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[Cowranews | The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1929. Features and Classified PAGE 29 Yanks Arrive Tomorrow for Four Games : Cubs and A’s Well Matched at Third McMILLAN BEST FIELDER; DYKES STRONGEST HITTER Sammy Hale Has Most Impressive Defensive Per- GRIFFS FACE A’s, RED AFTER NEW SOX YORK SERIES Club Has Little to Play for During Remainder of Season—Several Nationals Are Striving for Marks—Schacht’s Task No Easy One. BY JOHN B. KELLER. Griffith Stadium. E IGHT more games and the Nationals will have ended their 1929 campaign. All but two of the engagements are slated for The Yankees are to be encountered in four of the tilts here and the Red Sox in two. The Yanks open their series tomorrow afternoon, and will play through Sunday. The Hub crew will come to-Washington to nnmg the season, tackling the Nationals on October 5 and 6. The out-of-town games yet on the Nationals’ list are with the Athletics. The new league champlons are to be faced in Shibe Park Tuesday and Wednesday. of next week. ‘With two days of rest before battling with the Yankees, the Wash- ington hurling corps is expected to be in good trim. In all likelihood Manager Walter Johnson will depend mainly upon Fred Marberry, Irving Hadley, Garland Braxton and Sam Jones in the series with the New Yorkers: This quartet has done some good hurling against the ex-champs this year. Having only a few recruits at hand, Manager Johnson plans to play to the finish the Washington line-up that has been performing regularly for some time. The re- serves may be given workouts of a few innings’ duration in the last :wo or three games if the Nationals have fifth place in the league race clinched by then. ‘The club has little to play for during the remainder of the campaign, several of its members are rather ambi- tious to reach self-set goals. Goose Goslin, who last year was champion batter of the American League, hopes to pick up in his stickwork sufficiently to finish with at least a .300 average. He's rat now at .296. 'Sam Rice wants to Have another 200-hit season. He has made 193 hits this year. Fred Marberry would like to pitch three more victories to give him an even 20 for the campaign. Others are at Ppet marks. Coach's Worth Not Realized. ‘Then there is one attached to the Nationals who hopes the fans will real- 1ze before the season ends just how diffi- cult is the job he handles. Al Schacht, third-base coach extraordinary, wants his public to understand there is much more to the business of directing the traffic at the far corner than waving runners along or checking them. A difficult and thankless task at best, third-base coaching has been raised to a high art by Schacht. Yet he often has been the victim of heartless razzing by fans in Griffith Stadium. Al is adept at transmitting signs from the dugout to the batters and runners, one of the most important parts of his job, and he seldom makes a mistake in holding up or sending in a runner when it is certain the play at the plate will be close. Few of those attendixg games in Griffith Stadium, however, appear to know how capable Schacht is at his task. Says Schacht: “The third-base coach s ‘a.xboen. {or..oumb ball players. He's the alibi for-every run cut off at the plate and every sign that is lost on the way from the dugout. He can’t win, no matter what happens, and he counts himself lucky when he gets a draw. “When things are breaking right and the team is winning nobody ever gives a tumble to the third-base coach. When things are breaking badly and the team is losing, the third-base coach is blamed for evi ing, from the run blocked at the plate to the latest automobile acci- ldenk’ downtown. What a job! But I ke it.” Unfair to Schacht. The fans blame Schacht for many things that happen about the far cor- ner for which he is in no way responsi- ble. Frequently he is panned for per- mitting runners to continue umder way | when it is obvious that there is no scor- | ing chance. Yet more often than not the runners have dashed into the out by their own initiative. The base- runner is supposed to help himself more than the coach may help him. It is the transmitting of signs that is done 80 cleverly by Schacht. He gets them across from the dugout to the player, and when a play doesn't go through it 18 fairly safe to charge the slip against the player. A line on Schacht's fitness for the job is that he has held it on the same club under two managers—Harris and Johnson. Usually the first thing a new manager does is to fire the thil base coach. Possibly because he at- tributes all the troubles of his prede- cessor to the shortcomings of the man stationed at the far corner. But Schacht has struck out, and, so far as the base ball peo{:le are concerned, done his work well. LITTLE WORLD SERIES T0 OPEN OCTOBER 2 CHICAGO, September 25 (#).—The first four games of the junior world series, between champions of the Amer- ican Association and the International League, will be played at Kansas City. starting October 2. - Additional games will be played at Rochester, International League cham- plons, until one team has won five mes. President Thomas J. Hickey of the American Association said the agree- ment was made to do as little travel- ing as necessary. Two umpires from each league will be used for the games this year, he said. MICHIGAN ENDS ORIGNT GAMES WITH A VICTORY YOKOHAMA, September - 25 (#).— | ‘The University of Mlchlgm base ball team wound up its tour of Japan today with a victory over Yokohama Commer- cial College by a score of 11 to 5. HUGGING FIGHTING Rally After Three Blood . Transfusions. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, September 25.—Mil- ler Huggins, doughty little manager of the New York ‘Yankees, apparently was fight- ing a losing battle for life today. Stricken last week with an infection growing out of an attack of influenza and erysipelas, the Yankee pilot was losing_ground steadily. He had failed to rally after three blood transfusions and gradually was growing weaker. Each new bulletin, issued by Dr. Ed- ward H. King, Indicated that Huggins' condition was growing worse, His brother and sister, Myrtle and Arthur Huggins, kept an all-night vigil at St. Vincent's Hospital, where Huggins has been a patient since last Friday. An ominous change for the worse oc- curred late yesterday afternoon, when Dr. King announced the infection had spread from the left side to the right. Soon after the patient’s temperature, already alarmingly high, rose to 104.5 degrees. At that time Dr. King said that medical science had done every- thing possible for Huggins and that the outcome “now is up to the patient him- self.” At 11:20 pm. Dr. King announced that Huggins' temperature had risen to 104.8, that he was very restless and ap- parently weaker. Later announcements from the hospital served only to empha- size the gravity of the base ball vet- eran's condition. RED SOX LAY CLAIM 70 DIAMOND HONORS ‘Washington Red Sox want it known that they consider themselves decided- ly in the fight for the District unlim- ited class base ball championship, and have challenged the winner of the series between Georgetown A. C. and St. Joseph’s now in progress. The Sox manager may be reached at Lincoln 4594. An attractive game between old foes has been arranged for Sunday at Rock- ville between Rockville A. C. and Silver Spring Giants, starting at 3 o'clock. In preparation for their clash with Bowie Motor Co. Sunday at Silver Spring in the opening game of a pro- posed serles of three for the Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties title, Takoma Tigers were to drill this eve- ning at 5 o'clock and will practice in Friday at the same time at Silver Spring. The Tigers recently won the Mont- gomery County title series and Bowie Motor Co. triumphed in the Prince Georges competition. Sunday's game will start at 2:30 o'clock. A. B. & W. Busmen have carded a game for Sunday at 2:30 o'clock on the Arlington diamond with Anacostia Eagles. Bennie Wormsley, the Busmen's clever pitcher, will be on the firing line. Webco base-ballers will be tendered a banquet tonight at 7 o'clock at the home of Oscar Webb. Uniforms are to turned in. o HERMAN GAINS A POINT, BUT 0’DOUL STILL SAFE By the Associated Press. With_half of the Big Six idle be- cause of open dates yesterday, O'Doul, Herman and Ruth had the big six field to ‘themselves. Herman pulled O'Doul one point nearer second place by hold- ing his own average stationary at .385 by getting two out of five as O'Doul lost & point in w conflict which netted him only one safe blow in four at- tempts. ‘The Philadelphian still led com- fortably this morning, however, by six points, .391 to .385. Ruth lifted his mark two points by getting two out of three at Boston. The standing: s Hornsby. ‘The Wolverines are to sail for San Francisco Friday, having won 11 games and lost 2 in competition with this country’s strongest nines. In their final game today the Amer- jean Collegians were hitting savagely, pounding the offerings of two Japanese pitchers for 15 hits. d Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Ruby Goldstein, New York, stopped Freddy Mueller, Buffalo (8); Arturo Scheckles, Belgium, out- Foxx, Ruth, Yankees. o TIGERS SELECT TAMPA; NATIONALS MUST MOVE TAMPA, Fla., September 25 (#).— ‘The Detroit American League Base Ball Club will train here next Spring, to J. F. Zeller, represent President Navin of the Tigers. , after sites in the South for se days, said he wired a reéport favorable to the local and recejved authority from avin to close with Tampa m- sentatives. Detroit trained at Phoe- pointed Canada Lee, New York (10). CAIRO, Ga—W. L. (Young) Strib-{ - ling, Macon, Ga., knocked out Johnny Gibbons, St. Paul (3). H POUGHKEEPSIE, Smith, England, outpointed King mon, Panama (10). | INDIANAPOLIS. — Charlie Lupica, roledo, outpointed Jimmy Hackley, In- dianapolis (10); Johnny Seman, Ber-| muda Islands, outpointed Todd Smith, Canton, Ohio (8). LOS ANGELES.—Ace Hudkins, Lin- coln. Nebr., stopped Joe Anderson (6).) N. Y.—Charlic Solo- nix, Ariz., last year. The Washington Senators have trained here for the last several 3=asons, but probably will move to other quarters, Officials of the Washington Club formed by the Tampa Chamber of Commerce that the Detroit Club would train there next year. rangements for a Spring camp for the Nationals have been made, but “hattanenga, Tenn,, n:y be selected, ALOING BATTLE *|Manager of Yankees Fails to | defeated teams never rea B SERES RVALS AREFULLOF FIGHT Spirit of Aggressiveness to Fire Clashes Between Cubs and Macks. BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Bix League Umbpire. SPIRIT of aggressiveness is ex- pected: to fire this world series, and that's a good thing for the cash customers. It is always & sad ctacle when one team is outbalanced in fighting spirit. To understand what-a MRy complish when it has dence in itself it is only necessary to recall the last two tussles in which the Yankees dominated and completely swept the Pitsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals from their feet. The true fighting qualities of those ched the sur- face, siniply. because they feared Babe Ruth and company and were on the e rgh was §roggy shadow of the Yankees' greatness. In batting practice before the first game of 1927 the Yankees savagely swatted 18 pitches over the wall. The Pirates viewed that from their bench and were dwarfed before the series began. Ruth Beat the Cards. Last October the Cardinals mapped out a defensive program as the best offensive measure, with Babe Ruth as the central figure to stop, but it was fruitless. Obviously the Yankees’ pat- tern of aggressiveness was cut around Ruth. Whatever he did was inspiration enough for his mates to follow. But the Athletics and the Cubs are rather evenly matched in ve- ness. The fighting spirit of the Cubs’ machine centers about Rogers Hornsby, with Hack Wilsen as the colorful and peppery number 2 man in the - ground. I say this with all deference to Joe McCarthy, a manager with a fight- ing heart. Connie Mack, too, is a great fighter in his quiet and diplomatic way. But the team-head is detached as he sits on_ the bench, or stands on the lines, while the contest is in actual mo- tion. It is the smart or timely deed executed on the field that furnishes the inspirational force, and if a star does something spectacular in a pinch the lesser lights usually follow suit. Natural-Born Fighters. The Athletics look to Al Simmons and Mickey Cochrane for their cues to do be | Mighty things. These players are nat- ural-born fighters and continually sup- ply the sparks for the Mackian crew. On the ball field it is not so much. the spoken word as it is the deed. The Athletics went wholesale through the American League teams this Sum- mer, with Simmons and Cochrane as the pen and punch parties of the crew. They probably layed their best wares in that memorable five-game series with the Yankees two mqnths ago. I believe that series was the turning point in the pennant race. In the coming series lack of aggres- siveness should not be & flaw, as both teams are geared to fight it out hand- somely. (Copyrisht; 1929. by North American News- Daper Alliance.) Big League Leaders By the Associated Press. National. Batting—O'Doul, Phillies, .391. Runs—Hornsby, Cubs, 148. Runs batted in—Wilson, Cubs, 152. Hits—0"Doul, Phillies, 229. Doubles—Frederick, Robins, 51. Triples—L. Waner, Pirates, Siaren - Giier, Guibs, 40 Pitching—Bush, 5‘.:;&; ‘won 18, lost 6. American. Rinsodrment At s - (s batted o Siimons, Athletics, Hits—8immons, Athietics, 207. Dotbles.Manushs Browas. 4. Triples, Gehringer, ‘Tigers; hi Pitching—Grove, Athletics; won lost 5, f X WIN FEDERATION GAMES. WEST BADEN, Ind. September. 33 (Phr-Detroth. an’ Oinainnat. advariced tion here htni wnummr“"%:’mwl 20. The Cineinnatl-Waterbury ~ struggle ,W'(c_r'llnln:.‘ R e HOT STATION ELIGIBLES FOR THE COMING BASE BALL CLASSIC Norman MEMILLAN- Bush Is bcing Mentioned As Next Manager of Red:; Donie Bush, who gave up his job as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the closing days of the National League pennant race, has been con- sulted about going to Cincinnati to replace Jack Hendricks, retiring pilot of the Reds. | Whoever gets the Cincinnati as- signment must be a builder. The Reds can’t get where they would like to be in the National League as they are now, but they have ma- terial that can serve them in a H optimism. With a pitchng staff that in strength, he based | his players de‘!h:ml expem:':u !‘lfl pl as defensive . He seemed to have overlooked the long years of service that had been put this year. ‘When the defense of the Cincin- nati team broke down this season the sand had run out of the glass. Hendricks was not a good enough strategist to match McGraw and HALE- | McCarthy in directing a game, and when the Cincinnati pitchers were batted hard the Reds had little or nothing with which vj go forward. | l BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS l American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 3. ' STANDING OP THE CLUBS. £, §l§! T13/16/100481.630 | Philadelphia New York. Cleveland. H-A iz g : #5 Philadelphis_.I—12/14/11116/18! New York ...| 8i—| 8/14/10/13/16/16, 85/62..5' ST AlG—1 71411111131 771681531 21100 O] 911 SITITLII 18170817 S 4L 8] 8113 — 1213112 601771473 at Detroit. Chicaso at Cleve. 0 af Cleveland. Bhila. at. Boston. 'ork at Boston. New York at Wash. - National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Boston, 4-5; New York. Brookiyn. Cineinnati. . Louls, 3. Only games scheduled. STANDING OP 8t. Lot oy New Cineinnati. Percentage. i % : isd Chicago ......I1—I 9112(15/16/17110/16/94/501.655 Pittsburgh’_...|13/—| 8/13113/11/13/14/84/611.579 New York ....110/13/—I13] 7(14/13/11,80/641.556 S 3| 91—/12113117/14173/711.504 61 $/12/10/—| 9I11/10/67/781.462 SI111 4 91101—111/14/64/801.444 ] 3111/111—114/63/831.435 7| 8! 9 8 91 5| 8—I541921.370 ..150161164171/78/8082192/—|—| GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW Cineinnat! at St L. Pittsburgh at St. L. t Boston at New York. Boston at New York Brookirn at Phis. REDS REPORTED SOLD TO CINCINNATI MAN By the Associated Press, CINCINNATI, September 25.—Ac- cording to the Enquirer reports are cur- rent here that Sidney Well, wealthy young Cincinnati business man will an- nounce shortly that he has acquired sufficient stock in the Cincinnati base ball club to give him control. It became known recently that some one had been buying up large blocks of stock in the club at a price far above the par value. It is assumed, the paper will 'say. that Well and his associates will walk into the club headquarters with at least 3,100 shares, enough to assure their control, and také charge of thg.w l:'l‘l.lh. R ell is to be intensely inter- ested in base ball and it is luln:'l’ed that he would president of the ciub and dictate three places on the board of directors, The Enquirer will say that indications are that Weil and his asso- clates have picked a new manager and that he would come from the Pacific Coest. The supposition is, the paper. will say. that the new leader would be’ Wade Killefer, who was once a Red outfielder. HOME-RUN STANDING By the Associated Press. mlolll RUNS YESTERDAY. ‘Ott, Giants,: 2; H , Giants. 2; Wilson, Cubs . Hornsby, Cubs O'Doul, Phillies .... ‘. American League Leaders. Ruth. Yankees .. Gehrig, Yankees Foxx, Athletics . Alexander, Tigers . League Totals, Nation! ational Grend i~ BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, - “Associated Press Sports Writer. ‘ N ’ layers alike centered upon &mfl Huggins’ fight for his life in a New Yorl hmn. a solemn tone was big league trail’ yesterday as the afternoon’s ‘was unreeled. program Melvin Ott of the Giants and | veteran Tom Zachary of the Yankees shared such spotlight as there was, Ott with his forty-first and forty-second home runs and Zachary with his twelfth victory in a season which has brough! him no defeats. Ott slashed a ball into the right field seats in each of two es at the Polo Grounds, and his drives were T bringing Giants home in by 5 to 4 and Hornsby in 1922 when the Rajah won the major league crown with 42 home runs. That was the year Ruth was suspended for the first five weeks of the season because of an unauthorized barnstorming trip the previous Fall. Carl Hubbell just shaded the veteran | Harry Seibold in the opener, but Mc- Graw was forced to employ both Carl Mays and Joe Genewich to earn the second decision. The Giants made five errors in the nightcap. Ben Cantwell toiled for Boston. ‘The Phillies rallied lhnrg!y against Johnny Morrison in the eighth to pull out & decision over Brooklyn by 8 to 6 in a slam-] game. Chick Hafey Million-Dollar Gate Assured If Series Exceeds Four Games == BY JOHN B. FOSTER. HE way the public {5 responding to this coming world series, it s Wil extied ‘wovtiing. classic e: the history of base bail. If the conflict between the Athletics and the Cubs runs over four games, it will be very close to a million-dollar series, and it is sure to be one if it goes-into the sixth game. ‘The biggest sum ever paid at a world series gate was llfllfl.{tu. the total re- ceipts of the series of 1926, between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. A lot of inexact statements have been made_relative to decreased interest in base ball. They don’t fit in with the picture today of Philadelphia and Chi- cago fans scrambling wildly for tickets to the coming battle. Depends Upon Race. Of course, there always will fluctuations in base ball Championship teams 't gre citement in certain localities, other localities there is less Pennants won early in a season are not productive of great crowds in the latter part of the race, and when champion- ships ;Prut to be lopsided in At there will be less general whoop-dee-doo. ‘That has been true of base ball from the time that a crewd of 5000 was considered huge and possibly never to be sul d except in a very large city. The t man who ever predicted a crowd of 75,000 at a base ball game was Albert G. Spalding. When he said that a crowd might be even larger his cotemporaries laughed be local interest. eat “ex- and in tension. The in the first day. The accumulation of letters 30 | before the mail was opened proved that The first such a result would happen. Philadelphia will tell the -amount lly realized. It _may be about $160,000. ‘The first million-dollar series was in 1923, when the Giants played the Yan- kees and the new Yankee Stadium in the first time For four day’s game at actual r_series, in these seasons, except 1924 and it 77T Tomtts Sttdium figured in the ITH the attention of fans and by t | tonese 8,600 fans celebra again pulled his home-run act with Jim Bottomley on hui;’nd as & result the Hafey's twenty-seventh. lahan pitched for St. Louis. Pma&r'h and Chicago were not scheduled. ‘The Yankees went to Boston yester- dfly to open a brief and inconsequential series, but their minds were with their stricken manager at St. Vincent's Hos- pital In New York. The fallen chame pions nevertheless won from the Bos- by 5 to 3 before a crowd of the Hub's annual sets homer, de s homer, e bl i wever, o e get a single 3 The victory not only added s twelfth triumph to Zachary's perfect record, but also placed him one game further ahead of any pitching mark ever made by & hurler pem:rnuni‘.reculn or semi-reg- ular service. Zachary probably will not pitch again this season, and if not, will enter the record books as the only reg- ular major league hurler to go through | a campaign undefeated. When Willis Hudlin faltered against ‘Ted Lyons and the White Sox in the ninth round at Cleveland yesterday, Wes Ferrell rushed to the rescue and the Indians won by 7 to 4. Arthur Herring pitched Detroit to a 9-to-4 victory over the Browns at Navin Field. Alvin first batch of mail opened on the | Jud; Crowder was his victim. ‘The Athletics and the Senators had an open date. financing. In 1924 there was the en- larged Polo Grounds, and that helped. In 1925 the Pitisburgh Stadium been eniarged and the seating capacity had beeul;nlngu&md. o quest re the receipts of 1927 and 1928 on a compara- tive basis with others, because the Yan- kees ran riot in both years and ended the world series in four straight games, first by knocking the daylights out of Pittsburgh and then exterminating the St. Louis Cardinals. MOUNT RAINIER, LAUREL NINES TO CLASH SUNDAY An old rivalry between Prince Georges County, Md., base ball teams will be re- newed Sunday when the Mount Rainier nine visits Laurel to meet the team rep- resenting that town in a game starting at 3 o'clock. Both teams have shown strength this season. ‘aple, Waters or Corkins will hurl for Mount Rainier, with Vogts. I.eschin- sky or Reeley on the firing line for the home team. POLO PLAY IS CARDED TODAY AND TOMORROW Sixteenth Field Artillery poloists of Fort Myer and the 2d Corps Area Re- serve four of New York were to clash this evening at 4:30 o'clock in Potomac Park in enaother match of the low-goal tournament being conducted by the War Department Polo Association. o e B et (.4 er are to face i: oo‘n tournament match tomorrow after- LANDIS TO CAROLINA, [ MNOR LEAGUE RESULTS | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Toledo, 5-8; kee, 6-7. g'x'u":m“" A Indianapolis, 18; Minneapolis, 4. P Zachary May Be Only Regular 7, Hurler to End Year Unbeaten centage, but All Eligibles Are Under Class of Former Stars in World Series Play. RECORDS OF RIVAL THIRDSACKERS FIELDING. Player and Club. Sammy Hale, Athletics. . Norman McMillan, Cubs. Jimmy Dykes, Athletics..... Dykes appears in both the thi P.0. . 40 ird Total Double E. ‘Chances. 10 276 20 327 63 8 111 baseman and shortstop records. BATTING. R. H. 71 121 71 122 32 50 104 14 2B. 3B. HR.T.B. RB.L §.B. PC. 31 5 13 201 70 6 4 5 177 50 10 3 1 127 39 5 21 FTER being buffeted around by the New York Yankees and Bos- ton Red Sox, and finally séh! t to the minors, Norman McMillan has come back to win a job as regular third baseman of the Chicago Cubs, and play in the world series. Third base was a troublesome position for Joe McCarthy for sev- | eral seasons, and it was not until McMillan went to the post that the Cub boss was satisfied with its coverage. A tried veteran, McMillan likely will give good service in the world series, for big crowds and tight games are no novelty to him. He has done a consistent job of batting for the Cubs, and his .279 average represents 122 hits, of which 41 have gone for extra bases. He has scored 71 times and knocked in 50 Bruin runs. ASTALKER QUINN 1S GREAT HURLER Jack, in Six-Word Interview, Says Pitching in Series “Just a Game.” BY BRIAN BELL, Associated Press Sports Writer. HILADELPHIA, September (#).—John Picus Quinn, the grand old man of the Athletics’ pitching staff, whose claim to seniority of the whole team is disputed only by Connie Mack and Kid Gleason, is & pitcher of many curves but few words. Only Jack knows how old he is, agd he will not tell. The records show that he was pitching and getting paid for his efforts the year Gordon Cochrane wag discovered his .. Base ball books have to put down a year of birth to complete the record, so the statistics list Quinn at 44. Opposing batsmen scoff at this. “How,” they ask,. “could any man grow as wise as Jack Quinn in & mere 44 years?” Jack is one of the last base ball Mohicans in that, with a few of his old cronies, who were throwing spit balls before the moist delivery was legislated out of the game, he is permitted to con- tinue the style. One can count them on the fingers of one hand now, Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes ‘himself. the spitter in reserve for the “clinches” and as a constant threat. Players on the other clubs say that he does not throw a spitter every time he puts his glove to his mouth, but they never know when the vexing delivery is coming up. “Do you expect to start a game in the series?” he was asked. “Don’t know.” “If you do will you get a big thrill | out of it2” “Just & game.” ““You have pitched before in the world series?” “Yea® No other questions seemed likely to provoke more extended answers, so Jack was abandoned as a promising subject for an interview. His last world series appearance was with the Yankees in 1921, when he was defeated, but he is a better pitcher now than he was then. He won snly eight es that season, and he has already been credited with 11 victories in 1929. Last year he won 18 and he had 15 the year before. Quinn i’ only a part of the great | pitcher’s name. ~ His real name is John Quinn Picus, but what is a name w a 25| born and three 'ze:.ra before Jimmy Foxx | McMillan's opponent at third base likely will be Jimmy Dykes, although Sammy Hale has played the far corner for the Mackmen through the first part of the season. Hale has a higher field- ing percentage than either McMillan or Jimmy Dykes, his alternate at the hot turn, but the Cub man has shown him- self a better ground coverer than the two Athletics. McMillan has had 114 putouts and 193 assists, while Dykes and Hale to- gether have handled only 130 putouts and 239 assists in dividing the work at third. McMillan also has pflrtidgated in more double plays than the Athletic workmen, but the Cubs have been a better double-play team all season than the American League champion. On _percentages, McMillan must be considered a better flelding prospect in the series than either Hale or Dykes. Should Jimmy cover the bag in the big series he will give the Athletics a bat- ting edge at the position, but if Hale | gets the call, McMillan will top him as a hitter, None of the world series third bases men rank with Prank Baker, Larry Gardner, Joe Dugan, Freddie Lind- strom and others who have shone at that position in previous world series. But McMillan, Dykes and Hale have ‘been valuable cogs in the victories of "thelr respective teams and can be ex- pected to play steady, if not brilllant, ball during the series. Third base is an important position in a world series, |and it is possible that one of the three | may emerge from the 1929 battle as the hero of the engagement. 'MORE DUCKPIN LOOPS | WILL START TONIGHT Several more bowling leagues of the District group are to open their sched- are the Ladies’ District League, Washington’s leading women's circuit, which will begin action on six different drives. The District League schedule: Recreation vs. Amidon, Recreation; Myer Davis vs. King Pin, King Pin No. 2; Lucky Strike vs. John Blick, Lucky Strike; Convention Hall vs. Temple, Convention Hall; Queen Pin vs. Bill ‘Wood, Queen Pin, and Petworth vs. Sil- ver Spring, Petworth. Other circuits to begin tonight in- clude the Nautical, Southern Railway, ‘Washington Realtors, Georgetown Church and Internal Revenue Leagues, The schedule for the Internal Reve enue League follows: Rules and Regulations vs. Personnel Audit, Special Advisory vs. Consolidated Returns, General Counsel vs. Annex No. 1 and Special Adjustment vs. Miscel- laneous. Service Cafeteria and Bethesda teams, scheduled to meet tonight in the Na- tional Capital Duckpin League, will clash instead tomorrow night on the Lucky Strike alleys. The Georgetown Recreation-King Pin match will be rolled Friday night. Grand Palace Valet Shop will get its league start Friday night against a team to be named. Led by Capt. Howard Campbell with a 375 set, the stellar King Pin team started its play last night in the District pitcher who has the curves of the grand SPORT B “If you think that is goi coach. League by sweeping its set over Pet- worth on the Petworth-drives. SLANTS By Alan J. Gould. Associated Press Sports Editor. ALIFORNIA'S foot ball array is trying something new as well as a trifie hazardous in its early season jaunt across the country to play Pennsylvania, at Franklin Field, October 19. ng to be a joy-ride, take a peek at our schedule,” suggested Nibs Price, the stocky little Golden Bear “It is one of the hardest we have ever faced, with every con- ference game out here tough enough without going 3,000 miles after more trouble. We play Washington State one Saturday, leave that night for the East to meet Penn the following week end, hurry back to buck into the Olympic Club outfit here and then tackle Southern California the following Saturday. cially when you figure we have Washington and Stanford as successive opponents to wind up the season.” For five years in a row after the war California ruled the Pacific Coast foot ball roost. For nearly six seasons the Golden Bears were undefeated, hang- ing up a record that still stands as the greatest any single institution has ever posted. The guiding genius in those days was Andy Smith, a former Penn- sylvania fullback and first of the East- ern coaches to develop the main poten- tialities of the Far Western gridiron talent. Slip Madigan, Howard Jones, Pop Warner and others have come along to link the old with the new, but Smith set the pace. Minnesota, more known as “Nibs,” is & product of the Smith school, a keen student of the game, good organizer and coach. Nibs is directing the big come-back and it won't be a sensation anywhere along the coast, as a matter of fact, if he lands his Bears up on top again, in spite of strong opposition. He was only a few “breaks” of an bea the astounding backwai run Riegels contributed to Cal's feat, by Georgia Tech. ALIFORNIA'S first foot ‘ball trip anywhere east of the Rockies carries spmething of sentimental in- terest, for it was at old Franklin Field that Andy Smith only de- first became famous as a player and All-American. i there a few years ,fl&rm’the lormer Cornell-Penn game, F‘l You can’t laugh that off, espe- California coach contracted illness that resulted in his death at Philadelphia. ‘The Bears, too, are returning the com= pliment of Penn's former trips to the Far West. It was at Franklin Field that Cali- fornia, in 1921, first won the intercole legiate track and field championships, starting the big winning streak of the Pacific Coast . colleges. Altogether, therefore, Lom, Riegels and the rest of the California gridiron cast should have plenty of inspiration. ‘OUNG CORBET IIT—count ‘em-— is now among the contenders for the welterweight boxing crown and it seems about time that a concealed name test was conducted among the leather slingers. In no other sport but boxing cre the names of the great or the -near great purloined with less ceremony. Now and then it happens that the process adds luster to the name. Jack Demp= sey the second gained more fame than the one-time nonpareil of the same name. Young Corbett the first, the late William Rothwell, was good enough to knock the immortal Terry McGovern kicking, but on the whole the boys who assume famous ring names have not been so good. Mention Jack McAuliffe g.ll\d can still arouse the fighte blood of the original Jack, who retired undefeated as the light~ weight champion of the world.