Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 33

he Foening Sfaf. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1929. Features and Classified PAGE 33 Is Well Fixed for Subs CUBS AND A’S FORTIFIED WITH GOOD UTILITY MEN Reserves Not Expected to Figure Prominently in Coming Title Games, but Both Contenders Are Protected Against Emergencies. A’s Best Ever, Think Philadelphia Fans : Series Riva RESERVES WHO MAY BE CALLED ON IN DIAMOND TITLE CLASHES MACKS CANT BE BEATEN HOME BACKERS CONTEND Swear at Club Officials When Criticizing Ticket Distribution, But Swear by Club’s Players. Griffs Play Today if Rain Stops. Utility Players of Cubs and A’s FIELDING. _ 95 BY JOHN B. KELLER. HILADELPHIA, October 2.—Walter Johnson has his Nationals here, hoping to send them into two games with the Athletics before Saturday, but only Walter and the players know they are in Philly. The only clubs known to the local base ball fan these days are the A’s and the Cubs, who are to start battling next week for the game’s highest honor. ‘When the weather permits the Nationals to take the field against the Clan McGillicuddy those in the stands probably will have their eyes on the home side only. They are looking at the first Philadelphia league champions since 1914, the fans of this city are, when they visit Shibe Park, and nothing else concerns them. They are simply goofy here, and they don’t care who knows it. All the confusion and uproar BIG LEAGUE CLASH Mackian office is busily dispensing Lucas Aids With His Bat as notices of ticket allotments. Thou- sands who claim they have been Well as in Box for the Cincinnati Reds. Player and Club. George Burns, Athletics. ... DeWitt Lebourveau, Athletics. Walter French, Athletics. .. Clifton Heathcote, Cubs. Clyde Beck, Cubs.. . Clarence Blair, Cubs James Cronin, Athletics. John Moore, Cubs. .. Homer Summa, Athletics Eddie Collins, Athletics. . ] - ScouwRnoo®nd ———— ommwwhnooa™ Lebourveau Blair Heathcote Moore Summa . French . Cronin . Burns Beck . regular patrons of the club all season insist they are being un- fairly treated in the matter of seat locations for the contests; thou- sands of others are yelping be- cause they have not as yet been informed they may procure tickets —no one satisfied. The A's are being praised on all sides. The club officials are being anything but praised. There's the usual cry that only the out-of-town guys get the choice seats. To listen to the local gentry, both decks of the big stand from first base around to third base will be filled with visitors from Chicago, New York, Washington, Chillicothe, Peoria, Saxa- , Presque Isle and other points West, South and North. Only in the right' and left field ends of the stands SamwmwmBnol coomscccony Comomonnmel Collins . EITHER Joe McCarthy nor Connie Mack anticipates it will be necessary to call upon any of their utility players during the coming world series. But in case such an eventuality arises both managers are well provided with capable substitutes. On the Athletics’ bench are to be found George Burns, Eddie Collins, Homer Summa, Walter French, Jimmy Cronin and De Witt Lebourveau, while the Cubs’ subs consist of Cliff Heathcote, Clyde BeckE, ‘gar%nclfi Bl?sirtgnd John Moore. ie Collins e veteran of both teams and played in the last Phiadelphia-Chicago world series of 1910. Althougl? pgst the 40-year mar), Edward still is capable of playing a fair game at second base and is a good hitter, but, with Jim Dykes around, it is unlikely he will C;.n:p HEATHCOTE - /A CLyDE BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. ITH a cold rain along the At- lantic seaboard preventing few Easf will any Philadelphians be found, and many of them will be forced to stand in the aisles. Try and Keep 'Em Away! It's the old story. The club officials declare they are giving the home crowd the preference in filling ticket orders, and that no regular patrons who desire to attend the engagements here will be overlooked. The Philly fans declare this is all bunk, and some go so far as to say they don't care whether they see the series games in Shibe Park, anyhow. But try and keep 'em away next week! : To a man they are crazy over the Athietics. As they look at it, the Phila- delphia_entry in the big show simply cannot be licked. The local fans swear they are ready to wager everything they have, from hard money to their socks, on the house of Mack. They claim the A's have the best pitchers, the best fielders, the best batters, the best man- ager, and the best bat boy in the na- tional pastime. No beating such a club! ‘Wherever one goes here he finds some one quite ready to give him an earful about the A’s. Grove may have wabbled a bit in his late games, but he’ll be O. K. when he gets into the series. Don’t think Earnshaw, will not stand the Cubs on their heads. "And Rommel and old man Quinn are likely to surprise ‘em. Cochrane will be in fine fettle, too. He'll show that Chicago bunch what a real catcher is like. And, oh, boy, how Sim- foons and Foxx will wallop those Cub pitchers! Bring on Bush, Root and the rest! Watch that outfield catch and throw! And the infleld dig 'em up and throw ’em out. Watch everything! There's nothing the A’s can’t do. Players Full of Confidence. It one listens to these pop-eyed fans here long enough, he is apt to become convinced that never was a ball club until the Athletics trotted out their 1929 aggregation. There appears to be no weak point in the machine, Even the A’'s manager, the venerable Connie Mack, admits this. And the players themselves are rather cocky about their club, too. They seem as full of confi- dence as their followers in_ the burg. They rate the Cubs a fine ball club, but in so rating the National League cham- pions, give one the impression that they can easily name a finer. Thelr schedule here yesterday washed out by a deluge that started Monday morning, the Nationals were forced to wait here for a chance to play two tilts | this afternoon. And should the in- clement weather continue they may have to remain in the Quaker City through Friday. Neither Washington nor Philadelphia has any date after today until Saturday. Sam Jones, who did not make the trip with the Nationals yesterday, was ex- Ecmd to join them here this morning. aving had three days of rest since his last appearance on the hill, the veteran was likely to tackle the A’s in the twin bill. ‘The postponement also assured Fred Marberry of at least three days | action was confined to Cincinnati where the Reds nosed out the champion Cubs by a score of 3 to 2. The game furnished rs Hornsby an opportunity to collect three singles |in four times.at bat, lifting his batting average three points to .380. This outburst carried him to seven straight hits against the Rhineland | pitching corps before Red Lucas stop- |ped him in the eighth inning. The Rajah got four out of four on Sunday, winning the game by 1 to 0 with his thirty-ninth home run. He still has a fine chance to oust Babe Herman of Brooklyn from second place in the Na- tional League batting derby, but only a phenominal spurt could carry him past Frank O'Doul, the heir apparent to Hornsby's throne with a neat mark of .395. Herman is hitting .384. | Chicago outhit Cincinnati by seven safe drives to six, but Lucas so scatter- ed the Bruin attack in every inning but | the second that he was in a position to win when his mates touched Guy Bush for three runs in the eighth. Lucas him- self led this assault with a single. Swanson followed with another one- bagger and little Hugie Critz cleaned up with a triple. Critz scored the winning marker a moment later when Charlie Grimm threw past the'plate after fleld- ing Walker’s Toller. The Cubs got to Lucas for two runs in the second on a triple by Cuyler, singles by Stephenson and McMillan and Ford's error, It was Lucas’ nine- teenth victory for the seventh-place Reds and Bush's seventh defeat for the champions. Fewer than 500 fans paid to see the fun. The Athletics will make another at- tempt today to close out their home season in @& double-header against Washington. The Giants likewise will attempt to run off their final Brooklyn game at the Polo grounds. The A's have two more open dates on which they could dispose of their double bill, but this is the last chance the Glants have to get in their twenty-second contest against the Robins. KANSA?CITY, ROCHESTER TO START SERIES TODAY By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 2—1In spick JIMCRONIN - ' GEORGE Burns- HORNSBY GAINS GROUND AS BIG SIX RIVALS IDLE By the Associated Press. With all but two of the major league teams idle yesterday, Rogers Hornsby was the only member of the Big Six in action. The Chicago Rajah combed Red Lucas for three singles in four attempts at Cincinnati, lifting his aver- age three points to .380. He still has a chance to finish second in the race for the batting champlonship of the National League and the Big Six. ‘The standing: o'Doul. | Herman, | Horsby. s | Simmons,~ At | Pox: i X, Athletics Ruth, Yankees H. Pet. 248 395 217 384 223 200 181 170 Phillies Robins Cub: : 367 358 346 get into the game. George Burns is another vet-] eran, and a lucky one. He| played in the Cleveland-Brooklyn | world series of 1920, was with the | Yankees last year and now has| hooked up with the Mackmen. Burns is slow, but still a fair hit-| ter, and can cover first well in an emergency. | Jimmy Cronin is Mack’s other utility inflelder, and a great fielder. He came | up from the Pacific Coast League in | Midsummer and saw quite a bit of service. ‘The others all are outfielders | and veterans in the major league game. | CIiff Heathcote, the Cub outfielder, | is a splendid fly chaser and fast as the wind. He also is hitting well ~this | season and could substitute well for| any of the Bruin regulars. Beck is a| second baseman by trade, but played | third a lot before Joe McCarthy put Norman McMillan at the hot turn.; 380 | Clarence Blair also is a third baseman, spending his first year in_the majors. | He is a good hitter and a lively fielder. | and span new uniforms, purchased espe- cially for the occasion, the Kansas City Blues of the American Association and the Rochester Red Wings of the Inter- national League meet in Muehlebach Field here this afternoon in the first game of the “little world series.” ‘The rival managers, Edward H. (Dutch) Zwilling of Kansas City and Bfla' Southworth of Rochester, have settled on their starting line-ups with the exception of pitchers. Zwilling is undecided between the veteran right hander, Tom Sheehan, or the youthful southpaw, Max Thomas. Southworth will choose just before game time be- tween Herman Bell, Paul Derringer and of ease since his last workout, so the big Texan should be in good form to hurl against the league leaders. Series May Be Iron Man Duel Between Malone and Earnshaw blow to the A’s if Grove does not regain Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, October 2.— The iron-man pitching performance, with George Earnshaw of the the role. These two fast-ball right-handers any of their curving mates, and the probability now is that they will face at least, seems a certainty, although Connie Mack would not hesitate to return to_his midseason form. ‘The schedule for the series is so ar- ing they are the first game selections, to twirl four games, still having three series going the limit of seven games. Two days of trayeling and the Sunday Tecuperate. The one thing certain, so far as the the A's, Earnshaw, Grove and Rube Walberg, all have tremendous speed. Otherwise, the vital factor of mound work, considered 60 per cent of any better pitcher in either league than Grove, but the portsider has been off Tex Carleton. Fair and warmer was the weather forecast. his form for the series. He is the ace victory are generally considered to de- pend on_whether he is “right.” Guy Bush was the Cub ace until around the middle of August, but he hasn't lasted a full game since then until yesterday, when he dropped a close decision to the Reds. Walberg has been_erratic. So has Root, although the latter pitched a 1-0 shutout this week. These stars may need the inspira- tion of a real battle to bring them k to form, There wasn't much to worry of the staff and Mackian chances of [ about while the Cubs were galloping to pennant victories by one-sided margins. Any one of several lesser lights in the pitching casts may come through if the stars fade. The A's have old Jack Quinn and his spitter to rely.on. Jack was pitching when Walter Jol Grover Alexander were rookies, but he still has enough stuff to join those two stars in the world series hall of fame. The Cubs have Hal Carlson, a fourth right-hander of long experience, in re- serve, along with Sheriff Blake and Artie Nehf, the old Giant southpaw ace. If it comes to an issue between relief man, Mack can rely on Rommel, Shores and Ehmke. JOE CRONIN HONORED. Joe Cronin, clever shortstop of the Washington base ball team, was a guest of honor at a dinner Monday night at the Willard Hotel. He will leave for his home in San Francisco immediately after the close of the season. The din- ner was given by Thomas F. Flaherty and was attended by Manager Walter Johnson and Mrs. Johnson. PR N PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. BY ALAN GOULD, world series battlefront of 1929 is perfectly arranged for an Athletics or Pat Malone of the Cubs picked as the leading candidates for have thrived all season on plenty of work. They have finished stronger than one another on the opening day at Wrigley Field next Tuesday. Malone, switch to Robert Moses Grove if the willowy southpaw manifested a sudden ranged that it would be altogether pos- sible for Malone or Earnshaw, assum- days of rest between each assignment. This, of course, would hinge on the of rest in Philadélphia give the pltchers more than the usual amount of time to pitching is concerned, is that it will be @ fast-ball series. The “Big Three” of So have the main Cub_trio—Malone, Guy Bush and Charley Root. world series battle, is largely specula- tion. When he is “right,” there is no form since July. Thzmdsox‘)mmfled in his last ap- especially heavy ilm by Walberg were very close, with . B Louisy - BY CONNIE MACK, (Manager of the Athletics and Seven Times American League Pennant Winner.) N appraising the worth of the At letic pitchers as a whole, I do! believe I can be charged with ex- aggerating the facts when I say that no club ever had more con- sistent pitching than the 1929 American League champions this year. Robert Moses Grove, the spindly left- hander, has been a heavy and inspiring winner all through the race. His record is one of the best ever enjoyed by a flinger. Of course much .was expected of Grove, as he now has the experience and background to back up his pitching skill. This has enabled him to do his work well without burning up all of his energy. It takes several seasons, jpecially for a lefthander, to acquire poise, evenness and confidence. Last season I found that Grove was not depending altogether on his re- markable fast pitch to subdue an opposing batsman. He began to “work’ him, as it is known in base ball. This season Grove eon- tinued to use his brains as well as his arm and the race was not old until I was saying to myself that Grove had d veloped into ' a smart pitcher. 1 must admit that George Earnshaw, the giant right- Connle Mack. only a fair pitcher. bigger_part of Batimres feining of ore’s training expedition to Florida and as a matter of fact was not in good condition when he suddenly joined us after the season had been well under way. Only & fair pitcher last season, Earn- shaw this year has proved one of the mightiest curvers in the two major leagues. He never tires from hard work, and after a hard game he can repeat for a few innings the next day, if nec- One of the best points of this mndk pitcher is that he always is willing and ready to get into a ball game at any time. He was the first major league pitcher this year to score his twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second victorles. No Signs of Weakening. George never has shown signs of weakening at any time, and it is sig- nificant t some of his best pitching feats were performed in the month of September. It will be recalled that Earnshaw shut out the White Sox with five hits on September 14 to clinch the pennant for us. George Walberg, another great left- hander, was our third pitcher in games won and lost. While his record is not quite so impressive as Grove’s and Earn- shaw's, he nevertheless was a steady winner for us. Moreover, if you examine his game this year, you will find that the games the scoring low. We did not seem to hit our true level when Walberg was pitching. He had few “soft” victories, but had to go ‘at high pressure throug! e ibere's blggest achiévement was to shut out fl:"m'u with & solitary from Melillo’s bat on May 5 in Ahletic never SHOWING-OF BATTERYMEN | LAUDED BY CONNIE MACK| Lean Leader Has Words of Praise for Relief Efforts of Rommel and Shores in Supporting Regu- lars—Perkins Great Aid to Cochrane. forget that victory, for with it Walberg | pitched the Athletics into first place in the pennant race, and they were des- tined to stay on top for the rest of the season. | ‘While Jack Quinn, senior pitcher of | base ball, was not quite as consistent this season as last, he has pitcked many fine games. His work against the Yanks was especially good. When he is right there are few better pitchers than Quinn. . As Much Stuff as Ever. Just think of a pitcher past the 40 who helped a team to the pen- nant. As I have watched Quinn in the past three years, there is no doubt in my mind that he will continuc with us for seasons to come and always be troublesome. Today he has as much stuff as he ever had. Ed Rommel and Howard Ehmke, while not seeing service as often as heretofore, have both turned in some brilliantly pitched games. Rommel has Leen es- pecially strong in relief work and he has saved many games for us by his courage in repelling opponents wken the going was tough. No one will say that Ehmke didn't have plenty of rest between his games. He was not_used often; but if you look back you will find that every game won by Ehmke was of immense help and came at a time when we were pressed for good pitching. Bill Shores, the Texas right-hander, was my one pitching youth to come through. He worked regularly and did some splendid pitching, but where he helped most was in relief pitching. In this respect his work has not been du- plicated by any other pitcher in the majors. Yerkes and Breckenridge are two young flingers who were necessarily kept in the background this season because so much was at stake, but they are going to be heard from later. As to our catchers, Mickey Cochrane was on duty behind the bat every day from the opening of the pennant race to the day we clinched the flag, with the exception of those games on the second trip West when he was kept out of the White Sox and St. Louis series because of injuries. In Class by Himself. It seems almost useless to praise Cochrane. Everybody who writes or speaks on base ball gives Cochrare credit for being the greatest catcher in the major leagues. ° ‘When one stops to consider his bat- ting, base running and receiving he is convinced that Mickey is in a class by himself. Here is a catcher who hits with the consistency of the exceptional top-notch outfielder, who runs the as swiftly as any speed kings and then is an able general behind the bat, and who throws and receives with the best of them. Mickey never thinks of himself in a game. His only thought is to win, and there is nothing too hard for him to try. Placed third in our batting cast, Cochrane is one of our bulwarks in bat- ting and run as wcll as being a gifted receiver. We have another great catcher irf Ralph Perkins. When Cochrane was hurt Perkins jumped into harness, and his work_was just as good as when he caught all of our games for uJs in years gone by. A club that has a man Lke Perkins, who can lay off a month and then jump h | back and catch perfect ball, has a prize. As a rule the catcher who lays off for a week puts up & poor le of ball in one or two games before he gets back i his stride. Not so with Perkins, 5 (Oopyright, 1620.) - MACKS 10 PASS UP DRILL IN CUB PARK Connie Opposes Practice on Stage at Chicago With- out All Seenery Set. I Athletics to Wrigley Field for a practice workout ~before the opening of the world series was not surprising news to those who profess to know something of his base ball methods. Mack is a psychologist and he also is known to play hunches. He may have other reasons for not wishing to introduce his team to the Cubs’ park until shortly before game time, but base ball experts who have been asso- clated with him for years dope it out in this fashion. There is a large scoreboard at Wrigley Field, also there are seats in the out- field which are said to be in range of a right-hand batsman’s vision, which may prove a mental or visual handicap to_batsmen not accustomed to them. Mack knows the conditions and, ac- cording to dopesters, decided against practicing in a park devoid of packed seats and with its big scoreboard “dead.” He wanted no practice swing- ing under conditions that would not obtain when the real battle started. Simmons, Foxx, Cochrane et al might find the range of an unoccupied field to their liking, then when they tried to hit into a fleld of moving faces and the rapid changes on a big scoreboard they might not be able to hit at all. At any rate when the A's take their first swings at pitched balls in Wrigley Field it will be with the stage set and-all s?enery. both moving and stationary, in place. Every ball park, in the opinion of most players, has scenery that may be put in the mental hazard class, but these psychological hurdles develop from actual contact with them. And Connie Mack, in deciding against a pre-view of the Cubs’ battleground, seems to feel that “what you haven't seen can’t be a mental hazard.” Art Shires to Get Paid For Battles in Future By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla, October 2.—Art Shires, stormy petrel of the Chicago White Sox and base ball's most cele- brated pugilist of the last decade, is to have a chance to display his fistic prowess in the ring. Teddy Hayes, associate of ‘Jack Kearns and a famous trainer of fighters, in Tulsa with Al Fay, who meets “Babe Hunt here October 8, announced todsy he had taken Shires under his wing, would put him in training immediately and start him fighting this Winter. Hayes met Shires in Chicago last week and learned that the base ball battler, who has had great suc- ' cess in his bare knuckle engagements | with other ball players, including ! whose career should be Manager Lena Blackburne of his | Two veteran pitchers were acquired in own team, was ambitious to be- come a boxer. He took Shires to a gymnasium and watched him work with the gloves. “Shires BY JOE McCARTHY. Manager Chicago Cubs. Y philosophy in running a ball club, or_in building it up, is that as long as a man is paid to run the club, he might as well run it. ‘That might serve to explain some of the moves I have made with the Cubs, in the four years I have been with them. In the season of 1925—the year pre- vious to my joining the Cubs—the three leading pitchers were Alexander, Cooper and Kaufman. Two of them were on their way before the end of my first year as a manager. The events leading up to this have been told often enough to_need no further mention here. If any defense were needed for these moves, I might mention that three young pitchers, Root, Blake and Bush, had a chance then to develop. You'l] find Root, Blake and Bush taking an active part in the Cubs’ prepara- tions for the forth- coming world se- ries with the Ath- letics.. You don't § hear much of those other three pitch- ers, any more. In my career as manager, I have never asked a play- er to do more than give the best he has. If the best he has isn't sufficient for requirements, then he is merely set down as a mis- take on my part. With this in mind, I am reminded of a qufisflon a newspaper man asked me not long ago. “What sort of material did you have when you took charge of the Cubs?” And my answer was that you don’t see so many of them around, now. - Two catchers, a first baseman, two pitchers who were then untried individuals, and one outfielder represent practically all of the present Cub pay roll that have survived since the close of the 1925 season, This means that in the four seasons it has taken the club to strike a pennant-winning gait there have been plenty of patches put on the machine’s tires. Here Are the “Leavings.” Hartnett and Gonzales were the Grimm, a really great first baseman and a real field leader; Blake and Bush, both young pitchers, and Heathcote, an outflelder, were the “leavings” around which I had to build & ball club. Two outfielders, Wilson and Stephen- son, came up in my first year, and have demonstrated that the confidence I had Association form HILADELPHIA, October 2 () .— A report from Chicago that Connie Mack would not take the Joe McCarthy. has maintained ever since. The next year, 1927, lounJ English ! joining the club, to become eventually the regular shortstop, and a player con- of a a brilliant one. | f CUB BOSS PROUD OF FLAG WINNER HE HAS BUILT UP Only Six of Players He Inherited on Becoming Manager Four Years Ago Now Are With His | Baggett's Park at 5 Heathcote is the only utility man on the two clubs to have seen any extended service during the playing season. The batting and fielding performances of both clubs’ utility men are about the same and neither club will have any marked superiority in the matter of replacements. With both clubs enter- ing the series in excellent physical trim there is little possibility of the utility men seeing much service. But should they get into the game any one of them can Tender good service to his club. - CELTICS LIST RICHMOND NINE ALEXANDRIA. Va., October 2.—St. Mary's Celtics will play Burke & Co., champions of Richmond, Sunday in the Virginia capital with the diamond championship of the State at stake. The contest will be played on Tate Field at Mayo Island. Burke & Co. has defeated every con= tender for the State title in Southern Virginia, while the locals hold the Northern Virginia championship. A special practice of the local dia- mond outfit will be held Thursday in 'clock. L open its gridiron season at Edward Duncan Field in Potomac Sunday. Definite arrange- ments for a game have not been made, National League Championship Team. to provide the rest that we needed. As it turned out, the Cubs lost the services of Carlson for almost an en-, tire season and Cuyler’s injury, before the season began, kept him from realiz- ing his full value until the closing ! months. However, those are things to be expected in base ball and are not being advanced as an alibi. Hornsby Provided Punch. ‘When the race was decided last year I decided that the Cubs could stand more of the old wallop, enough of it that the ordinary, or even an extraordi- nary, run of bad breaks would not affect it greatly. Such a player is Rogers Hornsby. Once he had joined the club, I felt that we would be able to sweep through the schedule, regardless of breaks, and I have not been disap- pointed. Hornsby is a ball player after my own heart. He is what I call a “down the line” ball player. When the criti- cal stretches come, he is at his best. He is a driving, hustling player, and an_asset to any ball club. Hornsby added the punch that was lacking last year. He served to make us forget our troubles, and I don’t think any one can say, honestly, that the Cubs have had all the luck in the world, this seascn. To begin with, we have been deprived of the services for the whole season of Hartnett, one of the greatest catchers in the game, and a spirited, hustling player. Then, too, at one time or an- other, we have lost the services of Wil- son and Stephenson, and in the weeks when the race should be at its hottest, of Grimm, the captain of the ball club. Those breaks seem sufficient to wreck the best laid plans of any manager, but the Cubs have battered their way through all this misfortune, Not a little of the battering has been done by re- serves, of which I expect to have some- thing to say in another story. The continued absence of Hartnett from the game presented a catching problem that was comparable with that of two years ago, when I spent most of the season trying to find some one to play third base approximately as it should be played. It wasn't until midseason that we were fortunate enough to land Taylor to do the catching, and he more than filled the requirements. Four Regulars From the A. A. It is a source of considerable satis- faction to me that four of the regulars, exclusive of battery men, have come to the Cubs from my old league, the Amer- jcan_Association, these being Wilson, Stephenson, English and McMillan, in whom we finally found a third baseman after four years’ search. And any man- r likes to get efficient work out of players that have been discarded by v rivals. That's one Teason why the Cuyler deal, one of the two most important I have made, always gives me something of a chuckle. It might be recalled that when I traded Adams and Scott to the Pirates for Cuyler not a few critics decided that the Pirates in getting a second baseman such as Al was were being pre- sented with the pennant. I was satis- fied with the deal for Cuyler, and still feel that way. (Copyright, 1929 but Manager Guy Camden is negotiat- ing with the manager of the Warwick | A."C. of Washington. Virginia A. C. gridders will work out tenight at 7 o'clock at King and Lee ll'(‘eLivv Manager Pat Gorman is en- deavoring to list an unlimited team for a game here Sunday’ on Shipyard Field at 3 o'clock. His phone is Alex- andria 1819. St. Mary's Celties’ workout in Bag- gett's Park tonight has been called off. Virginia Midgets want a game for Sunday at 1 o'clock op Shipyard Field. Phone Alexandria 1819. Cobb, Back From Europe, Picks A’s to Win Series NEW YORK, October 2 (#).— Back from Europe, where he spent his first vacation in a quarter cen- tury, Tyrus Raymond Cobb im- mediately jumped into world series discussion with a prediction that the Athletics would beat the Cubs. Superior pitching and the experience contained in Connie Mack's head will win the series for the A's, the erstwhile “Georgia Peach” believes. “The "Cubs have no one to stop Foxx, Simmons and Miller,” said Cobb. “If Chicago doesn't like speed, as I understand they don't, Grove can be called upon at any time in a short series, BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. None scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. =lell| Philadelphia. ||S] New York. Philadelphia_|. New York . Sleyéland Shicago Soston Tost 1 4[5/ 9/111 8] 8/11/—] 56196/.368 64168/72179/8192 961 GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash., at Phila. (2). Detroit at Chicago. Cleveland at St. Louis. National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. None scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Philadelphia. Pittsburgh. New York. St. Louls. Brooklyn. Cincinnatl. New York St. Louis . EAGLES SEEK BALL GAME. Anacostia hi‘:e are not yet ready to quit playing ball and are after a game for Sunday with an unlimited team, especially Georgetown A. C. or St. Joseph's. Call ;‘(ilnfit | Cincinnati Bo Philadelphia . Brookiyn 8. 91 8/_51 9| 8/—I541971.358 166174/81181/84197/—1—1 —— GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Brookl; t N. Y. B bl BRSPS