Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 93

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THE' -SUNDAY STAR, -WASHINGTON, D. C, 'DECEMBER 21, 1930 N 15 P T ALL SET FOR DAYS WHEN STARDOM FADES Last Time at Bat for Your Modern Base Ball Player Finds Him Prepared : for FHow Busi- ness Careers Started in Winter Months Are Fitting Players Jfor Financial Inde- pendence A fter 1 hey Retire. Grimes, Flint Rhem and Sylvester Johnson. *“George and I can do it,” said Grove on the day of the opening game. And they did‘it. Earnshaw proved a greater star than even his famous teammate, Grove. He twirled marvelous ball on October 2 to beat the Cardinals, 6 to 1. Four days later, in St. Louis, he shut out the Cards, 2-0, when Jimmy Foxx ruined Burleigh Grimes’ day with a critical homer. He did not receive credit for the victory, however, as he had been removed for a pinch-hitter, and Grove- finished. Only that bad break prevented him from officially win- ning three games. » That game was played on a Monday. The teams trav- eled Tuesday and resumed play in Philadelphia om Wednesday, October 8, with the series three to two in favor of the Athletics. only one day of rest, and that spent on a train, Earnshaw went back against the Cardinals and shut them out until the ninth inning. Then, with a seven-run handi- Future Ty Cobb studied investments during his playing day i s Herb Pennock of the Yankees, Raises Silver Foxes and ith the result that today he is independently wealthy. ‘ Turkeys on His Farm. where he is expected 1o hold forth when his - OU GEHRIG, who made the fans forget hig off year in 1929 by nearly winning the bat- B\Y C. WILLIAM DUNCAN. ;§§§§§;a§ gif : Emmwtmarfledlndflnhtherolm children. “That’s why I have to work all the time,” he explains. “We have been married eight years. Our boy George, jr., is 7 years old and Barbara is a year and a half old.” The Eamshaws live in Swarthmore, near Philadelphia, where George once attended the college- and pitched for the team that also produced Johnny Ogden, later with Baltimore and the Browns and now with the Reds, and Curly Ogden, formerly with the Athletics and then Wi m'hn..nxnuepaaonamy. He is a , good-natured fellow who treats his friends the same now as in the days when he was IREESEIRIERE SVRNREL B0F R it e L R E. 1=§5 ¥ i ¥ Efig 4 2 g i 28 rary i th i E il {EPER g %ssiias % ¥ %

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