Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-30
CARDS DON'T THINK
GROVE WILL START
Figure Connie Will Gamble
on FirSt-Game HurIer.
Quiet in PhiIIy.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.


l. burning issues having been
settled for the year, the
clans trooped into Philadelphia
today for the browning festival Of
American sport-otherwiSe the
world series of base ball.
1t starts tomorrow with the home
town Athletics, two-time champions
of the American League, favored to I'M
timber a couple of doublc-barreled guns,
Simmons and Foxx, Grove and Coch-
rane and check the sensational flight
pions of the National League.
The city of Quakers has taken the
situation this year much more calmly
than was the case a year ago, when
the return of Connie Mack and his
young men to the base ball heights
after lapse of is years created a
semi-hysterical outburst of enthusiasm.
There has so far been no demonstra-
ton over the AS to compare with the
mob scenes attending the browning
golf triumph of Bobby Jones in the
suburbs last Saturday, nor has it been
necessary to call out the Marines to
control the situation at Shibe Park.
Nevertheless, the big American
League stadium is expected to be pack
ed to its enlarged limit of $4,000 spec
stators for the opening game tomorrow,
when the occasion will take on dig
nifty through the presence of the Presi-
dent of the United States and his
party.
Mr.. Hoover attended the final and
spectacular triumph of the Athletics
over the Chicago Cubs last october
and he has accepted the invitation of
Mayor Harry A. Mackey to be the city's
O1IpSt again O G tho HoahgrVaaY1 HARM the
defense Of their world championship.
Grimes to Start.
Aside from the stampede for tickets
and the rather brisk argument over
the relative merits of the contending
clubs, the main question is, Who will
pitch the opener?
Charles IGabby) Street, the veteran
pilot of the st. Louis Cardinals, has al
ready furnished his own answer by
naming the old spitballer. Burleigh
Grimes, to start the Red Birds on an
other winning flight.
volunteers have named Robert Moses
Oefty) Grove to take the hill for the
Athletics and throw his fireballs at the
opposition, but the man who makes the
decision, Connie Mack, has so far re-
fused to indicate his selection. In keep
ing with his habit of making no prenna-
lure choice, Mr. Mack says he will
nominate MS moundsman shortly before
game time.
The tall tutor crossed the experts
completely a year ago by starting How
ara Ehmke in the first game with the
CUBS and winning 1t handily. On the
strength OF this surprising maneuver
quite few OF the boys are covering up
their selection of Grove by suggesting
In ls Mack may start Rube Walberg.
Bill SnoreS, young right-hander or
even old Jack Quinn, who shares with
ball delivery.
Logic favors Grove, not only on the
strength OF his great record for the year
ana the TACT that he is the No. l man
OF the AZ STAFF, but also because it will
enable Mack to send the slim southpaw
back into action at an earlier date. no
later tnan next Sunday or Monday.
Mack May Gamble.
The Cardinals, however, figure that
Grove will be held in reserve with
Mack preferring to gamble on an o,,t-
slider to capture the opener. They ex-
pressed themselves volubly on this and
on most counts upon their arrival yes
teroay afternoon, brimful of confidence
and aggressive spirit.
The hotel headquarters of the Cardi-
nals, In TACT, has turned out to be the
most enthusiastic spot in town THE
National Leaguers have palloned into
the series at full tilt, carrying with them
the momentum of one of the greatest
uphill drives to victory on record.
Two months ago the Red Birds were
Dareiy hanging on, grasping a first-di-
vision berth and seemingly lucky to be
as much as fourth. They walloped their
way upward with a rush that gave
them A victories out of their last 81
games. They won by the simple expedi-
ent of hammering their main rivals into
pulp or pitching them under the
table.
National League men Enthusiastically
are banking upon the supreme conf
dence and dash of the Cardinals to To-
cate the silver lining in the clouds that
nave hung heavily over their entries
IN the last few world championships.
The record of one victory in their last
Is starts against American League op-
position has been no balm whatever for
the partisanS of the circuit presided
over by John Arnold Heydler They
prefer to believe now that the Cardi-
mails have the punch and pitching to
overthrow the Athletics, rather than
that the mere law Of averages will OPP
crate in their favor.
1t may be so. Although the Mack
men, under the Shrewd guidance of their
67-year-old leader and with cast COM
prising a half dozen Superstars, have
been established 3-to-2 favorites in the
wagering. the feeling is that the Cardi-
mails have great fighting club, we'll
equipped to turn the tide. Moreover,
the Red Birds we're the last team to
win for the National League. in 1925.
Cards Well Equipped.
The nearest thing the Cardinals
have to Lefty Grove Is Wild Bin Hal
lahan, a portsider with a barrel of
stuff, but neither the experience nor
the control OF the Mack ace. The
Red Birds have no Mickey Cochrane
but they have smuggling backstop in
Gus MancuSo, who has replaced
Jimmy Wilson, injured regular. The
National Leaguers have no cleanup
hitter Of the caliber Of AL Simmons,
but they have number of batSmen
who can break up the ball game, in
GLIDING Chick Hafey, George Watkins
and Frank Frisch, who doesn't expect
an attack of lumbago to affect his
work.
Unless Mack upsets expectations,
the Athletics will place their pitching
burden almost entirely on the shoul-
ders of Grove and George Earnshaw,
iron man right-hander, with Walberg
and Shores in reserve. The Cardinals
have four or five first-class boxmen
ready to shoot at the opposition. The
list is headed by the crafty Grimes,
but includes Flint Rhem, Bill Halla-
han. Sylvester johnson and Jess
Haines.
So far as the master minding goes.
Mack has q big edge on Street. Connie
was plotting pennant winners before
Gabby broke into the big show and