The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-10
Mack, Foxx, Ehmke, Sim
mons WorShipped by
QuakertoWn.
NEXT BATTLE FRIDAY
Home Run Jimmy Practi-
CaIIy Owns City.
BY GEORGE KTRKSEY

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10.-World
Series scenes shifted here today as
the two r1vals-Philad-1phia Ath-
letics and Chicago Cubs-arrived TO
resume the series at Shibe park Fri
day.
Conversation in the hotel Hobbies,
cigar stores, on street corners and
ether gathering places buzzed about
wise old Connie Mack's strategy,
Howard Ehmke's pitching feat in
the first game, Johnny Foxx's two
home runs, or Al Simmons three
hits in the second game which drove
in four runs.
Compare Idols With Yanks
Occasionally some one wanted to
know what was wrong with Rogers
Hornsby, Xxi Cuyler and the rest
Of the Cubs. No one had any ans
wer for that, except that the AS
were just too good for them.
The series isn't over yet, but al
ready they have started comparing
the Athletics with the Yankees of
1927 and 1923.
Victorious in the first two games
at Chicago, the Athletics need but
two more triumphs to end the series
and supplant the New York Yankees
as world baseball champions.
Three games are scheduled here,
Friday, Saturday and Monday, and
it's 2 to l in the betting book that
the final curtain on the 1929 series
will be rung down at Shibe park.
At any rate, local fans are conf
dent the Athletics will capture the
title here at home.
Sunday is an off day because of
Pennsylvania's law against baseball
on the Sabbath.
No Cub Money
From the present outlook, this
series will never get as far as Mon
day unless there's some great
change in the Cubs overnight. The
Athletics today we're quoted z to 5
favoriteS to win the third game, and
4 to l favorites to win the cham
pionship. There was no Chicago
money in sight.
The demand for tickets here is
unprecedented, Barely $4,000 can
crowd into Shibe park. All tickets
have been sold, but ticket
spectators have a few hundred in
their hands and are asking the fol-
lowing prices: Single seats-$17 to
$25. Two sets two games $50 to
500. Two seats three games 500
to $3.50.
Owners of apartment houses back
Of Shibe park will sell space on
their roofs at SIS a ticket. Officials
issued orders that no one would be
permitted on the roofs, but the own
ers fought the ruling and won.
Al Simmons lives in one of the
apartment houses and is said to
have put up part of the money to
help fight the issue.
So far as Philadelphia fans are
concerned, Jimmy FoxX, the young
bridegroom, can wear the
hero's regal robe for this series.
Foxx Another Ruth
FoXX has a following here almost
as large as Babe Ruth at Yankee
stadium. His picture is in the pap
ers and in the downtown shop win
dows. His name rolls of every
Some say he is another
The world series will be over be-
fore Foxx will be 81. His twenty
first birthday is Oct. %. He was
discovered in the Eastern Shore
League when he was 16 by Frank
Baker. member of Connie Mack's
$780, 600 inf1eld of years gone by.
Speculation over Connie Mack's
pitching selection for the third game
has narrowed down to two men
Rube Walberg and Old Jack Quinn.
The weather man today an
nounced unfavorable atmospheric
conditions for Friday, with a pos
of rain. In case of rain, the
third game will be played Saturday.