C-2 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAB, WASHINGTON, P. C„ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930 SPORTS/ Mack Not Picking- in Advance : Street Sure He WillBreak A. L. Jinx HOW , 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 to Get in Series. PHILADELPHIA. October 1 (JT).— TO DECIDE HURLER 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 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 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 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 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 — 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—, 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, , 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 , 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. . , 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. , 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 base will, like the Boston last If Gabby Street elects to start with a dependable Plank, iron-man Red Sox. , 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, , 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 , the modem mighty all-star club Mack could the Rus- t by It starts today. tional League, curve-ball stars and In this series I want to utilise as many assemble from the player! he has han- all knew and possessed affec- sian title. Tiny Roebuck and Oscar Both teams have been appraised king, Grove, and the Nugern also slated the statisticians to the last decimal "Secret others who have depended on speed, right-handed hitters aa possible when strike-out dled! tion for the “tall tutor” who gave are for a meeting. Practice. and we’ve beaten down all opposition Imagine a line-up such as this: rEY point. Also all of the players and the a southpaw opposes us. hard-working Eamshaw. them a chance or a job or a managers have been by is one development in advance in one of the greatest drives in the his- course, we will make every effort First base—Jimmy Foxx. psycho-analyzed Os Great as these have been, Mack “break”; the man whose sole praise for experts, and for the most part have of the world series, which sounds tory of pennant competition, so bring to got tha jump on the Missourians by Second base—. himself after 50 years was: THERE on Grove, Earnshaw, Walberg or any world late Shortstop—. APPROVED OFFICIALS passed all psychological tests negative. very ominous. I read that the Ath- winning that first game. In a unhesitatingly regards the “I was fortunate enough to have This is customary, though not com- letics have been Indulging in secret “surprise’* pitcher. The Cardinals have > series it means a lot. Third base—Frank Baker. some wonderful ball players.” according to all won 39 out of their last 49 games and Christy Mathavson as the great- Outfield—, Tris pulsory, in advance of all world series. practice. Now this, I hsva been through a lot of world Speaker THE END. FORM ORGANIZATION You can take the facts and the figures precedents, is very bad medicine. that’s almost .800 per cent, and no team ray pitcher time, & and A1 Simmons. (Coprrisht, IMO, the Associated Press > aeries fire and try to profit from est of all tribute and do your own experting. A world Going back to the Carpentier-Demp- could hang up a record like that if tt \ experience. My players have had one to “Big Six” all the more remark- series consists of seven base ball games sey bout at Boyle’a Thirty Acres—and was weak against any one kind of year of it, and I believe that they will merely mind able because it comes from the Northern Virginia Group to Be or fewer, and what can happen in any it turned out to be an oppor- pitching. start the opening game serene in seven base ball games or fewer can hap- tunity for Mr. Dempsey to take a Sock Tree from injuries, as we hope to be and amid all tha clamor and cries of most successful of American TIGERS AFTER TITLE SCHOOL MARKSMEN series. spite of at a set-up—l recall that Monsieur Car- in the series, the fans will see In the ; the demand for pictures Inaugurated Tonight—Women pen in a world In the the fans and League managers. highly imposing name these are Just pentier engaged in secret practice. This Cardinals one of the greatest teams the ; from photographer* they will treat this IN SUNDAY BALL TILT ENTER JUNIOR SERIES in Golf Semi-final*. seven ball games. mystified the experts until after the Natknal League ever produced—that’s afterncop’a affair Ja* aa another ball “Taking everything Into considera- On the side of Mr. Cornelius McGilll- bout. The reason that M. Carpentier what Z think of the Cardinals of 1930. game. tion, should say Matty was the great- cuddy may pointed that his trained in secret was that if too many Z it be out Gives Frisch High Rating. Hard Jab far Players. told Athletics held the commanding position customers saw him in training and . \ est,” Mack once me, turning over Need ALEXANDRIA, Va., October I—Or- while only that the players One More Victory Over Dixie Western Boys’ and Central Girls’ ganization in the American League early in the realized how inadequate he was for the And I’m telling you what I It is natural carefully in his mind the memories of of the Northern Virginia season and lasted through. Toward the task of meeting Dempsey, there would think of the ball club, let me say that realize that they are facing some ex- a half century in the game. Seldom Pigg to Clinch Honors in to Partioipate Approved Officials' Association will be for in ceptional stage careers, where willing Teams in Na- tonight end of the season they were merely not have been any gate of $1,600,000 I think we have one in their has Connie been to make com- effected here at a meeting Battle of the Century. of the of every mov* be the parisons, Capital City league. called for o’clock King coasting, as the boys say, and they that particular great stars all time. In all their will under but fee continued: ? tional Matches. 7 at 317 street. reached the “mathematical certainty” But that hardly cotild be the reason seriousness, Frank is the nearest thing tenest scrutiny, and they will feel they “Mflthewson had a world of stuff, a Mrs. Gardener L. Boothe, 2d, wom- great great with plenty of time for the athletes to for the Athletics working out in secret, to Ty Cobb ever in base ball. He can do head and heart. He was a Takoma will an champion at Belle Haven Club last rest up and figure how they would in- which is unusual for base ball teams. everything. ““jS the of winning pitcher. Invariably Tigers strive to dust off year, He has shown the base 'Srht mroSn at his best the Dixie Pigs again Sunday Western High School’s boys* rifle and Mrs. J. W. Howard have vest their world series earnings. Be- It may be that Mr. Cornelius McGilli- ball world the greatest second base both tad Ordinals could not When the stakes were highest. His to gain reached the eeml-flnal round of play in play dreamingAthletics about game today. pitching against the Athletics in the the Capital City Base Ball League team and Central’s girl team have en- the cause of the unreliability of the stock cuddy is working out some new base ball it ever saw this season. He has shown help this championship. tered the junior bi-weekly woman’s annual golf championship market I understand most of the players strategy. This Is hard to figure out. uncanny judgment It la only human that they win be a 1005 world aeries was the most mar- unlimited Hie battle matches at the local club. Yesterday afternoon in playing for dis- , in velous individual exhibition I have ever will be staged on the Silver Spring sponsored by the National Rifle As- will sink theirs in good bonds. Some experts are of the opinion that ferent batters and has cut off hundreds , little nervous practice. diamond at 2:30 o’clock. Tigers, who sociation’s Junior Rifle Corps. Fifteen Mrs. Boothe defeated Mrs. F. w. Hun- Mr. McGillicuddy will endeavor to have of base hits by being in the right spot But mice the first ball Is pitched the seen. Six and eight years later he was ter, 8 up and 7, while Mrs. Howard two good as v the of all are the Montgomery County champs, matches will be fired In three periods rpHERE are theories to his men “ the ball where they ain’t,” at the right time. [ strain will wear off, and then it will still toughest them to beat defeated the of five events each. humbled Miss Elizabeth Boothe, 3 and 2. X the chances of the Cardinals. Mr. theory of the be a ease of every player giving every- In a pinch. It took the greatest team Pigs, Prince Georges The aeries begins The Virginia Midgets elaborating on the main Frisch is a great base runner, a dan- > County standard bearers, last Sunday, this month and continues through June. have formed Breadon’s boys had to fight till the late . While going through gerous turn-around hitter and a pow- thing in him. I ever had to finally turn the tables on an independent club, with Cecil Jack- last i soaring every Matty after he had beaten us four 7 to S. At the end of each five-match period, ditch. In Midsummer, while Mr. this drill he probably felt that it would erful batter, especially in the pinches. ) It’s the ambition of In addition to their win over the trophies are to be presented the three son as president. Robinson's robust Robins were running destroy the surprise effect of the cam- Watch him the player to shine in a world series. A straight games. Pigs, A meeting of the on bases In this series. s victories over the Eagle*, high teams in classes A, B and C. The candidates for wild in the National League, the Cardi- paign let this news out. > feat, that he performs in the playing Anacostta Dis- Whirlwind A. C. basket ball team has to leak when an extra sack is needed. And attend and trict section title holders, and Bauser- classes are determined on tha basis of nals were going nowhere and were rec- Most of the foot ball coaches work watch him in the field. The fans are s season bean only passing m tfcrpHERE have been others nearly as man Motor Co., Virginia scores fired. At the close of the been called for 7 p.m. tonight at 1503 onciled to the outlook. In secrecy and are humiliated In public. if he does some- section final- con- King going to see some great work around \ is soon forgotten but A great. It Is difficult to rank them, ists, hav* been turned in by the Bengal* test a trophy and five medals will be street. Then some of the other teams In the Therefore, It is agitating to some of the thing big in the classic, then the whole but you can put Ed Wal- Joe Hamilton, who played end with that second base in this series, and I > lodge Walsh. in winning three games in as many awarded the high team for the series National League started to crack with boys to learn that the Athletics are ap- come out ss the offensive and defensive Nation knows it. and it win in ter Johnson and Miner Brown among starts. The Pigs defeated in each class. the 6t. Mary’s Celtics last year, has loud detonations. While the cracking plying foot ball tactics that they l their minds long. that Anacostia signed this and come out as he offensive and defensive { the greatest, along with four stars Eagles in their only other tilt aside from Ten members make up each team. to perform season with the Wjis going on the Cardinals began to may come on the field with the Minne- star of the whole series. Players qf Just average worth In a I handled—Rube Waddell. Eddie Plank, Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity eleven. shoved ahead until the \ to great their match with the Tigers Uttt Scores of the highest five will count athletes on Mr. sota shift and a lateral pass. The Car- Returning to pitching selection V/ playing season often rise and Jack Coomb6. They Sunday. for record. Each contestant Lefty Mclntyre, pitching ace of the Breadon's pay roll began to figure that dinals worked out most of their strategy our heights in the world series and their were a wonderful combination. has 10 St. Mary's Celtics, will after for the opening game, it may be inter- shots. The firing is done in the prone be his they might be in for a cut of that world on a special train over the Pennsylvania esting to point out that valiant deeds continue to buzz in their “Grove started slowly, but he has de- Skinker Eagles still are seeking dia- position with twelfth straight mound victory when aeries at that. And when an ath- Urban Faber they go years .22 caliber or small-bore cake system. It consisted of several pinochle beat the Athletics four times this year. ears wherever for to veloped into a really great left-hander. mond action. They want games for After on their he faces the Northern Red Birds here lete in the hase ball business scents the games, a study of the and He has the control now that he lacked rifle. shooting home bond tables He’s a spitball pitcher and a good one, come. both Saturday and Sunday on the ranges, teams will send their targets to Sunday. faint far-off aroma of cash money he a couple of quartets. but I tCopyxirht, iMC, by th« Ohritty W»Uh at first, and he has tremendous speed. Skinker Field and would like Alpha Delta Omega gridders will can perform miracles. don’t believe any one would say iyiouw) one-game especially headquarters of the Junior Rifle Corps Guarding Flint Rheem. he’s as good as Grimes, and certainly “Bender was the greatest to book the Silver Spring Giants. Call in this city for verification. will play Quantico Marine Aviators Sunday Suddenly the Cardinals, who were pitcher I ever saw. When I told the Cleveland 2134. Scores at 2:30 o’clock on Hunton their order to forestall any attempts at he didn't have behind him, in ths be announced at the end of each two- Field. booed by own home town custom- Sox, any compare Chief to get ready for a big game, I Monroe A. C. has canceled its base ers for more than half the foul play by interested parties, Mr. White team to with him.” Rambler week period. The first closes October 11. season, be- r the Cardinals. knew I could count on A. C. is after oontest for — game Virginia gan Street, manager a ' ' • ball with the White Sox to forge ahead, partly because they Gabby the of the GOLF DRiviNGMATCH The greatest all-around player of all Sunday with either Chevy Chase l * Baileys (Oopyrlcht, 1930. by Ohrlity Gray* at Cross Roads Sunday. were finding themselves and partly be'- ******* the Walah _ (Continued on Page.) Syndicate.)O.v lIUIV. I time? Ty Cobb, declared Mack, without or the Foxall A. C. nine. Call Man- Only three major league clubs are re- Third HIC. slightest equivocation. ager PROVES TO BE BUST the King, West 2201, between 7 and strained from playing games on Sun- John McGraw had just named Hans 8 p.m. day—the Athletics, Phillies and Pirates. Wagner for this position In base ball’s Hall of Fame when I asked Mack for Iffonro Hunter “Earns” SI,OOO his opinion. “I think McGraw would agree with Prize for Third, but Whole me if he had seen Cobb as long as I have,” replied Connie. “There was no Sum for Winner* Is $25. doubt of Wagner’s greatness or of the marvelous all-around ability of such | Listen In On The | players as Lajoie, Ed Collins, Speaker, That “world championship** driving Hornsby and Ruth, but to me Cobb is competition in the Sesquicentennlal in a class by himself. He could do Stadium in Philadelphia last night everything and do it superlatively. was nothing but a complete bust. When he was in his prime we always I WORLD’S SERIES 1 Something like 40 long hitters from figured Detroit in terms of Cobb, not all over the East and Midwest —most as a team. of them professionals—gathered in the “Even now (in 1927). after 22 years With stadium and drove a flock of golf balls in the big leagues. Cobb concedes little | the New | for what they thought were prizes to any rival. He is one of the tew play- amounlng to $7,500, and when they went ers who always can be counted on to get to receive thier prize money they were from first to third on a single. Informed practically no money was forthcoming. ABE ltUTH~ls~iike Cobb in this Munro Hunter, tall pro at Indian respect. The Babe has greater Bpring, finished third with an average speed and is a greater all-around star for three balls of better than 248 yards than many people think. But, except and he got exactly nothing for his for his long-distance hitting, Ruth efforts doesn't compare with Cobb over a long The contest was won by Clarence period of years for consistent ability." j^si/yqfjtj Oamber of Detroit, the “big bam" of McGraw selected the old Baltimore golf, who drove three balls for an aver- Orioles, among whom he was a star, as age of 251 yards and a few Inches. the greatest team of all time, but Mack i -¦‘idr i @v In second place was Cliff Spencer of rated the of 1927- Baltimore, who averaged 241 yards. 28 at least a notch higher. While re- s Hunter was the only man to get five luctant to make comparisons, there is /V#@ balls within the stake* marking the reason to believe that Mack regarded "-¦P%£>3L OL boundaries of the field. these Yankees, in the heydey of their When the professionals finished the power, as an even greater combination driving and went to the office* of the Aren* Corporation to get their checks, they were informed they would be mail- ed. They demurred at this, and inquiry developed that the net gate was 872 and that they would split something like $25, which would not pay their ex- penses. Now they intend to take the matter up with their attorneys and through the N. P. G. A. to tee whether the money will not be forthcoming. p Not a real radio. Has a genuine Third-place money was advertised as midgetssea || SI,OOO, which would have cone to Hunter electro-dynamic speaker, builtmin, 7 tubes, 3 under the conditions of play. of gi == them screen grid, in a genuine walnut cabinet of §j GILL TO~MEET PURINTON H Gothic design. It is absolutely without equal in || !l price and performance. Get the surprise of your || Comdr. C. C. Gill, defending cham- when you sec and hear gj pion, was to face Jack Purinton in a life it. semi-final match In the third annual ,| ( Edgemoor Club closed tenni* tourna- EXTRA CHARGES ment this afternoon on the Edgemoor courts at 4:30 o’clock. The winner 1 IMvJ FOR EASY CREDIT TERMS! will meet Colin fitam for the title. == Comdr. Gill surprised last Sunday by defeating Bob Consldlne, District champion.

I f. W A BETTY NUTHALL GREETED = I A i e PLYMOUTH,England. October 1 (IP). rilllllillVi —Admirers of Miss Betty Nuthall, Brit- ish tennis star, who returned home yesterday from American conquests, ln- VRded her cabin on the Mauretania to '*r J . ** congratulate her on bringing the Amer- ican tennis title to England. “The women of England seem to be WV MADS Upholding the traditions right now and * it makes me ever so happy to think v that I’ve done a little bit, too. I had At AllDttdTtl a wonderful time in America. Every- body was so kind.” # ifJO. boom *Mvm Tobacco Olt