New Britain herald., 1927-08-29
MOORE LEADS ALL
 RELIEF HURLERS
Tanks Fortified This Year
 Against Any Closing Slump

New York, Aug. 2s R-The Yan- kees seem to have fortified them selves this year against any such closing slump as they had in 1926 by hiring Wiley Moore, 2s-year- Oklahoman whose aim in life seems to be to salvage derelict ball games.
 Whenever the American league champions show any signs of slip ping, need anybody to pull an emer- gency car or administer first aid to the pitching staff, hurry call is sent to the bull-pen for Moore. His rescue acts have done as much, if not more than anything else to keep the Yankees speeding along, un- checked.
 Moore has pulled at least half
 dozen games out of the fire in the
 last two weeks alone, holding of the
 enemy after a regular boxman has
 weakened while his teammates ap-
 piled the old battering ram.
 Wiley has succeeded Fred (Firpo)
 Marberry of the Washington Sena- tors as the foremost exponent of re- lief pitching in the majors. Like
 his rival. Moore doesn't feel at home
 nor perform at his best unless he is
 called into action with the bases full,
 none out and the game at stake. Wiley was knocked out of the box
 in the only game he started. Moore's "sinker ball" has become
 as famous as Charley Roots wrinkle ball." If the Cubs fur nish the worlds series opposition for New York, it will be interesting to compare the merits of these two artists, even though Wiley works on the night shift.'
 At the pace they have been travel ing most of the past few years, Americas two youthful and domi- nant athletic figures-21-year- old
 Helen Wills and 25-year-o old Bobby Jones-seem likely to set recGxds for consistency that will de difficult to beat for at least another generation. Both sealed title heights the same year, 1923, and both, with brilliant triumphs at home and abroad to their credit, appear certain to stay
 at the top for some time to come.
 Miss Wills has won Wimbledon, Olympic and American titles while Jones has carried off every major prize but the British amateur crown
 over five-year period.
 In capturing his third American
 amateur golf title, on top of two triumphs each in the British and
 American open tournaments, Bobby
 has put himself in class apart, a symphony of winning form in a
 game that has its full share of dis
 cords. The wonder now is just how i or why Jones happened to get suf- l 1iciently of key" to finish only eleventh this year in the American open at Oakmont, in view of his re-
 markable form before and since. i Barring the biggest sort of an up 1 set, Miss Will will climb back to the 1 tennis throne at Forest Hills tomor- row to wear the crown for the fourth | time, although she has yet to cast
 her first vote. The power of a game almost masculine in its severity seems likely to keep her at the top indefinitely, although she faces the ! challenges of several up and coming ! rivals. Among them can be counted
 Betty Nuthall, the 16-year-old Eng ! fish girl, showing as much if not
 more promise than Miss Wills did at that age.
 Little Sarah Palfrey, 14-year-old l Boston girl who holds the national ! girls indoor title, also is of cham pionship calibre, in the opinion of 1 her friend and coach, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, who helped l Miss Wills on the road to fame sev- eral years ago. Sarah has every l thing in the way of strokes now. 1 Mrs. Wightman believes. and will be
 heard from in a year or two at the
 most.