Evening star., 1928-09-09
AS DOWN BOSTON,
7 TO 6 AND 6 TO 4
Comics Club Is on Top in
September for First Time
in ID Years.
Hy the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
~ OSTCN. September 8.-After IA
wears of effort, half Of 1t in the
n nethermost depths of the Amerl-
can League, the silver pate OIL
the grand old man was bobblng
along tonight in front of all the rest.
Connie Mack. the master manager-
when he had Bender and COMBS ana
Plank-was on his way once more
moving with sure-footed stride along
the broad highroad that leads toward
the land of pennant gold
The dean of all the master mlnds
drew up alongside Miller hugglns In
the shadows of last evening. For
dav they marched upon even terms,
but this afternoon the ancient Connie
succeeded N pulling away-lust nan
a stride. it is true, but nevertheless
away.
The Athletics wouldn't be beaten and
thev couldn't be beaten. They f1ashed
their most ferocious war-splrit to pun
out the first game by score OF 10
6 in 10 innings, and then won rather
peacablv in the second by to 4.
The Red Sox put their best foot
forward in vain effort to stay the
rush of the Mackmen. but the ringing
cheers of $4,000 Bostonese told Connie
the home folks were glad the Sox had
failed. The veteran manager was tne
objective of an ovation as ne led MS
men away after the second game 10
make ready for double charge upon
the citidel of the Yankees on the Har-
lem tomorrow.
AS Half a Game In Front.
With the prospects of fighting for his
6rst pennant in Ia years with 80,OO0
perhaps not unfriendly pairs OF eyes
looking on. Connie Mack has the ad-
vantage of being in front-by hall
game It is only little, true enough,
h,1t it means that three out of four IN
New York would send the Athletics into
the West with margin OF TWO ana
one-half games, and with that much
to spare. it is inconceivable that tne
Philadelphia Patriarch could boot tnls
one. 80
Connie made hold bid in 1925. but
his kid team faded in August under
the seasoned assault of the then cham
oion Senators. He never has been
September threat since that last pen
nant wear of 1914 which moved him
to dismantle the too-perfect base ball
machine. A World War has been
fought. and forgotten, since then. Baoe
Ruth has risen from an unknown re-
cruit southpaw to-what he ls-slnce
Connie last won. or even threatened;
Moving back to this new Mack
menace, model 1923, the Athletics were
faced today with the certainty OF
crowding into first place ahead OF the
Yankees. with whom they were tled,
II the Red Sox could be turned back
in a double bill. This was matter oil
cold mathematics even If the Yankees
took their one game from washington,
which they did.
Settling down almost methodically to
their task. the Athletics harpooned Ed
Morris for runs in the third round
of. the opener. only to see this advan-
tace and more shot away when the
Boston boys fell on Howard Ehmke.
swinging all their bats in the sixth.
The home forces scored runs to move
into a lead of to 4, bat 1t became
no part of rout.
The Mackmen at this point had only
begun to fight They pounded Morris
for a single run in the seventh and
f1ustered him into forcing home the
one that tied in the eighth. Oswald
Orwoll, the recently reformed first base
man, went to the firing line for the
MackS in the eighth, succeeding Eddie
Rommel who had given way to pinch
batsman. From that time on 1t was
merely a question of how much time
the Athletics would require to score
another run off Morris.
OrwolI a Batter, Too.
The Blonde Ghost, as he is called in
his native Northwest. became the
blonde dragon. splitting fire and brim-
stone from his left fist. That mighty
whip, dangling simian-like at rest,
writhed, rose, fell-and with 1t each
time fell Red SoX victim, one, two,
three for three innings.
The blonde bolt himself took hand
In the undoing of Morris when the kill
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