The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1922, Page 20

A Ea PSYCHOLOGY PL AMERICAN LEAGUE UMPIRE. | LIKES YANKEES” CHANCES On Account of Babe Ruth Being In Shape This Time Arbiter Be- lieves It Will Have Big Bearing on World’s Title, as When He Starts Hitting He Figures Rest of Club Will Follow Suit. By Bozeman Bulger. DAY off among ballplayers means a lot of conversation about baseball—nothing more. For instance, their favorite diversion fs playing the ponies, Hven that foeen't take the mind off baseball At one of the race tracks an infleld- ‘er of the Yanks had a bet of #60 on a favorite. The other horses were erowding the leader, The railbirds ‘were beginning their chant of ‘Come ea, you!" — “Say,” sald the infielder with the Dig bet to his companion, ‘You reckon those fellows’ll give hit on that one I knocked through the shortstop yesterday?” ‘On the coming series they've talked pitchers, catchers, batting and the breaks, Billy Evaws, the umpire, was on the train with the Yanks coming ever. He gave them a new line of thought. “You know,” he said to a group of ‘veteran players, “osychology plays @ ‘big part in one of these things.” “What d’you mean—psychology?”’ @me asked. “Ruth hitting, for instance,” he ex- Plained. “Did any of you fellows ever try to figure out why it ts that when there comes a break in a game and one fellovy poles one, that four or five others often do the same thing right after him?” “That's the o'd rally,” they agreed. “Yes,” he said, ‘‘but what starts the old rally? I think it must be a sort of subconsctous belief that tf one fel- low can smash it anybody can--and they do.” “It sort of upsets the pitcher's con- fidence,” was Carl Mays's theory. “But asa pitcher I know that what you say about the psychology is true A pitcher can go along for several fnnings and get by clean. Then somebody smacks one, Even though he keeps right on pitching the same kind of ball they'll smack {t just as hard as they missed it before. Funny thing, that psychology.” “Yes,” said Evans, “you'll notice that when Ruth ts hitting, the whole club hits. That's something for you to think about next week. He ts in fine shape this time and that ought to have an important bearing on the series.” “T've been around ball clubs for a Jong time," said Miller Huggins, “but I have never seen such hot baseball toward the end of the season as this, have you?” he asked of some old time writers. We had not. Here it is the last ‘week of the season and the clubs with mo chance whatever are fighting as hard if not harder than at any time during the season. “Why, it’s that new rule ubout al- lowing part of the prize money to the teams that finish second and third,” Martin-Sullivan Bout Saves explained Frank Baker. ‘That's the best rule ever introduced {n baseball.’ “And it is my contention,"’ ohimed in Col. Huston, ‘‘that the players ought to get even more money for the second and third places. The third Placers now will get about $500. It ought to be closer to a thousand.” “No use talking agreed another, “tt has made this race a real race." “I never saw a team fight like De- troit fougbt us," declared Huggins, “and It’s all because they want to! beat the White Sox out for third place. If it hadn't been for that rule the fellows out of it would have played listlessly."’ “Instead of drawing practically no- body,’ agreed Col. Huston, “the Tigers drew around 15,000 a day for the series. Of course, the Yanks are an attraction in the West always. But Detroit outdrew Cleveland, I think, de- spite the big Sunday crowd. If the Indians had had a chance for third money they would have packed the park every game. Yes, that's a mighty good rule. I'd vote to give the third placers even more of a prize than they get now.’ “And,"’ added Huggins, his face brightening, “‘that rule may settle this thing for us. The White Sox will give the Browns an awful fight Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, so as to beat out the Tigers." “Bay,” spoke up Jamieson, tho Cleveland outflelder, who was accom- panying the Yanks as far as his home —having been allowed to take the rest of the season off, ‘why don't you fellows do a little praying for rain? Did it ever occur to you that if it rains in Boston on Saturday or In Washington Sunday that you will cop the old peanut whether you win a game or not?" “That's 80," Mays “Let's start pulling. The Yanks would have to lose four suggested. __THE BVENINGt WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, Tor9," AYS BIG PART IN RESULT OF SERIES, SAYS EVANS’ FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WORLD’S SERIES Copyright, 1939 (New York Bvening World), by Prese Publishing Company. T tS EstimaTED THar YF of OF S WIL FALL ASLEEP 4 a WANTING I 60.94) HUMORISTS WILE PULL THE DEAD GRAWHOTHER. JOKE THE GEST Locarions HAVE ALREADY BEEN RESERVED FOR THE PRIWATE dt, i AD th PAST STATISTICS INDICATE. THAT 3,657 Fans WILL BE GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF WITNESSING THE SERIES Curtin Beats Pouce. RECORDS OF PROBABLE WORLD’S SERIES PLAYERS YANKEE PLAYERS THINK THAT SISLER Jersey City Bantam Whips: His Colored Opponent in INTELLIGENTLY STATISTICS OF games before St. Louis could even NO. 8—CATCHERS. Rattling Go, tle them. Consequently, if a game is 1922 RECORDS. a - postponed—one that cannot be played . . . off during the schedule time—there| gary Snyder Schang Smith, Irish Johnny Curtin gained the de- would not be enough games for the] Pie, u\* se) 208 cil 64 cision over Danny Edwards after Yanks to lose. If one of those last} RUDs a - Lid a twelve rounds of fistic thrills at the games should be a tie tt would cinch| Batting averages hat uate A Pioneer Sporting Club last evening the pennant for the Yanks. On the} [yCiding chances . a“ 383 |However, Giants Declare Car-| oortna, this is belle the other hand, if the Browns should have eRe SVRSEY) « ci . 980 dinal 1 G hand, this is belleved to be the & postponement thoy would lose out) tT .-. 7s 13 5 inal Is the Greater first so-called mixed bout in this because there would not be enoagh| Stier Dusen ceecvescc eure tt rayedlnene se) ; Hitter, State, aside from those under reg!- games left for them to make a tic of aeeiP wince cir a ehoee pia veds ey Se We tall mental jurisdiction, since the night it even if the Yanks lost them all, 921 RECORDS. back in 1917 when Benny Leonard 'Do you think we've got a better Snyder. Schang Smith By Robert Boyd. c : E handed Leo Johnson a one-round K. chance in a seven game series than Safo hits .... 99 134 a7 8 the 1922 season draws to a « 4 in a nine?’ one of the players asked.| Batting average . a6 346 A clsas: the question ds to whether O. If the hectic affuir that usheres “That's bard to figure,” said Hug-| Fielding chances Wvees 620 336 ay Lore Dohrn St mined hauls: 1s 8 fo sins, “We might have a better chance] Fielding average ..........+++++ 969 985 Reese Hornsby of ae i example, then they may be voted a in nine, We have more pitchers than IME. B: ING A Louls Cardinals or George Sister of} |, oe TT! i plete success. the Giants and the long sertes might LIFETIME BA IG AVERAGE, the Browns is the better hitter t8! jonuny Curtin, the Jersey en favor us. On the other hand, one Li Smlth ag, by! oor take. rate team may develop two pitching stars} Years in majors . g [freely discussed. Hornsby's last @p-|try for bantamweight honors, was @ and they would go better ine seven) Bulting average .... see ORT 284 305 |pearance at the Polo Grounds this] veritable little bulldog, and Danny timer. They would have lena time to WORLD'S SERIES RECORDS. season fa the St. Louls-Gtant sertes| (Onin (tect was an indomitaut St ‘worn out.” Suyde Schang smftn. [Provoked many discussions as to the tittle tion kot tnerwvhitalboy;and the This discussion didn’t get anywhere Batting average + B64 318 000 |batting superiority of these two ma-|black fought with all the courage im- particularly, but it killed a lot of time.| Fielding average .. - 1,000 975 1,000 | jor league leaders. aginable, each a credit to his rice: The ball players are getting anxious (Schang caught in the 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1921 sertes. Smith was = ity: The result was one of the very ‘incest to jump over to Boston and finish the} even times at bat in the 1921 Series). . Tne Laitk especially: the twins te ie otithe year thing. In the meantime, they talk. ers, think that Sisler excels Hornsby. In fact, the seventh round, accord- By Ed Van Every. last fall, does 1 hold his head any | The Giants think that Hornsby excels ing to many of the old” timers Catching comparisons for the cam=|s0° Wells, Ne expended. a Jot of enorgy)| ts American League contemporary. Juround the ringside, was about the ching ™Tin exchanging repartee with the] ‘The records of both players are a5|hest ever. Curtin met Edwards in a ing World's Series are much closer} yp players. As a result three | follow: the centre of the ring with a right Boxing Show at Ebb t Fi ld than most experts will concede. Wally | out of four attempted steals were suc- G. AB. R. H. PC.) jolt that staggered the colored boy, e 8 ltée Schang will more than likely be given haptics worked on Mr. Smith. te BUSIRE Groen ae oe i” 4 ory but fast as the Jersey boy pressed his considerable shade by the majority) 5" showing in turning back | Hornsby .... 603 242. momentary advantage, he was mv of the almost forgotten “dancing Oe cepa ind the majority of tans.) NOUd-be base steaters was the best] Manager John McGraw thinks that) with left and right smashes to the Two Wretched “Prelims,” but Final Bout, With “Pepper” Winning, Is a Thriller. INCENT “PEPPER” MARTIN took the lead over Kid Sullivan in their great series of ring thrillers by gaining the honore in last night's engagement. It was tt fourth engagement between this pair, each one better than the other and the last one about the best of them all. Such a corking fight was last night's HQbbets Field feature that the large crowd wes ready to forget a pair of the worst preliminary impositions foisted on a patient public in a long, Jong time. For one of them the management, it is said, was not to blame, for the other they should be made to an- swer to the Boxing Commission. The semi-final, which was expected to come close to sharing interest with the main bout, was to have presented Wee Willie Spencer and Sonny Smith, two popular bantams. Instead a “match” between Andy Thomas and Jimmy Duffy was inflicted. As far as could be learned Johnny Keyes. manager of one of the prin- cipals in thes tar bout refused to let his man go on unless Andy Thomas, one of his stable battlers, was also given an evening’s work. This con- dition wan insisted on by Keyes un- der the threat to call off his man in the final. As a result Dave Driscoll, the Ebbets Field matchmaker, was forced to hustle around and dig up an opponentf or Thomas. Jimmy Duffy, the old west sid- boxer, was resurrected. Duffy was 1 good boy some years ago, but hasn't been active in the ring for quite some time. Andy Thomas is a promising young welter with one of the heaviest wallops shown around these parts fm some time. The thing lasted a Uttle over one round when Referee @ohnny McAvoy called a halt And that was only the half of |t the other farce they trotted out dake Abearn, or rather the ebali last fall, But in this writer's estimation while] ejgnt attempts, while against Schang as he nipped five out of Hornsby is the greatest natural hit- ter of the present generation of ball players. He has tried for the last three years to find his batting weak- ness, and to-day he candidly admits that be knows less than when he started. “Curve balls, high inside, high outside, around the knees, fast head that brought him to a@ halt, Danny forced in to cross over his right only to rush into a flurry of jabs and hooks that drove him to the ropes, The colored boy fought him- self off the ropes like a little mad- man. For the full three minutes they punched each other back and forth master.” The veteran middleweight faced Willie Naylor. Asa fight it waa more than a joke, it was a laugh Ahearn was dropped tn the first and again in the third, but managed to stick the six rounds, which {s a tip off, how good is Naylor an¢ wea wee food ts Naylor and how bad the American League receiver may] ihe Yank be entitled to an edge, this edee 18} stolen hassocks in twice that number very slight. Both Snyder and Se of tries. Considering that the leading are high class catchers, who can pee | base stealer of the National League, with the best and hit well above the} Frank Frisch, had to be stopped, and average, While neither may rate} the same party got away with three got away with seven The evening started noan too avapi.{ Ute UP 1 Schalk, Perkins or Smith) steals, the showing of Schang waslones—the stalwart Texan hits them|from one side of the ring to the other clously with @ slow four-round bow | io What is termed as “catching smart-| better than might be judged on first} au,"* says the Giants’ manager. Hugh} with the advantage veering first to rund bout | ness,” both Schang and Snyder have| glance. Int tes last fall McNally | ar : Curtin and then to Edwards. hetween Nat Pincus and Willie Mack, McQuillan, who was acquired from Pincus got the decision and the de. : c ne ck thinki ale home ot yder and Bob Meuse! demonstrated thelr quick thinking | stole home on Snyder and Bob Meusel ling Boston Braves recently, says that As chuck full of action as was this cinion got the raanberee, Te (ine te" | ability through the stress of koyeral} did the sume trick on Smith just when you think you have found| bristling round, the others were al- ond hott Danny Duane, a 120 cia, |hewnant dashes ax well as by their] ‘The chances are that the series this! Hornsby's weakness he crashes the|most its equal in slashing milling, er, cut Moe Ginsberg so severeiy | Vorts sence work fall will find tho catching improved] yon out of the park. Edwards was an impressive fighting about the mouth that the latter wo, |, Handling of pitching and the fush-}over the 1921 series, as both Schang| "4 comparison of the above records|man with speed and style, and he sut tabla to) auaver the mate was ion in which th y meas up inde and Snyder have be catching a bet- |e eee einer took, ‘part in’ ten|in his corner between rounds disdain- third round See eras iia oF arneesiver, Deri ai Sie yeas games leas than Hornsby, yet he leads|ing the ministerings of his seconds, refusing to be fanned or to take a —_—~>—- >. y A aah Bie . him in percentage by fourteen points. HARRY GREB SCORES spite the fault finding of certain ex: | RUETHER HOPES Hornby has made only three mora}drink of water, and only waiting for perts w Soheng and Snyder are hita than Sisler. the bell until he could plunge back TO BEAT BRAVES EASY K. 0. VICTORY] :oncerned: the work of this pair when into action. ot holding up. pitchers “} Arthur Nebf, the Glants’ southpaw ; TORONTO, on, @ aS ee eee y potk FOR SIXTH TIME Iuicy ant a creat admirer of Hornacy, But as good as was the litte cole Naaitinee lept. 27.—Harry| trea up the double steal us ofte explained to us why he thinks/ored boy, Curtin had no fear of him. Greb of Pittsburgh, tight heavyweigne| OTe UP the puble steal ften am} ayecit tom ning WYosal) Hornsby is a greater batter than Sis-|Johnny met Edwards's best efforts champion of Amoriea, won from Al| it has been claimed in some quars| | BOSTON: Mass. Sept. Duteh] jer, Nebt sald: “‘A right-handed bat-| With an exceptionally speedy counter, Bonedict, New York heavyweight, in|ters that Wally Schang has never | Rwether has sturted for the Brooklyn|ter is at more of # disadvantage tn sae aa braved fashion here lost night, knocking| lived up to the promise he gave In| Robins five times this season against {hitting than a left-hander. There are} { of ponds out ee” 8 Found and a halt] 1914 when he shaped up like one Of] the Boston Braves, and five times he} More ht-handed twirlers in the Pied be Grate the speed being wun-Line greatest of catching stira. Never-| has turned in winning. He is booked [RAMs than left-handers. This gives who welghed tn at 178 poundes ringata theless, year after year Wally is UPlto make his sixth start ag ainst. the Che lefihanaed. Saree fe Scrnarage: conceded thirty-seven pounds to Rene.| With the leaders in every department | Braves t and hope toi turn ee left-handed batter swings \n- the heaviest man the Smeks|and ax much ts to be sald for Frank| halt a dozen victories over the Braves | {2 bis Stride to first, while a right- NATIONAL LEAGUE Site Boxe Baa aver met Greb was the| Snyder — wit the addition where | 1¢ he succe ¢ will equal his record handed batter swine out of his stride a Ly ee! e r ne first akdatleitawe. jn Gonmermiea (ir as . Arles Alls and sover his poise and ma . LL. hot i774 523 Bard and often, ‘Oniy ‘ence mig nied |Schang 8 concerned the Yankee re-} this year < Won and none Lost | Aad ta te ee ee TD first, hie | NeYork 90 58 608 Chic'go 78 71 528 Gict took dangerous, that was in the| Cove, © SP exceptionally Sood buss) against the Phillies Ree ne handed Mivae a few ce wh. 85 66 563 Br'klyn 75 76 4° first round when he suddenly uncovered | Unmet see whe Dazey Vani elled his record yes-| 5 VT0 Oavantage, and this advai Aaa 84 68 553 Phila,. 55 94 .370 a vicious right cross which stackered| I his first World's Serles Snyder} terday to ¢ n won und twelve lost | nds" adv * NAB | St Lotig 82 68 547 Boston, 50 98 338 Greb and sent him aguinat the eres | made eight hits in twenty-two times | when he overwhelmed the Braves im) sssists bim in beating out many hits Harry soon recovered, however, and re bat for a .364 average, His show Avakohait oth he Braves in] right-handed batter cannot,"" GAMES YESTERDAY. newed his attack, | In the second round was better than Schang's last fall, ha ne Se eee ——_—— New York, 6; St. Louis, 3. referee waving the champion Sies, e Wally fell 14 points under the 200 orm and the Bravea wore able to do HOME-RUN LEADERS Brooklyn, 12) Boe DR ohta: a ner without counting after the thirg] mark: But in one of the big ser nothing with his fast batt, ‘They made . minnasl, 15, Able knockdown, Schang batted over .400, and this was} three runs in the first inning, Hut the NATIONAL LEAGUE. F : —— some years before the lvely ball Was} Robins mixed tree errors with the a Philadelphia at New York (2 games). BILL Wright at Colambia. fattening up slim batting averages ves! thiee hits in that round. Ie] crnty Oe aeetphia Brooklyn at Boston. Bill Wright of Erie, Pa., the former] Karle Smith also performed in the Rp tie el AR ae eaten Wiliams, Philadelphi thin national Interscholastic record holder for] 1921 World Series, but is not likely \ the Hraves wavld-ant way Kelly, New Nor on AMERICAN LEAGUE ; the 60-yard and 100-yard «wins and { to be seen behind the bat very often the first la Philadelphia, . we oL, re, Ww. FC. present Allegeheny A. A ra]during the coming diamond classic, as t Nas ah John Meusel, New York.. N.York 93 87 620 Cleve'd 76 76 500 holder for the. b-yard sel er [ho has heen incapacita badly Wall: of Pare Wheat, Brooklyn. ‘ St.Lo'is 90 61 .596 Wash'n 66 31 .449 of the freshman clase at Columbiu, “He | damaged thumb wate ex-|¢ on or nee AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit, 79 73 .5%0 Phila., 61 87 .4*2 js A candidate for the Freshman Wout ree sete ' ane (hrowtt 4 Chi 7 . 59 92 309 ball Team end Is also a track man of] ies Oe in shane for ia ft y 1 Williams, St. Louis 30 ic'go 77 74 510 Boston. 5' considerable ability portant Ws catching d's eached thet ‘Otsen| Walker, Philadelphia a GAMES YESTERDAY. irene ; ts Hiablp to hres) tn a tt Johvston waen| Ruth, New York ‘ No games scheduled. se, Phila To-Dar. § Gomes, 419) OCcasionally as a pinch hitter, Earle, The should have made a double piay| Hellmann, Detroit ae GAMES TO-DAY, we ald wheubts LOK OVeS in bape, judged us Bis BROWNE WAAL Would Lave cus out play pt pare tae Die games soheduled = Z ow GROUNDS - NEXT BAY | THE GIANTS WStr YANK 32% OF Fas WILL BE ABLE TO DOPE our THE COMPARATH Bork @LvBS Leg Edwards In First Mixed Bout Held Here Since 1917 and it was this fast counter that eventually gave the white bo, “he shade that entitled him to the deci- sion. Curtin had a Ittle the better of the scoring in the fourth and the sixth, and Edwards took the fifth and che tenth, with the honors even in the other rounds until the last two, whon Johnny went to the front by quite 4 margin. In the eleventh the cx ored boy was sent through the ropis with an overhand right, and as he ‘oll the white boy tripped over him. Edwards fought back hard in this session and also through the twelfth, but Curtin seemed the stronger while the colored boy was plainly tired 28 the final bell clanged. It was claimed hat Edwards was not in his best condition and weighed in at 121% to 19 for Curtin. Edwards declared he needed a week more of training. It was the third meeting between these boys, each having a victory to nis credit Young Luis! and Young Owen Mo- ran went on in the four-round ypener. It was not so good and Luisi was conceded to be the least worst. Willie McNulty stopped Marcelle Rondit In the second round, and in the third bout Ansell Bell was award- ed the verdict over Johnny Levine. Bell, a colored boy, 18 sald tg be Kid Buller of Panama fame, and flashed considerable class. - - By Thornton Fisher |ARCENTINE FOUR INACTION T0-DAY AT WESTBURY, L.L Championship Polo Team Meets Shelbume in Water- bury Cup Victory. The Argentine championship pole team will get into action in the Monty ° Waterbury Cup tournament at Interna- tional Field, Westbury, L. 1, thie af- ternoon, when It faces Shelburne tn the somt-final match. Argentina will have its full strength tn the field, with David, Miles, tts famous No. 8 man, back tm the saddle for the first time since he was injured in the final champtonship game at Rumson more than a fortnight ago. Argentina will concede Shelburne a handicap of two goals. The great Devereux Milburn an@ young Tommy Hitchcock, two of the “Big Four’’ which Is to defend America’ last polo ditch against the Argentine invaders next weck, came In for close scruUny at Westbury, L. 1, yesterday, when the Meadow Brook team Just man= aged to eke out a victory by a score of 12 to 10 against the scrappy Flamingo combination. ‘fhe famous International players were not at their best. Thelr stroking lacked some of its customary sting, and thetr riding, while cool and confident, was at no time brilliant. All in all, the polo they played was short of that exhibited on Monday by Stoddard and Webb, their tam mates on the “Big Four, Unless America’s representatives get the opportunity to play together more than a few times within the coming days they will find themselves at a dis- tinct disadvantage when they face « smooth-playing Argentines. Not only Stoddard an: Webb, but Hitchcock and Milburn. will have to be In top form to hold the South Americans even, let alone beat them. The Meadow Brooks had more trouble defeating the Flamingos than expected. They found difficuy in overcoming @ five-gon! handican conceded the South- erners, principally because of the ster+ ling work of Prince at back. And they found the Flamingo forwards, East and Cooley constantly Irritating. Only on o few occasions did the Meadow Brooks show flashes of thelr trie prowess. Mort of the time they were simply four individuals, two of whom von Stode and Bescon, could net be_relled upon. The Flamingoes were forced to play without the service of Benny Gattns, their regular No. 3. But they had in his place Malcolm Stevenson, one of the dest pivots on horseback. whose team, the Orange County four, withdrew from the Meadow Rrook tournament because of the death of C. C. Rumsey, tts No. 3, In an automobile acctdcnt. Stevenson was a steadying Influence on the Flamntngoes. Time after time he turned over shots to East and Cooley, or turned to ald Prince on defense. He was a powerful factor in the Southern- ers’ excellent showing. Prince played top-notch polo at afl times. He stroked with briskness an@ accuracy on elther side of his pony, rode lke a demon and halted many @ shot speeding on its way to the Flamingo goal post. In the final period Prince came up to hasten the attack, with the result that the game ended im a whirlwind of smart polo. po Sweltrer to Become a Pro. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 2%.— Merle Sweitzer, star mile runner at the University of Minnesota for the past three years, will become a professtonal this fall in the role of cross country coach for the Gophers, it was announced to-day. He will continue his studies, being a sentor. 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