New Britain herald., 1930-09-30
Philadelphia, Sept. 30 R-Most

or the other burning issues having been settled for the year, the clans trooped into Philadelphia today for the crowning festival of American sport-otherwise the world series of baseball.
 It starts tomorrow with the home town Athletics, two-time champions ot the American League, favored to unlimber a couple of doublebarreled guns, Simmons and Foxx, Grove and Cochrane. to check the sensational flight of the Red Birds of St. Louis, champions of the National League.
 The City of Quakers has taken the situation this year much more calmly than was the case a year ago, and his young men to the baseball heights after lapse of Is years created a semi-hysterical outburst of enthusiasm. So far there have been no demonstration over the A 5 to compare with the mob scenes at tending the crowning golf triumph of Bobby Jones in the suburbs last Saturday, nor has it been ne- cessary to call out the marines to control the situation at Shibe Park. League stadium is expected to be packed to it's enlarged limit of 33,- 900 spectators for the opening game tomorrow, when the occasion will take on dignity through the pres ence of the president of the United States and his party.
 MT. Hoover attended the final and spectacular triumph of the Athletics over the Chicago Cubs last October and he has accepted the invitation or Mayor Harry A. Mackey to be the city's guest again as the Mackmen begin the defense of their world $ championship.
 Aside from the stampede for tickets and the rather brisk argu- ment over the relative merits of the contending clubs, the main question is: Who will pitch the opener?
 Charles (Gabby) Street, the vet eran pilot of the St. Louis Cardinals, already has furnished his own an- swer by naming the old spitballer, Burleigh Grimes, to start the Red Birds on another winning flight.
 Volunteers have named Robert Moses Nefty) Grove to take the hill for the Athletics and throw his fireballs at the opposition, but the man who makes the decision, Con- nie Mack, has so far refused to in dicate his selection. In keeping with his habit of making no pre- mature choice, MT. Mack says he will nominate his moundsman short ly before game time.
 It will be recalled that the "tall tutor" crossed the experts complete ly year ago by starting Howard Ehmke in he first game with the Cubs and winning it handily. On the strength of this surprising man. euver, quite few of the boys are covering up their selection of Grove by suggesting that Mack may start Rube Wallberg, Bill Shores, a young right-hander, or even old Jack Quinn, who shares with Grimes the privilege of tossing moist ball delivery.
 Logic favors Grove. not only on the strength of his great record for the year and the fact that he is the No. 1 man of the As staff, but also because it will enable Mack to send the slim southpaw back into action at an earlier date, no later than next Sunday or Monday.
 The Cardinals, however, figure that Grove will be held in reserve with Mack preferring to gamble on an outsider to capture the opener. They expressed themselves volubly on this and on most counts on their arrival yesterday afternoon, brimful of confidence and aggressive spirit.
 The hotel headquarters of the Cardinals, in fact, has turned out to be the most enthusiastic spot in town. The National Leaguors have galloped into the series at full tilt, carving with them the momentum Of one of the greatest uphill drives to victory on record.
 Two months ago the Red Birds were barely hanging on, grasping d first division berth and seemingly lucky to be as much as fourth. They walloped their way upward with a rush that gave them fl victories out of their last 57 games. They won by the simple eXpedient of hammer ing their main rivals into pulp or pitching them under the table.
 National League men unquestion- ably are banking on the supreme confidence and dash of the Card iEals 10 locate the silver lining in the clouds that have hung heavily over their entries in the last few world championships. The record Of one victory in their last 13 starts against American League oppoGi- ton has been no balm whatever for the partisans of the circuit presided d over by John Arnold Heydler. They prefer to believe now that the Card inals have the punch and pitching to overthrow the Athletics, rather than that the mere law of averages will operate in their favor.
 It may be so. Although the Nackmen, under the shrewd guid- ance of their G7-ycar-old leader and with a cast comprising Of half dozen super-stars, have been estab- lished , to ? favorites in the wager ing, the feeling is that the Cardinals have a great fighting club, well equipped to turn the tide. Moreover. the Red Birds were the last team in win for the National League, n 1928.
 The nearest thing the Cardinals have to Lefty Grove is Wild Bill Hallahan. 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 a slugging