Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-01
WARM-UP NEEDED
TO DECIDE HURLER
Unlikely to Make Any Slab
Selections Until Just Be-
fore Play Opens.
BY CONNIE MACK,
Manager, Phlladslphia Athletics.


TOR several days you have
r. been reading comparisons
i of Athletic and Cardinal
players and the mammoth
columns of advance gossip about
these big games, and today at
Shibe Park the teams will get into
action, and from now to the An
ish you will have actual results as
a daily tidbit until the series is
finished.
Everybody wants to know the identity
of the pitcher who will shoot the first
pitch to the st. Louis lead-off man this
afternoon.
I am going to let you into q little
secret.
I don't know.
Moreover. don't know the names
Of the starting pitcher in any other OF
the games, and If ever decide on my
man the night before am going to
keep his name locked in my breast, Tor
possibly the next day I might change
my mind while the pitchers are warm
ing up and then folks would doubt my
veracity..
Best to Keep Quiet.
The best way out Of it is to keep q
tight lip on the most delicate question
going TO pitch?"
can give you some straight facts
ebout the rest of the lineup. It viii
consist of the eight regulars, which in
cIildes Catcher Cochrane, that finished
the final world series game last FAN.
I certainly would not think OF side
tracking any of those boys who pulled
two games out of the fire for me in
Philadelphia last Fall.
Yet there is Just once chance OF a
SHIFT. Cochrane viii be behind the
bat, Foxx at first, Bishop at second,
BoIey at short, Dykes at third, Sim
mons in left and Miller in right, but
~ Gabby Street elects to start with q
left-handed pitcher, then Jimmy Moore,
my hard-hitting right-handed rookie,
viii be I'm center, and not George Haas.
In this series want to utilize as many
right handed hitters as possible when
q Eouthpaw opposes us.
of course, we win make every effort
20 get the lump on the MisSourians by
winning that first game. In q world
series 1t means q lot.
I have been through . lot Of world
series fire and try to profit from nay
experience. My players have had one
year Of It, and I believe that they will
start the opening game serene in mind
and amid al the claFnor and cries Of
the fans end the demand for pictures
from photographers they viii treat this
afternoons affair just IS another ball
game.
Hard Job fer Players.
II Il only natural that the players
realize that they are facing some ex-
ceptional stage In tlleir careers, where
their every move viii be under the
tenest scrutiny. and they Val feel they
must be their mettie niors tllan ever, /.
No doubt last night the members Of
both Athletics and Cardinals could not
help dreaming about this game today.
It Is only human that they VIII be .
little nervous In practice.
But once the first ball Is pitched the
strain win wear on, and then 1t VIM
be case Of every player giving every
thing In him.
IT'S the soaring ambition Of every
player to shine In q world series. A
feat that he performs in the playing
season bears only passing attention and
IS soon forgotten, but IL he does some
thing big in the classic, then the whole
Nation knows 1t, and It VIII lodge IN
their minds long.
Players Of Just average worth in a
playing season often rise TO great
heights in the world series and their
valiant deeds continue to buzz in their
ears wherever they 60 for years to
come.
Gcopyright, 1856, by the Christy walsh
Syndfcate.)