Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1930, Page 12

SPORTS. THE EVENING VSTAR.' WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930. SPORTS. ones Reaches for Fourth Title : Cards Clinch Flag : Rice Again “Quits” Game ONLY SLIM CHANGE 7 SLAB STATUS FOR SERIES By Alan Gould CONGEDED HOMANS Bespectacled Youth Makes Great Fight to Gain Final at Merion. BY W. R. McCALLUM. ERION CRICKET CLUB, Ard- more, Pa., September 27.—The devastating tornado of the ancient green, otherwise Robert | Tyre Jones, moved over Merion's fair- ways today toward his fourth ma;‘»ur‘ ‘ehampionship of 1930. Opposed to him in the final Tound was a tall bespec- tacled, spidery-legged youth from Engle: wood, N. J., Eugene Homans, the 23- year-old lad who looks like a cq}\egr: professor, and, as the cold statistics show, is the best man in the tourna- | ment so far, with the exception of the tncomparable Jones. p Bobby Jones has been moving over| Merion like an unleashed cyclone, nut‘ vith the tiger-like ferocity of the Jones o iiniknada and Brae Burn, but with | the resistless pace of a Carribean hurri- | cane. Not one of his four opponents has gone past the fourteenth green,‘ even in the abbreviated 18-hole matches Where Jones was supposed to be ready | for the ax of any entrant who clung close to par. He won them all wiihouu | visiting the far end of the course, where | that sloping fifteenth green cost young Charlie Seaver his match with Homans i yesterday, nor that rugged sixteenth, | where the rocks stick their ugly noses | out of the abandoned quarry. Homans Needs Miracle. jomans wins it will be nothing | Ho( @ Bibical mll{‘:.clél cmdlg'u\z :e( compared in sport Wi e mn‘:f-w-r by a plater or a Bill Til- den by some kid from the sticks. Bobby administered the anesthetic to Jess Sweetser in so conclusive a fashion yesterday that it left little doubt in the minds of those who saw him perform that Homans will be swamped by almost 23 large a margin as the 9 and 8 sock- ing that Bobby hung on Jess. h wasn't playing particularly well to do it. I saw him 30 feet short and 20 feet wide of the pin on a 50-yard pitch, end when Bobby does that he 1Sn't down. But he must have his mind after that, and really riously, for he birdied three of the next six holes to convince the Sweetser that school was out end the Sweetser victory at Brookline finally was wiped off the record by an tter socking. s ‘won by 9‘Ind 8, but it might e been 11 and 10. In the e showed the best golf he since the qualifying round, at that he wasn't so hot. three-putted two greens in the end was around in 72, and he wiped Jess out on the twenty- eighth hole he was exactly par for the distance. You can take it or leave it @t that. For right at the spot where he shook hands with Jess, on the ele- vated tenth green overlooking Ardmore avenue, he would have been 5 up on Homans. The score shows it, and that should be the tip-off on today’s match. They're Both Fighters. 5 Homans is s scrapper, though; he| never quits, and in his quiet, profes- sorial way he is almost as good a scrap- per as Jones, but in an entirely differ- ent way. He was 5 down to young Seaver yesterday at the end of the first round. And then, one by one, slowly and surely, Homans wiped out that colossal margin, winning a hole here and there and finally squaring the match on the thirty-fifth green and then going on to win the thirty-sixth and the golf match and a chance at Bobby Jones. Hbomans and Jones tied for the qualifying medal last year at Pebble Beach, where Bobby, with the g:unnt gesture that always has made im a model of golfers, refused to play off and gave the medal to Homans. And here they were in the final today. It it settles only the one thing, it will be worth taking a look at. But it will tle more than that. mflll brief visit to the finals today is Homan's first essay at big-time stuff. He has qualified before and has won | plenty of minor championships. He won the metropolitan amateur and the North and South and the intercol- legiate, but this is his first essay at| the main chance. And it is his hard | luck that he should meet Jones. He might beat him wher Bobby is imping around on a crutch, but not today. However, if Homans plays the same fighting brand of golf he showed ves- terday to knock out Seaver, the pic- turesque lad from California, he may give Bobby some anxious moments. For Homans was around in a flat 70 rday afternoon to nip the young ercules from California at the wire, ‘when the youngster. playing in his sec- ond championship, hooked his iron sec- | ond and then topped his chip shot | across a bunker to lose the match to a | par 4. I short ‘Wakes Up the Town. That match stung even the placid | Philadelphians out of their lethargy and set the blase newspaper boys on their collective ears. For Homans down at noon, apparently a badly ‘beaten man, practically sunk by the blonde giant from Stanford. who is am- bitious to become a plunging fullback. Gene sprung back like a toy doll, show- was 5| ] i i | | P === === No. 12—A Daring Experiment. FTER suddenly producing a pennant contender in 1925 with a young and compara- tively green team, which | failed to fulfill its promises the following year, Connie Mack at- tempted one of the most daring and interesting experiments of modern years in 1927-28. He gathered together three of | the most famous stars of all time —Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker—in addition to signing | the veteran National League slug- ger, Zach Wheat of Brooklyn. Cobb and Speaker had been released | by the clubs which they had been man- aging, Detroit and Cleveland, following | investigation of gambling charges made by the old Boston pitcher, Hub Leonard, and involving the two super-stars, Subsequently Cobb and Speaker were cleared of charges of wrongdoing by an investigation conducted by Commission- er Landis. Collins had been released as manager of the White Sox and seized the chance to join his old manager and return to his home, near Philadelphia. ~Cobb signed a contract with the Athletics understood to call for a yearly salary of $60,000. Speaker joined Mack a year later in 1928 at a $20,000 salary. EN or fifteen years earlier the pres- ence under one banner of Cobb, Coliins and Speaker, the three outstanding all-around stars of their time, would have been a manager's fondest dream. As it turned out, how- ever, it was just a magnificent, gesture on the part of Mack. Perhaps he never regretted it, for at least it again brought the Athletics into the spotlight and made them rivals of the world cham- pion Yankees as a drawing card. Largely on the strength of senti- ment and interest, the Athletics were installed as pennant favorites at the outset of 1927, Except for an early spurt, however, they failed to meet ex- pectations and were unable to check the slugging Yankees, headed by Babe Ruth and then at the very peak of their great accomplishments under the lead- ership of the late Miller Huggins. It was the failure of the Athletics’ pitching, rather than any shortcomings of the veterans, that kept the club from making a better race. Cobb made a magnificent comeback, played in 134 games and batted .357, besides stealing 22 bases to show that he had not en- tirely lost his old speed. STRONG mutual admiration grew up from this latter-day association of the American League’s star of stars and the veteran manager. Cobb always referred to Connie as “Mr. Mack.” The latter spoke of the Geor- glan always as Y Cobb told of an incident when he first joined the club. He was playing right field and Mack, from the dug- out, kept waving his famous score card to indicate the position he desired the old star to play for the particular man at the plate. “I moved over as I was directed, but apparently not far en ,” related Cobb. “I thought to myself, ‘Is this old man going to try to tell me how to play the outfield after all these years?’ I I was over far enough, but CONNIE MACK | HIS 50 YEARS IN BASE BALL | Mr. Mack didn't, He kept me moving until I reached the foul line. I smiled to myself, but figured I might as well humor him. I was no sooner set than a line drive came down the alley, I didn’t have to move a step to catch it. I did not hesitate to obey orders after that. Mr. Mack proved to me he is one of the greatest strategists the game has ever known.” EFORE the end of the 1927 season Max Bishop and Joe Boley, the former Baltimore pair, replaced Eddie Collins and Chick Galloway as the keystone combination. Fast de- veloping was Jimmy Foxx, who came | to the A’s on the recommendation of “Home Run” Baker. “Foxxy,” as Mack affectionately called his young recruit, was player after the old master's hear! ssed of the rough natural ability that Con- nie delighted in molding successfully. Big, powerful, a terrific line hitter, Foxx came to Mack as a catcher, tried his hand at third base and wound up at first. Only 17 when he joined the Ath- letics in 1085, fresh from the Eastern Shore League of Maryland, Foxx be- came a regular in 1928, batted .354 in | 1929 and was a home-run hero of the world series that year. Behind the bat Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane already was making a name for himself. Al Simmons, coached by his idol, Cobb, developed fast as one of Sports Editor the Associated Press. | the league’s greatest all-around out- | fielders. Among the pitchers, Grove and Walberg began to get control of their left-handed fast balls. The new champions of the House of Mack fast were finding themselves. The Cobb-Speaker outfield experiment did not last out the 1928 season. George (Mule) Haas, obtained from Atlanta, and Edmund (Bing) Miller, back after a stay in St. Louls, replaced the old- timers in the outfield. Jimmy Dykes, the jack-of-all-infield trades, became the regular third baseman. George Earnshaw, the big ex-Swarthmore Col- lege star, joined the pitching staff. ¢¢J THOUGHT I had the winning com~ bination at last when we were South in 1929,” Mack admitted to me later. “But I carefully refrained from saying so. We had experienced some misfortunes, and the experts were pessimistic about our chances to beat the Yankees. I chose to encourage this. We had had so many setbacks I did not want to arouse premature en- thusiasm. It was that much better when our pitchers and the whole club | came through so wonderfully.” The Athletics ran away with the American League race. They led their nearest, rivals, the ex-champion Yan- kees, by the overwhelming margin of 18 games and gave their manager his greatest thrill by routing the Chicago Cubs in the world series. (Copyright, 1930, by the Associated Press.) Sunday Tilt Here Gives Line on A% fact that the Sabbath battle here between the Nationals and Athletics affords local fans their last chance of the season to see big league base ball and that the A’s will be aligned just as they will take the field against the Card. inals in the world series next week, is expected to draw a close to ca- pacity throng to Clark Griffith Stadium tomorrow. A good line on what may be ex- pected of Philadelphia’s trio of hurling stars against the National League champs will be furnished by Manager Connie Mack's announce- ment that Grove, Earnshaw and W:lberg will travel three innings aplece. CUBS PLAY WHITE SOX Series for Chicago Title Will Be Started on October 1. CHICAGO, September 27 (#).—In- stead of playing for the base ball cham- pionship of the world, the Cubs must be satisfied to battle for the championship of Chicago. As soon as the St. uis Cardinals clinched the National Léague flag yes- terday the lowly White Sox arose and challenged their haughty North Side base ball kin for a city series champion- ship. The challenge was accepted. ‘The series, always a stormy, hard- fought one, will start October 1 and con- tinue until one team wins four games. ‘The Cubs are the defending city cham- pions, but the White Sox hold a wide edge in series won. ST. LOUIS FAN Flag Was Won After By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, September 327.—8t. Louis hasn't reached that ex- treme sophistication where it | takes its base ball pennants with | a yawn. | For three “even” years now—1926, | 1928, 1930—the Cardinals have reigned { supreme in the National League, but | the eclinching of the third champion- | ship was the occasion for a celebration | nearly as noisy as the one four years ago when a 38-year pennant famine | ended. ‘ Starting immediately after old Jess Haines had knuckle-balled the last ‘Pltuhursh Pirate batter into submis- sion, the old St. Louis began letting off | steam. Whistles and sirens shrieked the | news of the Cardinals’ viotory to the | downtown district and a ‘veritable | blizzard of paper scraps and ticker tape | gegsn sweeping down from office win- ows. | ""Honking automobile horns, torpedoes. | open cut-outs, tin cans tied on the rear | bumpers of cars and practically every ing all the fight of the Hagen of 10 rs back, clung like a leech when the id was good, took advantage of all the ‘breaks, and finally closed him out on the thirty-sixth green. Homans nibbled away at Scaver's Sead over that third nine holes, winning the ninth to be 3 down, winning the| eleventh to be 2 down, halving the twelth by a lucky break after missing his third shot, and finally went to the Jong fiftesnth 2 down with four to play And there, on that sloping green, Sea- ver, whose putter had not failed him before, took three putts from 15 feet to lose to a par 4, when he had a and chance to win the hole. They alved the sixteenth in 4's and Fomans was 1 down and iwo to play Fe stuck a spoon shot so close to the hole that for a time it seemed he was @bout to make an ace. But th» ball grickled by six feet and S-aver hooked his iron shot. Gene won the hole with @ per 3, negotiating a part stymie to o it. And Gene finally stood on the Bhirty-sixth tee all square for the first time since the sccond hole of the match, And he socked one far down the middle to the top of the hill while Beaver, who had outdriven him by 40 ards on_almost every hole, knocked is bell 50 vards in front. But the B-aver boy's ball trickled inio the edge of the rough. And Gene, playing with the meticulous care that characierizes his game. took a spoon out of his bag end stuck that ball on the green 25 Feet from the hole. ‘Where It Was Decided. Seaver had to knock the ball on the een to stay in the tournsment. He ad & bad lie, and he took a 4 iron, but he hooked the ball badly and it match ended on the twenty-eighth hole so close that by 9 and 8. wned late this afternoon, and he thought it might ided he might as well bounced over a bunk:r and lay on the grass. His chip shot was topped and ‘when he missed the return putt from 2) fect Homans was as good 8s in. Gene putted up two feet away and holed the putt to win, then stepp-d over and shook hands with the boy he had trim- med. As Gene picked his ball out of t h> gave a peculiar iitile hop, hop, as was later explained. t wh-n he holes a winning | | | | BY 0. B. KEELER, For the Associated Press. S But Eliminates 1 RDMORE, Pa. September 27.— Eight years ago, at the Brook- line Country Club, near Boston, Jess Sweetser propelled Bobby Jones out of the national amateur championship in the semi-final round, the score being 8 up and 7 to play, | so that the match ended on the elev- enth green, which at Brookline was the most distant from the club house— more than a mile. putt he likes it so well he hops to the hole with those lengthy legs. But that match was a_great one to win and a | hard one to lose. More will be heard of young Seaver. He 1s t0o good to be | kept down and when the fire gets hot- iest he likes it. | Little can said of the Jopes- Sweetser_match, for there wasn't much to it. Bobby was 4 up at the sixth hole in tne morning, and then Jess won | three holes to be oniy 1 down. But | Jess lost the seventeenth and eighteenth to go to lunch 4 down, after three- putting the fifteenth. And in the after- | noon Bobby was much too good for | Jesz, Sweetser, who didn’t have a round | below 75 in this tournament, could not |hang on to Bobby's birdies, and the | where Bobby hung one uj Jess gave it to him to Wi ‘The emperor was to be cro rain, so he deci quit at the club house. If Homans past the thirteenth, Which stands under the club house steps, he will Bobby since 1926, when Von Elm the king in the final. Bobby Pays Back Jess in Kind, “Longest” Walk just 80 further than any man has gone with beat WHEN CARDS GAIN TITLE | Celebration Nearly as Noisy as Four Years Ago;When Grin as Crowds Run Riot. "The longest walk I ever took,” Bobby | Jones said afterward. | | Priday at the Merion Cricket Club | | history repeated itself in a_startling | | fashion, but with a reverse English. | "In the semi-final round of the 1930 | national amateur champlonship, Bobby Jones got his revenge for that tremen- dous dubbing of eight years ago, with a modicum of interest. He stopped | Sweetser on the tenth green, 9 up and | 8 to play. Bobby Really 1 Up. In the locker room a few minutes later Jess came up to congratulate his | conqueror further. “I was hoping to carry it to the next | green,” said Big Jess, smiling, “and | then if it was 8 and 7 I could say, ‘Well, Bobby, we're all square now.’ But we’re not—you're 1 up.” At any rate, the tenth green is quite | near the club house and the eleventh, | like that at Brookline, is a long way off. “I didn’t make you walk as far as you did me, Jess,” said Bobby. “I'm glad of it,” said Jess. pretty tired as it was.” Bobby's last shot of the match was | a little mashie-niblick pitch that bit into the turf of the tenth green 18 inches short of the hole, hopped once Aagkcurled up within 10 inches of the stick. “1 felt sort of mean about that,” Bobby confessed to Jess. “It was like a stab in the back—a shot in the dark.” “It wasn’t any shot in the dark,” laughed Jess. “It was & great stroke— and I'd had about enough, anyway.” ‘You may remember that in 1922 Jess started Bobby's downfall by sinking a pitch of 90 yards for an eagle 2 at the second hole. by coul | | | | T was | | | | b 1 |TEAMS IN DEADLOCK the best-five-out-of-nine series at Louls- ville starting Monday. S GO WILD Long Lapse—Police known device for nolse making werp | pressed into service. Soon streets were littered with paper, long spirals of ticker tape snagged on the bumpers of cars and newsboys with extras added their cries to the din. Until far into the night the din kept up. Carnival crowds milled through the downtown streets, shouting and | grinning. Motor cars crazily decorated with paper streamers and trailing tin cans| and old wash tubs streamed through the streets In noisy procession. They snorted along with their cut-outs open, and the police didn’t care. In fact, it was reported, numerous usually stern policemen grinned as if they'd have iked to join in the celebration. Everywhere the sentiment was “bring | on the Athletics.” Strangers told each other, “Well, boy, we did it.” Telephone officials estimated 35,000 telephone calls were handled within 10 minutes after the Cards had clinched | the pennant, four times the usual num- ber, It seems every fan wanted to call up some other fan. But all that was unofficial. The of- ficial celebration was reserved for to- day, when the victorious Red Birds will | ride through the streets like conquering | heroes. Mounted policemen will show the way for the cars carrying the play- ers. Two players will ride in each car with a member of the Reception Com- mittee. | Army blimps and airplanes will fly over the parade, discharging aerial ombs. Meanwhile, world series tickets will | be dispatched in the mail early next week, along with remittances to unsuc- cessul applicants. With more than five times as many applicants as there are available reservations, many are to be disappointed, but they still have a chance to see the game from the un- reserved section. William Victor, secretary of the St. Louis Hotel Men’s Association, said to- day rates would not be increased for the world series, but an occupant of a double room will be expected to share with another guest or pay double the rate. IN “LITTLE SERIES” Rochester Scores, 7 to 1, and Is Playing Louisville in Third Contest of Nine Today. ROCHESTER, N. Y, (#).—All even at one victory aplece, the Rechester Redwings and Loulsville Colonels prepared for the third game of the little world’s series today. Some effective pitching by the crack Rochester right hander, John Berly, enabled the Redwings to deadlock the |Gl series yesterday, 7—1. For "the third game, the Redwings are expected to send either oeorg Grant or Ira Smith to the mound wif Joe Deberry, veteran association star, Jea hurling for Louisville. ‘The fourth game will be played here tomorrow and all the other contests of September 27 | & END GREAT DRIVE BY BEATING BUCS Team Has Won 21 of Last 24 Games and 43 Out of 55. A’s Trim Yankees. By the Associated Press. HE 8t. Louis Cardinals have clinched the championship two days before the end of the sea- son. A bad fourth on August 1, St. Louis slammed out a 10-to-5 vie- tory over the Pittsburgh Pirates yes- terday to finish the hot struggle for the flag and to gain the right to meet the Philadelphia Athletics in the world series, beginning at Philadelphfh ‘Wednesday. ‘The triumph, the twenty-first for St. Louls in the last 24 games and the forty-third in the 55 games since the beginning of August, left the Chicago Cubs in second place three games be- hind with only two to play. The Cards yesterday gave an all- around exhibition of the brand of base ball that carried them to the top. Jess Haines pitched a fair game, although not as good as many turned in by his younger mates, and the Red Birds backed him up with a hard and timely batting attack that produced 16 hits off the delivery of Ervin Brame, one of the league's leading pitchers. In the fourth inning young George Wat- kins sent them off with a home run with two on base and the Cards batted clear around the line-up to score seven runs. ‘The Cubs clinched second place in the standing yesterday as Hack Wilson's | g, hom: fifty-fourth e run of the season gave them a 7-to-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. ‘The Cubs now are three games ahead of the third-place New York Giants and three and a half ahead of the Brooklyn Robins, both idle gum!v and are safe so far as second place is concerned. ‘The champion Philadelphia Athletics gave the New York Yankees a double dose of bitter defeat as Al Simmons hit By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, Pa, September 27~The prospective pitching situation for the world series, with the Athletics embroiled with the Cardinals, involves the case of a duet against a chorus. Nearly two-thirds of the mound burden for the Mackmen this year has been shouldered by the great Robert Moses Grove, premier southpaw of base ball, and iron man George Earn- shaw, right-handed smoke-ball tosser. They may solve all of Mack’s pitching problems in the championship conflict, starting next Wednesday at Shibe Park. ‘The Cardinals, in sharp contrast, have galloped home in front of the National League pack through the com- bined pitching efforts of a half dozen toilers. Flint Rhem, Wild Bill Halla- han and Burleigh Grimes have proved the most sensational workers, but Jess Haines and Sylvester Johnson have con- tributed a fair share of victories, with Lindsey or Grabowski to meet an oc- cassional emergency. In a short series the experience and ability of two such aces as Grove and Earnshaw figure to give the A's an advantage. They won the 1929 series Cardinals. Hallahan a double in the ninth inning. The hit Qu drove in Wally Schang from second with the run that gave the A's a 7-t0-6 victory and it also put Simmons ahead of the Yanks' Lou Gehrig in the race for the American League batting chn:lglflnlhlp. T Lyons of the Chicago White Sox, whose ancient arm has hurled more complete games than any other major league pitcher this season, held the Detroit Tigers to five hits in the one remaining game to win by a 3-to-1 count. Lyons also contributed a home run to his twenty-ninth full e of the year. St, Louis and Cleveland en- countered rain, bringing about & dou- ble-header Sunday. e e MANGIN AND VINES IN FINAL AT TENNIS Georgetown Player Is Meeting An- | other Collegian for Championship of Pacific Southwest. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 27.—A couple of the Nation’s leading young tennis experts, Ellsworth Vines, repre- senting the Pacific Coast, and Gregory Mangin, Eastern standard bearer, settle the question of the Pacific Southwest men’s singles championship here today. Vines, a University of Southern Cali- fornia freshman, unnoticed in the seed- ings, worked his way through the tour- nament with surprise victories over three seeded players—G. Lyttleton Rodgers, No. 8; Wilmer Allison, No. 1, and Clifford Sutter, No. 4. His collegiate opponent from Newark, N. J, and Georgetown University, alternate on the Davis Cup squ flashed a steady but perhaps less im. pressive play in defeating Alan Her- rington and Les Stoefen, Los Angeles players, and Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, who has won_distinction by eliminating Johnny van Rys and Sidney B. Wood, also of the seeded select. Man- gin :lll seeded No. 7 for the tourna- ment. Vines was favored to beat Mangin, his Eastern opponent. His cross-court placements and consistent baseline per- formances were too much for his other opponents, Finals in the women’s double today brought into action Mrs. L. A. Harper, San Francisco, and Marjorie Morrill, Dedham, Mass., favorites, against M Jjorie Gladman, Santa Monica, and sephine Cruickshank, Santa Ana. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Simmons, Athletics, .379. Runs—Simmons, Athletics, 150. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 173. Hits—Hodapp, Indians, 220. Doubles—Hodapp, Indians, 50, Triples—Combs, Yankees, 22. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 47. Stolen bases—McManus, Tigers, 23. National League. Batting—Terry, Glants, .404. Runs—Klein, Phillies, 15 Runs batted in—Wilson, Cubs, 184. Hits—Terry, Giants, 253. Doubles—Klein, Phillies, 59. Triples—Comorosky, Pirates, 23, Home runs—Wilson, Cubs, 54. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 35. HOME RUN STANDING By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Wilson, Cubs Watkins, Cardinals; Suhr, Pirates Gehringer, Tigers; P. Waner, Pirates; Durocher, Reds; Lyons, White Sox. The leaders—Wilson, Cubs, 54; Rut Yankees, 47; Gehrig, Yankees, 4. Klein, Phillles, 40; Berger, Braves, Simmons, Athletics, 36; Foxx, Athletics, 36; Goslin, Browns, 35; Herman, Robins, 35; Hartnett, Cubs, 35. RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN AB. 3 a Jo- 2 = gead a, Cr'nin 152 Rice.. 145 M'n'h 135 546 Judge. 126 441 sas-s! Sousnacac~ERrESRBRREIR25y e eosocon-ontunantEias! IR, NN ot on eoccconosscomeonuneS BnE? m-‘;:;:;:i' o-saiianl IS DUET AGAINST CHORUS Grove and Earnshaw Have Done Major Portion of Hurling for Athletics, While Half Dozen Have Shared Burden for Cardinals. with Grove operating only in a relief role, due to a finger injury, but as the No. 1 man of the Mack staff is in good health now he should be the selection for the opening game and ready to return by the fourth or fifth encounter at the latest, Earnshaw, with only a day's travel in between pitched two straight games against the Cubs a year ago. He will be quite willing to repeat, unless Mack decides to take @ chance on Young Leroy Mahaffey, Rube Walberg, Bill Shores or old Jack Quinn. There is no Howard Ehmke under cover to confound the experts this time. Grimes, still one of the craftiest and gamest pitchers in base ball, may be the starting choice for the Cardinals, with Flint Rhem and Will Bill Halla- han next in line, unless Manager Gabby Street figures'the veteran Jess Haines can repeat his fine work of 1926. Rhem, when right and in condition, has a tremendous matter of stuff. So has Hallahan, a southpaw, who can walk @ dozen as easily as he can strike out that many. Hallahan and Grove are unquestion- ably the fastest two southpaws in cap- tivity, and a battle between them would be the greatest portside duel since Art Nehf and Herb Pennock were world series rivals. Rhem and Earnshaw likewise have speed to burn. ‘The rival pitching records: Comp. Shut- 8.0. games. outs. Won. 178 2 . Boall osw woowors omoooowm BY MUDDY RUEL. As Told to J. P. Glass. * § UDDY RUEL said that the one thing he regretted in telling the following story was that Mmmo}ltmhmrm alive to read it. “He was one of the grandest sports- men that ever lived,” said the great ‘Washington catcher. “It would make had told the world how much I admired and respected him. “Of course he knew my attitude toward him. He did me the greatest service any one could do and I was al- ways grateful for it. “Some men never are happy unless they are doing something for others. Particularly they like to help young fellows along. J. B. Sheridan, the old St. Louis base ball writer, who died recently, was that sort. Good sports- manship was his regular line. “He loved base ball, and of course any kid that had the gift of handling ;bn-nd.nummmmmmm eart. “He had two boys of his own. One of them died at the age of 10, if I re- member correctly, and it was with the idea of making the other strong and sturdy that the father organized a kid base ball team, equipped it in fine shape, and got it & membership in a Junior league. Produced Big Leaguers. “I played on that team as catcher. I'm proud of it, for it was a good team. Several of the fellows later went to the big leagues. One was Charley Hollocher, the former Cub shortstop star; another, Ray Schmandt, who was with Brooklyn for a time; a third, CHff Brady, who played with Detroit and with the Boston Red Sox, and others, including myself. “My father, George A. Ruel, was one of the greatest rooters in St. Louls and an ardent supporter of the St. Louis Nationals. One of his ambitions wes to see me become a big leaguer. ‘The fact that I was awfully small didn’t keep him from belleving that I could become a star behind the bat. Ray Schalk had just developed into a sensation with the Chicago White Sox and pop would say to me, ‘If he can make good in the big leagues, so you. “I might have succeeded in gratify- ing him, but I doubt it I could have done so if it hadn't been for J. B. Sheridan. He was as much interested in me as my father. He taught me a lot of base ball and when I made an unprecedented jump from a team of boys of high school age to a big league club it was he who made it possible. “It was in the Spring of 1915 that he went to Robert Lee Hedges, the owner of the American League club. I don't think he consulted my fathet about this. Pop, as I said, was a rabid National League parti he said, ‘Bob, recrult for you.' Too Small and Young. “‘Let's see him,’' said Hodges, and J. B. in due time produced me. The magnate looked astonished. ‘How old are you? he asked. When I replied, ‘Seventeen,’ I could read his thoughts. He thought I was too small, too young and too tender to stand the big league gafl. ““The upshot was that he put thumbs down on the pro tion that I should have a berth with the Browns. But he was mistaken if he thought he could shnle sherld:}x‘:’. o{!muo easily. ““I know can make good, he sald, ‘and to show you Iwwmmadc it rnml'm;olnltnmneyoun Hedges. ou take him South you on the training trip. If he 've go offer, with fails he costs you," “I maintain that to be the sportiest act in my memory, I t an un- was dersized kid, seeki, ition o e e el it me happy to have him know that I 1'll pay you out of my own pocket every | On bases —Wi MUDDY RUEL PAYS A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JACK SHERIDAN One of the Grandest of All Sportsmen, Says Catcher of Man Who Gave Him His Start. husky fellows. Sheridan stood a royal | Sists. chance of having a healthy dent put in his roll, and he was no rich man either. “Luckily, I managed to stick with the Browns, though it was more as & student than as a player. But as things turned out wasn't completely off Sheridan’s hands. Farmed Out to Memphis. “The next year there was a shift in the line-up of the Browns that caused me to be sent to the Memphis club of the Southern Association. This was in the Spring of 1916. I'm sorry to say that I didn't make an imme- diate hit with Dolly Stark, the Memphis manager. “He was about to hand me my re- lease when the St. Louis Americans, with whom Sheridan was traveling as a base ball correspondent, reached Mem- phis. The minute Sheridan heard of my situation he sought out Stark. “‘You'll make a mistake if you let the kid go, Dolly,’ he said. “‘I haven't got room for him,’ said the Memphis manager. “"You make room for him,’ said J. B. ‘Tell you what I'll do. If he doesn't make good I'll pay you back every cent he costs you. “Well, you can see that after that I simply had to come through. I couldn’t ?‘f‘pdpo‘m my grand old sportsman riend. “I stuck with Memphis through 1916 and 1917. Then I was sold to the New York Yankees. I've been in the big league ever since. “Sheridan had the satisfaction of glxlly on a world champion team, and owing that his faith In me was not misplaced. As long as I breathe I'll mot forget his kindness W me.” (Copyright, 1930.) YESTERDAY’S STARS | By 1 Associated Press. Frank Frisch, Cardinals—Clouted Pirate hurling for triple and two singles, driving in three runs and scoring two. Hack Wilson, Cubs—Clouted fifty- !'msjnh homer with one on to beat Reds, Ted Lyons, White Sox—Held Tigers to five hits and smashed homer, win- ning, 3-1. Al Simmons, Athletics—Collected dou- ble and single and drove in three runs, including winning one, against Yankees. Milt Gaston, Red Sox—Held Sena- '_;o{’s to seven scattered hits and won, AND WHO CARES WASHINGTON. - > Spen Har cer, €. rave, c. . ey, D AT SR PR |ooomsrnune—ad Sleiatismn i ul 5 dauiauaritei l Sdke s | 30 *Batted for Hadley in s BOSTON. Oliver, ef. . | Scarri | Miller, 3b. . Rothrock, rf Reeves, db. .. , ib. e 2 g H o | Toat, et S WGy i cosososss™ Gaston_(2), se hits—Oliver, Todt, diey. Double plays— Todt, Gaston to Warst- Myer. Left Twe Manush, ler to Reeve Todt, Ha: Miller, Heving. Warstl to ler to A adley, 1 S inning. " Lasing piteher /mpires—] .'Guthrie and Van- of game—1 hour and 29 min- off Burki Hadler. erafiin. Time utes. POOR HEALTH GIVEN AS REASON BY VET Sam Plans Retirement in California—Red Sox Beat Hadley, 7-1. BY JOHN B. KELLER. OSTON, September 27.—Once again Sam Rice's swan song is on the air. For three years now the veteran out- fielder of the Washington club as the playing season waned has said he is “through” with base ball. But Spring always found him at training camp as enthu- siastic over getting into the game las the youngest rookie. This time, however, Sam declares he is serious about considering retire- ment and gives as his main rea- son impaired health. “I believe I still can go for a time so far as my legs are concerned,” said the veteran of 16 campaigns with the Na- tionals today, “and I am sure I will be able to hit as long as I can see. But," he added, “I haven't been feeling well most of this season and think it is about time for me to step out.” Rice has been ailing to a great ex- tent since the early part of June, suf- fering with stomach trouble. It will be recalled he had a serious stomach at- tack late in June and was unable to take part in the game on the day dedi- | cated to the player who has been his roommate while the club was on the 50:: during the past 15 years, Joe udge. “I had not been well before that at- tack,” Rice declared, “but it was just about the finish for me, almost & knock- out at the time. It left me in very poor condition and I have been unable to get right since. I have had plenty dental trouble this Summer, too, the first long siege I ever experienced. Everything seems to have gone wrong with me at one time, “Well, a ball player cannot !o on forever, you know, and I guess I have had more than my share of luck in sticking around so long,” the veteran finished. As soon as he returns to Washington from the two world series games in Philadelphia next week, Rice s to place himself under the care of the dentists and the doctors. He has been told there is much to be done by both prepared for a long wrestle with ments. After that, germu Cali- a for permanent residence. ut no more base ball,” Sam fin- 1t shouldn't’ be surprising, h, to see Rice stepping out wflgl M- tionals next Spring. NOTHER National is through—for this season. He is Irving Hulz‘yn chunky pitcher, whose home is Lynn. After taking a licking from the Red Sox yesterday Hadley bade his teammates farewell for the time being and proceeded to his Massachusetts residence. “I feel that I ought to have done better this year,” said Hadley before departing, “but there are other years. I am confident I can give the Wash- ington club much in a pitching way. I've tried, but perhaps I tried too hard at times. That can hurt. I believe I've learned more about pitching this season than ever before and that should help me hermm And I'll keep plug- ging, too. Hadley expects to remain North this Winter instead of taking a trip to Florida, as he did last season. He may g0 to New Brunswick, Canada, for some hunting and fishing, but most of his time will be spent in Lynn, he says, and is ;fll until he gets the call to join the Na- tionals at the Biloxi training camp. N the third game of the series here Hadley gave the Red Sox a good battle until the seventh inning, when they landed on him for four hits and three runs. Then they went on to col- lect runs off Bob Burke in the eighth and finish with a 7-to-1 win over the Nationals. Hadley, though, was hit harder than the six safeties gleaned off him in the first six frames seem to indicate. Only a spectacular diving catch of & liner by Joe Cronin in the second in- ning kept the pitcher from being severely punished that early in the ’lme and from then until the end of his term the Washington defense was given plenty to do. After Hadley was pummeled in_the seventh Burke tried an inning. Bob, however, was wild and also was the victim of a freak play with the re- sult that the Red Sox combed him for two tallies. Milton Gaston went the route against his former club and made a job of it. He allowed but seven hits and one pass was_accorded perfect support. er, Red Sox shortstop, was particularly effective at backing up the hurler. After the second in- ning, in which he was hammered for a score, Gaston ylelded only three scat- tered safeties and the Nationals never had a real chance to dent the count- ing block. LIVER'S double and Miller's single ve the Red Sox a one-run start n the first inning, but the tionals in their second turn deadlocl the game with Spencer's single and Hadley's two-bagger. In their second inning the Red Sox came right back to resume the lead wtih a run gleaned from Todt's double and Heving's one- T, From then until the seventh fine fielding prevented scoring, but in the seventh Hadley was stormed. Reeves lofted a single over Shires’ head, and, after Manush ran many yards to pull down Todt’s hoist, suc- cessive hits were made by Warstler, Hev= ing and Gaston, Heving’s hit being good for two bases. That netted the home side three runs. Umpire Guthrie's reversal of a de- cision by Umpire Vangraflan hurt Burke in the eighth. Bob had walked tRee\'fl "lthhonc ll.)l\lt ‘:‘nd ‘Warstler with wo out, when Hev! to) a 11 down the first-base lln'e. o s Just as the pitcher reached the chalk- mark and touched the ball he was hit and spilled by Heving dashing to first. Vangraflan, umpire, promptly ruled Heving out for interference, but was crossed by Guthrie, who said Burke had stabbed at the runner. So Reeves' denting of the plate counted and Warstler was safe at third. Gaston cracked a single that tallied Warstler }nrore Oliver grounded out to end the ray. . Unfortunately, Burke was charged with an error when he cuffed the ball* as Heving hit him. Having no chanee' to make a play with the runner right® on top of him, it seemed that Burke should have escaped the error charge ' and Heving been credited with a llnrg: and Warstl By the Assoclated Press. 4 CHICAGO—Sammy Mandell, Rock- Tommy ford, I, outpointed it Chicaj umfm Rormeh 3020 Dent PI. N.W. Just North of 30th & Q Streets 3 Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Porch, $40