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SUCCESS AGAINST CRIFFS
MADE" AS, SAYS CONNIE
Ability TO Defeat Nationals at Start of Campaign
an Important Factor in Landing of Flag,
Asserts Philadelphia Manager.

doubt II there ever was a ball team
that played such consistent ball from
the opening Of the season to July 4. On
the morning Of July 4 Mickey Coch-
rane, our great catcher, was hurt Just
on the eve Of our starting out on our
second Western trip.
The effect Of losing Cochrane was
quite bad on the. whole team, and our
series in Chicago was the first in which
we looked bad. The players, realizing
it would be some time before Mickey
could return, made up their minds that
they would have to hustle just little
harder to make up for his loss. So in
st. Louis they came right back on their
old winning stride and finished the trip
with a great record.
1t is my belief that this second West
ern trip. which began SO unpromising,
convinced the Athletics that there was
no club that could stop them, and it
was fully set in their minds that they
were to win the pennant of 1929.
Every member of our club deserves a
wonderful lot Of credit for our success.
Every one of the eligibles did his part
toward bringing the pennant here.
Every member of our pitching staff
at some time during the season helped
out at time when some Of our first
string pitchers were either overworked
or bit of their stride.
Gives Credit to Coaches.
can't give too much praise to Eddie
Collins, captain Of the team. He has
been q most important cog in our ma
chine. Standing out there at the third
base coaching line, he has been a big
inspiration to the Athletic hitters. On
the field and Oh, Collins welded an In
f1uence that always was helpful.
Eddie did very little playing this year,
but as my trusted aid he made his
presence felt all through the race, and
must be entitled to no small share Of
credit for our pennant triumph.
In Bill Gleason we have a fighting
coach who kept everybody on the team
stepping all season. Bill is colorful
figure, with plenty of personality. and
he knows how to get the maximum
amount Of work out of every man. He
always hits the grounders in inf1eld
practice, and the way he sends savage
smashes to the infielders Is a Joy to be-
hold. Gleason is q wonderful man to
have around to correct the weaknesses
of young players. More than one player
owes his success to Bill. Earl Mack,
our other coach, has confined his &C.
tivities mostly to tutoring the young
pitchers. He has more than made good
in this role.
(Copyright, 1920
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BUSH WILL LEARN
HIS lob AT ONCE
Chisox Berth Not Effective
Until December |, but He
Will Start Sunday.

~ HICAGO, October / .F.-Donie
Bush, who has been signed to
I manage the Chicago White Sox.
" is in hurry to go to work on
his new task of attempting to
boost the club back to its former emf
nence in the American League.
Although Bush, who recently re-
signed as manager of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, will not officially take the helm
of the club until December, he said he
would leave his home in indianapolis
Sunday to become acquainted with the
details Of the job. He already Is PLAN
ming, and says the Sox will have new
material next year.
"I realize there is lot to be done, =
Bush said, land will keep trying new
combinations until we get going. New
material? Sure well have 1t, but we
don't yet know where we will get it,"
Lena Blackburne, who became man
arer of the Sox in the middle OF last
season, will finish the current cam
one of the problems confronting Bush
Is the disposal Of the case of G. Arthur
"the great" Shires, cocky first baseman,
who IS under suspension for engaging in
a fist fight with Blackburne at Phila-
delphia last month.
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that a team that could beat out the
Athletics in the race must be club
out Of the ordinary.
The Yankees were such a club, and
have been rated that way for number
of years. For three straight years they
pennant, and their batting cast was
equipped with swashbuckling batsmen
who seemed able to make a long and
dramatic hit whenever it was needed.
The thoughts I turned over in my
mind at the time were these: Are the
Yanks going to play 100 per cent base
ball this year as in the past three
Seasons?"
finally reasoned that there was go
ing to be a let up In the work Of the
Yanks this season. based this feeling
! on thier record of having won so con-
sistently and easily In the past.
Winners Lose Their Pep.
AS a rule, when a club has been
sweeping everybody before 1t for term
of years 1t will eventually lose some of
its ardor and pepper.
Victories came so easy to them in the
past that they believe that they will
win without hustling so much. That
feeling has wrecked many a pennant-
winning band. It was the way I was
hoping the Yanks would feel.
It may seem rather out of place for
| me to say 1t, but I believe that II the
Yanks had played with their old ire
siStible swing, with the base ball we
showed this season we would have fin
ished on top just the same.
Remember we went into first place
| as early as May and never lost the lead
| for the rest Of the season.
No doubt Philadelphia fans were
stunned when I selected Carroll Yerkes,
one Of my young left-handers, for the
opening game in Washington. picked
him because he had done the best work
of any Of my fingers during the train
ing season, and believed that an. i'm
preSsive win on an opening day away
from home would give this youth so
much confidence that he would prove a
valuable pitcher for me all season.
However, the presence of President
Hoover and big and brilliant crowd OF
notables was too much for the youth
and found 1t necessary to relieve him
with Rommel before the second inning
and the veteran Highlander stopped
Washington batting at once, and We
won the ball game with an impressive
show OF batting might on our own part
| A Soul-Lifting Start.
It was a soul-lifting start for us
Washington always has been trouble
some with US, and when I looked at the
schedule and saw that we would play
nearly two-thirds Of our seasons series
with the Senators before July felt
we had big problem ahead with this
opponent alone.
AS things turned out, the Athletics
eliminated Washington by winning nc
fewer than n games, which clinched
the seasons series for them before
Memorial day.
This gave the team a real start and
gave the Athletic players the encour-
agement they needed. When they once
powerful rivals as the Senators 30 easily
they decided there was nobody who
could stop us, not even the YankA
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Cubs Possess ''Murderers Row.
In Its Regular Outfield Trio

has enjoyed his greatest all-around
year since he helped the Pirates win
the pennant in 1925. Stephenson is
less spectacular, but the ex-Alabama
collegian also has surpassed anything
previous in his major league career,
with batting mark that is the highest
he ever has had in fast company and
second only to Hornsby's in the Cub
lineup. When injuries kept either
Cuyler or Stephenson out of the game
the Cubs had an able substitute at
hand in the speedy Cliff Heathcote.
The development of Haas and the
steady work of the veteran Miller con-
tributed much to the triumph of the
AS. The formers batting fell off
toward the close of the season. but
when the Mackmen were building up
their decisive lead the young center
fielder hit at sensational clip. Haas
hasn't the punch of his rival. Wilson.
but he is faster and rangier. Miller. IS
years old and years older than
Stephenson. nevertheless has retained
unusual speed as well as keen batting
eye.
The latest batting records of the out
field rivals:
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WARRANTS ARE ISSUED
FOR BOXERS, PROMOTER

SEATTLE, Wash, October / R).-
Warrants for the arrest of Leo Lomski
and Jack Willis, light heavyweights,
scheduled to fight six-round bout here
tonight, and Lonnie Austin and George
w. Bishop, promoters, charging the four
with intention to violate the State anti
prizef1ght law, were issued by Justice of
the Peace John B. Wright here yester-
day on request Of the prosecuting at
torney's Office.
Bail was set at $1,000 each. Six
Seattle newspaper sports writer's were
subpoened as witnesses. The warrants
were issued after two men from the
prosecuting attorneys Office had bought
tickets for the fight.
Under the State law only private
clubs may sponsor boxing. Promoters
Of the fight declared they were not vio-
lating the law, but were operating I'M
der membership plan, legally putting
their show under the banner Of the
Austin and Bishop Athletic Club, Inc.
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DEMPSEY TO STAGE
FIRST SHOW TONIGHT
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October William Har.
rison Dempsey, the promoter, formerly
Jack Dempsey. heavyweight champion
of the world, will present his first box
ing show as an impressario in his own
right tomorrow night at the Chicago
Coliseum.
Indications are that the Coliseum, re-
modelled and its seating capacity In
creased to accommodations for 10000
persons, will be filled for Dempsey's
premier.
Dempsey's feature offering will be q
10-round non-title bout between Jackie
Fields, new welterweight champion, and
Vince Dundee, brother of Joe Dundee
from whom Fields won his title last
August. Fields met Vince twice in Los
Angeles last year, winning each time.
The supporting card will include 10
FOUNDERS between Dave Shade Of New
York and Joe Roche of San Francisco
who will meet at 100 pounds, and
Haakon Hanson, Chicago middleweight
and Cowboy Art Dula Of Oklahoma
City.
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BATTERED BY BERG,
M'GRAW QUITS RING

NEW YORK. October 1 R.-Phil
McGraw, the Detroit florist, has re-
tired from the ring.
The veteran lightweight announced
he was through with the cauliflower
industry last night after he had taken
terrific beating from Jack kid
Berg of England in 10-round bout at
the st. Nicholas arena.
McGraw said he had amassed a
fortune of more than 100000 in the
ring and felt that the time had come
for him to hang up his gloves forever.
In a career that started in 1921,
McGraw faced practically every one of
the leading lightweights of recent years,
including Jimmy McLarnin. Sid Ter
ris, Sammy Mandell, Stanislaus Loayza,
Tod Morgan, Luis Vicentini and Ace
Hudkins. He was beaten frequently,
but was stopped only by McLarnin here
last year.
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RUNNER-UP BATTLE
IN n. |. CONTINUES
Giants Still Can Beat BUGS
for PIace-Nats Have Task
to Stay Fifth.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ oG fights for positions dowr
league standings featured the
IL closing week of the campaign
In the National League. there
is the possibility that New Yorks Giants
can take second place away from Pitts
burgh with a strong finish. Battle for
the top of the second division is going
on between Philadelphia and Brooklyn
The only other question left for the
older circuit is whether the champion
Cubs can run their total Of vitorcies UP
to 100 games before the end.
The American League has only one
real change among the possibilities
In sixth may reverse their positions
before Sunday night. A mathematical
possibility remains that st. Louis may
gain O tie for third with Cleveland.
The Giant-Pirate squab5le also Is
nearer the realm Of pure mathematics
than of probability. Pittsburgh has q
three-game edge with as many to 60
The Giants have five to play.
Brooklyn and Philadelphia are tied
for fifth place with three games apiece
left.
Mccarthy's Chicago boys have 81
more poss iii IN sights The Cub sched
ule calls for a hve-game series at Gin.
cinnati before they close at home
against Pittsburgh.
Cleveland fans expect to have Ettlt
trouble in clinching third place In the
American League. st. Louis has to cap.
ture all games to gain tie.
washington has q rather tough row
to hoe in keeping nth place out Of the
hands Of Detroit's Tigers. The Senators
have only two-game margin and have
leticS and Red Sox. Detroit's schedule
calls for a four-game series with the
lowly White Sox, already beaten in II
of their 10 encounters this year.
No games were scheduled yesterday
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MACK FINDS FLAG
WINNING IS GRIND
Athletics Leader Tells of
Efforts to Gain Top
Since 1921.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ HILADELPHIA, october Con
- ME Mack, who managed the
Athletics since the advent of the
i American League, today de-
scribed his efforts to produce q
pennant winner since 1921.
In that year." he said, I'VE began to
branch out. We made some changes
and In 1922, we got out of the cellar
IN the Spring of 1928, thought
had the makings of another pennant
winner. We were in top form early
and stayed up around first place until
July 4, when the Yanks pulled ahead
of us. We finished sixth. The pitchers
who wrecked us was Jack Quinn, then
with Boston. We needed a punch In
the batting order, so our scouts dug
up AL Simmons, then with Milwaukee
and I went to Salt Lake City and
watched Paul Strand for week.
"Then came the Spring OF 1924. SIM
mons began to hit, but Strand was un.
able to help us. In June traded
Strand for Bill Lamar and put him In
left field and Simmons in center. we
played good ball the last half OF the
season, but Washington finished frst
and the Yankees second.
"Our team was a contender from
the beginning in 1925 and then series
of mishaps overlook us. Joe Hauser
broke his knee and was out for the
season. Lamar was out, Hale got nurt
and there were other bad breaks, but
q makeshift team played as well as the
regulars and we stayed in f1rst place
until late in August. Then st. Louis
beat us three straight and that ruined
us. Washington was the team we mac
to beat that year and we couldn't &c
It. didn't feel very confident about
the 1926 club, and we finished third.
"In 1927 Ty Cobb joined us, but the
Yankees proceeded to wreck us In tne
opening series, winning three games
and tieing one. We finished SECOND
last years team made a brilliant
record. After q poor start and our in
ability to beat the Yankees we finally
made up for 1t against the other CLUBS
and chopped down the Yanks' lead Of
10 games and went into first place fol
a day.
"From the way the team played II
Spring training this year thougn'
there was possibility of heading the
second division. However, we got OF
on the right foot again, jumped int
first place over st. Louis in May anc
have been there ever since. But
never felt the championship was actu'
ally clinched until we won two games
from the Yankees on Labor day. Their
knew it was all over"
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The Nationals still have to get
an early camp for their battery
men, however. President Griffith
says he is considering two or three
good spots for the preparation Of
his pitchers and catchers, among
them Hot Springs, Ark. He thinks
the Arkansas spa would prove a
fine training field.
With Engel at its head. the Chatta-
nooga club. instead of the Birmingham
club. hereafter will be virtually a
farm" for the Nationals. The Wash
ington organization will maintain with
the Lookouts working agreement SINH
lar to that held with the Barons for
several years, whereby Chattanooga will
have first call on surplus Washington
material and the Nationals first choice
OF Chattanooga likely big-league
timber.
With only few more days of cam
paigning, the Nationals are making
their plans for the off season. Most of
the players will go directly to their
homes within day or two after next
Sundays engagement with the Red Sox
in Washington. Only a few are to
take in some of the world series games.
Jack Hayes. Charley Gooch and Joe
Judge expect to see the AS and Cubs
in some of the scraps in Philadelphia.
while Bob Burke and Pat Charity,
coach, who live near Chicago. intend to
watch the battling in the Cubs park.
Engel may represent the Washington
club at the players draft in Chicago
next Monday. There are several tai
ented performers in the minors Manager
Walter johnson would like to get for
his club. and Engel, If he goes to the
draft meeting, very likely will pick up
two or three men. It isn't necessary
that an official of the club be present
at the draft. President Griffith could
designate a league official as his proxy
and supply the proxy with the names
Of players particularly desired. How
ever, 1t Is often much better to have
some official Of the club at hand when
the drawing takes place, and Engel may
get the job.
After tussling with the Athletics in
two games here today, the Nationals
will have little to do until Saturday,
when they will enter their final series
Of the year in Griffith Stadium, meet
ing the Red Sox. If fifth place is
clinched before the Hub crew is en-
countered, Manager johnson may send
into parts of the last two tilts some of
the young pitchers he has at hand.
Savidge and Wineapple are especially
eager to show their wares in another
ig-league battle before they put their
uniforms aside.
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DUNDEE TAKING TIME
TO GET ACCLIMATED

MEXICO CITY, October / R-
Bert Colima, Mexican welterweight
champion, has arrived here from the
United States to begin training for his
bout in the bull ring october 10 with
Joe Dundee, former world champion.
The bout originally was scheduled for
October 6, but Dundee requested q de.
lay to give him time to become accus.
toned to the altitude, Mexico City being
situated $500 feet above sea level.
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Big League Leaders
Qncluding games of September 30.)
BY the Associated Press.

Qncluding games Of September 30)
BY the Associated Press.
NATIONAL.
Batting-ODoul, Phillies. 1895.
Runs-Hornsby, Cubs, ISL.
Runs batted in-Wilson, Cubs, 152.
HitS-ODoul, Phillies. 248.
Doubles-Frederick,R Robins, So.
Triples-L. Waner. Pirates, 10.
Homers-Ott, Giants; Klein, Phillies
AZ.
Stolen bases-Cuyler, Cubs, 40.
Pitching-Bush, Cubs; Root, Cubs
won 10, lost 6.
AMERICAN.
Batting-Fonseca, Indians, .373.
Runs-Gehringer, Tigers, 1879.
Runs batted in-Simmons, Athletics
ISL.
Hits-Simmons, Athletics, 209.
Doubles--Manush; Browns; Fonseca
Indians: A.
Triples-Gehringer Tigers, II.
Homers-Ruth, Yanks, As.
Stolen bases-Gehringer Tigers, 26
Pitching-Grove, Athletics. won 90
lost 6.
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Manager OF the Athletics and Seven-Time
American League Pennant Winner.
w YHEN I recall the work of the
NJ Athletics in the training
wv season last Spring and their
playing in the city series
with the Phillies in Phila-
delphia, they did not impress me at
that time as being pennant contenders
No doubt some of the players held
back both in the training season and
in the games with the Phillies. The
players were whispering among them
selves, Wait until the pennant race
starts and then we will open the eyes
Of everybody as to our real skill as
players"
Now can look back at our opening
game in Washington and see the con-
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Se S44S @s4cSAA SNS%AAAb NAAN SASNS 1e$~4 W.
Joe Mccarthy had much grief
with his catching staff during the
early part of the season. In con-
dition, Gabby Hartnett is a fine
workman, but he was injured most
of the year, and has been in only
Is games, and then mostly as a
pinch hitter. So Mccarthy must
rely on the veterans Miguel Con-
zales and lack Taylor in the
series.
Cochrane is far better batter thar
either Taylor or Gonzales. and equally
as good a fielder. Mickey has battec
1928 for the Athletics, with 81 extra
base hits tucked away in his record. He
has scored 100 runs and batted in 90
and has made Is errors in 1913 chances.
Contrasted to his record IS the .27t
batting average Of Gonzales and the
1858 Of Taylor. Neither Of the Cut
catchers Is slugger, and both are rather
slow afoot. They are good, Woodworking
athletes, and mighty valuable to thu
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strength that made the American
League race Of this season bit Of a
runaway for them.
Now, Connie Mack was an established
figure in the major leagues. was just
coming up from the Class AS, a BUSH
league manager, If you must have the
correct phrasing. But that didn't make
any difference to Mack.
He went out of his way to predict a
successful venture for me In the Ma
tional League. He handed out comp!i-
ments like some CT those sluggers of
his have been llammering out base hits
this year.
When my turn came around to speak
tried to get square with Connie. Nat
urally hoped to win pennant In the
National League sooner or later, told
them, and nothing would please me
better If my first National League flag
found me coming back to Philadelphia
to play a world series against Connie
Mack's Athletics.
His Hopes Are Fulfilled.
That wasn't quite four years ago, and
here we are, winning a National League
pennant, and there's Connie Mack,
a wait of is years.
wonder If any Of those folks at Ger
mantown kept notes on the after dinner
speeches that night in 1892
In moving toward the world series
one Of the things that interviewers seem
more worried about than anything else
Is how manager without any big
league experience or training gets that
way. Some Of the boys regarded the
move Of Mr.. Week, the Cubs president.
In reaching into the Class AS for his
q q a psoA NJ
pertinent. Well, maybe it was.
I like to regard the American Asso-
citation, from whose Louisville club ]
came to the Cubs, as just as good a
| training ground for big league managers
as it is for players, and II you look over
the number Of association graduates
that are playing or have played in the
majors you'll get the force Of the argyll
ment.
The association, in territory and in
methods Of play. is not so far removed
clubs have plenty of contacts with the
big leaguers in exhibition games and
because Of the steady stream of players
either going up or coming down. The
latter especially are well grounded In
big league methods, and 1t would be a
surprise to strictly major league fol-
lowing how much an outlander car
learn from these "old heads"
Use Same Balls and Bats.
After all, they still use q ball and
bat in the Glass AS, and there are the
same number of bases. You keep hus-
Ting or you get lost in the shuttle any
place you play ball. Material is bound
to be better in the big leagues, and the
winning incentive of the players is, OF
| should be, greater. So, take it all in all
manager ought to have better
chance to make good "up there" than
in the minors If he has the stuff and is
given chance to work out his own
destiny.
ALI of this, you may argue, hasn't
much to do with q world series between
the Cubs and Athletics, but that's all n
the point Of view.
MY association with the Cubs "inside
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COOMBS THINKS HURLERS
HAVE AN EASY JOB NOW

Jack Coombs, a star pitcher when
the AS beat the Cubs in 1910, like other
old-timers, Is impressed with the lack
Of base.running.
"Why, In two weeks Of watching big
league games I saw only two waste
balls called for By the catcher"
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trast of what they
had done in the
Spring exhibition
season and what
they now intended
to do, for in their
first game they
looked and acted
like a real ball
club.
It was a case OF
hustle from the
ope n in g inning,
with no let up I'M
til the nine innings
had been played.
After our first game
in w a s h 1 ngton,
while saying Moth
ing to the players.
I became convinced
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HARMON SIGNS ITALIAN
HEAVY AS KENNEDY FOE

CHICAGO. october P)-Paddy
Harmon, president of the Chicago Sta
dunn Corporation, has signed Salvatore
Ruggirello. giant italian slugger. and
Les Kennedy of Los Angeles, for one of
the 10-round bouts supporting the Earl
Mastro-Bud Taylor fight October 8.
My Sullivan. st. Paul welterweight
contender, and Jackie Brady of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, will meet in another 10
rounder.