The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-09
&c EXTRA BASE HTS SUPERB PITCHING GIVE AS TIDE
TALKING
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS


modesty I wish TO call attention,
as II 1t we're necessary. to the
singular fact that this writer
picked two losers in one day-the
Cards and Camera against Jimmy
Msloney.
maintain Il takes skill Of an extra
ordinary nature 70 fall down twice in two
different geographical spots and bump the
same beezer with mutual and non
partisan violence.
OF course there ere extsnuating cize I'm,
sf1esf came no nv room TIE day before
me series and told me lot OF comicai
stories about the hill billies in ALABAMA
siiv 81 must as stories about hill biliies,
provided they are reasonably clean and
are not told in dialect.
street also told me that his ball club,
then at the top Of its stride. would surely
win the series from the Athletics. did
not recognize at the moment that this was
lust another of Streets wittieisms. and
that be was talking in a hilarious vein.
q
VXTHILE do not believe that
wv Street was deliberately try
ing to take me in, as the fellow
says, nevertheless 1 feel quite
mortified, particularly when I bark
back to a year ago and recall that
I picked the Cubs because Hornsby
stopped me in an elevator in the
Congress hotel out Chicago way, and
said, Hello there old kid"
n
suppose by now I should be getting
over these impressonistic moods II Tor no
other reason than to protect and safeguard
deposited in one Of my left molars.
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do not feel as badly about my failure
to forecast the series correctly as j do
about Maloney's victory over Camera. This
vas an out-and-out case Of the old double
cross. / have known for some time that j
must deal cautiously with Managers Duffy
and Madden, but 1 did not think they
would ever stoop to such low practices as
to force Camera to fight level fight.
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In the beginning. 1 was pretty much
against the BOYS and their Glowing put as
sueh high s'G note Of artistry became en-
thusiastic about 1t all and my admiration
when / heard they we're taking Camera
mo BOSTON TO exchange scowls with Ma
loney, ! felt sure that Duffy and MADDEN
would not throw me down.
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THEY had been going along Tor
i a number of months doing
fine box Office business with the
b. most spectacular hippodrome in the
Story Of boxing and it seemed in
edible that they would change
leir tactics.
Naturally 1 felt sure that MaIoney would
not be around after the third or fourth
round and you can imagine my amaZement
when picked up the morning papers and
learned I had been duped. deceived and
hoaxed by = couple of my pals. MY pals,
mind you!
o. well It iust goes TO show what sor-
die world We live in. You Just cant trust
any To more Even Yer fsc hbs0ps b 6ST
led a very boisterous bass howl from the
start that Carnefa was a chum nun "a cld dN.n
could beat him on the up-and-up. does not
assuage my grief.
INSTEAD of scorn, my dear
/ brethren, merit your syn
pathy. Perhaps DR.. Cadman can.
do something for me or Annie Nc
Pherson. Good old Annie! How
the Cards could have used her
Wednesday. Even prayer might
have helped. Never did team go
down to defeat in crucial test
so ingloriously, so feebly, so en-
phatically.
Against the rubber pitching of
George Earnshaw-Big GeOrge-the experts
call him, the MissOurians were utterly
helpless. You felt sorry for them. They
Just couldn't get started. They were
thoroughly whipped after the first inning.
The game could have been called then and
the result would have been unchanged.
q
All during the game had nothing but
sympathy for Street, q commonplace old
farmer boy, who was out there trying the
best he could His pitchers couldn't pitch
and his hitters couldn't hit. He was like
a guy with an oyster full of pearls in front
OF him and nothing to open it with.
q
President F. S. Barnard Of the American
League is correct. Anybody who picks
National League team 10 win a world
series Is a sucker. Step up folks and meet
old sucker Williams. the A.A.U. champion
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