New Britain herald., 1929-10-04
ATHLETICS HAVE
 EDGE IN STRATEGY
Connie Mack Has a Board Of Real Baseball Stages for Series

New York. Oct 1 lP-If the tao tics of Q baseball sage and master craftsman. guiding the play of his youthful talent by the wig-wags of q score card; it strategy, in other words, develops as vital factor in the forthcoming worlds series, the Athletics seem likely to have the advantage Of the Cubs.
 lt may contribute nothing to the advancement of science to brute" force 10 triumph yet it is d well
 known baseball fact that a few solid basehits can overthrow the most cunning strategy. For that reason the cloUting Cub circus probably is not worried by the threat of being outsmart"d by Connie Mack and strategic board of sages that num- bers Kid Gleason, Eddie Collins and Ira Thomas. The Yankees have given ample proof that the home run represents one of the cIeyvrest meth ods of offsetting enemy man"uvcrs.
 Nevertheless, the As start with the benefit of Mack's long exper- tence, his slillful player -manipula- ton, in a short series where every move counts. where the slighcst tao tical mistake may mean the differ ence between the winners and los CTS end of the pot.
 For that matter, the Cubs can do plenty of heavy thinking, or con- tribute any amount of inside stuff on their own account with Gen Joe McCarthy in command, Col. Jimmy
 Burke for advice and Mai. Rogers Hornsby on the field 10 toss his ex- p"rience in with that of Field Capt Charley Grimm, Yet there is no doubt the master-minding honors, on the whole, belong to the As. Mccarthy WIs d school kid, playing on the sandlots of Philadelphia, when Connie Mack managed his first championship club in 1902.
 Even McGraW yields in technique to Mack, who controls the moves of every player with his famous score card. although he has denied the legend that he directs every pitch, no manager so assiduously studies or so carefully remembers the strength and weakness of opposing players as Mack. From the reports of chief scout Ira Thomas, who has been trailing the Cubs, the lean leader probably has indexed all of- fonSive and defensive habits of the National League champions.
 The pitching strategy is much more complicated for Mack than it is for Mccarthy, The As may de- fy the Cub murdercrS' row of right handed batsmen with their star left handler, Grove, at the outset or they may rely on the big right -handed spceder, Earnshaw. Depending on success or failure of the opening en- gagement, Mack has a southpaw mate for Grove in Rube Walberg or right handed spitballs, tossed by old Jack Quinn, to back up Earnshaw's efforts. -----------
 1t is all much simpler for McCar- thy who has q logical starter in Pat Malone, the iron man member of an almost exclusively right-handed curving corps. Malone, in fact, can pitch every other game until the series is decided, with Guy Bush and Charley Root to fill in the gaps. This would reduce the Cubs pitching 10 a minimum.
 Mack juggles his reserves and bat ting order as rapidly as he shifts the players on the field. He has already considered some changes and if the As happen to get off badly it would not be surprising to see the old mas fer make wholesale n-arrangements on short notice. Mccarthy will have few problems of this kind, un- less such injured regulars as Taylor, English or Grimm meet with further mishaps. General Joe, after all, will depend largely on the strategic base hit.