The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-06
TALKING
IT Over
BY JOE WILLIAMS

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IN bodys world series nov. The
Cards have bounced back like
hand made 81 bill. There's no tell
ing where they will go from here.
After that second game in Philadel-
pi1ia you wouldn't have given dime
for their chances with a tenor solo
by John Mccormack thrown in.
They looked lower than the waist
line Of an unshaved caterpillar
u must BE- that they thrive on home
cooking, The fragrant doors Of the old Mis-
ppi and The indiscriminats bedlam Of q
nop-cyed citirenry. To say nothing Of
such pitching IS wsIberE. shores and
Grove showed them.
The lgslo Of The situation i. n
vent into the series herslded as the best
team that has represented the National
League IN the last decade. 50 asute an
EXPERT ss Walter Johnson-sn American
Lacquer. too-predicted they would win.
Thev dropped the FIRST two games with
great eass and facility
Tbey looked so bad in the second game
Che customers began walking out on them
in the seventh inning. and the boys began
to wonder Just what kind of ? league the
National was anyway.
president e. S. BARNARD OF
L the American had stated that
his league was 20 per cent stronger
than the National, but it was
obvious this could not be so. Maybe
he would be closer to the truth if
he had said so or IS per cent.
Al any rate the Cards seemed out
clsssed aud the professional gaming gents
we're eager to bet you even money until
Judge Crater came home that they
wouldn't win more than one game on
their home grounds. Which was another
way Of betting the Athletics would win
the series in no less than five games.
Before tile series started the club house
sentiment in Philadelphia was that Grove
and Earnshsw represented sufficient pitch
ing strength in themselves to turn the
Cards back.
Grove has pitched two games He was
lucky TO win the game be won. He
lacked his customary speed. His con-
troll saved him. He pitched intelligently
tn the Cardinal batters. He was in the
hole on only three hitters. But aside
from this virtue be was in no sense the
Ia Ming pitcher known to American League
hitters, and because he wasn't the Cards
stu could dc nothing with him, their
future prospects became corresponding
~ darker.
& UNDAY. Grove started his Sec
- ond game and was beaten. One
of the reasons Grove was able to
win the opener with practically moth
ing ON the ball was that the Cards
held him in awe. They had faced
him last spring in an exhibition
game and he had turned them back
in groups of three for three innings,
striking out the last six hitters to
lace him.
From now on Grove probably will be
tust another pitcher to the National
Leaguers. victory such Sundays fire.
oucntly has most salubriOuss effect on
teams morale. II shouldn't surprise any
body if the Cards went right on from
here and knocked the White Elephants
loose from their ivory tusks.
n
Old C1abby Street must be in a
very happy mood today. They tell
me he was the only man on the
team who didn't have his head down
after that second pasting at Phila-
delphia Talking to friend who
sought to sympathize he said in his
quaint manner: Don't worry about
US We just wanted to see what
these fellows had. We were trying
EN- out, Just trying EN- out, that's
ALL"
am told that when street arrived in
ST. Louis he did not even open his suit
ease. "I'H have to take this team of
mine back to Philadelphia next week to
wind up this blamed series and I don't
want to bother about unpacking and re-
packing suit cases"
A S I have limited before, Street
IN is a distinctly refreshing per-
sonality as baseball managers go,
and if he wins this series, which is
something more than a remote
probability, those tight Tipped. elu-
sive gentlemen who make a Chinese
mystery of such ordinary common
place details as pitching selections
are going to lose lot of caste as
master minds.
Street not only named his opening game
pitcher week in advance. but told the
wide world the names Of his pitchers for
the first four games. and what was even
more astonishing in view Of the way man
ayers change their minds. or whatever they
use for minds. he carried out his an
nounced program man for man and game
for game
Nobody hes known from day to day the
starting pitcher and il may be that Nc
Ginicuddy has not know himself.
| understand that the commerciaIism o,
the st. Louis MANAGEMENT has forced the
SIT cut on the field in chairs in full view
the populSce. This may explain the
downfall Of the Athletics.
McGillicuddy likes to perform his
occult baseball mysteries in the
bowels of the dungeon and it may
be that he is reluctant to execute
his feats of legerdemain openly and
thus invite plagiarism. That strange
fellow Street, for example, might be
unethical enough to copy them.
q q q
All the great magicians have operated
behind the curtains of secrecy. Maybe
McCillicuddy would be better of If the
bows merely started to bang that old applG
around for him