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Spo Sl rts News The WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star. ] WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1930. Boxing Indicted as Gang-Ridden Racket : Cards IGHT GAME HELD TOOL OF CROOKED POLITICIANS unmen, Bootleggers and Vicious Forces Generally Asserted to Be in Control of Pro Pugilism and the Men BY MILTON MACKAYE. This is the first of a series of siz consecutive articles revealing gang- dom’s grip on fi'f"""’"” boring and disclosing t pert played by crooked politicians, gunmen, boot~ leggers and vicious forces generally in the control of pugilism and the men in the ring. ANGDOM dominates box- ing. The racketeers, the beer runners, the alcohol cookers, the thugs and igrafters and gorillas havemarched on the citadel of sport and raised the black flag. Fair play jhas been taken for a ride and decency put on the spot. ars ago New vork State bacsed the Walker law which, after years of intermittent outlawry ele- ted boxing to the plane of respect- hbility and to the proportions of a gilt- trade. New York State wanted xing to come into its own. Boxing did, with New York City as ts center. The Walker law was, and 0 one can deny it, a great break for he fight profession. It pulled the rt up out of the gutters and side- Hley cubs and set it down at_table vith the dinner jackets. It made heroes but of boys who ate with their knives nd millionaires out of bums. It led he way to & licensed and controlled | , and other States followed. N | | Fortunes for Gunme | bAJHAT has been the result? Well, for | oné tHing, it hes made fortunes | and easy pickings for gunmen | nd cesperadczs—genticmen hatcl Into managers out of carccrs in crime. | nd, for a_second thing, i shtcd to the -public 1 fixed fights, of victores by | jumphs by chicanery. re have | psen events of cdd and suspicious jaracter. Ten years after, and that is the noramic view. There are honest ters, of course, honest managers d promoters. There are honest fights. But the tip-off, as the police reporters ,'is this—promoters lead their bally- oo these days with the promise that hatever may have happened in pre- matches, this match is on quare. ‘The inference is obvious, and the facts are these: The sinjster institu- of gangdom has, lik= a repulsive pical plant, flowered up through the profession until its tendri’s reach out o strangle ths sport. The rhetoric is elodramatic, but so are the facts. _Big Gates Responsible. 'ONEY, of course, is responsible. The big-time racketeers did not trifie with boxing when purses small. They limited themselves liquor ~and . dope and. unmodified . But when boxing, legalized, plossomed into- & goldpiece tree they hnuscled their way in with their little, hets as they muscle their way into | It is part of the national picture. Racketeering has corrupted courts and | racketeers are forcing their way into | Imost every line of business. And now | hey have entered sport. In the belief that the public should know what is going on, it is plenned o present in a series of arlicles, of hich this is the first, a frank picture pt the present situztion. 1t will not be nt picture, but it will be, above things, a (rue cne. ‘The purpose of this series is not to k boxing, but boxing, through its. ploiters, is sinking itself. Unless iriends of the sport can join themselves to committees of rescue, unless the pangsters, the gunmen, the thieves, can kicked back in their own gutters, ere can be only one result—the boxing ws in numerous States will be re pealed. New York Law Twice Repealed. v YORK STATE—and that State is made an example as so much of the boxing scandal arises in New York City—has tried boxing three times. he gamblers and fakers took it over 30 years ago and the Horton law was repealed. The sportsmen tried again. | he Prawley law was passed. Once jmore the criminals D e and the Frawley law was re- pet ed_"me third time has been no The criminal has always been in evi- | dence, but there has been a definite hange. Petty thievery has given way to big-time s:uff. | ‘The same forces that are behind | lbootlegging are now behind crooked boxing. orld is definite and unmistakable. The man who buys a drink and the man iwho buys a ticket to a fight are often pouring their money info the same splashed into the s The tle-up with the under- | in the Ring. less than helpful. Upon these commis- sions can be laid much of the responsi- | bllity for the presence of rack:teers in | the game. | Presumably boxing commissioners are disinterested sportsmen. Actually, in many States, they are politicians only a | cut above the very confidence men and scoundrels they are called upon to reg- | ulate. And so politics has come to play a big part in the fight game, and the result is that boxing rests even less on | its merits than it did in the days when fans were forced to sneak away to barges and _canebrakes, when the roughnecks were avowedly in control, Certainly, whether or not this is true in New York State, boxing commissions over the country as a whole have won no laurels for themselves. Politics has dictated decisions and nullified their rulings. ! The racketeer, the gunman, has po- | litical influence. He is the plug-ugly { who furnishes the repeaters at election | time, the man who intimidates the hon- | est voters and frightens them from the | polls. And usuaily, too, he is splitting the proceeds of his larceny with some outwardly respectable wardheeler. Take, if you wish, a moderately hon- est politiclan who has been named a boxing commissioner. He may wish to do the right thing, he may wish to keep the game clean. He suspends the r, the bad actor, the clown. And 1l the trouble starts. Subsidized Politicians. 'HE boxer controlled by a syndicate goes to a politician conveniently subsidized. ~ Money Sud- denly pressure is brought to bear. The wardheeler goes to the commissioner, who eventualiy will need his support. The elections are coming on. The bad actor has been ousted in- s rescinded. The boxer s ba the lists. = His misdeeds have been | charitably pardoned, his defiance con- doned. He is simon pure again and the control of boxing has slipped farther. Polities has nullified the rulings of that commission and the ultimate result is that the acts of commission are held in contempt. It is no secret that the first move of a manager who brings a ringman into the big time is to get the support of some one who knows the ropes. It is not enough that the manager has an the | athlete who packs & punch in either hand, for matches often are not made on merit. Pirst, he must engage him- self a political godfather and divids with him. a percentage of his man- agerial control. Then he will get his matches; there is some one to see that haxdoesmI - ven the honest fighting men must submit to this tyranny. Every foreign boxer who visits the United States must, even though he brings his own repre- sentative, shell back so much of his profit to his New York sponsors. A s:::ry of the records will make clear, Accept Extortion or Quit. Tfll thing, however, goes farther than that. Boxers who arrive in| New York from other cities in the United States must do the same. ertheless, they keep rushing in because the big money is to be found in New York. ‘The manager back home in Sauk Center takes a little share of the gelt. but the main share stays in New ork. Recently a good light-heavyweight leaped back into prominence after mx:ny months in eclipse. He had fought this extortion for a long time, but he found it meant retirement. Eventually this is what happened—the manager in the Far West walked out of the picture and the light-heavy gave up the ghost. He signed up with the gunmen's trust and now he fights regularly with profit to himself and his sponsors, ._This, then, is the result of the legal- izing of boxing. This is the sport that red-blooded youth of America must wonder at and admire. Fights are not fought on their merits and the honest man hasn't a chance. The best boxer in the world can’t prove it unless he gets an opportunity to show his wares. Subsequent articies in this series will show how the racket now is worked, how champlonships are bought and sold, how the supergovernment of the racketeers has not only put the price on our liquor, our milk, out meat and outnuhs. but has taken over a great port and made it a fake and a fraud. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) (Tomorrow’s article will show how the gunmen function and will cite two | actual matches in New York.) | SERIES STATISTICS I | By the Associated Press. | Standing of Clubs. Pct. this | $32: capacious pockets. | Bootleggers, dope peddlers, poultry | of racketeersy control some of the most |°* important Boxers in the business. At | least three famous fighters are owned | by men who have been or should be be- | hind bars. A number of near-cham- pions are vassals of the overlords of | crime. And all ‘of these are pictured in | the more unreliable prints as exponents | of the “mn heroes for red- | blooded £ 1 vouth to emulate. Behind the Scenes. | fights eve difficult proof. connections are difficult of proof, fince musclemen rarelv sign contracts. But this cortainly is There is one clique now active is powerf with ma AKE Gangster in boxing. but which is al subversive influences there Pin down its personnel and you have | don= mor: than to locate behind-scenes powers in boxing. You have also Jocated the musclemen who are headifig mel alcohol trade, the musclemen who run the shake-down night clubs, the gentle- men who control the laundry racket, the fly-by-night taxi racket and im- mensely profitable trafic in heroin, ine and morphine. Just where this clique gets its power | cannot e stated. Power it undoubtedly | J, has. featured in important matrhes cftentime; they win. prominent stars. Why? Bscause Philadelphia (A) . Pirst—Philadelphia, 5; St. Second—Philadelp] Third—St. Louis, 5; Philadelphia, 0. | Fourth—St. Louis, 3; Philadelphia, 1. | cago, mal these stars wanted | the Americ: Won. Lost. o 8 2 Louis (N.) 2 2 Game Scores. 500 500 Louis, 2. 6; St. Louls, 1, Fourth Game Figures. Attendance, 39,046, Receipts, $169,203. Players’ share, $86,339.43. Each club’s share, $16,889.90. Each league's share, $16,889.90. Commissioner’s share, $25,393.95. Series Totals, Attendance, 140,480 Receipts, $635,050. Players' share, $323,865.50. Each clubs share, $53,981.75. Each league's share, $53,981.95. Commissioiner's share, $95,257.50. SLOCUM IS NAMED New Yorker Elected Head of Base | Ball Writers’ Association. ST. LOUIS, October 6 (#).—Willilam Slocum of the New York American It is no secret that its box-rs get | was yesterday elected president of the ahead. R-gardlcss of merit they are Base Writers' ~ Association of and | America. J. Roy Stockton of the St.| Now the syndi- | Louis Post-Dispatch was named vice | cate has a nercentage on a number of | president and Henry P. Edwards, Chi- | ger of the Service Burcau of an League, secretary and matehes and weren't getting them. Now | treasurer. they ere getting them—th°y have in fluence and force behind them. Some | of the boxers are resentful of this grabltous spiit, bt they know better n to complain. Politics Plays Part. fact that influence is needed in modern boxing is perhaps the most | interesting phenomenon of all | m‘ commissions were appointed all | the country to keep boxing safely | away from the gamblers and from the | criminal set in which it grew up. But the ho: imners them Ledger Press and Charles Segar, New York Mirror. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS The board of directors consists of | Stoney McLinn, Harry Bullion, Detroit Free Philade! Stuart M. Bell, Cleveland Press, Pacific Coast League. Los Angeles, 11-4; Portland, 6-5. Hollywood, 13-2; Oakland, Miccions, 3-7: Sacramento, 1-10. €an Prencisco, 4-2; Seattle, 2-4. Iphia Public | ment of the loop. HERE’S THE BIG S smane,This plcture, telephotoed from St. Louls, shows Shortstop Charley Gel definitely, but - | importapt triple in the third inning of the game at Sportsman’s Park yesterd: e eden " Siddenly the Suspension | 1ok to pull up te even terms with the Athletics in the quest for base ball's highest title. bert sliding into third base on his highly ay, which the Red Birds captured by 3 —Telephoto by A.P. | EACH W, S. VICTOR WILL GET §2,028 { Griffs Are to Receive | About $1,000 Apiece. | | By the Associated Press | ST. LOUIS, October 6—Ths 1830 world series a major the of:the gate receipts for rst_four games only, amounts to years and nearly $100,000 short of the for the series between the Yankees and ! Cardinals. Of the total amount of the pool, 70 per cent, or $226,705.85, contending Athletics d Cs a basis of 60 per cent to the winner and 40 per cent to the loser. Hm on the basis of a split-up on 27 sl by each team, the winner's money, $136,023.51, for each player on the victorious side. | The loser’s end of the purse, $90,682.34, | Fo: | divided on the same. basis, will mean | Millel 1$3,358 per tull share. | The A's and Cards, therefore, in ad-| | dition to the honor attached, will bat- | | tle it out for the difference of approxi: | mately $1,700 per man. | The remaining 30 per cent of thi | total pool, or $97,159.65, will be spread | among the second, third and fourth| place clubs of each league. ‘The “split” for the other clubs figure as follow $24,289.99 each for the| Chicago Cubs and Washington Sena-| tors, the second place teams; $16,193.33 | each for the New York Giants and | Yankees, third-place outfits, and | $8,006.66 each for the Brooklyn Robins | and Cleveland Indians. Depending on how it is divided, but} estimating on the same basis as the se- | ries contenders, each player on the sec- | ond-place clubs will receive nearly $1,000, with about $600 for each Illyer on a third-place club and around $300 | for each fourth-place performer. SAIL CANOE THRILLER IS WON BY VON CULIN Finishes a Second Ahead of Hocd, ° With McGuiggan Close Third. Lloyd Von Culin of Washington | Canoe Ciub yesterday won the con- cluding event in the canoe sailing re- gatta of that club, ncsing out Jimmy Hood of the Sailing Club by just one second in a thrilling race. Von Culin’s time was 1 hour 11 seconds. Charles H. Wagner was third, also finishing just a second ahead of E, S. McGuig- gan. . Wagner's time was 1 hour 15 minutes, Both Wagner and McGuig- gan are members’ of the Washington Canoe Club. ‘There was a good breeze, something that has previously been lacking, for yesterday’s race, which was at 3 miles. The other two races of the regatta were safled on previous Sundays recently. | Ven Culin also accounted for the two- cail test, while Wagner won the single- | sail race. | Sunday, October 19, has been set by | the Sailing Club for its annual cham- | plonship regatta. wil {to every onme. There 50 cents per man per event. There will be three events for craft of single sail, double sail and unlimited sail area. The unlimited event will determine the winner of the Sailing Club Trophy. McGuiggan now has most points toward the cup, closely follow Hood and | Jack Hazzard. STANDARDS CLEANS UP Takes Pennant and Singles and| Doubles Titles' of Set Loop. Bureau of Standafds has cleaned up | honors this Suburban Tennis League. e league title not lopg ago the yesterday took both the doubles ‘crowns in the annual tourna- James Thomas won the singles, con- quering Colin F. Stam, 2—6, 6—32, 13— 11. It was a rather surprising victory. Thomas, after dropping the first set, came back in gallant style to take the second. The decid! engagement pro- duced red-hot_ battling, with Thomas finally triumphing, only after both him- self and Stam had blown numerous chances to win, Thomas, paired with Deane Judd, then went on to defeat Stam and James Pool Smallest in 8 Years. |priscn ers’ pool, derived from |Lindsey, 3,865.50. 1t is the smallest in eight | Hain high mark of $419,736.60, set in 1928, | {Fisher will mean $5,038 | Coch: (Assoctated Press) ‘The composite box score of the first four games of the world series: ST. LOUIS. 2b. 3b. consaacatnanetasmull 3 Douthit, ef. Adams, 3b. 2b.. ."‘é'l 3 EEH] 1b. comnBroulonccasSuny 833222 i IR T 255 PR RSO IOy 00000000HOHN Moo CORBO OGN AN cc0a800000000umNos! s00secscscorgocnonl PP AP R IO | coscacccunirendiuag | cocesscorcoscsosos »| coomoooonomoroooaal w|occseo~coccocconcoy 129 11 30 ¢ 210 20 *Batted for Grimes in ninth inning of first game. tBatted for Lindsey in seventh inning of seconc game, s S ; 4_5 PGPS RIS - Bishop, Dykes, 3b. 1.000 1.000 944 | 1.000 1.000 2000 | 1000 1.000 .000 2000 977 | TN coco00ormoruuo Ll OOODOO I L RN RN cosscccccconnool cooo000HO LHWNWOR P R e comso00Bocunony »l cosoocccogmnonol vl occocccororoocoy 1 . 11912'33 3122116 *Batted for Haas in ninth inning of third game. 1Batted for Quinn in ninth inning of third game., Score by-innings o ST. LOUIS. 0 3 0o 3 1 o1 PHILAD] 3 i P e e ey~ Sacrifices—Douthit, Adams, Haines, Miller, Boley, Dykes (2). Stolen base— Frisch. Double plays—Gelbert (unassisted), Dykss to Foxx, Gelbert to Prisch to Bottomley (2). ' Left on bases—Philadelphia, 25; St. Louis, 23. Tims of games—1:48, 1:47, 2:05, 1:41. PITCHING SUMMARY. g ot H. cccoscocccsd Pitcher. Grove . craen Earnshaw Walbetg Shcres Quinn Grimes Rhem Lindsey Johnson Hallahan conswenmanD macoanuwaRE HocoamMNN I~ LN hoconnmunmenl P LTS Bavnvwanowned moocococococoocod “moooocooMmE nals, who emulated his southpaw hurl:n'u mate b McCabe to annex the doubles’ title. Th: ores were 6—é. 6—4. right-hander of the Cardi a decision over the doughty Bob Grove in the fourth game ceries yestoréay. 3 ISERIES IS SQUARED | Grove. | better yesterday than he was on Wed- PAGE C—-1 and Macks Start Over Again BY SHINING EFFORT St. Louis Machine Clicks 'on All Cylinders to Take Fourth Contest. BY GRANTLAND RICE. T. LOUIS, Mo., October 6.—The Red Bird has turned into a falcon. He is_no lcnger hiding in the cover of the brush, but he now is stalking his prey. When Jess Halnes trimmed slim Bob Groves, 3-1, in the fourth game of the series before 40,- 000 howling dervishes, the tall right- hander from Clayton, Ohio, did some- thing more than even up the war. He gave the Cardinals a big advantage in psychology and pitching for the remain- ing game and crowded the Athletics back into their dugouts, where from ll;mw cn they will have to fight for their ves. Just four years ago yesterday Jess Haines shut out the Yankees, 4-0. It was_on this day the village druggist in Clayton, Ohio, wiped out his cigar and soda water sign and wrote the score across the frosted glass of the big window—"Haines, 4; Yankees, 0." | Today the same druggist went to work and duplicated his old act as he wiped out the sign again to write “Haines, 3 Grove, 1.” Attains Dizzy Heights, 'HE Clayton veteran rose to his greatest height in this fourth bat- tle. He was facing a master left- hander in Grove and he knew that he could afford no mistakes. In this emergency he limited the slugging Ath- letics to one clean hit and three flabby infield singles you could strike matches on. That's how scratchy they were. Bob Grove pitched a better game on Sunday than he pitched in the opener back h-ome, but yesterday his support caved in and yesterday he was facing a rival pitcher who had more stuff. | Each allowed but one earned run, but they tapped Grove harder than the Mackmen mauled Haines, who was rid- ing the crest of a big day, one of the best days a world series pitcher ever has known. The two rival moundsmen might have been tied up until darkness if the usually reliable Jimmy Dykes at third had not picked up Blades’ grounder in the fourth und_rgezged it off-line to Foxx at first. ere were two out at the time with Hafey rambling on his way from second but the throw went wild, Hafey scored, and singles by Wil- son and Gelbert drove over the second |run to put big Haines in front with a winning lead. The big crowd on Sunday sensed the | fact that if the Cardinals could upsct Grove they a great chance to scramble through. It was a crowd that packed every square inch of the Cardi- nal ds. They were jammed 10 deép back of the final rows and they were all full of noise and the old West- ern Rip-hip. They opened the chorus with a battle chant and they never | stopped till the final out. “Beat Grove,” the Idea. N almost every play you could look down 40,000 open throats and hear about as much racket as the Wast- ern front ever knew. “Beat Grove and we take the series” | was the idea that permeated the rollick- | ing throng and the Cardinals beat Grove with better pitching despite the fine game Mack’s tall left-hander turned in. If Jimmy Dykes had retired the side on his throw to' first in the fourth | inning Grove might easily hava gotten away with a three-hit game. But the support that saved him on Wednesday slipped yesterday and one slip was enough to open the Dykes and let the Cardinal tide flow to victory. By beating Grove and tieing up the count at 2 and 2 the Cardinals now have the edge. They have Grimes, Hallahan and Haines left, while Mack has only Earnshaw and Grove, and Grove already has worked his way through a killing season and two hard world series games. Here is another psychological edge. ‘The Cardinals came from 10'; games behind to win the National League pennant. They ‘were out of the race, but they finished in front. They were two games behind in this series, after the first two games. | They were out of the series, but here they are again running even. They have shown twice they could come from the rut to the peak, from the lowlands to the uplands. That means something in the way of flaming spirit, and they now are fully confi- dent of ultimate success. ‘Their one big barrier was Lefty ‘They knew Grove would be nesday. If' Grove could win the Cards would be in too deep a hole to scramble out. But if Grove was beaten they figured the entire aspect of the series would be changed. And Grove fell be- fore their concentrated fire, plus the low throw Jimmy Dykes heaved to first on a hard play. Haines Deserved Victory. UT the Athletics had no license to beat Jess Haines. The big veteran was at his best. He pitched with his head as often as he threw with his arm. He mixed them up with a fast ball and a slow ball, curves and a change of pace. Both Haines and Grove kept the ball in close, with the result that 14 batters flew out to right, seven on each side. And not one of these got a free swing. They were all half throttled. Haines and Grove were throwing to the small ends of their bats, as Clarence Rowland put it, and this was true. The one clean hit the Athletics got off Haines came from ‘Al Simmons’ bat in the first inning. ‘The other three were all infield taps that were knocked down. The one credited to Jimmy Foxx was a slow roller to Frank Frisch that should have been an easy out. Frisch had his man on the play and fumbled. He still had his man and fumbled again in a hurry to pick up the ball. The one solid blow was a line single to right center and from that spot gpn Haines had Mr. Mack’s famous sluggers at his mercy. He walked his way into one or two bad looking holes, but when the show- down came he had the stuff to work his way out again into scoreless plains. Haines has been around 10 or 12 years. He is no great headliner, but any pitcher who can shut out the Yankees of 1926 with Ruth and who four years later can suppress the Ath- letics with one clean hit is a_ pitcher who deserves to stand beneath the great white-spotlight of fame. He is no part of & punk and you can bet a shoe store against a shoe string on that dope. Grove Deserved Better. OB GROVE yesterday deserved a better fate, but he' never deserved 1o beat Haines. ‘The fourth battle opened with a rush before the largest and most excited crowd of the series. Bishop beat out a rap to Bottomley and thes (Continued on £ - I ALL SQUARE NOW PHILADELPHIA, Bishop, 2b, Dykes." 3b. Cochr: Simmons, Foxx, 1b. Miller, rf. Haas, 'cf Boley, ss. Grove, b, ST, Douthit, ef. Adams,” 3b, Fr 3 lssuasounod Xl onatasunnd B cavbissashil unuesusiond e L R S S | et nags | aada e ol mscoconne? ulomsscsson? nloscocorooM il cossacona™ Ed 00000 1200 Runs batted in—Simmons, Haines, Double play—Gelbert to Frisch to Bottomiey. Lett on bases—St. Louls, 4: Philadelphia, First base on balls-Off Haines, 4 ( Simmons, Haas, Dykes); off Grove, 1 (Ge bert). Struck out—By Haines, 2 (Miller, Grove): by Grove, 3 (Douthit, Adams, Bot- tomley). ~Wild pitch—Haines. Umpires— Messrs. Reardon, Moriarty, Rigler and Geisel. Time of game—1 hour and 41 minutes, —————— GROVE PITCHED 19 BALL, SAYS COLLING Mac_ks’ Captain Looks for Southpaw to Defeat Cardinals Again. Philadelphia St. Louis .. BY EDDIE COLLINS, Captain of the Athletics. T. LOUIS, October 6.—Fans, that second defeat by the Cards hurt! The National League team won, 3—1, but Grove ought to have won for us, 1—0. That kind of game is a tough one to drop and is much harder to take than the dose Hallahan gave us on Saturday. I do not mean to detract from Jess Haines’ brilliant pitching. In fact, he | deserves all the credit for his work that put the Cards on even terms with us.| But I feel that Grove was every bit as good as Haines, From our stand- point the fourth game was a story of errors of omis- sion and commis- sion. There is no use ' placing the | guilt orf any par- | ticular player. ~ St. Louis got the most runs and it will be better for us to forget about it as soon_as possible. ‘Whille many are singing. the praises Eddie @ollins, of Haines, -others are heaping laurels on Gelbert, the Cards’ young shortstop. Before the series started he was rated one of their weakest hitters and I think he has been their outstanding player in the series thus far. His fielding is steady. He covers acres of ground, and he generally acts with the confidenice of one who is a world series veteran, instead of an untried youngster. Makes Classic Play. His play on Al Simmons in the eighth | was not only a classic, but it also nipped a possible rally on our part. We were starting to hit then and had hopes of winning out. Simmons rapped a slow bounder in back of the pitchers’ box and Gelbert raced in and almost stood on his head to make the play at first. Gelbert also scored the first run and along with Ray Blades, in right field, was about the most active and con- spicuous individual in the Cardinal line-up. St. Louis played bang-up base ball at all times. In contrast with this our play suffers. We erred and were not | as alert as we should have been. | It seems almost a cinch that Grimes | and Earnshaw will be the rival pitchers today. All we ask is that Earnshaw pitch’ his usual game, the kind he pitched inst the Cardinals Thurs- day. He has had three days' rest and should be at his best. I feel confident Grimes will not be able to suppress our hitters as Hallahan and Haines have done. Some of -the boys are overdug and they are bound to break loose ay. Al Simmons and Max Bishop have been playing wonderful ball in this series. I have no complaint about our pitching, for Grove gave only five hits and I think he should have won. This time the breaks were against us. Grove is due to pitch for us again and I don't care how right th: St. Louis batters are because I have every confidence that he will win, My faith in him is unshaken and he ranks with the greatest pitchers the Athletics have ever had, and that includes Bender, Coombs and Plank. pitching has over-shadowed the hitting in_this series and it's hard to explain. Yesterday's game was played almost in darkness and it was made to order for Grove. There wasn't a ball hit that sounded like a good old-fash- joned_wallop, It doesn’t make any difference to us whom the Cardinals toss in next. Bring on Grimes and Hallahan and “it's just going to be too bad. The A's are ready to break loose. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- Daper Alliance.) CLASSY FIELD ENTERED Turf Stars to Compete in Gold Cup Event Saturday. CHICAGO, October 8 (#).—With the running of the $25,000 gold cup event as the climax, Hawthorne today went :::eu" u.";" second week of its Autumn The gold cup will be decided Sat- urday and if Eastern owners do not change their minds, the fleld will be as select as has gone to the post in Chi- cago this season. Gallant Fox has been | 'withdrawn, but Jim Dandy, the only horse to defeat the Fox; Spinach, win- ner of the $20.000 Havre de Grace cup Saturday; Sunbeau, second to Spinach, and James Butler's Questionnaire, will represent the East. From Western and Southern stables will be Lady Broadcast, winner of sev- eral rich handicaps this season; Plucky Play, Karl Eitel, Jem, Blackwood and My Dandy, another Western stake fav- YACHT DORIS WINS, CHICAGO, _October 6 (&)~ |SOCCER GA HALLAHAN, HAINES LAUDED BY FRISCH Their Games Two of Best He Has Seen Pitched in Six World Series. BY FRANKIE FRISCH, Second Baseman of the Cardinals. B T. LOUIS, October 6—Bill Hallahan's game Saturday and Jesse Haines’ game yes- terday are two of the best games I've seen pitched in the six world series in which I've played. Haines wasn't quite warmed up enough when yesterday's battle started and the Athletics, taking advantage, grabbed an early 1-to-0 lead. After that Haines was_invincible. Al we had to do was get a few rums for him and the series 4 would be all square, Bob Grove, pitch- ing a_beautiful game himself, had more speed ' than he did at Philadel- phia in the open- ing struggle of the — as he did last Wed- nesday. ‘We got only five hits off him as compared to the nine Wednesday, but yesterday we crowded the five hits into the third and fourth innings to score our three runs. It was tough on Grove, of course, when that error prevented him from holding us runless in the fourth, but the Cardinal batters in that inning deserve much credit for taking advantage of that error to win the game, Hafey, who had doubled with two out, distressed the Athletics by his smart base running on the error. He sensed in a twinkling that Foxx, pulled off the bag by Dykes’ throw, was having lificulty recovering the ball, so Chick, after racing to third from second base, dashed for the platé without hesitation and beat Foxx's throw to Cochrane. Grove's Carve Fast, Too. ‘That run breaking the 1-1 tie won the game, but Wilson and Gelbert made the day even more safe for Haines by singling to send Blades across with the third run. Gelbert thus was best hitter for the afternoon, as x.%"mx. to right in the thrid inning resulted in our first run when Haines followed up the three-bagger with a hard single through the pitcher's box. In the first, second, fifta, sixth and eighth fnnings Grove pitched perfsct bass ball, not one of our men getting to first base. That.was super hurling, but Haines himself was a supérman ongel 5‘;:‘1 theh?rst Tound. four hits Haines allow: came in the first inning and !&e‘hl:.t one in the third. Three of the four hits were scratches. Jess really came into his own in'the fourth. He started to develop blazing speed at this point and was rifling across a_curve which was almost as swift as his fast ball, ::;I‘V u;nd l!h.'n&fllgou.h seldom, he a slow t) - de‘l,phll blwendofl ltflgr?' ey less was so dazzling in the last innings that the Athletics did not :’; a hit. They, in fact, had only one tainted single in the last eight innings. The only Philadelphia player to reach third base on Jess was Bichop, Who s'.‘(lazzd the] Ak’: only. run. now Icoks as if wa're mal same kind of a drive we m!dsmbg g‘l: National League championship. We came from far behind to win the flag and now, after appearing almest hope- lessly beaten in the first two games of this series, we're back on even street, rushing forward with a momentum which should help us greatly in the remaining games of the series. ER GAME WON BY BRITISH SAILORS H. M. §. Danae Players Perform for First Time as Team, but Defeat Uniteds, 3-2. Frankle Friseh. D:flficer r’f’}‘:fl from the H. M. 8. n port here, yesterday over: British United booters, 3 T:; 2. “’l';.;: Visiting tars, though playing as a team :rorn fl;; efrnt;nme. ”vfi a fine' exhibi- , play generally being superi- or to the hard-fighting Unl!%. 5 Uniteds started with a rush. Turner, center, scored for the home team in the first minute. The boys from across the water, however, soon came back with the equalizing’ marker and then just before the close of yhe first period registeredl their second tally. Early in the second half the Danae team rang up its third and final goal. Uniteds fought with a will the remainder of the game, but after Elmer Knight scored their second marker were checked. Play of the Danae forward line, com- prising Powell, Harris, Evans, Richard- son and Tulip, was outstanding, while e B e ey oalte for the Uniteds. i FALL x{us LEVERING. BALTIMORE, October 6 (#)—Wil- son K. Levering, president of the Na- tlonal Sash Weight Co., and nationally - known horse breeder, was killed yes- terday in a fall from his mount on his cstate here, PRO FOOT BALL COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 6 (#).— Following is the standing of clubs in the National Professional Foot Ball League, including games played yes- terday: Won. Lost. Tied. Pet. e Bl 1.000 1.000 667 867 500 500 500 400 Green Bay . Portsmouth TSP P Sunday’s Results. Brooklyn, 20; Stapleton, 9. Chicago Beas steam yacht Doris, owned by Hofnauer of Chicago, defeated the , owned by Comdr. ne F. Mc- nald, also of C‘hlel‘m' their mile race from Milwai yesterda;