Evening star., 1936-09-19

" Mccarthy will do his level best
to avoid starting his ace pitch
er, Charles Rufus Rufing, in the first
game of the world series against the
Giants, when, as and if the Giants get
into the series.
Joe's scheme is to work Gomez or
Pearson against Hubbell in the cur
tain raiser and save Big Ruff for the
second game :. Giuseppe di Maggie
plans to freight his family East from
San Francisco for peek at the classic.
Il think I expect to begin to get
nervous the night before the opening
game" says Giusepp E. Frank Cab
bo" Gabler. the Giants most pro-
nounced daffydil, has acquired set
of mechanical squeezing gadgets to
strengthen his hands for series COM
petition.
Some time next month the pampas
will culver beneath the footsteps of
Mistah John Artha johnson, the old
heavyweight champ, who is going down
to Buenos Aires to referee wraSsling
bouts in the Luna Park Arena .
Six-day bike racing will be introduced
to the defenseless Argentines at the
same time :. Luna Park is the plant
where Luis Angel Firpo's latest come
back campaign was shattered by one
Senor Godoy And speaking OF
Argentina. those gauchos are not ex-
actly dumb j.. They have sent polo
team up here which figures to show a
profit, win, lose or draw, because, as
soon as the international matches are
over, the visitors will sell their hoSses
to our guys for as much as $4,000
apiece.
Perry Set for Pro Career.
FREDDIE PERRY'S professional
career will begin officially when
the Pacific Southwest tournament in
California Is over F. P. A., the
w. K. colyumist. offers to bet that
Perry won't turn pro This de-
partment will cover the wager and
plead on its knees for more of same
The star back on the Amherst
Foot Ball Club is Caucasian youth
named Al SNOWFALL, whose fun-lov-
ing schoolmates call him Igloo .
An unidentified felon, possibly fifth
offender, sanks his fangs into your
correspondents ear right after the
women's tennis final at Forest Hills
and said: Miss Jacobs ought to know
by now that she's too big a girl to
play with marbles
The Cubs are dickering for Dolph
Camilli, whom they Grated down the
river to Philadelphia a few years
back in a terrible trade for Don
Hurst Remember Hurst? 4.
The D. A. subpenaed Randy Moore
for selling oil royalties to his team
mates in Brooklyn, but Randy beat
the rap by explaining that it was
private deal and that the Dodgers
were old enough to know their own
minds The latter half of the
alibi was news to Casey Stengel :.
Ed Heusser, the Cardinal pitcher who
aimed punch at Joe Medwick the
other day, formerly was a boxer :.
But to watch him miss with that
roundhouse right, you would think
he'd been ball player all his life.
THE current world series odds favor
the Yankees over the Giants by 9
to 5, with Hubbell 6-to-5 favorite to
cop the opener. :. Van Lingle Mungo,
with 16 wins, and Buck Newsom, with
II, are locked in a feverish duel for
the pitching championship of South
Carolina.
National League hitters say that
Mungo is the fastest hurler in their
circuit; that Dean and Warneke have
the most all-around stuff, and that
Hubbell Is the hardest to beat. =.
While the pitchers in the same organ
1zation tell you that Paul Waner is the
steadiest, most scientific batter, and
that Medwick, on account of his power,
Is the most dangerous.
An undercover poll of big league
managers indicates that Bill McKech-
ME is popular choice for the best in
the business.