Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

When the New York team Wis
tied Shibe Park last Monday
morning to start the three-game
series we held an 11K-game lead
over them. I'll grant you that
with only twenty-odd games to
play that lead was mighty long,
and we had no occasion to lose
any sleep.
However, there was something in our
minds the fans didn't know. That was
the boast Of the Yanks that we would
"fold up" under pressure when we were
playing them. They started telling
us that back In April and May. All in
fun, you know. Ball players do q lot
Of "jockeying" on the field which doesn't
mean anything-that is, it is not as
serious as it might sound to an outsider.
Well, Manager Higgins started George
Pipgras against us in the Labor day
morning game. He had shut us out
with only three hits in New York
week earlier, and he had whipped us
four times this year. That was the
time for us to fold up" and the Yanks
didn't miss chance to tell us how we
would do 1t.
But we got our attack in motion and
knocked Pipgras off the hill in the third
inning. After that it was just breeze.
game beating Herb Pennock, smart
left-handed pitcher, and don't forget 1t.
But we finally accomplished 1t with q
ninth-inning rally.
Pipgras Again Victimixed.
On the following day Higgins sent
Pipgras back for more. He got it. This
time we dubbed him away from there
in the first inning and coasted right
along to our third win and q clean
sweep Of the series.
What made us so happy last Tuesday
evening was that we had spent the
afternoon giving the Yankees q dose
Of their own medicine. How they did
Jockey" us last Septmeber when we
rode into their stadium on a one-half
game lead, hoping that we might i'm
prove it in series of four games.
But the Yanks beat us three out Of
the four then. They sure did rub it inl
I'm not blaming them. It's base ball,
and human nature, too, to crow over
an enemy you have defeated In fair
fight.
In q way I'm sorry that our lead was
so long this year when the New York
Club played its final series in Shibe
Park. I am confident the Athletics
OF 1929 would have beaten the Yanks
Just as thoroughly had we needed those
games to hold first place, or regain it,
The boys on our team perked up when
It came to q real issue. With our full
strength on the field we had the old
fight and determination to come from
behind and win.
Give Cubs Cause to Think.
7 wonder If the Chicago Cubs didn't
do some thinking when they read about
the fine pitching of three of our right
handlers, Jack Quinn, Howard Ehmke
and George Earnshaw? They virtually
stopped dead 1eft-hand sluggers like
Babe. Ruth. Earl Combs and Lou
Gehrig.
Later on. M write more about our
to ask you to give a thought right now
to the fact that Quinn, Ehmke and
Earnshaw held the slugging Yanks to
five runs and IL hits in 81 innings
That's good enough for me.
The other day heard q fan say
that we must have been laying down
in the West when we lost six Of eight
games played in st. Louis and Chicago.
team laying down" when the reward
for winning the pennant Is a slice Of
the world series melon.
This I will say. Our team may not
have hustled as we did in previous
series, because we were pretty well
crippled ana using substitutes. Also,
we got 1t into our heads that II we
must slump it was better to do it then
than on the even of the games for the
world title.
The terrible thing is a slump just
before the big series. There are clubs
that have had that experience. The
Cards, for example, were not up to the
mark when they played the Yanks last
season. don't mean that the outcome
would have been different. That New
York team sure was in high last Oc-
tober, and nothing could have stopped
it.
We've had our slump, hope. There
IS every reason to expect that If we
meet the Cubs in the world series the
Athletics will be Gin high with every
one Of our players in tip-top physical
shape and eager for the battling to
begin.
(Copyrisht, 1923, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance.)