Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1930, Page 30

SPORTS., Game Has Grown Sinc LOST TO GIANTS IN 1905 BUT GOT REVENGE IN 1911 World Championship Tilts in Early Days Had Little | in Common With Aspe tance Involved Nowadays. \ BY CONNIE MACK, Manager, Philadelphia Athletics. HILADELPHIA, September P 29.—For the seventh time next Wednesday afternoon I will be leading a team in & world series when the Athletics | and Cardinals watch the first pitch shoot toward the plate at| Shibe Park. My first world series was in 1905 with the Giants, there being no such inspiring climax to the sea- son of 1902, when we won our first American League pennant. As I look back to that series of 1905, I can see the great expansion in base ball since then. When it was scrubby pines then, it’s mighty oaks now. Part of those games were played in old Columbia Park here, which boasted of & half-soled-and-heeled wooden | stand, but nevertheless has many fond ories to us for Peing the cradle of ‘were. plsyeg mn‘:e old Polo Grounds, then the biggest plant in the eoun- try, but nothing to compare with the Connfe Mack g on Tadio or reading accounts in the papers. | Now it is one of the biggest sporting | events of the year and requires 500 re- mmn. rhoh(npher- and radio men cover it. Visitors come from all over the Nation. The parks here and in St. Louis could sell four times their ca-|f Expanded After 1905. Base following 1905 when the Athletics were defeated by the Gilants four games to one. We were denied admittance to the | dml% eudmupu'li(:. mfl;ec hlumt;nl had ‘expan 3 'ar] ‘were cm] la; T because of increased public mur’:&l ©Old Columbia Park had been replaced Shibe Park, which has since been In 1910 mobody Save us a cha ith n ly gave us a ince wi Prank Chance's Cubs and we startled | the base ball world when we won four N towen in which year, in which Eddie Collins, J. Franklin es. avenged the reverse of beating McGraw's Giants in| of six games, and that victory ! all talk of our win over the ing a fluke. We were very much d as a ball team after that, Boston Took, Pennant. Nevertheless, we not win the 1912 t, although I considered the team games. . Again the Athletics proved their mas- tery by taking four out of five games. We won the pennant again in 1914, but never looked wors: in a world series, for th: Boston Braves beat us four straight. The 1914 series rankled in my breast much worse than the cefeat in Cardsm:l‘ry Si;be Park Tomorrow 'LEVELAND, Ohio, September 20 (#)—The Cardinals will prac- tice tomorrow afternoon et Bhibe Park, scene of the world se- Ties ning Wednesday. Un the rules of world series &hy. the competing team has a right one session of uninterrupted prac- tice at the visiting park. Many of the unofficial experts are of the opinion that Burleigh Grimes, veteran spitballer, will start for the In order that the A's may become accustomed to the intricacies of spit- ball pitches, Mack has been having Jack Quinn pitch wet balls to them a3 much as possible the last few THE ONLY Steel Shaft with TORSION Among the leading ¢o!f club-makers who fit their quality elubs with Torsion steel shafts Wilsoa-Western, BRISTOL | We won four out of five games and had ball commenced to pick up great | T strive to keep e Kerwh in | weight, in another 10-rounder. cts of National Impor- 1905, bncsu.sew'.h; team that year was good enough ave won. I almost forgot there was such a thing as a world series, for I had to n#un&u 1929 to get back into the| games again. | ‘Then last year the e team that | meets the Cardinals next Wednesday took the measure of the Cubs in the most dramatic set of games ever played. to perform miracles with the bat to score the last two victories. With a record of four victories and two defeats, I am now getting ready for | my seventh world series. HOT DUCKPINNERS AWAIT COOL SPELL Cornell Lunch Team Will Take on| Temples and Tailors Meet Specials Tonight. ASHINGTON'S thousands of the maple spillers, minus | much of the avoirdupols they | carried before the opening of the pin season, again take to the drives tonight for another week of spare and | strike hunting, earnestly hoping that the mercury tumbles. “Bowling's a great sport,” remarked a sweltering pinman last week, “but in this kind of weather it's work.” Despite the heat, several new rec- ords were hung up last week and blessed | with typical bowling weather, there’s no telling what's next. 'ORMAN SCHROTH'S Cornell Lunch five has a chance to shine tonight when they take on Maxie Rosen- berg's Temples at 8 o'clock on the Coliseum mapleways. Both quints won their initial starts in the District League and one will lead the proces- sion for a day at least, after tonight's | ray. The Cornells are banking on Brad Mandley, Kenny Thorpe, Dutch New- an, Phil Hefflefinger and Schroth, while Rosenberg presents his usual ag- gregation of pin-toppers in Red Megaw, Paulie and Joe Harrison, George Honey and himself. National Capital League also has an all-star attraction on the books tonight. when the Rinaldi Tallors and Coliseum Specials hook up. Leo Rinaldi's-erew, losers in its first start against the Fountain Hams, will the Specials from taking the leagus —— HEAVIES MEET TONIGHT. CHICAGO, September 20 (#)—Nisse Ramm, Swedish he 10-round hout at White City. The card also offers Eddie Ran of Polan: and George n, & Chicago welter- “This week I put against the stiffest smoked OLD GOLD, TORSION “I put it in competition with the Navy’s favorite cigarette . . . in the biggest stronghold of that cigarette, aboard the Battleship Colorado . , . whereitoutsellsall other brands 20 to 1. “‘Yet, believe it or not, when the Gobs with the Navy’s favorite and 2 other THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO ST. LOUIS CELEBRATED CARDINALS’ VICTORY There was plenty of enthusitsm when al League pennant, Here's a the main stem, the Mound City honored its Red Birds the day after they clinched the Nation- snapshot showing how the natives honored victorious athletes as they paraded by auto down —A. P. Photo. CARDS ' REYERE WISHBONE AS HARBINGER OF FLAG |Before Faring Forth to Batt‘le in World Series Each Player Will Touch Chicken Relic That Started Team to Fortune. T. LOUIS, September 20 (#).—It was & wishbone of a chicken that brought the 1930 National League pennant to St. Louis, Some followers of the old national pastime probably thought right along it was Gabby Street's master-minding or the excellence of the pitching staff or the high explosives contained in Cardi- nal bats that put the St. Louis entry | “in,” but such reasoning was a mistake. The story of why and how the Cardi- nals won the pennant is this: Before the team started its last East- ern- trip, which boosted it from fourth to first place, Ray Blades, coach and utility outfiel invited ‘& number of Elny:yrs to b::' chitken dinner with im at the home of a farmer friend.in Tllionis. “Doc” Weaver Has Hunch. Now, it ha that Doc’ ‘Weaver, club ous helping OLD GOLD up Believe It or Not test it ever had to face. als, given & gener- | luck bteldinwhlch'fllcnl was embedded a wishbone. * After eat- ing the meat he made a statement. “Boys,” he sald, “I have the wish- bone of a chicken, which, according to tradition, brings good luck. Something tells me that it is going to be our lucky plece on our Eastern trip. Something tells me 1t 1s going 1o bring us & pen nant.” No doubt he thought his remarks would be received with jest, because at the time — about September 7 — the Cards had a fight on their hands to stay {n the first division. But the play- ers listened to' him gravely. They in- structed Weaver to take wishbone | on the trip"and see what wonders it would perform. Faith Is Real. The records show that from that date the Cardinals made one of the most| in sensational comebacks in base ball fortune. come about that *“Doc” w Battle jm’ Ncwy? Favor By ROBERT RIPLEY, Creator of Believe It or Not leading brands, 0.G.’s won in a walke away, 28 to 22. “And, mind you, the brand names clipping were concealed . . . only taste decided. “‘Believe It or Not fans know I prove my facts. . . every time. Just read the in .boi at right, reprinted from the Colorado Look-Out, the big , in comparison send you “RIP” AND SCORER! Above is Bob Ripley with one of the marines who helped to audit the score. battleship’s own newspaper. And I'll the Certified Public Accoun- tant’s report if you want it!” Weaver has in his possession & relic of chicken anatomy that is revered with almost religious fervor by the players. He keeps it in a velvet-lined box under lock and key and no profane eyes are permitted to see it. But every day during the rush down the stretch for the pennant a strange rite has been observed in the Cardinals’ dressing room. A ceremonial was held in “Doc” Weaver’s office, “Doc” opened the box containing the wishbone and one by one the Cardinals filed by and placed hands upon the wishbone. This done, they fared forth to battle. 2 And the good office of the bones will be invoked daily as the Cardinals do with the Athletics. IN RUBBER MAT MATCH Bartush and Dr. Wilson to Meet in Turner Show Feature. Joe Turner, mat promoter at the ‘Washington Auditorium, has announced four clashes for Thursday, all finish bouts, Bill Bartush and Dr. Frank Wilson, who have met twice. thus far, one mateh going to Bartush and the other & draw, are scheduled to try again in the feature bout. i Mike Romano, Chicago Italian grap- pler, will meet a newcomer this year mka Zelesiak, Russian matman. Jack Taylor, Canadian lumberman, will mix it with Bill Middlekoff, for- merly of the University of Miami, while ‘Tiny Roebuck, the giant -Indiam,.is slated for a tussle with Oscar Nw ‘Tickets go on sale today at e Ahearn's, 500 Ninth street. Hodapp Is First Collecting Hits le-ADmA. September 20 (#) —By making t?,%rh hits in two games yesterday, n_Hodapp, Cleveland Indian second baseman, became the leading base hit maker of the 1930 American League season. He made 225 hits to 220 for Lou Gehrig of New York Yankees, the nner- Tu up. Hodapp also sealed a second claim to fame by handling 15 chances faultlessly to run his record of con- secutive errorless plays to 158, GIANTS TAKE THIRD S | time, and largely because I have| | been fortunate enough to have the | PLACE IN NATIONAL Beat Phils in Ten Innings to Finish One Game Ahead of Robins. BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. NLY one place in the line-up of the two big leagues was in doubt as the teams went out for their final games yesterday and the New York Giants decided that by defeating the Phillies, 7 to 6, in a 10-inning struggle to hoid third place in Nation: e by & one-game margin over the erstwhile league leaderg from Brooklyn. ‘The Giants used five moundsmen, came from behind to tie the score in the ninth inning and won in the tenth. The Robins did their best to gain a tie, defeating the Boston Braves, 6 to 3. Hollis urston gave eight hits and drove in four runs with three of Brook- lyn’s 15 hits, including the only home run of the game. Cards Show New Star. The champion St. Louis Cardinals| g flashed a new pitching star to take their final game from the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 to 1. Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, recently of the Western and Texas es, held the Pirates to three hits and shut them out after his first major league inning. The New York Yankees brought forth an old-timer of the hurling ranks, none other than Babe Ruth himself, and won & 9-t0-3 decision from the Boston Red Sox. The Babe had not pitched a full game in nine years, but he did it in his old-time form yuurdn‘;gn giving only two hits in the first five innings. Cubs Finish Strong. ‘The Chicago Cubs came back to beat Cincinnatl, 13 to 11, after the Reds had scored nine runs in the second inning. Washington's second place team scored six times in the fifth to defeat Phila- delphia’s American League champions, 9 to 4, as four aces of the Mack hurl- ing staff worked briefly. St. Loyis and Cleveland divided a wild-hitting double- header, the Browns collecting 17 hits as they won the first e, 11 to 5, and the Indians unleashing a 20-hit at- tack to capture the second, 156 to 4. Chicago’'s White Sox did likewise, hit- ting safely 15 times as they defeated Detroit, 10 to 7, through a strong finish. PENNANTS TO DRILL. i ants will hold & fl#l%veuu‘m on the Iowa lvenflué g iyground at 7:30 o'clock. All candi- lates are asked to report. The P. Lorillard and Co.; mikers of Old(Gold]cigarett rado yester cimatu'li’l‘h $Believe It or Nof , D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1930 ‘ e Mack’s First Series : Street Says Cards “Cinch to Handle” . | and them it we 37 ln;sn‘.efl‘ort,to, man’sfpreference}in ey, brought along’a num+ ers,’and the like)and al uy af famous¥personagefwho{sketches\ the. papers—Mr. Riple; fashionedsmoker, the forecastle, with s: ‘crowded around_ holding black-banded SPORTS INSISTS TEAM WAS GOOD WHEN HE TOOK CONTROL Getting Pitchers in Shape and Giving Hallahan Con- fidence in Self Was Biggest Job of 1930 Season for St. Louis Manager. BY CHARLES “GABBY” STREET, Manager, 8t. Louls Cardinals. T. LOUIS, September 29.— Perhaps because I was the first Cardinal manager to be reappointed in a long boys come through as league champions in my first year as| their leader, many persons have asked me how I ran the ball club and how I managed to lead the team to a pennant when few base ball writers gave the club a tumble | in the Spring. First, I want to say that it was a great ball club before it ever saw Gabby Street. One of the first things I said | last Spring, when we were training at | Bradenton, was that I thought I had the best ball club in . the league and that if my pitchers came through and we avoided {illness, ac- cidents and ' in- Jjuries, the Cardinals ought to win the pennant, or be in the fight all the way, & contender from April to Oc- tober. Some of the tour- ing newspaper men told me I was mak- | ;nc it p"l'fqb tough Gabby Street for myself by an- nouncing that I had the best club in the league. They thought it would be wise to do a lot of moaning the §) , 50 that I'd have every- in case the club flopped, came through and made ;! tmte showing it would make me look T, But the club looked good to me then and I told the boys that and I told everybody that because I really be- | Heved it. Pitchers Biggest Job. Of course, the pitchers had to come through, and that was my, most im- portant job, to get them condition | and find what they could do. Hallahan was my big opportunity. You know I don’t want to claim any record for making Hallahan a great }:‘l:fher. ‘When I saw him at Bradenton Spring I told him all about it. “Bill,” , “I can't make you a great plicher. You already are one. But when you get confidence in yourself you can make me a successful manager." Well, as I say, em&t for getting the pitchers into condition and making Hallahan believe in himself, the Cardinal club was readymade. Men Keep in Condition. It has been a cinch to manage the Cardinals. I never saw a bunch of fellows like them anywhere. Rules? Say, we didn't need any rules. Of course, we had & rule that the boys had to be in bed 2 o'clock each night, bu; visited ,the ,Colo~ ‘would look rticles in the daily t was a’good old at took place on ors and marines condition. There never was a club in base ball so well behaved. From the opening of the training camp at Bradenton until now, I've never mentioned drinking to my team. And through the entire season only one man broke faith. My formula for handling men 18 to treat them as you would like to be treated. I worked for some pretty tough managers and some great ones in my day and I know I'd always work my hands off for the man who treated me white. When a manager got tough with me I gave him as little as I could get by with, (Copyright, 1930.) WINTIRE HUMBLES OLD SANDLOT PALS Strikes Out 18 as Celtics Square Series With Northerns, Saks’ Halts Sox. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 29— A dazzling exhibition of southpaw twirle ing was presented by Robert Lee Mc- Intire before a throng of former team- mates of the Northern Red Birds and some 500 fans when he pitched the St. Mary's Celtics into a tie with the Red Birds for the District independent championship series lead, humbled the team which until two months ago he served as its pitching ace and set a local strikeout record for the season by ;;n;-:ln. 18 batters. The score was 15 It took the Saks Clothers of Wash- ington, eleven innings to halt the Vir- ginia White. Sox's winning_ streak of eight games on the Bailey’s Cross Roads diamond. Two runs in the second extra giame gave the Clothers a 7-to-6 ver- ct. Bethesda A. C. of Bethesda, Md,, took both games of a double-header with the Colonial A. C., 8 t0 2, and 3 to 2. PIERCE A. C. MEETS, All aspirants for the Pierce A. C. foot ball team are asked to report at a meet~ ing tonight at the home of Bob Mingee, Cedar street, Hyattsville, Md. Service Lane thirty feet wide, street to street, une- usual in Jgarage construe- tion. Steuart Motor Co. 6th at K St. N.W. (Center of the City) Never Closed Nat1 3000 cigarettes in_either,hand;-and intense eoncentrltiorfl’-written(o Afterceachy plll“the)serwmhklnr it ¢ off in the’ his, brow} for{a} second,{ bl&w “outithe smoke and take ‘another puffi ‘“Believe' it or,not,% Old: Gold' eiga- ‘rettes,took precedencel over) the\two navy/’ standbys,{ beatingi the” “Navy's skagg” by a fair margin. - The test is a fairone, and although some of the men could hardly believe that they had not picked their pet skagg out of the set, istaneey wrinkle Here's a clipping from the U. 8. S, Colorado “‘Looke Out,"” battleship newspaper, that tells the story, | IN ACTION! This isn’t a battle fore mation. It's Robe ert “‘Believe It or Not" Ripley make ing his famous “taste-test" orithe U. 8. 8. Colorado,