Evening star., 1933-09-25
new YORK BOASTS
STIR UP MATS FIRE.
Manager Believes Capital
Club Will Shock Terry's
Crew in Series.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.
~ NOTICE the Giants are
- talking a great game these
days. Well, we'll play ours

talking a great game these
days. Well, we'll play ours
on the field when we get
into the world series"
Joe Cronin, boy manager of the
new American League champions,
speaking. The Washington clubs
field marshal had been perusing
in the public prints boastful re-
marks attributed to the National
League leaders, particularly to
their manager, Bill Terry.
Maybe those Giants won't be so
hot as they think they are when they
stack up against us Joe went on.
We've a pretty good ball club our
selves. l believe we'll prove the better
ball club. too. in the series.
NO doubt about the Giants having
good pitchers. I'm granting that Hub
bell and Schumacher are as great as
Terry says they are. But he ought to
know we've batted against a lot of
great pitching in our league. Maybe
our batters have lot of surprises in
store for Terry and his pitching stars"
By this time Cronir's neck was
plenty red. Right up to the ears.
One can't treat the washington
ball club lightly and get away
with 1t with its manager.
Makes Mats Fighting Mad.
800, Hubbell and Schumacher are
y going to stop us in the first
two games in New York, huh?
Then the Giants are coming down here
and stop us again with whoever they
may send in there to pitch. are they?
Let EN- talk Talk doesn't win ball
games, But this stuff they're shooting
is getting under the skins of Our crowd.
Those Giants had better watch out.
II knou my crol0d-and I'm
telling you do thoroughly-tIlis
Mem York oub ,ptH get 'em so
wrought up they'll be ready for
the game OF their lires By the
time the series starts"
Cronin is confident his regular pitch
1ng string will quickly get the measure
of the Giant batters He takes no
stock in Terry's boasts that the New
York batters are Just aching to get at
Whitehill. Crowder and the rest of
the Washington slabmen.
"Our pitchers stopped the best
in the American League, didn't
they? Well. they ought TO stop
those Giants who don't rate with
the hitters In our league on
record at least" Joe contended.
Should Hit Both Base Balls.
A SKED whether his batters might
~ notice any great difference be-
tween the supposedly thicker -cov-
cred National League ball to be used in
the New York games of the series and
the fast American League ball they've
been swinging against all season that
will be used in the series here, Cronin
said he thought they would not
You'll recall that they used both
brands of base balls in the game be-
tween the picked teams of the two
leagues in Chicago back in July" Joe
brought out. Il played throughout that
game and I never knew when they
changed from one brand to the other.
although the change was made after
four and half innings were played.
I don't believe our batters will notice
any difference in the series, either.
II hare heard that the couer
used in the National League en-
dbics its pitchers to do lot of
tricks with the ball." Cronin Dent
on We'll, il it does. Uhp
shouldn't it help Our pitchers.
too7 II they need any more stuff
than they hare now, and doubt
that they do