Evening star., 1935-10-01
CROWDS AND COIN
|. SHAME OLD DAYS
Nearly as Many Will See
Opener as Once Viewed
Entire Series.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,


~ ETROIT. October 1.-Lynwood
tSchoolboy) Rowe, the TIL
tower of Arkansas, burning
them in against lean Lon
Warneke, pride of the Ozarks; scrappy
Mickey Cochrane master -minding
against happy Charley Grimm--iL's a
FAR cry back to the Tigers of Hughie
Jennings and Ty Cobb. the Cubs Of
Frank Chance, Johnny Evers, Joe
Tinker and the great three fingered
Mordecai Brown.
Ihey pick up again tomorrow, these
modern, 1885 models, where the leg
endary Tigers and Cubs of 1907 and
1908 left off their world series bat
ting just 81 years ago.
Teelng of on the green of Navin
Field for the first of two games here,
they paint by contrast a brilliant pic
ture of the changes that have come
over base ball and its annual Fall
extravaganza in the course of the last
quarter century.
THERE will be. in all probability,
some 4S,700 semi-hySterical faith
ful, all the park will hold, in the
half acre of temporary bleacher seats,
the double-decked stands that mark
the capitol of the base ball. If not
the entire sports world, at the moment.
Yet the total attendance in 1908, when
the Cubs won in five games, was only
62,232.
It's almost certain to hit the
81 100000 mark again following the
example another great Detroit pride,
Joe Louis, set in the Yankee Stadium
in New York week ago with Max
Baer, hapleSs party of the second
prize fighting part. This Million
dollar gate will net the winning players
better than $1,000 each, the losers
more than $4,000 apiece, yet the Cubs
of 1908 drew down only s1,317 each
for the victors share. and the Tigers
had to be content with a paltry s870,
almost as much as an athlete wants
today for use of his name by a ghost
writer.
What this series may lack, through
the general regret of Detroit and the
446C4o lAldl NAh UC IlO
to even scores with the Cardinal gas
house gang from st. Louis, their con-
querors last year, Is more than made
up by the glamour of the background
Of former world series between the
Tigers and Cubs.
Great InfieId Recalled.
OLD TIMERS. through the blur of
excitement and the new enthusi-
asrn, might see out there the infield
of the 1907 Cubs who beat the Tigers
four times and tied once and licked
them four out Of five in 1908. There
was the peerless Chance of that day
at first. Johnny Evers playing second
and Harry Steinfeldt at third, with
Joe Tinker at short to compare with
the Cubs of this day-Phil Cavarretta,
sensational youngster. at first: Billy
Herman. Bill Jurges and young Stan
ley Hack.
In big Gabby Hartnetts place be-
hind the plate in this series played
the great Johnny Killing in the old
days. and he caught Three fingered
Brown, Ed Reulbach and Orval over
all, where Gabby muffles the slants
of Warneke, the veteran Charlie Root,
Bill Lee and the Southpaw Larry
French.
On the Tiger side is the dim picture
OF the immortal Ty Cobb, clouting
Sam Crawford, Davey Jones playing
the outfeld that belongs today to
Pete Fox, 10 10 White and ancient
Goose Goslin, of Wild Bill Donovan
pitching in the Schoolboy's place with
the Indian Eddie Summers in reserve.
In many an old timers eyes there will
be the phantoms of Claude Rossman
at first base. tough old Germany
Schaefer at second, Bill Coughlin at
third and Charley OLeary roaming
ABOUT shortstop.
Moriarity in Different Role.
ONLY one link with those days when
jennings famous "ee-yah" roared
across the field remains in the picture.
George Moriarity, who took over third
base for the Tigers Immediately after
the 1908 series. is one of the American
League umpires assigned to the series.
The Tigers are pronounced favorites
to win their first world championship
in five tries.