Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
NEWSB0Y'S GUESS
IS AS GOOD AS ANY
Moriarty Predicts One OF
Greatest World Series
Ever Staged.
By GEORGE MORIARTY.
(Bis League Umpire.)

~ VERIFYING except theme
song has been written about
this world series. Yardsticks
IL and magnifying glasses have
been used by the thousands j.
Each fan has his own story and
sticks to 1t. Old Ezra Hicks VIII ten
you Hornsby doesn't have to chisel Tor
his base hits. and even Aunt Beulah
knows that while AL Simmons foot u
In the water bucket the onion may De
doing q Lindbergh over the rear wall
We know that performance based
upon q seasons play may turn out 10
be q mirage as q criterion of what Will
come from favorites in world series.
Ty Cobb was more or less bust In
three Of the big title combats. "A team
mate, Rossman, fair first baseman.
was spectacular in one OF the series
against the Cubs.
Robe. a utility man of the Chicago
White Sox, out starred the stars in
another series against the CUBS. so,
why attempt to figure form as the
dominant factor when q measly grounder
may be the turning point in the series.
Every players reputation Is at stake.
II one makes q costly error ne mas
little time to redeem himself. FREQ
Clarke, manager Of the 1909 Pittsburgh
Pirates, was induced by hunch to re-
lated weeks previous to the series with
Detroit. He pitched Babe Adams.
comparatively unknown youngster, and
won the championship. Who knows
but Connie Mack or Joe Mccarthy may
be In the same desperate fix before the
whistle blows for the third game OF the
series?
No other world series teams were ever
better primed mentally and physically
than the Cubs and the Athletics. Even
the playing fields have been taken into
consideration. It Is said the Cubs
pitchers have been aided by q back
ground of white shirts in the bleacherS
at Wrigley Field, yet they were just as
effective on foreign fields. Unless the
weather is exceptionally warm, this
condition will be eliminated, as coats
will be needed.
shibe Park and wrigley Field are
mons, Hornsby and their cronies each
tapping on the plate 80 or 40 times, we
can look for flock Of home runs, even
II they don't materialize.
Let US put it this way: The Athletics
and Cubs infieids are equally strong on
the defense. Also rate the outfields
even. Mickey Cochrane towers high as
q catching department by himself, but
that doesn't mean the Cubs will be
playIQR WIFI CiSIlb IIleU, tLiS HAL Va
fame is also open to Gonzales and Tay-
lor in the coming battles.
80 all that remains to figure out are
the pitching and hitting. Now please
remember that gilt-edged pitching
makes it comparatively easy for the
fielders, as there u less velocity to the
blows. Those are the elementals. That
about whites the dope down to bat
and battery work, which implies that
II Earnshaw, Grove, Walberg and Co.
are rigssS. the Cubs will be wrong. In
turn, IL Malone, Bush, Carlson, Inc.
are boz and harmful, it's adios to the
rase Athletics and Cubs as COM
batarss puzzle me, frankly. The fact
that both tearis deviated from their
normal form at intervals In the clos.
ing month tfickens the plot. Without
Aelving into O mass Of detail, the news
bows guess about the outcome seems
to be as good as Comics or Joe's.
To the man In the street (and unfor-
tunately there win be thousands), some
thing prompts me to say this: Look Tor
one Of the greatest world series scraps
have a bunch the series will go at
least six games. I don't understand
how any one can see it as anything but
o toss.up. "a >
(copyright, 1923. BY North American News
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