The Washington times., 1930-10-02
GIVES
MAXI mum
Of THRILLS
By BILL cORUM


BY BILL CORUM
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2-I'm
writing with tears in my eyes. And
pawn tickets in my pocketbo0k
The Athletics beat the Cardinals
yesterday-as you may have heard
il you live near the post office.
That makes 13 out Of il games
the American League has won
from the National in the last
three worlds series, You know,
I'm beginning ID suspect that the
boys are in earnest. A Jokes .
joke and that's all right: But IL
out Of IA is no Joke. Ask John
Heydler. Ask him, that Is, If you
can find him. / hear he is away
on a fishing trip With Judge
Crater.
John HeydIer, as yOu no
doubt know, Ii president Of
the National League. Ernest
Barnard is president Of
the American League. And
Herbert Hoover iS President Of
the United States. This reads
like things WinchelI never
knew before.
But what I was getting at was
Mr.. Hoover saw the AS score five
runs on five hits to beat the
Cardinals, 5 to 2. Coolidge econ.
omy.
Wen, we need Coolidge econ
omy. But nobody needed Cal TO
keep cool with at yesterdays
/ game. Sllibe Park was like sit
| ting In the frigidaire waiting for
/ company. And President Hoover
didn't have an overcoat, causing
one Of the inmates of the press
coop to remark that he knew
times were hard, but he didn't
know they were that hard.
What Mr.. Hoover did have In
his party was several Secret Ser.
vice men. But he didn't need
them half so badly as BurIeieh
Grimes, the old spitba1l artist
who served them ) for the Car
dinalS. Grimes let Mule" Has
practically steal home on him ii
the first squeeze play seen in
worlds series in IL years. Fred
SnodgraSS. Of the Giants, put On
a squeeze play in 1918 and Jo11h
McGraW benched him for IT.
But Connie Mack won't
bench Haas and BOley, the
lad who did the buntfng.H
Connie ordered It. II just
goes to show that an old dog
can teach 'eTn new tricks. &c
also gOeS to show at
Haas hits. as am 50 fond Of
remarking.
It was a treat to see Crime
pitch this ball game, even u1ougA
she lost it. The hard-bitten, hara9
boiled old Brooklyn castoff fought
| everybody in the game ct some
stage Of the proceedings. He was
the only warm man in the park.
He fumed and sputtered and
cussed and pitched.
Ay yes, he pitched plenty. They
say Grove is fast. Well, Bur
| leigh'S overland splitter wasn't
exactly standing still as it spun
toward that plate. Il
When the pressure was on, tie
old war horse would come up On
his toes and somewhere in that
remarkable Steel-like arm Of his
he would find the latent strength
to whistle that potato through
there as he did in days Of yore.
But take anything away from
Burleigh that you are q mind to,
the fact remains that at 81, with
II years in the majors behind
him, he pitched . five-hit game,
struck out more men than Grove,
the firebail king, and was still ii
there at the finish fighting back
with the sort Of courage that
never says die.
You may not care for,
Grimes briStIing personality,
his sublime confidence In
himself, his willingness to
tell the world he is good ana
knows it, but You would
have admired him If you had
seen this ball game.
He rode the AS, the urnpires.
his own manager, his catcher
the players behind him. uG
waggled his fingers from his ear3
at Cochralie after he had famed
him in pinch to convey to thu
crowd that Mickey, l. '1i9
(GrimesD book, was cyl
no less. He pointed c feet
: and nodded his head HinglIi
every time Simmons c, lie to bat
to indicate that the punching
Poles dogs were not what tne3
might be. Simmons suffers from
inflammatory rheumatism, OF
something OF that sort.
And he called Jimmy Foxx
rGallar Fox" then told him
that : Trlmes) was Jim Dandy!
AT ny one of the half.
dozel me pinch stands be
made you half expected him. to
stroll by the Presidents box TO
inquire: Hey, Herbie. how do
vnIi like that Y1itrl1ino9O