ORGANIZATION League
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
* Race Bums Big ■ Runner-Up—^~1i _______ League ill BACKING UP HIS CHAPTER II 1 A TALK AT HUSTON Yanks Must Beat Macks ONE DEPRESSION Houston, Tex, Aug 27.—(UP) OF —Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, the To Pace With talkative pitcher who promised Keep THAT’S ALMOST OVER Houston fans he would win SO games for them this season, had Senators number 2S chalked up to his Washington credit to-day and had within By DAM PARKER his reach the conclusive proof that he knew what he was By L. S. CAMERON about when he made talking Press hie boast. (United Sports Editor) In shutting out Dallas, 4 to 0, from their final west- In a Texas league game Sun- New York, Aug 28—(UP)—Baek bat- THE DEPRESSION WILL END and tha Inflation will commence day, “Dizzy" struck out IS ern invasions the Washington Senators and the New York ters. him a total of 230 next week, If you want to know the facts. Ten Eyck, old fellow. The making strikeouts for the season thus Yankees to-day began drives which each hope will earn sec- depression and Inflation of footballs, I mean. far. College boys who have been kicking the gong around all summer ond place in the final American league standings. will start booting that old wind-stuffed pigskin over the greensward me senators, one-nair frame now, in preparation for the bowl-fllllng pastime of October and Novem- ahead of the third-place Yankees, ber. stand a (rood chance of Increasing that next The chief concern of the football world this year will be advantage during the two for while whether or not Notre Dame can carry on without the flesh-and- days, they are playing blood of the immortal Rockne. The at this the lowly Boston Red Sox the RE- presence answer, Yankees will be with the stage of the game, seems to be “Yes.” Dike the trunk of a dead mixing It chestnut treet whose roots are still alive and send forth fresh formidable Philadelphia Athletics. This be shoots, Rockne’s football system Is so deeply Implanted at * alignment will reversed on South Bend that It will be some time before Its effects cease to BY Sunday. be felt. (r From that point on the schedule gives little or no advantage to With one eye on the Notre Dame situation, football fans in this sec- JEROME H. (DIZZY)"DEAN either teams, both having approxi- tion will squint the other In the direction of New Haven, where Benny mately the same number of games Friedman will his career as an assistant coach at Yale. Well- begin to play with the other clubs in the informed folks claim Friedman will be the Ells’ next head coach. He BY J. H. (DIZZY) DEAN heaven. But I knew that all good ORGANIZATION league. isn't a Yale man and he isn’t a Christian, so that he will be a had to end—for setting (Copyright 1931 NEA Service, Inc) things something More Opportunity. double precedent if he crashes through the barrier of New England better. Next day after I pitched my first The St Louis Cardinals, already conservatism and hoary tradition and lands on the throne once occupied ten full games out in front of the by such Immortals as Tad Jones and Walter Camp. Harvard tried a win for St Joe, the scribes got The TO-MORROW: Cardinals national parade, probably will be Jew as coach and found far from or even after me again. Offhandedly, I that, biting anyone spoiling Send an SOS for Dizzy. one-half notch farther in the lead the accent of. the Arnold Horween was a told Ray Osborne I'd win and prob- undergraduates, thoroughbred by nightfall. The Cards meet the and a football mentor. ably strike out 11 men. Pueblo great in was the team. Pittsburgh Pirates the only sch- HOW DISGUSTED THEY have become with my old friend, Phil eduled National League game. There was a big crowd out SALE over in Scott, England, may be judged from these harsh words, dipped Chicago’s Cubs missed a chance from the that day. The Publeo team had Liverpool Echo: to up a on the Idle heard about me and started out pick game “The majority of prize fights between boosted are second place New York Giants yes- heavyweights to do a lot of razzln’. They had flascoes. There is more bluff and bounce than and the terday by dividing a doubleheader THE LOWEST PRICES IN YEARS fighting, thirty a husky first baseman named thousand spectators whe paid good money at Leicester to see Phil Scott with the Pirates. Four hit pitch- Shields who had a rep as a scrap- do his famous act must be written down as harmless fools. ing by Glen Spencer and Theve- dropping per. This Shields party kept They were because for but now’s triple with two men on was very annoyed they got nothing their money, fussin’ and arguin’ and sayln' ON GOOD CLOTHES they should have known what to The is with Mr Phil largely responsible ofr the Pirates expect. laugh things I didn't like. I stood It Scott, who got two thousand for the count in EASTERN LEAGUE. 3 to 2 victory In the opener. pounds promptly taking until the 8th because I’m an the second The Cubs won the second round. and like game easy going chap don't an “It is remarkable how this boxer, who takes the count almost be- Standing: by eight run rally in the eighth to fight or argue. It makes, you W. L. Per. to win 11 to 4. fore the audience have time to take their seats, has succeeded In induc- too hot. Where and is Maintained Hartford . 39 15 .722 Pinkey Whitney's eighth-inning Style Quality ing optimistic persons to put up handsome purses for his benefit. Ho was to the The score 2 2 In ... 28 28 .500 in boastful assures Bridgeport home run gave the Phillies a 6 indulges talk, the world that he Is determined to up- 8th Catcher Clark On with got Richmond .. 25 25 .500 to 5 over Cincinnati in the hold the honor of after a few movements like a victory England, and, making a dragging bunt that went for a Allentown 27 29 .482 takes to the as only other National league game of prize fighter, boards a baby takes to Its bottle. Then he me sore. I hit. That made New Haven ,.i... 26 28 .481 the picks up his end of the purse and prepares to stage another come-back. day. well on the ball trying to field it Norfolk ........ 26 29 .473 Bo as there are fools to for Back to Work. long put up money such antics there is no a and looked like bush leaguer. .......... 25 30 .455 reason Mr Phil Scott should not continue to collect Albany Wes Ferrell, whoBo work has why it after giving I was sure peeved. Springfield .....-. 21 33 .389 ben ever since he the boards a good, hard knock. There are many mugs round spotty pitched and hovering we Suits I walked over to first and a no-hlt in the prize ring, but it would appear that Mr Scott has about exhaust- game early the season, Topcoats just argued. I asked him to step off Games returned to form to the ed their patience, and he will be well advised to confine his attention to Yesterday. pitch the bag. Then Shields came (All games postponed, rain). Cleveland Indians to a 11 to 1 hairdressing.” He dashing out and took it up. trumph over the St Louis Browns. IT SEEMS TO BE a generally acceped fact that the Brooklyn base- asked me why I didn’t pick on Games Today. Ferrell allowed but four hits. hall club will have a new next manager season. Who he'll be hasn’t a big guy and I said, “Okay, Hartford at Allentown. The Detroit Tigers pounded five been decided but It's the yet, open treason for guessing. Among the baby! You’ll do.” Norfolk at New Haven. Chicago pitchers for 13 hits and names mentioned are those of Bucky Zack Fred Harris, Wheat, Clarke, Then I let him have one on tho Bridgeport at Springfield. a 8 to 4 victory, In the only other Max Carey and who has met such success as Charley Moore, with man- jaw. It kayoed him and sent him Richmond at Albany. American league game. Vic Sor- of Hartford farm- a ager Brooklyn’s Picking manager for the Brooklyn to the hospital for seven days. rell pitched for the Tigers, and team Is no sinecure. There are angles to consider and many many fac- Believe me, when that got Games Tomorrow. though touched for 11 hits, was tions to please. Without the matter too much giving thought, I’d say around tho circuit, the tough Bridgeport at Springfield. stingy when hits meant runs. that the would be following qualifications required of the successful gys laid off me. Norfolk at New Haven. candidate: The St Joe fans sure liked Hartford at Allentown. 1. He must come from the same county In Ireland as me. Me and the chief of police Richmond at Albany. Jedge McKcevcr’s ancestors. had a lot of fun. I had a car ANDREWS AND a kick out AMERICAN LEAGl’E. 2. He cannot have either a Harvard or an Oxford accent up there and sure got but must intone his pronouncements in the board Brooklyn of speeding down the street at The chief patois, featuring such Flatbush Idioms as: “I bunked into an 60 miles or better.