Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1931, Page 39

The Ty WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1931. PAGE D-—1 Cardinals Are Upsetting Dope Bucket by Outpitching and Outslugging Mackmen JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING ON GRIMES AND MARTIN. BROVE IS FAILURE AS GRINES STARS Spitballer Yields but Two Hits and Bats Effectively in 5-to-2 Victory. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor. The Star. HILADELPHIA, October 6.— When the current edition of the world series got un- der way it was the consen- sus the Athletics handily would defeat the Cardinals for two rea- sons. One was that Gabby Street had no pitchers in the same class with Grove and Earnshaw. The other was the reputed superiority of Mack’s maulers over any the 8t. Louis outfit could boast. With the fourth tilt of the set getting under way tod2y with the A’s a game in arrears as a result of the 5-to-2 shiner hung on them yesterday through the brilliant hurling of Burleigh Grimes, and the heavy artillery of the White Elephants spiked to the extéht of two safeties, their supporters have reached the conclusion their pre- series dope was a bit damp, if not downright drenched. In successive games the mound stars of the American League's three con- secutive pennant winners have been outpitched by & wide margin, and all | the effective slugging has been done by 8 hustling and ambitious sct of Red | Birds, who are comporiing themseives | more like vultures than the glorified | chickadees they were represented to be. | ‘When Grove got away in the opener with a 6-to-2 verdict, although touched | up for the expansive total of 12 hits, | it was opined by the supposedly base | ball wise that he merely had suffered | an off day and would stand the Cards | on their heads the next time he faced | them. There followed a well pitched game by Earnshaw, in which he had to take the short end of a 2-to-0 count because Hallahan hurled even better, and now Grove has followed him in de- feat, again walloped for an even dozen safeties, and this time with deadly effect. ' TERDAY, in oppressively hot weather, before & crowd of more round was the first hit the A's were able to muster off Grimes, and ‘when Al Simmons rainbowed a pop fly Just oven the edge of the right-field fence with a franked mate on base, the redoubtable Philadelphians had tallied for the first time in 20 innings. ‘The last tally they had manufactured ‘was in the seventh frame of the initial combat at St. Louls last Thursday, when Simmons propelled one of Derringer's slants out of Sportsman’s Park. His second safety of the set also was & circuit ¢lout, but in the meantime he had failed to get anything resembling | the a bingle, which is not exactly what might be expected of an athlete who has captured the American League bat- ting championship two years in a row. Simmons, crestfallen as he must feel over his fallure to deliver up to ex- pectations, has plenty of company among his mates, as Philadelphia’s average of two and one-half hits per game for the last two contests proves. Yesterday the A’s not only were baffled as few teams of their hitting caliber have been in the history of these so- called Fall classics, but with the two exceptions noted failed t oeven get hold of the ball solidly. As a result the Cardinals were called on for no flelding fireworks and only s couple of stops merited comment. One was Sparky Adams' clever handling of Miller's sharp bounder in the fifth and the other a nabbing by Prisch of an arched liner from the bat of Roger Cramer who batted for Grove in the eighth. Frank went through a lot of contortions, including a sprawl, but the catch was not nearly so difficult as the Cardinal captain made it appear. N obtaining sweet revenge for the two | ¥ lickings he suffered last Fall, despite | pitching five-hit ball in each in- stance, Grimes yesterday fairly covered himself with glory by tying the feats of Ed Walsh, Mordecai Brown and Ed Ruel- bach, all of whom turned in two-hit efforts in the White Sox-Cubs series back in 1906, the set in which your Uncle Nicholas Altrock so distinguished himself. Some of the record books credit Ruelbach with holding Comiskey's | $o¢ht tless wonders” to a single safety, but at is in dispute, it being claimed that a double obtained by Ficlder Jones in that battle was overlooked. i Grimes’ potentcy was not confined to making monkeys of the A's with his |} ‘salivary shoots, however, for he was an exceedingly prominent factor in at- ,tack, ably abetting the efforts of Pep- er Martin with a pair of safeties. The tter, with five hits to his credit in the preceding two games, was the cy- nosure of all eyes when he first stepped | to the pan in the second round, with | Bottomley on first base by virtue of 8 pass, Martin came through impres- sively with a solid shot to center that put Bottomley on third and two runs | accrued when Wilson followed with a single and Gelbert delivered a long fly. Gsldnes' first hit, which followed, was wasted, ferent story to tell of his next bingle, in the fourth frame. Martin’s second straight hit, and seventh of the series, | was a double lined against the fence in right center, and sent to third Hafey, who had opened the inning with 8 single. Neither Wilson nor Gelbert | could help at this stage, so Grimes took the situation into his own hands by whiacking a clean safety to right for another brace of markers. ‘This didn’t end the hitting off Grove, who was in trouble in both the seventh and eighth, but did_terminate scoring at his expense, for Lee Roy Mahaffey was on the hill in the ninth when the Cardinals concocted their final tally through the medium of a lusty double by Bottomley after one of his mates walked. Several other hard-hit by the Cardinals give Williams and Dykes opportuni- to distinguish themselves on de- to Cardinals entered the combat today jauntily confident of their ability to upset the dope and drive another nail into the world title they seek, but there was a flv in the oint- ment, for it was belicved they would have to battle through the remainder of the series minus strong defensive efforts of Sparky Adams, who rein- jured a bad ankle in stopping & hot the fifth inning in fl”b Flowers. as Adams couldn't keep the |S! ball rolling, but there was a far di- REMEMBER THAT <I_ NIGHT AILING . GRIMES NETTLED THE TIME ... As BY KlLuM&‘(% — SOMEBODY'S GOT Te DA SOMETHING BING MILLER. Took A LuckY COT \N “THE 8™ To sSpoiL. GRIMES" HITLESS woRk CUBS EVEN SERIES IN NINTH INNING Grimm Doubles With Two on to Overcome White Sox Lead of 2-to 1. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, October 6.—The sum of $7,421.62—the difference be- tween the winners’' and losers’ pools in the Chicago base ball champlonship series—was the objective of the Cubs and White Sox in the final game today. Capt. Charlie Grimm of the Cubs shoved the Natlonal Leaguers back into race for the title yesterday, and just in time. In the ninth, with the Sox leading by 2 to 1, and two men on, Grimm rammed out a double to give “the Cubs a 3-to-2 triumph and square the series at three victories each. ‘The other thrill of the game came in the second inning, when after Vic Frazier, young Sox right-hander, had walked Guy Bush, Cub hurler, Catcher Frank Grube attempted to slug Umpire | George Hildebrand to emphas disapproval over the decision. ize his Grube was restrained by Manager Donie Bush | and Coach Mike Kelley and was ordered from the fleld. Tommy Thomas for the Sox, and Pat Malone for the Cubs were the pitching prospects. Grimes Is Golden o Glesen-tences 2l omountacnned 8l vascooucson® | " ol s00000s0000! Totals .. 2 PHILADELPHIA Bishop, 2b.. ] Mahaftey,” Totals . *Ran for Roettger in ninth. +Ran for Cochrane in ninth. iBatted for Grove in eighth. Score b: st. Louis.. 02 Philadelphia 0000 Runs batted in—Wilson. (2), Simmons (2). Two- Roctter. Bottomley. =~ He Double play--Gelbert vl occoonenssscR It Bl umuurmronool 3 e 8] coonrnusnend 5l socarcoscscu? ol ooscssssssest N 000 00 0 0 15 0 -2 hits_Martin, ome run—Simmons. Frisch to Bottom- Louis, 9 ladel- t out—By G by Grimes, rove, FOXX). gl =TT llin (A. L., thir g:u‘r:‘ and 10 minute: GRIMES AMONG SELECTS Only Five Others Have Pitched Two-Hit Series Contest. SHIBE PARK, PHILADELPHIA, Oc- tober 6 (#).—Burleigh Grimes, in pitch- ing the sixth two-hit game of world series history, put himself in this com- ny: p'u’:)a, October 11: Ed Walsh, Chicago bs, 3-0. ; ond; ime’ of 'game—3 1914, October 10: Bill James, Boston ves vs. Athletics, 1-0. 1921, October 6: Waite Hoyt, Yankees vs. Giants, 3-0. 1931, October 5: Burleigh Grimes, Cardinals vs. Athlef 5-2. today of Paul Derringer, the youth who started so strongly against the A's in the firs; game, only to pump himself out due to inex) ice. If old Gabby Gelbert. Grimes | bases se. -By TOM DOERER, Phila., Pa. WHEN MARTIN CAME YO BAT HE LAUGHED AT GROVE - NOBODY'S BEEN DOING THAY (rs BEEN A LONG WHILE ELEPHANT HAS HAD 10 WBATHER A STORM LIKE NI SIMMONS’ HOMER ONLY BROUGHT A GRIN—WHAT A COOL BABY! 6.—Mr. Burleigh Chaw Ball Grimes is taking them on the house today. Old Burly and his sputter loafed their way yesterday into the most important topic at every breakfast table in America this morning. ©ld Burly spoke softly to his spitter, gently oiled it with the sweet licorice of Old Missouri tobac, and pushed it down the shady lane and into immortal fame as the means of tacking up one of the few two-hit games in world series his- tory. Only a handful of pea shooters have been able to tuck in two-hitters during one of these affairs. But I'll bet you a chaw of Burly's favorite eating tobacco that not one of them did it so serenely and tauntingly as this sore-arm pea flip- per from the banks of the just as lazy Mississip’. T've been gazing at these series things for quite a few moons, but I've never watched a chucker do such devastating work so lazily as did Burly against those nettled, bewildered Elephants from Philadelphia. Yessir, that big boy is a showman and an annoyer of champions. Whep I tell you that Grimes and “Pepper” Martin actually embarrassed and humiliated the Macks out of this third and im- portant fracas I mean it. ‘While Grimes was fiddling and fool- ing and sky gazing and holding con- versation with his playmates te rattle the champions, “Pepper” Martin was laughing out loud at them from the and smacking Mr. Grove around with glee. And there is nothing in the world which will make a champion feel out of sorts more than the failure to take him seriously. And that PHILADELP}HA, Pa., October . | Martin and Grimes failed to do. When Burly ascended the mound to pop over his spitter, he walked toward the Athletics batter, tilted his nose and went back to work. And when Burly's saliva slant came oozing down toward the platter the Mack batter was usually in a mood where he would much pre- fer belting Burly than his pitch—with the result that neither took place. Grimes called confabs with his team- mates: he kept up a conversation with Jim Bottomley and he tossed baolls to the umpires for inspection when none was needed. ‘While those grim, austere champions of the base ball world felt the sting Everybody ing named early this morning to hurl ‘Your barber names be fading gd&e Rommel and push him there to kid back with the Cards. t Annie Rooney was be- | win Grimes Is Lazy, but Lethal LICORICE AND PEPPER INDIGESTIBLE TO MACKS. e By Tom Doerer. before the close of the series and no one has yet found out the joke, But he does not want to go trying to tickle the ribs of these Red Birds, gen- tlemen, because, and I'm telling you & fact, they are the toughest set of ball players to have come up as title team in a long while. They feel that they owe the old sergeant of Argonne, Gabby Street, a world flag, and they have set cut to deliver it. And I'm not so sure that Pepper Mar- tin will understand the Philadelphia brand of kidding. It is possible that when a Mackman starts to unfold a joke to the Pepper he will have to give the end of the joke to Cochrane, because that's where Martin will be streaking before that Mack can get started. Martin stole no bases on Mickey Cochrane yesterday. The Mick was ready for “Pepper.” So seriously have the Athletics been taking this fresh- man from Missouri that spent Sunday throwing balls to various bases as a means of getting the hop on the cyclone. But they forgot to take measures to overcome their feelings when the “Pepper” struts out on the field swing- ing his shoulders and laughing at the champions. And because they did forget, “Red Pepper” took their nanny goat and played games with it all of yesterday afternoon. Even the non-talkative Connie Mack admitted the “Pepper” was whipping his club. Connie contends that when one man goes beserk with the bat and upon the bases it causes the entire team to pep up and follow suit. ‘Which may be true. And it is also true that when Burly Grimes rapped out a single to score two runs yesterday he spent more time than the law allows to rap the mud from his cleats, gaze at a:. suh, adjust his shirt and grip his Between me and you I think the sedate Quakers were kidded and humili- ated out of yestes they do not develop a sense of humor by middle afternoon today they are going to lose another, because this boy Martin has just started his fun. Big Series Notes By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 6M:—Presi- dent Hoover made the only wild pitch of yesterday's game. He tossed well be- yond Mickie Cochrane’s reach in offi- |4 cially opening the play. Pepper Martin, Cardinal flash, con- tinued his hitting streak with two hits, one a double, out of four times at bat. Connie Mack said Martin is making the Cardinals tough., Martin said, “I'm just iucky, I guess.” Burleigh Grimes tossed 130 balls to the game. Grove and Mahaffey threw 134. The assortment sent plate- ward by the Burleigh gent included 52 called balls, 30 called or missed strikes, 6 outfield flies. 3 infield files, 12 ground- ers, 25 fouls and 2 hits. Jimmie Foxx tried to duplicate his 1930 feat of parking one in the bleach- last ball thrown him rday’s game, and if lfl Lewis and Zibby Grunt for Title HICAGO, October 6 (#).—The National Boxing Association has sanctioned a wrestling match between Ed (Strangler) Lewis and Wiadek Zbyszko in Chicago October 26, the winner to be as heavyweight champion of e worit announcement his the receipts to Emmerson’s unemployment relief fund, and will pay his own traveling and training expenses. GALLAGHER TO RETURN . Will Meet Barry in Main Bout at Fort October 19. Marty Gallagher, Washington prod- uct, and Reds Barry, now living here, will face October 19 in the main bout of a boxing card at Fort Washington. (! WHEN PeppPap REACHED A SACK GROVE WAS RULL OF FIDGETS..... woe s nl! WHEN MARTIN NAILED GROVE'S FIRST Prrew THE HUMILIATION ‘PROMPTED THE MASTER'S DOWNFALL QUICK FINISH LIKELY FOR LITTLE SERIES | Rochester’s Chances Bright to Win ' Next Two Battles and Minor Title. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., October 6.—The shortest “little world series” since 1928 was in prospect today as the Rochester Red Wings, champions of the Interna- tional League, and St. Paul, American Association pennant winners, prepared for the fifth game. ‘The Red Wings needed only two more victories to clinch the series and their chances looked particularly bright in view of the tremendous batting punch they showed in winning three of the first four games in St. Paul. Last year Rochester had to travel eight es to beat Louisville and in 1929 series went the full limit of nine games before Kansas City could conquer the Red Wings. STOCKTON HEAD SCRIBE Thompson Is Named Vice President of Base Ball Writers. PHILADELPHIA, October 6 (#).—The Base Ball Writers' Association of Amer- ica has elected J. Roy Stockton of the St. Louis Post Dispatch president. Other officers named are: Denman Thompson, Washington Star, vice president; Henry Edward Doyle, Pittsburgh Sun-Tel XS WILT DISMIALLY AFTER FAIR START American Leaguers Off Color, While St. Louisans Play Like Champs. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HILADELPHIA, October 6.— ‘There has been a noticeable lack of “master-minding” in this world series between Athletics and Cardinals, and as the tussle for base ball’'s premier s laurels progresses this is not sur- prising. All the “master-minding” in the realm of the diamond pastime wouldn’t benefit the A’s, who seem unable to create a situation where a bit of inside stuff might help, and the Cards have made suc! fine headway with the old garden variety of base ball that they find shrewd strategems unnecessary. Old Man Slump seems to have the A’s by the heels ready to throw them for a stack of batracks at any time, while the National League champions continue to startle even their most ardent supporters by playing the kind of game it was thought could be played only by the high and haughty Amer- ican Leaguers. ‘Thus far in the series the A’'s have not looked their old selves at all, while the Cards are a wonderful improvement over the 1930 St. Louis edition. ENERALLY hailed as sweet swat- ters and a lot of pitching power before the battling got un- der way, Mack's minions have been morning glories. Like that familiar flower that blooms and blows so gor- geously in the morning only to fold up as the day waxes, the A's opened this struggle for world base ball glory dash- ingly only to droop dismally and watch their National League foes, looking every whit major league champions, blaze by. As they have performed, the Cardi- nals in every way deserve to hold the lead in the series. They haye been far more potent in attack than their rivals and on the firing line immensely su- perior. Holding & two-games-to-one advantage doesn’t mean ultimate series victory for Gabby Street's club, of course, but unless Connie Mack's hire- lings snap out of it suddenly and move along as they did during their Amer- ican League campaigning all the red fire to be burned after this set of games ends will flare along the banks of the Mississippl. plight of the A's after the third me of the series is sorry indeed. have seen their “unbeatable” left-hander, Robert Moses Grove, twice punished severely. They have seen their right-hand ace, George Earnshaw, take a trouncing, albeit George pitched a ball game that ordinarily would win for his club. And they have discovered that there is some corking pitch- ing in the National League, pitching good enough to restrict them to five hll:‘!n their last 20 innings at the Plate. Most damaging to the Athletics’ cause has been Grove's failure to produce in a pitching way. He managed to get away with a mediocre piece of pitching pen in the seventh. egnph: Irving Vaughan, Chicago_Tribune, and Jack Ryder, Cincinnati Inquirer, directors. DERRINGER STAYS ABED the St. Louis Cardinals, rades win yesterday, but he didn’t see trouble and s nose infection setbacks last Summer. ] B e el onrouvanctaloht noccooroooNmmml |l occoooccccssn 94 *Batted for Earnshaw in tBatted for Grove in #Ran for Cochrane in th L atecanicinuis i I eanacssumuwibwnsnatl 3 o massuantnadiar il Fel cocccccomrrunnocol o S i i g Ea Composite Box Score of By the Associated ® ol Slsdasiocdisencatt : ol cococccsccocscacsl in bed at his hotel and re- ports of the game came by radio. 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When bearing down he could not locate the plate and when- ever he eased a trifle, bang! ‘OW the Athletics’ bats have been silenced by the Cardinal pitchers. Five hits in the last 20 turns at the plate. The left-handed Hallahan had them dizzy in St. Louls last Friday, and yesterday the spit-balling Grimes had them dizzier. For seven innings they got nothing more than two passes off Burleigh. Over that stretch but three drives beyond the infield did they make. Not until after Foxx had opened the eighth inning with Grimes’ third was & hit_gleaned off the spit-baller, and then Miller's line single to center did the A's no good. Had not Grimes hurt his pitching hand when he fell trying to get Haas’ grounder in the ninth he might have gone on to become the only pitcher ever to hurl & one-hit game in & world series. With the hand smarting, however, Burleigh lacked con- trol when pitching to Cochrane, and the latter drew the pitcher's fourth pass to get on and score when Simmons lofted the ball lazily over the right-field wall for a homer. It was Simmons’ second hit and sec- ond homer of the series. Spectacular as hits go, but not as hitting goes. The big guns of the Athletics have been ef- fectively spiked by the Cardinal brand of hurling thus far. Those batters who terrorized American League pitchers during a little more than the past five months have not annoyed the hurlers of the'National League champions. ‘To date the Cardinals have had every- thing in the series and the Athletics little more than nothing. That the American Leaguers have a victory to their credit is surprising. If the A’s are to get anywhere, they'll have to show a startling form reversal or the Cardinals overnight will have to drop from the major heights to a minor mediocrity. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Jim Lon- dos, 196, Greece, defeated Ivan Vac- turoff, 220, Russia, straight falls, 22:32 and 3:14; Hans Bauer, Chicago, threw Jack Lawler, St. Louls, 26:00. WILMINGTON, Del—Mike Romano, 194, New York, threw Don Delouge, 218, New York, 16:25: Pat_O'Shocker, 230, Salt Lake City, threw Bill Nelson, 205, St. Louis, 20:54; Karl Pojello, 196, Chicago, threw Bennie Ginsburg, 204, Chicago, 15:05. MONTREAL, Quebec.—Charlie Strack, 220, Stillwater, Okla., defeated Raoul Simon, 230, France, two falls out of three (Strack first, 11:40; Simon sec- was |ond, 10:15; Strack third, 10:50); Joe Malcewicz, 220, Utica, N. Y., drew with Pat McGill, 219, Omaha, 45:00. SEATTLE.—Dan Koloff, 215, Mon- treal, defeated Steve Savage, 198, Chi- cago, by default (Savage unable to con- tinue after fall over ropes): Marin Plestina, 255, Chicago, defeated Pat McKay, 210, Philadelphia, in two falls - (second and third rounds) ; Axel Ander- son, 230, Chicago, defeated Jack Mc- Carty, 220, New York, in two falls (sec- ond and third rounds). STOCKTON, Calif.—Tex *“Bulldog” Cox, 225, Stockton, A NEW FLORSHEIM CUSTOM LAST Trim, slender lines . . . . . perfect fitting oo oo with quality finer.... better ceeee $9 and ‘] O 7 iner this Fall’s FLORSHEIMS! Men’s Shops 14th at G Tth &K #3212 14th: