The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1920, Page 22

sisi ea PS 20BB cers HGHTING SPIRIT AND GAMENESS WINNING FOR THEM, SAYS LEADER es Manager of Brooklyn’s Crack Team Tells Why Club About to Land the National League Pennant in a Fight it Has Involved Nearly All of the Clubs in the Organization, By Robert Edgren. Coprrtgat, 1000, ty the Press Publishing On (The New Tork Srening World) IT ROBINSON was in the Brooklyn dressing-room, getting Teady to go out on the field. I saw Robbie's locker before I saw Rodbie, which was only because Robbie had stepped around the corner for ® moment, When he’s in the same room with you, you can't seo anything else first, He's the whole scenery. Wilbert’s locker is built like Wilbert. It's @ little less than six feet high, three feet deep and fully four feet wide. It was the width of that locker that attracted my eye. I never saw a wider locker. Hang- ing in {t was @ baseball shirt that ‘would have mado a blanket for any other player, ‘Robbie came back from around the corner, sat down, and pulled a of shoes from ‘the locker. They were boy's size shoes, Friend Robbie @8 small at the bottom as he is wide at the top. You look at him and how the biggest manager in baseball can walk around on such "gmail feet. Then you look at Robbie's shoulders, which are wide enough ‘for two men, and remember how. he.once cracked out seven hits in one game, which was Robbie's world record when he was with the Orioles, I watched Robbie dressing. First he carefully turned his baseball pants inside out and laid them on the floor with the legs turned toward Dore ‘Then hg put his toes through the pants leg openings and pulled the on @ few Inches at a time, rolling them up his post-like legs, Whbn Were in place they were right side out. Robbie stood up, gave the wer tn pants a hitch and buckled his belt. / | *or the love of Pete, Robbie,” | 1 “do you always a your Fd on that way?” Tortie turned Around with ‘a grin. ""Phat's the way. we alwa: big say a scrappy team ts good—as long doean't do its scrapping at home. We're « happy fainfly. T have a lot of willin. boys and they'll do anything they're asked todo. I never ask them to do anything | wouldn't do myself, So we nover disagree, There hasn't been 8 quarrel tn the club in the whole season. way, 1 can always tell a busher by wa: pe ig on his pan’ nee to think thia over ished dressing. ‘d work put us on top, too, We started the season with a long slege of bard trtining, Why, when we played @ series of games with the Yanks and won 10 out of 17 didn’t they allbl themselves by claiming that we'd bad a lot more training and they weren't in shape yet? We play hard and play together and are al- ways In shape. Durmg the season, thie year, we didn't do as much morn- ing work as usual, In fact, we cut it out—only did a few days of it aito- gether, Had plenty of work In tho 8, Our toam is made up of vet except for one man, Nels, whe right Geld with left hand pitchers. He's one of the best out flelders | ever saw—a youngster—and any chanoe to claim credit. “They're a Kame There's no quit in them. This ‘Deen one of the toughest scraps Dever saw. Every club in the league, New York and Philadeiphia, on top at some time or other, a been up one day and’ knovked|/ some people have even questioned i somebody else the next.| whether he ought to be in the big r been up and down, but we've|jeague or n In my opinion Nels come up again, You can put secret of winning—if we win-—in words: perseverence and grit. boys have stuck to it. will be a wonder in a couple of years Some people anked why % brougiy| Johnaon ta from outtteld to third, but | he'a made good and would make good anywhere, and Kilduff and all the boyr have done well, We have one| happy family and one team of bafl players—no pets or favorites, but u team that always plays together and | Hever quits, ‘That's why we're where we are Here Wilbert Robinson got up, and iy rgh gave us for the firat time lont his amile. y “LT looket that Pitts-| "Gosh," he said, I'm againat it now promod one of these moving ploture fellows I'd try to get the boys together bofore the game to have thelr pictures taken, A ball player haw one superatition, No ball player living will have bis picture taken be- fore a game if he can help it, Well— gotta try to get them togethe: Bobble turned around and called: “All out for a pleture, boys.” ‘The “happy family” responded with an indign. “Picture! t me, Say, Robbie, tten the last time we winners.’ They were up on thelr | 4 fighting every minute, quarreling , ‘®ach other, scrapping over every. J ral of flight and pep, They had spirit, all right, But they out of it—~fghting 4 had to have a private hoxpt- “T remember one day when Pon- the pitcher, showed up here with ) ‘eye cloned after a fight with « Bay, there were bats fly- ia that Citolnnall crowd when got to scrapping with cach other, “Here's where our team's winning comes in. We have all that stuff in us. If we hadn't w 't be on top, But we do ou om esx with the other fellows. I'l! - Champion English Boxer Meets Mike O’Dowd at Jersey To-Night Frankie Burns vs. Beecher, and Jackson vs. Fitzgerald * Also on Card. By John Pollock. Bike O'Dowd, the ‘former middi Weight champion, and Ted “Kid” Lewia, who recently won the middie- weight championship of Burope by _ hile defeat of Johnny Basham, will meet in the star attraction of twelve “What did T tell you?" chuckled Robbie. “Well, T only told him I'd ‘try’ to them to pose.” Still chuckling, Robbie opened the dressing room door and went out on the fleld alone ‘* {0 @o saninst Johnny Tilman, the crack weiter. weldht of Bt. Paul, in 4 ten-romnd battle at AR ron, ©, on the night of Oct, 12 Leonard, i jo Wearned from 4 relitile sours, te to rocelre 60,000, By eiening ap Joe Laneh and Jack Gharhey, the loca! bantacrewiatin, for a fiftern rom tattle to & decinion at Madiam Aquare Genie on next ‘Tuesday wight Promoter Tex Wickard did 8 wise thing, Both bose bare a Ola Coblowing and ae Abe Attell Goidstein and Vateey Wailace of hil AAeiohia are aloo ko tmitle, thew bowin ongit to draw a big gate. Local valent le whet the fans like 10 wee in action, Witlio Jecton the crack Lithoweluht of thie e city, and Allentown Dunder the Pennatrante at the Jersey City Baseball | veteweistt. who bas fount well tn bouts to to-night, Three other Dig | iat State, were matched today to claws in & scheduled on the cand are: Wwelveround bout to a decision, Jackson eval Ned Fitagerald at a boxing shew to be hekt by the Quewodterry A, C. in Of Australia; Frankie Burns, the Jer- | te bie amuory at Haltimore op Oct. 3. Jobnay wey City idol, will hook Up with | Lime fixute Joe Duindes in the eomalfiual of y Beecher for eight rounds, and | cw round Btacey of Brooklyn meets Jimmy ivan, former amateur lightweight , for la rounds, ‘Tex Ricken, manager af the Madinon Square Garden's porting Chi te now trying to sien tw Wille Jackon for a fight with Maddie Fits. dinmoce or Law Temiler to be fought at the Garden the middle of October’ Frank Wagiey, maceger of Jachwn eaye he will allow Jackson to flgbt fitter man proriding the weight ie 135 pounds welaied th ab 9 P, M. on tie night of such se geting Wie | POs | te expected the: sev. | Allie Nack the local ligitwrigit who has been to etme con. winidheratole Sitting in Vinexiero for a kong time, io now on bis way back 10 Now rd FM ag a bad by bok tee ma sacl SSS — | thre, y, | We'Re a Harey Pamir: us 24 WT me Brooklyn’s First Baseman Best in World’s Series, According to Expert’s Dope Hugh Fullerton Rates First-Sackers in Offensive and Defensive Playing in Second Article for Evening World Readers—How Konetchy and Schmandt Measure Up on Season’s Figures. By Hugh H. Fullerton. No, 2—FIRST BASE. ONetihje, Ditentve, tots a . Brooklyn O17 489" 148 Yankees soe Sas “a7 ci 922 ay 1339 Chicago 888 1 FOARDLESS of which of the contending American Leagae toame R they must faee in the World's Series, Brooklyn holds Its own well in the first clash of the dope—the figure study of the first basemen, Further than-that, Brooklyn may show a gain In offensive strength in that position for the reason that {n this doping T am compelled to study the National League winner against the pitching staffs of the three teams. e$ Roach Was Over Rector, At the Bayonne A, A, last night Spider Roach of Frisco outpointed Young Ree- tor of Jersey City in a twelve-round bout. Juck Gritz won from Ray Garry in & #ix-round bout, — Happy Howard Recetves Awa find that if the Yankees win in the American League, Brooklyn will show a slight gain in the offensive figures; if Cleveland wins, a slight loss, and teams at this stage of the game, I am compelled to figure Brooklyn's av- erage strength against the three clubs, In other words, it would be luckter | base bas been one of tho disputed! ivy pitching--and his average In low. points of the season, Bome fxure| Tha dope indicates that in the ats rs {to be extremely important figure bly, whereas: Schmandt, one of the| especially with the Dodgers and t beat and m proved his abitily to) With Dodgers and Cleveland Ls died and in that| {F the big coin, Position to hit furiously. | Brooklyn ia doubly safeguarded. jtall arithmetic to keep up with the rou understand, of course, the comparison between one team and! his own circuit, playing 184 games When I commenced the Iabor|and hitting against perhaps seventy he has to hit against Carl Maya, the world's championship, it was nec- Eddie Clootte and Coveleskis he would essary to figure three teams in cach 1 possible at this stage of the dope figure exactly. But as soon us the labor, and as soon as one of the American League teams slips back amend the figures #0 25 to give the value of each man against the kind ad a ll iat 4 sf ee dition: understand piaint 2 | Assistant dopesters against—and that and plainly, 87°), against fxuring last spring's exhi- & certain position. For instance, if|@ far as it may affect the confidence chmandt and Konetehy both should) of players. Brooklyn players beligve the two~an average strength stop Yank batting because they did} The big Brooklynite, no matter how] it last spring. This confidence wiil contest. They are not up to World's} lyn's pitchers were further advanced Series standards of former yeas in condition at that time and Huggins men, and McInnis is more physical) 1'l] amend my figures as rapidly aa than mental, Konetchy Is a man| possible. Keep youns and make the flivved twice when ho threatened to) League teams to drop suddenly, It he one of the great stars, but those] js a t@rrible strain on the arithmetic brain player, Schmandt is the highly] even now. hervous type, a bunch of nerve and) ‘To-morrow we will atudy the second tion and one who rises to greater) ahow a greater dixparity than exists heights in the most pressing situa-| between the first bagemen, SERIES. Deryle Ontpoinis Bicom, Cleveland has the greatest hitting} PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Sopt. 23.—Be- contenders, but Pip is all round 4! Bloom in twelve rounds, In the fourth bettor man, although neither 80 pow- | round they brought the fans to their feet ‘in the series, It will be a lucky thing for the Dodger pitchers if Pipp, in- ought to stop both almost to a white per with bis style of pitching. While their own race, it la hardly necossary seriously 2” DECLARES TEAM | WINS BECAU SKS Rowinson of THE BRoowuns TRA SE IT’ SA HAPPY FAMILY | Aro prayers answered? We don't are, Cleveland will cop the pennant. Ling the folks to pray for the. Indians. ne it onde, y On this prayer Chicago that knows and in praying for rain. team. Only prayer a pinyer, tte the prayer was answered the Cle Way from heny the rop of suckers. rush out and bet their heads off. World's Series thay look lice a revival Crowd will close something with deliver the sermon on the mound “Batter will Pitcher will taken for the National Commish, Is supplication a success? mmny proverbs make it confusing. to him who waits,” thing came to " Everything camo 70 ‘em ¢ ‘they got that they wanted Series. ti Another proverb's got Charley for a rich man to jump through for heaven. at $5.50 aplece. and letting the Governmen broad jump through « After deserves heaven, rich or 8 The prayer drive in Cleveland has fare will go to church on Bunday « maisers tell ‘e vor the Robins. ookles don't control the Tobina the first five days. gwiteh and pray for rain, in the mont up’ mutt bum ball teams, world, Bbt are prayer bo LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. GComrrtsht, 1980, by The Frese Pubiiching Oo. (The New York Bening Word) before the series, Indiuns will have U roposition the Chisox are out! ow to pray livea in South Bend, But the magnates don't want that kind of ald. I'e the flvat time tn the Cyristian era that folka have Hall players never figured that no yer was, reported praying. Speculators are praying for ple Fans are praying hard for th World's Sories will furnish the answer One maxim reads, “Fi Cine! fans waited fifty bad ball te pt a pennant he eye of a ‘Tough to find that out w parley’s now consid: pray for the . though: easick Jus’ If the prayers aren't answered, They prefer rain-checks to raggberries any day -BROOKLYN’S MIRACLE MAN Copyright, 1920, by The Preas Publishing Co. (Tho New York Myextng World). AUILBERT NEVER, ASKS HIS TRAM To D: ANYTHING HE WooL INDO HIMSLE, oo Soo 7, awe Cn) 5! p Pa => —= eae ——— Tig Depoens LET THE OTHER TEAMS Do ALL THE” omeenic oTaee STURF know the right anawer, but Preachers out in Cleveland are get- Pi if the rooters are on thelr 0 Robins on thelr knees when if they ‘The nenrent Ind, He's a uy to farmer prayed fore a bail I-lny-m0's could w Liat me down wafe at firet en? Hut {t's just a5 near as Chicago, Indians claim they've got the whole Jim is praying for a | hair raising finish. IT Wou.d Bea Bou Bau Team WOOLY anne iF ve ) Cates CG Dodgers Need to Win Only Two More Games To Clinch 1920 Pennant Brooklyn Club Nearer Pennant Goal as Result of Win Over Boston. STANDING OF THE CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE, wk. PC.) H® three games cut of the re- maining seven that the mathe matical experts decreed the on- rushing Dodgers would be to win, diminished to two le won in the next six atarts before « poritive easurance could be made by Squire Ebbets that the much cov- eed National Loague bunting. wo would tly over the McKeever Stadium in| Fiatbusn next year, Thi ail due to Brooklyn defeating Boston by a 3 to| 1 score, The Giants’ ovarthrow of the Chi- cago Cubs at the Polo Grounds still nolds them in the “logical contenders | Ctwee, 409 O17 | Pritadetwhia. .06 68 AMER YEBTERDAY, Bertie at Philadelonia. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Clave, = WL. PC.) Clube, hird of the remaining games to be played is not a stupendous task | when one considers the pace the tearm from across the river is setting at the present tme and the fighting | spirit they have diapieyed in this} GAMES YESTERDAY, We pames seheduicd. GAMES TO-DAY. . But the fact that | Chlesge at Clevelnne. five of these remaining games will played with the Giants, who have Wh a marked degree of superiority over the Dodgers throughout the 1920 race, does not augur well for the Robins and the coJosal undertaking they have confronting them that will, no doubt, through the outcome reveal St. Leute at Detroit, Plindetania minating batting hostilities for the afternoon. Filling!m, the Boston apitball arts, ty of #unstine and « . then Ump will thetr eyes the umpire—or and y benediction i>- to thelr him, be ™ a collection ybe Too tverything comon every= ma, years. In that ime ball te And finally that came Ai they got waa the World's But Proverb states t's carter you're thinking of selling ti eutting the pric i Charley ta also a lifetime in Brookiyn fot ‘em dizzy In Brooklyn. nd hope Brooklyn to cop the Stinday game Bookies claim all the book the sani, Brooklyn fans wt ‘They kriow the pray for the the fans will | Mrs. J. J. Thompson of Siwanoy| Wins Chief Honors in Women’s “Met” Golt Tourney. Mra. J. J. Thomson of Siwanoy won chief honors in the two-day tournament of the Women's Metro- politan Golf Association over the Scarsdale links yesterday. She de- feated Mra, C. W. Breck, @ club- mate, in the final round by 1 up. Both Mrs, Thomson and Mrs, Breck won thelr sethi-final tilts by a 4 and | 3 margin. The first named defeated Mins Margaret Wolf of Sunningdale, while Mrs, Breok eliminated Mra. E, | 5. Beyer of Deal. W. D. Vanderpool, Secretary of the United States Golf Association, calle attention to the fact that the entry! you Happy Howant of New York recetved \the referde’s decision over Frankto Sul- livan of Byooklvn a a fa the ter ten-round tole » Kea alc” if the White Sex should come through, they will show a decided gain. To reach the approximate comparative figures on position strengths of the | for the Dodgers, so far as first base is concerned, to have Chicago win. The wteength of the Lrodinre at Rt mmm that Konetchy’s disablement would! tacking scheme tho first baseman of crimp the chances of Brooklyn torri-| Hrooklyn and the Yanks are lable t inspired utility men in| Yanks in the combat and not lea 40 the country, handle the bi on, vs ne, Daag amy You fellows who were going to help! So that) me dope thia out will have to do some The great diMoulty of studying] int ‘Gamalin pucks wesw ed ake yer's figure value ts in the P close races ts to MAKS) rogutar seaxon in his own league. In of compiling the figures and striving | jlferent pitchers, he may be a won- to dopo out which team should win “1° Whereas if he is in & series when not amount to much In attack. That ue. The Dodgers kindly obliged | 8 the thing we must study, It 1s lj- by plunging .out ahead, easing tho 8. races are settied and we know which two clubs will meet, we will have to we can drop their figures. FIGURES NOT COMPARISONS OF | of pitching he will encounter, Another thing I want to warn you NOT comparisons of men. They are) bition games between the Dodgers and comparisons of the team strength in| Yanks, You may conalder it only in play in @ series tho figures would not| they can hit Yank pliching, and Indicate either, but @ composite of] Hrooklyn pitchers think they can figured, la the class of tho first buse-| help them, but on real dope there ta] men who are liable to get into the] little to It beyond the fet that Brook- taken a6 @ whole. In fact, th had a disorganized ball club—which extn famine in capable firet base-| is not now disorganized. whose work yoldom has been credited | changes as the teams drop out—fand with being as good aw it is. ‘True, he| root hard for some of the American were in the days of his youth. He) tc have to fiure so many clubs, and has grown older, wteadier and a better! the air is full of four and nine spots | musela one of the most dangerous! basemen of the contending tears. men in baseball ino tight situa-|T have on idea that the figures will tlons. Havpriatt, 1020, by the Tell Syndtonte, Ine.) FIRST BASE IMPORTANT IN — power—and the most value of offence | fore one of the largest houses in the hin- among the three American League |tory of the city, Paul Doyle defeated Phil erful nor g@ dangerous against the | with the best battling ever seon here, sort of pitehing Nrooklyn will have —_—— stead of Johnson, bats against Pfeffer, Marquard or Cadore—and Grimes we must consider the White Sox as & team unt they are counted out of He is a fair and would be lucky the, dee | man-that ts all, bbe} to hit within Atty points of mere £ 1s | ‘League averige sgninet Brock C Gleaned By the Golf Gallery ) Mat for the women's national cham- Plonship tournament will close on Sut-|* urday, Play wilt Country Club, day, Oct. 4, that week, BOSTON, Sept. 23.—The Massachu- tte team which will meet begin at, the Mayfield Cleveland, ©., on ‘Mon- ‘and continue throughout Lesley (Cup hia on Oct. 1 and 3. t includes Francia Ouimet, Jesse Gulitord, Fred Wright, I Newton, Rodney Brown, LL. F H. Whittemore, Ray Gorton, W Chick, Tom Ciafiin, B, BHstabrook and Parker Schofield. SYRACUSP, Sept. 24,-—First honors tn the professional golfers’ tourney at the Bellevue Club here were captured by Waltgr Hagen, former American cham- plo,’ when he drove home with a medal score of 293 In the seventy-two-hole r the Syracuse course, one of “difficult in amateur circles in this country. PIULLADELPHIA, Pa., Bept. 23.—Ted Ray and Harry Vardon defeated Dwight Armatrong, ainateur, and Jack Hobens, Professional, over thirty-six holes by « score of 4 to 8, “Oh! What A Pal Is BUDDY BUDS!” Try these new and better Mints and will sing their praises! and Smith, the Dodgers’ oaneaenae both piched excellent ball, with Brooklyn twrieier having a shade the of the the teams that will figure first and second for the season that ia fast drawing to a close. Contrary to thelr regular method, the Dodgers started scoring before their Boston brethren when Miller! doubled to the left field bleachern | the third inning, He advanced a per} on Olson's infield out. Working the lay tn sensational fashion, shaston bunted to Boeckel and wus safe nt first, Miller scored, fifth inning the Dodgers started thelr war clubs working again Konetchy doubled to centre. On fice by Kilduff and @ single by Brooklyn first sacker| fracas, AQUEDUCT RACES Every Week-Day BEGINNING AT 2115 P.M. TOMORROW'S FEATURES Banquet Handicap better The Braves coNected their jone run} tn the sixth inning whea Bullivan| | singled to left. Holke, the next bat- ter, heat out an intieia nit that wall 2 Mile Steeplechase | poorly fielded by Smith, Boecke! fanned. le also took three! Th C I di wallops at the ozone, but, unfortun: | eCoion han leap | ately, Miller let the last one get away, | sf ther th allowing van to score and the Ant peppery ortatop to take ‘first Ipave. Pent tath a in cr “diag ‘Matbuan Av. tregke and at crit at inter at ad * wu. ‘ioitalng War Tas This, however, was all the scoring the! Braves did during the game. Konetchy slugged the ball into the| left field bleacers in the elghth inning for & home run and walked! around the bags a la Babe Ruth, tor- | and it will be easy to fol- low the style in cravats Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. Troy, N.Y.