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28 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1925. SPORTS. Every Man of Griffmen Is Fit To Go: Lieb Picks Nats To Win Series On Experience COVEY NAMED FOR SECOND; | WORLD SERIOUS BUSINESs. | WASHINGTON IS GIVEN SIX FERGUSPN_IS ALTERNATE‘ 4 3N i T ' ‘ GAMES TO DEFEAT BUCS Batting Order Is Rice, S. Harris, Goslin, Judge, J. Harris, Bluege, Peck, Ruel and Johnson—P | With Johnson Better and Coveleskie Counted on for Two Victories, Signs Point to a Repetition of burghers Greet Club on Arrival. Last Year’s Outcome. == | { ] SCoTT AND MCINNIS . i - BY JOHN B. KELLER. —the Gold: Dust hwins P ITTSBURGH. Pa. October 6-—Primed to the minute. Washinzton's ] Ty are Nrido ‘ : | Doping the World Series American L champrons cagerly await the umpire’s call to ac- THEIR 6%k all regulars of the infield and outfield in splen- | Nicro e the entire catching department ready for heavy duty. and the g staff. not even excepting Stanley Covele:kic. fit for the fray. the | li take the ficld quite confident of their ability to rout the tes in the world series of 192 | To Walter Perry Tohnson, vetcran of 19 campaizns in the American | lLeague and the do ant fi e of the struzgle for the base ball cham ' 4 ‘ hip of the world last year. will zo the Nationals’ pitching assignment 2 , 3 =i O J | for the inaugural contest. - And Waltcr apparentiy i much better prepared ¢ R ; S FTE 1 or the job this time than in 1924, when he entered the series against the y G # ) o 3 3 N, 3 TER two weeks of doping out the world serics chances of the Article XV, THE FINAL SUMMARY. BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. World Series Official Scorer. 1922, 192 Former President Base Ball Writers’ Ascociation. Giants pitching more for the base ball world at large than for the Wash- Pirates and Nationals, it is my opinion that the two clubs are as ington cl gton club. ) evenly balanced as any two aggregations that ever have been put The grand old man of the zame ac-| will have them on their toes all the seems to be in better physical im just now than at any other time And never during the 1925 League campaign did he seem particularly poor, not even in his time (Coprrizht. 1925.) 16 SOUTHERN PLAYERS return to duty after more than four weeks of inactivits. due to an attack WITH GRIFFS AND BUCS of ton: ‘ohnson’: eason record *f 20 victories azainet 7 defeats is am-| _ MEMPHIS, Tenn.. October 6 (@) nle proof of his slabbing ability durinz Sixteen former Southern Assoclation ihe chase for the league flag vlayers will he among the 50 eligihle Onliithe receising ena ot Na | piavers when Washinzton and Pitts tionals' batrerv in the opening en-|bursh start the world series tomor ent here will be Mudd: Ruel. | row stanch little catcher who in his| The players are: Washington- ee teasons with the Washinaton | Pitchers Marberry and Ballau. Catch rutht has earned the reputation of be. |ers Ruel and Tate and Infielders % one of the sreatest backstops of | Harris, Myer and Jeanes Pittshurzh —Pitchers Jobn Morrison | and Shezh Catchers Gooch and Spencer. Infielders Moore and Traynor and Outfielders Cuyler, Haas and nd the | Barnhart. en will be fol Discarded by the Yanks SELECTED AS THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER INTHE AMERICAN LEAGUE one of the clever {5 NATIONALS UNACCLAIMED, REAL PLAYERS THIS YEAR FORECAST IN SERIES patrol center field. Next in or e the club's pilot and second sacker. | soose Goslin, sl 1z left fielde be third in the list, while to Jos dge. first baseman, will go the clean- | up position e Meadows for Pirates. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Moon Harris, right fielder. The next will be Os fuege, third baseman. Roger Peck " <hortstop. wiil be | the seventh p to the plate. Ruel :nd_Johnson vill complete the o s 1 % ! Pifth in the line of attack will be P ITTSBURGH. Pa. October 6. exact science of mathemat —Base hall is the great statistical game. There is no other sport which even approaches it in the Therefore. it should be possible to it dowh at any time and tell just what onc team can do to another, for McKechnie. who b the complete record of what every big league player has done is available. ional League champions, has intimat- »d that Lee Meadow ht-hander aho has seen much sery in the big e 2 £ o has seen much sery 5 | automatons e orrow. Spece, 2s he rate them because of the glasses sven when hurling. en season in his_circuit of late years it has heen re that the Wa-hington Nationals this of the worst psvchological “jinses’ alized that a certain psychology has liound its wav into the national game and that players are not mere somectimes there is a disposition to In contemplating this forthcoming world ceries it is well to consider vear have fought and conquered one that ever assailed a ball club. This e, b3 bur best bet in maral victory mayv give them an “edge” in the series. “he pitching line. e | Y give the Meadows will be t by Earl ith, according to all information c S c Es s 2ecordhe 1 e hees FAGTS AND FANCI quarters of the Natinnal Leazue flag winners. The catcher and pitcher will ABOUT THE CLASSIC conclude a batting order, but will be foore. second hase n in Il be Max Carey. center field; | B the Asenciated Prece Kikl Cuyler, right field; Pooch Barn. | PITTSBURGH. Pa.. October §.— hart, lefr fleld: Pie Traynor. third Ten millions of base ball fans from hase. Glen Wrizht. shortstop, and | €0ast to coast and Canada to the Guif George Brantham, first base. will hear world series radio reports or watch the progress of the cham Harris Cuts Speed. plonship zames between Pittshursh of these combinations is ca- |and Washington by plaver-board, ac- paio ot e ning & powerful at. | cording to estimates hased upon rec. Tack. has plenty of Skill in defense | ord-breaking arranzements for dis- and an abundance of speed. The use | tributing the story and picture of the of the plugging Moon l;(‘um: i(r;.«'}ead | battles. of Earl McNeely. with Rice and Go; N 5 lin in the National outfield. reduces Weather reports are for ‘“rain and the speed of the combination to some | cooler” tomorrow. openinz dav. but extent. but Boss Bucky believes the | fans are hoping thev can chalk up fleet Rice in center can take care of an error for the fore such a wide expanse of territory that | . § the stower-footed Moon Harris wil | 1f it is a moist d ) not have to guard anv sreat amount Harris of the Nationals may wish he of gzround. And Moon can smack ; Dad decided t6 use Stanley Coveleskie, that ball. his spitball star. instead of Walter It Stanlex Coveleskie is as well pre. | Johnson on the mound. pared to pitch as he declares he i | gt least a half dozen members of Manager Harris will have no trouble | 1o yival teams. includinz Managers | nicking his pitcher for the second | yfoKechnie and Harris themselves, zame of the series The back all- j) furmsh newspaper accounts of ment that threatened to put the spit- | the zames but no charzes have been haller out of commission ZONE | lodged against them under the play together. <o the heaver insists. and | ¢y writer rules he is confident he will be in fettle = Thursdzy though. is not Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsvl certain the veteran will be readv t vania will toss cut the first hall. No Alex Ferzu- | one has vet called a e on this prohahle ar nitcher for | annual play. gue champions t e S PiOnS AL wgne.Eyed Conmolly, traveling ligh will he no for arrived overnight from New York. He ow's in ) predicted Washington would win, but | Dreyfuss, presiden ieates, | 1efuzed to disclose the methads he will holds no beief for fuse and feathere | employ to “crash the zate” at Forhes eAhLs et e thatacthl | Field, except to declare he would he the head umpire’s er: | there as usual. will ctart the strugzgle. How the Buc boss has condenscend. tn emplov a I hand for the Honus Wagner. famous plaver en the Pirates won their last Na-. ! tional pennant and captured the world occaslon. so the fans who are ex- | orjes in 1909, ha en up polities pected to n ¥ £ into the | for journalism temporarily and will stands at Forbes i hours before | yite newspaper articles on the series. the game may have some jazz enter. while waitinz for the biz| “Well, boys, I'm here for the frolic.” business of the day tn zet under way. | Nick Altrock. comedian-coach for the Cosrii Senators, shouted in reeting_as he Plenty of Execitement. stepped off the train from the Capital. There is plenty of excitement over | “I'm in the best shapt of my career the d ntown <ections and ready to take a regular turn in h. but all ic quiet in the | the box. naizhborhond of the Nationals' hotel. that is located on the outski little of the bustle usually noticeable A S | ARRIVING FOR GAMES But where impending set cames is discussed Pirates are favored to cop the laurels. urghers, of course. cannot see how thefr club is tn he beaten. and Pa.. October & — e e mane from usually ardent Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Ln. | ere are m 5 | dis was one of the first notables to | A e I atinile i wapeay | arrive hers for the world series ves. their success of 1224 Pirate | terday and made his way to the Pitts St e ciare apiitiibe aabls | burgh club offices to deliver his con e i a o e * | sratulations. Part of the dax he spent nativas iy at the Oakmont Country Club, scene e e Ml 1A l6of a championship of another sort 4 e | about 2 month ago. in which honors | went to Bobby Jones of Georgia. Leagne presidents, owners. secre- taries and managers have arranged for reservations and will present them- selves some time during the day, and another group. famed in the past, is nt the Natio when their the city about § o'c ning. hool children coma signs lined alonz the railrad tracks and cheered lustily. ' gathering to urge the team of Pitts. Serenaded by Band. | burgh to national glory once again. There was little demonstration | At the head of them will be Hans when the Washington base ball party | Wagner, who was all over the field in ! vent through the station., but at the | the glorious days of 1909 when the hotel last night the Capital City | Pirates captured the world title from crowd was visited by the Nuf Ced | Detroit. And there will be Charlie | Club, Pirate rooters all, and seren- | (Deacon) Phillippe. a moundsman of 2dod by a band resplendent in scarlet | those days, and perhaps Claude Ritchie uniforms heavily bedecked with gold | and others. braid. Fred Clarke. manager of that great The Nationals were to o through | team. is now assistant to McKechnie, . brisk drill at Forbes Field today,|and Babe Adams, pitching hero of the starting at 11 o'clock. Pitchers Curly | 1909 series, remains in the uniform of Ogden and Tommy Thomas. inelegible | his club. confident that his good right to play in the series. were to do most | M _retains the cunning of old. of the flinging to batters, but the | other heavers were to get strenuous workouts. Boss Bucky wants all of his_men fullv fit for the bic test and | All Shouted for Nationals. A vear ago the Washington cluh Wwas swept to victery on the greatest wave of popularity hase hall has ever nawn. Tn the world series there was pull” for Washington from coast to coast Even in New York ecity, the home of the Giants. it seemed that half the population was rooting fo Washington. Out in the “sticks, wherever the game. was recorded. the populace assembled and shouted for Washington. Possibly nine-tenths of the Wash ington popularity was due to Walter Johnson. For years the base ball | writers and the ‘public _had been be- | moaning the fact that the king of the | American League pitchers had not had the good fortune to get into a I world series. At last his chance had come, and If ever a player had the | publi¢ behind him. Walter Johnson | was the man. there was ' manager. Harris. who was matching his vouthful wits against the ‘‘master- minding” of the peerless and imperi- {ous John McGraw, winner of ten biz league pennants. This Year Is Different. Under the psychological urge of | the base ball loving public from one end of the country to the other. the Nationals went on to ‘their thrilling twelfth-inning. twelfth-hour trivmph and became the toast of all their native land. But in 1 oh. my countrymen, what a change there was. The season started serenely enough. The glamour of their great pepularity last Fall had not worn off and some of the Na-. | tionals were a trifle “superior,” to put it rather mildly It was not until midseason that the Nationals suddenly came to the rea- | lization that this vear they were fight- ling their battles alone. In Washing- ton the fans were as faithful and en | thu: tic as ever, if at times a bit | depressed, but in the great outside | world it appeared that nobody cared a hoot whether Washington won or Jost. As a matter of fact, a decided { “pull” deemed to be under way for the youthful Athletics of old Connie Mack They were the “under dogs” this year. Johnson Now Just Pitcher. Washington had had its hour in the sun, its place in the spotlight of base hall history. The great base ball pub- | wanted another “thrill,” another ro,” and the mere repetition of a world championship base ball team could not: furnish that thrill The Washington blavers suddenly found that outside their home town every man’s hand was turned against them. Then their real battle began They girded their loins and went at the game for all they were worth. And | they were not the ones to crack under the long strain. The young Athletics collapsed. The rest was easy. Wash- ington won .against all the odds, pro- fessional and psychological. They are going into the world series in that same spirit This vear the whole country is not Johnson. Last vear all eves were on {him, all hearts were with him. This tyear he is just a base ball pitcher {again, and the chances are that, re- ) lieved of the strain of battling for the whole country, he will he a much bet- | ter pitcher than he was against the Giants. That is something of the | ps¥chalogy of the game | See All World’s Series Games PRESIDENT 2.2 Every Game Shown Both in Washington and Pittsburgh Moving Pictures Make the Plavs Fast as They Come in Over the Wire Box Office Now Open Reserved Seats 50c, 75¢ | hanging upon the fate of Sir Walter | Coleman’s New Invention | the Prvates Tur NKNOWNS ™ ! aee pargeraus DECIDED Tuz SeRiES Teey HEVE AFTEN WINNER OF 2 PENNANTS AND [L'kouT Far “gM VIORLEYS CHAMPONSHP AT HE AGE 0F 28 '$1,000,000 RECEIPTS Br the Associated Press | PITTSBURGH. October 6. —The Pittsburgh club has disclosed that the unprecedented demand for world series reserved seat tickets had so far ex ceeded the supply that $300.000 had been returned on orders which it was impossible ta fill for the first, second xth games scheduled here. re than 200.000 ticket applications altogether were received. five times the seating capacity of Forbes Field At the same time the club revealed that the receipts for filled orders rep resented approximately an equal thus giving prospect that the attles will mark the third suc cessive million.doliar base bhall rlassic if the issue is fought out to six or seven games. This high total is possible hecause of the big pronortion of higher-priced seats, although the capacity of neither Forbes Field nor Griffith Stadium in Washington is as zreat as the parks in New Y . where the first million dollar series was fought out in 1023 The record receipts of $1.093.104 were collected for the cevengame struggle | last vear between the Nationals and Giants as compared with the six me aggregate of $1.0:3.815 for the Giants Yankee battle of two ye. COBB EQUALS MARK AS A .300 CLOUTER NEW YORK. October 6. — Finish ing the 1925 base bali season with a mark of .3%0. Ty Cobb. manager of the Detroit Tygers. equaled one of the few major league hatting records that he had not previousiv held or shared. The Georgian's mark this | vear made the twentieth season in which he has batted better than .30 | the only other plaver in the major leagues to have accomplished that be ing the late Adrian C. Anson There is a difference in the records of the two sluggers, however. which favors Cobb in comparizon. The De troit manager har made his string of 300 marks, which include three sea sons ahove 400, in consecutive yvears while Aneon dropped out of the se lect circle two seasons Cobb bhegan his 300 hitting in 1205 with a mark of .320. Anson hegan in 1876, ten vears before Cobb was horn. and continued as a .300 hitter through the 1230 geason. He dropped nut nf the so-called heavy hitting class in 1891 and 1892, and then resumed in 1833. {ending his string in 1597 with a mark of .302. | 'PITTSBURGH IS OPEN T0 SCALPING TRADE PITTSBURGH. Pa.. October 6.—Tt| | appears as though world series ticket | 'scalpers would work unmolested in | Pittsburgh. | City Solicitor T. M. Benner has been | | unable to find a State law against it |and a city ordinance only makes it | unlawful to raise the price of tickets | and sell them on the street. | | " The scalpers. two of whom have al. | | ready opened offices, are expected to get around the city law in this way and thus ply their, trade wtihout po- lice interferences. Prices are said t. | range from £10 to $25 per seat | Preparations by the speculators indi- cate they have a considerable supply | of tickets for disposal. Just how they | were obtained is not clear to police. | Spurious tickets are reported to have \.be!n found in some sections of the | ci HOW THE TWO CLUBS LINE-UP IN HITTING Teams. Games, Pirates Nationals HOW THE PITCHERS HAVE FARED NATIONALS. PIRATES. w. Aldridge - 15 Meadows . 19 Kremer wwse B9 Yde 17 Oldham Morrison Adams HARRIS IS CHANCE TAKER; McKECHNIE CONSERVATIVE BY JOHN B. ITTSBLURGH., October 6.—\With s c N boy ering over Forbes Field for the opening game of the world series tomerrow, it was indicated today that Meadow be the starting pitchers. With the two veterans pitted against each other the <eries promises to begin with one of the greatest tu The leit wing thinks that Manager Harris should pitch Coveleskie in his first game here. Yet if it is true that Coveleskie's ailing bhack has not come around as it should. Harris is unless he wants to go in with Ferguson This series may not be plaved so vear the Washington boss is booked to be the boy speculator. whereas last vear against the Giants Harris was the conservative. Buc has had experience in world serfes chance-taking and Bill McKechnie of the Pirates has not | Yet Bill of Wilkinsburg has had a lot of experience in risking hazards with teams that were possessed of their share of ehony —this vear's is an exception—and it i=n't a bit wise to assume that he is <0 cold he man ages 3 team like a | The composition of hoth the Pi rates and Nationals makes it wise to predict that all plavers will run out all playe and throws. Nothing can he wiser. The slightest alip, the least | hesitancy, just one little neglectful | run to first hase, or an unconscious slowing up between first and home v cost the run that changes the | hole event Last vear Washington had a team that never passed up a chance onthe hases. This vear it has been the | came most of the time. Eternal foot- | work is the price of championships in this serie: Pittsburgh will run them out, hecause the speed dogs of the Pirates carried them far toward their victory in the National League McKechnie is a man who goes a long way with his pitchers before he changes them. Harris has his twirl | ers sized up so well that he shifts quicker than his rival 1In the play that won them this year league championships both managers were. early in the season. criticized for these traits, but the final count showed their tactics were right. McKechnle is wavering between Aldridge and Meadows for the opener, but it probably will be the latter. There is this much about that chance. If Aldridge starts and doesn’t do well he is likelv to come back and pitch splendidly,” while if Meadows starts | and doesn't do well he may be too abashed to let out in a second game earing he will get wild and then be dangerous to his own team, not to the fellow. How much of a chance McKechnie will give Morrison is problematical. Bill has not outlined anv program for his pitchers. Nor is he likely to do so. He will make hie judgments on the spot. is explained by its unique construction. Woven oa a curve, of a single piece of stur- dy, smooth, multi-ply fabric. Itisthe wotld's smartest, most co: fortable most econo- mical collar. 12 VAN HEUSEN STYLES 30 CENTS BACH | runs. A similar grounder gave Wash: | o) and Johnson would | ced to pitch Johnson, Morrison could make this Washing- | differently, from a managerial stand-|ton team walk tha plank straighter point. from that of 1924, excent that | n i liBs i Musostaien Bresi jioos than a condemned pirate if he could but the thing is SPECIAL TRAIN October 7 Lv. Washington Ar. Pittsburgh Sleepers Open Diner Serves Breakfast Travel Bureau—Main 3300 Woedward Bldg..15th & H Sts. N. W 1 Baltimore & Ohio i e linto a world serics. The Washington infield was given a <light edge, which was canceled by Pittshburgh's slight superiority in the outfield There was little to choose among the rival boards of strategy. [ preferred | “Mudd Ruel to the Pirate catchers, and consider the Wask gton pitchers slightly superior. This again is offsct by Pittsburgh's stronger | attack and its narrow margin in base running. The two teams. offsetting their various strong and weak points, | | pick the Nationals to repeat their 1924 triumph. solely on greater experi- | ence. superior <teadiness and their proved ability as moncy plavers. | pick Washington to win the scries in six games. though there i« a poc- hility of the series being drawn out to the full seven. FHowever, hase bail history and precedent is against it. In the 21 <eriec hetween the National and American Leagues pennant winners it hac been necessar to play a deciding game in only three, and these series came in cyvcics, | 1909, 1912 and 1924, especially in the Middle West, whare the fans are rooting for 2 world's Small Things Count. Of course. a pebble or 4 hard clump of dirt can upset all the dope. Last, Championship for their section 1 vear 1 picked the Giants 10 win be.| think this divided rnoting will be am cause of thelr greater number of capable pitchers and their superior ex Paianea Crnaoend thelt BUDCHIoT/eX. | mense of less responsibility. ‘Then he seventh zame in the bag. when that |2!s0o will know that Coveleskie another clod of hard dirt in front of third hase | Star rizhthander, is hehind him if he was responsible for a grounder jump. | fails ing over Lindstrom’s head in the eighth inning letting in the two tying | 4 aseet to Johneon, ac it will zive him 4 Coveleskie to Win. hunch tells me that Coveleskie » both his games. This feilow's coolness in the 1920 world's series still L e il is impressed firmly on my mind. There 5 series, muy stakes o s 23 15 series, my ‘“mistakes.” including| jever was a moment, when he was the Brave upset of 1914, and the series | 1ot apeolutely ool o6 tiie R‘duhh:h:”\“\ h“x':; {nx n:;e“; to the|gjtyation. The fact that he was in a five the dope will siery cases out of | world's series never seemed to be in e o | his thought. He held Erooklyn to 2 BrrEn: ,’l”’,"",m_""h‘::‘l’f“”“‘“P"N"’j\! “| runs and 15 hits in 27 innings for the e that the Na-|pest exhibition of world's seri : 1 o ose e e orld’s series pitch tionals today possess their =reatest|inc ince Mathewson won his three strength. They now are on the crest shutout victories in 196 of their wave. By next season the por pittsburgh to the Pirate: wave will recede. The Pirates have | must push Johnson and Coveleskie o not vet reached the top of their power.!of the way in those first two mames Thic club will continue 1o =ain|in Pittsburgh. Should the Pirates strength and experience. and it would | these two. games. ther. ne. dr not be surprising to see the Dirates | iemey cp pames, thev. no again represent the National League | But pushing Johnson und ovele. in the world's series in 1926 and 1927. | out of the way will be 4 man's By that time it may be a different | foh * The firsr twa dave will e Ly Whethetithied Pirares: Gin' Sucmeint these pitehing mountai (Convrieht 192 ington the victory in the twelfth. | However, my record is 11 winners in Figure on Full Strength. In selecting Washinginn ta win. we alsn fizure the Nationale an their full <rrenarh. Should Johnson, Harris or Peckinpaugh be unable to plav, it would throw the halance over to the other side. However, from all the . D Washinzton's three dis tinguiched “cripples” will be ready ta the series who lost his first two sames last October. should be a better pitcher in the present scries, even though he is a vear older. Johnsen was unquestionably nervous, when he faced the Giants in the first game in | Washington. He felt the weizht of re- | sponsibility on his shoulders and that millions of fans depended on him to| at the Giants. | This vear so much does not depend | 5 2 : id o Jinhnson.“:;or one thing the coun = start and finish a game exactly as he | try is not solidly behind the Nationals i il | has started and finished some of his | as it was a yvear ago. The Pirates, a Equiphliour HCar S With best games this year, to zet him so he i new. vigorous, picturesque team. have | NEW TIRES as many well wishers as Washington. | | 6 MONTHS TO PAY! PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. N. W. 1200 H St. N. E. 9th & P Sts. N. W. Other convenient trains leave Washington 11:30 A.M.—2:30 P.M.—10:20 P.M.—12:20 A M. For information and reservation cail WALTER V. SHIPLEY Asst. Gen’l Pass. 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