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o » rts News WASHINGTON, D. C., et 'WITR SUNDAY MORNING EDITION » q Star. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930. % ‘'PAGE D-—1 . Mack Surprises by Doing the Obvious : Grimes’ Defeat Is Heavy Blow to Cards A'S PILOT S TRICKY INBEING ORTHODOX feads With Ace and Now Is Expected to Follow Ordinary Methods. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor, The Star. Cornelius McGillicuddy still is running true to form. In calling on Robert Moses [Grove, the star of his slinging ptaft, for service in the initial tilt of the jousting for base ball's most coveted title the lean leader of the Athletics once again crossed the dope by doing the orthodox thing. The so-called master strategist of the game, because of his pen- chant for upsctting the dope, had been expected to surprise the writing fraternity by instrusting the hurling assignment for the pll-important initial tilt to some jlesser member of his staff. Having pulled the obvious in leading with his ace and thereby getting off to B flying start in defense of the world gitle won at the of . PHILADELPHIA, Ogtober 2.— | expense Chicago Cubs last Fall, the tall tactician now expected to continue eschewing surprises and adopt the same pitc] rogram as any tyro in the business of sos:u.u a ball club. He would follow by sending George Earnshaw to the mound in the second battle of the set this afternoon. Likewise, then, regard- Jess of the outcome today, Mack could come back with Grove, his trump, in the third tussle when the scene shifts to St. Louis Saturday, follow again with Earnshaw, and nominate for the third and final of the Mound City clashes next Monday his third best bet, the 1 of nine corralled :{hflnlflnkfihlnfl..b\lfi Boley couldn't come jy with the ball. Few short- for it mflwodxl:.rd hit fl‘fi to his right. He succee H ko it _down, however, and then ‘the sphere in time to get off Bishop at the midway, which forced Grimes and nullified the clean safety Adams followed with. Bishop Nails Drive. right here developed great plsy Gopt. Frankie. Frisch. Ber. s painful attack of a sturdy bid for his on with Max , Bishop was there with a leaping one-hand the pinch and erted otential extra-base S e-retirimg putout. Then | wallop into a side-retirt tame’the elghth. Hafey was scamper- | ing around the middle cushion by rea son of a clean double that led Na-| tional Lecague sympathizers to hope | Grove mignt be weakening, and there | were two cut when Mancuso, Who had been meeting the ball well all after- noon, raised a high iy back of the plate, Tearing off his mask, Cochrane went_chasing after the elusive, breeze- tossed t and, after staggering B ) Cfesperate Tunge ‘with a final, despe: ::nmodur'd the ball nxh(tn l‘"d v.h:l “:'.fif: e Athletics’ . o ded by this around the the h_estate th ltrse‘;;v' through his ability to get the utmost out of Mack's moundsmen, also made his presence felt in an attacking way in the eighth inning through the | yasdium of a wallop over the right field | f-nce for @ home run that served to | inch the proceedings. But the most | hologically helpful blow should be | ited to Al Simmons, demcn left | | fielder of the A's and doubtless the best | all-around player in the game today. Simmons’ Blow Best. The Athletics l;lnd gott;n‘glgmm » lead in the secon Sripie. 1 which Ray Blades it rebounded from the followed by Bing Mil- and had seen it overcome Cards scored and Gelbert and Grimes’ in- which vl!dnlrl:l l‘bln:'\'e and fell in at- ;‘:l’;lpe?he ball, with the wer supplied by aerial e Howing trame, with tw 1n the fol rame, 0 n'm.:l the A’s one down that Sim- ns came through with his produc- tive poke. It was a lusty wallop of the Dlicate. It was a far more important of Mancuso tended sacrifice, ‘when Grove to motivaf sacrifices maskers on clean safeties by | SOUbLY JOE BOLEY. FORMER-DAY A’S AMAZED .. BY YOUNGSTERS’ WALLOPS Barry of 20 Years Ago to Veteran Davis, Captain in 1910, BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. HILADELPHIA, October 2.—The Athleties’ victory in the first game of the world series was like & page torn from the records of base ball classics of nearly two decades ago to grizzled old veterans of the house of Mack, back to view the battle from the sidelines like so many old grads at a college home-coming foot ball game. b These old-timers, such as Harry Davis, “Home Run” Baker, Chief Bender, even a “youngster” among veterans like Joe Bush, came back prepared to look some- what askance at these boys of the mod- era, just & lot of young fellows “swin from their toes,” tossing all scient base ball to the winds for the sake of slugging. ‘They saw some high, wide and fancy Boley Gives Boss Greatest Thrill BY RAYMOND A. HILL. JHILADELPHIA, October 2.—From the Athletics’ viewpoint three things stand out as a result of the first worid series conquest. 1. Connie Mack got his greatest thrill in 50 years of base ball. 2. St. Louis will be tougher to beat than the Chicago Cybs were last Fall. 3. If Lefty Grove is right, no team under the sun can beat him. “When Boley came up with Dout- hit's cmash ‘in the seventh and forced Grimes by a snap throw from a sitting position to Bishop, I knew the turning point had come,” said Connie in his famous tower office at Shibe Park immediately after the game. “Had Joe let the ball get through one cannot tell what the Cardinals might have done. With two men on and the top of the batting strength still to be faced, Grove would have been in a mighty tough spot. It was my greatest thrill to see Boley make the play.” Boley himself thinks it one of the hardest plays he ever made. “I dove after the ball with the crack of the bat,” Joe said. “The baill hit my glove and stuck. I didn’t know whether I was in a ball game or an explosion. I heard Max Bishop calling for the ball. Instinct made me throw it to him.” sure Boley lald down a near per- jueeze sign on dis- g!:y which Mule Haas after had tri) in the seventh session, and Cochrane followed with his afore- e ‘Cochrane later was to du- | low than Mickey's, however, as it pulled the Mackmen right up on even sq! struck fear of what was to Lerms ADd She hearts of Grimes and | jng the h“‘n:eu eventualities, as it devehplnf‘. series. inciuded & .cru?.l“n: doub‘h ,i‘-; o, “which enabled the A's to regis- T L slugging, but they also saw smart fleld- :r;,m‘l;el‘gy plu:hln‘c lng‘ their eyes ent when they saw. Esn, et vies U executed by Joe Boley, shx A’s, for the first time in a world series Harry of 1910, rubbed his eyes in amazement as he contemplated a duplicate of the play that Jack Barry of the famous $100,000 infleld of 1910-14 made famous. “It looked like old times,” remarked Harry. "“I never thought I would see that again. This team plays like the old A’s, but it has a bigger wallop.” “It was as smart as anything I have seen In years in the world serles,” added Joé Bush. “It was a natural, with Boley at bat and a fast man on third, but it worked so fast that I barely caught Haas’ n;rt for the ite out of the corner of my eye. Grimes may have anticipated it, but smart as he is, doubt it. There wasn't could down K other performers. He is steady in the field and a good man at bat in the pinch. In these respects he is a lot like Jack Barmry.” Bush conceded that Grove was not at his best and “nowhere as fast as Al Bs‘:::hha added: “Bob pitched a good game, good enough to win with the great IHD‘WH he had, and he may come back in his Don't forget it was a chilly day and that perhaps Grove felt some of the strain of starting his first world ‘series game with every one expecting him to nents on their heads. The “ ing the A’'s favorites at the start— Grove, Cochrane, Simmons and Old Man_ Strategy, represented by Mack— stood up pretty well, all told, in the first test. They were ready for business again today at the old stand. No Santa Claus, Cardinals Hold BY HARRY ROBERT. P Pa., October 2.— The American Leaguers say the other circuit is just & bush out- Leaguers ‘jabber there is no Santa Claus. ‘The. St. Louis players left Shibe Park talking to themselves, and they hadn't stoppec at a reasonably late hour last night. Their subject was an old one—the olp&: this he | master worker in next start to mow the Cardinals down. | ga) | Hafey, 1f AL Simmons clouted a homer over the ‘while Boley made a great stop at short SIMMONS. wall in the fourth to tie the count, 2-all, in the seventh that checked what might INITIAL TRIUMPH HELD IMPORTANT Collins Says Loss for A’s Would Have Put Them in Predicament. BY EDDIE COLLINS, Cornie Mack's Right-Hand Man. Pumn.mm\. Pa.,, October 2. most important, say what you will, In fact, if the tables had been re- versed, we would really have been in & ‘worse nt than St. Louls is now, as a defeat for Grove at the onset ‘would have hurt & lot. The game was one of the most inter- , though possibly not as exciting, ; Boley-Haas Squeeze Play Brings Back Memor,? of | o5 a7 that' Have ever participated In or witnessed. If the skeptical base ball public ever needs a concrete example of the power or tness of the 1930 Athletics, I don't knows of a game we played. this year that could answer this question more satisfactorily. In every instance where.one of our layers was called upon to produce gc was not called upon in vain. Five different players came through and the |- result was five runs. The only player on our club—and is not said to detract any from the greatness of his performance—who was not up to par, I would say, was Lefty Grove, but his work really dem- onstrates what I tried to bring out in my previous article—that he is pitcher and not merely a thrower. By this I mean when he did not have his real stuff as far as his fast ball and curve are concerned, he more than made up for what he lacked by his judgment. This. is what wins ball games, ‘The game as played by our club fully illustrates the fact that our club is not & one or two man team. Every play- er, from the lead-off man down to the gfll:bel'. at some time or other did his it that helped to bring us home win- ners. reason it is hard to single a this clever plece of work. ;xfi:\mng his end of 1930.) this kind of base (Copyrii “RIVAL” MAYORS MEET extending his official greeting, Mayor Harry A. Mackey of Philadelphia yes- terday told Mayor Victor J. Miller of St. Louis that he could offer him “everything in town except the ball holdhy ‘The two met in the Benjamin Frank- lin Hotel, where Mayor Miller is stay- ing as the guest of Samuel Breadon, owner of the Cardinals. Score ST. LOUIS Ab. H. Douthit, cf. Adams, 3b Frisch, 2b.. Bottomley, ‘1b Blades, rf. Mancuso, c. Gelbert, ss.. Grimes, p. Puccinello ... wl conrocoooccowm :.. 2l hwarwarnon ol ovvroronnoe ‘Totals. Puccinello es in ninth. Ab. oloorornmony H. 0 1 1 1 1 o 1 0 [ 5 2. Sl unwnwwone oo Runs batted in—Miller, Dw"‘ Adams, Simmons, D; —Winning the first game is| PHILADELPHIA, October 2 (£).—In | PH]ILADELP’HIA FRISCH DECLARES ATHLETICS LUCKY Sees Cards as Better Team if Opening Contest Is Used as Criterion. BY FRANKIE FRISCH, Second Baseman, St. Louts Cardinals. HILADELPHIA, Pa., October 2.— Win, lose or draw, we've got & better ball club than the Ath- letics, if* yesterday's game is a comparison. - They beat us on runs scored, and in the final reckoning I guess that counts, but they had all the breaks with them. ‘There was, for example, that line drive by Mancuso in the fourth inning. Gus cracked the ball right on the seam, but it salled straight to Simmons in left field. Blades was on base at the time and Gelbert followed with a sin- gle, so that tough break cost us at {least one run right there and prob- ably two. Artillery Comes Through. ‘We had hard luck twice in the sev- enth inning. Grimes was on first base and Douthit shot a ball to Boley’s right. Boley made a diving play on the ball and forced Grimes at second base. Then, after Adams singled, I hit a good ball toward right center, only to see Bishop make a leaping glove catch, Those plays cost us two or_three runs. What I had heard and read of the Athletics’ punch was borne out. They had only five hits, but each of them was an extra sacker. Simmons, Coch- rane and Foxx were generally rated as Connie Mack's heavy artillery and they certainly came through, two of them with homers, the other with a triple. We're all peeved over this defeat— not because we have lost the first game of the series, but for having lost it after hitting the ball so hard and con- sistently. You can take it from me this feel is going to spur us on all the more in the games. Hoover Signature Cheers Blind Boy By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, October 2.—One of the happiest Philadelphians today was “Izzy” Epstein, blind newsboy, who is exhibiting a score- card of the first series game signed by President Hoover. While the shouting was going on, Babe O'Rourke, the A’s announcer, slipped into the President’s box and whis- pered to Mr. Hoover's secretary that 2 blind newsboy had asked for the Executive's autograph. A moment Iater a scorecard was handed back, signed by the President. of First Series Game CARDINALS. 8h. o b L] s wloocccsoonr2 olooscccocss slocooononosy oloccscsccccal ol occcccsces Bl ooccomnbinre Bl cwarocoonnop ol cocccccscol ATHLETICS. o g 8 wlonorocooso ol ococosccss _roaeeeeono; Wb asiosany wlocoocorraolt o Slovumnonanny o ol cwcorconay 17 b sl eenadeast | B le bases—&t. Louis 8; Left on WAS BIGGEST HOPE FOR FINAL SUCGESS Boley’s Great Stop to Nip Rally Outstanding Play of Series Opener: BY JOHN B. KELLER. HILADELPHIA, October 2.— P As the Cardinals mustered for their second struggle with the Athletics in this world series, those favoring the National League bunch, as well as the followers of the American League representatives in base ball's classic of the.year, were wondering how the St. Louis club could hope to get very far after having its best pitching bet de- feated i the opener of the set. When Burleigh Grimes fell before | the A’s in the 5-to-2 game here yesterday it seemed the Cardinal’s | greatest hope for success in the series was blasted. testant hasn't other clever s. | The veteran, Jesse Haines, Rhem, who has been in big time serv- ice long, despite his not so many years, may make the going difficult for the American League outfit. But neither Haines nor Rhem is a Grimes. The big spitballer all along had been regarded the one “sure thing” in the Cardinals’| A¢ bag. With Grimes beaten right off the reel, it is felt the St. Louls club will find it no easy task to regain its poise even thnug it still may have mound strength the arms of Haines and Rhem. Cards Show Fight. However, in taking their licking yes- terday the Cardinals as a club did not look a weak lot. .They appeared to be much better than were the Cubs, who were easily turned back by the Ath- letics in the world series last year. They displayed a deal of fight, a fine spirit and plenty base ball ability. The St. Louis club is.a club that should do much to regain some of the prestige the National League has lost in repeated lick: in the world series, but it is doubtful that it is good enough to cop the laurels. yuwra-c to get toTs tine siast y to get away to a E in the series, for they faced a Bob Grove who wasn't nearly so good as he had been most of the time in_the American League campaign. - They the left-hander not so hard to hit and twice during the game he ap- peared on the verge of taking a sound thumping. But the Cardinals not only failed to reveal a telling punch when they had a splendid opportunity to dam- age the Athletics’ cause, but also failed to upset the opposition at all. No matter what the Cardinals did the Athletics weat them a bit better. Outhiti nine safeties to five, the Ath- letics nevertheless made every one of thelr safeties count, whilé the Cardinals made good use of only- three of their safeties and at that needed a bit of luck to t from them. Onl; Grove fell as he started intended sacrifice bunt and turned the ::r into a base-stealing single in the rd inning did the Cardinals manage to score as many as two runs. But for Grove's fall not more than one marker would have been registered by the Na- tional League representatives in their lone scoring round. There were some National League supporters who contended thé Athletics got all the breaks of the game. If good fielding means getting all' the breaks the A’s did, for they supported Grove wonderfully,. It would seem, though, that the great break of ply favored the Cardinals in that third inning, when Grove fell as Grimes bunted. That break put the Cardinals in front for the only time in the spectacula» contest. The A’s certainly showed the value of the’ extra-base hit in the serles opener. Each of their five hits had plenty distance and each meant a run. Probably the biggest hit springing from a Philadelphia bat was Al Simmons’ homer in the fourth frame. That drive over the fence back of right-center put the Atheltics on even terms with the Cardinals, and undoubtedly did much toward steadying e club that had threatehed to give way to a great ex- Grimes Dominant Figure of Series BY FRANK GRAHAM. HILADELPHIA, October 2 (C.P.A.) . —Not since Babe Ruth was at the height of his power and glory has & ball player domi- nated a world series as Burleigh Grimes dominates this one. Defeat- ed in the opening game, he towered above any member of the cast that encompassed his defeat and not until he pitches again will the series have the flavor which it had yesterday. He struts in the leading role of a big show wherein Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, Mickey Ccchrane Jimmy Foxx are but supers, along with Frank Frisch, Chick Hafey, Jim Bottomley and Charlie Gelbert. Grimes, the most sublimely self- confident man in base ball, fairly and | MCARTHY DEBATES DFFERS T0 MANAGE Held Sure to Become Pilot of Yankees, but Also Is Sought by Red Sox. By the Assoclated Press. HILADELPHIA, October 3. == ‘Whether or not Joe McCarthy, deposed pilot of the Chicago Cubs, actually has come to terms radiates his belief in himself as he stands on the mound and the aggres- siveness in which it finds its expres- sion arouses the multitude. The Athlef does respect. No pitcher ever toiled in luck than he did, yet the finish of the game found him as aggressive, as he had been at the beginning and cursing savagely at his opponents. He was like a wcunded lion—and whether you like a wounded lion or not the majestic courage of the beast is compelling. SERIES STATISTICS | |9a¢ Standing of the Clubs. ‘Won. thletics 1 Cardinals . First Game Statistics. Attendance (paid) .. 32,208 Receipts ........ +.$152,735.00 Commissioner’s share . 22,910.25 Players’ share .. 77,894.85 Each club’s share . 12,082.48 Although the attendance and re- ceipts at yesterday’s world series opener were far below the figures of the first serles game st yeer, when 50,740 per- sons at Chicago paid $219,738, the crowd and gate at the 1930 inaugural set new world series records for Shibe Park, playing fleld of the Mackmen. The previous marks were established last year, when 29,991 paid $140,815 to N ot s e T Phuun' . an s capacity crowd, were mfig}‘ifim at the second contest The schedule for the remaining games: ‘Today—At Philadelphia. ‘Tomorrow—Travel. Saturday—At St. Louis. Sunday—At St. Louis, Monday—At St. Louis. ‘Tuesday—Travel. Wednesday—At_Philadelphia. Thursday—At Philadelphia, All games start at 1:30 p.m. (games | g; in St. Louis#2:30 Washington time). regarded as Connie Mack's big three and they certainly came through yesterday. . While the declding break in the game may have been the base on balls to Bishop in the sixth and Jimmy Dykes double which followed, Boley's great stop and throw in the seventh prob- ably saved a lot of trouble. Frisch hit a line drive at Bishop that almost knocked him over. It struck his glove like a traveling bullet and imbedded itself there. Two feet either way, and that would have meant some runs. Blades was not so much. to blame for his fumble of Foxx’s hit in_ the second. Grimes had been p/hing spitters and Blades probably \“abbed a wet spot on the ball. e Moriarity umpired a nice hind the plate. Grimes only with the New York Yankees for a twos year term as manager in 1931-32, suce ceedirig Bob Shawkey, indications today pointed to completion of negotiations in short order. contract in preference to. accep! tentative proposal for the management of the Yankees, with consequent greater opportunity to distinguish himself new fleld. McCarthy not only admitted he was in a receptive mood to a New York offer, having already had some pre- liminary conversation, but revealed that he planined to go to New York in a few ays to talk definite terms with Col. been discussed. is plenty of precedent for the shift which is expected to see the man who led a Nationel League champion- ship club in 1929 bossing an American League contender in 1931 The Yankees themselves = obtained their most successful pilot, - the late Miller Huggins, after he had attracted attention as the manager of the St. Louis and the discoverer of Rogers Hornsby, now appointed to suc- ooedm :ecuuu leader of the Cubs. £¥ it provement in 1931. For some time the idea has that Babe Ruth eventually to handle the it o i g 4 t 5 HOOVER BRINGS A’S LUCK Mack Tells President “We Always Win With You.” PHILADELPHIA, October 2 (M.— Connie Mack _has one superstif it happens to concern the the United States. last Spripg. Connie was on lu-r'l:rdfio greet. the presidential party yest ay. “I'm glad to see you here,” he told , “because we always He thought he had Coch- in the sixth. Cochrane tent during the Cardinals’ third-inning bombardment of Grove. ough the sixth inning the A’s man- aged to take advantage of the pass to Max mmn}; Ijm one was out. This pass was folldwed by Jimmy Dykes double to shove over a tie-breaking run. And in the seventh the A’s staged & spectacular squeeze play to better their position. With Mule Haas on third by virtue of a triple, Joe Boley put down & perfect bunt 2long the first-base line. With such confidence was the play staged that Haas was at the plate al- most as soon as Boley tapped the ball. It was in the seventh, before the A's scored with their squeeze play, that the Cardinals made their final bid for vic- tory, only remarkable support kept Grove out of serious difficulty. With Grimes on first and one out, Boley did a bit of flelding that may have been bee: ssed ‘The hit-and-run evidently was on, for Grimes broke for second with the pitch to Taylor Douthit. As Grimes started Boley turned toward the middle sack that he might be in position for a throw from Mickey Cochrane. But Douthit hit the pitch, sending the ball toward the spot Boley hzd just left. The Athletics’ shortstop checked his ground heaved the ball Bishop at second for a forced and with one hand pulled fast-flying sphere. It was a great catch, this by Bishop, but Boley’s stop and throw earlier in the inning without question was the outstanding flelding feat of the fray. Just for good measure Cochrane got the “Athletics another run after two hth by belting the ' chance of fanned anyhow. President Hoover’s bod S which permits free. all left arms. of the rule Gelbert, Adams and Mancuso well in their first world serles. Mancuso’s single which started Cards on their way to their two runs. The Cards were not satisfied with returns. They claimed there had been dirty work at the cross roads and de- manded a recount, The Athletics made five hits and five runs. That is economy for you. The Mackmen must have Scotch blood. There were almost as many fans on the housetops back of the right-field fence as there were in the park. Some- body over there must have c s couple of base balls. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- puoe? Alfiemees LOUISVILLE HOTEL GETS SERIES LAUGH Confident Rochester Team Checked Out, but Colonels Win and Extend Their Stay. By the Associated Press. the in the “little world series, out of the hotel before they went to the ball park. Last night they filed back into the hotel and for rooms, after the Colonels had won Series Pick-Ups By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 2.—Coats, furs and even blankets werc used by the fans to keep warm duri yester- day's world series tiit. Chilly blasts swirled in and out of the big park. Burleigh Grimes had the heavy hit- ters of the A’s constantly “in_the hole” with fine control,- but he suffered dis- astrous lapses in throwing “extra base bells” at Cochrane, Simmons, Foxx, Haas and Dykes. It was Burleigh's first_series wgnmc- since he twirled for Brooklyn 1920 Cleveland. ‘The spitballer won one game and lost two in that battle. Bing Miller contributed to = th superlative defense of the A's with bare hand, running stop of Friscl double down the right fleld foul line in the fifth. On similarly hard blows Haas and Foxx of the A's got triples. “Grimes had the best battin : yesterday anyway. He hit safely twice in his three times up. i Sunny Jim Bottomley, first of the C: failed to meet the seventh game of the series, 6 to 5. | fourth. Rochester is leading by four games to three, and needs ol one more victory to walk off with the series. Manager Allan Sothoron _of Colonels plans to.send Roy Wi to the mound y. T Grant or Johnny Berl; start Rochester. cast fair and warmer. i g Eithe: Ooorg 1‘we‘ifi?’ofl- the and Mmoo fnaiy o T ve w _some one Old-time fans who lament the pass- . 2 enjoyed r.h:n guel of w!u oL: between the Cards’ bat- - on E