Sport: Cubs v. Tigers

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Manager Charles John Grimm was for years the best fielding first baseman in the league. In July, there were rumors he might lose his job. In August he snapped his team out of a losing streak by forbidding them to play poker. For the past three weeks, he has been superstitiously driving a nail into the heel of his shoe before each game. A capable baritone, banjoist and bagatelle player, nephew of Director George P. Vierheller of the St Louis Zoo, Manager Grimm has worried himself from 195 to 175 lb. since April. Last week, his worries partly over he made the bold announcement which is invariably demanded of the manager of a pennant-winning ball team: "We'll start another winning streak in Detroit "

The Tigers. Baseball, even more than most games, gives rise to absurd speculations. Whether the Cubs would arrive at the World Series fatigued and nervous because of their long winning streak or whether this merely indicated that they were "hot," was one delicate question which experts were trying to settle last week. Another was whether the Detroit Tigers would start comfortably rested or in the throes of a letdown. The Tigers became mathematically certain of winning the American League pennant last fortnight but long before that their victory had been an overwhelming probability. The Cleveland Indians, favorites in the spring, never got started and a change in managers did not help. The Chicago White Sox, leaders in May, slipped in June. The New York Yankees, who were ahead on the Fourth of July, collapsed sooner and even more feebly than the Giants. In the second division until June, the Tigers finally got going with the hot weather, coasted through the last two weeks of the season, winning less than half of their last 15 games.