The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-27
CARDS-ATHLETICS BEST FORTIFIED
FOR WORLD SERIES PITCHING DUELS
Of Four Leading Pennant Con.
tenders Yankees and Giants
Are Weakest in Box Mate
rial-Mainstays Fell Effects
of OyerwOrk
BY ALAN ]. GOULD
(Associated Press Sports Editor


New York. Sept. 27.-(Pp-A FAM
Gus manager once declared pitching
to be sixty per cent of the worlds
series battle. Most of the champion
ship history bears this out, pune
tuated as it has been by the feats
of Mathewsoil, Coombs, Babe Adams,
Chief Bender. Coveleskie, johnson,
Alexander and Pennock.
No matter how the stirring pen
nant races finish there should be a
number of pitching thrills, whether
it turns out that Larry Benton
faces Waite Hoyt or Lefty Grove,
or whether old Pete Alexander
matches his cunning with old Jack
Quinn or George Pipgras.
All four Of the pennant contend
ing clubs have great sharpshooters
but the Cardinals and Athletics have
expended more on their moundsmen
than either the Giants or Yankees.
Both the Cards and AS have
wealth Of box material while the
two New York clubs have had to rely
on two or three stars. The Yankee
staff, in fact, has been pretty we'll
shot to pieces this year and even it's
reliables, such as Hoyt and Pipgras,
are feeling the effects of over-work.
Won Is Games
Larry Benton's great twirling did
as much as any single factor to
keep the Giants in the race. He has
won Is games. He had lot of help
most Of the year from Freddy Fitz-
simmons, who has won 20, but late
~ Fitz has fallen off, being unable
to finish the last two games he has
started. To the rescue has come
young Karl Hubbell, the sensational
Texas League recruit, who beat the
league-leading Cardinals twice in a
row last week. Hubbell has real
grit to go along with his pitching
stuff. He will bear watching if he
gets a chance to work in the series.
Joe Genewich and Jack Scott, who
was hero Of the 1922 series for the
Giants, are in the second line of Nc
Graws pitching defense.
The Cardinals have three veterans
in Alexander, Sherdel and Haines
who know what the worlds series
battle is all about. Old Alex has
earned a place alongside Bender as
one of the greatest money pitchers"
of all time. If the Cards win out it
would not be. surprising to see these
three bear the entire pitching bur-
den, with Clarence Mitchell, Flint
Rhem and few others in reserve.
Will Miss Herb PennOck
The Yankees, if they stick to the
top, will miss Herb Pennock's crafty
left arm in the big battle. He hasn't
pitched since late August and prob
ably won't be able to do SO again
this year. It is q bad break for the
Fox-breeder Of Kennett Square, too,
for he has won five games and new
er met defeat in series competition,
record he shares with Jack
Coombs.
Wiley Moore, who was a big fac
tor in the 1927 triumphs Of the
Yankees, also is out Of action. put
ting all the more burden on Hoyt
and Pipgras. Old Tom Zachary has
aided the Hugmen in their closing
fight. He won two series games for
Washington in 1924 and il ready
to repeat. Henry johnson is also
available.
| Lefty Grows, the Southpaw speed.
ball king, and Jack Quinn, remark.
able 42-year-old veteran, have beer
the mainstays Of the Athletics
Grove has won "a games and lost
eight. six Of which were to tho Yank
ees. Both would ~ colorful world
series figures. Connje Mack has {
great relief hurley Ia Eddie Rom
NEIL and = flock q others 70 picj
from in n emergency inclu0inl
Ehmks, Easnshaw, WALKERS and Or
woll