Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-30
CHAMPIONS MERRY
BOUND FOR SERIES
Look Upon Quest for Record
Third Title as Merely a
Set of Ball Games.
By EDWARD ]. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Il n GdAMPlON AIF1LEI1CS,
Bound for st. Louis, Sep
TENDER 80 (P).-Champions of the
base ball universe-and we'll aware
Of 1.-THE Philadelphia Athletics
rolled westward today seeking
something no other club in the
history of the game ever attained
three straight world series con-
quests.
AS calmly as big university eleven
faces the first shivering opponent Of a
foot ball season, Connie Macks cham
pions for the past two years sped on
toward st. Louis and the first game
with the Cardinals, flag bearers of the
National League. If ever a team was
confident-insolently so-it is the Ath-
letics.
For instance, there's big AL Simmons,
greatest hitter of the day, the fellow
the pitchers of both major leagues say
has no batting weakness, sitting on top
of a Pullman seat his eyes closed, his
head thrown back, leading a half dozen
of his mates in song. At the other end
of the car Lefty Grove, the Lonacon-
ing lancer, strives desperately to fill an
inside straight, the big black "seegar"
that Is his favorite companion sticking
up at an angle that threatens to burn
q hole in the brim OF his soft hat.
BOIey Definitely Out.
There's Jimmy Foxx, the power house
that roams around first base, bidding
three diamonds, wailing as a finesse
goes wrong. on in corner Joe Boley,
shortstop of two world champion ma
chimes, ousted now by youngster, Dib
Williams, silently nurses an injured leg.
If there was any question of Boley's
warming the bench up to now, 1t was
ended by line drive in the final prac-
tice' at Philadelphia Tuesday, when
slam from Bing Miller's bat .caromed
of shin already ailing from Char
ley horse"
Waite Hoyt. the fashion-plate hurl-
ing hero of world series when the New
York Yankees were riding the high
waves, tries on all the good-looking
hats in the car, gets into an argument
with Big large" Earnshaw, the right
handed ace, and he muses. the pitch
er's carefully oiled hair. 1t Is Hoyt's
boast that II Connie Mack will start
him the Cardinals will gather no more
than I'VE hits. There is more than
little sentiment aboard that Waite may
be the fellow to open the series in
SportSman's Park tomorrow.
Sleek, blond Max Bishop, his shout
der entirely healed, browses through a
magazine. The greatest year of this
second hasemans career is just behind
him. XaFX match his keenneSs OF eye
for balls and strikes with any lead-of
man in the history of the game. The
players around him proudly boast that
he studies the game so carefully, can
judge a pitched ball so expertly that he
even knows what umpires insist that
half the ball, rather than just quar-
ter Of it, cross the edge Of the plate be-
fore calling a strike If getting on base
counted In the batting averages, Bishop
would have hit close to 500 this last
season.
Jimmy Dykes and Bing Miller play
solitaire and argue. Rube Walberg
chuckles over q crossword puzzle
Hey" he yelIs whats a three-letter
word for sea eagle?"
No one knows.
Roars Of laughter roll up from group
clustered around the club jester and
Of modern catchers, is leading the
cheers. "Popeye" Mahaffey. Rabbit"
McNair, Roger Cramer. youngsters and
first line substitutes, are in the group.
Mule Haas. enviable possessor Of the
loudest ''razzberry" in the American
League, makes the most noise.
Connie Eschews Base Ball.
on In q compartment with his family.
the 68-year-old Connie Mack, heading
hopefully toward his eighth world series
and the final crown OF his base ball
life-.three straight world champion
ships-avoids all talk of base ball. He
viii not predict, he will not discuss.
For him the series will be played in
st. Louis and Philadelphia, not the
Pullmans eating up the miles between.
Everywhere is the spirit Of absolute
ease and CONFERENCE.-The is just an
other set Of ball games. They talk
base ball only when pressed. For them
the series can have but one ending.
No one can beat them, last Of all a.
team they conquered in six games last
Fall
The Athletics believe. when asked
point blank, that that spitballer"
Burleigh Grimes will face them in the
first game.
Maybe he hasn't been going 50
good" says one, but neither was
George Earnshaw before the last world
series and look what he did"
But what difference does 1t maker"
they chorus Send any one in there.
Well beat them. We're winning number
three for Connie. Try and stop us"
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