The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
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Worlds Series Big Thing For Coolidge. Says
 Amos Q. Pipp.


 Worlds Series Big Thing For Coolidge. Says
 Amos o. Pipp.
 up to two weeks ago President Coolidge election wasn't certain by no means, de- clared Amos Q. Pipp today, Out along came this here Worlds Series and sewed every thing up tight for Calvin. It just about put him over as the next president!
 Calvin owes his present position to the Washington baseball team. It is more re- sponsible for the presidents strength at this minute than the Republican National Com mittee. Walter Johnson has done more to Elect Coolidge than Chairman Butler, Bucky Harris, more than Frank Stems, and Out fielder McNeeley more than Bascom Slemp. These men captured the imagination of the country in its most frenzied days since the armistice and established Coolidge in the pub lie eye as a successful baseball rooter.s 9.
 ''The other candidates will go before the voters with various claims but Calvin alone can go before them with record of having won two out of the three world series games he attended. The president attended the opening game at Washington and the home team lost. This was big blow to his pres tige and influence as a baseball fan. The next day Calvin stayed away and Washing ton won. Once again he showed his good judgment, however, for he just waited until the series got crucial before he showed up again. Then with the count three games to two against Washington the president jumped into the breach again and the Senators took both games and the Worlds Series!
 "No baseball fan in the country can boast of better winning average than that. To root the team into two victories out of three times up is pretty darned good, I'm telling you. Davis and LaFollette were running around the country trying to interest people in such matters as the tariff on beet sugar and the tax on hot water bottles, but Cool- idge was just grabbing all the attention away from 'em by throwing out first balls and ap- bearing as the most prominent baseball fan in the world.
 "You didn't have to read more than paragraph about the doings of the other candi- dates to know that you wouldn't find any thing about a three bagger with the bases full, a double steal, home run or a twelfth inning rally in the entire article! But you couldn't read five lines about Coolidge with out plunging into play by play story of a red hot ball game.
 Of course, wouldn't say Calvin was a red hot fan. He was 50 or 60 degrees north of that At first he was little disappointing but as the series became more exciting and the players and spectators became more irl- sane Calvin seemed little more reliable than anybody else.
 Somebody had to be cool and it may have been his frigidity that kept that Washing ton team in the right temperature to win that final game.
 Perhaps the less said, though, about Cal yin as a first ball pitcher the better. He isn't much. He puts neither enthusiasm nor sincerity into the throw. His windup is very stiff and the old soup bone isn't what it used to be.
 His pitching stance is rather stiff. He stands with his feet close together and with his lips the same way. He suddenly raises his arm high over his head and holds it there about four minutes before the delivery. This is the longest windup in the history of base ball, but the motion picture men are partly to blame for it.
 'He throws the ball with snap, with just slight Plymouth twist to it. I doubt that Cal could go the full nine innings. But even at that he lasted about as long as any pitcher in the series"