Evening star., 1932-10-22
WINS many GAMES :
AS. RELIEF HURLER
Champions Make Habit Of
Calling on Him to Ssw
Up World Series. "'
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

n IEW YORK, October %
M Wiley Moore with his sink
/ Y er and his good nature,
whether he is smiling ami,
ably at an umpire who has called
a bad one or at the girl behind a
sandwich counter, Is coming back
to the Yankees next year, If pres
ent plans are carried out.
Genial old Wiley is coming back to
nnlsh up games, finish up the season
and possibly finish up in world series.
as he was twice finished one for the
New York club.
Wiley has had one Of those odd life
time experiences that befall some
players. He came to the Yankees in
1927 with a splendid record for pitching
down in the Southeastern Atlantic
country.
MAYBE the Yankees would have won
W the pennant in 1927 without him,
but 1t Is certain that they won it d,
much easier with him. He led his
league in victories, not always because
he had pitched nine innings, for more
| often he didn't. He had to take up
the job where Shocker or Hoyt was
beginning to falter and sometimes he
went to the relief Of the wavering
Pennock, because Herbie was not at his
best that year.
Moore was credited with winning 10
games and losing Z and he pitched
only complete games. Beat that!
II ever there was a year In which a
| relief pitcher could fit IN well fer ball
club 1t was the season of 1927.
! Moore pitched against Pittsburgh in
| the world series that year and he had
to relieve Hoyt before the first game
| was over. He warmed up in the Sec
ond and third games and he pitched
the fourth, which happened to be the
last. That was the game in which Mil
! jus threw the ball high and wide and
Combs trotted home with the winning
run-the only time that a world series
hinged on q wild pitch in the ninth
| inning
| The Yankees traded Moore after that.
They figured they could afford to- Yet
they could always have used him.
THIS Summer they made a deal with
i the Boston Americans and brought
him back. Now and then he went
In to help out some Yankee pitcher who
was beginning to sag. Then came the
final game with Chicago in the world
series, when Johnny Allen was given
an awful pasting in the first inning
Before it was finished his manager took
him out. Who entered to replace him
but Wiley Moore! He stopped the Cubs.
The greatest relief pitcher In base ball
was back again, back for his old team,
ana he was given credit for winning
that fourth game in 1882, just as he
had won the fourth series game In 1927,
No other pitcher ever did that.
When they celebrate these consecutive
world series winnings Of the Yankees
they also celebrate the fact that it was
Moore who triumphed in two of the
| maj contests. They are bringing him
back so that he will win the fourth
game OF the 1888 world series.
ZACH major league club owner who
- Is now venturing to trade PLAYERS
Tor next season has his weather
eye out for the future champion batter.
More money has been invested by
ambitious club owners in probable great
hitters than in probable great pitchers.
Fielding is an essential, but owners will
experiment with ordinary fielders If
| they can bat
The st. Louis Cardinals believe they
have a young outfielder for 1893 who
is destined some day to lead the Ma
tional League batsmen. His name is
Joe Medwick. He has played in the
Mlo-Atlantic League. st. Louis OBJ
tanned him and put him in Houston,
from whence he went to the Cardinals
toward the end of the 1882 season. He
played in score Of major games and
.32o.
That percentage doesn't sound like
making world record, or leading
fague, but there are other good things
about Medwick and it is these that
earned for him the title the Chuck
Klein of the Texas League"
The first year he went out to play
he hit .4l9. and he had a way of bulk
ing his shoulders against the ball which
caught the attention of the novices as
quickly as 1t did the scouts. That bird
can hit" said the kid with the bats.
Medwick belongs to Carteret, N. J.,
where there are other kids who have
made an athletic reputation for that
part OF the State. He is foot 10,
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