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as q John Gilbert or q Barrymore.
The world series cannot 60 on until
the Judge Is In his seat and has
later stood up before q battery of
cameras to throw out the first base
ball. And, officially, 1t never rains
until Judge Lands has given out his
opinion that 1t is wet enough to call
the game.
A great guy, this 63-year-old
Ohioan, who served for II years as
a United States district Judge. He
was big enough then to fine the
Standard Oil Co. $29. 000, 900 and, as
base balls boss, to punish the games
most popular figure, Babe Ruth.
More power to you, Judge! Here's
hoping your golf game improves as
base ball has done under your com.
missionership!
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This is the second OF three pre-
kmtndry Dorld series stories By Al
Simmons, sensational player for the
Philadelphia Athletics. Yesterday he
gaze his impression OF the Chicago
Cubs. Today he sizes up his otcn
team In his third story, tomorrow,
he tDiH compare the teams and pre-
dict the result. During the series
Simmons Uill ,Drite a daily dispatch
tor this paper.
BY AL SIMMONS,
Athletics outfelder and Leading Run Maker
THE Athletics are ready for thu
Cubs. So far as can see, q
team fit in mind and body fol
i the big test of the base ball veal
will represent the American
League in the world series games
against the National League champions
What I believe can say: Connie
Mack, our manager, considers his full
strength will be on the field of battle
at Chicago Tuesday afternoon. The
Athletics have coasted along three solid
weeks, and every fellow on the club is
ION edge" as they say, for what will
be a new experience for all of us WHO
are expecting to start.
Iwant to impress upon the fans right
away that I think-and know every
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AS-AhhAAk4OAo
I am going to
let out one secret
now. I am not going
to give my inkling
of my choice for
the first game until
I ask Bill Gleason
to hand him q ball
to warm up Is
minutes before the
ing ga m e
starts.
A lot of talk has
settled in cold type
about the ability of
the Cubs to tear
the pitching Of
lie it, handlers to
shreds. Admitted
ly they have done
this thing in their
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weight" The Cardinal sluggers who
had carried the club to National
League pennant just didn't hit at all In
the series, and II 1t hadn't been for two
players who weren't regarded as good
l1itters at all the clubs average might
have sagged as low as the record for
batting average depth in world series
play.
Pitching had something to do with
that no doubt. And even the Cardinal
pitching, though losing every game, was
able to restrict all but two Of the Yam
KEGS to subnormal hitting.
For the Athletics pitching to stop
the Cubs something will have to hap
pen that did not materilize in an entire
seasons play in the National League.
That is the effectiveness of left-handers
against my ball club.
An American League viewpoint will
probably be that the Cubs haven't hit
against any left-handers, such as Grove
and Walberg. I could argue that the
Athletics haven't hit against any right
handlers, such as Malone, or Root, or
Blake, In any given series.
I'd hate to think that the pitchers
are going to be so effective in all world
series that all the hard hitters will be
tanned. This would upset all calcula-
tions of many, but 1t is just as well to
be prepared. Good pitching will stop
any ball club, but, speaking for the
Cubs, I'll have to say that the kind of
good pitching that will stop them for
any great length of time hasn't yet put
in its appearance this year.
tCopyright. 1929. by the Christy Walsh
Syndicate)
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TWO N0-HIT CONTESTS
IN ROW FOR PITCHER

BATON ROUGE, La, October. s. GE1.
Joe Amadee was just another small
town semi-pro pitcher until he hurled
two no-hit, no-run games In succession.
.Amadee went to the mound for Nor.
ganza In one OF the crucial games Of
the "Pointe Coupee Parish world series, I"
and became the hero Of no-hit, no.
run game, won by Morganza, S to O.
Joe registered his second successive no.
hit. no-run win with o 30 score the
following Sunday.
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MACK'S SLAB STAFF BEST
HE'S HAD FOR BIG SERIES
Nine Seasoned Fingers Give Connie Confidence.
Points Out That Grove and Walberg Have
Turned Back All Types of Hitters.
BY CONNIE MACK,

the Athletics Since 1901
- the records Of these October
that they decided the issue in favor OF their club
the late lamented ChrSty Mahewson
ghest of boxmen who carried the Athletics to defeat He
three times.
Babe Adams the series for the Pirates by defeating
Athletics became rulers Of ball. Chief Bender
Giants fall in 1911 and 1918.
Coveleske scored trumphs Brooklyn
the Cleveland world champions These instances
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TT is, safe to say the Chicago Cubs
are the best balanced team to win
the National League pennant since
i John McGraw's run Of four con-
secutive flags was broken In 1925.
The Cubs have pitching, they have
Chicago has five regulars batting
over 800, and Rogers Hornsby's .377
excels the best produced by any OF the
Athletics. From start to finish OF the
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sore arm. ne UtVcr
caught a game un-
til we had clinched
the pennant. For
the first half of
the year. or until
we got lack Tay-
lor about July 8,
we had to depend
mostly upon a re-
cruit catcher.
The Cubs didn':
strike their real
stride until Taylor
got fixed on the job
and gained t h e
confidence of all
the players. Then
the pitchers began
to go in true form,
the fellows started
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The OutneId pa.
trolls its territory
In good style. Guy
Ter is as spectacle
lar . figure in the
outheld as he Is at
bat or on the bases.
There Is no throw
ing arm in base
ball any better
than his, and his
speed Is very help
full. The runner
who attempts to
60 from FIRST to
third on q clout
into Cuyler's terri
tory has his work
cut out. -.
Wilson has come
a. ~
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one OF my mates
agrees with me
that the Athletics
go into the world
series with a well
balanced club. I
can't see that we
have an outstand-
ing weakness in
any depai tment.
Take our inf1eld,
defensively. Foxx
on first and Bishop
on second may not
be on. top in the
averages; hut they
are in there doing
their work every
minute. I don't
care what any one
,nAx, fht,1G hnl1f
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to hit better and the defense of the
team frightened up. In short time
we had taken a commanding lead, and
we never were headed.
believe the Cubs are more power
full than even the enthusiastic Chicago
fans think, and those fans have given
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BOSS POINTS WITH PRIDE
TO CUBS TWIN KILLINGS
Mccarthy Defies Anv Club to Show Better Record
ON Defense Than His-Wilson's Fielding
Overshadowed by His Long Bingles.
BY JOE MCCARTHY,
Manager, Chicago Cubs, National League c


these hitting, and plenty of It,
defensive ability the
coming involving the Cubs and the Athletics doesn't
defensive strength NevertheeSS
fielding still item to be considered in estimating any clubs
nc what to do aheld
they have right up among the leaders IN
than been
when of these two-py killings came along . 49,
defensive ability OF the CUPS against
Athletics else.
English Hornby
finished
great pivot doubeplays He has had seadymg IN
his place this among
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home -run hitter, and a hard-swinging
figure up at the plate. Consequently
the fact that he can go and get them
In the outfield has been lost sight OF.
Yet Wilson has made more sensational
catches in center field this season than
he has sensational long distance wal
lops.
Stephenson wasn't much Of an OUT
fielder when he joined the Cubs in 1926.
but he persisted In challenging every
thing. Right now there are lot worse
left fielders around than Stevie.
Don't Err Consistently.
As q BALI club the Cubs are not err
ratio In the field. The boys make their
errors, the same as any other players,
but they have yet to show any signs OF
lasting unsteadiness. :.
My observation Of the Athletics Is
that they are ball club whose methods
are much the same as those OF the
Cubs. For that reason alone presume
to compare the defensive strengths.
ratio moments, and 1t hasn't the steady
ing presence of q Grimm or Hornsby.
Neither Is its combination around
second base rs efficient as that OF Eng
lish and Hornsby.
It's outfield is well Nbalanced in de-
fensive strength, but there is no one In
It as great an all-around performer as
Cuyler. These are merely my opinions
but ] imagine they can be backed up by
cold figures II one is inclined to look
them up.
Pitching, Of course, is the chief de-
fensive weapon Of any ball club. ! have
discussed pitching more or less already,
but some further ideas can be incorpo-
rated in this story. :,
Normally you would simply toss al
the pitching in the discard In series
involving two powerful hitting clubs
such as the Cubs and Athletics ana let
1t 60 with an expression OF sympathy
for the pitchers. That was the sort
of opinion that prevailed in advance
I of the last worlds series. The idea
was excellent, 80 far as 1t went, but the
expected tremendous hitting did not
materialize save by two members OF
each club.
q ~.
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us Deen CnaC way al CIle CLIIIc.
Therefore it gives me o lot of conf
dence when can say that never be-
fore approached world series with
such a wealth of good pitchers.
have no fewer than seven time
tested pitchers who are capable OF
opening the world series this year at
Wrigley Park. They are Lefty" Grove
and George Walberg. left-handers. and
George Earnshaw, Jack Quinn. Howard
Ehmke, Bill Shores and Ed Rommel,
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H0RNSBY GAINS GROUND
IN SECOND-PLACE RACE

BY the Associated Press.
With the big six stage again to him.
self, Rogers Hornsby jumped back into
the race for second place In the batting
tables Of the National League and the
Big Six. The Rajah pounded Gin
cinnati pitching for two safe hits in
two times at bat, lifting his average two
points to 1871,
The standing:
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TENNIS rs COMPULSORY,

Tennis has for the first time In Ger
many been scheduled as o compulsory
course In q university curriculum.
Griefswaid University, which dates from
1855, was the first 10 make this con-
icession 10 the modern sporting spirit.
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SOME soLACE FOR LOSING.

DALLAS, Tex, October 5 lP1.-Dallas
base ball club regulars each got about
$3.50 apiece as losers share Of the Dixie
series money.
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CITES CLUBS LEADERSHIP
BOTH AT BAT AND AFIELD
Xxi Contends Figures Prove Championship Caliber
of Windy City Entry, Especially in View
of Tough Luck Due to Injuries.
BY XXI CUYLER,

Word stories BY XXI
Tod6y
Cuyler he wiu
WA write
a dispatch this
@HERE among ball throughout the
country had quite bit Of luck winning the
National League this Just why this Is SO Is more
understand
look at the latest set OF to
dspe this belief The show the Cubs IN front IN batting ana
pitchers
top in the leagues pitching records
that leads batting, hedng pitcnng DC
described as lucky to win a pennant?
I opinion the Cubs won be-
this and for
the wonder why we didn't win
that Dragging way it's
figures of the
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Pigeon racing has become, so popular
In Great Britain this year that railways
are carrying 100000 houaing pigeons
during the season.
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VIIC S1C0V S1tO1 es0Ok5o n. TITO 1ooso -
English has a great throwing arm.
and so has Mcmillan, over at third
base, and with Grimm in the game the
Cubs have a faultless infield. Grimm
is the best kind of a target for the
infielders and his ability to handle hur-
ried or bad throws is well known.
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uCHOOT, II you must, this
~ old gray bean,
But help keep Americas

so might that venerable apostle Of
base ball purity, Judge Lands, have
said at one time or another since
1920. when he was appointed conn
missioner of National Professional
Base Ball Leagues. Many storms
have ragged about his -thatched
head.
Appointed at q time when the
National Pastime" (then base ball,
but now golf) had lost the conf
dence of the public because Of the
BLACK Sox" scandal, Kenesaw
Mountain Lands has helped the
game resume its place. In the affec-
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q yCoAs
/ base ball followers in every other city
a lesson In enthusiasm, confidence and
LOYALTY. There never was anything like
1t.
I am willing to admit that Grove,
! Walberg and Earnshaw Of the AS are
great pitchers, and that their presence
on q team makes 1t look strong. But
what about Bush. Root and Malone?
Their records in the National League
are almost as impressive as the records
of these three Mackmen, and wish to
state again. as did in my first story.
that think the batting In the National
League on the whole was superior this
wear to that Of the American League.
So Bush, Root and Malone were facing
heavier sluggers than We're the Mack
men. In q league OF heavy hitting
teams the Cubs were the heaviest hitters
of all.
| We have, without doubt. strong
attack, and we also have strong pitch
ing staff with three great hurlers in
Bush, Root and Malone, to say nothing
of Blake, Carlson and Nehf, who may
be heard from in the series.
| There seems no reason to speak OF
the Cubs defense. It's the best In the
| National League. Our infield Is OF the
highest class 1t leads in double plays.
And 1t mustn't be forgotten that We
had to finish the pennant drive with
| substitute first baseman for Capt.
Grimm, fielding wonder.
Fans can set 1t down right now that
no luck assisted the Cubs in winning the
flag. They won because Of superior
hitting. stronger pitching and better
tCopyright, 1929 by North American News
paper Alliance.l
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AS matter of fact the cubs had just
about the toughest luck of any team
in the league, and still they won the
pennant, and did it more easily than
any National League team in years.
Have the fans forgotten that for almost
the entire first half of the season we
didn't have a catching staff? And
rortsnt thing on a team. At least it's
a1axs 70 pitching.
We started and finished with Gabby
Hartnstt, our star catcher, nursing a
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Two members OF the victorious Yam:
KEGS, Ruth and Gehrig, hit .625 ana
are was .278. IN other words, the. rest
&c the hail club had trouble hitting 'Nts
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National League
Yesterdays RESULTS.
Chicago. g: Cincinnati. 8.
STANDING or rHE CLUBS.

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A PAIR OF QUEENS
6EAT A PAIR q JACk

"A pal o
queens beat a pair of jacks with a
months pay on the table. our outht
was in a rest billet. Seven of us, in
GLIDING 'Biff' Jennings, who was bump
ed off week later. was in the game.
sBiff' was sending all his money home
when he got it-and was just about
breakin' even remember. 1t was one
of those cutthroat games, and at least
20 Smackers were in the kitty. over TO
the Northwest the guns were booming
and shakin' the earth. We were all
Kidding 'Biff.'
up to now 'Biff' hadn't been scratch
ed. But he was the unluckiest oozo
at cards you ever saw. If he happened
to have something everybody else got
out. If he had two pairs, somebody
would beat him with three of KIND.
That's the kind of luck he played In.
Anyway, there was pile of money
on the table that night. Four of the
fellows had gotten out of the game:
leavin' 'Biff' and two others playln'
for the stakes.
'.Jonesy, on 'Bif's' right. comes in
%nd raises the ante a couple. Bin
stays and so does Dick Richardson,
only Dick raises again. 'Blff' locks at
his hand carefully and then says, I'm
out leaving Jonesy and Dick TO hght
over it. Dick finally calls Jonesy ana,
how, what do you think? Jonesy has
a pair of queens to beat Dicks pair
of jacks. mir,
"Jonesy picks up the money. 'Bif'
don't say anything about 1t, but curing
1.-THE next few days he is sort Oh low.
Maybe he hadn't heard from nome or
something. we don't know. Then we
go up to the front again. The hgntln
was pretty hot for few hours. Tnen
somebody says that 'Bif has been hit.
Sure enough he was They take him
hack to first aid, but Biff' didn't linger
long. And what do you think he told
the doc? He said that the only break
he ever had was in that card game.
He held two kings that night, but he
didn't have the nerve to stay In the
game. That was what was the matter
with that guy, he didn't have any
nerve"
They used to call him dancing fool.
He was a good looking boy and was
popular with the girls because he could
swing a mean foot. Even when his
buddies were donning uniforms, the
terpsichorean fiend was doing the
turkey trot and the hesitation. Patri-
-otic people pointed him out as an eX-
ample to be avoided. Moreover, ne
creased his hair, which was enough to
ALLEVIATE him from the regular fellows
: of tougher fiber.
There was consolation among his
friends that the draft would catch him
in due time. It did, and soon he was
on his way with others to a dusty train
ing camp, where hard-boiled "toppy"
publicity tutored him in the rudiments
of drill and the manual of arms. The
lad had a few days leave. and returned
--to his old neighborhood. He was a
private and not very private at that.
He would have much preferred a gen.
erals uniform to the ill-fitting outfit
he wore.
Then he disappeared. They said that
his regiment was on its way across.
Months passed and the boy was for
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The Sidewalks of Washington
BY THORNTON FISHER.

gotten. Six months later, lad on
crutches limped slowly down the street.
Several small boys followed in his wake
and gazed wonderingly at the pale-faced
soldier who painfully moved along.
You've guessed it. 1t was the dancing
fool. BY a strange prank of fate, he
had been hit in one of his feet and two
toes had been shot of. During the
action in which he was wounded his
officers said he exhibited courage of a
high order. For him the war was over.
The wounds healed, and it is pleasure
to relate that he again adorned the
dance floor. He deserved to.
y X x
For those who believe that each of us
is ticketed and labeled for a certain
destiny, here is a story that may sub
stantiate their belief.
A young lieutenant's outfit was up
front in a network of trenches. A
short distance in the rear, perhaps
few rods, stood an old wooden shack,
SufFninOf RI
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which is so constructed that its side
rails protect the sleeping baby which
does away with the necessity of buying
another bed when a more "grown-up"
style is required, as the side rails may
be removed, leaving a quantity charm
ing canopy bed suitable for a child or
grown-up Of any age.
This crib-bed is made in maple or
pine, and the canopy may be covered
and trimmed with dotted Swiss when
the baby is young, and with a tiny
patterned Powered chintz for the older
child
If this is in maple. combined with
1t might be a low chest of drawers
with separate over-mirror Tin jig-saw
style France, small table with lamp,
ladderback armchair, hooked rug, ruff
fed muslin glass curtains and over
draperies of chintz to match the can
opy OF the bed.
(Copyright, 1929
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Pineannle Pudding.

Cream one-third cupful Of butter;
one egg well beaten. Mix and sift
together one and three-fourths cup
fuls of flour, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and little salt. Add
alternately with half a cupful of milk
to the first mixture. Turn into a
creased cake pan and bake for 35
minutes Cut in squares and serve
with sweetened freshly shredded pine
apple Garnish with whipped cream
to which has been added powdered
sugar and vanilla.
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Oyster Patties.

Make some rich puff paste and bake
1t in very small tin pans. When cool,
turn them out upon large dish. Stew
some large fresh oysters with a few
cloves, then add the yolk of one egg
boiled hard and grated. Add little
butter and enough oyster liquid to cover
them. After stewing a little, take
them out of the pan to cool. When
cold. place two or three oysters in each
shell of puff paste.
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one from the cold
at least, if not
from the menac-
ing shells which
were falling around.
The young officer
decided to billet
himself in the
shack until time to
go over the top.
It would be more
comfortable than a
night in the mud
dy trench.
For some reason
he changed his de-
cision and joined
his fellows in the
wet ditch, where
he SDaDt tho I1joht
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Next morning he looked in vain for
the shack, but it was gone. There was
not a piece of siding to indicate that it
had ever stood on the spot it occupied
Had he elected to remain there he
would have been blown to smithereens.
His sudden decision not to sleep in the
structure resulted in his safe return to
this country.
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Home i'm Good Taste
BIT SARA BLAND.

Juvenile furniture with its nursery
and rosebud designs is very charming
tor the tiny baby; but how quickly it
seems to outgrow such a style, and
then there is the necessity of buying
another outfit of furniture
In the illustration is shown a crib
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food and the Chi
cago fire, but folks
still talk about
EN-"
Listen, guy"
said a tall, dark
fellow to a short,
squat, sandy COM
pleXioned compan-
ion, you were a
top serge a n t ,
weren't you?"
Yeah, l worked
my way up from
the ranks.
What was the
worst thing you
ever saw during
the big show"
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HELP-MEN AND WOMEN.

at least high-school education and some
business experience, to keep books and take
willing to work s25 week and reference
required Address Box 222-B. Star ofice.
YOUNG COUPLE to travel, established
agents; salary and expenses. Phone Miss
Palmer for appointment. Hotel Houston.
YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE, not over 25
years of age. with closed car; free to travel.
ephore number and address, kind of car
and what year model. All answers inter
viewed. Address Box 333-C: Star ONCE. l3e
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Ny Neighbor Says:

If mirrors are very dull and
speckled, the following method of
cleaning them is excellent: Take
a small portion of whiting and
add SUFFICIENT cold tea to make a
paste; rub the glass with warm
tea; dry it with a soft cloth; rub
a little Of the paste well on the
mirror and polish dry with tissue
paper.
A piece of orange skin. placed
on top of the stove, will take
away the heavy odor of cooking
from the kitchen and give out a
pleasant fragrance.
A few drops of ammonia put
into each quart of water with
which house plants are watered
will improve the color Of the
foliage and increase the growth.
To clean windows In freezing
weather, moisten soft cloth
with kerosene instead of water.