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Show MACKS, CARDS IN READINESS Derringer, Cards Star Rookie, Roo-kie, Is Probable Opening Game Selection. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 2!)..IUM This wns Ret-away day for the Philadelphia Athlotics who were to let-.ve soon after sunset for St. Louis where Connie Mack will at tenTpt to win his third consecutive world series championship, a feat as yet unrecorded. Lefty Grove Maybe Mct of the street corner experts have Robert Moses Grove assigned to the opening pitching assignment. assign-ment. Others recall how MacK astounded all concerned when he sent Howard Ehmke to pitch the first game of the 1929 series with Chicago, and believe he "will nominate nomin-ate Waite Hoyt, cast-off cf the Yankees Yan-kees and the Detroit Tigers, for the opener. . bT. LOUIS, Sept. 2i. (TO) -A lanky raw-boned Kentuckian, Paul Derinper, is expected to go to the mound, for the St. Louis Cardinals in the opening game with the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics for the world's championship Thursday. , Derringer, with 18 victories and but eight -defeats in ,his first year of major league ball, appeared Manager Charles (Gabby) Street's choice today, with either Bill Hal-lahan, Hal-lahan, only Cardinal southpaw, or Sylvester Johnson, slated to pitch the second game of the series. Street, with two of his regulars nursing injuries,, had other things to think about, before definitely deciding de-ciding on Derringer, but. admitted he favored the . former Rochester ace. Burleigh Grimes .. is- likely to be held in reserve. The old spitball veteran has been off form lately. Haines Is Injured , With Jesse Haines definitely off the list of pitching possibilities due tc a slow, healing: shoulder muscle, and. Sparky Adajns, third baseman, and Pnpppr Martin, center fielder, nursing leg injuries, .the Cardinals face the series far from peak condition. con-dition. Betting odds on : the Athletics Ath-letics to win dropped aa a result.; ' The American league champions were quoted at one to two to take their third successive world's champions,hip...A.fprtpight ago .they i wore 7 to 10 favorites. The Cards were quoted .at. 3 tp 2 on the series, and as high' as 4 to i to take two games straight. Last week the were quoted at even money for the series. k ; .. ' ( ; ; : Despite .the - odds, there was a piti ky "fccling'in the Cardinal camp. 'It .centered .around two beliefs. One v as that Lefty Grove, having won 31 -garnets this "year", is due for a fr v reverses. The other that Jim Bottomiey. dismal batting' failure' i of last year's series,, has found his eye. ' ' |