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Features and Classified Loy | @he Foening Bfar. MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929. PAGE 41 WASHINGTON, D. C, Cub Hopes Hang by Slender Thread: Mackmen’s Play Superior in Every Way COMEBACKS OF PENNANT MACKIAN DEFENSE | JOHNSON AND GRIFFITH CAMPAIGN BUOY CHICAGO IS SER'ES FE MURE SHOW’_WELL AS PICKERS McCarthy Has Precedents in 1903 Red Sox and . Pitching, Fielding and Batting of Philadelphia Club Play for Right-Field Hits of Far Above Chicago for First Four 1925 Pirates for Task He Hopes to Accomplish in Winning Series. Bruin Batsmen Has Games of World Series. Been Brilliant. CLOUTERS OF PRESENT AND PAST TALKING IT OVER. BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HILADELPHIA, October 14.—Whatever the outcome of this battle between the Athletics and Cubs for base ball's premier laurels may be, the first four games of the series certainly have made Clark Griffith, president of the Nationals, and Walter Johnson, their manager, look very good as pickers of winners. Nearly all pre- dictions this pair of the game's veterans made before the world series started have been fulfilled. Griffith picked the A’s to win mainly because he helieved the American League superior to the National League and could not see how the American League champions could be licked by the cham- pions of a weaker circuit. Johnson picked the A’s because he thought them the better all-around club, superior to the Cubs, especially in the BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor of The Star. HILADELPHIA, Pa., October 14.—Faced with the necessity of winning three straight games to gain the base ball champion- ship of the world and save the National League the imnominy of defeat for the third successive year, Chicago’s Cubs today ! inned their waning hopes on the slender and sallow Guy Bush, who | ast Friday hurled them to their lone victory, of Pat Malone or Hal Carlson in the series which found the Athletics in possession of a trio of verdicts as the teams prepared to take the field for the fifth battlc Still reeling under the shock of Saturday's sensational reverse. | mite when the Mackmen, eight runs in arrears, cracked a flock of records| | single stansa, . Why give high-blood h H i & ! i ] e to thousands of fans who in staging a seventh-inning rally that petted them ten tallies, the . i y I casdre horiis met Yruins had only the knowledge of marly comebacks against odds S | Fmt‘ba‘l’f":mf:g A AN BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umbpire. HILADELPHIA, October 14.—If | the unfinished part of the 1929 | world series is destined to un- | fold events that surpass that stupendous seventh inning, it would be well to distribute them more equally throughout the entire game |instead of packing them all into ome during successful pennant campal fact. that at least twice in the 25- tumnal classics a:club in as serious through to triumph. That Chicago's cause is not abso- lutely hopeless, though hanging by an exceedingly slender thread, Washington fans can well attest from the outcome of the 1925 event, when the Nationals, after losing but one of the first four tilts, dropped the next three in a row, | and with them the world title to the Pittsburgh Pirates. | Red Sox Did It in 1903. And harking back even farther—to the nine-game series of 1903—the Bos- ton Red Sox finished with four con- secutive triumphs following defeat in three of the first four at the hands of the Buccaneers. Another effort approximating that which Bush flashed last week when he gained a 3-1 verdict over George Earn- shaw, although outbatted by a 9-to-6 margin, would make possible a return to Chicago for resumption of the sct on Wednesday, but what happened to his teammate, Charley Root, on the occasion of his second start made this | seem improbable. ) 1t will be recalled that Root, on his | 1nitial appearance in the opener, yielded | only three hits before giving way to a | pinch hitter after seven rounds, al though one of these was a homer by | Jimmy Foxx, which proved a vital factor in the victory of the A's, yet on the occasion of his second start Satur- day was equally effective for six frames, only to be thumped off the mound un- der a barrage of half a dozen safeties in that record rally staged by the A's. Earnshaw, already credited with one victory, in the second game, although he needed the help of Lefty Grove, and nosed out by Bush in his second start due solely to faulty support, would ap- pear to have an even chance against the latter should he face him this | afternocn, Fans Hope to See Grove. | But if Howard Ehmke, the hero of the opening combat, when he established a world record of 13 strikeouts, is removed from consideration,.as reported, because of a sore arm, the flinger the fans oped to see start today was Robert Moses Grove, the lanky southpaw, whose rescue work on two occasions ranks among the high lights of the series. Seeing service for the first time in round five of the second game, Grove snuffed a rally that had netted five hits and three runs for the Cubs by whiffing Pinch Hitter Hartnett and similarity victimizing five more of the Bruins over the remainder cf the route while allowing only three scattered hits, while on Saturday, summoned to pro- tect the A's two-run lead he struck | out four of the six men to face him in the last two rounds. . MATHEWSON LEADS IN SERIES SHUTOUTS The following table shows shut-outs | in the world series, with the winning pitcher and score. The Boston Red Sox were contenders in 32 contests and were shut out only once. The Phillies are the only team taking part in a | world series to escape the whitewash brush. Mathewson leads with four shutouts, | Miner Brown is next with three, and | Dinneen has two. The Athletics were | kalsomined six times, the White Sox | five, the Tigers four, the Pirates, Giants and Yankees three each. | The shutouts follow: 1903, Dinneen, Boston, 3: Pittsburgh, 0. Dinneen, Boston, 3; Pittsburgh, 0 1904, No series. 1905. Mathewson, New York, 3: Philadelphia, 0. Bender, Philadeiphia, 3; New York, o e Yo, 1 Bailasciohin. 0 MeGinnity. New York. 1: Mathewson, New York, 2; Philadeiphia, 1906. Walsh, White Sox, 8: Cubs, 0. Brown, Cubs, 1; White 8ox, 0. 1907. Brown, Chicago, 2; Detroit. 0. 1908. 3; Detroit, 0. 2; Detroit, 0. 1909. 1lin, Detroit, 8: Pittsburgh, 0. Naaie. Pitsburen, 8: Detrott. 0 1910-'11-"12. No shutouts. 1913, Mathewson, New York, 3; Philadelphia, 0. 1914, James, Boston, 1: Philadelphis. 0. 1915-'16 No._ shutouts. Brown, Chie Overall, Chig COCHRANE HAS CHANCE T0 BREAK TWO RECORDS | PHILADELPHIA, Octob'r 14 (#)— Gordon Cochrane may break two world sories records today. The putouts of the Athletics’ catcher total 49 after four games and his total chances ac- cepted, 50. The records for putouts by a catcher in’'a world series is 51 established by Muddy Ruel, Washington, in 1924 when the series was extended to seven games. Ruel had five assists in the same series to make a record of 56 chances ac- cepted. Cochrane has had only one assist in the 1929 series. WEEKDAY LEAGUE FEED | IS SET FOR OCTOBER 22 Tuesday evening, October 22, has been | | off Quinn was to left field. The Phila- | base ball championsh’p. In the course gns, to buoy them—that and the year. period covered by those au- a predicament as theirs has pulled | CLOUTING OF CUBS ISVAINLY TORIGHT Only 10 of Bruins’ 35 Hits Have Gone Into Left, Figures Show. | | BY WALTER TRUMBULL. PHILADELPHIA, October 14—“Chi- cago has the greatest.bunch of right- fleld hitters I ever saw,” said Wilbert Robinson on his way to the world se- ries. “These Cubs hit to right until they drive you crazy.” It looks as if Robby knew his stuff. | out of the 35 hits made by the Cubs| only 10 have been to left field, and | Grimm, a natural left-field hitter, has | made 3 of the 10. Mireover, most of the long fouls that the Cubs have been hitting have gone into the right-field stands. Quinn suits the Chicago style of bat- ting, because h's spitter breaks out. Not one of the seven hits Chicago made delphia pitchers have been taking ad- vantage of the liking of the Cubs for outside balls. Several times Hornsby has fanned on curve balls which broke over the outside corner, and his team- mates have been fooled by similar | pitches. | Long Hits Play Part. Long hits have played their part in the games to date. The Mackmen have made 42 hits to 35 for Chicago, but| they also have hit for a total of 60 bases to 46" total basés for the Cubs. Five home runs to one have helped to tell the story. Hornsby and Cuyler have been the strikeout champions, fanning seven times each, while Cochrane has drawn the most bases on balls—six. The .500 hitters are Wilson, Cochrane and Dykes and the .400 hitters are Foxx and Grimm. Grove has struck out 10 of the 22 men who have faced him. The Athletics certainly got the breaks in Saturday's game. When they gave a team which had won the National League flag an eight-run lead, with only 2% innings left to go, they had to get the breaks to finish in front. ‘Winner Gets Breaks. 1t looked as if they needed the breaks and a couple of miracles. That is all right. Breaks always help to decide a of a season, or two seasons, breaks even up, but in a short series the winner gefs them. Mr. Wrigley, naturally, is a bit an- noyed over the result of the Athletics- Cub tilt of Saturday and probably would like the commission to sanction the an- choring of a Zeppelin between the sun and his center fielder, but he probably is no more upset over the week end re- sults than some of the foot ball coaches. PLAYERS' POOL SMALL. ROCHESTER, N. Y., October 14 (/) —Players in the “little world series” | will split nearly $60,000, according to figures announced here. The victorious Kansas City Blues will receive $35651 Jimmy Foxx, on left, getting some pointers from Frank Baker, Both hail from the Ezstern a world series hero for the Athletics. “heme-run ho' of king” of other days and who also was Zaryland. Al Sivmmons Had Pre-Series Hunch A’s Would Winin 5 Tilts BY AL SIMMONS, Philadelphia Athletics' Outfielder. HILADELPHIA, October 14— When the world series started I had some sort of a hunch that the Athletics would win the title in five games. That happened in 1910, when the A's and Cubs met then. 1 don’t know why I felt that way. I had no real idea that one of our pitchers would go down. And if I had been guessing I would not have picked Earnshaw to be the loser in a duel with Bush. But something seemed to tell me that the law of averages would lose us one ball game, and only one. Therefore, I am going into the fifth game of the series this afternoon confident that when it is ended we will be the base ball champions of the world. The fellows on my club spent & very pleasant Synday, our day of rest, think- ing over the many incidents of that Lig seventh inning Saturday. All the thrills that came to me while we were making those 10 runs were experienced over and over as my thoughts traveled back to the game. * “All Over for Cubs.” I know that it made me feel our club had it all over the Cubs. I think we will start right off hitting this afternoon where we left off Saturday. It wili make no difference which one of his pitchers McCarthy sends against us. We clubbed all his stars except | Bush Saturday. And if Bush is the man today we'll hit him. For we are in our stride. My confidence is as solid as steel now. I had not expressed it before, but I feel that it may not now be classed as overconfidencc—not after what hap- and the defeated Rochester Red Wings, $23,567. Year. Winner. 1903—Boston (American). . 1904—No series played 1905—New York (National). 1906—Chicago (American) . 1907—Chicago (National) 1908—Chicago (National) 1909—Pittsburgh (National) . 1910—Philadelphia (American) 1911—Philadelphia (American) 2—Boston (American). .. 1913—Philadelphia (American) 1914—Boston (National). 1915—Boston (American) Boston (American) Chicago (American). 1918—Boston (American) 1919—Cincinnati (National) . 1920—Cleveland (American) 1921—New York (National). 1922—New York (National). 1923—New York (American) 1924—Washington (American) 1925—Pittsburgh (National) . 1926—St. Louis (National) | 1927—New York (American) | 1928—New York (American) *One tie game, American League National League. Results of Early P Games. Competing teams. 3 Loser. : . Pittsburgh (National)..... veen pened yesterday. The Cubs probably did not put in World Series Results, 1903-28 Result of Series. 5—3 Philadelphia (American) Chicago (Nationaly.. Detroit (American) Detroit (American) Detroit (American) Chicago (National) New- York (National) New York (Natonal) New York (National) Philadelphia (American) Philadelphia (National)...... Brooklyn (Natlonal). New York (National) Chicago (National) Chicago (American). Brooklyn (National). New York (American). New York (American). New Yorx (National) ..New York (National) ‘Washingion (American).. New York (American). Pittsburgh (National). .. 8t. Louis (National). Series. w. L. 10 15 10 ost-Season Games Result of ‘Winner, Series. etropolitan . such a comfortable Suhday as we did. I judge they must have done quite a lot of worrying about the happenings in | that fourth game. Consequently they will not have the same mental attitude they would have | enjoyed had they held that 8-0 lead and evened the series by winning the game Saturday. I have been in the same kind of boat in which the National Leaguers were sitting all this day, and I know how it feels. I don't want to boast, but I do think that by winning three games of the four played in such decisive manner we | have proved to the world that our club | is the best in the majors this year. We | have both the punch and the pitching. | Earnshaw May Twirl. | T have no idea who will pitch today game. I guess it will be either Earn shaw or Grove for our team. I imagine that either Blake or Bush will start for the Cubs. However, in a situation such s exists now a’ manager may change his mind at the last minute. Probably both managers will go to the ball park to talk it over with sev- eral pitchers who may be in line to step on the mound. It may happen that they will decide which one will start after watching the warming up of two or three. And I also presume that, no matter which pitcher starts, there will be much activity in both bull pens right from the first gun. Today's game is awfully important to both teams. If we win, the series is over; if the Cubs win, they will figure they may come through in the two games in Chiczgo. I assure you that I am thinking of the money that hangs to the champion- ship. It means at least $1,500 more to me if the A's win and end the series, as ] figure we should. ‘Will 1 fight to get that extra cash? Will a fish swim? (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) CHAMPION PLAYERS T0 GET $6,000 EACH By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 11.—Offi- clal figures for world series attendance | and receipts show that 160,569 fans | paid $718,679 to sce the first four games, the ones in which the players will par- ticipate. Althcugh the players were shocked to learn that only 29,921 persons had attended each of the Philadelphia games in a park reputed to hold 40,000 in a pinch, the pool for the athletes is only a bit short of the record pot of $419,736.60 divided by first division men last year. The Athletics, first _division players $388.086.66. Of the money in the players’ pool the Athletics and the Cubs will divide 70 per cent, or $271,660.66, on a 69-40 basis. If the players on the contending teams divide Their money into 27 shares, each winning player, will receive $6,003.69 | and the losers $4,000 apiece. ALL OF CONNIE’S SERIES HAVE ENDED IN A HURRY PHILADELPHIA, October 14 (A).— Connie Mack has won two of his three world championships in five games. In 1910, four games to one, and in 1913 by the ‘same margin. In 1911 he won four to two. . In his defeats—in 1905 and 1914— Mack lost four to one and four to nothing, so he never has been in a seventh geme of a world series. the Cubs and other will split up BOWIE NINE TOO GOOD CUYLER IS HOPEFUL STILL OF VICTORY Points to Cubs’ Offensive Strength to Turn Tide of Series Battle. BY HAZEN (“KIKI") CUYLER, Chicago Cubs' Outflelder. HILADELPHIA, October 14— This world serles isn’t over vet. Connie Mack's team has to win another ball game before get- ting the world's base ball championship. I know it's easier to win one in a row than three in & row. Our Cubs have to win three straight to get the title. It's a tough assignment, true enough, and it makes me recail the world series of 1925 between Pittsburgh and Washington. I was with the Pitts- burgh club at that time. Washington won the first game. Pittsburgh won the second, end then Washington won the next two, gaining a three-to-one lead on us. But in that crisis the Pittsburgh club went out and won three games m a row to gain the world’s championship. So it has been done before, and it can be_done again. I have been told about a series once between the Cubs and the White Sox for the city championship. The Cubs won the first three games and the White four. There was & case of winning four in a row. Better on Defense. One good reason wh, it might be done on this occasion is that we are not out- classed. There is good reason to_ be- lieve that the Cubs have greater offen- sive strength than the Mackmen. That may sound odd after what happened Saturday, when they made 10 hits and drove in 10 runs in the seventh inning. But we know that never in history has a team had so many lucky breaks piled up in one inning as the Macks had in that seventh inning. They never should have scored more than three runs. A half dozen good breaks had to come to them all at once in order to get any more than three 1uns, and they got a half dozen of them. It was actually uncanny. Such a thing couldn't happen again in 50 years. When a team wins one like that I can't see where it deserves any great credit. We went out and earned eight runs by superior playing. They got 10 runs by about four freak hits and with the help of the sun shining in the out- fielders’ eyes. So, believing we are stronger and can beat ' the Athletics, we are going into this fifth game 'still hopeful. If strength alone decides things, from now on, and luck and the sun wiil keep out of it, there is reason to believe we can win three straight. (Copyright, 1920, by North American News- paper Alllance.) DE BEVES AND GARCIA T0 FIGHT WEDNESDAY Arthur DeBeves and Bob Garcia will have it out in a 10-round bout that will feature a boxing card Wednesday night in the National Guard Armory at Silver Spring, Md. D>Beves is the former lightweight chnmE}enn of France, having lost the title to Leon Poutet in 20 rounds at Marseilles. He broke his hand in the third round and lasted the remainder of the time through his cleverness and courage. He has won nine straight fights since coming to this country, his latest being over Billie Harris in the rocent show at Silver Sox rallied and won the next| corner to take full command of the Autumnal stage, seemed to hold its breath for the moment. The glittering diamond, soon to hibernate for the Winter, flung this challenge to the gal- lant gridiron: “Hey, big boy, get busy with your end runs and last-minute finishes to see if you can furnish the folks with something to equal that out- standing offensive I put over last Sat- urday.” Base Ball Was Ever Thus. | ‘The cobwebs of time seldom obscure | great deeds, and vivid memories of that | spectacle should last at least a quarter of a century. Of course, the mistakes of one ball club are likely to inspire and make a rival team famous. Base ball was ever thus. Just the same, those who make a livelihood at base ball are sorry for Hack Wilson. A schoolboy could have caught the ball Haas hit to center if the sun had not interfered. So Hack was not entirely to blame. If you wish to become more intimate with Wilson's two luckless chances, take a squint into the merciless October sun one of these afternoons at about 3 p.m. when Old Sol has the sky to himself. | At this time the sun hangs low in the heavens and outfield files hide in its myriad beams. ‘While I shall not attempt to enumer- ate the odd incidents of that game, it may be interesting to call your atten- tion to one incredible phase of the club’s offensive. Of the 10 hits made by the Chicago crew only one of them went to the dead left field side of the park. That was Cuyler's blow past Dykes. The Athletics have profited hand- somely by setting up an _accurately placed defense against the Cubs’ right- fleld hitting scheme. It is also possible that this series may end without a | stolen base being recorded. Cuyler, the | most accomplished purloiner of both | teams, has been held to first base by | the conditions of the game rather than | by choice. L Grove Tops Them All Lefty Grove looks like the all-moun- tain man of the mounders. It is im- | probable that he will get his chance to start a game, because his finishing qualities have made him the thost feared of any pitcher who has stej on the rubber, with the exception of Ehmke. Connle Mack has the upper hand in pitching strength, with Ehmke and Grove dwarfing the Cubs' remaining hopes. Mack has gambled wisely with his curvers. He has not been interested in what Grove might have achieved as a starter, but holds him as a mighty threat for a latter-inning relief man. Joe McCarthy's pitching staff appears impoverished. ~ To pick a winning pitcher for the next game he must almost achieve the miracle of making | sugar out of sand. He may elect Bush | to keep the house from caving in, al- | though he has had only a two-day rest; or he may have the hunch to start Ma- lone and hold Bush for the titanic task | of relief in case Malone fails to keep | the ball out of those deadly grooves. | (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) KANSAS CITY TAKES MINOR SERIES TITLE. By the Associated Press, ROCHESTER, N. Y. October 14— ‘The star of the American Association | still remains on the ascendant where | | the annual battles for the class AA ! | | champlonship of base ball are con- cerned. For the third successive year {the champion of the Western entry in the little world series has captured the title from the International League champion to give the association six | victories in the 10 years the series has | been played. Rochester, champion for the second year of the International circuit, put up a great struggle, but lost the final game and the series yesterday, 6 to 5, in 11 innings. The victory gave Kansas City the minor league title by five | games to four. A year ago Indianapolis defeated Rochester, 5 to 1, in the post-season series. Toledo defeated Buffalo by the same margin in 1927. In yesterday's game Riconda, Kansas City third baseman, accused Carleton, Rochester pitcher, of “dusting off" batsmen and a fist fight resulted. A near-riot at the end came as a result of Toporcer’s protest of a called strike in the ninth. He was ordered from the game and Rochester fans offered vio- lent protests. The receipts for the nine games totaled $130,308, of which $35,651 goes to the Kansas City players and $23,567 to Rochester players. The two leagues will divide $12,860 and the club man- agement will split $54,528. winning and losing players’ shares, sincs Largest Attend- Single Games. ance. Day. 100,429 18,801 91,723 24,992 99,845 23,257 78,068 24,377 63,232 17,760 145,205 30915 27,371 124,222 179,851 38,281 36,502 252,037 151,000 36,896 35,520 111,000 143,351 42,300 42,620 162,859 186,654 33,969 Year. 1903 1905. He fights {n Cincinnati Saturday night Faguin s "youthtl | Ughtweights, 10 Financial Returns of 25 Series The following table shows the financial end of the big series, with the 128,483 236,928 178,737 27,054 34,379 21,525 179,619 722,414 564,800 infield, and in possession of the bet ANCIENT RINGMEN CLAIM SPOTLIGHT McTigue and Britton Figure in Headline Shows on This Week’s Card. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 14.—Two of the most ancient of the vet- erans of the boxing business bring forth their aged limbs and crafty fists to enter:aia ring fans this week. Among the younger generation of battlers who hold the spotlight most of the time, Mike Mc- Tigue and Jack Britton stand out by virtue of their age and long ring ex- perience. These two warriors have engaged in a total of more than 450 battles in the course of a pair of long careers and ate still at it, getting their share of vic- torfes. McTigue, holder of the light heavy- weight title from 1923 to 1925, engages Juck Gagnon, Boston heavyweight, in one-half of the double feature at the Boston Garden Friday night. .In the other leading 10-rounder on the pro- gram another ring ancient, Myer (K. 0.) Christner of Akron mecets Ernie Schaaf of Boston. Britton Still Winner. Britton has gone back a long way from the heights of the welterweight titie he once held, but his skill still car- ries pim to victories in most of his bat- tles. It was not until a few wceks ago that he suffered his first real knockout. opponent, Elmer Bezenah. - The youngsters who draw the atten- tion away from these veterans on this week's national card are Tony Canzoneri, a recent unsuccessful contender for Sammy Mandell's light- weight title, Harry Ebbets, slugging Freeport, N. Y., middleweight; Lope Te- nario and King Tut among the welters and Ignacioc Fernandez in the light- weight ranks. Canzoneri tops the Madison Square Garden program in New York with a battle against Jchnny Farr of Cleve- land Friday. Ebbets meets Babe Mc- Gorgary of Oklahoma at the St. Nich- olws Arena, New York, tonight to open the week’s fistic program. King Tut, the Minneapolis battler, and Tenario ngage in the main bout at the Chicago Stadium Wednesday and Ferandez tackles Tommy Fielding of Vancouver, substituting for Eddie Mack of Denver, at Los Angeles Tuesday. Some Other Bouts. Other bouts on the Week’s program include: Monday, at Philadelphia—Matt Adgie (Philadelphia), vs. Joe Gans (Allentown). Roy Clarke (Philadelphia) vs. Knute Hansen (Denmark), illy Jones (Philadeiphia) vs. Charley Belanger (Canada) and Jimmy Slat- tery (Buffalo) vs. Maxie nbloom (New York). alf heavyweights, 10 rounds. ‘Wednesday. at Chicago—My Sullivan (St. Paul) vs. Pete Myers (8an Francisco). mid- dleweights: Babe Hunt (Oklahoma City) vs. 1 Friedman (Boston), heavyweights, both 10 rounds At _Oakland, Calif—Red Uhlan (Oakland) s. Wilson Yarbo (Cleveland), middleweights, Thu-sday, at Cleveland—Armando Scheckles (Belgium) 'vs. Joey Goodman (Cleveland), Friday, at New York, Madison Square Garden—Add Warren (North Carolina) vi George Hoffman (New York), heavyweights. lo rounds; Nick Testo (Troy. M. ¥.) v T . middleweights. San Diego—Speedy’ Dado (Philippine: Tommy Hughes (Cleveland), bantamweights, 10 rounds. HOLLYWO0OD SCORES ITS FIRST PENNANT VICTORY LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 14.— Scoring five Tuns in an eighth-inning rally, Hollywood defeated the Missions, 8 to 3, yesterday at Wrigley Fiel taking the play-off seres, four gam: to two and winning their firsy Pacific | Coast League pennant. The Stars drove Bert Cole from the | mound with their five-hit rally and took advantage of two Missions’ errors to tally the five runs. | Frank Shellenback hurled good ball for the Stars. All Mission runs were the result of homers by Finn and Slade. Shellback hit a homer in the fifth for the first run of the game, an Heath | also made a homer for the home team. = e 1903: Winnin Losing Players' Share. Pirates . Athletics .. bs . Cubs ...... ‘White Sor.. Robins .. ter pitching talent. These picks were not made by Griffith and Johnson merely be- cause they are American Leaguers and felt duty bound to name the Athletics as likely victors in the annual classic. It wasn't Ameri- can League partisanship that in- fluenced the selections. Instead they cast their lot with the A's after careful analysis of the clubs that were to vie for the greatest prize in the game. Athletics Superior. It s a matter of history now how the Athletics covered the Cubs like a blanket in the first four games. The American League champions outclassed the National League flag winners in all departments of play. They outbatted the Cubs, .300 to .250, and outfielded them, 972 to .959. And the A's out- smarted and outgamed the Cubs, too. In every way the Clan McGillicuddy looked the better. Befor~ the series Griffith, when an- alvzing ihs make-up of the clubs that were to be rivals for base ball's biggest plum, contended that the Athletics were the better in pitching strength, at bat, on the bases, and fully as strong as the Cubs defensively. Well, the A’s pitchers have yielded less hits than their mound rivals, struck out more batters, and issued just the same num- ber of passes. The Mack forces have revealed decided superiority at bat. ‘They have been better as a first-base- to-third-on-singles aggregation than the Chicagoans, and their play afield has been far the steadiest. A’s Pitching Stronger. In this pre-series analysis of the Cubs Johnson found the A's pitching the better, saw them as the longer hit- ters, held them strong enough afield to check attack, and expected certain members of the Mackian band to per- form surprisingly well. Walter picked Ehmke and Grove to startle the “base ball public with their mound perform- ances, Foxx to do a deal cf long hitting, and Bishop to play a bang-up game around the middle sack. ‘The first four games have made John- son a fine prognosticator. ke went to the hill for the opening game and did the best hurling seen in the series thus far. He not only bowled over the Cubs with eight hits and one run (which was not earned), but he also established a record for world series when he retired 13 batters on strikes. “Grove has a fast ball that baffiles right-handers as well as left-handers, and I understand the Cubs do not like fast-ball pitching so well,” said Walter. Grove has been in six and one-third innings as a relier hurler, allowed three hits and struck out 10. Foxx has batted [for .412. Of his seven hits two have been homers and one a double. Bishop has handled 19 chances, many of them wuv;s, without a slip around the middle sack, | American Fastest Group. ‘That the American Lesgue is some- what faster than the National League, the main point in Griffith's pre-series analysis of the contending clubs in the classic, is believed now by many who for years had stanchly supported the senior major organization. The Na- tional League lost much prestige when its champions for two successive years were defeated in four-game world series by the Yankees. It has lost more in the current series. One victory in the last dozen engagements in world series makes the older loop appear much the weaker. |, Unless the Cubs undergo a startling | form reversal, such as the Pirates did | in 1925 when they turned on the Wash- ington Club and won three in a row to cop the laurels, the National League is in for another beating. But the Cubs of this year do not seem anywhere near as good as the Pirates of 1925, so any remarkable form reversal on their part is not likely. They might force a re- turn of the series to Wrigley Field in Chicago, but even in that event their chance of success in the big event would be spindly. SUMMARY OF CONTESTS IM BIG SERIES TO DATE The summary of the four games played thus fer, with runs, hits and batteries, follo FIRST GAME. Athletics Cubs ... Batteries—Ehmke and Cochrane; Root, Bush and Taylor, Gonzales. SECOND GAME. R.H.E. 033001209 120 0000300003 11 1 Batteries—Earnshaw. Grove and Cochrane; Malone, Blake, Carlson, Nefh and Taylor. Athletics Cubs THIRD GAME. R.H.F 000003000-3 6 000010000—~1 91 Earn- Cubs ... Athletics.. Batteries—Bush and Taylor; shaw and Cochrane. FOURTH GAME. . H.E. Cubs .... 000205 100—8102 Athletics . 000000 10 0 x—10 15 2 Batteries—Root, Nefh, Blake, Malone, Carison and Taylor; Quinn, Walberg, Rommel, Grove and Cochrane. SCHEDULE OF GAMES. Today, at Philadelphia. Wednesday, October 16, at Chicago. Thursday, October 17, at Chicago. HORNSBY AND CUYLER NEAR STRIKEOUT MARK PHILADELPHIA, October 14 (#).— New York. Tie . Boston .New York. .Cleveland . . Baltimore .... «Baltimore .. Spring. Several other bouts of more than usual interest are scheduled as_prelim- inaries to the DeBeves-Garcia bout. o COLLEGE PARKS SCORE. College Park A. C. diamonders drub- bed Virginia White Sox, 12 to 2, yes- terday at Baileys Cross Roads, Va. The vulwrdu ined an eight-run lead in the secon Yankees ‘Yankees Giants Giants . Senators .. Yankees Pirat st for the first annual banquet of the | ‘Weekday Basz Ball League's champion- ship series, The affair will take place at the| National Press Building auditorium, | starting at 6:30 o'clock. New York-Brooklyn Brooklyn-Loulsville Boston-Cleveland New York-Baltimore. . Cleveland-Baltimore Baltimore-Cleveland Baltimore-Boston ... 269,976 185,947 301,430 283,695 283,830 328,051 36,508 38,551 62,817 49,243 43,810 63,600 900,233 £606,475 1,063,815 1,093,104 1,182,854 1,207,864 201,105 60,695 783,217 " TR 199,072 61,425 711,290 5,813 Cardinals .. *First game tie, 3—3, 12 innings. {Second game tie, 6—86, 11 innings. 1Second game tie, 3—3, 10 innings. §8120,654, the receipts of the second game, was given to charity. Rogers Hornsby and Hazen Cuyler have opportunities to set an unenviable world series record, that of striking out ; more than any other player. The Rajah £ and Kiki have swung ineffectually at | third strikes, or have had them called, * seven times in four games. ‘The record for a series is held by & George Kelly, who fanned 10 times while playing for the New York Giants in the 1921 series, participating, how- ' ever, in eight games. o FOR TAKOMAS, 14 TO 6 Hitting hard behind the effective pitching of Lefty Jones, Bowie Motor Co. nine yesterday walked away with a 14-4 victory over Takoma ‘Tigers and the Prince Georges and Montgom- ery Countles’ champlonship. Bowle is the Prince Georges champ and the Tigers won the recent Montgomery County title series. Each had won one game in their series prior to yesterday. CHERRYDALE WINS GAME. Cherrydale defeated Ballston, 5 to 4. ves'erday, in a base ball game played €2 the latter's field. AR INNR DB TRR DY AN DD DTN D ! *One tie game. No serles played in 1891 and 1893. . v%pm season. Boston won first half, Cleveland second half. Boston woen play-off. #Temple Cup series. » 3 . gt ey 8 k4