Evening star., 1943-07-12
Baseball Crazy PhiIIy
Proves Hot Choice
For AII-Star TILT
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press 0ports writer.

A1SOclhteo 1xSos op0IW WSltegs
PHILADELPHIA, July IA
crystal ball never has been found
in . major league meeting, but the
moguls must have had at least q
swami or . ouija board handy when
they decided, six months ago, to
put the all-star game In Philadel-
phia this year.
It was ut their winter pow-wow
that the club owners sent the inter-
league lawn party to this City Of
Brotherly Love, although technically
the game wasn't slated for the East
this year. 1t comes of tomorrow
In Shibe Park, and it's probably
the luckiest decision the magnates
have made since the pop bottles
were barred for throwing purposes
at umpires.
For when.the Nationals and the
Americans start shooting at 8 pm.
(E. w. T.), it looks as If every one
Of the 50, ,480 seats In Connie Mack's
castle on Lehigh avenue will be
full OF customers and the SRO
sign will be out. All but 1900 OF
the ducats were gone this morning
and the folding money still was
coming in.
PhilIy Gone Baseball Goofy.
Now, it doesn't seem likely that
the magnates picked Philadelphia
for their midsummer superduper
lust this year without some psychic
powers. It just doesn't add up that
they would have known, half a year
ago, that the Quaker City suddenly
was going to become the hottest
town in baseball.
Make no mistake about it-that's 8
exactly what it Is. Baseball men
from other towns-guys with . lot
of chamber OF commerce cheer Tor
their own villages-ten you that.
The flight Of the "phantastic" Phil
lies and the surge OF the Athletics,
brief as it was, have brought the
fans out like q combination bank
night and free dishes.
Some 1900 Of them, for instance,
were on hand to see the Reds and
Phils yesterday. And one member
of the Cincinnati outfit chuckled
"Why, we'll probably get as much
dough out of this double-header as
we took out Of Philly all last year. T"
What makes 1t an even happier
guess on the part Of the magnates-
like expecting hash for dinner and
coming home to find steaks that
under the usual rotation, the game
really should have gone to a Western
club this year. The East-New York
had it last summer and it be-
longed to the Corn Belt for 43
What's more. the Athletics twice be-
fore had chance to put 1t on, but
didn't.
American League Favored.
As for the game itself, early ar
rivals were giving the National
League bandwagon a real hay-ride
pointing out that the senior circuit
was sporting more pitching and
what is even rarer, more power. Still
the betting commissioners have
installed the American Leaguers
5-to-6 favorites to make 1t eight
out Of IL in these shindigs.
Meanwhile, the July meeting Of
the hot-stove set argued most over
whether Billy Southworth again
would start his st. Louis Cardinal
ace, Mort Cooper, for the National
League or would give his southpaw
specialist. Howie Pollet, a crack at
opening the fireworks.
Some Of the sitters pointed ou:
that Cooper rated chance to get
hunk" for the way the Americans
took all the icing of the cake by
sewing up the game with two
homers in the first inning last
year. The rest maintained that
since Pollet is due to 60 into the
Air Corps Thursday, Billy the Kid
would let him start this one as q
final fling.
Spud Chandler, the one-time
Georgia footballer. was due to open
for the Americans, but he served up
a full nine-inning meal" yesterday,
and 1t was believed Joe Mccarthy
Right 60 to his other Yankee star,
Tiny Bonham.