Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1929, Page 37

he b 'WITH SUNDAY MORKING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER ATHLETICS’ MOUND STAFF IN TRIM FOR LONGER SET Connie Prepared to Start Left-Handers Had Series Gone Back to Chicago—Grove’s Fingers Sore. Praises Rival Pilot’s Judgment, BY CONNIE MACK, The Only Manager to P for color and dramatics. Win Four World Series. HILADELPHIA, October 16.—Both in earlier world series in which the Athletics have taken part and in many others I have seen there has been none to touch the one just closed Of course, I am proud of the team that restored the first place in major league base ball to Philadelphia. It won the highest honors because of the undying combativeness of the players. 1 don’t believe anybody who saw or read about them will forget those Saturday and Monday finishes that enabled us to carry off the big title. These games will be discussed for years to come and I know that the tators feel it was a privi- lege tgut it was their good fortune to see them. All the Athletic players deserve full credit. This was not a one or two man series, but every man taking part did something to bring about the result. Great Finishes Thrill. ed | of it. é gl 1 : gga i ;i g =38 Bz 8 2 E« s & E §§E : i E ;i i 8 L L] i 28z §%s efsd § § s & want the Cubs to see too much of you, but you are going to get another chance in a more advantageous spot later on.” Of course at that time I was not enough of a fortune teller to know that we were going to make 10 runs in the seventh inning. I saved Walberg for a future day and put in Grove to finish after we had taken our unex- pected lead. Ready to Use Southpaws. Had we gone to Chicago and there would have been sixth and seventh games I would have started both Grove and Walberg. I felt sure that one or the other would have won the neces- sary fourth game to take the title. I could not tell these things during the games, but I can let out the secret now. I was never worried at any time about my pitching. I had plenty of good right handers and left handers for a protracted series and believe I enjoyed a distinct advantage over the Cubs in this respect. Joe McCarthy ran his team eom- petently. He made no mistakes and no other manager could have done any better. I want to be very clear about this. McCarthy must rank with the cream of base ball generals of all time and he did the best that could be done with his forces. He was simply up against a stronger team. McCarthy Did His Best. Somel said that in the seventh inning outburst on Saturday that Joe mm have stopped it had he %\:t in M e at once after Root was batted out of the box. Don't believe a word Malone have met the same fate had he been put in at the time. When the Athletics start hitting like that no pitcher can stop them until the game has been won. (Copyright, 1929.) s YANKEES T0 NAME PILOT NEXT WEEK Successor to Huggins Still Is Shrouded in Secrecy. Field Narrpwed. EW YORK, October 16.—The new manager of the New York Yankees will be known one week from today. The secrecy f Ed Barrow “break” the Yankees will have this year—unless rade Babe Ruth, which 4sn’t prob- able—on Tuesday next. 3 T won't-be Ruth. Hé took himself the Cincinnat f It won't be Jack Hendricks, recent the Reds. He may become of the International men prominen who have been mentioned who can’t be considered. But some one has been fixed on. That is announced finally by Barrow, and the man will be here on ‘Tuesday next. The man may be Arthur Fletcher, back from Collinsville, Ill. He may be Bob Connery, back from St. Paul, where he went after the first two games of the world serles in Chicago. He may be either Bob Shawkey or Charlie O'Leary, faithful assistants of Huggins. But you can't pry_ anythi out of . Ruj and w. ey are ready and willing to talk of most any- thing else. SRR EASTERN A. A. NINE GETS CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHIES Members of the Eastern A. A. base ball team, which won the Insect sec- tion championship in the Capital City Base Ball League, were presented gold base balls offered by the Post at a meeting held last night at the home of Manager Lawrence, 305 Tennessee -ave- nu:‘{lmlflum. Lawrence also received a ball. Sylvan King, former Central High and Princeton athlete, spoke, and the balls ‘were presented by R. J. Atkinson, sec- retary of the Capital City League. Houley Named Reds’ Manager; Lands Heilmann From Detroit BY JOHN B. FOSTER. AN HOWLEY is the new man- ager of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club. His apopintment was_forecasted, even when he would not admit that he had s & contract with the Cincinnati club, and the club did not wish to admit that he had been engaged until after the world series was over. It is a good selection b ythe Cincin- natl club. Howley is a capital type of man to put into Cincinnati under exist! conditions. He is a hustler, & man who can talk base ball by the yard and talk it entertainingly and one who quickly comes toggonclusions about the iy, merits of ball players and knows why he does it. ‘Through Harry Heilmann, for- mer Detroit 'mlumdxer u:xd !roq\lxmt hampion batter o American Lu"‘\?e, has been purchased by the Cincinnati team. In Need of Punch. ‘The ostensible purchase of Heilmann is to give the Reds a punch. They have been without it. “Punch” usual- 1y means the fourth man in the batting order who can hit runners home when get on the bases ahead of him. Cincinnati has not had a sound batter of that type and too many runners have ‘been left somewhere between first base home. Bon‘!l games are not won by that sort thing. yo:we the American League took a very valuable manager away from the N:l,hml League.. His name was Miller Huggins. He built up the New York American League club into the most formidable team in the United States, All the sad termination of lendid career by death, which im away too soon for his club, and of course three or four more good the infleld of the Cin- cinnat{ team into something more ef- fective and tone up the batiing of the sutfield. He is a capital man at handling pitchers and there is no one that Cin- cinnati might have gained who will do better than Howley to put the pitching staff of Reds back to the high grade that it had in recent years, until this season. National League men are glad that Howley is going to Cincinnati. They liked Hendricks, the former manager very well, but it was thought that he had permitted the team to get away rom in respect to over appreciation of the merits of the players on its Toster. Harris, the Detroit manager, had intimated that he would sell the release of Heilmann if he could get something worth while for him. Base ball history is composed of queer turnabouts. It was Hellmann who wanted the Detroit club to get Harris for its manager. Queer Turn of Fate. Hellmann thought that Harris would made of ., Detroit and ascertained that his pitch- ing staff ‘had loose plaster in its ceiling and his batters were not all going as he hing and ave vun?y slow runners to get The Cincinnat{ club has not com- pleted its c] jes. ‘There are others to come and the oit club has not fin- HO were the six best draw- ing cards of all time in American sport history, choosing only one man for each s ? Who were the “six best sellers,” those whose names sold more tickets at the box office than any other—the Jack ‘Where John L. Sullivan drew thou- sands, the Manassas Mauler drew millions. Babe Ruth? Righto! “The house that Ruth built,” otherwise known as the Yankee Stadium, is ‘mute evidence of the power over the public that the Sultan of Swat held —and still holds. Bobby Jones? Yea bo! He outdraws Hagen and any other golfer, and if he chose to turn pro he could make twice as much money, which would run him wg:.%em ell flat. the realm of tennis. stadfums for ‘War? Yes, indeed! being, but a very colorful animal, nevertheless, and a great horse, one of the greatest of all time. A con- sistent winner and a consistent gate attraction, the bi it drawing card of any American horse in history. Let’s see, that includes boxing, base ball, racing (and wasn't Sande the jockey, with the biggest box- office appeal?), golf and tennis, and brings us down (or up) to foot ball. But first let me that if you want to leave out stick to personalif put down packer-in when it came to public appearances, and, boy, didn't he know it! So now we turn to foot ball, the g:fllfl‘ sport of all. Jim Tho d color, romance, all-around ;Mrrl’f ity, beyond any other athlete, yet ening Star. 16, 1929. he wasn't foot ball's greatest draw- ing card. Men like George Wilson of Washington, Ernie Nevers of Stanford, Ken Strong of New York University and Cagle of the Army have probably drawn more to see them perform than the great Carlisle - Indian ever but that 'm'lljn(ue'.he days 3 50 i Te- lfll% well publicized ivid- ual, “ story ‘whose deeds reé-echoed from to Calif¢ to cause the turnstiles to click, as an amateur and as a Red it “He was 1 a of Illinois! He was the greatest drawing card foot bell has MACK, A'S PILOT, BIG LEAGUE KING McGraw Has Won More Flags, but Is Shaded in Series Victories. constitutes a base ball record in itself. Connie was 37 years old then, and had been a base ball player since 1884, when hle :M a catcher on the Meriden, Conn., club. Mack now is 66. He was born in Brookfleld, Mass. In that span he has set more than one record, but the chief base ball statistics to be dug out of his career are these: He has won seven American League pennants and four world championships. Ten Flags for McGraw. McGraw wen more pennants, 10, but only three world series. Huggins wou six pennants and only three world titles. ‘The venerable leader of the Athletics has had a varied career in base ball. Before he became identified with Phila- delphia he played with Meriden, then Hartford and then joined the Washing- ton club. He played through 86 to '89, inclusive, here, then switched to Buffalo, but after the season of 1890 went to Pittsburgh and caught for and then managed the Pittsburgh club through the next six years. Mack piloted Pittsburgh from Au- gust, 1894, to August, 1896. Then he became manager of the Milwaukee club of the old Western League and it was this club's franchise which was trans- ferred to Philadelphia with Mack at the hz'l‘{nd- He was also financially inter- esf Mack’s History Interesting. ‘The deeds of Connie Mack comprise & great deal more than dry figures, yet these are deeply interesting because they trace the rise and fall and the rise again of the shrewd leader. Mack won his first pennant in 1902, despite the loss of four great stars, Lajole, Flick,+Bernhardt and Fraser, who had been held by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to be the property of other clubs. He trijumphed again in 1905 and then lost the world series to McGraw, but came back in 1910 to beat the Cubs and then, in 1911, to whip ONNIE MACK is the first and only manager the world cham- pion Philadelphia Athletics McGraw and his Giants. He beat the Giants again in 1913. Discarded Famous Team. Winning -again in 1914, Mack lost four straight to the Braves and began the downward slide that dramatically d his career. The base ball world because championships upon Philadelphia and the club's finances were poor; next, because the Federal League disturbance came along and then the World War. Seven consecutive years found Mack at the bottom of the heap. In 1919 he to rebuild, but something like players had come and gone at Shibe Park or Athletic training camps before the upward climb began. He didn’t in to move forward until 1922. Then ascent was slow but sure, It never ref be have had since they joined the | 1 American League, in 1901. That | | crowned his success with his fourth world championship. Is Base Ball Master. The man who did this is & tall, lean, quiet person, but & master of base ball. He is always kindly and genial when not in the stress of a pennant fight or a world series. He owns a big part of the Athletics and has dominated the club's policy for years. He loves base ball mofe than anything else. His name 1s seldom mentioned in connection with any other enterprise. He doesn’t 1ook 66 years nor act it and he probably dropped years off his shoulders in the victory Monday. Here is how the Athletics have fin- ished in every year since Mack has them in the American League: ATTRACTED 40,000 DAILY TOKIO, October 16 (#).—Japan's own “world series,” for which the average attendance exceeded that in America, was decided yesterday at the Meiji Shrine Stadium, Waseda Univer- sity defeating Kelo, 6 to 3, in the third and final game of a series for the national intercollegiate base ball cham- plonship. The stadium was jammed with 40,- 000 spectators at each of the three games and thousands were turned away. The attendance probably would have been doubled if there had been space. ‘Throughout the country radio loud- speakers and newspaper scoreboards announced the progress of the which crowded the Athletic’s triumph over the Cubs to the inside pages. CONNIE MACK’S RECORD IN BASE BALL CLASSIC 1905. ATHLETICS VS. GIANTS, Pirst game—Giants, 3 Second 1910, ATHLETICS VS. CUBS. First game—Athletics, 4; Cubs, 1. Second game—Athiet C Third i t) game—Athlet] Cubs, 2. Athiktics won series, 4 games o 1. 911, ATHLETICS VS. GIANTS. 1913, ATHLETICS VS. GIANTS. Elrst game—Athletics, §; Glants. 4, Becond game—Giants, 3; Athletics, 0. Third game—Athletics, 8 Fourth game—Athleti Fifth game—Athletics, Athletics won series, 4 games 1o 1. 1 ATHLETICS BRAVES. Athletics. 1. i Athletics, 0. 5 Athietics, 4. 3; Athletics, 1. 4 games t0'0. 1929, ATHLETICS VS. CUBS. Pirst game—Athletics, 3; Cubs. Sccond game-_Athletics, 0 B 7 Serles won—Athletics, 4. Series lost—Athletics. 2. ries games won—Athletics, 17. ries games lost—Athletics, Sl D Thomas, A’s Scout, Gets Tips On Cubs Month Before Series BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umpire. T. LOUIS, Mo., October 16.—About nents. It was Ira as, former league catcher, and one of Connie Mack’s lleutenants. ‘Thomas based his conclusions nfin the Cubs’ performance in their o series against the Brooklyn and the New York clubs. There had been previ- ous scouting of the Cubs, but Mack accepted the Thomas tip-offs as master observations. The shrewd leader of the White Elephants believed that he had enough power to swamp the Cubs, but he_planned to mix wisdom with it. Base ball has had greater catchers than Thomas, but never a smarter one. Eddie Collins will back me up in that statement. And so, Connie knew every- thing about the Cubs before the series began. For a defeated team. the Cubs put . To paraphrase, ‘it was & survival of the hif and the hits were produced at the right time. Cubs Fought to Finish, After losing the first two games on their own premises, mecubundolmdh& 1y sensed the ultimate outcome, none can say their efforts . refiected e o, Drndas's game Ky . 's , would have been on the anxious seat. Connie' Mack did not give uR - when-the A’S Were eight runs Itgnd Sa o but he figured Malong;was due 10 Win the magnificent game he had pitohed Up ) that fatal ninth. om‘:’iplmd"e"'t‘t"rgfi de in the great fortitude ét_Mack, when he intrusted the falberg after Ehmke’s. des p joe McCarthy's willingnesé ‘Wilson in center fleld as ‘to0 much_ stress has bee Eon fielgroh;;‘!e starting ngiu:h- world series. The showers et ot accommodating clien 1o et Malone, I believe the A’s staff had more speed and fire, and proved it. Set for Right-field Hitters. Mack centered his whole pitching scheme around his finishing pitchers, rather than upon those who started. The manner in which he used Grove where the fensively. Bol clean-cut_assists 15 feet xronsno -efiomks base, in Bishop's territory. ac! took advantage of the Cubs’ tendency to echanically to right field. tched the A’s was 1 was ball club ever since they played {‘lfim\?l‘nll off their feet in that mem- better team. The A “g‘ozfi"&a.mum"-, markable, considering the times they struck out. In the fourth game Hack ‘Wilson’s two fruitless attempts to pocket files that hovered in the sun showed how hopelessly the Cubs were out of luck. Both of those hits fell close to the dead center-field line. If they had gone to right or left center Wilson coutd have captured them by the sun’s path. ‘The best part of Connie Mack’s pitch- ing scheme was that instead of one man dominating the pitching were evenly divided. I believe Ehmke failed in the last game because he em- gluyed the same methods which enabled im to pitch such amasing ball in the curtain raiser at Chlelga. ‘The background at Chicago was an invaluable aid to his underhanded de- livery at Wrigley Fleld, but at Shibe Park the visibility is faultless, and the Cubs followed and bumped Ehmke's slow stuff without trouble. If Ehmke had crossed them with an all-speed program he might have baffled them again. Make Timely Swats. Bishop and Haas shared nine hits in 42 times at bat, but their last two hits overshadowed the other seven, because they u?‘cor::d that enthralling ninth londay. hllfst.‘mz leume Was no “bean " b g bats. But there was manship till the last Malone, Root and Bush can on any man’s club. I have the highest re- gard for Hack Wilson. He fought through the series, and besides being an accomplished outfielder is a devastating hitter. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) ATHLETICS INSPIRED T0 VICTORY BY MACK BY WALTER TRUMBULL. Echoes of the world series are still reverberating. It was a thrilling set of games and much closer than the score indicates. The Cubs were outplayed and outguessed a little and outlucked a lot. If the two teams were to play again, no one would be quite sure where to lay his bets. Both teams were game, but the fight- ing spirit which inspired the Mack- men flamed like a forest fire on a dark night. The Athletics never admitted defeat and drew the re This was a tough series to umpire. Players and fans were at high tension and there were plenty of close and decisions, but only one out of all the number appeared even doubtful. There is an old sa; that every ball pitched, hit or flelded in a world is ped lollar Features and Classified " PAGE 37 Had No Pitching Problem Mack Declares : Cubs Not Outclassed Says McCarthy JOE REGARDS CLUB GAME WITH BREAKS AGAINST IT A’s Better Team as Games Went, Chicago’s Manager Admits, but Insists Charges Should Have Won Two of Tilts That Went Against Them. BY JOE McCARTHY, Manager, Chicago Cubs. HICAGO‘nOctober 16.—When a ball club loses four out of five mes in world series as been outclassed. will insist t! lay, snap judgment is that the club e Chi doing that, but I don’t think that any one who saw the series %‘ut the four victories to one is the actual measure of icago Cubs have just finished difference between them and the world champion Athletics. It is not my intention to argue that the Athletics were not the better team, as the games went. They took advantage of most of their chances, and they profited speedily from frequent breaks that came their way. That is WRIGLEY REMOVED BAND FROM ROLL Cubs to Go After Pair of Slab Celebrities and Third Baseman. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, October 16.—Willlam Wrigley, jr, owner of the downhearted Cubs, some more interesting news er for the hot stove league BY AL SIMMONS. (Athletic Outfielder Who Scored Winning Run in 1929 World Series.) PHILADELPHIA, October 16— Now that I have had a chance to realize that the Athletics are the champions of the base ball world, I find the greatest amount of satis- faction in the thought that we played true to form. We kept right in the stride that won us the Ameri- c-nun?upennmz. Our hitting was hard and timely, our pitching was tight and our field- ing was excellent on the whole. ‘There were no missing cylinders in our machine. Before the series began it was said that we would be pped by the fact that not one of the boys on our team had played in the big Fall classic. Many fans favored the Cubs because they thought the A’s would choke up. But we did not tighten up at any time in any game. We were loose and free at bat and kept on swing- . That's our system—to keep on B . A team that does that will get some hits and some runs eventually. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) the test of a good ball club. Nevertheless it can be stated that of the four games the Cubs lost, two of them should have been won and another should have been tied up, at the end of the ninth inning. Fielding misplays gave the first of these games to the Athletics, three ug- rible breaks gave them the second and a concerted batting attack gave them the third, at a time when Connie Mack himself admits he was preparing to re- turn to Chicago for more of the series. A’s Could Get Runs. ‘The Athletics are world champions because they were able to get runs when they needed them most. The Cubs lost because they were unable to do that 5 § The principal credit for this goes to Mack’s relief pitching, rather than to his starting selections, save in the case of Ehmke, who pitched the first game. Ehmke, the first game, was the only Athletic starting pitcher who went the route and won his game. He set a Bl caugh the Gubs cAmpIEtly of thels completely off the! batting stride. R Earnshaw_fafled to finish his first , and Grove saved it for him. We Walberg Too Strong. Ehmke was hit hard in the final con- test, and Walberg stopped the Cub hit- ters cold. Our own pitching was good enough to win, save for single bad innings. Root lost one, through no fault of his own. He lost another after pitching t ball npwthetlmeoltheblow—'orfle..dnd ‘was almost unhittable ninth inning. el wel seldom fooled by the Ath- letic pitching. Most Cub Batters Poor. After a bad start, Cuyler and Stephen- son got into their hitting stride, but gxz was little help from any of the ‘When your ball club is licked in four out of five games that would seem to settle matters. However, I'd like to men- tion that the Cubs weren't licked in any game, let alone in the series, without BOERNER WILL ABANDON PRO BASE BALL CAREER Despite that he had a successful sea- son with Charlotte of the South At- lantic League, having won 12 games and lost 6, Larry Boerner, former Dis- trict sandlot pitcher, has decided to abandon his diamond career, it has been amnounced. He is understood to be discouraged over his failure to get a chance in the big show despite that he has pitched successfully in organized ranks for sev- eral seasons. Fonseca of Indians Is Voted Most Valuable Player in A. L. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, October 16.—Lew Fonseca, Cleveland first base- man and new batting champion of the American League, is the “most valuable player” of the league for 1929, based upon the deci- sion of a committee of base ball writers representing each city in the circuit. At the request of the sports editor of the Associated Press, this commiitee, named by the base ball writers covering the world series, cast its ballots in the absence of an official selection by the American League, which abolished this year the award it had made annually since 1922. The National League makes its last official selection this year, to be | Al announced later. ing ballots for the American League’s “most valuable player,” for announce- ment through the ted Press: Harry G. Salsinger, Detroit; John B. Keller, Washington; John C. Hoffman, Chicago; Ford C. Prick, New York; Gordon Cobbledick, Cleveland; Shannon, Boston; Sid C. Keener, St. Louis; William Dooly, Philadelphia. ‘The results of their balloting, based on eight points for first place, seven for second, etc.: Player and Club. Fonseca, Cleveland Dykes, Philadelp) einie Manush, St. Loui: Charley . Gehringer, Detr Joe Judge, Washington The veteran Fonseca won the unof- ficlal contest from contenders in the ranks of the world cham; because he was rated high on seven of the eight lists prepared by the base ball experts. Jimmy Dykes, whose all-around in- fleld play was a vital factor in the suc- [ 70¢ © cess of the A's, was the favorite choice among the Mackmen and finished sec- ond in the vote.® Al Simmons, Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane also figured high, uullnnfh;bnut ballots” that kept one me of the champions from off Fonseca. Athletics | Alpho [PPSO MATHEWS’ ENTRY WINS 245-MILE PIGEON RACE D. R. Mathews’ bird won the latest Washington Racin from Pulaski, Va., flying the 245 miles in 5 hours and 12 minutes. Twenty- four lofts competed. Order of the finish showing the average speed made in yards a minute by the first return to each loft follows: . Louis outfielder to Cochrane last year, ird, with 26 votes; Charley hringer of Detroit, fourth, with 35, Pr-OmBDON <N 25 22 g &