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First Game. "Grove? No, I don't think Mack will use him. He'll save him, because of the effect it would have on the team if we beat Grove right at the start." Most people agreed with this idea...
...Street felt after ward that he had been foolish in saying that and letting it come out in the papers where Mack could read it. While the crowd in Shibe Park, Philadelphia, was watching the teams at infield practice and President Hoover marched in with his party, Robert Moses Grove was warming up and a few minutes later the loudspeaker announced that he would pitch...
Pitching. When Connie Mack started the series with the Cubs last year he had three pitchers to choose from?the brilliant left-handers Grove and Walberg, and a right-hander as good as either of them. George Earnshaw. Craftily, Mack did not start with either Grove or Walberg, but began the series with his old spitballer Howard Ehmke. This year Walberg has not come up to his past standard and old Ehmke has been scouting instead of pitching. Manager Mack, sorely needing a good relief pitcher such as the Cards have in Rhem, Bell, Lindsey, Grabowski, is expected...
...Cardinals have no one with Grove's control, but they have Wild Bill Hallahan who throws the ball with blinding speed and has the knack of winning games. They have Burleigh Grimes, greatest of the spitball school, an opportunist, a fine money-player. They have such able right-handers as Jesse Haines, seasoned in other world series, and Sylvester Johnson...
...Frappier, none of these are regularly patronized by Yale students. The students' favorite, the Taft Hotel shop, rated 97. Other choices: Emil Kossack, York St. (over the Jigger Shop), 93; Louis Miller, High St., 96. Sheffield Scientific School men go to Joseph DiFranco, Wall St.. 96; Gus Klein, Grove St. (near a beer joint...