The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-19
TALKING
IT OVER
BIZ JOE WILLIAMS

ATEW YORK, June l9.-Not -tnat
IN it is significant of anything,
but a year ago Wednesday the Attn
letics we're leading in the American
League by seven and a half games;
the Yankees were second, the
Browns third and the Tigers a dis
couraged fourth. When they paid
Of in October the first four clubs
were the AS, the Yanks, the In
dams and the Browns. In the Ma
tional League a year ago Wednes-
day the Cards were on top by one
game: the Pirates were second, the
Cubs third and the Giants fourth,
six and a half games behind the
pace. Passing the judges stand in
the fall the order was: Chicago,
Pittsburgh, New York and st. Louis.
The situation this season in the Ameri-
can League is sharply different The as
hit by injuries and pitching inconsistencies
have been slow getting under way, though
holding a slight lead nov. Two other
seams-CIeveland and Northumberland
displayed unexpected power. In addition
she Yankz have shown something Of their
old power with the bat. This presages an
open race.
The National League is living up to It's
reputation for close races. A year ago four
clubs we're distinctly in the running. To-
day at least three clubs must be rated as
strong eontenders. Brooklyn has been the
surprise Of the year. The CUBS. generally
figured to repeat. have done well 70 nahR
on with Hornsby laid up and pitching that
has ranged from erratic to impotent'
TINE boys are saying wouldn't IL
i be funny if Cleveland and the
Brooklyns fought their way over the
PROSTATE forms of the favorites to
become world series opponents.
Funnier is a better word. 1t was
Just precisely ten years ago that
these two teams met in the annual
ticket scalpers' delight with the
western team winning in seven
games.
That was an eventfuI series, too. The
Cleveland second baseman, Bill Wambs-
ganss, made an unassisted triple play.
This had never been done before In a
world series game. Elmer Smith hit
home run with the bases full. the first
time that had ever been done IN any
world series stanley Coveleskie won three
games, thus moving up to join such pitch
ing notabIes similarly successful as
Mathewson. COombs and Adams
n "A
An odd bird Coveleskie, and one Of the
great spitballers of all time. He asked
little of life beyond pitching arm and.
fishing rod. He was a simple minded ar
tisan from the Pennsylvs ala mining region.
Next to nursing his arm along with an
extravaeant parental tenderness he was
most interested in first class bait. On the
southern training trips he was not always
able to get the superior kind OF bait that
anneaIed to him. In such instances ne
would stock his bath tub with thousands
NJ wierly creatures and breed his own.
What Coveleskie did for his daily tub0inss
in the meantime I was never able to
learn.
~HECKING back over the box
~ scores of the 1920 series I am
inclined to agree with whatever phi
losopher it was who muttered that
deathless phrase, time sure do fly"
Very few of the boys who were in
those games are still in the majors
Miller, who did the Brooklyn catch
ing. and Olson the shortstopping,
are still over in Flatbush, but their
playing days have been long behind
them. Grimes, who gave the Brook
lyns one of their two wins in the
series, is still pitching, and has been
with four clubs since.
n n
Out in Cleveland Joe sewelI and Chuck
Jameson are the lone survivors. All the
others have gone including Iris Speaker
who led the Cleveland team to its color
full triumph. The old Gray Eagle is daw-
dir along in the minors with a misft
tear in Newark.