New Britain herald., 1928-08-04

Quinn has won IS AllI lost four. M
 BY JAY R. VESSELS
 New York. Aug. {. R,- What started out in the American League as just another Yankee year may yet turn out to be the year for the Philadelphia Athletics that Connie Mack has waited l4 years for.
 When the Hugmens pitching collapsed temporarily, permitting an eleven and one-half game lead to dwindle 10 five and one-half games within a weeks time. the baseball world began to wonder if after all the As were going to come through
 The As. the Hard Rocks from Down Under of the American League. have taken more punish ment from the Tanks than Tom Heeney did from Gene Tunney. The referee saved Hceney from further abuse. Will if be a case of just prolonged suffering for the courageous Mackmen?
 When Champion Gene found the range of Toms chin and opened up target practice. it didn't phase the Anzac's boring in tactics one bit. The only parallel in this years major sports is the case of the As. The Tanks have defeated the Ath- letics in l3 of the IS games play ed, but after each collision the Hard Rocks of baseball blinkod their eyes and squared off to trounce their next opponents. On July 90 they had won :3 out of their last 29 games. So nov they have more than mere mathe- mat,cal chance Of overriding the worlds champions.
 While the New York club grad. ual'y has been slipping, the Phil. adelphia nine has been slowly i'm. proving. and it has a good enough rating 10 lead any league. Jus few days ago Connie Mack's ag- sregtion was three per cent ahead Of the St. Louis Cardinals, which are rated as somewhat of a bal team in the National League. Baseball men believe that tho month of August will tell the story If the Athletics can whittle dowr that once seemingly insurmount able lead of the Hugmen they vii have a first-hand opportunity tt wipe it out altogether in Septem Der. for the two clubs have a four game series booked for the Yankee Stadium.
 Showing amazing comeback pow CTS after taking repeated licking from the Yankees, the As hav' played good ball throughout thu season. They rank second to thu Tanks in batting and are third il l fielding.
 The playing of Philadelphia il the American League in severa
 ways parallels that of St. Loui in the National. For one thing tw' Of the oldest active pitchers in ma l jor league baseball have contrib
 uted 10 the success of both clubs, Ju6l as NINNtl tltNtl HfA ander has helped the Red Birds s' has John Picus Quinn aided tn 1 Athletics. Quinn who is AZ year old. has outdone Alex. who is 4i ! Quinn's record on July 30 stood 1 games won and four lost. while Ci' Alex ON the same date had won 1 l and lost five.
 1 Should the As manage to over | talk" the Tanks there probahl.
 would be the worlds series spect
 cie of these two old timers tan eiing in one Of the early games o
 the contest for world baseball su l premaay.
 While the aged ones have beel ! boosting the Mack aggregation /. along. youth has not neglected it 1 part. especially in the offensive de | partmcnt of play. One of the bes
 young players on the Philadelphia 1 roster is Jimmy Foxx. all-aroun' man who, after playing first am
 catching. finally has wound up a
 a regular at third base. Jimmy
 one Of the five leading batsmen Il
 the junior wheel and has been hit ting better than $50 since he be i came . regular.
 | Foxx's brilliant playing has in spir"d Manager Mack 10 use Othe
 youngsters He IS trying Pitchc Ossie Oruoll at first base and Jo
 Hassler at shortstop. ossie IS hit ting .3Sn and Joe. 3B3. Both ar ' fielding well.
 ShoulI this newl. dcN, lop.d bat ting punch hold out and the an