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Ir 1 I SPORTS FINANCE mm 105th Year. No. 140 Saturday, September 21, 1935 Free Press Want Ads Bring Best Results The Tigers win two of their remaining nine games the pennant will be cinched regardless of what the Yanks do. The Yanks lose two of their remaining nine games the Tigers will cinch pennant even if they lose all the rest. IF: The Tigers win one and the Yanks lose one of the remaining nine games the pennant will be cinched for Detroit.

7 JJ Bridges and Auker Will Face Browns Today the Dopester rises 10,000 See Lions Beat Eagles, 35 to 0Two Wins Over Brow Mickey Counts on Them to Clinch Pennant Charlie Grimm twangt the zither, Mickey toots the tax' X-ADIES and gemmen, it's the harmony boys in the Big Fall Classic. Charlie Grimm is no mean twanger on a zither, banjo or ruitar and he's boss of the Cubs, while our Mickey the Mike plays a mean saxophone. In fact it is impossible to describe just how mean it is. But then, skip it. The point is that both Charlie and Mickey love music.

We don't know how anybody tells when you play a sour note on a Will Take the Pennant A Split for Tigers AlsoWill Capture Pennant if Yanks Are Beaten by the Red Sox By Charles P. Ward Mickey Cochrane will call upon Tommy Bridges and Elden Auker Saturday to pitch the Tigers into the American League championship by beating the St. Louis Browns in a double-header at Navin Field. The Tigers can clinch the pennant by winning only one game of the twin bill, provided the Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees in their game at Boston. If the Tigers take both ends of the double-header they will clinch the pennant no matter how the Yankees fare.

Cochrane is determined to get the pennant race over as quickly as possible. There are a couple of men in the Tiger lineup who need a rest, but Mickey will not bench them until the Tigers have made the pennant mathematically certain. Therefore he is calling upon them to trounce the Brownies in Av I 1 thr -M i ither or a sax, but that does not matter, either. What Old Iffy, on this off day in the great peanut race, wants to talk about is the known fact that all ball teams when led by forceful characters reflect the personality of their leader. If Connie Mack had the St.

Louis gashouse gang they would be quiet fellows moving over the field like pawns on a chessboard, and if Frankie Frisch had the Athletics they would be another gashouse gang over night. So, after two years of intensive work in building up his own machine, what is the outstanding characteristic of Mickey's present day Tigers? The answer is obvious: Rhythm. "Music and rhythm," said Plato, "find their way into the secret places of the soul." I don't know much about ball players' souls if any but I have never seen a ball club with such rhythm as the Detroit Tigers of 1935. When they are in their stride they roll along with the sweep of the Atlantic Ocean. No one wave stands above the others, but each soars and finds its place in the great body of the baseball tide.

There is no jerkiness, no dependence on one man, or two men or three men. "We have not lost one series this year that we had to take," says Mickey the Mike proudly. And well may both he and Iify be proud. when they so desire with the rhythmic beat of all true harmony. The cannot be analyzed, it is intangible.

It is the unde- TOMMY BKIDf.KS FI.DKV Al'KKK Cuban Mount Purse Winner Last Workout Proves Max Is Improving as a Target Stops All Manner of Punches and Braddock Thinks This Will Tire Louis Out I every Important series in whicn SunCirCle Blaze HaShy participated all season It's neirele Blaze Easy Time of It By Lewis It. Walter Suncircle Blaze, a filly that rns ui my uucks, So Big Parade Is Called Off Inspector Tom Collop. of the Second Precinct, of this Detroit Police Department of ours, and Bill Frackelton, hig Detroit railroad man, were tearing out hand fuls of hair Friday, as Iffy the Dopester, now officially recognized by the American league as the vicarious manager of the Tigers, and the Bengals arrived home from the East. inieciur lom nad a regiment of hlj handiest coppers on hand to Keep order In a depot crowd of approximately J.tXrfl tremendously enthusiastic fans. Plans called for old Iffy to lead a parade, preceded only by a special detail of picked policemen toting the Iffy machine.

'Ihe latter Is the contrivance that clinched the 1635 pennant for Frank J. Navin and the rest of us. It had been arranged by the Inspector for youngsters, Gerry, and Mike, three and five-year-old sons, respectively, of Gerald Walker, the flaming Tiger outfielder, and Jackie Sullivan, son of the southpaw pitcher, years old. to split Iffy's flowing beard three ways and lead him along the parade route impressively. '31 Return lb-called Well did Inspector Tom remember last year's Tiger homecoming after Iffy doped out the Bengal pennant triumph with his Inimitable machine.

Somebody had jostled the Schoolboy between the IMillman and a taxicab. Tom got hell for that. A fan reached out right under the distinguished inspectors nose and tore away a piece of the Sehool's coat pocket It made a swell souvenir. Hut it sine gave I'oni a hlar-ic mark. "Now you see child! en," said Inspector Tom to Gerry, Mike and Jackie, the while Mrs.

Walker and Mrs. Sullivan were looking askance, "you'll carry the heard this way. Gently, see children, and you mustn't dare to pull old Iffy's beard. The idea is to carry It I'm sure you understand." The Walker and Sullivan youngsters were 'way ahead of the inspector and they told him so plainly. Toms troubles had begun.

Three Tiger sons suddenly wanted to go in three directions. All were different and determined. So Tom abandoned the beard carrying. Think One I Then the train was late. Frackelton was nuts.

"Hadn't happened in 40 years," he said in explanation. Then he thought one up. "F-xtra precautions are beirj taken en route to guard the Iffy machine." he said. "We understood New York and other American league interests were going to hi-jaclt the thing. So we re-routed the train.

Therefore the delay, gentlemen." The Tigers arrived alnght and were greeted like a Michigan team coming hack to Ann Arbor after victories over both Minnesota and Ohio State in one afternoon. It was spontaneous and gay. But Iffy. No parade. Collxp doesn't know where Iffy is to (his moment.

Ard small wonder. For Iffy got off the rods of the second serin, n. it was revealed When last seen he was 1'inkirg for livery s'able the of tr.e depot. He war.td a curry comb to rid himself cf the c'nders in his heard and to make a minor adju'tment on his machine for the Wor.d Series. Louis Awaiting Final Workout POMPTON LAKES, N.

Sept. 2-) (A, P.i Joe Lou. 3. who thrives on fn cheered up a today at prospect of hav.r.g a fe parcels 1 at him for a a toaiortow. hor.ei to for Mix in Frown doesn't fool, made it two in a Series.

So I am going to 'give at the Fair Grounds Friday after- them the, needle' from now on." noon when she raced to an easy And Mickey spoke nothing but victory in the Flint Purse in which the simple, truth when he said the to Ti HOSE Tigers roll along ITHOUT his knowing RECORD Bos. Phil if Wash. i 12 Totals 5f 15 9j 5 0 0 J0 0 4 9" RECORD Eos. Phil. Wi--h.

St. I. To'al! I more days of this kind of stuff," he remarked. Then in an unguarded moment he let out a secret of his camp. Turning to his handler.

Izzy Kline, he said: "Izzy that right hand still bothers me. I didn't punch hard with it this afternoon. I didn't want to take any chances. Why should I hit with it here when I can get paid for it. Tuesday night." This was the first sign that Max's finable something that we call personality.

The best the baseball players who have played against it and studied it, can call it is "balance." That's how Connie Mack and Clark Griffith describe it. But it is more than that. They play together like a great orchestra, then weary of the tune, and the song dies. A clubhouse session with Director Mike, and they catch the air again and swing along once more. No major league club has ever gone through two such years without major injuries of any kind.

No team has ever so consistently held the motif of victory. Does the pitcher weaken? The infield and the outfield sweep into action and carry on the tune. Does the field lag? The batters make the parks ring with their drum beats. Do the big three the G-Men lapse? The lower end of the batting order catches the refrain and carries on. With most teams an opposing pitcher can get tome rest.

He finds weak spots in the batting order. Not so with those pitted against the Tigers. Every man who steps to the plate is a potential base knocker. And the pitchers, Rowe, Auker and Bridges, are three of the best hitting pitchers in the League. Averages don't mean nothing, my hearties.

It's hitting when hitting is needed that counts and these h'U hit in the pinches. That's what I'm driving at. They rhythm T'-e lit st way I' can explain this sweep, this rhythm, this tri of the strings picking up the air as the brasses die down (or aren't you musical?) is by the use of another simile. Sor.tti.-nes when I am not in musical mood the Tigers make rr.e think of nine Alpine climbers scaling a mountain peak. They aie all tied together.

If one slips the other eight pull him to safety and, by this means, none of them is in great f'anerr. Fast Blocking Makes Up for Delayed Start Clark andCaddellHit Ends for Consistent Advances By Tod Rockwell The Lions of Detroit, after an amazing display of faulty football, successfullly opened the professional season here last night defeating the Philadelphia Eagles, 35 to 0, before approximately 10,000 spectators at the University of Detroit Stadium. It was Ernie Caddel, fastest of the Lion halfbacks, who put an offensive spark in the Detroit team obviously stacked up against team greatly inferior. Ernie broke loose for three sensational touchdowns. Capt.

and Quarterback Dutch Clark scored one and Frank Christensen make the final score of the game after a 10-yard pass from a Lion "Freshman," Pug Vaughan, halfback. Capt. Clark added four extra points with dropkicks after scores and Glenn Presnell added the fifth extra point with a placekick. The first and third periods were scoreless. Caddel and Dutch each scored in the second frame to give the Lions a 14-to-0 lead at, half-time.

Coach Potsy Clark's Lions stalked on the field as confident as the Bengals. The results were obvious. Three times in the opening period alone the Detroit team handed scoring opportunities to the visitors. And of all things the No. 1 muff was an intercepted Capt.

Earl (Dutch) Clark pass and the very first scrimmage play of the game. Then on two other occasions Ace Gutowsky, willing fullback, fumbled. Just Weren't There On those three occasions the Eagles displayed an offense that Wilbur Wright High couldn't boast about. Neither Kupcinet, Storm nor Matesic, touted backs all, could gain enough ground against the Lion line to bury a canary. The Eagles couldn't pass, buck nor run, nor could they placekick.

Had it not been for six Lion fumbles, most of which were re covered by the Eagles, and three intercepted Lion passes, the Df-l troit team would have walked away at the rate of a point-a-minute. But after last night's game the Lions won't be quite so sure that they're the best in the business. It was good for them. Midway In the second period Capt. Dutch found the Eagles with eight men on the scrimmage line.

The idea was to stop a rushing at-taoK, the Eagles evidently believing that no more passes would he thrown in view of the danger of In- teroeption. hint Capt. I'utcn whipped I ad around his leH end. Ernie tan to! lha ciHiWirwi nnrl roll mi evervthine In the wrong-colored uniform ana then hurried to the goal line 49 yards away. On Clark's touchdown only did the Lion blocking units function as of last autumn.

His three-yard dash over tackle for the score followed ft drive from midfield with the captain and Ernie gaining easily because blockers made it that wav. Coach Clark sent many of his youngsters into the game in the third period. One of the many fumbles in Lion territory set them back and slowed up the drive. Potsy put his regulars back halfway through the final frame and Caddel stepped out with his second score, on the identical play around the same end for 14 yards. Doing It Better Five minutes later Caddel was at it again, the same play but this t.me from the line.

He swept around from his right halfback position and took a pass from the quarter, then swung wide to circle the end. Dutch and Glenn Presnell called the play many times with Ernie slanting off tackle on several occasions. Vaughans pass to F. Christensen was well executed. The Lion offense lacked timing.

The famed Detroit blocking didn't seem to get in gear. There was nothing sustained nor relentless about it-Opening games call for not more than four furnhles per team. There is room for Improvement in the manner in which the hail was handled behind the line of scrimmaee. At times the Lions acted as though they hadn't been drilling for many weeks. But they were In good physical condition.

And although Capt. Dutch didn't match the flashy Caddel in touchdowns the Lion captain still was the best football player on the field and the most consistent ground gainer. For the same reason that Potsy sent in Gil Le Fehrve, one-time Quantiro Marine pilot of half-pint rU'isr. Turn to Pay 15 Column 3 Football Results IIK.H HiMH. -S 1 Hmf 7 IMi.

Mi 1 im' 1 i i -Ir Vin'i I SI I' M.rii ll 111 I nr both ends ot Saturday double- i nri -ii neaaer. mat win De no easy task, for next to the Tigers, Rogers Hornsby men have been the toughest outfit in the league during the last six weeks. Cochrane was disappointed with the Tigers' showing in their final series in the East, and (or that reason put his team through a hard, drill at Navin Field shortly alter they arrived in Detroit Friday afternoon. Del Baker was in charge of operations, Mickey himself spending the afternoon answering a mass of correspondence that had accumulated on his desk during his absence. No Iiauling Out Althmiyh disappointed In the Tig'is' failure to clinch the pennant before their return to Detroit, Cochrane could not rind il In his heart to censure them.

"After all." he said as the Tigers moved westward through Canada I yesterday morning, "tha gang won ufiiy ii hi iu nt-uiu a iitiiiL ii inn run rife to an ocradinn the Tirs have done. The thins; that I U. n.iadlki I it i lUat thev may lose their lighting edge before we get into the World Ticers came up to meet every ehal lenge presented to them throughout the season. They fought like a skillful warrior who swings until ha has his opponent stretched out on the floor and then says, "Now where did they put that chair? I want to sit down awhile." The Tigers alternately swung and sat throughout the last Kastern trip, during which thev lout eight games and won seven. Thev swung the Athletics in two games and 'then when they noticed that the Yankees were not being unusually they became listless and lost three out of four to W'ash- ington.

Moving into Xew York for what was billed as a do-or-die series with the Yankees, they knocked off the New Yorkers in the first two games of the series. Then, convinced that the Yanks could not overtake them, they let down In the last three games and lost two of them. They clinched the series, however, and moved on to BoBton convinced that they could coast in to the pennant. That attitude caused them to be rU'ise Turn to Pagr, 14 Column 4 Records Broken in Ticket Demand Series Requests Are Greater This Year The demand for World Sen tickets this year is much larger i than last year, Cb F. Navin.

1 secretary of the T'zirs. admitted! yesterday ss he and 'o perspiring; clerks strove to hind) 'he miss of mail that pouted in upon the oflices at Navin Mr. Navin spent mo-f of 'he day. tryin? to solve a very rnalh-ematical problem. That was how to get 42o.fiO or nioie peisor.s reserved seats.

Almost a million re iirs's tirke's poured in tipon Navm Field Thursday and Friday and ad lition- al mails brought more thousanus of WnUf-U L'lStnbUt 2 tli! tlflt- R.1U in su' a way that tr.e Urgert number of fans will be giva the 'opportuai'y to fee the garoe is going to be a proolem. We have four for every seat in the park now." Mr. Navin. "It will be d.fftcu'.t to tH'i-tv everybody who ir a sea-, hut we will do our bei-t." When ihe Tigers arrived hark ir. Detroit, riday afternoon, thev a crowd of waiting a' he to creep A'er ir.c noire to li: r.p tr.e:r rf -ir for a Ir took I was asking, I asked Mickey the Mike how he compared hands, the alibi he used for his de feat against Braddock, still were bothering him.

He sat on the rubbing table and looked at his right thumb, then pressed it and winced. It was obvious to the few visitors that all was not ri ht with the hand on which most of Haer's hopes are centered. Per ha pa this is the reason the for-; mer champion will rut his boxing down to two rounds daily, starting tomorrow and finish up with two mora rounds on Sunday. Then he will go to the seclusion of his mountain cottage and begin the drying out process, until he boards a plane for the scene of the bout Tuesday morning. Major Leagues AMERICAN I-EAGrE Win f.tHe OB T'd I tUj liroit rvt.

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Sept. 20 Max Baer went through what was announced as his last hard workout here this afternoon and when it was concluded the Livermore Larupcr waa more of a puzzle than he had been at any time since he started training here more than six weeks ago. He went through four rounds-two each with Abe Feldman and Georgie Turner and all that could be said when the final hell rang was that Max had absorbed a thorough beating. Instead of showing anything that remotely resembled nn attack, Max plaved the role of a catcher, and how he caught! He was an open target Tor len hooks and riuht crosses and at several stages it appeared as though Feldman might even topple the big boy to the canvas. In truth, to this observer, Max never looked worse and unless he shows a lot more In the ring Tuesday night than he did this afternoon the fight may not go more than a few rounds.

And this opinion was shared by none other than Little Joe Gould, manager of the current heavyweight champion, Jimmy Braddock. Max sure looked terrible," Gould remarked after the workout. "And I don't see how Louis can help beating him. Joe punches too hard and often and if he gets anything like the opening these sparring partners had this afternoon, it will be the end of Mr. Baer.

Louis just can't miss." Standing close by was Braddock himself, the chap who took the title from Baer three months ago. Still Like Baer 'T still like Baer," he remaiked when asked what he thought the outcome would be. "How ran you pick Baer to win after what you saw this afternoon?" The champion was asked. Jimmy puffed on his cigar and hnlnntlv answered; "I think Louis will get tiied punching him and raae out iora And there vou have the opinions of two men who should Know sorne- thing about the cauliflower imtus- try. Braddock, however, was the lone observer this afternoon who con-1 ceeded Bier a chance and he qualified his selection by adding.

"Maxj ain't no gymnasium fichter i Because of the presence of Gould and Braddock in the stands. Baerj had been expected to put on a real show. But from the sound of the 1 first bell his spar mates simply, poured punches into him from all angles. Abe Feldman shook his hed back with a solid left, hook and followed with a richt cross to the chin that made Max wince. From then on the former champion was on the receiving end of a good heating.

He tried hard enough, but hi punches went wild and even when he worked in close ar.d started punching. Max was tne first to break ground Hi cr.ly effective punrhrs w-pre "snenk M'i'a?" rr the awavs and bark hrie.a which def.ed al! the rus rir.g Max liw Again It san.e T. up p'inr ix rr I I 1 she was the favorite over eight three-year-old rivals. Suncircle Blaze Is owned by the Cuban turfman, Antonio Barrera. She was piloted hy the.

Cuban jockey, Cornelio Mojena and brought some sweet sugar to the Cuban turf contingent, and to many of the 6.000 fans, ny wresting the lead from Ieo J. Marks' My- niiss on the barkstrctrh and finish- ing the run of a mile and 7u yards I wiihout a serious challenge. Mojena took the filly under the wire almost three lengths ahead of her nearest pursuer, Devil, a 12-to-l shot. All Devil was out of contention early in the race, but closed a big gap when Jockey Arlo Jolley gave the word and came around the outside with a strong drive to take second honors by almost a length from the tiring La Cherie. Suncircle Blaze raid $4 80 and ran the distance in 1:44 2-5.

She was the second successive winner to be rushed under the wire by Mojena, who had scored with Lady Trust in the previous race. The Daily Double paid $211 to those who picked the long shot, Blind River, in the first race and coupled her with the well-regarded Quick in the second. Blind River wasn't so blind that she couldn't find her way home under excellent guidance by Jockey Ross Holman, who brought her to the w-ire nearly a lepgth ahead of the heavily-played High Trust, to pay (44 straight. Jockey Jessie Johnson rated QilK'k behind the pa'- set. successively hy Travert and Benefit in the second race, and then passed the field to win easily hy two lengths from Well Built.

Jockey Holman sneaked Well Built through In the stretch for second money after nearly being left at the post. Quick paid Lamporte. a wager, galloped home In the second after going to the front early in the six-furlong sprint, while Max Way, which received a slli-'htiy heavier plav. wound up second, just ahead of Corida, an outsider. Lady Trust didn't "fieure" so well as Di.ndav to the public, hut she fiid get heavy backing in the fourth, Jockey Cornelio Mojena kept herj near the front in the early running and let the mare go entering the nutlaet PtiiH tlill.

noclc victory which Morris I'i use Turn to Piye 14 Column A. one copy cf IFFY'S I enclose 25 cents. i 5 present Tiger team to the famous Athletic club of '29 on nt. he played. "Weil," he started, and there came the same thing that Mack, Clark Griffith and Rogers Hornsby have said in a different way Mickey went on, "there may been better individual playing in certain spots on the old A' team, but this present Detroit club is better balanced." A I say it as Iffy the Dopester, the Aristotle of baseball fixit) t.iat the most remarkable thing about the Detroit i s.1 i.U.h of today is that it has not arrived yet.

Much of its is still nascent. It is the youngest team that ever to glory in the baseball world. season it has had the greatest offense in the league and greatest fielding; and, in the last month, it has developed neatest pitching staff. lea gue race is run. my hearties.

The red fires may tonight. The hour matters not. The peanut is in the bag. he boys have been loafing along because they knew it was rr. But if they don't pick up their stride, that sweep has marked them all season, when the appointed time for the World Series, then it will be the first time this that they have failed to take any series they set their upon to win.

I ') travel with this bunch of young Tigers is a delight. remind me more of a bunch of college football players trey do hardened veterans of two bitterly fought cam-T and one World Series. hry arc modest, sober, sensible. And no team ever swept i.fl.l before them with such perfect harmony. -on't know about Charlie Grimm's lads.

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