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P Owner Engel Will NEW CHATTANOOGA HEAD ; TO TOIL FOR GRIFFS, TOO Washington Club Will Use Lookouts as “Farm*® and Have First Choice of Likely Material—Few Nationals to Attend World Series. BY JOHN B. KELLER. P as scout, according to Pr HILADELPHIA, October 1.—Although now a full-fledged base ball club owner, Joe Engel will continue to serve the Nationals esident Clark Griffith. The new Chattanooga magnate will not be so busy handling the affairs of the Lookouts that he will be unable to dig up material for the Washington outfit. Instead Engel will be a big two-job man. i} Engel's purchase of the controlling interest in the Southern Association club at Chattanooga solves part of the Nationals’ 1930 training camp problem. Virtually thrown out of Tampa, where it trained for 10 years, the Washington club recently, casting about for a new training site, has decided to complete its conditioning work for the next championship campaign in Owner Engel's plant. The Nationals still have to get an early camp for their battery- men, however. President Griffith says he is considering two or three good spots for the preparation of his pitchers and catchers, among them Hot Springs, Ark. He thinks the Arkansas spa would prove a fine training field. With Engel at its head, the Chatta- nooga club, instead of the Birmingham club, hereafter will be virtually a “farm” for the Nationals. The Wash- ington organization will maintain with the Lookouts a working agreement simi- lar to that held with the Barons for several years, whereby Chattanooga will have first call on surplus Washington material and the Nationals first choice of Chattanooga’s likely big-league timber. ‘With only a few more days of cam- paigning, the Nationals are making their plans for the off season. Most of the players will go directly to their homes within a day or two after next Sunday’s engagement with the Red Sox in Washington. Only a few are to take in some of the world series games. Jack Hayes, Charley Gooch and Joe Judge expect to see the A's and Cubs in some of the scraps in Philadelphia, while Bob Burke and Pat Gharrity, coach, who live near Chicago, intend to watch the battling in the Cubs’ park. Engel may represent the Washington club at the players’ draft in Chicago next Monday. There are several tal- ented performers in the minors Manager Walter Johnson would like to get for his club, and Engel, if he goes to the draft meeting, very likely will pick up two or three men. It isn't necessary that an official of the club be present at the draft. President Griffith could designate a league official as his proxy and supply the proxy with the names of players particularly desired. How- ever, it is often much better to have some official of the club at hand when the drawing takes place, and Engel may get the job. After tussling with the Athletics in two games here today, the Nationals will have little to do until Saturday, when they will enter their final series of the year in Griffith Stadium, meet- ing the Red Sox. If fifth place is clinched before the Hub crew is en- countered, Manager Johnson may send into parts of the last two tilts some of the young pitchers he has at hand. Savidge and Wineapple are especially eager to show their wares in another big-league battle before they put their uniforms aside. DEMPSEY TO STAGE FIRST SHOW TONIGHT By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 1.—William Har- rison Dempsey, the promoter, formerly Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, will present his first box- ing show as an impressario in his own right tomorrow night at the Chicago Coliseum. Indications are that the Coliseum, re- modeled and its seating capacity in- creased to accommodations for 10,000 persons, will be filled for Dempsey's premier. Dempsey's feature offering will be & 10-round non-title bout between Jackie Plelds, new welterweight champion, and Vince Dundee, a brother of Joe Dundee, from whom Fields won his title last August. Fields met Vince twice in Los Angeles last year, winning each time. ‘The supporting card will include 10 rounders between Dave Shade of New York and Joe Roche of San Francisco, who will meet at 160 pounds, and Haakon Hanson, Chicago middleweight, Erl:éi Cowboy Art Dula of Oklahoma y. BUSMEN PLAY RED SOX IN BASE BALL WIND-UP ‘The A, B. & W. Busmen will close their base ball season Sunday by play- ing the Washington Red S0x on Ar- lington Field at 2:30 o'clock. Bennie Wormesley will pitch for the Busmen, who will be reinforced with three new sluggers. | HARMON SIGNS ITALIAN HEAVY AS KENNEDY FOE CHICAGO, October 1 (#).—Paddy | Harmon, president of the Chicago Sta- | dium Corporation, has signed Salvatore Ruggirello, giant Italian slugger, and Les Kennedy of Los Angeles, for one of | the 10-round bouts supporting the Earl | Mastro-Bud Taylor fight October 8. My Sullivan, St. Paul welterweight contender, and Jackie Brady of Syra- cuse, N. Y, will meet in another 10- rounder. — IVORY IS EXPENSIVE. ‘The average billiard ball sells at about $20, but the Zanzibar ivory ball, seasoned for years, may cost as much as $50 ar even $75. No substitute has geh been found for ivory in billiard alls. [ | @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929. BACKSTOPPERS UPON WHOM BRUNT OF WORLD SERIES WORK WILL FALL PeA ae Mike GonzALEs- BY CONNIE MACK, Manager of the Athletics and_Seven-Time American League Pennant Winner. HEN 1 recall the work of the Athletics in the training season last Spring and their playing in the city series with the Phillies in Phila- delphia, they did not impress me at that time as being pennant contenders. No doubt some of the players, held back both in the training season and in the games with the Phillies. The players were whispering among them- selves, “Walit until the pennant race starts and then we will open the eyes of everybody as to our real skill as players.” Now I can look back at our opening game in Washington and see the con- trast of what they had done in the Spring exhibition season and what they now intended to do, for in their first game they looked and acted like a real ball club. It was a case of hustle from the opening inning, with no let up un- til the nine innings had been played. After our first game in Washington, while saying noth- ing to players, I became convinced that a team that could beat out the | Athletics in the race must be a club out of the ordinary. ‘The Yankees were such a club, and have been rated that way for a number of years. For three straight years they had captured the American League pennant, and their batting cast was uipped with swashbuckling batsmen who seemed able to make a long and dramatic hit whenever it was needed. ‘The thoughts I turned over in my mind at the time were these: “Are the Connle Mack. SUCCESS AGAINST GRIFFS “MADE” A’, SAYS CONNIE Ability to Defeat Nationals at Start of Campaign an Important Factor in Landing of Flag, Asserts Philadelphia Manager. § | chine. base Yanks going to play 100 per cent base ball this year as in the past three seasons?” I finally reasoned that there was go- ing to be a let up in the work of the ‘Yanks this season. I based this feeling on thier record of having won so con- sistently and easily in the past. ‘Winners Lose Their Pep. As a rule, when & club has been sweeping everybody before it for & term of years it will eventually lose some of its ardor and pepper. Victories came 8o easy to them in the past that they believe that they will win without hustling so much. That feeling has wrecked many a pennant- | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS l American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. None scheduled. STANDING OP THE CLUBS. 8 14 223: iimm!!hll 1—'12114111716/18/13(181102/4861.639 New York | 8i—| 8/14/12/13/16/17| 88/64/.579 7114/—| 911411112131 80/68'.540 | 91— 9/12/17(11/_76/721.513 4101 8/13/—/12/12/12| 71179473 41 9111110/10 —'11114/ 69/811.460 191 61 01 41101 7—111/ 56/921.378 1 41 6) 9111] 8/ 8/111—1 56/96/.368 T46164168172/70/81192108)—I—1| " GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. None scheduled. Wash. at Phils. (2). Louts. Philadelphia. New York. Cleveland. st. Washington. Detroit. Chicage. National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. None scheduled. P STANDING OF THE CLUBS. - £ ] £ Pittsburgh. St Louls Philadelphta. Brooklyn Cincinnatt. z 2115117/1611111518515 3 Chicago. It Pittaburg) 12 New York 1013 [N Brooklyn ... (] 46! Cincinnatl .| 61 91101 31111/ 141641841.633 @ seeeec.! 1 8i 9 81 51 9 B—[54/971.358 E PRPPPT 51164/ g 70|ll|‘§|ul"|—m GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. o Breotmasx v BRSSTMoladian winning band. It was the way I was hoping the Yanks would feel. It may seem rather out of place for me to say it, but I believe that if the Yanks had played with their vold irre- sistible swing, with the base ball we showed.this season we would have fin- ished on top just the same. Remember we went into first place as early as May and never lost the lead for the rest of the season. No doubt Philadelphia fans were stunned when I selected Carroll Yerkes, one of my young left-handers, for the opening game in Washington. I picked him because he had done the best work of any of my flingers during the train- ing season, and I believed that an. im- pressive win on an opening day away from home would give this youth so much confidence that he would prove a valuable pitcher for me all season. However, the presence of President Hoover and a big and brilliant crowd of notables was too much for the youth, and I found it necessary to relieve him with Rommel before the second inning, and the veteran right-hander stoj ‘Washi batting at once, and we won the ball game with an impressive show of batting might on our own part. A ‘Soul-Lifting Start, It was a soul-lifting 'start for us. ays has been trouble- some with us, and when I looked at the schedule and saw that we would play nearly two-thirds of our season's series with the Senators before July 1 I felt we had a big problem ahead with this opponent alone. As things turned out, the Athletics eliminated Washington by winning no 4| fewer than 12 games, which clinched the season’s series for them before gave the team a real start and I doubt if there ever was a ball team that played such consistent ball from the opening of the season to July 4. On the morning of July 4 Mickey Coch- rane, our great catcher, was hurt just| on the eve of our starting out on our second Western trip. | The effect of losing Cochrane was| quite bad on the. whole team, and our series in Chicago was the first in which we looked bad. The players, realizing it would be some time before Mickey could return, made up their minds that they would have to hustle just a little harder to make up for his loss. So in| St. Louis they came right back on their | old winning stride and finished the trip, with a great record. 1t is my belief that this second West- ern trip, which began so unpromising. convinced the Athletics that there was no club that could stop them, and it | was fully set in their minds that they | were to win the pennant of 1929. Every member of our club deserves a ‘wonderful lot of credit for our success. | Every one of the eligibles did his part toward bringing the pennant here. Every member of our pitching staff at some time during the season helped out at a time when some of our first- string pitchers were either overworked or a bit off their stride. Gives Credit to Coaches. I can't give too much praise to Eddie Collins, captain of the team. He has been a most important cog in our ma- Standing out there at the third- coaching line, he has been a big inspiration to the Athletic hitters. On the fleld and off, Collins wielded an in- fluence that always was helpful. Eddie did very little playing this year, but as my trusted aid he made his presence felt all through the race, and must be entitled to no small share of credit for our pennant triumph. In Bill Gleason we have a fighting coach who kept everybody on the team stepping all season. Bill'is a_ colorful figure, with plenty of personality, and he knows how to get the maximum amount of work out of every man. He nwnlyla hltsd t{;mee l'mur;lden 1; infleld practice, an way he sends savage smashes to the infielders is a joy to be- hold. Gleason is a wonderful man to have around to correct the weaknesses of young players. More than one player owes his success to Bill. Earl Mack, our other coach, has confined his ac- tivities mostly to tutoring the young pitchers. He has more than made good in this role. (Copyright, 1929.) BUSH WILL LEARN HIS JOB AT ONGE Chisox Berth Not Effective Until December 1, but He Will Start Sunday. HICAGO, October 1 (#).—Donie Bush, who has been signed to manage the Chicago White Sox, l Big League Leaders (Including games of September 30.) By the Associated Press NATIONAL. Batting—O'Doul, Phillles, .395. Runs—Hornsby, Cubs, 151. Runs batted in—Wilson, Cubs, 152. Hits—O'Doul, Phillies, 248. Doubles—Frederick, Robins, 53. Triples—L. Waner, Piiates, 19. ‘zfiemefl—(nb, Giants; Klein, Phillies, Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 40. Pitching—Bush, Cubs; Root, won 18, lost 6. AMERICAN. Batting—Fonsera, Indians, .373. Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 129. Runs batted in—Simmons, Athletic: 151, Hits—Simmons, Athletics, 209. | Doubles—Manush; Browns; Fonseca, Indians; 44. Triples—Gehringer, Tigers, 17. Homers—Ruth, Yanks, 46. Stolen bases—Gehringer, Tigers, 26. X Pitching—Grove, Athletics, won 20, lost 6. MACK FINDS FLAG WINNING 1S GRIND Cubs; | Athletics’ Leader Tells of Efforts to Gain Top Since 1921. By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, October 1.—Con- nie Mack, who managed the | Athletics sinee the advent of the American League, today de- scribed his efforts to produce a pennant winner since 1921 “In that year,” he said, “we began to branch out. We made some changes and in 1922, we got out of the cellar and finished in seventh place. | “In the Spring of 1923, I thought I had the makings of another pennant winner. We were in top form early and stayed up around first place until July 4, when the Yanks pulled ahead of us. We finished sixth. “The pitchers who wrecked us was Jack Quinn, th:n1 with Boston. We needed a punch in the batting order, so our scouts dug up Al Simmons, then with Milwaukee, and I m\ilg; Sla\b‘ Lake Clkty and watched Pai rand for a week. “Then came the Spring of 1924. Sim- mons began to hit, but Strand was un- able to help us. In June I traded Strand for Bill Lamar and put him in left field and Simmons in center. We played good ball the last half of the season, but Washington finished first and the Yankees second. “Our team was a contender from the beginning in 1925 and then a series | of mishaps overtook us. Joe Hauser broke his knee and was out for the season. Lamar was out, Hale got hurt and there were other bad breaks, but & makeshift team played as well as the regulars and we stayed in first place until late in August. Then St. Louis beat us three straight and that ruined us. Washington was the team we had to beat that year and we couldn't do it. I didn't feel very confident about the 1926 club, and we finished third. “In 1927 Ty Cobb joined us, but the ‘Yankees m'd:v‘in to wreck us in th; and tleing one. We finished second that year. “Last year's team made s brilliant |¢, record. After a poor start and our in- ability to beat the Yankees we made up for it against the other clubs and chopped down the Yanks' lead of 13 games and went into first place for f the lebllr](lnl-l d as manager o e!el. will not officially take the hel club until December, he said he his home in mdimnpofll:: : keep new: get gol.n{ New have it, but we will get it.” became man- h the current cam- roblems confronting Bush i§ the disposal of the case of C. Arthur “the great” Shires, cocky first baseman, who is under suspension for engaging in a fist fight with Blackburne at Phila- delphia last monf p‘(‘)‘:e' of the a day. it e e Pt sy year t.here‘m & possibility of heading the second division. However, we got off on the right foot m jumped first place over St. have been there ever since never felt the cham; clinched GRIFFITH-SCOTT BATTLE IS SOUGHT FOR DETROIT CHICAGO, October 1 (#).—Scotf Monteith, matchmaker for the Olympia Arena, Detroit, is negotiating with Jack' O’Keefe, manager of Tufly Griffith, for a bout between the Sioux City, Iowa, pur‘I‘c;ltfl. and Phil Scott, British heavy- weight. The bout is being sought as the feature of a card November 8. 1 M’CARTHY IS GLAD MACKS ARE TO BATTLE HIS CUBS Meeting in World Series Is Fruition of Hope Expressed at Banquet When He Was Made Chicago Manager BY JOE McCARTRY, Manager Chicago Cubs. FTER four years of trying, the only big league club with which I have ever been ssociated, the Cubs, is about t participate in a world series. And it might as well be said, here and now, that I am more than pleased that our opponents are to be the Athletics, managed by Connie Mack. Now, don't go jumping at conclusions. I don’t mean that the American League champions are my idea of a soft touch. ‘They're not, at all. I'm just thinking back to an incident in the Winter of 1925 after the Cubs had offered me & | chance to manage a club in the major eagues, where my own shortcomings always were enough to keep me out as a player. l The folks at Ger- mantown, where I ETew up, gave me a dinner. And it was such a dinner that I still like to re- member it. Among the guests at the speakers’ ta- ble was Connie Mack, whose Ath- lmamwerahmex;hbe- i gl g oW . S o Yot i Jee MeCartby, strength that made the American League race of this season & bit of a runaway for them. Now, Connie Mack was an established figure in the major leagues. I was just coming up from the Class A's, a bush- league manager, if you must have the correct phrasing. But that didn't make any difference to Mack. He went out of his way to predict a successful venture for me in the Na- tional League. ments like some of those sluggers of his have been hammering out base hits this year. ‘When my turn came around to speak I tried to get square with Connie. Nat- urally I hoped to win a pennant in the National League sooner or later, I told them, and nothing would please me better if my first National League flag found me coming back to Philadelphia to play a world series against Connie Mack’s Athletics. His Hopes Are Fulfilled. ‘That wasn't quite four years ago, and here we are, winning a National League pennant, and there's Connie Mack, with his Athletics back up on top, after a wait of 15 years. I wonder if any of those folks at Ger- mantown kept notes on the #fter-dinner speeches that night in 1925? In moving toward the world series one of the things that interviewers seem more worried about than anything else is how a manager without any big league experience or training gets that way. of the boys ded the B Tegar move of Mr. Veeck, the Cub's president, | Washi in reaching into the Class A’s for his manager four as a radical ex- periment. Well, m: like to I ciation, from whose came to the Cubs, as just raining ground for big league managers as it is for players, and if you look over the number of association graduates that are playing or have played in the mljzéu you'll get the force of the argu- men! ‘The association, in territory and in methods of play, is not so far removed from the major leagues. Association clubs have plenty of contacts with the big leaguers in exhibitio: and e‘heelule of the steady in | trouble in Am After all, they still use a ball and bat in the Class A's, and there are the same number of bases. You keep hus- ty | tling or you get lost in the shuffle any place you play ball. Material is bound to be better in the big leagues, and the winning incentive of the players is, or should be, greater. So, take it all in all, a manager ought to ‘have a better chance to make good “up there” than in the minors if he has the stuff and is given a chance to work out his own | | There is no need of detailing the odds He handed out compli- | Four Years Ago. office” always has been of the happlest, and I have had free rein in the running of the ball club. A pennant winning club seldom is | handed any one on a platter. Connie | Mack's own experience shows that it was in his case a matter of 15 years. You have to build up by degrees, and | when the manager has the whole- hearted operation of the club owner | and officials, as I have had, he no | one to blame but himself if he is a flop. Signed Two-Year Contract. | When I came up to the Cubs to start | the 1926 season I had signed a two-year | contract. I had enough confidence in | myself to feel that in that period I would be able to show enough progress to warrant my retention. I can say safely that the Cubs in 1926 |was & team that fans liked to watch. | The attendance records proved that. | We finished fourth that year and the next, but we made trouble for some of the opposition most of the way. Now that it's all over, I can confess that I was disappointed last year. We ooked to have a winning ball club.| | and ends of base ball fortunes that kept |us from doing better than taking third | place. Briefly, we hadn't the hitting | when we needed it. We needed one more punch, and Roger Hornsby gave us that. The pen- nant followed as a natural course. And now the world series (Copyright, 1920.) RUNNER-UP BATTLE *INN.L. CONTINGES &Giants Still Can Beat Bucs | for Place—Nats Have Task to Stay Fifth. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. Associated Press Sports Writer. OG fights for positions down the line in the two major league standings featured the closing week of the campaign. In the National League, there is the possibility that New York's Giants can take second place away from Pitts- burgh with a strong finish. Batile for the top of the second division is going on between Philadelphia and Brooklyn. The only other question left for the older circuit is whether the champion Cubs can run their total of vitorzies up to 100 games before the end. ‘The American League has only one real change among . the ibilitics. ington in fifth place and Detroit in sixth may reverse their positions before Sunday night. A mathematical posisbility in & n’rhp Giant-Pirate squabble also is nearer the realm of pure mathematics than of probability. Pittsburgh has a three-game edge with as many to go. The Giants have five to play. Brooklyn and Philadelphia are tied {or fifth place with three games splece e ft. McCarthy’s Chicago boys have 95 vitcorles on the book so far and six more possibly in sight. The Cub sched- ule calls for a five-game series at Cin- cinnati before they close at home against_Pittsburgh. Cleveland fans expect to have Littls clinching third place in the League. St. Louis has to cap- ture all games to gain a tie. W has a rather tough row to hoe hands in keeping fifth place out of the of Detroit’s Tigers. The Senators have only a two-game of games to play letics and Red Sox. Detroit’s schedule | ., calls low] of their 18 encounters this. year. No games were scheduled yesterday. COOMBS THINKS HURLERS HAVE AN EASY JOB NOW, Jack Coombs, a star pitcher when the A’s beat the Cubs in 1910, like other :!fa-dmerl, 1s impressed with the lack I saw -~ Not since the palmy days of Cobb, m: and have ke Ath- |2, Features and Classified PAGE 41 Retain Job as Scout : Macks Overshadow Cubs in Caiching COCHRANE FAR SUPERIOR TO TAYLOR OR GONZALES With Hartnett on the Ailing List, Mickey Is a Stand- out Among World Series Mittmen and Has a Capable Aide Records of Rival Player and Club. Charles Hartnett, Cubs Mike Gonzales, Cubs. . Mickey Cochrane, Athletics. . John Schulte, Cubs. . Si Perkins, Athletics. Zach Taylor, Cubs... James Mattox, Athletics. FIELDING. PO in Si Perkins. Series Catchers. ] TC. PB 4 216 723 0 2 8 5 1 4 ... - 8 e O ] cumwanod 88 436 (8 BATTING. Cochrane Hartnett . Gonzales . Taylor . Schulte . Perkins . Mattox . AB. R 494 109 2 l as behind the plate. the best catcher in base ball. and thrower. He is mentally keen, o o cocormal cwwBwndE H. 162 7 83 cocucHnl coomoral N no other position do the Philadelphia Athletics show marked superiority over the Chicago Cubs, their world series rivals, Mickey Cochrane generally is accepted as He is a hard hitter, a fine receiver and rather fast afoot for a back- stop. Mickey is one of the greatest catchers to enter a world series in years. Connie Mack was fortunate in his chase to the pennant that Cochrane was able to catch nearly all of the Mackmen'’s games. Bi Perkins, his relief, is a fine catcher, but not the hitter nor receiver that Cochrane has proved himself to be. Cochrane was the keystone of the Mack team, and bids fair to star in the series. Joe McCarthy had much grief with his catching staff during the early part of the season. In con- dition, Gabby Hartnett is a fine workman, but he was injured most of the year, and has been in only | 25 games, and then mostly as a| pinch hitter. So McCarthy must | Zales and Zack Taylor in the| series. Cochrane is a far better batter than either Taylor or Gonzales, and equally | as good a fielder. Mickey has batted .328 for the Athletics, with 51 extra base hits tucked away in his record. He has scored 109 runs and batted in 92, and has made 13 errors in 723 chances. Contrasted to his record is the .270 batting average of Gonzales and the 268 of Taylor. Neither of the Cub catchers is a slugger, and both are rather slow afoot. They are good, hard-working athletes, and mighty valuable to the Cubs. But in comparison with Coch- rane they are overshadowed. Si Perkins, who has been with Connie Mack for more than a decade, likely will get in at least one world series game, for sentiment if nothing more. Perkins worked hard for Connie in the tall leader’s lean years, and Mack will reward him. Si once was one of the great catchers of base ball, and still is |rely on the veterans Miguel Gon- |a capable fellow. But he has slowed up tremendously, is batting only .205, and nearing the end of a fine career. So Cochrane will carry the hod in the big series. ‘The Athletics have a third catcher in James Mattox, but he will see no serv- ice in the series unless Cochrane and gifll(m are injured, and that is un- ely. Were Gabby Hartnett in physical trim, he might come close to holding Cochrane even, for the Cub star is a good hitter and a fine catcher. But with Hartnett out of the running, the Mackmen must be conceded a great superiority behind the plate. Cubs Possess “Murderers Row” In Its Regular Outfield Trio BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, October 1.—It doesn't take more than a quick glance at the figures to realize that the “big punch” of the Cub attack is by the outfield trio of Riggs Stephenson, Kikl Cuyler and Hack Wilson. No one member of the Chicago cast has a thing on the very useful Mr. Aloysius Harry Simmons of the Ath- letics, who happens to be just about the best all-round outfielder in base ball, but collectively the Cubs have a | distinct edge on their rivals on attack. On defense there is little, if anything, to choose, with Simmons and Cuyler ranking as the best of the ballhawks. | Crawford and Veach, the great Detroit trio, has there been any harder outfleld grou] than Cuyler, Wilson, Stephenson combination. ‘Their batting figure, collectively, on the bl.fl.;.s ol‘ the lnest’ ;x;\omcifl averages, is .354, a margin of 18 poin over the aggregate mark of .336 for Simmons, Mule Haas and Bing Miller of the A's. The big three of the Cubs has accounted for 678 of the 952 runs | scored by the team, either by crossing the plate personally or driving mates over. Their rivals have of the 822 runs tallied by the A's. Individuality Wilson has the best run- producing record. In fact, the big Chicago dash to the top dated from the time the rotund Hack was shifted to the clean-up role, where his faculty for hitting in a pinch could best be capitalized. Among & number of vital factors in the Cub rise, few are more conspicu- ous than the work of the fleet Cuyler, the league's leading base stealer, who CUBS“ARESURRY T0 LARGE EXTET | but he is faster and rangler. red in 621 | ¥ has enjoyed his greatest all-around year since he helped the Pirates win the pennant in 1925, Stephenson is less spectacular, but the ex-Alabama collegian also has surpassed anything previous in his major league career, with a batting mark that is the highest he ever has had in fast company and second only to Hornsby's in the Cub line-up. When injuries kept either Cuyler or Stephenson out of the game the Cubs had an able substitute at hand in the speedy CIiff Heathcote. The development of Haas and the steady work of the veteran Miller con- tributed much to the triumph of the A's. The former's batting fell off toward the close of the season, but when the Mackmen were building up their decisive lead the young center flelder hit at a sensational clip. Haas hasn’t the punch of his rival, Wilson, Miller, 35 years old and 5 years older than Stephenson, nevertheless has retained unusual speed as well as a keen batting eye. y'A'he latest batting records of the out- field rivals: EBHRRBI 42 135 558 111 172 40 BATTERED BY BERG, M’GRAW QUITS RING NEW YORK, October 1 (#)—Phil McGraw, the Detroit florist, has re- tired from the ring. The veteran lightweight announced he was through with the caulifiower industry last night after he had taken a terrific beating from Jack (Kid) Berg of England in a 10-round bout at the St. Nicholas arena. McGraw said he had amassed a fortune of more than $100,000 in the ring and felt that the time had come for him to hang up his gloves forever. In a career that started in 1921, McGraw faced practically every one of the leading lightweights of recent years, including Jimmy McLarnin, Sid Ter- ris, Sammy Mandell, Stanislaus Loayza, Must Return Nearly Million and Half Dollars to Ticket Seekers. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, October 1.—Approxi- mately a million and a half dollars’ worth of “regrets” are be! made ready for the mails at the offices of the Chi- cago Cubs. At the same time, under registered mail, will go forth tickeis to the ones fortunate enough to obtain seats for the two, and possibly three, games to be played here. A check of unfilled orders showed nearly 35,000 applications turned down. Virtually all requests were for two tick- ets to each of the three games, repre- senting $1,260,000 worth of business the club was compelled to turn down for lack of seating facilities, In addition, President Willlam Veeck estimated that between $250,000 and $300,000 was returned to gemnl ‘who sent for more than two tickets. A check for $17,800 bounced back to business concern—not because the check wasn't good, but because it ac- not unusual. Plans for warfare on scalpers have been made and 30 special agents have been appointed by the Department of Internal Revenue to watch for those v{lho attempt to speculate in ducats for the es. ‘The Cubs were in Cincinnati today to start work on the business of finishing up their National League schedule. Charlie Root lul:.d Perce Malone still ‘Tod Morgan, Luis Vicentini and Ace Hudkins. He was beaten frequently, but was stopped only by McLarnin here last year. WARRANTS ARE ISSUED FOR BOXERS, PROMOTER SEATTLE, Wash., October 1 (#).— ‘Warrants for the arrest of Leo Lomski and Jack Willis, light heavyweights, scheduled to fight a six-round bout here tonight, and Lonnie Austin and George W. Bishop, promoters, charging the fuur with intention to violate the State anti- prizefight law, were issued by Justice of the Peace John B. Wright here yester- day on request of the prosecuting at- torney’s office. Ball was set at $1,000 each. Six Seattle newspaper sports writers were subpoened as witnesses. The warrants were issued after two men from the Pprosecuting attorney’s office had bought tickets for the fight. Under the State law only private clubs may sponsor boxing. Promoters of the fight declared they were not vio- ldlunu the l&w;h!:ut wl:re opelxjitmx un- ler a membership plan, legally putting their show under the banner %{ the Austin and Bishop Athletic Club, Inc. DUNDEE TAKING TIME TO GET ACCLIMATED MEXICO CITY, October 1 (#).— Bert Colima, Mexican welterweight champion, has arrived here from the United States to begin training for his bout in the bull ring October 13 with Joe Dundee, former world champion. ‘The bout originally was scheduled for October 6, but Dundee requested a de~ to becom