Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1924, Page 27

TEAM PROVED ITS METTLE - IN WINNING LEAGUE TITL McGraw’s Pitchers Better Now Than in Recent Sea- eded Unusually Strong Bat- sons, But Have ] ting Support to Hold Them Up. BY FREDERICK G. LIEB, ‘World Series Official Scorer, Chairman National League Most Valuable Player Committee, President Base Ball Writers' Association of America. N McGraw's famous Giants, New York and National League fans will | onc of the most tenacio amest clubs that ever has been en- | If the fans of the country needed | ional proof of the gamencss of this club, it was furnished last of the Giants after two of their foremost stars, id Heinie Groh, were shot down in diamond battle. hl with | 1 a modern world ser rtain to whether ring with a dislocated will be in the Giant v . but Gro unce sufl who | may when we tell of in Young Iy, Ja sny- oth of the ot and Wilson, re robust batsmen FoR LEE-BowL NOW | HITTING FOR WHATCHAN, [PAPA riow cAN M2 |LEIBOLD score S00 o & 400 o SEARCH L}‘Z?, ME SON & batting skin thoug | spec YESTERDAY'S RESUL Roxton, 13; WASHIN 1147 9 —| 9/12/12/14/17(16/89 6: 81— 9111511614186 681 131018'— 91011 87478 77 811/13 — 1110,11'71 81 .467 11/ 8 711111 — 811 67.86 438 ! St Louis ol 57611112 14 — 106787 .435 | Phi'adeiphia_ .1 58 813/11'1112/—66/87 431 Boston 62 63168 78 818687 87 — Sau ON, 1 New York-Philadelphin (rain). PARK IS ENLARGED. | Park s 16406 Salarged 1o sent The LEIBOLD HAS SNATCHED FLIES MAJOR cLuBs. SEASON OVER. ] National Leagzue | 162163170 72 89,96/100 SEASON OVER. LEADERS IN BATTING. = Wagner led the National League in 50.000 | batting for eight years. Cobb led the | American League 12 years. HARRY ONCE WAS AN ERRAND BOY FOR. THE PLAVERS |N NEMO HAS TO TRAIN STRENUOUSWY TO STAY LITTLE, BUT HE LOOSES PLENTY OF WEIGHT TRYING T® MAKE HIS PINOCHLE urd of former oth of New s catchers :Arl\‘ terans, well in t der did most of the Giant catch- up to Labor d Lut the blonde | ¢ s been be Zht one of the few men in the American League today to have played with four clubs of that | organization and one of the veteran outfielders in point of service in the | big show. Before coming to the Nats Leibold toiled with the Cleve- l IARRY LORAN LEIBOLD is n inspiration to is the Napoleon the pre- mmary | Johnsonian dircuit, and bhas | ed a steady game during his 12 was living in Detro been bis hom i ball in Tygertown. When a r he: used to work around the League ball park, running for the players, shagging during batting drill§ and acting | bat boy during gam lived b vall. | though stocky 158 i playved in the outfield w teams about Detroit and w of the voung flvc .| By the time ho SL 300 he was that Detr | took him on jwent to t the best semi-pro | gan metropolis. Jimm tt, old Detroit out- fielder, t great interest in Lei | bold’s work and in 1911 found a place BROWNS WIN EXHIBITION. ‘?' him with the Milwaukes Club of {the American Association. He did | LIMA, Ohio, October !.-—The St|well with the Brewers for two sea- Louis Browns, barnstorming through sons and was drafted by the Clev io and Ind defeated the Lima |land American League outfit for the | independen season of 1913, | He remained with the Forest City | for two years then went to the te Sox for a si r term. The Red Sox procured him in 1921 and fv!::r!y last season he was bought by | the city has took to IN LANT THREE sy that time club of the Michi- *and Keenan, tbay and Huntgli T | Lately, Little Nemo, as he has been | |called familiarly for several years, PREACHER TO REPRESENT o, o i aeren ot to et | RENO IN CONTESTS HERE | houndnge. * But ne i aiscoversd | what he belleves a certain way to re- |duce when weight creeps upon him. | Instead of piling on_extra shirts and '$ TIRE TROUBLE! i * b4 : Adams left. for axt laxt night. ter Johnson, star pitcher for ashington, iy n son-in-law of '¢ CALL MAIN 464 Lehman’s Tire Shop Re-tireing Washington Motor- ists Since 1910 0000000000000 00¢ ‘Winters in Reno. ence the unusual interest here 1n the series, and in Washington in A crowd of local fans defrayed the expenses of the min- ter. particular, Mayor Roberts and Johnson spends i LITTLE NEMO 1STHE = = /% HARDEST MAN IN BASE- BALL TO PITH TO. HIS DIMINUTIVE STATURE AND PECULIAR. STANCE GETS HIM MANY BASES ON BALLS . dashing about the ballyard for hours, to five pounds. In attempting to | hardest men in base ball to piteh to | diminutive stature e. He gets a flock he plays pinochle. core 500 with a 400 band, he per-|on account of hi pires so freely that before the next | and peculiar st id is dealt he has lost from, two | of passes in the course of a season. T RS WA 107 A R, LI AN . RALEIGH HABERDASHER Leibold is one of the A Raleighpecial 4 Fine Men’s Shoes $5.95 Scotchgrains and calfskins, in black and tan; French lasts, brogue effects, college styles—a style for every man; all sizes and all widths. Unusual values at $5.95. The Famous Stetson “Arcade” Model—High and Low—$11—$12.50 Raleigh Haberdashe Satisfaction Guaranteed Inc. Thirteen Ten F Street T I SRS | :: THIRTEEN TEN F STREET | N o i RIVAL PILOT OF HARRIS CALLED A SIMON LEGREE Never Has Gone in for Affections of Players or of Public—Ready to “Mix It If Needed to Show Who Is Boss of His Club. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. (This is the first of a serics of personality sketches of the three leading figures in'the coming world series. It deals with John J. Mc Graw, the oniy man ever to win four major league penmants in a row. The second and third sketches will be of Stanley Harris and taciturn Walter Johnson.) EW YORK, October 1.—The “Master Mind" against the “Boy Wor N der.” Or, if you would have it expressed otherwise: Simon Legree against a hero of the Horatio Alger type. Here are the opposing personalities of the world series base ball games which open at Wash- ington on Saturday next. One is gray-haired, a little too stoutish about the waist line, a veteran oi 51 and acknowledged peer of any strategist the national game has ever known. The other is a dark-haired youth, who hasn't played major lcague ball hali as many years as his ha opponent has won pennants. first, but as David once beaned Goliath in a rather crucial battle, so ma Stanley Raymond Harris, kid manager of the Washington cl John Joseph McGraw a sock in the eye rest of his hectic days. Harris is filled with imagination and ambition John McGraw has the colorful background of base ball history, and will always be considered one of its greatest, if not one of its best-beloved figures. John McGraw never 8 Ko s i 2 . T for the affec i or his pla and he landing superable You can get | aw indica © 1 thrill out of this year ‘v | bY his Giants. MeGraw thinks o | UNSPOTtsmAnlike to express un EE) lation 1 against his iron will has been broken | * ; : 12 Uund every big business man who has put in the attempt. He has been ready o attempe Y lover an important deal 0 ar o know who' v Directs Every Play. boss around the Giant dugout or the And the v 0 h And the visitors' dug Giant clubhousc lington next Saturday v Has Rexpect of Players. o a fi 3 had the ever the lov for him | fie didn’t | that John hing when here are those with M ne | piteh g @ Iways players their bes knew if told som, tault there are n re- they they would be the game wa who might world seric ely a shake the hand : shrouded in mvstery . > — — A2 1P LB A AL I OO F DO PO 1L L2 A0 84 AP0 who have pressed h nething about his THE MEN'S STORE OF Men’s Fall an and Valug al The man who has decided to spe Winter suit will find here a wide quality at that price. 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