The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-01

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 Both teams were almost at the peak of their strength, the Athletics will miss Joe Boley, star shortstop. out with bad knee.
 The Cards may miss three aces.
 The first Jess Haines, right handed pitcher, is regarded as a definie loss as he has an infected arm and has not thrown a ball for three weeks. Pepper Martin. outfielder, has a troublesome knee. Sparky Adams, third baseman, has been bothered by an ankle injury. Martin and Adams, however, may play. If Adams does not start his place will be filled by Andy High, pinch hitting star of the 1880 ser ies.
 Here's the probable batting or- der: Athletics Cardinals Bishop, 2b .......... SD, Adams Haas, Of ........... IT, Roettser Cochrane, .......... Frlsch, 70 Simmons, If ...... 1b Bottomley FORK, ID .....s....... II f1dleyi Miller, If ......s.... CT, Martln Dykes, 3b ............ C, Wilson Williams, ss ........ ss, Gelpert GfOVes .......'.. p'
 Veterans vs Rookie.
 Unless Mack or Street makes Iast-minute switch, Grove and Derringer will be the starting pitchers. Mack followed his usual procedure of refusing to announce his choice. Street said Derringer, the 25-year-old rookie right-hand- CT, probably would get the assign ment. He would be the first rookie to pitch an opening series game since Babe Adams of Pittsburg beat the Detroit Tigers in 1909.
 Grove, of course, is the com xnanding active individual of the series, he won the first game of the last series. He holds the amazing season record of 31 games won and four lost.
 This series offers a stunning con- trast. On the one side there is . tall, fatherly, soft-spoken man who Is finishing his 47th year in baseball. He is Connie Mack. Op- posed to him Is a world war ser geant, a hero of the Argonne, a garyulous. scrappy pilot-Gabby Street. On he one side there is . ball club which thinks it's going to win in four or five of the pos sible seven games. Their rivals are fighting mad. :.
 'Iast year we talked a grand world series. This time we'll play ene." This from Gabby Street.
 Don't think we're afraid of Grove and Earnshaw. We'll take those fellows" Pepper Martin said that.
 The surgeon took the wraps of sparky Adams bad ankle late yes- terday. Gosh, hope Gabby uses me-" he said. "I sure want to get in their swinging"
 Mack said the things he was expected to say. Anything can happen in a short series. Hoping for the best. Every expectation of winning"
 Coming to Life.
 Many of the St Louis hopes of victory are pinned on the offensive possibilities of the Cards. Last years Cardinal hitting was de- finitely second grade. Notably, Jim Bottomley, first baseman who had been a dependable slugger through out the season made but one hit in the entire series. Many of his failures to hit came in the pinch G9. bOLtOnley WOH tHiiu AAOhot z in National league batting this year and Cards enthusiasts look to Sunny Jim to redeem himself in the series.
 Chick Hafey is batting cham. pion of the National league, and he'll be the marked batsmen o1 the Cardinal side. Mack has a slugger or two, also. For one there's Al Simmons, leader of the American league batters. Another is Mickey Cochrane, popular : catcher, who won four honors IT the seasons race.
 Defensively there can not be much to choose. Each club ha' . clever infield and a dependable outheld.
 Thus the contest, played on paper boils down to a battle of the DO tentially superior Athletics pitch ing and the batting of the Cards.
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