Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1930, Page 47

i fl Si)(;rts News “ @hg WASHINGTON, D. C, pening Star. WITR SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930. PAGE D-—1 Class Tells in Victory of Athletics : Earnshaw Only Nominee for Hero Ranks THE ATHLETICS’ MASCOT WAS KEPT BUSY YESTERDAY CARDINALS’ WEAK FINISH DISAPPOINTMENT TO FANS Extra-Base Clouting by Cochrane, Simmons, Foxx, Miller and Dykes Behind Earnshaw’s Great Pitching Ends World Series Debate. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor of The Star. OW that the 1930 world se- ries is history, with the Athletics retaining base ball’s highest title by rea- gon of their 7-to-1 victory in the sixth game of the set yesferday at Shibe Park, it must be said of the surprising Cardinals that they were surprising right to the finish. After having come from behind to eop the National League banner by grabbing 44 of their last 57 games and up to even terms with the g 00 off a lot of fireworks at Pl once nullify the obtained with their win at St. Louis Monday and set the stage for a le this afternoon that would set- question of base ball supremacy. did in the finale was te E L I 5 R E g B i | gz ; i § ST neatly converted into & double 3 one of four outstanding fielding bif during the afternoon. One of these was Frisch's spectacular stop of Cochrane's bid for a safety in the fourth, one was ing grab seventh, and the other victimized Pinch Hitter Orsatt! in the eighth, Foxx again Being on the performing end. Just as there is no doubt Earnshaw earned a major share of the laurels that netted the venerable Connie Mack his fifth world championship, so there is little argument on the score that Bot- tomley was the goat of the serles. ‘The clean-up hitter of the Cards con- trived to make just one hit in 22 times at bat for an average of .046, while leading all hands in strike outs, with & total of eight. But for his dismal fail- ure, the Redbirds might have gotten considerably farther with the stiff op- position they offered the Mackmen until fracas. WAS EASIEST, DECLARES COLLINS s Earnshaw Complete Master of Cards—Pair of Good Pitchers Enough. BY EDDIE COLLINS. g%! &) £ i Eg ; ; u¥ 28] & i g5t é H ¥ i i £ 8 § § B & _3 2o was m L game at his wonted pace, bu:' l-;commmy Dykes s.:sngt‘u rudely ended Gabby in his first ‘Won in First Inning. 8o far as yesterday's game was con- boys might as well have all they needed in the way of tallies to cop the contest and the series. it was at the expense of Bill Halla- han, who hurled the Cards to their first series win in shut-out fashion last Sat- urday, that these two runs were earned. | W1 The iittle southpaw, who was handi- o8] by a blister on his pitching paw, ppel?"‘d to let Pinch Hitter George | Li" the was Fisher double futilely for him in third, and Sylvester Johnson, his suc- eessor, was greeted by Sim- | ¥ mons - y homer into the upper deft-fleld stand, the second circuit clout the series by Al, who, incidentally, added the batting leadership of the set #0 his American League swatting crown. ‘The sacks were unoccupied when it was different in the following frame, | Soon when Jimmy Dykes emulated his ex-| Poxx. lm'gle. for Bishop had preceded him | Miler with & walk. It was in the fifth that Foxx decided to get back into the slugging picture, which he did with a soaring double to center, that paved the way for a tally hen Miller and Haas followed with sacrifices, the latter's of the aerial Lindsey Also Is Nicked. Johnson then was wlthdnw‘x;‘ to let then, last ‘two frames, weakening = was . Watkins and the set | Hallan: i i o g $EREed z;EEEE Earnshaw closed out a pitching formance which may have been equaled but certainly not excelled in a worl series since the days when Christy Mathewson shut out the Athletics three successive times in 1905. (Copyrisht, 1930, CARDINALS, 2| hmmoocousneaunnall oescsssscccondool oenescossounorosll Gevsssoerarubird PRSPPSO eeocccscsccc~oocM - 2 - in sixth inning. Hallahan in third inning r Johnson in sixth {nni; [ Haas, ef.. Boley, 8s. Barnshaw, Totals .. Cardinals Athletics . Runs _batted Simmons, Dyki lay—Poxx (un: Eovis, & Philadelon Pirst balls—Off Hallahan, 3 '(Dykes 2, Po Johngon, 1 (Blshop) shaw, o t—] on. 3 (M ol coccocosssM L Poxx): )’ off Lindsey, 1" (Bishop) (Bottomley 3. Watkins) roshaw, 6 (Douthit Adams,” Wilson, Bi (Bimmons, Earnine Ki by, 1 (A, base; Moriarty (A, Time of game—1 hour and 46 minutes. . GRIMES PRAISES MATES Declares Cards Have Four Better Pitchers Than Himself., Burleigh Grimes, Card pitching star, 4 i ‘:u?;’n::“i:nmz reason Manager Street off | took him out. 7| Rickey Declares In the upper picture Simmons is in on his ci seen crossing the plate after his home run in the third inning, while in the lower plcture Dykes is checking rcuit clout in the following session. Both were met by the bat boy. THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE: FRICH DOFFS HAT 10 MACK FLINGER fDecIares Earnshaw One of Greatest—Blister Gave Hallahan Trouble. BY FRANKIE FRISCH. (Becond Baseman of the Cardinals.) HILADELPHIA, October 9.—My hat's off to Connie Mack and the Athletics. They beat us, and we congratulate them. George Earnshaw has proved to me he is one of the great pitchers. A fel- low who can pitch three beautiful games in & week as he did must be a re- markable man and numbered among the great of all time. Earnshaw pitched to us a little dif- ferently yesterday than he did in his other games. He concentrated mostly last Thursday and again in 8t. is Monday, but yesterday he mixed his offerings up more, He still had wonderful speed, but he threw more curves than he did during his other games. He also used a slow ball now then. lng“ George bad almost perfect con- trol, especially of his curve ball. He certainly knows how to break that to perfection. He throws it in such a way that it is very difficult for the batters to get & good “piece” of it. Cards Out of Luck. ht have been more trouble- no:: :filci).x » little luck. We were get- ting to Earnshaw late in the game, a him in the ninth, but t'l';l?u.gk held out on us. I hit a ball hard, one of the hardest I hit in the series, with a couple of men on in the ninth, but it only resulted in a double play when Foxx the ball and Stepped on first base. High had opened the inning with & long single and later on, after two were out, Hafey hit a u so had that other ball gone ’h, we still might have been in the : T ufiry about Bill Hallahan. He hed another great game, might have pitc] g et in the first inning he rubbed &re“ n off the blistered m”t;xd could as he That Do D e P hiiadeiphia got to_him (Copyright, 1930.) CARDS DO THE UNUSUAL Success Not Equaled in Many Seasons. Branch Rickey, vice president of the St. Louls chmeglml and the brains of the farm system that has produced three winners in fivé years, says of the team: “I can back many years in base ol it BT oo e showed 2 or "cou n our the d hacking the going on an enemy to pleces in his own yard.” “There are four better pitche: W Was und in his pass to R foane grammy ot tite tomt ot oty TS B orbn ymeematf et ® PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Los s, 12-6; Beatile, d-1. Pretine HILADELPHIA, October 8-MThe big blast crashed again in Philadelphia yesterday and with George Earnshaw pitching his third great game, Connie Mack moved forward into his fifth world series championship and his second in a row. The master manager of all time jug- gled five star ball players into a pen- nant and he then juggled them through another world series against a club that fought hard at home, but had no In the first game of this series the Athletics made 5 hits that netted 17 bases and 6 runs. In the final battle, at Shibe Park, they made 7 hits for a total of 19 bases that netted 7 runs and a 7-to-1 victory for Earnshaw. So it happened that in the first and last games of the series the Athletics | lashed out every blow for extra bases. There was no flabby single to break up the dull boom of the long wallop. In these two games, the decisive ones of the series, they made 12 hits for a total of 36 bases, an average of 3 bases for every hit made. Base ball has known nothing like that since Abner Double- day figured out the game more years ago than I care to remember now. N this final game the Cardinals never had a chance. They were smoth- ered and outclassed from the jump. They couldn’t hit big Earnshaw with a paddle and Mack’s big maulers peeled the hide of Hallahan and Johnson, who attempted to stem the Athletic charge. St. Louis had nothing to stop the champions, while Earnshaw was riding along with more stuff than the Cardi- nals have seen all year. He held them to_three hits until the ninth, when he nd | began to falter a trifle with a shut-out in sight under the strain of closing out the show. So Connie Mack, the king of al managers, one of the squarest sports- men and one of the ablest directors of all time, puts over another world cham- plonship. No man who knows Mack and his record could begrudge him this achievement. ‘There are not many left like him, whether you turn to professional or amateur sport. He belongs with the select, of which there are just a few in this modern whirl. He had to engi- neer two pitchers through a 154-game ant race and he had to call on he same two to win a world series in four out of six games. It was all Grove and Earnshaw. They started and they finished. They gave him the jump and they rode his entry down the stretch. They worked out five of the six games and they won four of the five they started and fin- ished. They were iron men with iron arms and iron hearts. They asked for no relief. ‘They only wanted one day’s ‘,fl:‘;‘m"‘""" and they took care of the Pitching Exhibitions. T has been whispered all along the season’s route that the pitchers never had a chance with this mod- ern ball. But the world series has wved thé case to be entirely dffferent. ere were six home runs in the first five games, but for all that the pitchers dominated these two games. You can dig back into the vital statistics for the mastery against a hard- club there is no such thing. Then n eat of pit~hers ton hatq Cooh- eam our 30 | Waldenfels, with their mounts, rane, Simnfbns and Foxx to onme run in 30 innings they are proving that the pitcher still has a main place in the ame, At the end of five games there had | been eight fine pitching exhibitions. | Grimes turned in two high-grade games where long hits wrecked him in one, after he had allowed only five blows. Bob Grove turned in two fine games, while Earnshaw pitched one of the best games of the series and then followed with a seven-inning shutout. Hallahan and Haines both had the Athletics mfi:wa cold. If there was & rabbit ball evidence in these first games none of the hitters could locate the rabbit. It wasn't there when they swung. (Copyrigh. 1930, by pape er Series Pick-Ups By the Associated Press. SHIBE PARK, Philadelphia, October 9—VYesterday's game was unusual in that not one Cardinal pitcher came to bat. Pisher batted for Hallahan in third, Blades for Johnson in the sixth and Orsatti for Lindsey in the eighth. In effect, it carrled out the idea of Neth American News- Alllance.) | that & tenth man should be in the | line-up to bat for the pitcher. | The series was remarkable in that | only once did either team hit for dou- | ble figures in any games. The Car- d‘lxnal.s collected 10 hits in the third tilt. The two-time world champlons got one or more men on the bags in every inning except the seventh and elghth. Connie Mack said that Earnshaw did not tire in the ninth when he allowed two hits and two bases on H¢ was just a “little careless,” said Mack. Jimmy Foxx, who won Monday's game at St. Louis with a homer, was given a big cheer when he came to bat. The crowd held nothing against Jimmy Dykes for his misplays in St. | Louis, for he also was given a loud ‘The great ovation given to George | Barnshaw when he came to bat in the eighth was enough to warm the heart of any ball player. “Datn good,” sald Connie Mack when asked how it Teels to win a fifth world champlonship. was Frisch's stop ‘and throw on Coch- rane in the fourth. The second base- man made a wonderful stop of Coch- rane’s torrid grounder and got the ball to’ fitst” a whisker ahead of the A's catcher, Connie Mack said it was a clean series. e “riding” of the fnllye\‘s. he said, was just an incident of the game and left no hard feelings. GERMAN RIDERS SAIL HAMBURG, , October 9 (). ‘Germany, . . | —German cavalry officers, including a t of f headed by Baron von sailed aboar the; n ow Vorls and Bactan, President Heydler, made two years ago, | * | cheer’ when he stepped to the plate. | | He responded with a perfect day at bat. | ‘The fielding play of yesterday's game | in riding tournaments { HALF DOZEN NEW MARKS ESTABLISHED IN SERIES Frisch Sets Record for Hits in Six Series, Hafey Double King and Mack Has Win Title. Others Made by Teams. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, October 9.— Al- though the 1930 world series never will be famous for its record breaking, s half dozen new marks for world championship play were inscribed on the books by the Athletics and the Cardinals. And the records are evenly divided between the most and the least. Frank Frisch, veteran Cardinal sec- ond baseman, led,on the positive side, as he collected five hits in the six games to set & new total serles record of 45 safe blows. He tied the old record of 42 made by Eddle Collins in six world series for the Athletics and White Sox in the first game, then cracked out three more blows. Frisch also has par- ticipated in six serles. The former Fordham Flash reduced his all-time average for championship play to .324 from .348. mghc behind Frisch, his teammate, Chick Hafey, set a new mark by smash- ing out five two-base hits, one higher than the total which formerly gave a large group of players a tie for the record. The Athletics set a mark of a new kind when they went through two games without getting a one-base hit, all their blows gnln‘ for extra bases. In the first clash they made five long hits and in the last seven extra-base w-uofa In each case they scored a run for every hit. Mack Has Record, Too. ‘The A’s also put their great leader, Connie Mack, still further ahead of all major league managers in getting re- sults with his clubs. Under his guid- ance Philadelphia has won five world champlonships and has lost the world On the low side of the record break- ing, the performances of the clubs on assists stood out. In the second game of the serles the Cardinals had only four assists, one under the former low ter, in the fourth game, the Ath- letics recorded only three assists, again breaking the record. They also equaled the low mark in base stealing, as a theft by Frank Prisch was one for the series. Last year the Ath- letics failed to base Cubs plifered only one. Seventy-Seven Bases on 35 Hits. ng the near records, the Athletics’ feat of getting 77 bases on their, 35 hits is about the closest thing to a new mark. Other teams have made a good many more total bases on their world series hits, but never on so few men in three es, the record of 21 eouts made by Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox in 1912, and Jim Bottomley came close to another m ‘when he struck . George Earnshaw, the series hero, fanned 19 threaf , 7. Ath- Pitching. her—Earnshaw, Athletics, series only twice. John McGraw has led the New York Giants to three world titles in nine attempts, while the gins, also won three times. Old League Due from Philadelphia to St. Louls. « '+ « The American League has dem- onstrated its superiority again and all's right with the world. . . . However, the National League is improving. . . . It ‘won two games this year as against one in 1929, and none in either 1928 or 1927. fobody wraps up a world series and de- livers 1t after the fashion of the Yan- kees. . . . Still, those Athletics are pretty good, t00. . . . They've come on considerably since the days when they uled‘ to fold up at sight of Yankee uni- ‘Wonder what Gabby Street was sav- ing Jess Haines for? . . . The junior , maybe. . . . ‘who saw the game know why Hallahan is called wild Bill. . . . He was wild in spots \whgnhnplwhedlns.lflullllltm- | day, but ‘Wednesday he was wild all |over. . . . Not even m zfllm 1d steady him. . . . e theory | that Wilson went to ‘work primarily F O N T TS P coccecogocnerummLonoLE Y COHOMOOMONG RN G~ w N Bell, p..... Totals... third inning, sixth game. | +++Batted inning, sixth game. Bishop, 2b. Dykes, 3b.... Cochrane, ¢. Simmons, cf., Foxx, 1b Miller, rf | Haas, Boley, Grove, Earnshaw, p.. Walberg, p. P. cf ss. P rrresananaanad Totals. coanneesennns ning, fifth game. Score by innings: ST. LOUIS PHILADELPHIA 1 0 5 Haas, Cochrane. Hit by pitcher—Bishop (Hallahan), Stolen base—Frisch. Left on bases—Philadelphia, 36; St. Time of game—1:48, 1:47, 2:05, 1:41 ; G. Cs. Grove ... Earnshaw 83100 89 14 09 1 1 1 80 €0 o=~oconooo N, New York Yankees, under Miller Hug- | inn! 5 28 comoceccsocroconmnoscy *Batted for Grimes, ninth inning, first game. **Batted for Lindsey, seventh inning, second game; batted for Hallahan, for Watkins, ninth inning, fifth game; batted for Johnson, sixth +s+*Batted for Lindsey, eighth inning, sixth game. coocoocooonmumuol l‘; 21 35 10 *Batted for Haas, ninth inning, third game, and for Earnshaw, eighth in- **Batted for Quinn, ninth inning, third game. Sacrifices—Douthit, Adams, Haines, Miller, 2; Boley, Dykes, 2; Grimes, Yo’;:‘?,‘:‘m;uflnu.cudhlh.m , Jost 0. BAVE ONLY 13 TS DURING 25 FRAMES Held Rivals Scoreless 22 Straight Innings—Matty Did It for 27. BY ALAN GOULD. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, October 8.— There was only one nomi= nation today for the player most entitled to enter the ranks of world series heroes. He is George Livingston Earn- shaw, New Yorker by birth, Phila- delphian by adoption and achieve- ment, alumnus of Swarthmore College and right-handed “iron man” pitching ace of the world champion Athletics. Earnshaw is 30 years old now, past the day when he used to foot ball player as well as a star pif in college. mummumu handed “iron man” in and entitled to rank with such famous old-time stars as Joe McGinnity, Colby Jack Coombs and big Ed Walsh. up in 2 glory by hurling 16 of the last 18 in- nings for the A’'s. Earnshaw broke up what was expected to be a repetition of the fifth game “act” with Grove by sticking till the last man was out, even Earned runs—Off Earnshaw, 2 in 25 nings ings. Struck out—By Earnshaw, 1! to Winin 1932 If Its Improvement Continues ultv‘,lnclunve.. . admitted they hadn’t this | earned, the » « « This calls to mind the fact that Lo remarkably well. . . . This hap\mlmeouzleot lays h-:‘flt-tmmmn couldn’t gnve m“flhhnfldlflhfl:hy- as the best flelding pitcher in either Pl llflwrg collapsed Lefty Grove was ready hknhhphce....wtywnbomn% up and down in the bull pen in the last three , but George couldn’t let him horn in this time. Beaky Sosop on ggz3t sesenasadccliiadsE 85388 | cocococoroccconcoouncs HEE |nooormonow 200 183 85 6 .. ¢ ' T o2 CHoORBuRwA LWL o ¥ = P g Baikiy 388 | cooconcastBEReeYy ....__.., g3 Hocoommoy - ° i3 3 533 oMoMooOOMOMMBG-, cocococcoomomoo00 coocccoccommNNMe cococcoor~umuase 2| concoan wlcocoocooe |88 19 - - = a 3 5 [ 2 1—12 1 1 2—21 three games, beat them twice, and held them scoreless for the first seven innings of the game which Grove finished in St. Louis, and received official winning. The “ Moose” of the held his rivals scoreless for 22 innin; bt Eu‘r Grove, who against one defeat, 19 innings, during wi time dinals collected 14 hits and Only three of these runs, however, were other two being due to an » - -f B Double vlnys—dell;ert (unassisted); Gelbert to Frisch to Bottomley, 2; Adams to Frisch to Bottomley; Dykes to Foxx; Foxx (unassisted). Louls, 37. , 1:58, 1:46. PITCHING SUMMARY, - BL LY S-S omroccocoenNE poyes ore - ELTY O -Tor 33 Ss3sassasea? SRR~ OR Shmanmeamnunel Shcusnacarsul snssscssccocsd agrocccccoss co~oomNOOmONE - 2! 3 o 2 i 2 i i g i Douthit and Watkins con home runs for the Cards, By the Associated Press. Final Standing.