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SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924. SPORTS. Nats Now Feel Sure of Pennant : Managers Not All Important in World Series READY FOR THE RED SOX, Judge Got His Base Ball Start on New York’s Sandlots WORTH OF TEAM PILOTS 'WHILE YANKS TMEIE A8 T : ALWAYS IS EXAGGERATEB GRIZZLED New York City| A letter carrier made a first L} Griffs Feel That Entering Final Series With a Two- sacker of Joseph Ignatius : 54 McGraw Is the Take-a-Chance Kind, While Huggins Game Lead Clinches Title, But no Overcon- Judge: When g youngiterHoscoiy ! Is More Conservative—Harris Would Prove ! [ Ignatius could not be broken of the e ; . s habit of using his left hand to hold i Picturesque Figure in Title Contests. fidenre Is Apparent in Players. his glass of water, wield his pen in ¢ . o | S | school or toss a ball in pl And | like so many left-handed folk, he == ’ BY FREDERI : BY JOHN B. KELLER. sted in trying to do things not REDERICK | GRIEE, persisted in trying g ~ World Series Official Scorer. JFFALO. N. Y. Septembe; Out of the West i at all suitable for one of southpaw = ’ - ; Sk sl b T e IO b nlEe s B : ; Chairman National League Most Valuable Pla: =r Committee. Nationals are ~{N‘u ing today, hound for their final battleground in | * Even in base ball, Joseph Ignatiu President Base Ball Writers’ Association of America. the American League championship campaion. F ames would be a shortstop, and there neve S Z At : 2 e ampionship campaien. Four games with I s ia vorthovNllc st Nandea shoct: HE importance of the manager in a world series, to my mind, has ! i L B stop. !lxu: he (':ung to that b um 2 been greatly exaggerated. There is no doubt that intelligent di- orv of organized base ball, or m v t on the Delmar nine in New York, un 8 & i Z = . b exely "¢ Letter Carrier Buddy Hannan. wise. In | | rection of a base ball team is required in a short series for base eigia e o fie Red(Sox areinat toibe cantide redkeoti|® «mond lore. told him he never would . - ball's highest honors, the same as in the long championship grind of the e i . = e A 5 | be any good on that side of the dia- - s S > 2 2 pickin’s for ) Bucky Harris’ crew The Fohlites will have ready i sanied Toaephl Tynattudi i 2 regular season, but the manager is not nearly the factor in a short five for the "3 hmke. A'ec Ferguson, Jack Quinun and Curtis | shift to first base. AFRIENDLY LETTER CARRIER. or six games series as in a protracted 154-game race. Fullerton. al' na obstacles difficult 1o’ overcome when at top form, | Onr athiete was 16 years old then| | WISED JUDGE UP 10 WHEQE. JOSEPHUS BALKED WHEN Of course, a lot of fans will point to the serics of 1922 as indicative of and there is no reason to holieve they are below par now. | and hetore e wax 18 he was recox- | | HE BELONGED ORDERED TO PROYIDENCE. what a clever manager can do in a world series. That is the series in OF coirieiate oo ivals for the flag are likely 10 have a |nlsed us une of the best first base - : 8 which the Giants, with inferior pitching. downed the Yankees in four hard row e. too. in | series. Ar Philadelphia the Yankees | Tc" to be found on ithe sandlots of straight games. = Cobabl T o : > ¥ ¢ AnKCes | New York and vicinity THe: bt that McGraw’s personality had a lot ihE nrobably e unon to bat against Ed Rommel. Sam Gray, Fred e etk e here is no doubt that McGraw's personality had a lot to do with the Heimach and Stanwaod Baumeartner. And that is no foursome calcu- | Yore G Sas bae 1o cgan i casy Giant victory of that Fall. But I would no more blame Huggins for A s | York City May 1894, and began his p £ ! 13 T Jafediio flllappbsing Hattersihers S loe, e San e o the debacle of 1922 than I would blame McGraw for Snodgrass' fatal muff But the Bucks wi their la I l“ | close of the Spanish-American war. | i in 1912 or Nehf's unfortunate blow-up in the sixth game oi the 1923 { the Red Sox in Boston. and—Wshington will be either a pennant winner for the first time in *h~ hie ies with #n edge the wou! He graduated from midget teams to series. CAUGHT ON THE FLY | [fs Sitesipafoom miceet teams | N S s ot e e Ao G il e een s b merican L e title R | Walter Johnson ix to seek his|@nd three years later was playving ¢ among max rs of all time, he has| Harris apparently has the same el two-ame Toad ovor ourteenth” siraieht vielors of the|SHOTtstop for the Delmar Club that 4 i suffered five world series reverses|knack of inspiring his men, which by beating the i won the championship of Central| 3 X against three victorie His teams | wa 8! sed by grea & season in the opening sume of the | | agains ictories is teams | was po «d by other great play- terday to sveer Renisos el ot o natithe rark : . 3 have been in 49 world series games, | ing managers of the past, particalar. farris czation e Bt i “i| Then along came Lett Carrier J of which the Giants have won 23, lost [1y Fred Clarke and Frank Chance he r the el entertain first baseman. Judge became a mem- 3 Graw's successful career is that he|playing managers doubts s to the onteome of the strug- | g *oonursing @ her of the Blackwells Island nine and | ” b, g ien't tied by any hidebound conven-! Jimmy Colling Red Sox team won 21 for th Americs @ Tue n- | 2 nee hand. The 3 £ the same time o tions or conservatisms. There is noin 1 with the redoubtable Jimm ddon. but evers o 4 he d h from and husy te durinz the ' 5 telling what _move he | on thira vase Ut 6 e und ndea . ay's mame | Season or 181 2 | — (T - \ | his sleeve. What other manage Ficlder Jones managed the “hitless is ready (o do iven thos: of i From the Ldison Electrics he went 55 = | base ball would have benched Meusel | wonder” White Sox world champions tional mound rps who have - to the Long lsl Athletics, where | 4 s |and played Kelly, the best first base- | of 1906, while Frank Chance, defeated & a trifie under fire| Rice did wair 1 to increase | he v first became, a paid ball . | man in" the league, in the outfield |in 1906, easily led the Cubs fo victor: entiy dent they will re- SR e C OnEECh i in whion | plaver. He d oo0d first basing | d 3 | in any of his previous series | from first b: in 1907 and 1908, wer the i form to combat any crisis | has hit safe He il for that semi-pro organization that Fred Clarke i safoly e slapped | a g { § g 3 red Clarke was in left field when that may come * to left in the first wnmlnl- | the Red Sox cked him up in the | ~ = Huggins More Conservative. Pit Team Spirit I Admirable. fall of 1913 rmed him the | Huggins, by nature. is more con- Tygers in 1208, wh next wiston, Me., of the | e is the spi s | A . | < servative than McGraw. He received |Ja s on first base when hi o fine is the Bucks it Witk Omden. a rishi-hander. stated | No tan ague, then wanted | JOSEPH I6NATIUS JUDGE a lot of criticism after the defeats of | et e Sicn not to be found in Washington | y. she Nite S Enpier Sester- |to send him to Providence at | THE POETRY OF MOTION ON A BALL F)ELD histeam in 1922 and 1923, and much | Carrigan shared in the backsic ne. but tiro e natic e ap snt cone g e s 0y Sen Tl SenL SARK 1SNT JOEY [of it was unjustified His team of | Work for the Red Sox world cham et Sha e But done JUST GRAND s R B B B e sl B L e T re now Heea to make more than five hits in any of | The last playing manager to win « \ofor the Bucks' manager|turn to semi-pro ranks rather than its last six games. It still was in | world series was Tris Speaker in 17 L Slod ORdch '.Ht‘r Il». 1:;|.|'vl.m~n d 1o | submit to <uch a chi ne ”v‘ktlun ;m the throes of this batting slump when | when his Cleveland Indians massacr. - That the Yankees have been i iz chatey e e e e outhTipaintandi wen iftalo of the In- v it was entered in the word series. |Uncle Robby's Brooklyns ent i the main e ferusClonal £ o ke Exomithat | i The Giants got the jump on them | HOW FOSSIKLE wWORLD skmn sund the top o ) has not rRAniz p . J land never let up AGE E FARED ORME S re “Pliey | (Whem Znchary knocked down Shee- | cured him September 1 15 1 | “Tuggine has his own system and | JOHN 1. M W (GIANTS) s el : ¥ L 1vs hard dri the second innin Jud nerally is accounted on | g he get results. He has lad a hard | Year W oot e fims s Al srabbed the ball and flagged | the niftiest first sackers in the busi- . team to handle, and I do not deny | ji% o ce iimos th r have | e Datter at tirst with @ snappy | ness today and is reconized as riva Lol et a1 u e . hetr ]t rO™ Eaney iomane and Sl ertok g v {sion in the past. But all of that h. o f A ¢ with which he handles all man- | I ¢ been ironed out, and in the last two | 17 t I Sheely also Was @ vietim of some | per of chances around his station. He | - | g seasons the Yanks have been a har- | 1921 3 st field'ng by Horris in the fourth | is the poetry of motion on a ball field . monious fan: | 1923 S rame. The White Sox shot ground- | and for this reason atiracts the a ; , : Vilbert : siite. mad r by Judze. but Bucky went back to| miration of fair funs as well as their e i e : 5 the wross in short right. checked the | escorts. but hix worth ix not confined | - ‘ | past, as his former pennant winning ball and just got the batter with u | to felding. Few pitchers relish the | S teams were easy victims for the | tsburgh won its world serjes vi fielders into 5 T | But Jo: itius bucked a i nto Harris' carefully pre e tra aring he would re men have their be up, know what | pureq to ¥ the trans ring h they must do a e prepared 10 80 vanked ( ar title o et for it, the Buc siat out, and they were unable to de re than three days S0, why sho orry ahout them.™ is the way the Bucks put it St s ey | fine throw. sight of Judze coming up to but American League champions of 1916 ch e spi : 520 club of 1916 entered that ouzhit to brinz results in this < = e 3 et s Bivexe ol Eo0dl stons cani the series of 1916 with the thought| last nad dash AL spirlt pIUs | oy rg ™, G LR U TILDEN-CHAPIN BEATEN. | = | of getting the loser's s 2 il bl e o lwent o b ht for Davis hot | CINCINNATI, September 25.—Wil- | | g = mEGe a1 ect AunE Clun of 132 L e abete the tounder and had to run to his left | linm T. Tilden nis cham- 4 fought harder, but the big Pole, Co- Kill Off the Yankees quickly it GalUEL LIRS LT Gl R T ?Q:Fr GRABBED HIM FROM M JUDGE 13 QUITE A FAVORITE [ Veleskie. was too big an obstacle for |1 Harrix' Stratezy Works, - day by John Hennessy of In- HE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. WITH THE FEMININE FANS . AS WELL it to surmount | o B i | Felk mnde « swectiucular catch of |dianapolis and T. H. Emerson of Cin AS THEIR ESCORTS . Snould SRobluson isucceed sintbeats | i PRialle Lol throw A Hurtis' liner in the ninth inning. | innati R . i—5. Tilden wor 2 ing; out ithe |Giants, his wocld series the Hairismen ithese dava, it} gjyeq for ithe’ snhe but came s with Hen A | record should show a substantial im- Hollix Thurston attempred it | wign it lets : provement. Robby never had a Vance = Lut (he White Sox st in any of its previous series Y i el In the event that Washington wins § AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, " Your Old Hat gt et St ONLY MIRACLE CAN CHECK 50 o i et = s | P70 ARING THE WIRE Stami VWA i S vear oiaman- Club. L et | Club. WL Pt iStanley Harris, the 28-vear-old man- Ag- 1 Warren Ogden. Lut Harris Cincinnati surrendered fourth pl St Paul E Milwsukee 79 A1 494 " Made NQW aimn e 1d be the most picturesque tion of the ri ar In the Natlonal to Chlcago by losing Ind'apolis .8 Columbus 74 8% AECE mou Cleaning, Blocking and hurier was a . M RAW NOW twice to Boston. 7 to 6. and 5 to 3. | Z Taulroiie Mintear | character on the Washington Club emoae g by e hand-hitting outficld. Maurice Louis over Philadelphia. % to 4. in |Harns, 2b ¥ Kan. City &5 next to Walter Johnson The entire . Indianapoli st raui | Raciond shares with Washimston it Vienna Hat Co. 3 Kunuas City, = umbue., 2 admiration for this “kid pilot.” who, 409 11th Street p. hdeacon and Harry Hooper, the other National League me. The .. i early W 5 fiosup; Hav i . Athletics used three pitche Loutasil whether he wins or not, has given ned to A \ . s i at the Browns, 4 to 2, in the ary to the hill after Ogden had pitch- N EW YORK. September 25.—Base ball's Trojan war, in which the [“an. Boston and Detroit > ] n Sepwnd I iiwankee, e 0 b r P R . | scheduled Ruel, ¢ S isoannsbas e a'lied cities of both leagues combined to recapture the world | Ogden. p. Zachary, p. = . S Zagal hen i championship held by New York for three seasons, apparently will | went “Archdeacon. who had been | end in compromise {JUNIOR GAME IS DUE Totals \xoublesoms it iihe scries, janduloon- Unless a diamond miracle interieres, the Giants, representing New Smoas0. i e | York, and the Natidnals. battling ior the allics. will fight it out in :h»ii TO PROVIDE THRILLS | archeescon.” et So, foilowing Archdeacon’s pass. in | somnusoommod ol coommmommol | coomn Bl voonmwun—on E [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 ] Gl monwumnone » % > Zachary was r in | world series, while other competitors rest and watch in the galleri in but one round. his eiher| with a national audience keyed for a c’assic climax bring drst elass Today the Giants lead Brooklyn by | Brooklyn pursued its forlorn hobe| What promises to be one of tl 3 on me and Pitts h by three | by beating the Cubs, 6 to 5, driving 5 2 sundlot games of the season is ex- and one ha nd Washington main- | glexander from the box. Grimes was | pected Sunday on the Eilipse when nowa whed for a pair of | tains its two-contest margin over the | rumeq by 13 Chicago hits, but went | the Crescent tossers tackle the St. |MeCellen & fore " the” game wax Ban vf‘:"‘!“"; "“r"f":n"““"'mg ‘35 to win | the route. The Robins have only two | Martin’s nine for the junior title ot |Tkurston. p McNeely opened the Bucks' | our games to play, O NN more games to play—both with Bos. | the Washington Base Ball and Athletic inning with a fly to Falk. but|only three to clinch respective | i bath veith iation series Taale tossers won the right to | Washington 2000 final by downing the St |Chicago c O ol Harris strolled. Rice poled « single | Pennant. Both now are playing a|ton. and cannot win unless New York to left, advanc Bucky just a base. | fiZhting and triumphant game which | drops three of its four with Pitts- Then Goslin shed to left-center, |APPATently insures their league suc- | burgh and Philadelphia Martin's yesterday ina 3 to 1 engag Two-base hits—Kamm. Peck, Zachary. Elsh. counting his two teammates. After |C and whets interest in their pros- Washington added Thurston, White | ment. Stafford, losing boxman, was |Stolen base—Goslin. Double play—Harris to Judge flied to Hooper. Goose pil; ed | Pective clash next week. . Sox pitching ace, tu the victims of its [ nicked for five blows, two of which [Judge. Left on bases—Washington, second and Bluege and Peck .| The gods smiled upon the Giants|rregistible march to glory and Wash- | were garnered by Byn Corson held |cago, 5. Bases on balls—Off Thurston. franked, loadin the bases k, | Yesterday in their 4 to 2 victory over|ington's first pennant, winning 6 to . | the St. Martin's to th bingles. Ogden, off Zachary, 2. Struck though. cnded the round with « good | Pittsburgh.which virtually eliminated | sam Rice increased his season's rec- | Western Athletie Club is secking a |Zachary. 1. Hits—Off Ogdi catch of Ruel's liner., [the Piratex, but it was a smileiorq of consecutive hitting to 31 |junior opponent for Saturday and |Bioss. none out ia first: o Then both Nationals and White Sox | #2rned by grit and the ability to rise|games. The Yankees, going down |Sunday, according to Manager Don- |iDnings. Winning pitcher—Zachary, Umpires— | | to the occasion, which is as potent a = sl 4 Messrs. Moriarty, Hildebrand and Owens. Time were baffled for a time, but = i fighting. won again from Cleveland, | ogue at W E o Cana] Baey snd $0 misuter | ter shook off Zachary's spell { factor in the prospective fou”h.(‘un- fifth and knotted the connt Kamm |Consecutive pennant for John McGraw, Gariearthe Trume With 2 tiwo b as it ix in the determined rise and re- down the left-field line. Then Crouse | [Usal to fall of young Stanley Harris’ is, and the latte ew | Nationa made them. Wilson's home run clout the midal ck, but Willi t back 2 rde’ %5 "“wi( Bacis looned & Eomleta|in the fifth inning overcame Yde's s G : . !l clever pitching and an i at- e f 3 % E 3 l d o DT e R ek | 1s innelaaetchaa whons | thras ] : 3 : ts tremendous sale is ird asx Peck to out McClellan ; ; s j' tinocd Thustonts lowatl: | double plays in early innings had a £ il olles eatety. | Dipped the Giant attempt | 1 L = h h Wh o ol hollod o & =2fet¥| " In the next inning Lindstrom’s bunt : ” the reason why ite o I ’ |hit a clod of dirt and went safe. Reganin Lewd in Sixth | Younz sacrificed and Kelly's infield E E : 3 OWl iS the most re- The Bucks ¢ rizht back ai |out advanced the to third. At Thurston in the sixth to rezain th |chis 'point strate entered—and : g . 1 V U E lead. slapping the White Sox hur'e | ‘ailed. Meusel was passed purposely 4 markKaplie L for five singles and a trio of tallies.\ o get Terry, who hit the first pitched . 7 N = ! < Goslin was an ea out, but Jud , | ball just beyond Grimam's glove for a ' . < 2 . d Biuege and Peck singied successively. | single, on which Lindstrom scored. | Sizes 4 to 12 7 RN i ——— 1 glven to ay_._a Very Peck's blow to left scoring Judge, \:l‘m‘an pinked a slow roller between | Dl \ £ 3 while Bluege took third and the hit- |third and short. Traynor made a| K , A A Ao 3 2 ll fi b ter second on Falk's throw to the sparkling pick-up, but his hurried AAAw E A sy, 1), ,’A‘/ 2 sma pro t’ uton a plate. Ruel's retirement let Bluege | throw was just a trifie higher than| N f A 4 4 el home and Peck take third. Zach- | Grimm could stretch and hold. The| S > z 3 b ary's single put Peck across. Me- | ball bounced out of his glove and the | B o vast number. hit safely, but Harris|winning run was over. The Pirates, . S with a grounder | befuddled now, could not stop a dou- amm. Ible steat, on which Terry scored with- :h club put @ run across in the [Out a throw as Wilson was run down. Bluege singled to begin the; Earl Smith’s two home runs came! half, but was caught at third | with nobody on, although Pittsburgh . tried to make that base gs|left nine men on the sacks at other Peck singled to left. Peck took sec- | times. The Pirates had more chances ond on the throw and moved to the|than the Giants, but could not con- far corner as Ruel was tossed out.|Vert them into runs. Wright led a Zachary then doubled to center, scov- | Superb exhibition of defense with 12 aeibec) bt thelp (one s xand ances, and Yde and Morrison al- ' ed, for A fouted to kamm. | lowed only six hits to nine off Barnes BarrettUs single to right followed | —but the Giants got four runs and by Elsh’s two-bagger to the same |Probably the pennant. Y Grifis Get Barly Start, Bl wossmnavmuol @l coromoooomol @ il mommmommonol CHC [P ot ] O 3 e territory gave the Sox their tally. Elsh was too ambitious and was OU may look down on a pair of tagged at third when trying to Florsheim Shoes — but will make the hit a triple. That ended | T = the clouting for the day. I i ‘./( 4 respect them just the same. They R ACES o are as loyal as a good friend—as de- pendable as a bank account. CORD TIRES 3 TODAY | : On Credit ¢/ —AT— lll Autumn Styles «pay As YoU RIDE”® |l Havre de Grace || Now Ready Small Payment Down i SEVEN RACES DAILY | Belance Monthly | omear b mi s | " Most Styles Cor. 7th & K Sts. 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