Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1931, Page 49

[ d WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foen ny Star, Mack’s Men Roll on Like Old Man River : Williams Sterling Shortstop for A’s | | | DERRINGER BRIGHT BUT BRIEF FLAME Simmons’ Cool Judgment in‘ Pinch Brings Downfall of | | Young Card Ace. BY GRANTLAND RICE. T. LOUIS, Mo, October 2.— Old Man River and Old Man Connie’s Athletics still go rolling along. Old Man River, being the purl- ing Mississippi, rolls a short way from the Cardinal park on its way to New Orleans and the Gulf, and Old Man Connie Mack's Athletics are rolling over the Cardinal park again on their way to another| world championship, unless some | volecanic eruption takes place that few look to see. Old Man River can't do any more rolling along than Old Man Grove and Old Man Punch in the Athletic attack, for Old Man Punch of the Athletics rolled right over the prostrate body of young Paul Derringer as if he had been & second-string rookie with a sore arm. This first game is a vital factor in | any world series, and. in spite of a bad | start and a roaring hostile crowd, the | Athletics resumed their old Philadelphia custom of putting it away in a hurry by the count of 6 to 2, which is wide enough to wipe out any alibi. There are certain stark elements, cer- tain raw fundamentals, which govern any big_competition before a move is | made. They belong to human nature. I| sat_through part of the forenoon Vith | Mickey Cochrane. the great catcher of the Athletics, before the first game. 1 asked Mickey what he and his mates thought of Paul Derringer, the Ken- tucky Cardinal, who was to chirp his opening chant in a world series game. SYXJE know,” said Micke; & great young pit member he is the first pitcher | in base ball history to open a world series in the first big-league year he has ever known. That means a lot. It is something entirely different from a pennant race that lasts over five months. | This series can be won or lost in five | minutes. He will show us a lot of stuff, | but lacking the experience under heavy | fire he may show us too much at the start for his own good.” | There was never a better prophet. | Grove got away badly. In front of a thundering _exciting crowd that packed | the park, the big left-hander saw his fast ball and his curve hammered for two runs that might have been three | or four | In front of this same crowd. backing Derringer to the limit, the young Ken- | tucky giant started as if he meant to, °t the Athletics out of town and them paddling down Old Man ver to the bavous of the Far South. Derringer struck out the first two men who faced him. He was putting eterything he had into every pitch. He | was’ reaching down to his spikes and the bottom of his soul. In those first | two innings he fanned Bishop, Haas, Foxx and Miller, and he sent Cochrane | and Simmons back to the bench. | ERRINGER was on fire. He had | everything, and the big crowd supported him with a vocal cata- elysm that must have shook the Ozarks. He was like a mile runner starting away with & Wykoff stride to run the first hundred vards of the mile race in 10| seconds flat | But the brighter the flame the sooner | it must burn out. Breezes may blow for weelts, but cyclones last only a day. From that point on the tall and wil- lowy Grove settled down to the main business in hand. He had watched Roettger, Frisch, Bottomley and Martin step into his stuff as if he had been a | punk, with Derringer mowing down his | mates. And then, as Mickey Cochrane | had predicted, it all happened in a| hurry. As Derringer walked to the box at | the start of the third inning the packed stands broke into a cheer. The miracle had happened—another Wellingten had come along to stop Napoleon. Here | was another David who could handle | Goliath, another entry who could roll | back the marches of Attila and Ghenghis Khan. ! For that is what the Athletics look | to ve in the eyes of the National League, Here, at last, was the man who could | take the sting out of Athletic bats and | show Cochrane, Simmons and Foxx the | beaten pathway to the bench. No one could blame the St. Louis crowd for its wild exultation over Der- | ringer’s opening salute. Six men up and | ‘that he is | er. But re- | e R | settled into a somber stillness. | meeting recruits. Specs Get 'Littl; For Series Seats, ' HILADELPHIA, October 2.--The depression has hit world series ticket speculators. A canvass of a dozen establishments in the central city dealing in the paste- boards for the games to be held in this city showed buisness at an ex- tremely low level. ‘The present plan of the Athletics, providing for the distribution of tickets tomorrow, gives the specula- tors only little time to hawk their wares. Such tickets as are available, a small percentage of those which were delivered early to officials and base ball p'avers, were averaging frem $20 to $30 a strip of three to- day. Thelr face value is $16.50. Two years ago this time the speculators had them in large bundles and scorned to talk any prices less than $50 a set. two-bagger. For it meant the spirit of team play—the spirit of the game. Simmons waited and walked, and when Jimmy Foxx hammered a single that drove In two more runs, it was all over. From that point on Grove pitched as Matty used to pitch. He took life easy with two out, but when the pinch came he had the reserve and the stuff to| choke any Cardinal attack to death. | When his mates gave Grove those four runs in the third you had the feeling that the series was just about over. Most of the keenness went out | of the Cardinal attack. The deep and | frenzied roaring of the St. Louls crowd | WASHINGTON, D. C, ‘There | were times when it bordered on a bod- | ing hush. Even this excited home crowd could sense the fact that Bob Grove with with a 2-run lead was on his way home with the flamingo's feather in his cap. And when Al Simmons cracked his home run in the seventh, adding two more runs, the tumult and the shout- ing was over for the day. | After that second inning the two ball teams looked to be far apart. The Cardinals, with the exception of Pepper Martin. wilted away. The Athletics, with their eyes focused on the major end of the world series’ purse, kept on playing ball. Being old campaigners they knew this might be a tough Win- ter. They looked like shock troops (Copyright. 1931. by the North American Newspaver Alliance, Inc.) CUBS EVEN SERIES WITH 10 TRIUMPH Hits by Cuyler and Burton in; Ninth Get Run That Beats White Sox. By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, October 2.—The White Sox and Cubs were all square today as they moved their fight for the city base bail championship over to Comiskey Park for the third game. Breaking the charm held over them for 17 consecutive innings by the White Sox pitchers, the Cubs squeezed through with a thrilling 1-to-0 victory at Wrig- ley Pield yesterday to deadlock the series and insure its life past the four- game mark. Kiki Cuyler and Vince Barton were the heroes of the Cub’s winning punch yesterday. With one out in the ninta inning, Cuyler smashed one of Vic Frasier's fast ones into center field and dashed to second with a fine burst of speed. When Lester Bell fouled out to Grube, the rally appeared nipped, but Barton spanked a single and the fleet Cuyler steamed home with the winning run. It was the only run scored in 18 nings by the Cubs, as the veteran “Red” Faber blanked them, 9 to 0, in the first | game Wednesday. | Yesterday's game was a tight hurling duel between Guy Bush and Frasier, Self, were plenty worried to see the way | To make it doubly sure Simmons' home Up until the ninth inning, the White | the Cardinals’ star pitcher was mowing | run with Mickey Cochrane on base in Sox youngster permitted but three scat- | tered blows. Bush was almost as good, | allowing but six in nine innings and striking out seven. | The total statistics for the first two | games: Attendance, 28,048; gross re- ceipts, $31,210; commissioner’s share, $4,681.50; players’ share, $15917.10; clubs’ share, $10,611.40. BANQUET FOR CHAMPS Members of the Olmstead Grill base OACH MIKE KELLY, EASTERN'S GRID SHOW HIM A PICTURE OF AN EGG YOKE IN A THUNDER SHOWER ANO~"""_ HE WiLL THROW AWAY HI§ UMBRELLA DECLARING THE SUN TO BE SHINING . :Derringer Had Macks Worried— For Awhile, Ad ays Cards Need Miracle Now BY EDDIE COLLINS, Captain of the Athletics. T. LOUIS, Mo., October 2.—Start- ing out like a hurricane in the first two innings, Big Derringer proved to be only a breeze at the finish. That's the story of the first game of this year's world series. I want to admit frankly we on the A's bench, including Manager Mack him- down our hitters. Four of the first six Financial ;\ng]c: Of World Series By the Associated Press. Standing of the Clubs. Team Won. Lost. Philadelphia (A).. 1 0 St. Louis (N)...... 0 1 Pet 1.600 .000 mits Ed Collins; |to face him succumbed on strikes. and the other two hit weakly to the infield. Not a pleasant outlook, and while this was going on our Bob Grove was being | rather roughly treated. Four solid blows at the very onset netted two big runs for the Cards, but | after that the clouds lifted. Grove was a different pitcher, and the Athletics’ | bats began to function in the style that | | has carried us to two world champi | ships. When the third inning was ly over the ball game Wwas as good in. the seventh clinched it. | Talking with Grove and Cochrane in | the club house under the shower, bota | | agreed that Bob had not been’ quite | | himself in that first inning. The first | three men who hit in this inning hit curve balls. and all did so with the | count two strikes and no balls, | “I know it was bad pitching,” Lefty sald, “but it just seemed that I could | not put that next pitch where I wanted | it. Connie talked to me during the | time we were at bat in our half of the | second inning. I took more time after FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, M SINGING IN THE RAIN WITH MIKE KELLY. PALMER, ONLY VET STout MAN NoNe OTHER THAN THE FORMER SY(PH- LIKE. CHIER GUYON, EASTERN! HEAD COACH ¢ —_——— KELLY HAS A FLOCK OF TALENT.BUT IT (5 YouNa AND GREEN. SO GREEN, THEY SAY, THAT MIDNIGHT IN B o ool THE ENE W Dam250 — gagmns wiae s> Grins as Dark Mike Kelly Always Hopes for That Silvery Lining. BY TOM IKE KELLY, out at East-| ern High School, has| nothing and is taking it| with a grin, That is, Mr. Kelly, who is foot ball mentor at Eastern, has very| little seasoned material upon! | which to build his 1931 grid out: 1931. SERIES TLT MERE | BALL GAMETO SUB 1Dib Fields Flashily and Helps' World Champions Greatly in Attack. BY WILLIAM WEEKES, Associated Press Sports Writer. T. LOUIS, October 2.—He does not aspire to heroics, but Dibrell Wil- liams, 21-year-old recruit short- stop of the world champion | Athletics, is well on his way today to becoming one of the heroes of the 1931 world series. Except for the fates of base ball, | which have just about eliminated Joe Boley from the championship series with the Cardinals, Williams would not be in a spot to make or break the Ath- letics’ defense. But, being dropped into the spot has made no difference to the | youngster, who regards even contest in | the world champlonship series s just another game of base ball. Boley, thorcughly realizing Williams is taking over his job, perhaps perma- nently, has worked tirelessly to teach | the youngster all he knows, and must | have been happy at the latter's per- formance yesterday. Young Dib, whose most noticeable characteristics are a huge chew of to- bacco and an almost phlegmatic calm- | ness, is the youngest player in the big | series, but he is taking it as matter-of- factly as though he was as seasoned as his instructor. | Thinks Arm 0. K. | ‘Williams® arm has not been regarded as too dependable, there having been a t'ndency to throw one awayv once in & while, but yesterday he came up with a performance that surprised many— the many, however, not including Williams. “Yeah,” he sald last night, “I've | thrown away quite a few, but I have worked to become an accurate thrower, |and I'm not worried about throwing | any away in this serles. If you are | going to” throw wild. you just throw | wild,” but “after yesterday 1 know I don't have to worry Williams, who has been tutored by Boley since long before recurrent in- juriss made it impossible for the vet- eran to start the series, handled five chances yesterday and at least two of his flelding efforts were huge factors in heading off possible Cardinal ralliss. In the first inning after the Cards had | scored their two runs, Williams went | over back of second base to snare Wil- | son’s grounder and throw perfectly to | nail the St. Louis catcher at first. The | play made the third out. with Jim Bot- tomley on third base and Pepper Martin on_second at the time. | In the sixth, with two out. Chick Hafey stole third and during an argu- ment over the decision Pepper Martin | sneaked to second. Gelbert rammed a | vicious grounder at Williams, but the —By TOM DOERER | HE TEACHES THE BOYS AT ACKK OF A BARN, 10 Clouds Hover DOERER But don't let Mr. Kelly kid you either. He may have a few boys out in that | lettuce patch at Eastern who know | more tnan he cares | to say. it looked like Mike was go- ing to ask Congress for a liitle help when Eastern faced Central last year. Yet Tony Palmer | | Bot Ha: PAGE D—1 The A’s Have It PHILADELPHIA, Bishop, 2b. i Haas. ' cf. Cochrane, ¢ Simmons,’ 1f. Foxx. 1b .... Miller, rf ", Dykes. 35 Williams, Grove. p... > [ POTTPT e » 0| 5000500000mmon al snossmimmy 3 Bl sumwenasd > 8linronansssnnad & l'slch th 1b L 0503o U socsontncano) Totals T “Batted for Derrin 1Batted for Johnson iBatted for High in ninth. Philadelphia (A. L).... 004000200_§ 8t. Louis (N. L).. 2000000002 Runs batted in—Bottomley. Martin, Haas, Foxx (2). Simmons (2). Two-base hits - Martin. Haas. Gelbert. Home run-—Simmons. Stolen bases_Hafey, Martin. Double plave. - Bishop to Williams to Foxx: Bottomlev (un- assisted) Philadelphia_ oloosscmmosnnan® ol sunsssnou> slossscaccscsse® ol scsssssssl® E Umpires—Mess plate: Nallin (American Leagu Stark (National League). second by Gowan (American League). third by of game—1 hour and $5 minutes. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. TORONTO, Ontario.—Farmer George McLeod, 204, Nebraska, defeated Frank Judson, 209'3, Detroit, two falls out of three: George Godfrey, 235, Leiperville, Pa., threw Jim Maloney, 226, Boston. DAVENPORT, Iowa.—Battling Siki. Abyssinia, won in straight falls from Pete Schuh, Germany (16 and 12 min- utes). ‘WALTHAM, Mass—Joe Malcewicz, Utica, N. Y., defeated Eddie Elveas, Texas., in straight falls. SPRINGFIELD, IlL—Jim Londos, | 205, won in straight falls from George Zaharias, 235, 33 minutes 18 seconds and 4 minutes 24 seconds; Paul Harper, Dallas, 209, won from Charley Fox, Cleveland, 34 minutes 24 seconds: Hans Bauer, Milwaukee, and George Tragos, St. Louis, drew in 30 minutes. kid inflelder took care of it and a pos- sible pair of runs never materialized. ngster from Greenbrier— he says it is spelled—alsa did some tmportant hitting and scored the A's first run in the big third in- ning. He singled past first base and scored on Haas' double. He was cred- ited with another single in the sixth when Derringer fell while trying to field his bunt, but was cut down in Bottomley's unassisted double play on Bishop's liner. His father, E. T. Williams. who once was something of a semi-professional infielder, is in St. Louis tp watch his boy, and last night was thoroughly—if proud. His only com- es, it's been a pretty good day for us Play these Smart Tips Right Across the Board! six men down—and four of the siX bY | pall team, which won the senior chame S, Ml A o e v Opening Game Statistics. got away for a 55 the strike-out route. And then it happened in a hurry | Starting the third, Dykes and Williams singled and Grove struck out. There | was another deep-thrcated eruption | from the stands. And Bishop forced | Dykes, which meant two out and not | a run. [ UT it was 2ll different when Mule Haas struck off a double which | scored Williams and left runners on second and third, with Cochrane and Simmons coming up. | 1t was here that Derringer lost his | chance. No one had to tell him what | Cochrane and Simmons meant in a pinch. They stand as two of the dead- liest hitters in base ball when the pressure is heavy, when the pulses are jumping and when the bubbles begin to pop in the back of various necks. Derringer, with all his skill and cour- | age and coolness, was in a tough spot— | the toughest spot he had ever known. | He must have known that he was face to face with the most critical situation | pionship of the Capital City Base Ball League without losing a game, will be presented with gold base balls and gold wrist watches by Clark Griffith, presi- dent of the Washington team, at a | banquet tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock | at Olmstead Grill. Paid attendance, 38,529. Receipts, $165,161. Players' share, $84,232.11. Each club's share, $14,038.685. Each league’s srare, $14,038.685 Advisory Council's share, §24- 774.15. Frisch Pays Tribute to Grove, B A’s Make Most BY FRANKIE FRISCH, Captain and second basemay of the Cardinals, in his seventh wofld serles. T. LOUIS, Mo,, October 2.-—There's no doubt about it. ut Is Buoyed by Cards’ Sock; of Opportunity four hits, being helped by two bases on balls. Derringer, even though beaten, pitched spectacularly. He just missed the corners on those passes in the third, | runs in the third I felt they won't get any more, and they didn't.” That's Lefty. What a pitcher, and | how changed he is from former years! | Several seasons ago he would have | been all upset over the happening in the first Inning. but yesterday he was | the least perturbed man on our club. He | just went on unruffied by what had | happened, pitched his game from then | on and won handily. I asked Manager Mack just as Roet- tger's fly, which closed the game, set- tled 1n,Hns' glove, “Well, what about “They all did fine,” he said. “But I was particularly pleased with Dib Wil- liams' play. Wasn't he great? Wonder- ful ball player. I was a bit undecided between him and Boley, because of | Boley's steadiness in an important series like this, but he certainly was in there strong.” (Copyright. 1931, Newspaper Alllance, Inc.) | directions, b7, the North American || fit. It takes 11 young men to go_‘ out there to do and die for some- | thing or other. And they must| know their way around. S Mike has four upon whom he could | place sufficient faith to give them the leather without expecting the ball car- | rier to be discovered at Fourteenth and | H streets three hours later asking for | ‘Those four young men are Mades, Campbell and Wolfe, guards, and Tony - Palmer, a whale of a back, the only back inherited from last year. But a very tough back at that. The rest of Mr. Kelly'’s hopes and good wishes yard gallop an then skipped away | on another whes he intercepted a ! oass. Palmer helped | Eastern take sec- | ond place in the | Public High grid | away from the field! title skirmish. And there may be a few more young Mr. Palmers in that green goods assort- ment out at Eastern. Eastern's teams have always been & bridegroom, but never a bride. For 30 years they have been storm- ing the hilltop, reaching the pin- nacle and then hurtling down before taking the gonfalon, But there is this to make Mr. Kelly smile. The student body and the school faculty are 100 per cent behind the team, win, lose or draw. And that may be the real foundation of Mike's Floreheim Custom styles . . . with that “sharp™ style that college fellers like . . . are running “Hahn Specials” offer so many fast-steppers that any number you select will win in a walk! We were are upon Jast year's s h —— et hotis. S| When a student boay can look a loser | in the face and still be happy, there is no sense in a coach starting to loo A e |atound for his ‘extra collars. And 1 But never® piace | 3aw the old Carlisle Indian, Chief Char- any maney on|ley Guyon, Inthered in a ‘smile, as he | what young men | Watched the boys at practice. Buck is Who ate only nice | head coach at Bastern and it is part of | are going 1o do on | his duty to weep, too, when the grid but his control otherwise was very good. optimism. He fanned nine batters, and Syl John- | son fanned two more. That, I believe, is | close to a record for the number of strikeouts in a world series game. Grove himself had seven_strikeouts. His control was perfect in that he did | not give a base on balls. There were °* | several times when it appeared as if his We | control was about to falter, but each | time he found himself quickly. of his young career. He worked on| Cochrane with all he had, but the smart, experienced Mickey refused to hit at a bad one and walked. This brought Al Simmons into the piiine spotlight. Here again Derringer knew | & “ he was facing the man who had led| Bob Grove deserves a great deal of the American u“l;m Pi‘cnr two g'earsf credit for stopping us in the pinches the man known to be the most danger- | . ous of them all in a pinch. Here was | /e the first ’""’;’g' Eoweyer, a veteran, with ice water running|Were hitting more frequently thaa a | ROCHESTER, ST. PAUL, EVEN, TAKE DAY OFF Herman Bell Pitches Red Wings to| 5-2 Victory in Second Game beaten in the first game, but I'm confident we'll even things up |today. I feel that way because we are ders are sour. through his veins when there is a ball | losing team usually does in a world game to be won. Derringer knew all this. He had passed Cochrane, the rattlesnake, and now he had Simmons, the king cobra. It was a great spot for Simmons to take a chance and hammer two runs across But here you have the answer to Sim- mons. He was standing under the great white spotlight of fame. There were two balls thrown that missed the plate by only an inch or two. Sim- mons, overeager to be a hero, might have taken a cut at either. did nothing of the sort. He looked them over as if this were a practice battle and let them go. He soon had Derringer in a hole at three and two. If Simmons had taken a chance on those near-strikes, he might have ended the rally. But he didn’'t. He put the pressure on Der- ringer and made him pitch. T was a great plece of base ball—a greater plece of base ball than Sim- mons could have shown by hitting & Simmons | | series. ‘We got more hits off Grove than the | Athletics did off our pitchers, and while the A’s bunched their blows better than we did, Grove several times needed e®- ceptional support tc hold down our scoring. I do not say this to take any credit away from Grove, but tc empha- | size that we are getting our share of the ‘hlLs and need only to hit together a little better to wn. The difference in the ball game was jour first inning and their third. We had a big inning op°n to us right at the start. We did get twe runs out of | that early attack and were close to vic- |tory right there. One more good hit might have turned the ball game in our favor. Macks' Wallop Superior. ‘We missed, though, but the Athletics, succeeding where we lacked the neces- sary fire to put across a big round, scored four runs in the inning on We set out after Grove in no fewer than five different innings. However, after scoring in the first, a double play hurt us in the fourth, coming between two singles. A fast play by the young | shortstop, Williams, held down our chance in the sixth, when Hafey and Martin_singled. Then in the seventh Third Baseman Dykes helped Grove by making a leaping stop of Flowers' bounder. That play also came ahead of two singles Philadelphia’s last brilliant play oc- curred in the eighth, Al Simmons rob- | bing Wilson of a long hit by a running | catch. Even after that we still had an | opening, when Gelbert doubled in the | ninth, but this time Grove himself put | on the brakes. ‘The hitting of Simmons, Dkyes, Foxx, Haas, Cochrane and Willilams furnished the scoring punch of the Athletics. For the Cardinals, Pepper Martin was out- standing. He, in fact, made more hits than any other player, with a double and two singles. ight, 1931, by the North American oo 'hl' spaper ’Allllnu. Inc.) of “Little Series.” By the Assorlated Press. ST. PAUL, Octob:r 2—With their little world series all even at one game apiece, Rochester and St. Paul had an open date today. The Rochester Red Wings, champions of the International League, squared the count yesterday with a 5-to-2 vic- tory over St. Paul, pennant “winners of the American Association. The Saints won the first game, 4 to 0. Rochester won behind the fine pitch- ing of Herman Bell. A four-run p: rade off John Murphy in the sixth I ning sewed up the game for the vis- tors Murphy hit a home run for the Saints. A total of only 3,993 persons paid $5,346.25 to see the game, bringing the attendance for the two contests to 8,837 and the receipts to $11,163.75. The series will be resumed Saturday, with the fourth game ascheduled for Sunday, ¢ ? the field of battle when the whistle starts to blow. They may flash to fame and glory and then, again, they may sit down and walt it out. But if you are expecting Mr. Kelly to a grab a moaning napkin and ery for help you are not expecting the proper thing. I tried to have Mike do a little crying for the customers, but it failed to glick. “There they are,” said Kelly, pointing 1o his hopes, plenty of them, but just hopes, however. “Maybe, we'll get a fair team and maybe we will not. But we will do our best and have some fun in doing it.” Mr. Hoover could ask for no truer dptimism. But, maybe, Mike is too disappointed to cry. There are times when a foot ball coach does not know whether the proper thing at the moment would to shriek or blast. be | N. C, drew (10). Fistic Battles Here's a sure winner By the Associated Press. OSHKOSH, Wis.—Angelo Puglis, Du- luth, Minn,, knocked out Eddie Oster, Milwaukee (2); Bobby Allen, Chicago, and Johnny Lombardo, Milwaukee, | drew (8). | NEW YORK.—Kid Chocolate, Cuba, | stopped Joe Scalfaro, New York (1). MUNCIE, Ind—Willard Brown, La- | fayette, Ind., outpointed Jimmy Conley, | Toledo, Ohio (10); Herbie Anderson, Muncie, outpointed Larue, To- ledo (8). W. Va—Jimmy Smith, Bob Allison, Charlotte, . W. 'Va.— Bobby BLUEFIELD, | New York, and *Open It is then that he grins. CHARLESTO] Grant, Charleston, outpolnted Freddie Edwards, Newsll (10), at a “Long-Shot” price. Imported Scotch Grains—at only Five Bucks! Men’s Shops 14th at G 7th & K *3212 14th Nights