Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-30
EDDIE COLLINS PINS FAITH
ON GROVE AND EARNSHAW
AS Captain Confident They Can Carry Hurting
Burden in World Series-Looks for Grimes
and Adams of Cards to Cause Trouble.

Primarily, as a team, its splendid up
hill fight and the success that has ac-
companied its drive must receive at
tention. I do not subscribe to the
general idea that because players have
had such a hard battle to win and a
drive to the wire all the last month
they are apt to be all in when the
world series starts. Quite the contrary,
in my opinion. Any team that is ali
keyed up and fighting this way is likely
to be tough in short series.
Cards Worthy Opponents.
The Cards appear to me to be steady,
experienced, very worthy opponents.
Don't think we hold them cheap. Their
pitchers all look good. But for us, so
much the better. / would much prefer
to face couple of twirlers who stand
out than staff of five or six of average
ability.
Certainly the group of Root, Malone,
Bush and Blake of the 1929 Cubs does
not suffer by comparison with the pres
ent Gard lot, Rhem, Grimes, Haines,
Hallahan and the rest. What we were
able to DO with the Chicago pitchers is
history; remember, we are entering this
series with the identical lineup that
raced the Cubs last year. Nothing speaks
better than past performance. To be
good you have to repeat, and we have
done just that.
OF the st. Louis pitchers, If any one
in particular promises to cause us more
trouble than another look for Grimes
to be that one. While I never have
seen him pitch base my opinion on
the fact that he is a spit-baller The
only man we face with this style of de-
livery IN our league is Red Faber of
the White Sox, and he has been hard
ior US to beat this year. I do not recall
having seen Rhem work, but Hallahan
faced us at Bradenton, Pa, last Spring.
While exhibition games as a rule do
not mean much, nevertheless the beat
ing we gave that left-hander will not
nave added to his confidence much
when he faces us in the coming series.
One man in the Card lineup have
lot OF respect and admiration for is
Sparky Adams. I remember him we'll
when he was with the Cubs and 1 with
the White Sox. / know he can be to a
team in pennant fight all that his
nickname implies.
But when Gabby Streets crowd face
the AS they are going UP against a
team with greater offensive power than
any they were called upon to meet in
their league. I don't care for Wilson
and his home runs and all that, or any
Ining else the records or averages show.
When the Cards have succeeded In
putting out Cochrane, Simmons, Foxx
and some others, they are going to real
lze tney nave done a pretty fair after
Moons work.
Simmons is Greatest"
I only wish had the time and space
10 tell you something about the power
ana ability OF this Al Simmons. No
player in the game today is even close
to him. And in base bail history he is
sure TO be in the select circle where the
great and only Tyrus reignS supreme.
thought I knew my boss pretty
well, having been with and against
and with him again for "a years. But
every day realize more and more what
master he is. I am convinced that
the secret OF his success isn't only his
unlimited base ball knowledge and in
stinct, but his untiring patience mad
the thoroughness with which he studies
and knows his players.
He understands them in many in
stances better than they do themselves.
He has worked miracle in Bob Grove.
Once temperamental and easily irri-
tated and upset, under Comics guiding
hand and advice Bob is a new man in
disposition. This is the reason for his
rise to the very top of the list of pitch
ers. Once only a thrower, he now is
unconcerned and unruffled when the
going is tough and in every sense real
| pitcher
Earnshaw, Lefty's mate, is one who
works better the oftener he is pitched.
1t frequently has happened this season
that ne has worked on successive days
and invariably his performance on the
second day has been winning one.
| From my dope so far as our pitchers
go, one might figure that Grove and