The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1929, Page 10

10 . ® STAR PORTSIDERS 10 JRUNINTO SNAG WHEN “TVEY FACE CUBCLAN Umpire Agrees With McGraw | That Grove and Walberg Won’t Do Much Good ONLY THREE PITCHERS SEEN | (McCarthy Has Creat Pitching Quartet in Bush, Root, Carlson, Malone EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of Billy Evans’ stories on the world series, written espe- cially for the Bismarck Tribune. Evans, 20 years a famous big league umpire, herein analyzes the power of the Macks’ and Cubs’ pitchers. By BILLY Since pitching has a most important, usually ole, in the wor 5, discuss the relative mer bs’ and Athletics’ pitch’ Before entering into a dis he strength and weakness of the two staffs, I desire to comment on a statement recently made by Manager ohn McGraw of the Giants. It was bo the effect that National League outhpaws had much trouble in awinn from Chicago and that the ladelphia left-hander: wi pertain to strike the same sr pther words, if Connie Mack w: ing on Grove and W:lberg 3, he was almost lways 1 the illy Evans Points to Earn WORLD SERIES SCHED THE BISMARCK TRIB Figures In North { if | i Dakota Stadium Anniversary Program SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929 ULE_INTERFERES ‘CONNIE RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOWS SET DAILY SCHEDULE IN SEASON Athletics’ Manager Sleeps in Tower Office From 2:45 P.M. to 3:15 HAS LUNCH BEFORE GAME Formerly Entered Press Gate, but Not Since Sale of Se- ries Tickets Opened Philadelphia, Sept. 28.—(%—It's pretty well understood out around Shibe park that this World Series fracas between the Athletics and Cubs is going to break in on Connie Mack's regular napping hour. 1 GEORGE EARNSHAW George Earnshaw, star right-hand-, | | | much the same role in the American League as does worth every cent ofit. . . . Has terrific speed. . . He is the nearest approach to Wal- ter Johnson that ; has broken into the American 10 years. . . «| Also boasts a good | curve and a fair | Malone in the Na- | League in the last j ’S PAT MALONE Pat Malone, serving his second year er of the Philadelphia Athletics, plays | under the big tent, is perhaps the ember of the Chi- pitching He is a good six feet and weighs in the of | As! would be expected, | such a physique makes for a fast that fairly To | most impressive mi sane cago corps neighborhood 200 pounds. ! ball hums . | i Gi j his swift . Swift being Nick make his stuff all the more decep- | tive, Malone has a | Chicago sizzling curve that | Pittsburg! is in keeping with Altrock's name for @ & STadIOM & Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 28.—Serv- tion. Governor George F. Shaf- ices celebrating the third anniversary | er and Joseph Chapman, president of i of the dedication of North Dakota's! the L. 8. Donaldson company, Minne- |Memorial Stadium are to be held apolis, are scheduled to talk at a mass | next Friday night, Oct. 4, when the| meeting uptown before the crowd | | Flickert Haskell Indians here | congregates at the Stadium. action AT Memoria QAO GR. Newspaper men who have the run of Mack's tower offices at the ball park have known the veteran man- ager’s daily routine for years, hence they can foresee how the series will interfere with his sleep. change of pace . + Was the first | the hard one or fast ball. vere saresie 4 bind Snany | Failure to take baseball seriously kept right-handed batters in the Cubs’| Malone in the minors at least three lineup, may be selected as Mack's | years after he demonstrated he had starting pitcher . . . . Is inclined | enough stuff to win in the majors cher’ shaw as Connie Mack’s Best Pitcher WITH MACK NAPPING ‘STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS. p> —" Philadelphia . New York Cleveland St. Louis . Washington Detroit . Chicago Boston Games Yesterday All games canceled, .ccount gins funeral, NATIONAL LEAGUE Standings Won Last . 9 5 New York St. Louis . Philadelphia {Brooklyn . Cincinnati . Boston Games Yesterday R H Every day during the home games Mack leaves for the ball park at 10:30 m. Formerly he would enter gina, Can., are all expected to be here for the anniversary game with the In- dians. Mr. Hancock is now on a hunt- ing trip in the Canadian Rockies but he has written that this will be ter- minated so that he may be present. People from all parts of North Da- he dodges through a side entrance, slips along the catwalk over a boiler room and reaches the iron stairway 65-year-old manager takes a nap on a red leather couch in his office suite. j in the football “battle of the century.” Five men, well known in the North- . are to be featured on the anni- y program which has been ar- Budd and Martin, who have both; kota will be on hand for the Haskell But at 3:15, 15 minutes before to be a trifle wild, which at times tends to lessen his effectiveness... . When he is getting them over the it. . . . When right, his speed is blinding . . . . There is an old baseball axiom that you can't hit what you'can't see... . . Like Grove, Mack's great southpaw, Earn- shaw received his baseball training under Jack Dunn at Baltimore. . . ‘Was ready for the majors several plate and is ahead of the batter, there |. . ad tougher pitcher in the majors to . . . John McGraw had him in 1922, paying $5000 to Knoxville of the Appalachian League for his services +_. . Two years on option caused McGraw to decide Malone just wouldn't be a big leaguer. . . . . He wes too much of a playboy to suit the Giants’ leader. +. . That ‘was in 1924 and he was sold to Min- neapolis. . . . He commuted be- tween Minneapolis, Shreveport and -| Des Moines for five years . ‘Two great years in the minors caused been friendly to the university, will ;Make their speeches over the new | university loudspeaker which proved battle, and an additional influx will game’ years before he finally got his chance, | the Chicago management to decide come from Northern Minnesota. Last fall some 8,000 fans jammed their way time, he awakens, has a sandwich and & glass of milk, then goes to the club his lineu | yanged by Jack Stewart, manager of so popular with the fans at the initial uation, the Mackmen {the Stadium drive. | football game this season with 8t. d the going more than r heir attempt to k mpionship in aguc. Ralph Budd, and G. R. Martin, president and vice president, respec- rican | tively, of the Great Northern Railway, { will make short talks before the game aoe in the Stadium. They will be intro- Depends on Earnshaw | duced by J. E. Davis, president of the “While I have no idea as to Connie | North Dakota State Board of Admin- Mack's intentions as to his t Mary Directors of the Stadium corpora- tion, Dr. M. B. Ruud, Philip B. Bangs, J. W. Wilkerson and Fred L. Good- man, nd Forks; John M. Hancock, New York City; Arthur L. Netcher, ; Fessenden, and Walter Schlosser, Re- pitching, it e will put the burden of winn fo his tall right-hander, Geor: shaw, and his two great southp ‘ube Walberg and Lefty Grove. ‘Mack has Eddie Rommel, leading ex- | contrary. The Cubs hi Pjonent of the knuckle ball, the aged ! balanced pitching staff that has been Yack Quinn of spitball fame, and the | able to win, about as it pleased, over e a well- | youngsters Shores in reserve, but I! the rest of the opposition in the Na- foubt if he has the slightest inten- ion of starting any one other than je “Big Three,” Grove, Earnshaw ind Walberg. It wouldn't surprise ne if they faced the Cubs in just that McGraw says Connie Mack will be it of luck if he is dependin outhpaws to stop the Cub: the wily McGraw has r @ back up that opinion. In Hubbel! Walker he has two of the best hpaws in the game and they have d only mediocre success against the Subs. The records of the National League show him that almost all good uthpaws have had their troubles g@ from Chicago. In conclusion, Mie is able to offer a most convincing Argument why the Cubs have been 3 on for National League southpaws d should prove equally tough for Mack's two left-handed aces. It is fact that the Chicago team. if it so ple Ss, can present an array of right- tional League. Possibly the Cub staff {is a bit top heavy with right-hander and would offer more deception if it | {had a stendout southpaw to mix in ith its right-handers. Smart south- the Athletics. battle and several of the left-handed batters in the Mackian lineup find his slow stuff the rankest sort of poison. | | ee * M'Carthy Has Quartet In Bush, Root, Carlson and Malone, Joo McCarthy will be able to offer a pitching most troublesome, even to the Ath- letics, who boast an even .300 batting average against American League pitching. Four great right-handers all owning a deceptive curve, which, ( of woe for free swingers like Al Sim- tet that should prove | when properly pitched, causes plenty | Pape Is Charged With Pro Sensational lowa Halfback Is Said to Have Played for Money During 1927 WILL NOT COMPETE TODAY | Eligibility of Alan Holman, Ohio State, Approved by Big” Ten Committee Chicago, Sept. 28.—()—The dust of the “housecleaning” program at the University of Iowa, which the Hawk- eyes hope will restore them to un- j Questioned good standing in the Big Ten, today was plainly noticeable. Towa authorities were investigating information forwarded by Major John through the Stadium portals to see the Homecoming football game, but it is expected that this mark will be eclipsed by 2,000 when the Indians ar- tive. A special train is coming from Far- ! go for the cccasion and special rates of fare and one-third have been se- cured on railroads in the state. fessionolism why side for ground balls than to his le! Northern Normal Scores Once and due to the fact that Dunn regarded him as @ good investment at Balti- more in his quest for International League pennants. he was ready to take his baseball ser- fously . . For two years he has convinced seven other National League clubs of that fact. "| Denver’s Bidder for Lightweight “=| THUMPING CANZONERI FISTS STOP DRIVE OF EDDIE MAC Dempsey Asked t Put McCann, Tony Title Sprains Ankle, Is Knocked Out (Including Games of Sept. 27) (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) National . Batting —O'Doul, _ Phillies, 394, Runs—Hornsby, Cubs, 148. Homers—Ott, Giants, 42, Klein, Phillies, 42. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 40, Pitching—Bush, Cubs, won 18, lost 6. American patie ole mons, Athletics, 37 Runs—CGehringer. Tigers. 129, Homers—Ruth, Yanks, 46. Stolen bases—Gehringer, Ti- gers, 26. Beats Jim Squad \first quarter, Northern Normal yes- |terday scored a 6 to 0 victory over Jamestown college. The “remainder of the game was) slow and uninteresting with Northern having a decided edge in offensive mons, Bing Miller, Jimmy Foxx, Sam- | L. Griffith, Big Tem athletic com- Pitching —Grove, Athletics, | pay, sanded batters starting with the; my Hale and others, including the off man and ending with the | left-handed strength. , ditcher, without a single break. x * Grove, Walberg Worried it is well known in baseball that \t-handers make trouble for south- Ww pitching. Batters who hit from ; the left side of the plate as a rule are thoice delicacies for southpaws. Mc- M3raw thinks Grove and Walberg are Pgilue for several stormy sessions be- “qyause the Chicago lineup, made up “|Mf McMillan. English, Hornsby, Wil- on, Cuyley, Stephenson, Tolson, T: |* or and a right-handed hitting pitc! , is enough to make plenty of w i any left-hander. ‘There is a possibility that John Mc- 3raw's prediction as to the inability southpaws to beat Chicago will true end then there is more; n a remote possibility that it will | Ato wrong. If you are willing to take fay word for it, Lefty Grove and Rube lalberg are not the ordinary run-of- i ~he-mine southpaws. These two port- dders are standouts in the nies es F , with far more than - | ; fare ammount of stutf, T can think of |, The Phillies defeated the Braves Wo left-hander in the National League bY 11 to 5 in the first clash of a compares with either Grove or | three-game series. cementing their ‘as to speed. position in fifth place, and the Car- t this, one might say that |dinals made it two straight over the National League is a curve ball | broken Pirates by 4 to 2. , that its batters dote on 5: | The Pittsburgh defeat lett the Buc- which I merely add that neither |caneers only two games ahead of the nor Walberg re lacking as to | Giants, with a week of the season to No pitcher in baseball throws | 6° © more deceptive curve ball than Walberg and Grove is net behind. ‘If there is one feature that is lack- in the assortment of these two weat pitchers, it might be the lack deceptive change of pace. How: pitching. Despite the admitted ; strength of Mack's staff, don't let any one influence you in thinking the Cubs are anything other than similar class. NEXT: Hornsby. (Giants ° Pirate Clan | Pittsburgh Only Two Games Ahead of McGraw Men, With One Week Remaining \ (By The Associated Press) ‘The baseball stage was left vacant yesterday except for the performances at Philadelphia and St. Louis, Wa cal The other National League clubs were not scheduled, and all of the American League entries remained idle because of the funeral services of Miller Huggins in New York. Mickey and Ace Sign for Big Go Fight to Be Staged at Wrigley Field Oct. 29 by Doyle ile rises i § BES i There is little to choose between the | | missioner, charging Oran Pape, sen- sational halfback, with having par- | ticipated in a professional game in 1927. The information, contained in a letter to E. H. Lauer, director of | ‘athletics at Iowa, said Pape played! ;with a Galena «Ill.) team against a/ | Darlington (Wis.) eleven, 4 Coach Burton Ingwerson of Iowa removed Pape's name from the list of eligibles for today's opener against, Carroll college. He expressed the be- | lef that the athlete would be able to clear himself. ' | Reports that the charges had thetr | source at the University of Wisconsin | were denied by George Little, director | of athletics, and J. F. A. Phyre, presi- ‘dent of the Wisconsin athletic council. | While Pape's status was being at- tacked the Big Ten committee on, athletics verified the cligibility of| ; Alan Holman for another year of competition at Ohio state university. Big Ten Is Having Dress Rehearsal ana Have Doubleheaders; lowa Has Contest | | — | Chicago, Sept. 28—(#)—The 1929 |version of Western Conference foot- j ball today was in the dress rehearsal stage, with four institutions sending cut their teams for preliminary test- ing by minor opponents. Three teams had ambitious pro- grams for the afternoon, Michigan, ‘Wisconsin and Indiana facing double- headers, while Iowa had one contest on its bill, The Wolverines had Al- bion college and Mt. Union of Alll- won 20, lost 5. 'Cooke Clings to Slender Bat Lead, f Americus Polli, Saint Hurler, Is Replaced by Campbell, Teammate Chicago, Sept. 28—(4)—With op- Portunities for increasing batting av- erages reduced to a matter of four days, Dusty Al Cooke, St. Paul, clung to his slender lead over Tony Cucci- nello, Columbus, in the struggle for association indi Ta | a BFE The entire first half was played within Jamestown’s 40-yard line. The Wolves reached the two-yard line several times, only to have James- od I Z [ Z z i Fi te azeg i l < “ « 2 = a a o, e | H I 3 é ! E ! : if 3 i i FIGHT STOPPED IN EIGHTH Westerner Fights Gamely and Gives the Former Feather Champ Trouble Chicago, Sept. 28.—()—Thumping fists of Tony Canzoneri, former feath- erweight champion, have thrust back the bid of Eddie Mack, Denver, for the right to challenge for the world’s Italian in the eighth round of the main bout in the Chicago stadium last night. Mack’s chances of over- coming the former featherweight ruler were wrecked almost as soon as the fight started, when he sprained his right ankle. He fought gamely and managed to give Canzoneri trouble with his left, but could not withstand pest easterner’s assault in the later | deiphia, (On Chicago Shows Promoter F. J. Smith Has Con- fidence in Two Leading North Dakota Heavies Promoter F. J. Smith has confi- dence in the two heavyweights he has signed for a 10-round North Da- kota title bout here Oct. 17, Jack Mc- Cann, Sanger, and Tony Brown, Bis- marck, Smith, who attempted to promote a card in the Sesqui stadium, Phila- last summer with Jack Dempsey as one of the main go fea- tures, has written to the former heavyweight champion asking him to give the two North Dakota heavy- weights a chance in Chicago. Jack Dempsey now is promoter at the Chicago Coliseum. McCann's biggest claim to fame is the fact that he blacked one of Dempsey’s eyes when the latter was training for his second fight with Gene Tunney, then champion. Mc- Cann was Dempsey’s chief sparring Partner. McCann fought Pierre Charles, i champion of Belgium and rated to- day as one of the 10 best heavy- weights in the world, in the semi- windup of the Tom Heeney-Jack Sharkey fight in Madison Square Garden, New York City, Jan. 13, ether prominent heavyweight aed o prominen yw Mike Mandell, Minneapolis star. You no doubt remember Jack Mc- Cann, Smith said in his letter to the Manassa Mauler. He now and this boy Tony Brown also is a comer. He has been fighting around here for a year and putti them away in a round, to get them on one of your shows in December. This Tony Brown weighs around 190 and he should pied into a mighty fine heavy- wel Smith also told Dempsey that he ill is thinking about a Philadelphia fight, probably next summer, in ich the former world’s heavy- weight champion will be used. x is very good | basemal T'would like | 35° Boston ..... 5 10 | Philadelphia at 14 Leverett, Peery, Delaney Spohrer; Koupal and Davis. R H 2 q 4 8 1 } Frankhouse, Pittsburgh . . St. Louis ... 1 Brame and Hem: Johnson and Jonnard. Others not scheduled AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Standings Won Lost Pet. |Kansas City ....... 110 54 671 jSt. Paul .... A Minneapolis Indianapolis Columbus . Louisville Milwaukee Toledo .... Toledo . Milwaukee Weiland Indianapolis St. Paul .. ngs) Jonnard and Riddle; Campbell and Fenner. bi H 5 E Columbus ... 1 1 Kansas City Peatie. Aaee | 4 1 Miller, Jablonowski and Devine; Sheehan, Murray and Peters, Angley. Louisville... Minneapolis 0 Williams, Wilkinson and Thomp- son; Morgan, Dumont and McMullen. Fonseca Gaining On Idle Simmons jeland First Sacker Picks Up Five Points; Tom Zachary Still Is Unbeaten i ici Chicago, Sept. 28.—(7—While Al Simmons of the Athletics rested his bludgeon to prepare for the world series, Lew Fonseca of Cleveland was busy gaining him tlie American league during the ps ti : | : i iE Bas 3858 I bf f : ‘ os g E ‘ 5 FH E st E $s : & FEE ai a i He it #8 i E ge » a ¥ i igs u I i } i E i g F z i E RTL u efi | i # | aa aie E oo i