Show Tigers Giants Boast Many Stars From Southland on Their Rosters V Hubbell Rowe Hail Front From Texas League l Moore e Watkins Wat- Wat kins kills Marberry Also Lone Star By FRANCIS J. J POWERS J Special to The Telegram CHICAGO Sept 22 Pull 22 Pull up the stars and bars and lets let's have the theold theold theold old rebel yell The New York Giants and Detroit Tigers may be the teams earns in the worlds world's series next month but old Dixie will be playing Claying the games Both the Giants and Tigers are arc stoutly fortified with brisk young men who either hail from south of the Smith and Wesson line ine or worked their way to the majors ma- ma jors ors on southern diamonds So an mother ther juicy juley theah Gunnel and lets let's see about these hese Dixie boys bOYE play in baseball up theah heah in dam Van Ian keel nd How about start start- ing ng rig with Schoolboy Schoolboy Schoolboy School boy Rowe an and Carl Hubbell You Wi will admit they arc X two wo right promis promis- Wh Beaumont Beau ing ng pitchers v mont of the Texas 4 league eague claims both bothof Y of ot those young men and and there are I Imore t t. t more more argument arguments's t on an the streets of Hubbell that hat city on the relative abilities of ot Cal CaIn and Lyn Lynn than han have been heard since the first herd of at Longhorns went up the Chisholm Chislolm Chis- Chis holm trail Played for lor Beaumont S Both of ot the great pitchers served their novitiates with the exporters as the Beaumont team is known inthe m in n nhe the he Texas league B Beaumont aumont is a farm patch for D Detroit tr it and both pitchers started under a Tiger string Detroit looked Hubbell over a n coule coupie cou cou- pIe le of times s but could see see no merit in his slinky screw ball and f finally permitted Beaumont to put him on he the the open market The late John McGraw Mc- Mc Graw heard of Hubbell and in no notime notime time ime Cal Cai was a member of pt the thc Giants Detroit learned something from rom the Hubbell incident an and ancl i wh when n Schoolboy Rowe began bega setting the grams grama grass in Tex p afire the Ti Ti- gers jers brought him bim right up t to their heir town own and kept him there Just imagine imag imago ine inc what might have happened in baseball if the Tigers had not made that mistake on Hubbell Meeker Okla OkIa and Eldorado Ark claim a ashare ashare ashare share of fame a as the birthplaces of Hubbell and Rowe bu but bus shucks seven towns claimed Homer and arid Beaumont wont won't give Meeker or or Eldorado a thing They are re Beaumont boys and lots of Beaumont folks are heading north to see Hubbell and Rowe inthe in inthe inthe the series Texas' Texas interest In the series crIes does docs I not end with Rowe Row and Hubbell Not much Joe Moore and George Watkins Vat Wat- kins the Giant outfielders ders and Fred Marberry the thet Tigers' Tigers great elief pitcher are native Texans right from the same soil that sent Tris Speaker Rogers Hornsby Ross Young Pancho Snyder and many others to the big leagues Then there theres Is s Henry Henty Greenberg the Tig Tiger r first sacker Henry went to the Tigers by byway byway byway way of ot Beaumont and although his home is in the Bronx hes he's a Texan in this w worlds world's series Tennessee Tennesse Day Boys Too Hush about Texas and give the rest of at Dixie a chance Well then the Giants have Bill BUl Terry from Memphis and Travis Jackson from Arkansas Right fine ball players those hose boys and two who have had much uch to do with the Giants' Giants successes both last year and this Hughie Critz the clever little second baseman comes from deep down in ole Mississippi and the Bayous of Louisiana sent Mel Me MelOtt MelOtt Ott north to become the siege sieg gun of at f the Giants and one of the best hitters hitters hit in either big league The Tigers wont won't concede the Giants anything in the way of southern south south- em ern products Next to to Rowe their heir best est pitcher is probably Tommy Bridges and the Utile little curve ball star stars is s a is native of Tennessee Ray Hayworth Hay worth the second string catcher i ii is isa isa a i North Carolinian Walker anc and White the outfielders claim Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi sippi and Georgia respectively a as their heir homes and Auker the underhand under under- hand land pitcher is another product o othe of the Beaumont farm I may have missed some other Dixie boys bos b bu but t have lave named enough to indicate that tha the he south will have a hearty interest in h the 1934 worlds world's series So give gi th the boys a rebel yell yeU while I look around to o see if lC the old Colonel is ready will will- Hh that julep |