Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-04
CARDS FACE STERN
WORLD SERIES TASK
Westerners Will Have to Win
Four Straight Games if
They Lose Today.
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high on the crest of winning wave,
made even more confident by their
ability to make every hit count in the
first two games.
If the Cardinals should fail to break
into the win column today they would
have to win four straight games, pos
sible, but not probable, in world series.
It never has been done.
The Cardinals already were In posi-
ton to make record, for should they
win now they would do something no
team has done before. There Is no rec
ord of club winning In a seven-game
world series after losing the first two
games. It has been done once in nine
game series
To capture the important game today
Manager Charles Street named wild
Bill" Hallahan, his sensational young
left-hander, to do the pitching for the
Cardinals. Hallahan won Is games for
st. Louis during the regular season in
spite of streaks Of wildness, which gave
ing the National League in bases on
balls. To Offset the bases on balls,
however. he was runner-up to DazZy
Vance in strike-outS, just one behind
the Brooklyn speed-bal king.
st. Louis players insist that Halla-
han Is as fast as Vance and faster than
Robert Moses Grove, the Athletics left
handed ace, and meeting between the
two southpaws has been hailed as a
base ball natural" There was posi-
bility that 1t might materialiZe today,
but men close to Connie Mack were
inclined to think the veteran manager
of the Athletics would give Grove an
other day of rest and send either Bill
Shores, young right-hander, or George
Walberg, a big left-hander. to the
mound.
Connie maintained his characteristic
Machian reticece with no suggestion
that he would reveal his pitching choice
until shortly before game time.
A change in the starting lineup OF
the Cardinals was announced in the
substitution of Jimmy Wilson for Gus
Mancuso behind the bat. Wilson, hurt
September IL, has caught only one
game since, but his injured ankle was
reported on the mend, so Manager
Street decided to send him out as
veteran battery mate for the youthful
Hallahan. Mancuso caught well enough
at Philadelphia and cracked out hit
In each game. But Mancuso Is even
younger in years and experience than
Hallahan. Street evidently decided that
the counsel of an elder was needed
in the crisis.
Cards Not Down Hearted.
Manager Mack was not expected to
make any change in his lineup on
account of the left-handed pitching
selection by st. Louis. He has three
batsmen who hit from the left side OF
the plate, Cochrane. Bishop and Haas.
Manager Street at Philadelphia sent in
Blades, q right-hand hitter, to play right
field In place of the left-hand hitting
watkins and had only one left-hander
left in the game, Sunny Jim" Bot
tomley.
Street declared today as his team
prepared to do battle o. The third con-
test that neither he 5r his players
were down-hearted.
1.-THE Athletics have won two In a
row." said Gabby, "alN we have as
good a ball club as they, so We can
win two, or more, straight"
In the first two games the Cardinals
outhit the Athletics Is to IL but were
outscored IL to 8, chiefly because the
winners specialized in extra base hit5
and were able to coordinate their
safeties more effectively.
Game time, 1880 o'clock Central
standard tine) was expected to find
Sportsman's Park filed to its capacity,
slightly in excess Of 10000.
All the reserved seats were sold well
In advance and thousands lined up for
a long wait for the privilege of pur-
chasing the 5000 available bleacher
seats,