Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1930, Page 32

SPORTS WARM-UP NEEDED 0 DECIDE HURLER Unlikely to Make Any Slab Selections Until Just Be- fore Play Opens. BY CONNIE MACK, Msnager, Philadelohis Athletics. OR severgl days you have been reading comparisons of Athletic and Cardinal players and the mammoth colmuns of advance gossip about these big games, and today at Shibe Park the teams will get into action, and from now to the fin- ish you will have actual results as a daily tidbit until the series is finished. Everybody wants to know the jdentity of the pitcher who will shoot the first piwh to the St. Louls lead-off man this afternoon. I am going to let you into a little secret. I don’t know. Moreover, I don’t know the rames of the starting pitcher in any other of the games, and Be T ever decide on my man the night before I am going to keep his name locked in my breast, for | possibly the next day I might change my niind while the pitchers are warm- ing IJF and then folks would doubt my Best to Keep Quiet. way out of it is to keep & the most delluh question n give you it the rest of the line-up. hieh in- regulars, wi e finished No. 15—Some Tdeas on Greatness. PKRH.APB no manager in the history of base ball ever handled more and greater pitching talent than the master of the House of Mack. Down through the years they t | have lett indelible marks—the ec- | eentric but brilliant Waddell, the taciturn Bender, the cool and dependable Plank, iron-man Coombs, Bullet Joe Bush, Knuckle- Haas! | pall Eddie Rommel, the modern strike-out king, Grove, and the hard-working Earnshaw. Great as these have been, Mack unhesitatingly regards the late Christy Mathewson as the great- ut pitcher of all time, a tribute to “Big Six” all the more remark- where the they .Efia. 8| » 3 E» i 'a"l : L 1S Ei tie, ; i § g d § g ¢ ] s i 4 L4 ..fi- b GOLF DRIVING MATCH PROVES TO BE BUST| Monro Hunter “Earns” $1,000 Prize for Third, but Whole Sum for Winners Is $25. That “world championship” dnvhq competition in_ the Beumeenun Budium in phia~ last but & complete buxt. sonut.hlng like 40 long hitters from | all over the East and Midwest—most | of them professionals—gathered in ‘the | stadium and drove a flock of golf balls | for what they thought were prizes amouning to $7,500, and when they went to receive thier prize money they were informed practically no money Wwas o 5 Munro Hunter, tall pro at Indian Bpring, finished third with an avi for three balls of better than 248 and he got exactly nothing for his efforts The contest won by Clarence ‘Gamber of Demu the “big bam” of golf, who drove three balls for an aver- &ge of 251 yards and a few inches. In second place was Olff §) of | raf Baltimore, who averaged 249 yards. Hunter was the only man to get five balls within the stakes marking the boundaries of the field. ‘When the professionals finished the driving and went to the offices of the Arena Corporation to get thelr checks, they were informed they would be mail- E demurred at this, and Inquiry developed that the net gate was 87 and that they would split something like $25, which would not pay their ex- penses. Now they intend to take the matter up with their attorneys and through the N. P. G. A. to see whether the money will not be forthcoming. Third-place money was advertised as $1,000, which would have gone to Hunter under the conditions of play. 3 vt i GILL TO MEET PURINTON Comdr. . C. Gill, de!endlnl clnm- was to face Jack semi-final match in the llmunl moor Club closed tennis tourna- ‘will meet Co“l! $tam for the title, Comdr, Gill surprised last !undly by dduun' Bob Considine, Dis champion. — BETTY NUTHALL GREETED PLYMOUTH, England, October 1 (#). —Admirers of Miss Betty Nuthall, Brit- ish tennis star, who returned home yesterday from American conquests, in- vaded her cabin on the Mauretania to eongratuiate her on bflnlxn: the Amer- fcan tennis title to Engla “The women of mhnfl lun to be 3 able because it comes from the most successful of American igue yianagers. E e §e ] §n ] EK e Fgfi i ; i Fa have been others nearly eat. It is difficult to rank them, t £4 Walsh, Wal- ter Johnson and Miner Brown among m‘ruum.-lmuwuhturmnmn 1 handled—Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, Chief Bender and Jack Coombs. were a wonderful combination. “Grove started slowly, but he has de- velo) into a really great left-hander. He has the control now that he lacked at, q'r:c.‘lnd he ht.h. mme'r:tm speed. “Bender was the greatest o mher I ever saw. When I m hief to get ready for a big game, I lncw I could count on him.” The greatest all-around player of all time? Ty Cobb, declared Mack, without the slightest equivocation. John McGraw had just named Hans Wagner for this position in base ball's Hall of Fame when I asked Mack for his_opinion. “I think McGraw would agree with me if he had seen Cobb as long as I have,” replitd Connie. “There was mo doubt of Wagner’s greatness or of the ‘marvelous all-around ability of such everything and do figured Detroit in terms of Cobb, not as a team. “Even mow (in 1927), after 22 years in the big leagues, Cobb concedes little to any rival. He is one of the few play- ers who always can be counted on to get from first to third on a single. ABE RUTH is like Cobb in this respect. ‘The Babe has greater rg:end and is a greater all-around star people think. But, except for his onl- istance hitting, Ruth doesn’t compare with Cobb over a long period of years for consistent ability.” McGraw selected the old Baltimore among whom he was & star, as the test team of all time, but Mack the New York Yan) of 1927~ Zl at leut & notch higher. While re. luctant to make comparisons, there !.l reason to belleve that Mack these Yankees, in the heydey t.hc!r power, as an even greater combination phnlumg the mdmon;. right new and makes me ever so uutmme-mmmfk !hl‘ & wonderful time in ody was so kind.” At 'All Dealers! They | Sunday, CONNIE MACK | HIS 50 YEARS IN BASE BALL 'i‘;fi!l “hu own famous machine - of “Whether the Yankees: were the greatest team ever assembled, I ma; not say,” he told me, “but certainly ‘ Would put them above'the Orioles, if not over any other outfit. These Yankees have shown no weakness. The; ense, ‘The Pmmu They hitters and but not the as well as tremendous hitting. Orioles did not have the were & great bunch of great club, SSUMING they could all be brought together in their prime, what a mighty all-star club Mack could assemble from the players he has han- ! Imagine a line-up such as this: First base—Jimmy Foxx. Second base—Eddie Collins, Third base—Pesn Baker Outfleld—Ty Cobb, Tnl " Speaker and Al sufiu TIGERS AFTER TITLE IN SUNDAY BALL TILT Need One More Victory Ovér Dixie Pigs to Clinch Honors in i ve to 'hampionship. The staged on the Silver lprtn. diamond af 2:30 o'c! ‘Tigers, wi are the Montgomery defeal In ldfll:m t&.u:elr wlxa‘m the m trles section c%m Imlurq !m- hh. have been tumed in ‘the ‘winnin, in es Plll feated Amcmt.h Eagles in their only other f.flt, aside from their match with the Tigers Skinker l'.n:la still are geeking dia- mond action. They want games for both Saturday and Sunday on the in Bosk e Gt Spring Glants. Cal e ver Cleveland 2134, i Rambler A. C. s after a contest for Bunday with either Chevy Chase Grays or the Foxall A. C. nine. Call lnn- uer King, West 2201, between 7 and have o ted the Pigs, County standard bearers, last Sunday, |this o ——— By Alan Gould Sports Editor the A.oehhd Press. Catchers—Mickey Cochrane and Wally Scl Piichers—Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Eddie Plank, Jagk Coombs and Bob Grove, ; th the exception of Cobb and aker, who joined Mack at the end their careers, all of these stars were in their prime as Athletics. ‘The great Napoleon Lajoie played second base for Mack both before and after the height of his career with Cleveland. Jimmy Collins, once the king of third basemen, played for a time with the ol Red Sox. Joe an, in his day the greatest of American League third sackers, was developed by Mack. all knew and possessed affec- tion for the “tall tutor” who gave them a chance or a job or a “break”; the man whose sole praise for himself after 50 years was: “I was fortunate enough to have some wonderful ball players.” ‘THE k (Copyright, 1930, the Associated Press) SCHOOL MARKSMEN ENTER JUNIOR SERIES Western Boys’ and Central Girls’ Teams to Participate in Na- tional Matches. ‘Western ifl team and Central's girl team have en- tered the junior bi-weekly matches sponsored by the National Rifle As- soclation’s Junior Rifle Corm Fifteen matches will be fired in three periods of five events each. The series begins month and continues through June. At the end of each five-match period, rog hies are to be presented the three teams in clacses A, B and C. The cluul are determined on the basis of scores fired. At the close of the con- test a trophy and five medals will be awarded the high team for the series in each class. ‘Ten members make up each team. School’s lmst | Scores of the highest five will count for record. Each contestant has 10 shots. The firing is done in the prone position with .22 callber or smali-bore rifle, After shooting on their home rmel, teams will send their targets to arters of the Junior Rifle Corps in eity for verification. Scores wul be announced at- the end.of each two- week period. The nm closes chber 11. Only three mnflr le-zue clubs are re- Y strained fro) ing games Sun- day—the M.hle!la Pgfl'lu dm;l tes NS er T Listen In On The WORLD’S SERIES With the New Not a midget set—a real radio. Has a genuine electro-dynamic speaker, builtein, 7 tubes, 3 of them screen grid, in a genwine walnut cabinet of Gothic design. price and performance. It is absolutely without equal in Get the surprise of your life when you see and hear it. NO Y EXTRA CHARGES FOR EASY CREDIT TERMS! A’s after leaving the |7 . mehed the semi-final round of WILSON AND BARTUSH IN RETURN MAT BOUT Will Grapple to Finish Tomorrow Night—Three Other Tussles Are on Program. ‘The wrestling card, arranged by Pro- moter Joe Turner, is all set for tomor- row night at the Washington Audi- torlum, with the first bout starting at 8:30 o'clock. Dr. Frank Wilson and Billy Bartush, who has removed ..Is mask for good, lm 0 lrlpgoe in the feature, which a sequel the draw of last week. Thl match tonight, however, will be to a finish. Jack Taylor and Bill Middlekoff are to STapple in another bout. Middle- koff is the boy who disposed of Frank Marque, Canadian heavyweight "Mk Romaso of Ohis e Romano of cago will Bamka Zelesiak, who cll?;’m mewm llln title. Tiny Roebuck and Oscar Nugern also are slated for a meeting. APPROVED OFFICIALS FORM ORGANIZATION Northern Virginia Group to Be Inaugurated Tonight—Women in Golf Semi-finals. ALEXANDRIA, Va. October 1.—Or- ganization of the Northern Virginia Jproved Officials’ Association will be ‘ected here tonight at a maet called for 7 o'clock at 317 lnn Mrs. Gardener L. Boothe, 2d, wmn- an champion at Belle Haven Club last year, and Mrs. J. W. Howard h..v“e‘ Wwoman’s annual golf championship at the local club. Yesterday Mrs. Boothe defeated Mrs. F, W. Hun- ler, 8 up and 7, while Mrs. Ho humbled Miss Elizabeth Boothe,3and 2. | ‘The Midgets have formed an independent club, with Cecll Jack- son as president, A meeting of ecandidates for the Whirlwind A. C. basket ball team has %e‘en called for 7 p.m. tonight at 1503 ing street. Joe Hamilton, who played end with the Bt. Mary's Celtics last year, has signed to perform this season with the Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity eleven. Lefty McIntyre, pitching ace of the St. Mary's Celtics, will be after his twelfth straight mound victory when he faces the Northern Red Birds here Sunday. Alpha Delta Omega gridders will play Quantico Marine Aviators Sunday at_2:30 o'clock on Hunton Fleld, Monroe A. C. has canceled its base ball game with the Virginia White Sox it Baileys Cross Roads Sunday. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN MeGillicuddy vs. Breadon. HILADELPHIA, October 1.—Mr. Cornelius McGillicuddy, the lean patriarch of the national pas- time, who last year was voted Philadelphia’s most. useful citizen, is sending another team of Athleties into a world series. The gentlemen who speculate on these matters are marking Mr. McGillicuddy's Athletics favorites to beat the Bt. Louls Cardinals, which are owned for the most part by Mr. Samuel Breadon, a New York boy who went to 8t. Louis,and made good. In fasct, Mr. Breadon ‘b-ruyed a basket of peanuts which he took to St. Louis during the World’s Fair into & controlling interest in the St. Louis National League base ball club. Mr. Breadon still has a few of the peanuts preserved and petrified to prove it. Both teams have been appralsed by the statisticlans to last decimal point. Also all of the nllyers and the have been psycho-analyzed by m:pne.rtl',nlnd for the most part have all psychological tests negative. This is customary, though not com- pulsory, in advance of lll world series. ‘You can take the facts and the figures and do your own experting. A world serles consists of seven base ball games or fewer, and what can happen in any seven base ball games or fewer can hap- n in a world series. In spite of the ighly lmpocln; name these are just seven ball games. On the de of Mr. Cornelius McGilli- cuddy it may be poinied out that his Athletics held the commanding position the American League early in the season and lasted through. Toward the end of the season they were merely eoufl;} as the boys say, and they the “mathematical certainty 5 "‘:‘h plkfl!% mmah'vr &he lthl!lt:l’;o rest up an e how would in- tgmlr world series e:r’nl ngs. Be- cause of the unrelhblmg of the stock market I undersf of the players will sink theirs in good bonds. are two good the chances of the Cardinals. Mr. 's boys had to fight till the . In Midsummer, while Mr. Robinson’s robust Robins were rurmlnl wild in the National League, the Cardi- nals were going nowhere and were rec- onciled to outlook. ‘Then some of the other teams in the National loud dmnltl.ml While the cracking gl g on the Cardinals began to oved ahead until the nhle 8 on Mr. Breadon's pay roll began re that they might be l.nfmncut of that world series cake at that. And when an ath- lete in the base ball busimess scents the faint far-off aroma of cash money he can perform miracles. Suddenly the Cardinals, who were booed by own home town custom- ers for more than half the season, be- gan to forge ahead, Prfi ly because they were finding themselves and partly be~ | theories as to | his League started to crack with |boys to SPORTS. SMITH 0.K.’D BY MACK Clears Way for Cards’ .lnurv.o Catcher to Get in Series. PHILADELPHIA, October 1 (M.— Manager Connie Mack of the Athleties has made it possible for Earl Smith, reserve eatcher of the St. Louls Cardi- nals, to see service in the world series if necessary, provided it meets with the approval of Base Ball Commissioner Landis. Smith came to the Red Birds too late to be gligible to play in the classic and when the Cardinals asked that he be allowed to play Mack quickly gave his permission. ARROWS WANT GRID GAME Richmond Club Looking for !IQflh{‘ in Capital Area. Arrow Athletic Club foot ball team of Richmend, Va., made up of former callue players and having & fol- lowing, wants to book an eleven in this section. Blair Meanley, jr, P. O. Box 974, Richmond is the Arrov mm-nr nunms rnmn GOLF. ‘When the athletic department of the University of Arkansas junked the base ball diamond a petition was od by 239 students, ing that it eon- verted into golf course. cause the other teams were losing them- selves. It was about 50-50, to the best base ball analysis, or at the worst, 60-40. Inspired the chance of certified checks, which make & noble m»ll‘- tion in the national pastime, the Car- dinals umu to come through. g mel with such regu- ity t.hu lh ir drive was com| to that made hy the Boston Braves in 1914, as a result of which their a- ger, the late George Btllltnll. was given the name of “Miracle Man." The boys are hanging the same name on Mr. Gabby Street, who commands the St. Louis Cardinals in the field. 8o there you are. The Cardinals are either too worn out by the ardors of their long late season drive to give the Athletics much trouble. On the other hand, they will, like the Boston Braves, continue on their accumulated momen- tum and crush Mr. McGillicudy and the Athletics. Have it your own way. It starts today. “Becret Practice. 'HERE is one development in advance of the world serles, which sounds very ominous. I read that the Ath- letics have been Indulging in secret Now this, according to all , is very bad medicine. Going back to the Carpentier-Demp- sey bout at Boyle’ Acres—and it “turned out to be mmv an oppur— pit tunity for Mr. Dempsey to take & at a set-up—I recall that Monlleur Cl!- pentier engaged in secret practice. This mystified the experts until after t.he bout. The reason that M. Carpentie: '.rllnndinucu’tvuthltumomy customers saw him in '.nlnln’ and realized how inadequate he was for the task of mee'.lnl Dempsey, there would not have been gate of $1,600,000 for that particular Bl".h of th Oeut\\r! But that hardly colild be the reason for the Athletics working out in lecret which is unusual for base ball tea: It may be that Mr. Cornelius lleotm- cuddy is working out sema new base ball g;—mu. Thh 15 :‘l to figure &u: Mr. ucfiflllcuddy will endelvor to have men “hit the ball where they ain’t,” ehbonunlontmmlnflnoryo(the late Willle Keeler. While going throi this drill he probably felt that it wor d destroy the surprise effect of the cam- paign to let this news leak out. Most of the foot ball coaches work in secrecy and are humflhud in public. let plylnl foot ball may come on the flel sota shift and a lateral pass. dinals worked out most of uulr strategy on a special train over the Pennsylvania system. It consisted of several pinochle games, a study of the bond tables and a couple of quartets. Guarding Flint Rheem. N order to forestall any llumph at foul play by interested parties, Gabby Street. the manager of (Continued on Third Page.) POSSESS ABILITY T0 ANNEX SERIES Feels They Will Put End to Talk of Supremacy to , Junior League. BY CHARLES “GABBY” STREET, Manager, 8t. Louls Cardinals, OMEBODY had to break down that American League world N\ series jinx and it might as well be the Cardinals. The boys have the batting power, the pitching and they have shown their apility to fight, and I believe there won't be so much conversa- tion about American League su- premacy after we get through with the Athletics. I don't mean to show any disrespect for Connie Mack and his ball club. Mack must have a good club for it to repeat and win its second straight nnant, but I believe I have a tter ball club. Burleigh Grimes will be my pitcher in the first game. There is no secret about it. I'm going to send Grimes to the hill, not because he is the only good pitcher we have, but because his style is different from anything the Athletics have seen and I am confident that Grimes will give the American Leaguers plenty of trouble. Grimes, you know, is more than a spitball pitcher, He is one of the hardest workers in the business, an excellent fielder and one of the smart men of base ball. And hl l:ll'l.l lupreme confidence in himself and Has Plenty of Confidence, Grimes told me the other day that he hoped he'd draw Bob Grove in the opening . He sald he knew he oould whip Grove and that he felt that if we could knock Grove off in the first contest we'd have the Athletics on the run. . But we're not worrying about Mack's tching selection. The writers have the possibility of an- like the sending of Ehmke against the Cubs last year, but we won't be startled or worried by any selection Mack may make. We've faced some pretty good pitchers in the Na- tional League, curve-ball stars and others who luve depended on speed, and we've beaten down all tion i.gr,on:!otth- n:-m dr:"&u in 1;,1:1- pennant competition, so bring on Grove, Earnshaw, Walberg or any ‘mrnrlu" pitcher, The Cardinals have won 39 out of their last 40 games and that's almost ,800 per cen \nd no team could hang up a record was weak against any m kind of Free from in , as we hope to be in the series, fans will see in the Cardinals one of the greatest teams the Naticnal League ever produced—that’s what I think of the Clrdinl.l.l of 1930, Gives Frisch High Rating. And whu- I'm telling you what think of the ball club, let me say p8E° 8 to our pitching selection for the opening game, it may be inter- esting to point out that Urban Faber beat the Athktlu tour times this year. He's a spitball rluher and a good one, but I don't believe any one would say he’s as good as Grimes, and certainly he didn't have behind him, in the whm Sox, any team to compare with the Cardinals. (Copy: Ohristy Walsh 091930, LiogaTT & Mveas Tosacco O that if 1 | )