Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-10
CUBS DUE TO OPEN
AS BETTING CHOICE
Bruins Most Formidable at
Home, Where Big Series
With AS Starts.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.
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world series meeting for Chicago
today, we soon should know all
~ the details of that coming strug-
=. gle. Arrangements, to be sure,
will be tentative, which means that
room will be left for the Athletics to
jump in the ocean and the Chicago
Bruins to smother themselves in the
wheat pit AS those concerned have
no real idea of doing either of these
things, the chances still are that the
series will open in the West on October
8, and that Bush and Grove will face
each other in the opening game.
1t might be, of course, that Connie
Mack will prefer to start the battle with
George Earnshaw. The Bruins, with
their right-hand batters, are tough OPP
ponentS for a left-hand pitcher, and
doubly tough on their home grounds.
Some who have followed them all sea-
son believe that, If the Mackmen win.
Earnshaw will be the hero among the
twirlers.
Chicago has a great reputation for
hitting fast-ball pitchers. and no one
has more speed than Earnshaw, but
the young man from Swarthmore also
has slow ball that is a beauty. It
may bother the sluggers in the Chicago
batting order, perpetually with a
change Of pace.
Mack also has Ehnke and Jack
Quinn. As he told me not long ago,
he Is not, worrying about his pitching,
although he considers it 20 per cent Of
world series.
A world series is not like any other
string OF games. You cannot tell from
what a man has done during the sea.
son how he may perform In the post
season classic. That is why it so often
happens that some player little consid-
cred emergeS the most shining star.
The fact that a difference of thou
sands OF dollars may hang on each ball
pitched, hit or fielded, gives some men
financial paralysis and stirs others to
! play high above any usual form. So
called money players" do their stuff
when the stakes are highest.
Among great money pitchers were
such as Dinneen. Matty, Brown, Ben
der, Alexander. Coombs. Adams. Pen
i mock, Wood, Walsh, Rudolph and Hoyt.
Speaker, Hooper, Lewis, Herzog. Col
Inns. Baker, Gowdy, Evers, Chance,
Jones, Combs. Wiltse, Stengel and Car
rigan have all played great world series
ball. So has Gehrig. Ruth, perhaps,
is the greatest money player of all.
Hornsby certainly will be Of use to a
team in the big series. To prove that,
| you might look back and see what st.
against the Yankees. Cuyler should do
we'll. So should Simmons and Fox
Of the Athletics. AS for Dykes he Is a
bofn fighter. Micky Cochrane is capable
of rising to great heights.
A lot will depend upon which team
takes the first game. With four games
necessary to win, one game means a
fourth of the distance. That is big
handicap to spot an opponent. =.
It is largely for, this reason that, If
the series starts In the West, Chicago
will be the betting favorite. Joe Nc
Carthys team always has been strong
est at home. The Athletics, a green
team from q series standpoint, will
undergo that tension which always &C.
companies first game on foreign soil.
1t will not even be as though they were
playing In the somewhat familiar White
totally new battle ground to the in
vaders and the old Illinois home to the
defenders.
Moreover. the crowd naturally will be
largely pulling for the home team.
This. then. will be a place for courage
and fighting spirit to show. If, in the
face of undoubted handicaps, the Mack
men take that first contest, they not
only will be q considerable distance on
their way, but they will have shaken
more than bit the morale of their
opponents.
No two men know this any better
than Connie Mack and Joe Mccarthy.
You undoubtedly will see those two
leaders shooting for that opening con-
test with all they have. Pitching and
the breaks will decide the winner.
tcopyrisht' 1929, by NI9srth American News