Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1925, Page 28

28 SPORTS. 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, McNeely Apt to Start in Big Series : Righthanders Give Nats Edge in Pitching J -1 R s !J OHNSON AND COVELESKIE NEED OF OUTFIELD SPEED . MAY OUST MOON HARRIS OUTRANI_(_EIL{{I‘E QUARTET Elimination of Better Hitter Not Likely to Cut Down |Mcadows Rated as Pittsburgh’s Best Bet, With Mor- Attack of Griffmen Any Great Amount. rison Next, While Aldridge, Kremer and Adam« Club Bow s to Eastern Leaguers. Classified as Less Dependzble. Doping the World Series Article X. BY FREDERICK G. LIEB, World Series Official Scorer, 1922-1923-1924, Former President Base Ball Writers' Association 1925. RIGHTHAND HURLERS EXPECTED TO BEAR BRUNT OF BOX WORK IN WORLD TITLE GAME BY JOHN B. KELLER. HEN the world scrics announcer sounds off Forbes Field. Pitisburgh. the line-up of scribes in the press section probably w took the field here the i next Wednesday at | e Natiopals told to | ! include the same last vear for al battle with the = = T hase; t 1924 line- Koger Peckinpaug Teit held: Farl | Bucky Harris, second | third base: Goose Gos- ce. right field; Muddy | . first base: . shortstop; Ossie Bluege. \[\\ee\\ center ficld: Sam R Walter Johnson rer. t Ruel will be behind the bat in the first Git wiih the G Johnson nc the first nitching chol i Judge will be at first b National o he scems to be the | Pirates prac- . and in aN Although Mc- 1d often in the fast three weeks | ozical choice for the center field IGHT-HANDED pi ers will bear the brunt of t tast approaching series between Washingtos an tiona! League champions, the . Walter Johnson and Stanlev Coveleskie, r Marberry, in reserve, will be Washington's first line of pitching defense. Lee Meadows, Vic Aldridge, Johnny Morrison and Ray Kremer will try to repeat Pittsburgh's world championship victory of 1900. It ‘may be observed that I leave the venerable 43-vear-old Babe A out of this list of Pittsburgh's right-handed pitching effectiveness. 5 - has been a lot of sentimental nonsense printed as to what a grand thing =l e . ; : ; ; . . |it would be if McKechnie permitted Adams, hero of the series of 1909, 1o i e s ':fm"";;; B " i A £ { L |start the first game against Walter Johnson. However, neither leagur National veter: 2o through their | pennants nor world championships ever are won on sentiment. Adam ot s 50 eipintn {one of base ball's most splendid characters. undoubtedly will get into morning. The six pitchers, bundled in | few innings, but he will not start any of the Pittshurgh games weaters, loosened their salary For the purposes of a short series I, and with Catcher Ruel and | prefer Walter Johnson and Stanley | Baseman Bluege, indulged in a Coveleskie to any two right-handers | elding drill. There was plenty at McKechnie can put into the | haggir 3 < e e agging for the hurle game. McKechnlo has greater | ynur rapy HAYE DONE 1N FORMER cing one ‘of the best fy. and to conclude the workout all | pumber of capable righthenders, but | RIES tfotted a couple of laps around the | he can pitch only one of them at the same time. Two great pitchers in burden voung R cteran | artist fighting Pirates. Tt ssing from t Y with the ant drive, team of such 2s the nee s an The National outt Moo Har- s points stronger he one composed of G 3 but 1t in _grou tional | keen-eved and | practice he will set in the serfes with | the Red Sox this week should be in zo0d Dbatting trim for the big set rere is no question as to who will | fill the other positions on the club. dee al Despite the eather, a itfield prot do when ¥y Fine Flyhawk. earned the repu nerican League. He | amount of territory, | feld. o go far U ith his speed d remarkable judgment of | is zood at handling ground | hally and this vear his throws huve heen marked by distance and occu- racy. Moon Harrls is an average felder a rather certain one within = lmited | territory. But Forbes Field, like Clark Griffith Stadium, has an excep- tiona large plaving space. The outflelds are roomy and offer much cround for safeties when patrolled by felders possessing only a fait ¢ of speed. A hard hitter, of a valuable asset to a club, a fielder who by his excer speed is able to reduce the oppu tion's hits Consider both ou can cover Is { Year. e e le charlevhorse that bothered riably beat four good ones ohnson last week is not noticed now ® ¢ 3 y | Johnson twisted his right knee late by the big pitcher, and the jaunts \ ¥ - |in the season, and had trouble in sev- round the field are improving his ‘p E Team. Pirates Tadians | Walter Jahnson Natlonals.. 3 12 24 20 Fred Marberrs Nationals.. 4 61 & Am. o 10 2 v : |eral of his September games. But on wind considerably. Covey still has his | The whole his 1925 work measured up S conslderstly. fCoveT iRl bas 11 10 its fine standard of last vear, when { soreness in them is nothing like as se- he was voted the most valuable | e Miemlsiotne e e | plaver in the American League. His | dohnson baller said this morning. Marberry's hitting this yvear has been nmmrd‘""'”"" = kinked pitching arm that was treated | R | : £ by Donesetter Reese \tond.u appears to be improving daily. By the end of i the week Fred expects he will have regained the speed that made him so effective in relief roles last vear and | through the first four months of this . | seazon Bucky Tlarris ‘e Johnson a Cagey Workman. | Walter disappointed his friends in | hix early games of fthe 1324 series. | but finished with a bang, when he | | shut out the Glants in the last four | innings of the seventh and final | zame. Johnson pitched poorly in his second game of that series, but it | always has been mv contention that | his good work in the first game was overlooked. Up to the twelfth inning | onlv two runs had been scored off | Tohnson, both of them h a temporary left fleld which could have heen caught easily | Aldridge on a clear field. While he vielded 14 | Morrison innt: he struck out 2 | Meadows and with any kind of | Rhechan hitting behind him he would have | gorelgthic won easilv in nine innings. | Ferguson Pittsburgh can hit speed, but Johp- 1 no longer depends solely on hls‘ Heany were then called on to stop the Fiis| ditysof pitehing them slugging, but the Sea Soldiers con-|past the batters with nothing but his tinued 1o pile up the runs and added | natural speed are over. Any Ameri- four more in the fourth and another | can League player can tell vou that in the fifth. Johnson today After Goodwin had been driven from on Caveleskie Johoson Aldridge | Sheehan Meadows Marherry Kremer Ferguson Merrison | Adame Russell is who handled the sphere a few s vesterday, found that it did not help the wounded fin- ger on his throwing hand at all, and {today confined his practice to legwork. | But the ringer is healing well, and the pilot believes he will be able to do some heaving hin a day or two. ng the ders for series on plaving fe! 3 tent, it would oce no surprise were Harris to bezin the battle, with g MeNeely in the outer defense. | A combination of Nationa! rookies | Although Johnson has been her- |2nd veterans. that was to open a four- | alded widely as the Nationals' rt- | game series against the Red Sox in| ing pitcher for the first game, there | Boston today. was handed a 3-to-2 jolt is a great chance that Stanley Cove. |in Hartford vesterday when it plaved leskie may get that honor. Covey’s |an all:star Eastern League team in an splendid record this seaxon entitles | American Legion benefit. him to serious consideration «nd be-| BIIl Morrell. New Haven pitcher, ing a spitballer, he would have a de- |allowed but five hits and the big livery the Pirates did not see much |leaguers did not score until after the of in their campalgn. Eastern leaguers had made their trio of S six i g. All Mg GhanseCovess tallies in the sixth inning. Allen Russell, who pitched the first five Harris naturally will select as his qualifica use in s of grea aeeaAiESaulE susalaiai dshosen Marberry Adams Lm:_ ME.ADOWJ‘ Natconal TRED MARBERRY nen the plate. Neumann, Simon | MARINES TAKE TITLE, BEATING G. P. 0. NINE only one ma of 192 than the. is one of the caglest | Brooklyns of the Johneonian trail Athletics 20, of frames for the Nationals, granted but first pitcher the man he regards the |one safety and struck out eight batters. most effective of his staff at that Then Jim Lyle, voung right-hander | time, for this hurler will be expected | bought from Augusta of the Sally 10 toil twice during the series. If League, assumed the mound burden. Covey appears to possess the form B Tn the sixth round, Lyle was nicked he had during the greater part of the | for three hits that combined with a American League season when the pass and a hit batter vielded the op- series starting time arrives, he and | position all its tallles. The Eastern not Johnson may go to the slab. Leaguers got two swats off Lyle in Boss Bucky has definitely decided | the last two inning that Judge will be used at first base | Stewart, Jeanes, Leibold and Myer in the series. The Natlonal regular |did the National hitting, one of Ste. i one of the most polished initial wart's two blows being a double while sackers in the business and with the | Leibold connected for three bases. HERO CROWN IS AWAITING RAY KREMER.. SOME ONE IN BIG SERIES esociated Pres EW YORK. September 30.—Somewhere in the ranks of the Pirates and Natior wned hero of the 1925 world series. It | will take a fortnight or so to determine his identity, but precedent set in every previous (1\amp'0n<h|p conflict bears out the conviction that some one lete, aspiring or inspired. will have his name marked down in the list of base ball's Frank Merriwells. The king himself may have some- Thing to say about disposition of this season's crown, for Bucky Harrls, brilliant young manager of the Sen- ato s into the series with the dis mmm of having been the out & fizure of the 1924 victory club over the Giants. Walter Johnson's pitchinz made m a heroic figure in the final zame last Fall: Earl McNeely drove in the deciding run and Peckingpauzh's gal lant efforts at shortstop also rigured als is the Here is the complete list of world series heroes, as popularly chosen, up to date: 1003—BIll Dinneen. pitcher, Red Nox. 1905 —Christy " Mathewson. pltcher, * ¥D06—Georxe Rohe. third baseman, White Sox. 1007—Harry Steinfeldt, third base- man. Cabs. 2 P o1P08—Frank Chance, first i the. 1000—Babe Adums, 1910—Jack Coamb: 1911 —Frank Raki Athletien h Redient, nitcher, Red Sox. | Bs tne league teams are closing the season | bets Field uneventfull The contest, however, rermined Boston Braves 10 fifth place through Philadelphia. tion, closing struggle of Louts for third place in the American close of last season. Detroit must BABE ADAMS sweep the series 1o displace Sisler’s MAJOR GAMES Now men, who are now 2! games ahead OF LlTTLE INTEREST of the fourth-place Tigers. The schedule also calls for Brooklyn \ and Boston to terminate the race in a fight for fifth place in the National. | After a2 game at Philadelphia tomor- Major ‘IO\\‘ the Robins will return to Eb- to meet the Braves on Sat- urday and Sunday in the fina! episode of their scramble for the top rung in the second division The champions of borh leagues are called from home for their curtain Series, although after finishing & four- game engagement at Boston, starting up the game for Fletcher's aggrega- | | today, Washington will make its fare. 10-4. vnel] ‘American League appearance in a Interest tomorrow will turn 1o the single confest with the Athletics at the three games be- 'Clh!l.al on Sunday. The Pirates wind up in Cincinnati ee-game series against the day. Associated Prese NEW YORK. September 30 There was only one game vesterday. restored the de- the defeat of Brooklyn by Ten runs in the first our innings off Burleigh Grimes sewed ween the Browns and Tigers at St.| | with a t n held at the Reds, starting on Fr arzely in the battle, but Harrls was the allaround sensation, fielding bril liantly and wielding a potent bat. Harris will have precedent against his chance of repeating a heroic role, however. for while playvers have starred in more n one series theyv have never lifted themseclves to the “outstanding hero” niche more than once. Both W have a pler for stellar 1T Rall Wil RehT vetman: Athleties. 1015—Duffy Lewis, outfielder, Red 1016—Harry Hooper, outfielder, Sox.. Fober, pitcher, 1018—George Whiteman, outfielder, Red_Sox. 1910—Dick Kerr, pitcher, White Sox. 1020—Stanley Coveleskie, pitcher, In: White shinzton and Pittsburgh ul array of candidates roles—twoscore or more, n fact. In the preseries speculation names most frequen rd_are | cleskie and Johnson, Washington’s right-handed pitchers: Harris, | TYGERS TRI'M CAR.DS ugh and Goslin, prominent | pETROIT, September 30 (A).-The e e ppoack andidefense and | Dotrolt Tygera defeated the St Louls SoonE fho STl Such cenattionsl|iNationels jin ia I2%nning foxTiibltion Ot e e e ’I‘ ame here vesterday, 3 to 2. The game Vright and Travnor or veterans such | way delayed in the second inning when | 5 Garey, Meadows and Admmns Umpire Ormsby chased three Cardinal ! and Stanler Coveles Lo Frae e ke, incidentally, have been awarded | rast she gt o - |Uart and Clough the main laurel wreath before. so that ki they face the same handicap of prece- SISLER'S EYES 0.K. dent as Harris. Adams won his NRamat Detrore T 1008, Covéies |, ST LOULS, September 30 P).—Back Toemed the: Same Tk o ek e | home after a_successtul Eastern trip e et 7@ | with the St. Louis Browns, Manager George Sisler denied a report that he it had admitted his eves were giving him trouble again 1921—Johany Rawlins, infielder, Glants. 1025—Heinle Groh, third baseman, 108 —Caner Stencel. outflelder. Glants. —Stanley Harris, second baseman, \nllonn.ll HURRICANE FOUR AHEAD. GARDEN CITY, N. Y., September 30 (®).—Hurricanes entered the final of the Fall tournament for the Water- i polo trophy by defeating the rook field, Thfi Primemertw received a YDE — another PHILTEX. A collar that looks what it is, the leader amon, semi-soft, banded collars. 35 cemr—3 for $1.00 Phillipe-Jones, New York ILTEX (orrar Havre de Grace SEVEN RACES DAILY Sgeclal B. & 0. traly of steel coaches leaves Union Station 12 n'elock noon. Parlor and Dining Car attached. Epecial Penna, R. R. train of steel es _leaves Unlon Station 12:10 direct to course — Eastern ineluding Government FLORSHEIM OU’'VE heard the expression in vour Shoes! Headquarters Marines ended a whiri- wind base hall season vesterday when they took the championship of the week day leagues by trouncing Gov- ernment Printing Office, 14 to 7. in the second game of the play-off for the | city title. The triumph over the Government League champions was a fitting climax to the Leathernecks’ rapid rise in local sandlot ranks. Organized only four months ago, the nine went through the second Potomac Park series without a defeat and took the league title by | downing the Shipping Board aggre- gation that had won out in the first series. | This victory gave the Marines the right to represent their loop in the post-season series for the champion. | ship of the seven week-day leagues and here again they demonstrated their superiority, although meeting | with one defeat before finally captur ing section A honors and the right 1o meet the Government Printing Office | base ballers in the final. Nearly 50 teams fook part in the Summer series of the various week-day circuits. Yesterday's contest, which went 10 only six innings, was productive of | some rather poor base ball, frequent errors and jneffective hurling making the clash uninteresting for the large | following of fans who turned out. Both teams scored once in the firs: | Tound and went scoreless in the sec ond. In the third the Typos pounded out six runs and sent Goodwin to the showers. However. the Marines turn ed on Lew Hollis in their half of the frame and sent eight counters across SHOE “I'd like to be Plenty of men will feel that way about Y OU—if you're wearing a pair of our Splendid New Fall “FLOR- SHEIMS!” Most Styles $10 Cor. 7th & K. 414 9th St. 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. 1318 G St. MAN'S SHOP | Our NG‘IU 14th & G Sts. the mound, Brvant assumed the slah held his opponents s out the Stephens, Cor remainder ¢ Marine right | nected for four hits in as many |at the plate. GODFREY WHIPS BURKE. VERNON, Calif., September 30 (). — | Mathewso; George Godfrey, negro defeated Martin Burke leans in a slew 10-round fight night. or pitchers Here is a eless through- of the fray fielder, con times | th a fresh wreath of ason. though at he turned In the star in 1905. veight, | victories ag: ew Or-| vielded only 15 last | walked two men. Mat elded 15 hits and no runs hea: of 15¢ prediction—Johnson duties for ‘the ultimate winners and come out of the new world series with aurels on his brow. | Covey Has a Great Record. veleskie has had a great 34 he is not| quite the piicher he was in 1 world serles | | pitching performance next o that of In scorinz three| Brooklyn hits and two rups and | rec when Covey | vears aZo, nd waked | THE sweetness of taste that men are dis- covering in Warte Owzs is due to the finest tobacco crop in years and to the million-a-day demand which enables us to use the best the market affords. ite Ow a million a day will | ception of Adams. have Pittsburgh's pitchers, with the ¢ o world serie erience. and this (Continued on Page Twenty-nine.} Body and Fender Repairing General Auto Repairing CENTRAL AUTO WORKS 449451 Eye St. N.W. Franklin 6805 Nature and valty amillion careful smokers—a combination hard to beat have combined to make White Owls taste better than ever. 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