Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1931, Page 43

WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1931. * Features and Classified | he Foening Star. | PAGE D—1 Invading Macks Contemptuous of Rivals But Cards Maintain Stiff Upper Lip CHAMPIONS MERRY BOUND FOR SERIES Look Upon Quest for Record | Third Title as Merely a Set of Ball Games. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. BOARD THE SPECIAL| TRAIN OF THE WORLD | CHAMPION ATHLETICS, Bound for St. Louils, Sep- tember 30 (#).—Champions of the base ball universe—and well aware of it—the Philadelphia Athletics rolled westward today seeking something no other club in the history of the game ever attained —three straight world series con- | quests. As calmly as a big university eleven | faces the first shivering opponent of a | foot ball season, Connie Mack’s cham- | pions for the past two years sped on| toward St. Louis and the first P.me with the Cardinals, flag bearers of the National League. If ever a team was ;ox;mdem—imolenuy s0—it is the Ath- etics. For instance, there's big Al Simmons, | greatest hitter of the day, the fellow | the pitchers of both major leagues say | has no batting weakness, sitting on top | of a Pullman seat, his eyes closed, his head thrown back, leading a half dozen of his mates in song. At the other end of the car Lefty Grove, the Lonacon- ing lancer, strives desperately to fill an inside straight, the big black “ne{nr" that is his favorite companion sticking up at an angle that threatens to burn & hole in the brim of his soft hat. Boley Definitely Out. There’s Jimmy Foxx, the power house that roams around first base, bidding three diamonds, wailing as a finesse goes wrong. Off in a corner Joe Boley, shortstop ‘of two world champion ma- chines, ousted now by a youngster, Dib Williams, silently nurses an injured leg. If there was any question of Boley's warming the bench up to now, it was ended by a line drive in the final prac- tice: at Philadelphia Tuesday, when 4 slam from Bing Miller's bat caromed off a shin already alling from a “char- ley horse.” Waite Hoyt, the fashion-plate hurl- ing hero of world series when the New | | | | | 's 3 leek, blond Max Bishop, his. shoul- der entirely healed, browses through a magazine. ‘The of this The | demonstrated this well known fact in ed‘mdiu&;nmgwu;f{ul .‘e;: judge a 80 expertly even er W] umpires insist that half the ball, rather than just a quar- ter of it, cross the edge of the plate be- fore @ strike. If getting on base counted in the batting averages, Bishop ‘would have hit close to .500 this last season. Jimmy Dykes and Bing Miller solitaire and argue. Rube Wal chuckles over a eross-woi "Hz{." he yells, “what's word for sea eaglé?” No one 3 = Roars of laughter roll up from a group clustered around the club jester, and Mickey Cochrane, perhaps the greatest of modern catchers, i3 leading the cheers, “Popeye” Mahaffey, “Rabbit” McNair, Roger Cramer, youngsters-and first line substitutes, are in the group. Mule Haas, enviable possessor of the loudest “raszberry” in the American League, makes the most noise. Eschews Base Ball. Off s & compartment with his family, the 68-year-old Connie Mack, heading hopefully toward his eighth world series and the crown of his base ball life—three straight world champion- | ships—avolds all talk of base ball. He | rd puzzle. a three-letter For him the series will be played in St. Louls and Philadelphia, not the Pullmans eating up the miles between. Everywhere is the spirit of absoiute ease and confidence—this is just an- | other set of ball games. They talk bas> ball only when pressed. For them the series can have but one ending. No one can beat them, last of all & team they conquered in six games last Fall. The Athletics believe, when asked point biank, that “that _spitballer” Burleigh Grimes will face them in the first game. “Maybe he hasn't been going so good,” says one, “but neither was| George Earnshaw before the last world series and look what he did.” “But what difference does it make?” | they chorus. three for Connie. Try and stop us.” CHICAGO, September 30 (#).—Chi- cago's annual base ball civil war be- tween the Northside Cubs and the Southside White Sox was on today with | the Cubs again the heavy favorites. Manager Rogers Hornsby planned to send Charlie Root to the mound while the cellar occupants of the American | League relied on the curves and experi- ence of the veteran Urban “Red” Faber. | A crowd of 25000 was expected to ! watch the opening tussle at Wrigley ' Fleld. Financicl Angle Of Title Games | e | Attendance. N orries Dlayess ! 68.435.00 3 50. 8. 338E8tsatanEs 838222288238888888582838 :0ld Wallop | Boley (Athletics) Biloxi for Griffs Again Next Spring ISSISSIPPI again will be the scene of the Nationals' pre- | liminary training next year, | President Clark Griffith today hav- ing stated that Biloxi will house the ‘Washington club ball players for the third straight Spring. Once again, also, the Baltimore club will hold forth at Gulfport, only a few miles distant from Blloxi, and another series of practice games will be staged between the Griffmen and Orioles. ‘This announcement settles all rumors that the Natlonals next year would abandon their Gulf Coast headquarters for a site somewhere on the Pacific. ROCHESTER, ST. PAUL | OPEN SERIES TODAY Both Have Powerful ‘Outfits in Battle for Championship of Minor Leagues. By the Assoclated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn, September 30.— Presenting, their full-strength line-ups, St. Paul of the American Assoclation | and Rochester of the International League were ready today for the open- ing clash of & series to determine the base ball champion of the minor leagues. Managers Billy Southworth of the! Rochester club and Lefty Leifield of the Saints placed their confidence in vet- eran right-handers to pluck the first contest of the little world series oui of the fire. Carmen Hill, bespectacled twirler, was the choice of Manager Southworth, while the Saints depended on Walter “Huck” Betts. Hill, who once saw service with the St. Louis Cardinals the National League, is not unknown to American * Association fans, having hurled for both Indianapolis and Min- neapolis at virious times during his career. Although the Saints present the hard- est-sh team in America) sociation , the Rochester Red ‘Wings, by taking 21 out of their last 25 games in clinching the International League pennant, revealed much power. YANKS DOMINANT IN GANADIAN GOLF Nine of Sixteen Survivors in Women’s Title Play Hail From U. S. Hy the Associated Press. ls ORONTO, Ontario, September 30. | —There still was a distinct | United States flavor about the | Canadian women’s golf cham- | pilonship today. | ©Of the 16 players still in the running today, nine were from below the border, five from Canada and two from Great Britain. All the outstanding favorites survived the first round, including the defending champion, Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. Marion Hollins of Santa Cruz, Calif, former American champlon; Mrs. O. 8. Hill of Kansas City, Virginia Van Wie of Chicago, Ada MacKenzie of Toronto, Mrs. Alexa Stirling Praser of Ottawa, Enid Wilson, British champion, and Marjorie Kerr, another Englishwoman. ‘Two all-American struggles in the second round pitted Miss Orcutt against Mrs, Harley Higble of Detroit and Mrs. Hill against Mrs. John Arerfds of De- troit. There was one all-Canadian con- test, between Mrs. 8. G. Bennett of To- ronto and Mrs. Praser. Five More Internationals. The other five were international tests with the following pairings: Miss Hollins vs. Mrs. E. W. Whitting- ton, Toronto. Miss Van Wie vs. Miss MacKensie. Marjorie Kirkham, Montreal, vs. Mrs, Arthur Harrison, Buffalo, N. Y. Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, Wis., vs. Miss Kerr. Miss Wilson vs. Mary K. Browne, Cleveland. ‘While the favorites were through their first-round opponents with dispatch and by overwhelming scores, it remained for Mrs. Arends to flash the most sensational golf of the day. She trailed Mrs. F. J. Mulqueen of Toronto by five holes with only six to play after the twelfth and then won six holes in a row. The last with a 25-foot putt on the home green to cap- ture the match. Best Strategy In Base Ball and May Prove Main Factor in Fall Classic BY ALLAN GOULD. Associated Press Sports, Editor. T. LOUIS, September 30.—It is & base ball axiom that no strategy is quite so effective as a wallop out of the park. Babe Ruth the celebrated victory of “brute force” over the “master mind” of John Mec- Graw a number of years ago. ‘The theory and practice of the home run in still good strategy. It is relied upon by the world champion Athletics Just as much as they depend upon the sagacity of their 68-year-old pilot, Con- nle Mack, and his able lieutenants, Ed- die Colline and Willlam (Kid) Gleason, in the struggle that starts tomorrow i oest satery weoun ” gy we can employ,” | Gabby Strect savs, s to go out there | and fight the A’s off their feet from | the drop of the hat. I don't know whether we can outsmart ‘em. but I {le;l! confident we can outplay ‘em this The spirit of the National League champlons is one of their strong points, in Street’s opiniorf but he knows this will not suffice without the proper strategy in handling his pitchers or without reverberations from the big bats | of Jim Bottomley and Chick Hafey. A's Got Flying Start. In the 1930 battle of wits and base | hits the Athletics had much the better | b 9! Wil not predict, he will not discuss. Seigh Cieme et iine Gardsjand Bur- | es in the very first game | when Joe Boley pulled the “squeeze | flh]" with the speedy Haas on third . They accomplished Burleigh's | second downfall with a potent wallop | from Jimmy Foxx's bat into the | bleachers. | No manager fn base ball has a| smarter pair of advisers than Collins and Gleason. They have besn through the wars. They are quick thinkers in | |an emergency where one seemingly in- | 1535 | significant move may determine the | 1920 Athictics whole tide of battle. Nothing on the | field escapes them, even if it slips the notice of Mack himself. They outnum- ber, at least, the Cardinal combination of ‘Street and Frisch, whether or not | they cast a deciding influence. | Pltcning strategy was at least 60 per | cent of the 1930 battle. Here, too, the | “Send any one in there.| 5' have an advantag> with Grove and | Yank, We'll beat them. We're winning number | Barnchaw apparently in the best of | Pirates health, whereas Jesse Haines. veteran | Cardinal mainstay, is out of the picture with a lame shoulder. | Psychological Tenstrike. | If the Cardinals should gamble with | their powerful youngster, Paul Der- | ringer, and whip Lefty Grove in the | CATCHERS, G. AB. R. H Cochrane (Athletics) wes 121 Wilson (Cardinals) . . . 113 Foxx (Athletics) .. 137 Bottomley (Cardinals). . . 105 SECOND BASEMEN, 128 Bis (Athletics) o 131 Prisch (Cardinals) SHORTSTOPS. 65 84 128 Williams (Athletics) . Gelbert (Cardinals). THIRD BASEMEN, 98 143 60 (Athletics) . Dyumku (Cardinals) High (Cardinals) LEFT FIELDERS, Simmons (Athletics) Hafey (Cardinals)... . 127 . 119 CENTER FIELDERS. 100 Haas (Athletics). . Martin (Cardinals 122 RIGHT FIELDERS. Miller (Athletics) . Watkins (Cardinals) . 134 128 51419403500 1 Roettger (Cardinals) 8 FIRST BASEMEN, opening e, the rebound to thelr spirits ht _prove _deg:l.v'e. ‘There, again, IS a case where hits may my t.hccr best-laid plan of o 3 'ove Was no puzzle e Yanks his last time out. 4 Mack crossed up the experts and opposition by starting Howard Ehmke in 1929 against the Cubs. He ac- complished as much surprise by ortho- dox reliance on Grove and Earnshaw in 1930. -He has a seasoned gwirler this time in Waite Hoyt. as well as the rejuvenated Rube A emergency work. He has a strong young right-hander in Roy Mehaffey. Street, if he cannot use Haines and does not rely again on the Grimes, will be forced to rotaté e ringer, Bill Hallahan and either Flint Rhem or Sylvester Johnson. But Gabby knows his pitchers. He has shown rare judgment in handling them and will concede nothing to Mack when it comes to getting the maximum in results. Outcome of Past Title Encounters Winners. Losers. 1 1912—Red 1913—Athleti 1915—Braves . 1915—Red Sox. 1916—Red So. 1917—White &Y 1918—Red 1919_Redq, 1920—India¥ . 1921—Glanty 1922—Giantl, 1923—Yankees 192 1925—Pirates . 1926—Cardinals 1927—Yankees Yankees s oot 11 ARIAA 1930—Athletics “One tie gam Club Records for Serles. AN Red Sox. 0 Senators . Braves 0 Giants ds Cubs ... Indians Cardina Athletics . Phillies White 8ox. Robins Tigers . Lesgue Records for Serfes. SERIES, w. American League 17 National League 10 GAMES, American League. .87 National League... K 2b. 3b. 2 30 6 17 20 2 O I 88 g 457 87 376 46 159 509 93 30 1 149 126 32 10 90 119 3 5 8 67 494 114 518 96 5 36 4 82 145 162 30 4 4 218 26 287 39 436 60 51 b 125 347 46 93 26 607 97 178 118 18 30 509 106 198 437 93 153 141 123 433 80 412 68 523 75 147 491 89 140 236 41 107 BNS 88 8% | THE BOGEY MAN OF WESTMINSTER. F THE CRITICS LOOKED BERIND THE ROAR AND THUNDER, MAYBE THE ANSWER T0 WESTERN MARYLANDS 3 YEBAR VICTORY STREAK WOULD NOT BE A SURPRISING ONE... ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor -~ By DENMAN THOMPSON. O the average base ball fan the mere fact a ma- jority of the experts are picking St. Louis over Philadelphia in the world series getting under way tomorrow well might influence him to believe the Mackmen will cop. The experts so often are wrong. But aside from that there are several good reasons why this column is convinced the Ath- letics not only will retain their championship laurels, but do it in jig time. And we can think of only one to justify the hunch Street’s men will win—the law of averages. National League victories in the annual so-called classic have been so few and far be- tween in recent years the pen- dulum is due to swing back, but how it logically can be figured the end of the lane should be reached this Fall is not clear. ‘The Principal Reasons. Grove, Earnshaw and Sim- mons are the principal reasons for our conviction the Mack- men agaln will prevail, just.as they did last October, and there are others, including Cochrane and Foxx, to mention an addi- tional pair of individuals, and still all the reasons have not been enumerated. There is, for instance, the ability conclusively demon- strated b{ the Athletics in the course of compiling a near- record number of victories dur- ing the recently ended cam- i to win consistently re- gus?eu of how many of their regulars are out of action; their penchant for coming through when the stakes are highest, and their far greater prowess, compared with the Cardinals, in the all-important business of making their hits travel for ex- tra distance. The fact no team ever has ‘won three world championskips in a row is a silly contention in debating against the chances of the A’s. Until 1924 no club ever attained four consecutive major league titles, a fact wide- ly cited at the time, but that 't prevent the Giants achieving the feat. Outclassed on Mound. {Getting back to Grove and . Earnshaw, the Cardinals have no pitchers in their class, and in view of the dates selected for the hfm. it easily would be possible for them to bag the necessary four wins with no mates, although the hard figure Cornelius !cmllleuddy | | ma,g'l elect to lead with neither of his aces and assign starting roles somewhere along the line to such less brilliant, but thoroughly competent flingers as Hoyt, Mahaffey or,Walberg. Why 'the representatives of the National League ever agreed to a schedule providing for two off days after the initial pair of battles, making it possible for Philadelphia’s first brace of starting hurlers to come back for the third and fourth games strong from adequate resf, al- ways will be something of a mystery to us. Big Edge in Attack. Simmons, like Grove and Earnshaw, is a third Mackman whose equal cannot be found in the ranks of the Cardinals. He no‘ only is a match on de- fense for any outfielder the Cards cau present, but is far and away a more effective long-distance slugger, who al- ready has proved his attacking prowess is not confined to win- ning swat laurels during the regular campaign. Cochrane has it all over Wil- son back of the bat, especially as an offensive factor, and at first base, while Bottomley has an_average for the season of 345 against a mere .201 for Foxx, and is a niftier fielder, the answer to their relative value can be found in the col- umns detailing doubles, triples, home runs and runs batted in. The figures for Foxx read: 10, 30 and 122, while those for Bottomley are 33, 6, 8 and 68. ' At second, third, short, center and right field, the Cardinals may be regarded as equal or even superior to the Athletics, but the advantage possessed by the latter in every other respect is so much greater the clubs actually do not appear well matched. Gabby Street has earned belated recognition as a fine manager, and in the Capital there are a host well-wishers who will be gumng for the old ‘Washin; ackstop and bat- tery mate of Walter Johnson to win, even at the expense of so revered a figure as Connie Mack. It would even prove a good thing for the game if the Cardinals were to triumph, but as the situation looks to us we will be genuinely surprised if they do. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Hollywood, §; Portland, 3. San Prancisco, 9; Seattle, 2, Sacramento, 9; Missions, 3, Oakland, 6; Los Angeles; 5. 32, | SWITCH HIS ATTACKING: STYLE SO ComeLeTELY IT LoOKS LIKkE ANOTHER GAME —By TOM DOERER Merit Half Their Sobriquet Green Terrors Not Green, But They Are Terrors. By Tom D . ESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE'S foot ball team has suffered the |bound. fate of all standouts in This fighting grid eleven from the grand and glorious Maryland Spree State (No? then make it Free State) has been accused of about everything but putting salt in the baby’s bottle. And it is nothing to be alarmed about, either. There was never a champion at anything who did not have to fight harder to save ‘his reputation than his crown. From dark corners and in side alleys critics of this eleven sald many things which must have stung the Westminster athletic |body. It has been written about and gossiped about until the gab lacted as a boomerang to the critics. It gave the Green Terror a reputation as a fighting outfit of powerful men. In New England and in Pennsylvania and New York the casual foot ball ob- | with the other notables. The team has been talked about so much, and in its long of victories has so impressed, | that the Mountaineers are accepted as superplayers. Pew remember to look up its record | to find that its victories were over but | the run-of-mine elevens. And that is | said without any attempt to reflect upon | the courage of its opponents. But for the Western Maryland eleven to be as smart as some grid onlookers think it to be, the team would have to | start by blanking Army, taking Notre | | Dame over in its stride and then beat | Princeton, Yale, Minnesota and South- ern California in warm-up batiles. | s | . Yet it has been proven over the | last three years that Western Mary- | land is the best eleven in this pre- | cinct. Whether it can maintain this prestige in 1931 is a problem. ‘There are more than a few who will say that the crew cannot keep its banner floating. However, all of this ballyhoo about rules and patter of similar nature, all of which no one can tack down as coming from any one in particular, is hiding, to my mind, the real reason why the Green Terrors are able to roll off and away each year to a fat season. I'm voting twice for its coac! - tem and its emh,mkmng’:”xx:e Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. 2 AKRON, Ohio—K. O. Christner, Natie 'ao“mnm’nsm"( 0) A e H Akron, knocked out Phil Friday, ©.—Victorio Campolo, Argentine, knocked out Charley Wep- ner, New York (8). , Oreg.—Jimmy Byrne, Margnel, Oreg. ouipointed. Les. Ken: ; Jack Ken , Salem, Vern Butler, Minneapo- Uis (4). never met Mr. Harlow, neither as the Terror coach nor in his while Penn State and Dog'hndlyl. But I've heard a great him and most of the | server thinks of the Green Terror along | rules subsidizing players, ignoring eligibility |. favorakle comment. has emanated from coaches whose teams felt the lash of the Green Terror as it was victory They say mc_n;fla-'- 'wonderful defensive system is even excelled by his attacking methods, and that he can his styles of i i il egtae|F 288 2 E ¥ g g t L =51y 5 £ § 2 Wi g quarter, he may mongrel plan as A’s in a bowl of say, than cne of opponents ficulty and defeat during three years. Listen to of Harlow's plays and yt nol a chance without an interpreter. have started off on another tack. Most of this possible injustice suf- | fered by Western Maryland, no doubt, comes from attacks by hard-losing rivals. And I believe the cloaked charges to be an injustice, though it could be proven to me that every man in the | backfield recelved a bigger salary than | the president and that the line was | paid off between halves. Tt would be unfair, to my way of reasoning, because too many college foot bll teams are living in glass houses to single out one outfit at which to_toss boat hooks. STREET MAY BANK HEAVILY ON SUBS | Three Major Casualties Hit |- National Leaguers as Big Test Nears. BY CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. T. LOUIS, September 30.— S Facing the possibility of a crippled line-up, the Car- dinals breezed through their final batting and fielding drill to- day preparatory to opening world series’ warfare tomorrow against their 1930 conquerors, the cham- plon Athletics. ; That was the situation as the Athletics sped Westward from Philadelphia to defend their title, and Gabby Street, manager of the Cardinals, champions of the Na- tlonal League, was giving consid- eration to a last-minute change in his line-up with a view of re- placing Earl “Sparky” Adams at third base. Adams, ofie of the sparkling cogs of the Cardinal machine, injured his left ankle 10 days ago. It still is swollen, fatende to m m"'y High oo the third-base position with the batting order remaining the same. High Capable Sub. serves came gh 'with colors flying. There is a dramalic that oppose ace of the Athletics an: to victory cver the Cardinals a year ago, and the Cubs in 1929. The Athletics will arrive in St. Louls too late to engage in practice, but they are fa- miliar with Sportsman’s Park, having played 11 games in the base ball plant during the American League season. With moderate weather, around 75 degrees, forecast, indications were that a record-breaking crowd, in excess of the 39,960 that attended the world serles games with the Yankees here in 1926, will witness tomorrow’s contest. Every seat has been sold, and 5,000 bleacher seats, together with 3,500 un=- reserved pavilion seats and 3,500 stand- . |ing room, will be thrown open to the lawn oke over Sportsman's Park today 11 hopefuls were l:l):t&dv n line to purchase unreserved seats. Hor= ace Auspaugh of Sedalia, Mo., a 31= year-old unemployed hotel clerk, was the first before the gates. He landed there at 7 a.m. last Monday to win & $200 bet that he would purchase ticket No. 1.d X‘f he nflchbeu% thh.e gates are opened tomorrow, he s ve been line 78}, hours. Auspaugh, profec& by a raincoat and a blanket, spes most of his time sitting in a can chair. Dan Corcoran, Joined him at § o'clock yesterday. — Big Facts About ! Diamoend Classic By the Assoclated Press. 'T. LOUIS, September 30.—Sallent facts concerning the world series c::mu starting tomorrow: e bal hiladelphia, Grove and Cochrane; St. Louls, Der- ringer and Wiison. Umpires—Richard P. Nallin and ‘Willism McGowan, American League; William Kiem and Albert Stark, National League. 'mm.-—x:so p.am., Central standard Betsinig—Athletics, 7 to 5, ‘Weat forecast—Partly eloudy ‘with moderate tem; ture. # Series Louis, tomor- turning to St. Louis for the sixth seventh games, if o