous old Oriole aggregution. Fi) Jeniings was born:at Pittston, Pe n- 1870, and firs! ma professionai baseball with th igkton, Pa, club iw 1890; The foniowmg year he signed witli. tlre Louisville, Ky.) ¢lub of the Association. playing first and shert. -19°1391, he was trad- ed to timore Nationals’ and fou years later’ was shifted to the Broun lyn Nationa’s. hi--290i, he became manager antl captain. vf the Philadcl- plita Nationals and two years later re- turned to the Balitmore, Bastern Le:- gue club, playing second and short un- ti.1907'-when he was.svafted by De- troit.. He was made ma\ager and won the pennant that year: All of his De- ' troit teams were regarded as: pennap! contendeta a YANKEES FAIL *TOPROFITBY POSTPONEMENT Chicazo;, Oct. ct. 1—The New York | iS Yankees did not win the American | League ‘pennant by being-idle -yester- | day, gccording, to Wiliam. Harridgo, | le secretary to. 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