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{ | | = mithathed Dedhed THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNES FANS NEED THE HELP OF AN EINSTEIN TO PICK WINNER OF SERIES DAY, OOTOBER 5, 1921." A GALAXY OF YANKEE STARS MILLER BAKER EYESIGHT 1 TEST bite ‘Arbiters Shadow Box With Adjectives Condi- tioning for Opening Skirmish of ne Baseball By Neal R. O'Hara. Wopyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) IMPIPES for to day's premiere are Caill, Moriarty, Quigley and R'gler That makes four umps, not including Ku Klux Klem, the invisible umpire. These boys are in the pink of condish. Took the eyesight fest this morning and guessed the missing letters in K--L—T-—R—Z—F to spell a famous American's name. Binet test, magna that the days are sixteen sell pop act, Huggins and McGraw shaks under Duke of Chesterfield les. Hughie Jennings eelects first pasture for grising. Gov. Miller and etaff crash the gate on Republi- ticket. Judge Landis bows lows flock of non-partisan cheers. Tonic utchers go into high C. Ump silarts fall house cleaning on home plate. Collar of Ruppert's home-brewed bat- order goes to the plate, Experts peacils on reams and reams of | stationery, and the panic is posi- tively on. Result of series is stil clogged in foubt. Both teams have trained on Nix-ain't-it tron, which confuses the it conscientious experts, Nix-ain't- the stuff that champions train on. fer taking six bottles tn 1915 Jeas Writiara went out and bought a circus, | After only twelve buckets of this Marvellous fluid Jack Dempsey ‘slammed Georges for a touchdow2 Bnd fought attachments in eighteen rates, Johnny Wilson took tt regu- far after every meal and scored a safety on Bryan Downey. Now Yanks and Giants have gone in for Nix-ain’t-it and sertes looks like an absolute deadlock till one side ‘orgets to take its medicine. New York ts woony from excite ment. Suburban fans eongest the city and beg hotel clerks to take ‘em. Ho- tel guys take ‘em In good and proper Wild-eyed bugs from Gopher Prairie nettle scapulatora with barbarous of fers. But tickets are scarcer than Ritz-Carlton toothpicks. There aren't even any counterfelt ducats for sal to the yokel trade Bread line to the bleacher meats proves the series will be a box office Success. Line has formed on the righ , and ts continuous. If you don't get into the park to-day you simpsy hold your place in line and maybe yuu ge! in to-morrow. That's the beauty of having the series in New York. In- sures a game each and every day. No bleacher customer has to walt more than twenty-four hours to get his ‘place in the sun Exeept, of eoursg, In case of rain, If st rains your place in line is good uatil the next fair day. Nevertheless, hotels are jammed with visiting trade that doesn't seem to realize that this series is Manhat- tan's private affair. A room and a Dath fs worth its weight in promis sory notes, Fans are sleeping throe 4nd four to a twin bed. Inng are run- ning so close to capacity the night ‘watchmen have no place to sleep ac aight = Even Paria ts blodey about the se Ties, ‘This 1s the first world’s cham- jonsh -p fought this year that France Beene got a chance to lose. Part- @lans are suffering from a sho. tag of expert dope, but still think the series 1s 50-50, And that's about what “deg Americains” think. ‘There is a @olutely nothing certain about ths Series except that double headers wi bot be played. Yanks and Giants look much alike as two tax! drivers mbling for an incoming hick. Bu ther Hugmen or Muginen co Johnson has issued a challenge the winner. BY UMPIRES ASSURING | : BARRAGE OF MISTAKES exercises, hands down. Umps are now guaranteed ay honest as the day ts long. Umpiring {s almost as tough as vampiring. When vamps ooze on the screen, men cringe, women hiss and children under sixteen are not admitted. Almost the same with umps. \ When ump comes on scene of world series fracas men hiss, women hiss and boys under Only casualties reported from soft drinks this year have all been among the umpires, ‘Two umps come from each league, insuring neutral mistake: these boys will get one player’s share. Will hold a meeting late to- fit to decide which player is eligible to be robbed. | The scenery'’s all set for the open-@- ‘SPEED OF GIANT PLAYERS WILL OFFSET HARD BATTING + PASSED dicts His Team Will Win World’s Quarrel. Championship. 2 AL EY 1 George Kelly, the home-run boss of the National Series gi Kelly, who is expected to play a big part in the tell Evening World readers just what happened. His views, fact he will be one of the participants, will be of great importance. fret article Kelly picks the G form prediction, but honestly b B ries, wi due to th Int ieves his team ie the better club, Then passed the By George Kelly. come seven. Also passed fingerpriat EFORE going into a discussion of the strength and weakness of ou But the wise fans know growing shorter, be the next World Champions. he Giants, having made a finish that was only alisnil; week at the Polo Grounds, Aside from the unquestionable superiority of Bab Ruth as a hitter, I feel that our club has better balanc. and greater versatility. bottles to the sharpshooting trade, Rules beeen hath as a weak man on a curve, but they say he has shown marked improv ment in this. year. of the champlon and clearly outplayed In the defensive departments of th him. In the final set Tild n was within a that while some days he seems nr Cae i HOUGGINS OF YANKEES, SAYS KELLY Home-Run King of the National League Pre- League and first baseman of the New York Giants, will write a daily article of the World| He does not make a matter of rivals the Yankee ball club, I want to predict that the Giants will Th's {s ne mere matter-of-form prediction. Naturally, club loyalty prompts it first, but there is the added conviction that less sensational taan the climb of the Boston Braves in 1914, will rise to greater heights this memorable ‘The Yankees are a wonderfi. organization when they are on one of their spectacu.ar streaks—but this may not be their week for strea.cs. Study their record and see how many games they aave game T think we have an edge on | stroke of victory. The score was 7—6| Pip ty get our goats tn this bat-| the Yankees. Wallle Pipp ranks with in Tilden's favor on Rice's serve. ‘Tha \tle. Wallic fs something of a atreak|the best when he ts going good, bu fame score was 14 &. Tilden netted /hitter. and the trouble ts that you| isa streaky player, and quite Vke the nest bail and scored an out on thel can't tell Just when he ie Mable to| ly to hoot the enalest chance as he te feuce. Rice took the advantage, pane [break loose In w hitting streak. An-|to make a halr-raising one and set in rapid order M other ‘hing about Pipp ts the fact FRISCH LEADS AT THIRD BASE, | MAYS |LOUISVILLE TEAM READY FOR SERIES WITH ORIOLES. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. §—While New York is getting excited about the World's Serfes baseball games that will start in that clty to-day, Loulsville with conflicting emotions fs awaiting the Jirst game of the “Little World's Serle between the Louisville Cluo, 1921 chan pions of the American Assocation, and Baltimore, International League pennant winner, Orioles, headed by Jack Dunn, last night from Baltimore, ‘olonels yesterday held final and under the, management rthy and Captaincy of Buck") Herzog, himself # ran of several World's Series, the layers got ready for the coming of the sterners. jarthy and Dunn are keeping their probable pitchers, T however, are not so secretive » elther of two left-handers, Koc x picked to open for t b| r the American League, At third base both Baker and Mc Nally command respect. course, has been through the mill’ be- fore, and was the ploneer nitter into iy the right field stands at the Polo Grounds. McNally, too, s been through a couple of World's Seri lests. His play at third base has been tore spectacular than any Baker of- & fered this spring. Neither is as fast elas Frisch, and neither hits as hard, but just the same they are dangerous t | able to pull any of hig famous loafing MC NALIYV WARD BELKIN PALGH Disqualification of Prince) James Proper, but Costly to His Backers. By Vincent Treanor. are evidently bent on stamp- ing out rough riding, and the disqualification of Miller and Prince ‘ames, winner Of the third race yes- terday, was @ move in the right di- rection, Miller fouled Golden Flint and St. Patrick going round the first |turn, and no fatlt can be found with |the ruling setting him down for four days, but the action of the officials |came as a hard blow to those who had backed Prince James, The colt showed he was best in the race, and |+\e punishment might have been or- dered 80 as to affect only his rider. After the close riding at the first turn Prince James went on and raced down Wrecker, only to be bothered a lot in the stretch by Cote d'Or ‘This colt interfered with Prince James, almost as much as the latter ppotherea Golden Fiint and st. Patrick, tii he got the purse ali the wh le. _ [an outsider, as far as the general In the outfield, there are many wh? | jblic was concerned, and the pla declare that the teama are evenly |ing of him first was of no financial matched, But Bob Meusel won't be) heneft to anybodys Wrecker showed in this race that he's only The Virginia Cigarett 1 racing stewards at Jamaica | Cote d'Or was | Stamping Out Rough Riding Stewards Hit Public Hard |cleaned up with Comic Song who won jthe first race In the Joseph Widener’s loolors, As a matier of fact Tom didn't have a nickel on the gelding, and discouraged many who wanted | to Wager on him, It is sald Al Jolson, the actor, attracted by the name, | Comic Song, scattered a few centuries lon the horse, Clarence Turner rode him as if he had a wager down, too. He got him up tn front and never was even threatene Jockey Shuttinger’s ride on Viste in the last race didn’t please those in the crowd who wagered on the filly | Many were loud tn their denunctation of what seemed an easy ride in the] |stretch, and they gathered around the stand menacingly when Andy came back to weigh in. Vista seemed to | have the place within her reach when |she hung Jn the la. sixteenth. see ce Sernub Team Scores on Yale War- | sity. NEW HAVEN, Conn. freshed by two days’ rest, the Yale football team had a long scrimmage this afternoon against the scrubs, The ivarsity eleven managed to score three |touchdowns, but were un le to keep their own goal line from being crossed jwhen Butler, the scrub end, received the ball on a forward pass and took It ov + for a touchdown This was the only time in the after- noon that the varsity goal line waa even in danger, The touchdowns of the regulars were inade by Mallory, Aldrich and Stourm, the firat two being made lon lng plunges and the last on a for- | ward pasa. Oct. 5.—Re- n a sprinter, iH a ; Wou by one run waen speed and skill on the ' \ses was needed. Com- on Giant runners or we'll have him hig is the second time he has weak- | After the sorimmags there was con : i de throwing his right arm off. Irish) ened in the pinch after showing an| = = PITCHERS WHO HAVE bare their record in this respect with the Giants, and you can form but Myce n lett tor the clants ts the GHUaEl Ob oreRHy apeede * one conclusion. surest hitter we have. Babe Ruth, , WON WORLD’S SERIES Generally speaking, I think our Keing of hitters { flelder, @ fine] Mawreoron ts doing well in the WORLD S SERIES _ ~ thrower, anc pr all the way|colors f Morvich. Twice now he has GAMES FOR NEW YORK | Pitchins staft is better, although our |tomer for our pitchors, for the rea- through. In centrefleld George Buins| Carried them to victory and In much | at siete boys have had their ups and downs |son that he Js a turn around hitter r for years in the big brush, Mame TTURDNeR a6 hiecitloatrious Perit Right now we are stronger, and the | Strangely enough, Schang does not y zimer Miller ts the new star of |stahlemate. This colt has shown bg meni rmory Athtetion, recent failure of Bob Shawkey rather | Gf the type te te ae gay, patterns. th _Hugmen, Lo. to peed in all his starts, but early in| Lexington Ave, & 25th St, an Gihtt, 25 Abit, 0: Matnonen Increases our edge. Of course, Boone into the sania awinging from or” Meugel haw the greatest atin iil | the erect ne pauls auit badly in’ T Reproduced by the wonderful Peal Rapp gia pega rel pitched a pretty fair sort of gam: cna pie as from the other. With tne pig leagues, and he is a bulwark previous start there was no sign of little men who will play the Maver ‘Amalcn baka, *] against the Athletice a tew days ago, | Mays nten bon the rea nave 27 on defense fos that reason, but ts not |quit {n him. After ruuning very fast |} Fante as it is played on the field. 1912—Giante, 2; fed Box, 1; Marwwerg, | but any pitcher will have his good!) over .300. : a M ea Ma's eee Mee at oee Fey tare ine pu | Direct Wire Admission 2c tant, $1 Red Oo, 21 Marweare, Giants, | days, even when not at his bast, jus! : Gr pousae iy impressions, gathered Wien in the right mood will he formance on a_ track not. entirely | § Musk Doors Open at Noon i 2 As surely as the best will have their | {one of them At second hand, on the the game as he should dried out from Monday's rain. | 191s—Glania, 9; Atniatee, 0; Mathewson, | 1% 81) Yankees are all subject to argument. | 7 FON iat the Yanks have a lone| = | 1WI7—Glante, 2; White Sox, @; Wenton. Gl pad days, I have weak hitters come ‘ in : | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN "i ay to go bef they match our culb Irish Dream !3 a very unfortunate | Wenite Bex 0: sehuns GIANTS RESPECT BABE RUTH. | through and slovelop into « len | Pn2y Ae? inepaeds cn The parka ua |horaer Last time cue ne leet peceuse| FRIDAY NIGHT, OCT, 7 === | Tho Giants are not kidding them-| Tens over Mant for the World's Se-\inay puta a weapon in our hands, {he stumbled just_as the barrier went) 9 Burman Pa ShiTa| Seren DILLON | es. We realize that the terrify \yrise if Mike McNally or Finer Mile Our tnficlders: kn at they necd 1 and yestet jay he moved away] sie | i 2 oilte alto TaRaite ie hit. | Rot bu throws a runner at | fro Rate too slowly to get a H 1s VICTOR smashes of Babe Ruth are Ukely t jor wore to turn to and take the hit- | foe MTYices the hall drops into ante [position inthe run {o the first. turn. | SHARKEY ws WHite IN TROTTING FUTURITY, | uret any Pitcher and win any ball) (Oe honors away, from Habe Ruth. \torritory, the Yankees are not likely |Fator had to take a lot out of him TN an ai ~ game in a jiffy, While Ido not wish the boys on our club will take the { beat it out, and that may resu'c|getting up behind Genie W., running| ROU LitfiEton vs Howard . to steal any of Babe's thunder, I may ‘home run honors away from me. not only in single putouts but 11| from the backstretch, and the gelding | eo GEORGE DAVE LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 6—Helen . New York f ro Anne nx. | double plays as w |had ttle left with which to. chase "8 Dillon, A.B. Coxe's. two-year-old, | "YT hope to do some slugging my-| New York have oome, {0)\ex: in this se may outstrip|Genle W. the rest of the way. ARO HADE Ocean ‘A self, but will let the future take care |P"S* the hitting power of t 5 yd a, ne 3, $8 RINGSIDE, $7, Dillon Oxworthy-—Miss Plerette, bay Yankees in terms of home runs, But mrtsty Walen Syndt Tom Welsh was supposed to have! SEATS ON SALE filly, proved the best In the Futurity, | of Itself and will play under the'dl-|the Yankees do not always male 1921, by The Christy Walsh Syndicate) ‘om sh Ppos the $7,000 feature of the opening day's rection of John J. McGraw. Jhome runs, ‘The refore, speed will play card'at the Grand Clroult races yeater-/ Consider the batters of the Yankees, | (11, Putt. if the Yankees are able B sig est 2 ike that Jast ounce of worth out « day when Driver Serrell piloted her to’ for it (n.on hitting atrength that they |thelr hits, thelr ahecr power Wil tank st two heats of the h on their greatest renown. We| tiem even harder to beat. We have event after she had finished third be- | 2°¥® ¥* Lae aren Be ona Veli Of them iatretoning Bite. iat hind Suavity and Edith Worthy in the | My not be able to stop them, for the | aouhiog, put tt has been done firgt heat, reason that this serles cannot extend | streaks. They do not steal bases as Suavity, Mrs. C, F. Kane's brown filly,| over more than nine games, unless| We do, but that may not be such a the favorite, won the first heat in spite one of the contests should run ini Is al ; yrs aes snes y bases are of an injury sustained this morning, /an extra-inning draw. So really we |}, © PCsIOR ABR Pile, a | am ic though we may surprise Schang. It and was beaten only by a head in the y « ’ | wll ave littl »pportunity to study « the abllity to go fron irst to ¢ third heat. ‘The timo was 2.09, 2.10 2-4 oe ee bed Rt i INAt well Geant pone eee fe Shine Now that’s and 2 A ease i Defensively, we yprectate the fact Wanna May, after fintshing third to th h, of course, on on will ly) eae app A inn JW. Sand May Belle Direct Tacehe| | With Ruth, of course, or mon will] inat the Vankoos are well prepared what I call first pent of the pace, easily com- | follow the established custom of giv-| You can talk of great hitters, but th pleted the second and third heats with a balla te 4 hop. [Pitchers will eventually tell ‘the true Jense Riggs taking second money and !P& him had balla to hit at, and hop. | PC Ners, the battle. 7 ng! tM May Belle Direct third ing for the best. There ta no type |” he Giants are sire that they wl?! Jeannette Rankin was much the bet- of pitching that he can’t hit. Tf you | aN ter in the Walnut dull Cup. @ 208 fool him once with a curve, he may y tA Wale ete atin ting stake for $3,000, % et ¥ y anc alte t Isqu race In atraight heats taking ‘the come right back and hit the next one litiiy, toon that we wilt oot ye pee lover the fence, Lay a fast ot ancy. Harper, Bonsting a bit. be = through and an ambulance furl fore the battle, we hone to force Hue Tildes Eliminated in Rhode stand! wounded infielder may be the r-|eina to use his full stable. bearhte Semi-Finals, sult. T think that Ruth ts more likely |) expect Maya to be something of a PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Oct. 6.—Piay- 10 mins A hich or a low one If they | riddle to um form game, or possibly ing at top form, Lawrence B, Price of re Well vacied than he ts to mise al iwo, ag wa have mo underhand piten. | este iminated W ny. curve or 4 hopping fas Jers ‘in the Nattonal League. oaion y ee ies ted we) TH 1 look for Arthur Nehf to give| Rob Shawkey has had a tough time | den 24, world’s tennis champton, 9 thy pun a myn for his money any tmelof it In the Past week or ma, ene | semi-final round of the Rhodo Is! they 1 for Nehfs ‘oes fire an is ea miinst the Athletics was urt championship at the | sem a fire will fool the best J foirly convincing effort. Inctden Side Tennis Club. Tilden seemed over Bob Mensel, Uke his brother Emit! y, Bob waa in the “three and two" confident and slightly off his game. /!8 a michty dange ous hitter, and yet he re! ¥ often that game and auch Tha seo 9-1, 44, Gha, s—6, le Jooks terribly weak on a curve ball| pitching will be murdered by the| AL ie okt t times. He has been fanned as of-|Glania. Walte Hoyt will have an tm : {ten as three times in a row on curve|sentive tn this series, for Me ‘The fret set was delayed last Friday pats that broke low and on the out- once turned him loose. He Is going and the rest postponed because of aide and just waved his hat at the| wel! rieht now and ts no worse nor| weather conditions, Play started to- ball. Ward ts another player of the |any better than a dozen Nattonal| a with one set in Rice’s favor. Tne Yankees who has always heen known |T#ague pitchers we have seen this) r un seemed to foresee every mova —and for cigarettes Virginia tobacco is the best neainst a left-hander, he will come| The Yankee combination aroun4 Western Union A. A. Athletio Meet: |rignt hack and slug the life out of | second base ts nently holeproof. Peck The third annual athletic carnival the same pitcher. We were looking | and Ward play together splendidly | and tion of the Western back over the box scores on Pippand|T'll have to admit that they are ennily A. A will be held on Feb. 2 Miscovered that he has had a lot of| the equal of Rawlings and Rancroft t ment Armory, luck with a good many southpaws, [although I'll aay that no two men S r way Sp MeNally is a Sanger us fark heres Saxes sweeter ball than those Glant«. will be on the roRr mi end has done plrious work for the rd n travel far to ether side to ition an. intercollegiate medley “relay Yankees , MANATEE Oarke mttan Liocert 6 Myers Tosacco Co, race at 1% miles will be run, Wallie Schang will be @ tough ous- is ae play combinations, while Peck elderable 4 Aldrich and formers, kickin, practice, with ed as the principal per= Shoes, at times, are your most conspicuous item of dress! Is your footwear a credit to the rest of you? Among our smartest Fall oxfords is a straight-tipped brogue with heavy harness stitching. 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