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THE -EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. U, FRIDAY; OCTOBER -5..100' SPORT S. “After Hoyt, What”, Is Way Sharpshooters Regard Present Status of Yank Hopes JUDY O’GRADYS GET MOST KICK FROM SERIES GAMES Society Takes Inferiority Complex to Ball Park and Ultra-Style Is Lost in Milling Crowd of Cheering Thousands. CARD ACES, HAINES AND ALEY, ARE FIT Maranville’s Catch of Foul Bright Spot in Rather Dull First Game. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. EW YORK, October 5.—Ameri- can League adherents found much to gratify them in the impressive 4-to-1 triumph achieved by the Yankees in the | initial combat of the World Series, but | the thoughtful ones were tempering | their jubilation pending the outcome of the second setto at the stadium this afternbon. The history of these Autumnal class- ics shows that the winner of the all- important first game usually is in pos- session of the lion's share of the spoils when the final ballots are tabulated and on that basis followers of the Cardinals might have wallowed in a fit of the dumps over the reverse their idols suf- fered at the outset. But this particular set-joust is far different from the average and that ac- counts for the fact that the National League contingent didn’t scurry around to hedge on its bets, being content to adopt a “wait and see” attitude. The situation as the athletes prepared for game No. 2 at Col. Rupert’s huge enclosure simply was that the Yankees had drawn first blood in a not unex- pected manner through employment on the hill of the only first-class pitcher on their roster, now that Herb Pennock is hors de combat due to a bout with neuritis., “After Hoyt, What?” Waite Hoyt’s caliber as a slabman of the highest rating generally was ac- knowledge before the series got under ‘way and it was expected he would prove an exceedingly hard nut to crack. But the sharpsters have been asking, “After Hoyt, what?" George Pipgras was represented as worn to a frazzle from overwork during the campaign in which the Yankees barely contrived to stagger in ahead of the pursting Mackmen; Tom Zachary as too old and Henry Johnson as too young, with such slabmen as Fred Hei- mach, Rosy Ryan and Myles Thomas given scant consideration. Willie Sherdel, on the other hand, ‘was ranked as not one whit more for- midible than Jess Haines or Grover Alexander, with Clarence Mitchell ad- Jjudged by some as fully on a par with the trio of first-flight flingers. Evidence on this score was to be offered today and on the verdict reach- ed depended whether the Cardinals would pull up stakes for St. Louis to start on even terms against their rivals Sunday or have their backs to the wall of their own bailiwick with two re- verses charged against them in the race for a title where the victor needs but four wins, Game Not Exciting. the fact that it was marked of the long-distance clouts $o do by the fans there was little to di the first game of the series from any run-of-the-mine combat in a regular - campaign. Yankee Stadium was thronged with the largest gathering that .eVer -wit- messed a World Series tilt, but there was little of the hurrah that one has come to look for in titular struggles and for all the enthusiasm_displayed the Yan- kees might have been taking one of téhozlr customary falls out of the Red X. of mur-mlndlncfi there was none, of ticklish situations, ditto, and the bright- est =pot in the pastime was the catch of a foul ball. This was contributed by ‘Walter Maranville and earned as much applause as the home runs previously referred to. The catch didn’t mean anything. It third the Despite by & pair ted on occup! thing matic about the stage setting. Just a sharp {g:lnt close to the stand in left where 35-year veteran, who starred for the Braves in their memorable clean-up of the Athletics 14 years ago, made one of his typical over-the-shoul- der stabs. That this sho Seribes at Detroit Doubt Harris Will Succeed Moriarty NEW _YORK, October 5.— Stanley Raymond Harris, just de- posed as manager of the Na- tionals, may be slated for George Moriarty's berth as pilot of the Detroit Tigers, but if he lands the job it will surprise the base ball writers- of the Michigan me- iropolis. Questioned about the rumored change, Detroit scribes in attend- ance at the world series today as- serted that George Moriarty is well liked by the fans of that ~i:y who are inclined to blame the president of the club rather than its field leader for the poor ng of the Detroit team the two seasons. nent Harris one of them said: “If Harris wasn't good enough for ‘Washington he isn't good enough for Detroit.” BOTTONLEY ST HAS FATH N CARDS Says Hoyt Deserved to Win. Thinks Sherdel Is Hard- Luck Pitcher. BY JIM BOTTOMLEY, (First Baseman St. Lovis Cardinals) ANKEE STADIUM, New York, October 5.—We certainly have no alibis for our defeat in the first game. Any time a pitcher is good enough to deal out only three hits he deserves to win. ‘Waite Hoyt showed us one good rea- son why the Yankees won their sixth league pennant in eight years. As the saying goes, he had everything. He seemed to weaken a trifle in the eighth. but like most good pitchers he had enough reserve to regain his poise and finish strong. I am sorry for Bill Sherdel. He ap- pears ‘go be our hard-luck world series pitcher.- He pitched a good game. There were more long hits in this game than I looked for, four of New “York's seven hits being for added yard- age. The Babe, of course, with two dou- bles and a single, each of which played a part in New York's run scoring, was the big batting hero of the afternoon, but the most damaging punch was Meusel’s home run. That sock gave the Yanks a 3-t0o-0 lead, and a margin of that length, with Hoyt pitching so ef- fectively, was unbeatable. Hoyt is one of the fastest pitchers I've seen. He concentrated on his fast ball, using a curve now and then to get us off stride and to make his speed all the more effective, He had the fastest stuff I've looked at since Dazzy Vance gave us that trimming over in Brook- lyn 10 days ago. Manager Huggins indicated that he ‘was on the alert when he played for de- fense after his club had assumed the lead.” His second baseman, Lazzeri, has a lame shoulder, and in an effort to fortify second base Hug sent in the youngster, Durocher, in the seventh in- ning. Then, in the ninth, Huggins wheeled in tional defensive strength by replaeing Durst, There was no chance for us to benefit by any break in the New York ramparts, #s the Yanks refused to crack in the field. They played winning ball all around. The Yanks beat us in the first gams two years ago, but we won the series. ‘We also intend to win this one. {(Copyright, 1928, by North American News- paper Alliance.) Series Pick-Ups By the Associated Press. ESPITE forecasts of unfavorable weather for the second game of the world series today, Samuel Thomas and Francis Chapman, who hitch - hiked from Dover, N. H,, to New York, took the after- noon is the tip-off on what kind of a game it was. There is no way to euchre Hoyt out of the credit he deserved for his mound exhibition, however. He hurled as if he ‘were merely wal g up for exercise in batting practice and aside from the circuit clout achieved by Jim Bottom- ley to avert a shut-out for the Cardi- nals, never was in danger of being scored on. Only Three Safeties. Only two other safeties were recorded against Hoyt. One of these was an unsupported single by the selfsame Bottomley in the ninth and a bingle of like proportions by Harper in the fifth. Yankee ace, while apparently none too strong on control, issued but three passes, which he more than off- set with twice as many strike-outs. Bot- tomley was the recipient of one of these at the outset of the second, but got no further than the initial station. Douthit got another to no purpose with two gone in the sixth and Pinch Hitter Ernie Orsatti was favored with the third in round eight when he was inserted for Maranville in an effort on the part of Manager McKechnie to start a rally that never materialized. This summarizes the efforts of the Cardinals to get off to a running start| to their second world championship in three years. A far different aspect was presented on the other side of the picture, which depicted the Yankees as the murderous maulers of old with what was lacking in quantity fully atoned for by the bunching of their bingles. An indication of the way the wind was blowing was furnished right off | the reel when, with two of his mates out of the way, Ruth dumped a double between Douthit and Harper and lum- bered in surprisingly fast fashion on that wick knee of his to the counting block when Gehrig delivered a safety of similar proportions to the same gen- eral sector. Sherdel was master of the situation thereafter for just two innings and | then was subjected to an exceedingly rough shake-up represented by M. | d loom as the outstanding feature of Ruth’s second double, this one a high = looper to left center—followed by a loft i ix;;.o the right field stand by Bob Meu- ) ‘This was more than enough to settle the issue the way Hoyt was performing, but just to make the thing more bind- ing the Yankees proceeded to compile a fourth and wholly unnecessary tally off Sylvester Johnson, who succeeded Sherdel on the slab in the eighth. This | a5 accomplished through the medium ! successive safeties by Koenig, Ruth and Gehrig, which rounded out -a rather large day for even such worthes | I s Babe and Lou. o FRENCH NETMEN SCORE IN COAST TOURNAMENT LOS ANGELES, October 5 (#)— Both the remaining Frenchmen, Henri Cochet and Christian Boussus, won their matches in the men's singles division of the Pacific Southwest tennis tourna-|g ment yesterday. Cochet won over Sidney Wood, jr., | Ben the first two places in the $1 line out- s moming: A (hat hour o man m 3 a_man who called fu.mlelf “Kid Hoffman of Philadelphia” held the fort at the $3 booths all by himself. On the short end of 5-to-3 odds be- fore the serles opened, the Yankees this morning were quoted at 10-to-7 to win. Walter Johnson, who has done a bit of pitching in his time, was at the first game. “They look like the same old Yankees,” he sald after Meusel’s home run. A few months ago Clarence Mitchell and Jimmy Wilson, Cardinal battery- men, were tolling for the Phillies, who failed this season to deviate from their usual custom of finishing eighth in an eight-club league. Babe Ruth expressed a world of melancholy pity for the sad condition of Brick- Owens' eyes when he was called out on strikes. “Oh, how could you, Mr. Owens?” the Babe’s whole at- titude seemed to say. Actually the Babe said not & word. He has argued with umpires before. Nick Altrock spent most of the after- noon whispering funny stories into the left ear of the onetime Manassa mauler now a Thespian. Some fan lacking all of the finer sensibilities, picked up a ball that had been driven into the stands and tossed it back onto the playing field. Seventy- nine regular fans fainted dead away. Hoyt in Rare Form ST. LOUIS (N. L). A ewinEisnd NEW YORK (A. Paschal, D ] st 2 Duracher. ugan, 3 gous | Hoyt, p. Totals ... “Batted for Ma | ¥Batied for Sh St Louis (N. L.) | New York (A. 25325222205 ul sscsonesssssa™ wwsmosnnnon S| onuoonnnaunmnsy mmssusssuse? 3l esusssssssa - 1 nville in eighth, del in elghth. L000000100—1 10020001 x—4 Gehrig (), . Gehrig. 5 in—Bottomle: o-base hits—Ruth v : New York, 1. (Douthit, Runs batted i seusel (2). Twi | Home rus truck oul Hafey (2), Durocher); 17-year-old player of New York and Pasadens, Calif, 7—5, 6—2, while Boussus, defeated Ellsworth Vines, also ®f Pasadena, §—6, 6—3 Famei hour an Late; Charicy Ristes R MegGowan (A: L, @aa (N, Lo, third, t sec Babe Ruth has crossed the plate and Bob Meusel is ready to dent the pan on the latter'’s homerun that was the blow that told in.the inaugural clash. Judgment of Ruth on Bottomley’s Hit Regarded Perfect NEW YORK, October 5.—The manner in which Ruth “played” Bottomley’s home-run drive in the seventh inning of the open- ing game between the Yankees and Cardinals yesterday caused & great deal of comment. Experts and laymen = alike agreed this piece of fielding judg- ment was perfect. Babe's efforts consisted of remaining absolutely still without so much as moving his head as the ball soared over it. Parking spheres in the right fieid stand at the Yankee Stadium is the Babe's specialty, and he knew from the instant the bat connected with the horsehide that the drive was destined to clear the inclosure, so he just dis- nensed with the futile gesture -of chasing after it. HOYT'S FIVE WINS CLOSE 10 RECORD Needs One More Victory tg Equal Bender’s -World Series Mark. By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK; October 5.—The boy wonder of Flatbush is maturing into a righ-handed pitcher, who seems to have designs iupon the world series pitching records of such masters as Mathewson, Bender and Pennock. In turning back thé 8t. Louis Cardinals with three safe hits and one earned run in the 1928 opener, Waite Charles Hoyt increased his six-vear string to five: victories and only three defeats. The Yankee "ace thus matched in victories Pennock, who has lost none, and the immortal Matty, who divided 10. He :now needs only one more triumph to equal the record figure of Chief Bender, who won six and lost four in a long and honorable career from 1905 through 1914. The one-time “Brooklyn schoolboy” now has an earned-run average of just 1.72 for 68 innings of pitching in 9 games over a six-year span. No pitcher in so many games, save Matty, with 1.02, has a better earned-run mark. Pennock crowds Hoyt with 1.90. in seven engagements, one of which was hurled 14 years ago for the Athletics. Hoyt has pitched 5 complete games, given 19 passes, fanned 38 and allowed 63 hits and 22 runs—13 earned. CUBS WITH 14-INNING WIN LEAD CHISOX, 2-0 By the Associated Press. October 5—Pouncing on the Cubs had two games in the bag and appeared headed for an easy triumph over the White Sox in their duel for the city base ball cham- plonship .today. . Alphonse Thomas pitched masterful ‘ball, striking out 13 men and granting 9 scattered. hits yesterday, but his mates failed him on defense, and the Cubs won the second straight game, 5 to 3, in 14 innings. Hitting Artie Nehf and Guy Bush op- portuniely, Lena Blackburne's men were leading the Cubs, 2 to 1, as the North | Siders came to bat in the ninth inning. | Thomas struck out the first two men, | Kiki Cuyler and Hack Wilson, and the game seemed over. But Stephenson scratched a double, and scored to tie; the count when First Baseman Shires. muffed Grimm’s easy roller. In the fourteenth inning, the Cubs scored three runs ‘on bunched hits by Wilson and | Hartnett and a walk to Grimm. The scene of the ssries shifted from Comiskey Park to Wflgbley Field today, | where the Cubs have been almost in- vincible all through the National League season. Ted Lyons was slated to pitch for the ! White Sox, while Charlie Root was to work for the Cubs. GROGAN FACES REAL RING TEST TONIGHT| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 5—Tommy | Grogan, Omaha sensation, has cut a| wide swath through the lightweight ranks of recent months, but he will need to be good to dispose of Joe Glick, Williamsburg pants pressér, in their 10- round bout at Madison Square Garden tonight. Grogan is a terrific puncher, but ! Glick is one of the most punishing fighters in the 135-pound ranks. The New Yorker had the junior lightweight crown in his grasp when he fought the title holder, Tod Morgan, last Winter, but he finally muffed his opportunity by fouling Morgan in a late round. Since " ever right and left, then Joe has been campaigning among the full-fledged lightweights, and with great success. Grogan has been bowling opponents | fargest in the history of the classic, . Declares He Had Lucky Day. . Bottomley Hit High, Fast Ball for Homer. BY WAITE HOYT, Pitcher, New York Yankees. EW YORK, October 5.—The N 1928 world’s championship clipped the wings of the Red Birds with all the acumen of We won yesterday more than the ball game in beating.them, 4 to 1. We won _the respect of the Cardinals and a who thought us too badly crippled to offer much opposition. I entered the game with a pretty certain, hitters. There weré two or three plays worthy of their ereators. Koenig made t¥0 Gehrig, on the other end of one of the plays, reached out to meet the ball, which ended Frisch's chance of beating The first time at bat, I.hit a wind- blown foul back of third base. Maran- ville, the Red Bird shortstop, started chance of reaching it. He did. With a magnificent sweep of his gloved hand, he drew it In just as it was about to < After the game I was asked what kin of ‘a ball I threw to Bottomle: when he connected for his home ru right over the plate. | Some one in the crowd which milled around in the clubhouse after the game now. Guess you figure them easy.” Nothing of the sort. I had a good day in pitching. They had a bad day You may expect them to prove it. At any moment their sluggers might have broken out in a base-hit rash, spelling appreciate their ability. The Cards are a low ball hitting club, while I am a high fast ball pitcher. lucky. (Copyright, 1928, by North American News- Daper Alliance.) By the Assotiated Press. NEW the pitching performance for the first world’s series battle revealed that Waite Hoyt had to work harder and pitch more His shortest inning was the seventh, when he pitched only 10 balls, but he had to toss 19 to the Cardinals in each The Yankee star shot 132 balls toward the plate altogether in the nine innings, as compared with 117 delivered by Sherdel, in seven innings, pitched 99 times, while Hoyt, over the same period, hurled 95 balls toward the plate. Sher- second and third innings, after 24 in the first. Here's the record by innings: 2.345 6789 T | YANKS, SAYS HOYT Yankees in their pursuit of the natural huntsmen. higher place in the opinion of those thorough idea of just what to pitch to sensational stops on balls hit by Frisch. the play. after the ball with an almost impessible fall into a field box. It was a fast ball, across his letters, said to me, “Looks like you got ’'em hitting. The Cardinals are a great club. disaster for the Yankees and me. We Perhaps that is the reason for my. being O il S I YORK, October 5.—Analysis of balls as the game went along. of the eighth and ninth. Sherdel and Johnson for the Cardinals. del made only 9 pitches in each of the 12 11 13 18 10 10 101 tl. 33 9 18 “GATE” FOR OPENER SETS SERIES MARK FIRST GAME STATISTICS. Attendance (paid) ... 61,425 Receipts (without tax). $224,130 Advisory council’s share.... $22,413 Players share .. .$121,030.20 Each club’s share. . $20,17L.90 Each league’s share. - $20,171.70 | Yesterday’s gate was the largest for a single game in the history of thei world series. The previous high mark was set at the third game of the 1926 series between the Yankees and Cards, when 60,695 persons paid $209,665 to see the contest. The first game of last year's serles,l when the Yanks played in Pittsburgh, drew only 41,467 and a gate of $182477. . Yesterday's attendance was the third | ! ing’ exceeded only by each of the first two games in 1926, when 61,658 and 63,600 fans, respectively, paid to see the same two clubs perform. - ! | ROSEBUD FOOT BALLERS | AFTER D. C. CONTESTS| Rosebuds, 135-pound gridders of Alex- | andria, Va., will drill tonight at 7:30 | o'clock’ at Alfred and Oronoco_streets in that city. Coach Peyton asks that all candidates be on the job. Rosebuds will meet Palace A. C. eleven on the Tidal Basin field, this |§ city, Sunday at 3 o'clock. Other Dis- | trict: elevens in their class are chal- lenged by Rosebuds, Call Thurman Smith at Alexandria 1019 after 6 p.m.! be-| day, will be played to determine’ DECISIVE THRILL IN WORLD SERIES OPENER AND PITCHING HERO OF DAY WAITE CHARLES HOYT. POTOMAGS SIGNING D. C. PRO PLAYERS To Have Formidable Line Md., on Sunday. ANY of the local base ball play- ers who made good in profes- sional ranks during the season will be seen in the Potomacs line-up Sunday, when they meet Eastport-Annapolis All-Stars at Eastport, Md. Earl Moser would like to hear from Win Connell, Bob Stevens, Joe Freschi, Frank Chase, Larry Boer- ner, Mike Gordon, Tots Long, Leon Riley, Eddie Colliflower, Earl Clark, Earl Mattingly and Johnny Goetz. Call Franklin 2947 after 5 o'clock this evening. Tiny De Nell, Cabin John Junior Order mound ace, and Francis, one of Brook Grubb's star moundsmen, are scheduled to meet in a hurling duel in the first game of the clash between the Frat nine and Silver Spring on Wheaton diamond Sunday, starting at 1:30 o'clock. Two games are scheduled to decide the championship unlimited team of the county. Grubb's team has had a victorious season, and expects to add the county title to its list of conquests. Mechanics have an imposing record, however, hav- ing downed Rockville three times, Travi~ lah twice and Kensington and Darnes- town once each. Silver Spring has not met many of the county teams. Lionel A. C. players, who go to Bal- timore Sunday for a double-header with Lyndhurst A. C. nine, will meet tonight at 1419 Wisconsin avenue at 8:30 o'clock. Pennsylvanians - and Chevy Chase Senlors have been unable to secure games for Sunday. Call the Pennsy manager at Adams 8280 after 8 o'clock for arrangements. r Valenza of the Chasemen can be reached at Cleve~ land 462 after 5:30 o'clock. All players who performed with the Auth Provision Co. teams will be ban- queted next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the Auth plant. Players wish- ing further information may call Bill Sanderson at Atlantic 2963. SEALS AND SENATORS TIE IN SECOND HALF By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 5.—The Pacific Coast League officially ended its 1928 season yesterday with San Fran- cisco’s Seals and Sacramento’s Senators tied for first place in the second half of the split season. P A three-game series, beginning fl‘v» e second half winner. Fahe San Francisco won the first half and if it beats out Sacraments in two D[ three in the coming series, will be de- clared the 1928 champions and receive @ $15,000 bonus hung up by the league. If Sacramento defeats the seals “for the second half, the two teams will meet’ in a seven-game series, splitting the | bonus on a 60-40 percentage. The Seals finished with a rush that saw Los Angeles get a 10-2 trouncing, while Sacramento walloped Seattle, 16-2. The final standing: szeonat :Up‘ for Game at Eastport, | ROCHESTER TEAM COUNTING ONBELL Appears: to'Be’ About - Only Hope to Seore Over Indianapolis. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. October 5.— The task of stopping Indianapolis in its drive for the class AA base ball championship against the Rochester club apparently rested today upon the powerful right arm of Herman Bell. ‘The - International League pennant winners .were near the desperate stage as a result of the pounding their pitch- ers have been given by the Hoosiers in the-five . games played to date in the post-season series. The American As- sociation champions boosted their lead in the nine-game series to 3 to 1 yes- terday by a 12-to-5 victory here. Steve Swetonic, the star -moundsman for the Indianapolis club, was eager 1o pitch against Bell if the latter proved to be Manager Billy Southworth's choice. The Hoosier youngster out- pitched Bell at Rochester last Sunday. It was his second victory of the series. Burwell and Yde also were ready to go for Indianapolis. Manager Southworth was not-certain whether he would be back at his old station in left fleld. He stayed out of yesterday's fray because of an injured knee. Eighteen solid smacks, combined with base stealing and wild pitches, enabled Indianapolis to run away from Roch- i ester yesterday after spotting the vis- iting team a four-run lead in the first inning. Neither Danny Boone nor Jim McCracken, the starting pitchers, lasted two full innings. D.'C. POLO TOURNEY Competition in both the high and low goal competitions, which will mark the annual Fall tournament of the War Department Assoclation starting on the Potomac Park oval Monday afternoon promises to be spirited. To the victor- fous team- in. the high goal play will go the Chief of; Staff's Trophy with the winner in the low. goal affair getting the Chief of Cavalry’s: Trophy. Com- petition will continue in ‘the tourna- ment for two . weeks, some 10 or 12 matches being. slated. The tourney will mark the end .of the Capital polo season. In addition to.teams from the War Department and from Fort Myer there will e entries from, Maryland and Vir- ginia and from Governor’s Island, N. Y. High government and Army officials will view the matches along with de- votees of the game from nearby mili- tary garrisons and from this city. Seven teams are entered in the high al competition, including the War gpmmenc ‘Whites, a team from Gov- ernor's Island, N. ¥.; Maryland Polo Club of Baltimore, 3d Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery, both of Fort Myer, Va.; Loudoun-Fauquier Polo Club of Middle- burg, Va., and the combination from the Engineer School, Fort Humphreys, Va. In the low goal affair eight combina- tions are entered, including two War Department teams, War Blues and War Yellows, and four respresenting the Engineer School, Fort Humphreys; Governor's Island, Loudoun-Fauquier TO BE INTERESTING i By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 5.—When | society troops out to 2 polo | game or a tennis match, it puts | on its best bib and tucker, is very self-consclous and feels it- | | self half the show. When soclety troops out to a world | secies base ball game, it still wears itz best bib and tucker, but the self-con- sciousness becomes a distinct inferiority complex, Jfor it is no longer half the show—or cne hundredth part of it— and it knows it. Base ball has a clientele, a family, all its own, Holders of the dollar bleacher seats do more to support the game than | do the gilded box heMers. Whereas | Park avenue sees a bage ball game only at world series time, these are constant attenders; and the parlance and ways of those on the diamond are their own. They feel at home and are not half so interested in new Fall ensembles as in runs and hits and errors. | Remain in Background. Park avenue, though ensconced in boxes, feels its place. Its women seem to know the polite handclapping of a polo game won't be heard at all in the roar of the stands when Babe Ruth is at bath. And since they do nothing unseemly to attract attention to them- selves, they remain very much in the background. But the women of parts of the town less pretentious than Park avenue were at the meeting of the Cardinals and the Yankees yesterday in force and hav- ing & good time, all of them; brokers' wives, busiress women, actresses, bank clerks’ sweethearts and the wives of the ball players themselves. se studled their programs with wise eyes— most of them—and spoke base ball's| language unerringly. | High in the mezzanine, direcily be- hind the cage, sat the mother of a Broadway actor, who had climbed joy- ously to her perch despite rheumatic knees and 190 pounds of avoirdupois. Comes to Root and Roast. “T always sit up here with my friends so I can root and roast,” she puffed. “T've never missed a world series game yet. I'm for the Yankees, win or luse.l 1T die” - | ‘When Meusel hit into the right field bleachers for a home run, the Yankee rooter jumped to her feet with a cry and a hasty explanation of her en- thusiasm. “Meusel's the boy!” she cried. “I like | him best of all—not just for that home run, either. Everybody loves the Babe. But I like Meusel just because.” | Below her sat a liftle blonde girl, | | equally full of enthusiasm, though @& little short on base ball knowledge. When Bottomley’s home run soared over Babe Ruth's head in the seventh inning, she moaned in disgust: “Why the Babe just let that go. He never even turned his back.” “The Bab2 knows every blade of grass “n that field” the Yankee rooter told ier. “He knew it was in the bleachers . and Bottom- léy on first base started as if to steal second. Medicine for Grouch. “What's he running that way for?” cried the little blonde. “Doesn't he know the home plate’s the other way?” And when the game closed with 8 score of 4 to 1 in the Yankees' favor, she clutched her umbrella and rose to her feet with a sigh. “A ball game's the best medicine in the world,” was her verdict. “If you've got a grouch at home, just come here, and you'lll get over it.” Throughout the same audience, a lit- tle quieter than the Yankee rooter, but no less intent on the game, were sprinkled the ball players' wives. De= mure girls, country-bred some of them, who follow their husbands during the season and return to the farm when its over. Most of them were smartly frocked, wearing a spray of orchids or roses on their shoulders. At the game they watch every throw and catch and fumble, catching their breath at a misplay, chatting about the game among themselves. Mrs. Hornsby There. Mrs. Rogers Hornsby, who entertained a hox party of friends, was among the wives of diamond stars present. She | . wore an ensemble of the new Fall red, trimmed with brown fur, with a felt hat, sheer bronze hose and shoes to mateh. ‘Throughout the rest of the boxes were sprinkled a gay collection of celebrities and wives. Miss Ethel Barrymore ap- | peared in a brown suit and felt chapeau corresponding in shade. Mrs. Jimmie Walker in a black coat collared with black lynx and a black cloche, while Mrs, William Stackpole chose a red- and-white printed frock with a hat to match. The game over, Park avenue's women were lost in the mob of cheering, talk- ing thousands sceking exits to the stadium, the glory of their smart fash- ions lost in the crush of getting home. Colonel’s ladies were not to be distin- guished from Judy O'Gradys. A world series game just is not the proper set- ting for a style parade. HOPPING IS PLACED ON AMERIGAN FOUR Ousts Stevenson for Final Clash Tomorrow With Argentine Team. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 5—A new shift in the Unitéd States international polo team today found 21-year-old Earl A. S. Hopping on the squad at the expense of the veteran star, Malcolm Stevenson. Forced to drastic measures after the crack Argentine four took the second game and evened the series for the championship of the Americas, the de- fense committee of the United States Polo Association has dropped Steven- son, a veteran of two international se- ries, from the team, shifted Capt. ‘Tommy Hitchcock from his accustomed position at No. 2 to Stevenson's place at No. 3, and inserted Hopping into the lineup at the No. 2 position. W. Averell Harriman will remain at No. 1 and Winston Guest again will be at back when the third and deciding match of the series with the Argentines is played tomorrow. Hopping essentially is an attacker | . where Stevenson’s play in the first two games has been principally defensive. Stevenson was ‘a star of the 1924 and 1927 international series against Great Britain, gaining the reputation then of being the greatest No. 3 in the world. He played a sensational game in the first match of the current series when the United States won, 7 to 6, but showed to less advantage in the sec- ond, which went to the Argentines, 10 to 7. Stevenson, one of the four 10-goal men in the world, is replaced by a youngster whose present handicap is 7 goals. His presence on the squad gives the North American team a rating of 32 goals, the same as Argentina. Firsi-Game Heroes Waite Hoyt. Waite was wheeled over to the Polo Grounds from Flatbush in his baby-buggy one day some years back, and before he returned had been signed by John McGraw. When he had partially grown up, he start- ed on a tour of inspection which in- cluded every minor league in the country, and he contends that he once pitched an inning for the Giants—one day when McGraw wasn't around. After Waite grew- older, traveling palled upon him and he deserted to an industrial team in the vicinity of Washington. His major league ca- reer began in earnest in midseason of 1919 when he was rescued from his surroundings by nobody but Ed- ward Grant Barrow, then manager of the Red Sox. Ed came to the Yankees at the close of the next season, and Waite himself made the first team only a few months later. Since he has been a star on the ‘Yankee staff. The years are passing. ‘The Brooklyn schoolboy was 29 on September 9. Must one add that he pitches with his right arm? Bob Meusel. One of the greatest money players in the game, despite his aversion to wasting physical effort where he deems it will do no good. Earned the sobriquet “Slow and Lazy” for not running out a bounder which Heinie Groh subsequently dribbled across the diamond in the 1922 series. To make it worse, Aaron Ward crossed Lanky Bob by following with a home run, which, with Meusel's run would have tied the score and perhaps enabled the Yankees to escape with two ties and four defeats rather than just one tie. With Hoyt, Ruth and Huggins, Bob is a survivor of the first Yankee championship club of 1921. He bats with his right and throws the same way—throws from town to town. 1 | SIX PRIZES OFFERED ON ANGLERS’ OUTING ‘The second of a series of Fall fishing excursions - will be held Sunday at Chesapeake Beach, under the auspices of the Atlas Sports Goods Co. This outing will be under the personal super- vision of Oliver Atlas, well known fishe ing expert. ‘The prizes offered on this outing wilt be_as follows: Pirst prize, $8 Greenhart salt water rod, trout; second prize, $6.50. Temco salt water reel, second trout prize; third prize, $6 stained lancew 3 rockfish; fourth prize, $4.50 Pontiac salt water reel, taylor; fifth prize, $4.50 lancewood salt water reel, hardhead; sixth prize, $4 steel all-agate rod, lady catching most fish. Scores of fishermen who were disap- pointed on account of the rain last Sunday, when the Potomac Anglers’ Association held its annual outing at the Beach, are expected to join the outing Sunday, and a large turnout is looked for, especially among the women. A train will leave the District line at 8:30 a.m,, returning at 6 p.m. Twenty boats have been engaged to take the fishermen to the choice fishing grounds in the bay. Fish will be weighed in on the pier at 5 p.m. The judges of the contest will be Harry Cole and John Ridgeway. tlEvedry one is cordially invited to attend. Don’t Let Winter Catch You With 0ld Tires When city streets are sleek and slippery, your best protection for car and passenger is a new set of U. S. Tires. 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