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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
END GREAT DRIVE
BY BEATING BUGS
Team Has Won ri of Last
a. Games and 43 Out of SIS.
AS Trim Yankees.

BY the Associated Press.
TINE st. Louis Cardinals have
clinched the championship two
days before the end of the sea-
son. A bad fourth on August l..
st. Louis slammed out a 10-to-5 VIC
tory over the Pittsburgh Pirates yes
terday to finish the hot struggle for
the flag and to gain the right to meet
the Philadelphia Athletics in the world
series, beginning at Philadelphia
Wednesday.
The triumph, the twenty first for st.
Louis in the last "a games and the
forty third in the SIS games since the
beginning of August, left the Chicago
Cubs in second place three games be-
hind with only two to play.
The Cards yesterday gave an all
around exhibition of the brand of base
ball that carried them to the top. Jess
Haines pitched fair game, although
not as good as many turned in by his
younger mates, and the Red Birds
backed him up with hard and timely
batting attack that produced Is hits
of the delivery of Erwin Brame, one
of the leagues leading pitchers. In
the fourth inning young George Wat
with two on base and the Cards batted
clear around the lineup to score seven
runs.
The Cubs clinched second place in the
standing yesterday as Hack wilson's
f1fty-fourth home run of the season
gave them 7-to-5 victory over the
Cincinnati Reds.
The Cubs now are three games ahead
of the third-place New York Giants
and three and q half ahead of the
Brooklyn Robins, both idle yesterday
and are safe 50 far as second place Il
concerned.
The champion Philadelphia Athletics
gave the New York Yankees a double
dose of bitter defeat as Al Simmons hit
a double in the ninth inning. The hi
drove in Wally Schang from seconC
with the run that gave the AS a 7-to-t
victory and it also put Simmons aheac
of the Yanks' Lou Gehrig in the race
for the American League batting
championship.
Ted Lyons of the Chicago Whit'
Sox, whose ancient arm has hurlet
more complete games than any othel
major league pitcher this season, helt
the Detroit Tigers to i've hits in thu
one remaining game to win by 3-to-.
count. Lyons also contributed hom'
run to his twenty-ninth full game o
| the year. st. Louis and Cleveland en-
countered rain, bringing about dou
hle-header Sunday.
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ST. LOUIS FANS co WILD
WHEN CARDS GAIN TITLE
Celebration Nearly Noisy as Four Years Ago, when
Flag Was Won After Long Lapse-Police
Grin as Crowds Run Riot
Nv the Associated pras.

BY the Associated Press
HT. LOUIS, September 27.-St.
Louis hasn't reached that ex-
IRENE sophistication where it
takes its base ball pennants with
a yawn.
For three "even" years now-1926,
1928, 1e30-the Cardinals have reigned
supreme in the National League, but
the clinching Of the third champion
ship was the occasion for q celebration
nearly as noisy as the one four years
ago when q 3S-year pennant famine
ended.
Starting Immediately after old jess
Haines had knuckle-balled the last
Pittsburgh Pirate batter into submits
sion, the old st. Louis began letting of
steam. whistles and sirens shrieked the
news of the Cardinals victory to the
downtown district and veritable
blizzard of paper scraps and ticker tape
began sweeping down from office win
dowS.
Honking automobile horns, torpedoes.
open cut-outs, tin cans tied on the rear
bumpers Of cars and practically every
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the leagues greatest all-around out
fielders. Among the pitchers, Grove
and Walberg began to get control of
their left-handed fast balls.
The new champions of the House of
Mack fast were finding themselves. The
Cobb-Speaker outf1eld experiment did
not last out the 1928 season. George
tMule) Haas, obtained from Atlanta,
and Edmund (Bing) Miller, back after
a stay in st. Louis, replaced the old
timers in the outfield. Jimmy Dykes,
the jack-of -all-infield trades, became
the regular third baseman. George
Earnshaw, the big ex-Swarthmore Col
lege star, joined the pitching staff.
Ut THOUGHT had the winning COM
J. bination at last when we were
South in 1929" Mack admitted
to me later. But I carefully refrained
from saying so. We had experienced
some misfortunes, and the experts
were pessimistic about our chances to
beat the Yankees. chose to encourage
this. We had had so many setbacks ]
did not want to arouse premature en-
thusiasm. 1t was that much better
when our pitchers and the whole club
came through so wonderfully"
The Athletics ran away with the
American League race. They led their
nearest rivals, the exclamation Yam
KEGS, by the overwhelming margin OF
18 games and gave their manager hi,
greatest thrill by routing the Chicago
Cubs in the world series.
fCopyright, 1880. by the Associated Press
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ PHILADELPHIA, Pa, September
- 27.-The prospective pitching
4 situation for the world series,
with the Athletics embroiled
with the Cardinals, involves the case
of a duet against chorus.
Nearly two-thirds of the mound
burden for the Mackmen this year
has been shouldered by the great Robert
Moses Grove, premier southpaw OF
base ball, and iron man George Earn
shaw, right-handed smoke-ball tosser.
They may solve all of Mack's pitching
problems in the championship conflict,
starting next Wednesday at Shibe Park
The Cardinals, in sharp contrast,
have galloped home in front of the
National League pack through the COM
bined pitching efforts of half dozen
toilers. Flint Rhem, Wild Bill Halla-
han and Burleigh Grimes have proved
the most sensational workers, but Jess
Haines and Sylvester johnson have con-
tributed fair share of victories, with
Lindsey or Grabowski to meet an &C.
cassional emergency.
In a short series the experience and
ability of two such aces as Grove anC
Earnshaw figure to give the AS an
advantage. They won the 1929 series
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Bobby Pays Back Jess in Kind,
But Eliminates ''LOngest" Walk

1.-THE longest walk I ever took" Bobby
Jones said afterward.
Friday at the Merton Cricket Club
history repeated itself in startling
fashion, but with reverse English.
In the semi-final round of the 1890
national amateur championship, Bobby
Jones got his revenge for that tremen-
dous clubbing of eight years ago, with
q modicum of interest. He stopped
Sweetser on the tenth green, up and
8 to play.
Bobby Really l Up.
In the locker room a few minutes
later Jess came up to congratulate his
conqueror further.
Il was hoping to carry 1t to the next
green" said Big Jess, smiling, land
then If it was and z could say
Well, Bobby, we're all square now But
we're not-you're ! up"
At any rate, the tenth green is quite
near the club house and the eleventh
like that at Brookline, Is long way off
Il didn't make you walk as far as
you did me. JESS" said Bobby.
Tn glad of It," said Jess. II was
pretty tired as 1t was"
Bobby's last shot of the match was
little mashie-niblick pitch that BIZ
into the turf of the tenth green ia
inches short of the hole, hoped once
and curled UP within 10 inches of the
stick.
Il felt sort of mean about that,
Bobby confessed to Jess. 1T was like
stab in the back-a shot in the dark. >
1T wasn't any shot In the dark,
laughed Jess. 1T was great stroke
and I'd had about enough, anyway"
You may remember that in 1922 jess
started Bobby's downfall by sinking 9
pitch of 80 yards for an eagle 2 at thu
second hole. Bobby couldn't quite re.
peat history in that connection, but
he came close.
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club of the Southern Association. This
was in the Spring of 1916. I'm sorry
to say that I didn't make an imme-
date hit with Dolly Stark, the Memphis
manager.
He was about to hand me my re-
lease when the st. Louis Americans,
with whom Sheridan was travelling as a
base ball correspondent, reached Mem
phis. The minute Sheridan heard of
my situation he sought out Stark.
you'll make a mistake II you let
the kid go, Dolly he said.
"'I haven't got room for him. said
the Memphis manager.
"'You make room for him. said j. b.
Tell you what I'll do. If he doesn't
make good I'll pay you back every cent
he costs YOU
well, you can see that after that !
simply had to come through. couldn't
disappoint my grand old sportsman
friend.
IT stuck with Memphis through 1916
and 1917. Then was sold to the New
York Yankees. I've been in the big
league ever since.
Sheridan had the satisfaction of
seeing me play on q world champion
team, and knowing that his faith in
me was not misplaced. AS long as I
breathe I'll not forget his kindness
TO me-"
(Copyright, lo30)
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known device for noise making were
pressed into service.
Soon streets were Uttered with paper,
long spirals of ticker tape snagged on
the bumpers of cars and newsboys with
extras added their cries to the din.
Until far into the night the din kept
up. Carnival crowds milled through
the downtown streets, shouting and
grinning.
Motor cars crafty decorated with
paper streamers and trailing tin cans
and old wash tubs streamed through
the streets IN noisy procession They
snorted along with their cut-outs open
and the police didn't care. In fact, 1t
was reported, numerous usually stern
policemen grinned as If they'd have
liked to join in the celebration.
Everywhere the sentiment was bring
on the Athletics" Strangers told each
other. well, boy, we did it,
Telephone officials estimated $4,000
telephone calls were handled within
10 minutes after the Cards had clinched
the pennant, four times the usual num-
Der. 1t seems every fan wanted to call
up some other fan.
But all that was unofficial. The Of
fetal celebration was reserved for to-
day, when the victorious Red Birds will
ride through the streets like conquering
bSlOCS. lMOuitlC0 EOIlCEIIlcH Will SHOW
the way for the cars carrying the play
ers. Two players will ride in each car
with member of the Reception Com
mittee.
Army blimps and airpIanes will fly
over the parade, discharging aerial
bombs.
Meanwhile, world series tickets will
be dispatched in the mail early next
week. along with remittances to unsuc-
cessul applicants. With more than five
times as many applicants as there are
available reservations, many are to be
disappointed, but they still have a
chance to see the game from the un-
reserved section.
William Victor. secretary of the st
Louis Hotel Mems Association, said to-
day rates would not be increased for the
world series, but an occupant of a
double room will be expected to share
with another guest or pay double the
rate.
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SLAB STATUS FOR SERIES
is DUET AGAINST CHORUS
Grove and Earnshaw Have Done Major Portion Of
Hurting for Athletics, While Half Dozen
Have Shared Burden for Cardinals.

with Grove operating only in relief
role, due to q finger injury, but as
the No. man of the Mack staff is
In good health now he should be the
selection for the opening game and
ready to return by the fourth or NTH
encounter at the latest
Earnshaw, with only a days travel
in between pitched two straight games
against the Cubs year ago. He will
be quite willing to repeat, unless Mack
decides to take a chance on Young
Leroy Mahaffey, Rube Walberg, Bill
Shores or old Jack Quinn. There is no
Howard Ehmke under cover to confound
| the experts this time.
! Grimes, still one of the craftiest and
gamest pitchers in base ball, may be
, the starting choice for the Cardinals
with Flint Rhem and Will Bill Halla-
] han next in line, unless Manager Gabby
| Street figures the veteran Jess Haines
can repeat his fine work of 1925. Rhem
when right and in condition, has a
tremendous matter of stuff. So has
Hallahan, a southpaw, who can walk
dozen as easily as he can strike out
that many
Hallahan and Grove are unquestion-
| ably the fastest two southpaws in cap
tivity, and battle between them would
be the greatest portside duel since Art
Nehf and Herb Pennock were world
series rivals. Rhem and Earnshaw
likewise have speed to burn.
| The rival pitching records:
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for Fourth Title: Cards CAnch Flag Rice Again Quits" Came
CONNIE MACK BY p: a., T.: s; ;:..
HIS so YEARS IN BASE BALL
No. IA Daring Experiment.

NO. IA Daring EXPERIMENT..
A FTER suddenly producing a
n pennant contender in 1925
1 L with a young and compare
lively green team, which
failed to fulfill its promises the
following year, Connie Mack at
tempted one of the most daring
and interesting experiments of
modern years in 1929.
He gathered together three of
the most famous stars of all time
Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb and iris
Speaker-in addition to signing
the veteran National League slug
ger, Zach Wheat of Brooklyn.
Cobb and Speaker had been released
by the clubs which they had been man.
aging, Detroit and Cleveland, following
investigation of gambling charges made
by the old Boston pitcher, Hub Leonard,
and involving the two super stars.
Subsequently Cobb and Speaker were
cleared of charges of wrongdoing by an
investigation conducted by Commission
er Lands.
Collins had been released as manager
of the White SoX and seized the chance
to join his old manager and return to
his home, near Philadelphia. Cobb
signed a contract with the Athletics
understood to call for a yearly salary
of 100000. Speaker joined Mack year
later in 1928 at a $4,000 salary.
TEN or fifteen years earlier the pres
l. ence under one banner of Cobb,
Collins and Speaker, the three
outstanding all-around stars of their
time, would have been a managers
fondest dream. AS 1t turned out, how
ever, it was just a magnificent gesture
on the part of Mack. Perhaps he never
regretted it, for at least it again brought
the Athletics into the spotlight and
made them rivals of the world cham
pion Yankees as a drawing card.
Largely on the strength of senti-
ment and interest, the Athletics were
installed as pennant favorites at the
outset of 1927. Except for an early
squirt. however, they failed to meet ex-
pectations and were unable to check the
smuggling Yankees, headed by Babe Ruth
and then at the very peak of their
great accomplishments under the lead
erShip of the late Miller Higgins.
1t was the failure of the Athletics
pitching, rather than any shortcomings
of the veterans, that kept the club from
making a better race. Cobb made a
magnificent comeback, played in 1874
games and batted 1857, besides stealing
% bases to show that he had not en-
tirely lost his old speed.
A STRONG mutual admiration grew
A up from this latter-day association
of the American Leagues star of
stars and the veteran manager. Cobb
always referred to Connie as mfr
Mack" The latter spoke of the Geor-
gian always as "Tyrus."
Cobb told of an incident when he
first joined the club. He was playing
right field and Mack, from the dug
out. kept waving his famous score card
to indicate the position he desired the
old star to play for the particular man
at the plate.
81 moved over as I was directed, but
apparently not far enough" related
Cobb. "I thought to myself. rs this old
man going to try to tell me how to
, play the outf1eld after all these years?
figured I was over far enough, but
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putt he likes it so well he hops to the
mole with those lengthy legs. But that
match was a great one to win and a
hard one to lose. More will be heard
Of young Seaver. He IS too good to be
kept down and when the fire gets hot
Test he likes it.
Little can be said of the Jones'
Sweetser match for there wasn't much
TO 1t. Bobby was up at the sixth
hole in the morning, and then jess won
three holes to be only ! down. But
Jess lost the seventeenth and eighteenth
to GO to lunch 4 down, after three
putting the fifteenth. And In the after
noon Bobby was much too good for
Jess, Sweetser. vino didn't have a round
below rs in this tournament, could not
hang on to Bobby's brides, and the
match ended on the twenty-eighth hole
where Bobby hung one up so close that
Jess gave it to him to win by 8 and g.
The emperor was TO be crowned late
this afternoon, and he thought it might
rain, so he decided he might as well
| quit at the club house. If Romans gets
past the thirteenth, which stands just
under the club house steps, he will &C
further than any man has gone with
Bobby since 1926, when Won Elm beat
the king in the final.
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BIG LEAGUE LEADERS

By the Associated Press.
American League.
Batting-Simmons, Athletics. .379.
Runs-Simmons, Athletics, $50.
Runs batted in-Gehrig, Yankees, 173
Hits-Hodapp, Indians, 220.
Doubles-Hodapp, Indians. so.
Triples-Combs, Yankees, %.
Home runs-Ruth, Yankees, Al.
Stolen bases-McNfanus, Tigers, 23,
National League.
Batting-Terry, Giants, .40A.
Runs-Klein, Phillies, 157.
Runs batted in-Wilson, Cubs, 1874.
Hits-Terry, Giants, 253.
Doubles-Klein, Phillies, SO.
Triples-Comorosky, Pirates, 23.
Home runs-Wilson, Cubs, 81.
Stolen bases-Cuyler, Cubs, IS.
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MUDDY RUEL PAYS A TRIBUTE
TO THE LATE JACK SHERIDAN
One of the Grandest of All Sportsmen Says Catcher of
Man Who Gave Him His Start.

husky fellows. Sheridan stood a royal
chance of having healthy dent put
in his roll, and he was no rich man
either.
Luckily. managed to stick with
the Browns, though it was more as a
student than as player. But as things
turned out wasn't completely of
Sheridan's hands.
EARNED Out to Memphis.
1.-THE next year there was shift
in the lineup of the Browns that
caused me to be sent to the Memphis
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TEAMS IN DEADLOCK
IN LITTLE SERIES"
Rochester Scores, Z to l, and Is
Playing Louisville in Third
Contest of Nine Today.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, September ~
H1.-All even at one victory apiece, the
Rochester Redwings and Louisville
Colonies prepared for the third game
of the little worlds series today.
Some effective pitching by the crack
Rochester right handler, John Berry.
enabled the Redwings to deadlock the
series yesterday, tt.
For the third game, the Redwings
are expected to send either George
Grant or Ira Smith to the mound with
Joe Deberry, veteran association star,
hurting for Louisville.
The fourth game will be played here
tomorrow and all the other contests OF
the best five out-of- mine series at Louis
Vile starting Monday.
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BY the Associated Press.
Frank Frisch, Cardinals-Cloutec
Pirate hurting for triple and two singles
driving in three runs and scoring two
Hack Wilson, Cubs-Clouted fifty
fourth homer with one on to beat Reds
Us.
Ted Lyons, White Sox-Held Tigers
to five hits and smashed homer, win
ming, 81.
Al Simmons, Athletics-C Collected dou-
BILE and single and drove in three runs
including winning one, against Yankees
Milt CASTOR, Red Sox-Held Sena-
tors to seven scattered hits and won
I'll.
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Sunday Tilt Here
Gives Line on A's

THE fact that the Sabbath battle
l. here between the Nationals and
Athletics affords local fans
their last chance of the season to
see big league base ball and that
the AS will be aligned just as they
will take the field against the Card
inals in the world series next week,
is expected to draw a close to ca
pacity throng to Clark Griffith
Stadium tomorrow.
A good line on what may be ex-
pected Of Philadelphia's trio of
hurting stars against the National
League champs will be furnished by
Manager Connie Mack's announce
ment that Grove, Earnshaw and
Walberg viii travel three innings
anfpro
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HOME RUN STANDING

By the Associated Press
Home runs Wilson, Cubs
Watkins, Cardinals; Suhr, Pirates;
Gehringer, Tigers; p. Waner, Pirates
Durocher, Reds; Lyons, White Sox.
The leaders-Wilson, Cubs, 81: Ruth
Yankees Al; Gehrig, Yankees, Al:
Klein, Phillies, 40; Berger, Braves, 81;
Simmons, Athletics, So; Foxx, Athletics,
s6; Goslin, Browns, IS; Herman, Robins,
IS; Hartnett. Cubs. IS.
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BY MUDDY RUEL.
AS Told to J. p. Glass.


n n UDDY RUEL said that the one
I'M thing he regretted in telling
the following story was that
the hero of 1t no longer was
alive to read 1t.
He was one Of the grandest sports
men that ever lived" said the great
Washington catcher. 1T would make
me happy to have him know that ]
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CUBS PLAY WHITE SOX
Series for Chicago Title Will Be
Started on October /.

CHICAGO, September 81 R.-In-
stead of playing for the base ball cham
pionship of the world, the Cubs must be
satisfied to battle for the championship
of Chicago.
AS soon as the st. Louis Cardinals
clinched the National League flag yes
terday the lowly White Sox arose and
challenged their naughty North Side
base ball kin for city series champion
ship. The challenge was accepted.
The series, always a stormy, hard
fought one. will start October and con-
tinue until one team wins four games
The Cubs are the defending city cham
pions, but the White Sox hold a wide
edge in series won.
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Miller Hadley. Two-base hits-Oliver, Todt,
Heving, Manush, Hadley. Double plays
Ter to Todt. Hayes to Cronin to Myer. Left
on DISQUALIFICATION. 3; Boston. g.. First
base on ballS-On CASTOR, /; OF Hadley, 81
of Burke. 2. Struck out-By CASTOR, Il BY
Hadley. g. Hits-on Hadley, 10 in innings;
on Burke, in inning. Losing pitcher
Hadley, Umpires--Messrs Guthrie and Van
erafiin. Time OF game-l hour and 20 min
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BY o. b. KELLER,
For the Arrncintnh prnrr

A RDMORE. Pa, September 81
~ Eight years ago, at the Brook
~ line Country Club, near Boston,
Jess Sweetser propelled Bobby
Jones out of the national amateur
championship in the semi-final round,
the score being up and to play,
so that the match ended on the elev-
enth green, which at Brookline was the
most distant from the club house
more than mile.
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Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO-Sammy Mandell, Rock
ford, ILL.,, outpointed Tommy Herman,
Chicago U0) "