Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 45

he Zoen ® ny Star. WITH SUNDAY MORKING EDITION WA SHINGTON, -D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929, Features and Classified 'PAGE 46 A’s Homers Broke Hearts of Cubs and Put Big Thrills Into a Great Series BRUINS HAD NO LICENSE TO WIN SINGLE CONTEST Compared Unfavorably With Macks in Every De- partment of Game—-First Tilt, Hurled by Ehmke, Most Brilliant of Set. BY JOHN B. KELLER. OW that it is over, this world series of 1929, with the American League representative victor over the National League entry for the third time in successive years, there's but one thing puzzling those who viewed base ball's big classic from start to finish. Athletics? That a club which showed so much heart in battling to victory in its only defeat so meekly is some- | four games should have accepted thing of a mystery. The pitching Guy Bush flashed in the third tilt How did the Cubs manage to score one victory over thev of the series last Friday was not nearly so brilliant as that flashed by | his teammates, Charley Root and other engagements. Pat Malone, over long stretches in Yet Bush, in the Cubs’ lone win, seemed to have the A’s at his mercy, while the better-looking Chicago pitchers were suddenly pounced upon by the Philadelphia batters and qulcklyi pounded into submission. As the series went, the Cubs always the ball lined or bounded to, really had no license to crash the victory column. In no way did they compare favorably with their American League opponents. The A’s had more power at bat, on the hill and in the field and always more poise. Not once during the string of five games did the Ath- letics become panicky. This can’t be said of the Cubs. Too plainly they choked at critical moments. ‘The séries will go down in the history of base ball's annual classic undoubt- . edly as the home-run series. In each of the Athletics’ victories it was a homer that proved the turning point in their favor. It was a four-base crash by Jimmy Foxx that broke the hearts of the Cubs in the_initial contest in Chi- cago last Tuesday. The same batter the next day put the A’s well in front with snother four-base blow. Saturday's startling rally that meant victory for the Mackian brigade was started with Al Simmons’ homer, and during its progress another homer by Mule Haas completely shattered the Cubs’ already frayed nerves. And yesterday it was another home run by Haas that utterly ruined a remarkably pitched ball game for Malcne. Mackmen Ever Game. It was their persistency in attack as much as anything else that got the A's the world series. Their offensive worked ‘well from the start in only one of the games—the second, in Chicago. In the first, on their foes' fleld, the Mackmen had to stay in there fighting until late . In the fray to get the advantage, and in their last two games it seemed only an indomitable will to win kept them going to the finish. They had fight— plenty of it—and this fight told heavily against the Cubs. ‘The Athletics had the pitching, too, to protect themselves well. Only once did this pitching fail to check the en- emy, and then the pitching was not peor. Rather the game was lost through the unaccountable weakness of the club’s attack that cne day. In fact, every pitrhef employed by Connie Mack during the series performed superbly. ‘They had few poor innings, the Mack moundsmen. During the series the A’s proved the harder hitters, the better fielders, the smarter base-runners, showed - finer itching and were stronger behind the at. Even in defeat they did not suffer in comparison with the Cubs. The Chi- cago club had nothing like the power and the speed of its Philadelphia rival, and never did it show the heart the Athletics did. Ehmke Pitched Best Game. For sheer pitching brilliancy the first game was the pick of the series. Then Howard Ehmke, dragged from the moth balls and camphor, startled the base ball world with a remarkable exhibi- tion. Employing a slow, wide-sweeping curve and a change of pace, the wily veteran mowed down the supposedly strong Cub batters with surprising ease. And when he had finished a new world series strikeout record was entered in the books against his name. Thirteen were struck out by Ehmke, just one more than the great Ed Walsh had struck out in a world series engagement 13_years before. Root, too, did much good pitching for the Cubs in this battle, but he could not match the efforts of Ehmke. And the strain of endeavoring to do so proved too great after six innings. Then came the break against him—Foxx's home run—and the Cubs folded up like a book following this hit. With their mound star crushed, their spirit went, and with their spirit the game. Nor could they make much headway against George Earnshaw, who started the second game for the Macks. True, Earnshaw was wild and had to be lifted from the slab, but before he departed the A’s had severely punished Malone, and they continued their attack while Bob Grove, who had relieved Earnshaw, made the Chicago batters appear foolish at the plate. The Cubs really never had a look-in at the game. A’s Listless but Once. ‘Then came the mystery game in Phil- | adelphia. Guy Bush, who had done fairly well after relieving Root in the first Chicago game, 5o far as resuits were _concerned, clearly outpitched Earnshaw, yet Earnshaw yielded but: one earned run in the fray. It was his pass to Bush at the start of an inning and a boot by Third Baseman Jimmy Dykes later in the round that proved the turning point in this engagement, for the Cubs did all their scoring in the inning. Only one poor inning for Earn- shaw, in which he was hooked for three runs, yet he lost. Bush went through with only one run against him in the lone game of the series in which the A’s were quite listless at bat. Rarely during the fray did they seem to put much effort into their swings. The next Saturday the A's showed how much heart they possessed. Beaten, 8 to 0, as they went into their seventh batting turn, they suddenly nounced ! upon Root, who had been a puzzle to them previously, and drove him from the box with a slashing attack. The Cubs bore up bravely until three or four Mack runners had crossed the Sa;. Then they played as a beaten team, - although still holding a good lea PiteAgr after pitcher was hurled into the bredvh by the frenzied Manager McCarthy, but none could stem the at- tack until the A's had forged ahead. Then the wily Connie Mack, who had gambled with his second-stringers, sent the master moundsman, Grove, to the hill, and again Grove made the Cubs dizzy trying to see his fast ones. Cop Laurels With Great Finish. 1In the last game the elderly and trail Ehmke essayed to topple the Cubs once more, but was not equal to the task. He faltered after getling two out in the fourth frame, and before Rube Walberg went to his rescue the Cubs had two runs across. Walberg then set out on a sparkling pitching course, but it seemed the left-hander would get no glory, for Malone, well supported, cut down the Athletics in a manner that ‘would have dis) a club less mm the A's. They con- Malone's pitches hard, but some member of the defending team. This continued through eight innings, with “Walberg pitching in clean-cut manner to keep the A’s within striking distance, and Malone foiling the best Connie Mack could send up to the plate. But the A’s would not be denied. As they hud risen in their might in the seventh inning Saturday and slammed their way to victory, they arose again in the ninth inning of yesterday’s game and flattened the hitherto stalwart Ma- lone with an attack equaling in power and intensity ‘anything before seen in a world series. If they had not proved it before in the series, that ninth inning in yester- day's game would have established the Athletics as one of the gamest combi- nations ever to step on a major league diamond. Club of Much- Promise. It’s a game club, a club with power and with the buoyancy and elan of youth Connic. Mack has. It's a club that should go far—even rise to great- ness—and it ought to dominate the American League several more seasons. The world series made the Athletics realize just how good they are more than winning the American League pennant did, and they should be diffi- cult to head off for some time. ON THE-S y DENMAN A American League roost. terday, when, on the very brink of With such relatively young of replacements to gear a machine world championships, of which he In some respects the onslaught with which the Athletics yester- day crowned their veteran leader’s 15-year quest for his sixth Ameri- can League pennant was more sensational than the history-mak- ing scoring spree of the previous contest. It came with a Sudden- ness that sent into transports of enthusiasm the Shibe Park throng of 30,000, which included President and Mrs. Hoover. The spectators had become re- signed to a Cub victory, which would have sent the teams back to Chicago for resumption of play to- morrow, in view of the deadly Fm:hlng effectiveness of Pat Ma- lone, who, in making his second start after incurring an earlieg de- feat, had yielded only two scat- tered singles over an eight-inning stretch. On the other hand, Howard Ehmbke, g¢he hero of the opening combat, in which he had fanned the record-breaking total of 13 Cubs, had been driven from the hill in a fourth- frame attack, which netted the bruins two tallies. It was Hazen Cuyler who launched this offensive, with a lusty double to right center after two of his mates had been retired. Stephenson became a base runner when Ehmke’s con- trol faltered, and the tallies materialized on clean singles by Grimm and Taylor, which fol- lowed. ‘That the latter, who previous.y had been able to make a total of only two hits, could solve Ehmke in such a pinch, convinced Mana- ger Mack a change was necessary and his choice of Rube Walberg proved a wise one, for the left- hander promptly snuffed the rally and limited the Cubs to a pair of safeties over the remainder of the route, while registering half a dozen strikeouts. But it was not enough that ad- ditional Chicago runs be pre- vented. To win the A’s had to do some scoring and the discouraging regularity with which Malone was mowing them down made this seem extremely improbable. For instance, Simmons, who got the first Mackian hit, & single in the second, was doubled up when Foxx lined to Hornsby. Then Miller, who got the sec- ond safety, following an error by Hornsby on Foxx’s easy chance in the fifth, saw this- effort wasted when neither Dvkes nor Bolev could produce, while a pass to Cochrare in the seventh was nullified when Foxx., ‘for the second time, a-i"=4 into 2 dunl killine, Calline on his reserves in 1 Iast- | cause. Connie Mack sent Walter French in to bat for Walberg in the ninth and gloom settled over the stands as he succumbed on strikes. Bishop, however, provided a ray of hope when he slashed a single down the left-field line, and the With the Sports Editor MONG the welter of conclusions engendered by their decisive defeat of the Cubs for the world title is the fact that the Ath- letics effectually have dissipated any question of their game- | ness and that, because of their comparative youth, they must | be reckoned with for ‘several seasons to come as potential rulers of the No team lacking in courage could have taken as high a barrier as they cleared with that record-smashing seventh-inning uprising Saturday nor stage such a stunning last-round rally as that of yes- a 3-t0-2 triumph for their fourth success of the series and the third straight title for the organization they represent. “Mule” Haas and Al Simmons, not to mention the almost juvenile Jimmy Foxx, together with a group of promising kid pitchers as @ nucleus, the 66-year-old pilot, Connie Mack, has only to make a couple stand effort fo save his fonrderine | Above, Bing Miller is shown just as he walloped one of Pat Malone's hooks for a two-bagger that sank the Cubs, and to the right is a shot of Simmons, | who doubled earlier, crossing the plate with the decisive marker on the blow, as Jimmy Dykes, his jubilant teammate, congratulated him. —A. P. Photos. PHILADELPHIA TO FE'}E— ATHLETICS THURSDAY PHILADELPHIA, October 15 (#).— Philadelhians will fete the world champion Athletics Thursday night at an official dinner at the Penn Athletic Club, when the conquerors of the Chi- cago Cubs will be the guests of the city, the Chamber of Commerce and the Sporting Writers’ Association. Plans for the dinner were made in Mayor Mackey's office soon after the final game yesterday by representatives of the organization sponsoring _it. Counsel for the Athletics Base Ball Club said every member of the team would attend. Invitations will be sent to about 1,200. IDE LINES THOMPSON defeat, they pounded their way to performers as Mickey Cochrane, capable of gunning for additional now is the sole possessor of four. crowd was whipped into a frenzy of delight when Haas swung vici- ously at Malone’s first pitch and sent it soaring over the right-field fence for his second home run in two straight games. In a twinkling the A’'s had drawn up to even terms with their rivals after apparently being thoroughly beaten. The game was not yet won, however, and it seemed when Cochrane was easily disposed of that extra innings might be required to reach a deci- sion, but Simmons, like Haas and Foxx, the possessor of two home runs, was yet to be contended with. The Malwaukeean, although not equal to another circuit clout, thumped a drive to right center that was good for two bases, and Foxx, although he twice before had driven into double-plays, was so feared he was intentionally passed. This put the issue squarely up to Miller and the former Griffman met it, after having two strikes called on him, with almost an exact duplicate of Simmons’ wallop to ring down the curtain on base ball’s big show. Briefs on Series By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, October 15.—Well, President Hoover, who is said to have worked up a desire to see a ball game, after listening in on the historic sev- enth inning of last Saturday, came to Philadelphia yesterday to see a hot fin- ish and saw it. ‘The President of the United States almost falled to see an exciting game, for all the exhilaration was packed into that ninth inning. When Haas hit his homer, everybody near the front railings leaned over to see how Mr. Hoover was enjoying it. The Athletics nearly tore the shirt| off Bing Mller as he came running in after touching second base with the hit that won the ball game and the series. | The scene when Haas hit his homer. tying the score, was as exciting and as goley as the seventh inning on Satur- ay. In 1911 the A’s scored seven runs in the seventh inning of a_world series game against the New York Giants. Last Saturday they scored 10 in the seventh. Kiki Cuyler's attempt to steal in the second inning -was a sorry effort. He did not wait long enough for Ehmke to wind up and was caught between the bases. Later, McMillan stole the only base of the series in the eighth. ‘The frreducible minimum of batters faced Malone in the first four innings— 12. That was some tight pitching. It took only three pitched balls to dispose of the Cubs in the seventh Two batters flied to the outfield and the third fouled to Cochrane. R¥membering the seventh inning of Saturday, the crowd stamped feet and n'l;det all manner of noise, but to no effect. HERE IS HOW THE A’S WON WITH THAT THRILLING NINTH-ROUND RA ] MACK REAL SERIES HERO WITH HACK WILSON GOAT Laurels Go to Many Athletics and to Pitcher Bu¢h of Cubs as Star of Losing Team. Grove’s Work 'Is Great. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. 1929 worid series seemed today as difficult as it was trying to PH!LADELPHIA, October 15.—The task of picking the hero of the guess Connie Mack’s starting pitchers. There was one heroic figure after another down through the line-up of the triumphant Philadelphia Athletics. The three, perhaps, that stood out most conspicuously, after an analysis of the five games, were Jimmy Foxx, young first sacker, his bat mighty in three of the four victories; George (Mule) Haas, whose freak home run was a crucial blow in the historic “lucky seventh” of the fourth game and his second, man-sized homer the tying factor in the final contest, and Robert Moses (Lefty) Grove, whose southpaw speed saved two games and was ready for a third, only to have the dis- tinction go to George (Rube) Walberg, another port-sider. There was, also, the chunky figure of | Jimmy Dykes, with the highest batting mark of any of his teammates; Mickey Cochrane, who caught every game with marvelous skill; Al Simmons, the great leftflelder, potent in both critical ral- lies of the last two games, and last, but not least, Edmund (Bing) Miller, vet- eran_rightfielder, who knocked in the deciding runs in ‘the first game and the winning run with a $50,000 blow in the last. 3 Mack Probably Real Hero. Grove unquestionably would have been the outstanding hero had he been delegated to relieve Howard Ehmke in the last game and succeeded as Walberg did. Ehmke's first game herolcs were not repeated, or he might also have been the main bidder for the laurel wreath. Perhaps, after all, Connie Mack was the real hero, for it was mostly for him that all these agile “boys,” as he calls them, were outdoing themselves. The hero of the Cubs, from a pitching angle, was Guy Bush, the only winner and therefore the only candidate for the honor. Otherwise their greatest figure was pudgy Hack Wilson, mightiest of a Cub clouting array that otherwise failed to live up to its reputation. Wil- son led both teams at bat with .471. Yet Hack also was a “goat,” for it was his dismal performance in losing fly balls in the sun Saturday that contrib- uted largely to the A’s startling come- back. Charley Grimm, clever first base- man, played brilliantly throughout the series and also hit_hard. The batting “bust” was Rogers Hornsby, the seven- time rajah of the National League hit- ters, who struck out eight times to lead the list of Cub strikeout victims. The flelding “goat,” aside from Wilson, was shortstap Elwood English, with four errors, some of which he redeemed with a great exhibition in the last game. ‘The summary of outstanding features of the five games: First Game. Won by Athletics, 3 to 1, with Howard Ehmke's slow curves puzzling Cubs, producing - 13 strikeout victims for a new world series record. Hornsby, Wil- son and Cuyler each struck out twice. Jimmy Foxx's home run into center- field “birdcage bleachers”—only run off Charley Root, who allowed three hits in seven innings, but A's scored two more in ninth off Guy Bush on Mil- ler's single after two errors in row by Elwood English, Cub shortstop. Jimmy Dykes furnished flelding feature with diving catch of Stephenson’s drive in ‘Won by Athletics, 8 to 3, Pat Malone Prench got his first chance to get into the series in the ninth when he pinch-hit for Walberg. He struck out. ’ being knocked out of box in fourth in- ning after ylel six runs. Foxx's second homer of again Cub pitcher’s downfall in third frame, and Al Simmons, driving in two runs in fourth and two more in eighth, equaled world series record of four in one game. George Earnshaw, the A's starter, was wild and was relieved in fifth by Lefty Grove, who held Cubs helpless rest of game, adding six strike- outs to Earnshaw’s seven for another Cub total of 13. Cubs used four pitch- ers—Blake, Carlson and Nehf following Malone. Grimm furnished fielding fea- ture with one-hand falling stab of wide throw by English to get Foxx on first. Wilson, Foxx and Dykes got three hits each. . Third Game. Won by Cubs, 3 to 1, on fine pitching by Guy Bush, who got out of several bad holes and held A's sluggers, Sim- mons and Foxx, hitless. Hornsby, driv- Ing in first run, and Cuyler, knocking in other two, snapped out of their batting slump for first time. Earnshaw fanned 10, going full route, as he started sec- ond successive game. Cuyler's running stop and throw on Haas's hit, holding apparently sure double to single in first, was flelding feature. Fourth Game. ‘Won by Athletics, 10 to 8, with un- precedented rally in seventh, when 10 runs and 10 hits registered off four Cubs pitchers as 15 men went to bat. Simmons opened attack with home run and Charley Root, who had pitched shutout ball for six innings, was knocked out after yielding six hits by first seven men to bat. Nehf hit for freak homer by Haas to center on ball Hack Wilson lost in sun, Blake for single by Foxx that tied score and Ma- lone, fourth pitcher, by Dykes, double, which brought in deciding runs. Sim- mons, Foxx and Dykes each got two hits in this inning. Ten world series records were broken by A.’s outburst after Cubs had knocked Jack Quinn from box with attack including a homer by Grimm and five runs in sixth. Lefty Grove again saved game by check- ing Cubs in last two innings, fanning four and running total of Cubs’ strike outs to 44. Nine pitchers worked alto- gether, five for Cubs. Fielding features were two wonderful running stops and throwouts of Root ‘and Hornsby by Joe Boley, A’s shortstop, in third inning: remarkable backward, running one- hand spear of Boley's drive in fifth by Hack Wilson. Fifth Game. ‘Won by Athletics, 3 to 2, with thrill- ing ninth-inning rally, scoring all three runs after being . Home run by started Bishop on first,. tled Malone for eight inning Haas over right fiel wall, with score, and Bing | held to two hits.by Pat | to maks ‘ A STIRRING FINALE , = CHICAGO (N. L). & = vl coonrooocoe? McMillan, 3b. English, ss. Hornsby, 2| Wilson, ' ef. Cuyler, 1. Stephenson, 1t Grimm, 1i Taylor, c. Malone, p. Tatals PHILAD! | wnnosnsns S oz Bl onBrumnun, Sl coccconwup | cococomool w 8 E o & > 5 Bishop, 2b. Haas, cf. Cochrane, ¢. . Simmons, 1f. Foxx, 1b. . Miller, rf. Dykes, 3b. Boley, sS. . Enmke, p. Walberg, p. {Prench ... Al SRR alcccocononorml B ol i mommy lecorcamosrng wlooccoocomonnd ol ompurororncon ol cococooocost » . Totals .......31 *Two out when winning run scored. tBatted for Walberg in the ninth. Philadelphia..... 00000000 3—3 Chicago .. Runs batted in—Grimm, Taylor, Haas_(2), Miller. Two-base hits—Cuy- ler, Malone, Simmons, Miller. Home run—Haas. ~ Stolen base—McMillan Double plays—Hornsb# to Grimm; Eng- | OF FAME eleventh hour. The A’s were trailing 2 to 0, One was out and nothing had hap- pened. Now but two Athletics had to be retired to give the broad-shouldered Pat Malone, who had permitted but two hits in eight and one-third innings, ample revenge for a humiliating re- verse he suffered at home in the second gane of the series. Outs Never Made. The outs never were made. One was. One never will be. Bishop, an earnest cotton-topped lead-off man, whose specialty is getting the pitcher in a three-and-two hole, came up after Wally French, former foot ball star, had taken the sensational Rube Wal- berg’s place and fanned ingloriously. A few faint-hearted fans turned toward ihe_ exits. The bulk of the crowd of 30,000 re- mained. They recalled that 48 hours before the thundering herd of White Elephants had wiped out an eight-run lead and forged on to victory in a single inning. There was but two-thirds of an inning left but the lead was two instead of eight. They awaited de- velopments. They came. Malone got a strike and a ball on the patient Bishop and then another strike when a foul rattled among the hopeful but not enthusiastic spectators. Malone made the next pitch far too good. It was over the outside corner of the plate and Bishop, a left-handed batsman, drove it a foot inside the third base foul line for & single. Mule Haas, the same iean chap who co-operated with the sun and Hack Wilson in manufacturing a home run good for three runs in Saturday's game, There was nothing to wait aas swung viclously at the first pitch, a high, inside fast ball. Athletics Hit Stride. The ball traveled high and far to right fleld, clearing the fence above the pathetic figure of Kiki Cuyler, who went as far as he could in a mad dash for the ball, ever gaining altitude as it went away from there. With that ball went the ball game. The score was only | tled, but the Athletics were in their nitting efforts. Mickey Cochrane tried hard, but his smash went straight to Hornsby dnd the Rajah tossed to Grimm for the second putout of the inning. The faltering Malone seemed himself again. Capt. Charlie Grimm danced about first base, pounding his glove and hold- ing up a reassurin to indicate that one more out would be easy. It was not. Simmons, bearing the responsibility of keeping the A’s in the ball game, let a ball go by and then crashed into the next to drive it against the scoreboard in right center. The Milwaukee mauler stopped at second. At another stage of the game he might have continued to third, but he was carrying the win- ning run with him and the play was to take no chance. Jimmy Foxx, swinging three bats with a grim, determined look, strange- ly out of place on his youthful face, literally ran to the plate. The Ath- letic policy has been to let Al start something and Jimmy finish it. The lad did not have the-opportunity. Joe McCarthy yelled “put him on"” from the Cub bench and four wide balls. tossed the ted Foxx, maki a force play at every base. This ted responsibility from Foxx to Bing Miller, a swarthy, game player whose every base ball move is effort- less. Miller is known to American itchers as a “curve ball hitter.” He d driven one of Malone's curves to left for a single in the fifth inning and Pat had no idea of giving him another. Nothing But Fast Ones. Miller saw nothing but fast ones. The first was high, the second split the plate, the third clipped the inside cor- were - 00020000 0—2{ner for another called strike, the next ‘was over but low. And then a high one, limmed fast, a wee bit outside and around the shoul- ders of Miller. A crash as the “Bingo” swung and the ball started on a line lish to Hornsby to Grimm. Left on | between the mastodonic Hack Wilson bases—Chicago, 6; Philadelphia, 4. Bases on balls—Off Ehmke, 2 (Stephen- son, 2); off Malone, 2 (Cochrane, Foxx) Struck out—By Ehmke, 1 (Taylor): by Walberg, 6 (English, Hornsby, Wilson, Stephenson, Grimm. Malone); by Ma- lone, 4 (Bishop, Haas, Bolev, French). Pitching records—Off Ehmke, 6 hits and 2 runs (earned) in 325 innings with 15 at bat; off Walberg, 2 hits and no runs in 5}4 innings with 18 at bat; off Malone, 3. earned runs. Winning pitcher—Walberg. Umpires—Willlam J. Klem (N. L.), at the plate; William Dinneen (A. L.), first base; Charles B. Moran (N. L.), second base; Roy Van Graflan (A. L.), third base. Time of game—1 hour and 42 minutes. GROVE NOT WELL ENOUGH TO START, SAYS CONNIE PHILADELPHIA, October 15 (#).— “You've been wondering all along why Lefty Grove hasn't started a game,” Connie Mack said yesterday, after his team had won the championship. “Now I can tell you that he hasn't been feeling well. Nothing serious, but not well enough to pitch and last nine Innings. His pitching fingers have been sore, too. “I started Ehmke today because he was anxious to pitch. Any time Howard says he's anxious to pitch I'm anxious to have him pitch. When he smiles at me and says he'd like to work I'll let him do it and he won't fail me often. ‘Today he wasn't quite right.” Miller scored Al Simmons, who had doubled, with winning run on_another two-base_glow after Jimmy Foxx in- tentionally was passed. Ehmke, starting pitcher, was knocked out in fourth, when Cubs scored both their runs on hits by Cuyler, Grimm and Taylor and a pass to Stephenson after two men were out. yRube Wal- berg finished and held Cubs scoreless, allowing only two hits and fanning six e & fotal of 50 Cub_ strike-outs, and fleet Kiki Cuyler. All the bulk of stride after an afternoon of impot:nt g finger to the pitcher | MACK REACHES PINNACLE IN BASE BALL Becomes Only Man to Win Four World Champion- ships—Gave Four Fine Shows With His Never-Say-Die Club. BY BRIAN BELL, b Associated Press Sports Writer., HILADELPHIA, October 15.—The Athletics of Philadelphia today are champions of the base ball world, thanks to a rally that routed the Chicago Cubs at the fifty-ninth minute of the With President Hoover a spectator, the White Elephants of Connie Mack rose in their might in the ninth inning of the fifth game to stage a comeback without parallel in world series history. Only two outs stood between the American Leaguers and a defeat that would have entailed a continuation of the series in Chicago, with the result in the lap of the base ball gods, when the storm broke. with one out in the final inning, and it seemed that only a base ball miracle could give the veteran Cornelius McGillicuddy his undisputed place at the head of the base ball procession of all time, as the only man to win four world series ‘Wilson and all the speed of Cuyler were unavailing against it. The ball left the bat a base hit and Simmons raced home under wraps. Miller ran to sec- ond. He could have gone on to third, but the ball game was over when Sim- mons touched the plate. So Miller was credited with a two-base hit. Haas had been ‘mobbed by his en- thusiastic fellows when he hit his home run. That scene was a pink tea com- pared to the picture when the final run was driven home. Miller tried to keep his shirt on, but could not. His teammates tore it off. Simmons touched home plate and dashed back toward the infield. Foxx ran to third and turned back to second. Eddie Col- lins sprinted from the third-base coach- ing line. The venerable, gray-haired William Gleason, the kid himself, out- rarlnl young men. All wished to embrace Miller. Mackey Hugs Haas. Harry A. Mackey, mayor of Philadel- phia, had deserted the presidential box to hug Haas after his home run. He had no chance to give an encore to Miller. This reception committee was composed exclusively of players. Con- nie Mack, safely established even more securely in base ball's’ hall of fame, which seems to be painting the lily, re- tained enough of his composure to shake hands with Miller and Haas, one hand to each, and then grab the smil- ing Rube Walberg, the rescue pitcher, with both. The big left-handed Wal- berg, with a sweeping curve that has had few equals in a world series game, went to the rescue of Howard Ehmke in the fourth inning, with two runs in, and stopped the scoring. The south- paw permitted the Cubs to attack his delivery for only two hits and no runs. Ehmke, who won the first game of the series in impressive style, did not have his stuff six days later. He fell after two were out in the fourth. Cuy- ler’s double started it. He worked too carefully on Stephenson and passed him. Grimm drove Cuyler home with a single and Taylor’s hit to center sent Stephen- son in. Walbarg rushed in to force Ma!‘a‘mc to miss a big curve for a third strike. Connie Mack explained that he had pitched Ehmke because “Howard was anxious to pitch and when he is anxious to pitch, I am anxious to have him itch.” It was one of the few Mackian junches to go wrong in the series but the result was satisfactory to the Ath- letics’ family. Bob Grove Was Ailing. - Manager Mack also explained that Bob Grove, whose great relief pitching stamped him as one of the heroes of the classic, was ailing and in addition suffered throughout frcm a sore finger, making it necessary to utilize his superb, left-hand skill solely in emergencies. The latest victory for the House of McGillicuddy gave the 67-year-old dean of base ball managers everyw! his four world championships in six chances. The series, one of the most sensa- tonal -of all time, broke a score of records. A dozen in one game. The A’s, off in front at Chicago by winning the first two games, lost the first one played in Philadelphia and then came from behind, as no team has ever done in a world series, to win the next two. Mack did not fail to be generous in his summing up. ‘“We outplayed the Cubs,” he said, “but we also outlucked them.” He paid tribute to the defeated National Leaguers, as “a great club.” The Cubs, from Manager McCarthy to the bat boy, were philosophical. “It's base ball,” they said, after they had seen their castle of hopes crumble to pieces about them. PROCTOR TAKES BOUT IN CUMBERLAND RING CUMBERLAND, * Md., October 15.— Joe Proctor, Washington heavyweight boxer, knocked out Socko Trenamin of Westernport, Md., in the third round of their scheduled eight-round feature baitle h-re last night. When it's got the stuff a nickel’s enough Long filler, Imported Sumatra wrapper. Foil wrapped to seal in freshness and flavor. © P Lariliard o., Eat. 1780 Distributors D. LOUGHRAN CO., Washington, D. 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