C-2 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAB, WASHINGTON, P. C„ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930 SPORTS/ Mack Not Picking-Pitchers in Advance : Street Sure He WillBreak A. L. Jinx HOW CONNIE MACK, LEADER ,OF ATHLETICS, HAS APPEARED IN VARIOUS STAGES OF CAREER [ ( SMITH O.K.’D BY MACK WARM-UP NEEDED Clears Way tor Cards’ .Reserve POSSESS ABILITY Catcher to Get in Series. PHILADELPHIA. October 1 (JT).— TO DECIDE HURLER Manager Connie Mack of the Athletics has made it possible for Earl Smith, TO ANNEX SERIES reserve catchsr of the Bt. Louis Cardi- Unlikely to Make Any Slab nals, to see service in the world series If necessary, provided it meets with the Feels They Will Put End to spproval of Base Ball Commissioner Selections Until Just Be- Landis. Smith came to the Red Birds too Talk of Supremacy to Play Opens. late to be eligible to play in the elaasie fore and when the Cardinals asked that Junior , League. he be allowed to play Maek quickly gave his permission. BY CONNIE MACK, BY CHARLES "GABBY”STREET, Msnsscr, Philadelphia Athletic*. ARROWS WANT GRID GAME Manaser, ¦(. Louts Cardinals. several days you have had to break down been rending comparisons Richmond Club Looking for Match that American League world Cardinal FORof Athletic and in Capital Area. v-»SOMEBODYseries Jinx and it might as players and the mammoth well be the Cardinals. The gossip Arrow Athletic Club foot ball team eolmuns of advance about of Richmond. Va., made up of former boys have the batting power, the these big games, and today at college players snd having * good fol- lowing, wants to book an eleven in pitching and they have shown Bhibe Park the teams will get into this section. their ability to fight, and I believe Blair action, and from now to the fin- Meanley, Jr., P. O. Box $74, converia- Richmond, is the Arrow manager. there won’t be so much ish you will have actual results as tion about American League su- a daily tidbit until the series is STUDENTS PREFER GOLF. premacy after we get through finished. with the Athletics. I don’t mean When the athletlo department of the any disrespect Everybody wants to know the identity University of Arkansas junked the base to show for Connie of the pitcher who will shoot the first ball diamond a petition was sign'd by Mack and his ball club. Mack pitch to the St. Louis lead-off man thl* 239 students, asking that it be con- must have a good club for it to afternoon. verted into > golf course. repeat and win its second straight I am going to let you into a little secret. but I believe I have a I don’t know. Knnant,tter ball club. Moreover. I don’t know the rames |WILSON AND BARTUSH Burleigh Grimes will be my pitcher of the starting pitcher in any other of in the first game. There is no secret the games, and if I ever decide on my about it. I’m going to send Grimes to man the night before I am going to IN RETURN BOUT the hill, not beoause he is the only good breast, MAT LIISEI pitcher have, but because his style DOWN we my I THE keep his name locked in for possibly the next day I might change MACK ||| WITH W. O. McGEEHAN is different from anything the Athletic* my mind while the pitchers are warm- Will Grapple to have seen and I am confident that my S 5 CONNIE Finish Tomorrow Grimes will give the American Leaguers ing up and then folks would doubt vs. cause the other teams were losing them- McGUUcuddy Breadon. plenty of trouble. Grimes, you know, veracity.. Night—Three Other Tussles October I.—Mr. selves. It was about 50-50, according Best to Keep Quiet. HIS 50 YEARS IN BASE BALL to the best base ball analysis, or at the Is more than a spitball pitcher. He Cornelius McGilltcuddy, the lean worst, 60-40. is one of the hardest workers in the Tha best way out of it is to keep a HP Are on Program. business, an excellent fielder and one tight most delicate question PHILADELPHIA,patriarch of the national pas- Inspired by the ehanee of certified lip on the of the smart men of base ball. And he you can ask a manager: “Who are you time, who last year was voted checks, which make a noble inspira- Hie wrestling card, arranged by tion in the national pastime, the Car- has supreme confidence In himself and going to pitch?’’ than his Pro- Philadelphia’s most useful citlaen, is his team. straight facts No. 15—Some Ideas on Greatness. own famous machine of Catchers—Mickey Cochrane and moter Joe Turner, is all dinals started to come through. They I can give you some 1910-14. Wally set for tomor- another team of Athletics into began games regu- the rest of the line-up. It will Schang. sending to win with such Has Plenty as Confidence. Ant no manager in the “Whether the Yankees • were the Pitchers—Rube Waddell, Chief row night at the Washington Audi- a world series. The gentlemen who larity that their drive was computed consist of the eight regulars, which in- greatest team assembled, I may torium, in Grimes told me the other day that Cochrane, that finished history of base ball ever ever Bender, Eddie Plank, Jack Coombs with the first bout starting at speculate on these matters are marking to that made by the Boston Braves cludes Catcher not say,” he told me, “but certainly I and Bob Grove. 1914, as a result of which their mana- he hoped he’d draw Bob Grove in the final world series game last Fall. greater 8:30 o’clock. McGillicuddy’s game. the PERHAPShandled more and would put them above the Orioles, if not With the exception or Cobb and Mr. Athletics favorites to ger, the late George Stallings, was given opening He said he knew he would not think side- Dr. Frank Wilson I certainly of pitching talent than the over any other outfit. These Yankees Speaker, who joined Mack at the end and Billy Bartush, beat the Bt. Louis Cardinals, which are the name of “Miracle Man.” The boys could whip Grove and that he felt that tracking any of those boys who pulled have shown no weakness. They have who has removed ..Is mask for good, hanging the name on Mr. if we could knock Grove off in the first of their careers, all of these stars were grapple owned for the most part by Mr. Samuel are same two games out of the fire for me in master of the House of Mack. had great pitching and a fine defense, in their prime as Athletics. ate to in the feature, which Gabby Street, who commands the St. contest we’d have the Athletics on the Philadelphia last Fall. is a sequel to the draw of last Breadon, a New York boy who went to Down through the years they as well as tremendous hitting. The The great Napoleon Lajoie played week. Louis Cardinals in the field. run. , Yet there is just once chance of a Orioles did not have the pitching. They second base for Mack both before and The match tonight, however, will be St. Louis.and made good. In fact, Mr. 8o there you are. The Cardinals are But we're not worrying about Mack's shift. Cochrane will be behind the have left indelible marks—the ec- great bunch of hitters to a finish. by pitching selection. The writers have second, were a and after the height of his career with Breadon parlayed a basket of peanuts either too worn out the ardors of bat, Foxx at first, Bishop at centric but brilliant Waddell, the smart; a great club, but not the Cleveland. Jimmy Collins, once the Jack Taylor and Bill Middlekoff are their long late season drive to give the been discussing the possibility of an- Boley at short, Dykes at third, Sim- to grapple in another bout. Middle- which he took to St. Louis during the greatest.” king of third basemen, played for a World’s Fair into a controlling interest Athletics much trouble. On the other other surprise, like the sending of mons in left and Miller in nght, but taciturn Bender, the cool and koff is the boy who disposed of Frank hand, they Braves, Ehmke against the Cubs year, but time with the old A’s after leaving the in the St. Louis National League base will, like the Boston last If Gabby Street elects to start with a dependable Plank, iron-man Red Sox. Joe Dugan, in his day the La Marque, Canadian heavyweight continue on their accumulated momen- we won’t be startled or worried by any then Jimmy Moore, they could all be brought champ, In two minutes. ball club. Mr. Breadon still has a few left-handed pitcher, greatest of American League third of peanuts and tum and crush Mr. McGlllicudy and selection Mack may make. We've faced my hard-hitting right-handed rookie, Coombs, Bullet Joe Bush, Knuckle- together in their prime, what a Mike Romano of Chicago will oppose the preserved petrified the Athletics. Have it your own way. some good in the Na- ASSUMING sackers, was developed by Mack. Bamka Zelestak, who claims to prove it. pretty pitchers will be in center, and not George Haas. ball Eddie Rommel, the modem mighty all-star club Mack could the Rus- t by It starts today.