Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1931, Page 45

he #Fp eni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, ny Star. Classified Ads THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1931. PAGE D-—1 “Martin’s Series” May End Tomorrow : Si. Louis’ Drive Stuns White Elephants PEPPER IS MAKING PP OF MACKNEN = Cards Within One Game of § Title Due to Rampaging of Osage “Wild Horse.” BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Eports Editor, The Star OHN LEONARD MARTIN to- day is en route to St. Louis, to win the championship of the base ball world. Accompany- ing him are an assortment of ath- letes who also draw pay from Owner Sam Breadon, and it is possible they may assist Mr. Mar- tin in the task, otherwise the brash young fellow may do the ! Job all by himself. Few there are who witnessed the part Oklahoma's most distinguished resident played yesterday in the humiliation of the Athletics at Philacelphia, on top of the annoyance he had caused them prev- jously, who will doubt Martin's ablity to complete the Tout of the American League’s three-time titleholders, least of all the A's themselves. All he contributed toward putting the Cardinals within one game of the bunting they covet was a home run, two singles and a_tally-producing long fly, driving in all but one of the five markers registered by the Red Birds, which happened to be the margin by which the Mackmen were sunk. ARTIN was facing & brand new, for him, pitcher in the veteran Waite Hoyt when he first came to bat yesterday with third and first bases occupied by mates who h: singled. He also was batting in a brand new position, the clean-up fourth hole, to which he had been elevated by Manager Gabby Street in recognition of his prior nine hits in 14 times at bat. Hoyt here stopped him, so far as|parently on the run, the Saints came | hitting was concerned, but his long fly was responsible for the tally that got| national League champions, 9 to 3, and | send the series into the seventh game. | the Cards off in front and during the remainder of the afternoon they were unable to get him out. By way of demonstrating his ver- satility the Pepper Pot beat out a perfectly placed bunt, for a single in the fourth frame and that nothing came of it was due merely to the fact he was leading off. Martin was much more appropriately placed when he came up in the sixth after Frisch had doubled and proved it by hammering one of Hoyt's heaves into the upper left field stand for a pair of tallies and the first Cardinal circuit clout of the set. Then, in the eighth, with Watkins on second by virtue of a pass and steal, he rapped one of Rube Walberg's offerings | to an unguarded spot for still another tally. Mickey Cochrane and the rest of the A's are entitled to any satisfaction they may have felt when Pepper was flagged stealing a moment later, for it was the first time in five efforts during as many games that he was turned back while a-thieving bent. Martin had no part in the tally gleaned off Ed Rommel, third of the Mackian moundsmen, in the ninth in- ning, for he didn't get a chance to bat. Singles by Hafey, Wilson and Gelbert turned the trick here. HILE Martin was adding more gems to his unanimously awarded crown as the outstanding hero of the series, Wild Bill Hallahan was doing & very workmanlike job of pitching. The frail left-hander was neither so wild nor so effective 25 cn the occasion of his first appearance, but until the seventh session_had ellowed only three hits, flll‘ by Al Simmons, and it was the last of these that paved the way for the A's to avert another shutout at his hands, | the marker accruing when Foxx and | Dykes followed with hot infield smashes that were recorded as hits. Hallahan yielded two hits in each of the eighth and ninth rounds, three of 'em also cracks that bounded off the anatomy of some infielders, and ob- vicusly was wezakening, but had enough Jeft to fan Pinchhitter John Boley for the final out. When this fifth game got under way Martin boasted the top-lofty average of .643, but before he got through for the afternoon he had boosted the mark to .667 and he has furnished plenty of reason for believing the end is not yet. ACK on their own lot at Sportsman’s Park tomorrow the Cardinals un- doubtedly will have to face George ‘Farnshaw, who hurled that two-hit shut- out classic against them Tuesday, but it is ‘significant that it was Martin who garnered both of those bingles and on the occasion of the big right-hander’s first start last week he picturesquely named Wild Horse of the Osages also chalked up a brace of bingles. ‘Whether Burleigh Grimes had a fin- ger injured in the process of limiting the A's to a pair of bingles last Mon- day, or Paul Derringer from an ab- scessed nosce, will be in shape to give Earnshaw a good argument tomorrow is problamatical, but the Cards have two chances to end the reign of the Mack- men as champions of the base ball world and if Martin keeps his health the chances are. all in favor of them doing it. Financial Angle Of World Series Standing of Clubs. ‘Won. Lost. Cardinals . P ] 2 Athletics .. Fifth Game Statistics. Attendance (paid) Receipts ........ - Commissioner’s shar Each club's share . Each league's share . Total for Five Games. Attendance (paid) Receipts ... *Players’ sha. Commissioner’s Each club’s share . Each league’s share . *Players share only first four games. . 32,295 .$152,735.00 85,1 . 85,840 receipts of Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, Que—Eugene Huat, France, outpointed Newsboy Brown, Los Angeles, (12). KANSAS CITY.—Buster Brown, St. Joseph, outpointed Henry Falegano, D=s Moines, (10). AKLAND, Calif.— et Wolgast, O 3 Philadelphis, outpointed Speedy Dedo, | Johnson Philippines, (10), where tomorrow he expects | A Martin-et ST. LOUIS (N. L. 5 £ | ornumwncon [oroaenumisd Hallahan, p. Totals . 5 PHILADELPE Bishop, 2b... McNair. 25 Haas, cf =l cvoroomous? ol cososscssol B 8l assnmmnconn A Moore, Cochrane Simmons, 1f., ‘cf. Foxx, 1b; y) b | Williams, ss. | Host. b olosoce. [/ e i e teisrsiand B e ] L T | tBoley | Totals . | *Batted for Walberg in eighth. | tBatted for Rommel in minth. {St. Louts ......1 0 0 0020 Philadelphia . 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 | “"Runs batied in—Martin (4). Miller, | bert. Two-base hits—Simmons, Frisch. Home | run_Martin. Stolen base—Watkins. | plays—Gelbert ~ to _Bottomley Bishop to FOxx. Philadelphia, 8 {Watking), Hallah olt, High); Williams, 'McNair, "Boley 7 in 6 innings: off Walbers, 2 off Rommel. 3 in 1 inning. Losing pitcher— Hoyt. Umpires—Messrs, Kiem (N. L.), plate; | Nallin (A. L), first: Stark (N. L.), second; | McGowan' (A.'L). third. Time of game—i hour and 56 minutes. ST. PAUL PROI clessssscsaissasalin ullseseaminse Sl seeasuzsnisisachl ] s Hits— in PROLONGS MINOR TITLE SERIES Slim Harriss Pitches 9-3 Victory Over Rochester, Which Needs One More Decision. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., October 8— ad | The St. Paul Saints, champions of the American Association, may have to yleld the “little world series” title to Rochester, but it won't be without a struggle. Beaten four times in a row and ap- | back yesterday to trounce the Inter- Despite their easy triumph, however, the Saints still were in a precarious position. Rochester, leading four games to two, needed to take only one of the ;h{ee remaining contests to clinch the tle. St. Paul collected 14 hits off Bell, Smith, Hill, Judd and Starr in the sixth game. Only Judd was effective. Brian (Slim) Harriss pitched steady ball for the Saints, although he was touched for 12 hits, including a home run with one on by Jack Bentley. \WRESTLING PROGRAM DUE FOR FULL HOUSE | Turner Booking Strong Card to Augment Steele-Shikat Match October 16. Busy on the four bouts to augment the Ray Steele-Dick Shikat match to be held in Washington Auditorium, Promoter Joe Turner expects to pre- sent one of the most attractive cards of the year October 16. Not since Rudy Dusek and Jim Lon- dos met here for the third time last | Summer has a match between major | caliber matmen been booked and the | prospects are that a full house will be the order. ing contenders for Londos' alleged title. | Steele last Summar defeated Shikat in Philadelphia after an hour and 16 min- utes of wrestling. The end came when Shikat spparently was ready to pin ecle. Phila. (A.L.) Bishop, 2b. . IMcNair, 2b. Haas, cf. . *Moore Cochrane, c. Simmons, If.-cf. Foxx, 1b. . Miller, rf. Dykes, 3b. Williams, ss. Grove, D. ...... Earnshaw, p. .... Mabhaffey, p. ‘alberg, p. Rommel, iCramer §Heving {Boley .. S R A AN S R Q) 5000000 0oRoRRLNO ML cocooooooRNWAILF WO cocoooo0000~ONOONE cscc0c0cca® Steele and Shikat are the two lead- | MARTIN CAPTURES A'S IMAGINATION Rival Team Adopls Crowd’s View, Thinking Pepper Is Whole Card Crew. BY GAYLE TALBOT. Associated Press Sports Wiiter. HILADELPHIA, October 8 —Con- sider the sad case of Bill Hal- lakan, the player who failed to pick his spots. Here he's pitched a pair of the great- est ball games in world series history. Twice he's turned back the Philadel- phia Athletics, one of the most poison- ous clubs in base ball, allowing them |one run in 18 consecutive innings. The sad-faced portsider, in two superb ex- hibitions, has placed the St. Louls Car- dinals on the threshold of a world championship. And what did the erstwhile “Wild Bill” hear from 30,000 throats? What was the symphony that beat in his ears as he walked from the mound yester- day after throttling the omnipotent A’s for the second time? What did he hear? “Pepper Martin!"” 3 It's a situation probably without a parallel in base ball history. A squat, unheralded rookie outfielder has so captured the imagination of the multi- tude by the sheer brilliance of his play that they virtually overlooked Halla- han's Homeric hurling. Last year—al- most any year—Hallahan's name would have been on an assorted million tongues, But not while this Martin marvel is around. There is nothing in fiction to rival what this hustling mite from the Osage ccuntry has done in the past week. The feats cf Frank Merriwell and the Alger boys pale by comparison. They were good, too, but they weren't in the same class with Pepper Martin. They broke up many a ball game and foiled many a villain, but they never even pretended | to carry a whole world series arcund on their shoulders. Unless you had seen it, you scarcely | Would believe any one player could do | to a first-class ball club what Pepper | Martin has done to the Athletics. He | has demoralized what Ddase ball men regard as one of the most powerful teams of modern times. He has trans- formed the Cardinals from a good ball team into a rip-tearing, fighting cutfit that will be hard to stop short of a | world title. | years ago was riding “blind baggage” to reach his first training camp, impar- tially pounded the best pitching the Athletics have thrown against him, but by his dash and fire cn the bases he has worked the Mackmen into a state. He has Mickey Cochrane, one of the | | as a farmer in tornado season. | moment Martin reaches first Mickey de- votes all his attention to the problem of keeping him there, cr thereabouts. That's hard on a catcher. Without Martin on their minds, the Athletics might have done better with their bats. They've put in most of their time trying to stop him, or at least slow him up. Admits His Team Is on the Rocks NE publicity man for a college foot ball team hereab:ut docs not mince words in seeing gloom for his school this year. In writing of his team he said: “The green so-and-so team has | been knccked 2all over the gridiron in practice sessions. The scrubs are as good as the regulars and the latter are no good at all.” Composite Score of Big Series By the Associated Press. (FIVE GAMES.) H. 2B. 3B. HR.RBI. SO. BB. § Ry e v Pct. PO. A. g 1 cocoscocoocco000s0 soococoocoooo~ko00e cocoonoo00orRwNOONS HOOCoOONABOLNNI AL coccocooconNoaknoOn coocococooroan 161 12 35 4 §Batted for Walberg in eighth inni St. Louis (N.L.) ? AB. H. Hafey, 1f. Martin, cf. . Derringer, p. . Johnson, p. Hallahan, p. Grimes, p. Lindsey, p. Blades Mancuso §Collins cco00o0000uRNNNROo T ccoonooomubusanwmon sooc000oRoRoRNROS 0 3 11 33 17 21713252 *Batted for Earnshaw in ninth inning of second game. 1Batted for Grove in eighth inning of third game. $Ran for Cechrane in ninth inning of third game. ing of fifth game. fBatted for Rommel in ninth inning of fifth game. 2B. 3B. HR.RBI. 0 0 0 o0 80.BB. 3 ccoconormSNooNEoomNTD e e coocooccosinabtanown » cooconooounmoNOS OO O OOWN NN AW o cocococococooosocooon000 ‘Totals 172 14 44 10 Composite score by innings: Philadelphia el St. Louis .3 [ 3 32. Umpires—Messrs. Klem and Stark (American League). Time of games—1 Pitchers’ Phila. R. Grove o Earnshaw .. Mahaffey .. Hoyt ... Walberg Rommel G. ©OG IP. H M. 17 ®oo~n oooowm BPUan- mwano *Batted for Derringer in seventh inning of first game, tBatted for Johnson in ninth inning of first game. 1Batted for High in ninth inning of first game. §Batted for Lindsey in eighth inning of fourth game. Bottomley to Wilson; Bishop to Foxx. Left on bases—Philadelphia, ER. 6 ~|l cccococooocooroooonos | ococo0coco~co~000000M | 0 14 25 8 4 I 0 L 3 1 [ 1 2—12 2—14 Smm:es—Dyke;: Gelbert, Haas. Stolen bases—Martin (4), Hafey, Prisc] ‘Watkins. Double plays—Bishop to Willlams to_Foxx; Bottomley (ule)zukshd:‘: Prisch to Gelbert to Bottomley (2); Gelbert to Frisch to Bottomle 3 ; Gelbert to 6; St. Louis, (National League), Nallin and McGowan :55, 1:49, 2:10, 1:58, 1:56. Records. BB. 24 3 8 3 wmoooo ooe:aaa Pct. 500 WwaSun onmoh®, - ®ooco~ oooooo Becii-esbaisy DHHoO comommE MENAn O-O N 000 Not only has this hustler, who a few | greatest catchers of all time, as nervous | The | 0| Chance o bring in for Connie his 5 |no matter how the going has been on o | When Simmons lashes the leather over 0| sho BASE BALL’S $0 LONG As THE WILD WILL BE TROUBLE FOR MACK BY TOM HEN the Athletics stagger| into St. Louis today there will be Mr. Pepper | Pot Martin, the untamed | wild horse of the Osage County,[ waiting for them. Mr. Martin follows nobody into | |town. At least, he has not been| | doing it in this combat between | |he and Al Simmons, facetiously | termed the world series between | the Cardinals of St. Looey and the Athletics of Sleepy Hollow, Pa. | Mike Cochrane, catching ace of base ball, says that the untamed brone | from Oklahoma has no weakness. But | he has, gentlemen, and it is in the form of genuine ~disregard for the Mick’s hurling arm, and the Mackman | s mot able to do’ & thing about i, er. And when the Macks blow into Missouri today| no doubt, be sitting | astride what will look like Connie Mack's nanny goat. He wil be grinning and laughing at the funny pictures of Grove, Hoyt, Cochrane and one or two other Ath- letics who have tried to go through this series without snoring out loud. 1S HITTING AT EVERYTHING Mr. Martin, the burly rookie from the beef-stew leagues of Texas, has done something in this series which no man has ever seen before. And it is aside from his contempt for star hurling and polished opponents. That Pepper Pot has unbalanced the coolest cucumber in the game, Cornelius Mc- Gillicuddy. So upset him that it may cost the World Champion Macks a cherished wish, a third consecutive world base ball title. No fan had ever seen the serene countenance of Connie ever change the fleld before him. Connie’s face never twitches when Foxx belts them a mile, it never moves the fence and it is immobile when Grove' mows the batters down like a cyclene c¢n a spree. But, gentlemen, it moves when Pepper Martin strolls up to the plate and it moves plenty when the wild horse lays into that leather with his punchy shoulders. It is the tip off of what is dear to the old boy’s heart. He might be winning champion- ships with ponderous, truck-moving hitters, but there is a throb under his vest for the old speed he knew in his own playing days. 111 tell you he is rattled. And plenty, t00. I've watched Connte st in these little Eskimo huts for some years and I've never heard him raise his voice in speaking to an erring player. But he lashed into Bing Miller yesterday when the latter bunted unwisely at a critical moment. That bunt might have meant the ball game and Connle, ired, no doubt by the way a rockie kid was up the actual sluggishness of his ball club, blew into Miller until sp?rk. flew from beneath his managerial collar. Mack fiidgeted, gesticulated and shook inger at the ha) Bing, whi :ll':chr -m'an muhuu;mg and alarmed. A rookle outfielder fresh from the let- |to get a wallop when Martin goes into |day a great many of she | Leaguer, doffs his hat to George Earn- FOUR:ALARM FIRE ON TOMORROW. EARNSHAW AND GRIMES Two Two- HIT STARS WHO MAY CLASH TOMORROW To MAKE A SUPER- GAME OF A FLASHY SERIES, A TILT THAT witL EITHER TIE OR. HORSE (S LOOSE THERE i — a Slow Town A Fast Boy in Pep’s the Twelve O'Clock Rascal in a Nine O'Clock Series. DOERER: tuce beds of base ball has nettled the coolest, smartest major league manager. No wonder the old lion of base ball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, shakes his mane and wants to know where this :l,d phenom has been afl of the judge’s e. One player with only as much life as you would expect from a healthy voung ball player is upsetting base ball as it was never toppled by one man be- fore. He is causing his team mates to | hustle and the enemy to crawl within | a shell. Yet there have been beautiful | pitching duels, long clouting and bril- | liant catches. But they mean nothing | to the series’ thousands, who seem only action, There will be pienty to sy today that the Athletios’ reign will end to- morrow. After Pepper's display yester- customers are ready to believe that it is the Red Birds’ series, just as sure as Cal Cool- idge is positive about a certain matter. Wild Bfll Hallahan and Burly Grimes have knocked those Macks into a state of coma, and the wild hoss has kept them that way. Pep Martin proves that Philadelphia is just as slow as it seems. Buck Herzog, the old National shaw. “The _greatest hurler since Matty,” says Buck. “He pitched the best brand of ball Tuesday I've ever seen.” Buck ought to know. He has been watching these series things since | John McGraw came to the games in | knee breeches. “He was pushing the leather over like one of those cigarette machines roll out smokes,” said Buck. The Big Moose has allowed but four runs in five series games in two years. And he will likely be back tomorrow after some more. “The reason those Athletics look so | listless,” said Dynamic Doogan, the big | standout in the press coop at Phila- deiphia, “is because they are staying up at nights trying to figure out a way to beat that Martin.” “That fellow Martin,” Al Munro Alias, the figger filbert, is telling the world, “is hotter than a four-alarm fire in the cloak and suit belt.” Al Simmens, for the first time in his major league batting life, is hitting at anything. He reached out so far to hit that homer off Grimes Tuesday that the end of the bat nearly pushed Jim Bottomley off the But he’s the only Mack who is sending in runs. He has batted in 6 of the Macks’ 12 runs. And he is the barometer of the Ath- letics. Martin is hitting at everything. too. They have fed him low ones and hi there's 10 reason. If the Pepper can be kept keyed up and the Athletics' morale retains its resent status tomorrow the boys will able to come home to stay. It will be all over. And it is going to take all Winter to explain wh; j0se nine champ ball a]-yers from Sleepy Hollow were unable to stop one fresh kid from mak- them look like a flock of sleep- tourists. END —By TOM DOERER AND THE ELEPHANTS BACK IS T0 THE WALL,Too! Pepper Always “Hero” to Wife Stood on Soap Box to Cheer Him in High School Days—Cries When Series Throng Applauds. him” she said, “I simply sit there all thrilled and then my eyes get sort of misty. I can't help it. “But I never fear that he will get hurt. Tuesday, when he slid into dust at second base, & lot of people thought he was hurt. But I knew better. He has never been hurt playing ball. “Everything has just been won- derful here. After the game Tues- day we did some shopping and in the evening we saw a musical comedy."” Mrs. Martin says that after the series is over she and “Pepper” will leave for a deer-hunting expedition in Néw Mexico. “Johnny and I expect to get some one to care for our baby Alyne, who is 2 years 5 months old. When I was in the sixth grade in Oklahoma City Johnny was the best player of all the boys. I used to stand on a soap box and cheer him when he played. Then when he was center fielder with Okla- By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HILADELPHIA, October 8— ' Each time John “Pepper” Martin, the Cardinals' bril- liant center fielder, excites the cgowd into & cheering frenzy with his sensational steals a lump comes into the throat of his wife and she cries. Cries, that is, for the pure joy at the efforts of her husband, who has always been & hero in her eyes ever since they were sweethearts during school days back in Oklahoma City. Tall, dimpled, with a wealth of chestnut hair, Mrs. Martin sat in her room at a hotel yesterday, shortly _before she departed for Shibe Park, and beamed at the gx;t:mln; “Pepper” sitting beside “When the crowd starts cheering Facts About Hero Of Classic Series By the Associated Press. TY-SEVEN years old; born at Temple, Okla., February 29, 1904. Five feet 8 inches tall; weight, 180 pounds. ‘Went to school in Oklahoma City, attended Igving High, played on the foot ball team and then quit to take & job delivering for a shce store on & bicycle. Started base balling as a pitcher for Ardmore, Okla., 1923. lg(gzxmelaer for Greenville, Tex., Second baseman for Ardmore, Okla., 1925, until bought by St. Louis Cardinals and sent to Fort Smith, Ark., where he played shortstcp. YBeeonm“d baseman at Syracuse, N. Outflelder at Houston, Tex., 1927. Recalled to the Cards in 1928, but pinch runner. Outflelder at Houston, Tex., 1929, and at Rochester, N. Y., in 1930. Back to the Cardinals for the 1931 campaign. Guns, dogs and deer hunting his hcbbies. Married in 1927 to Ruby Pope, eleping with his bride just as she was of age. The Martins have s 2-year-old daughter, Mary Alyne. His mother, Mrs. George Martin, lives in Oklahoma City. Blake Harper, former manager of the Fort Smith team, who ncw has charge of concessions at Sportsman’s Park, nicknamed him ‘‘Pepper,” after seeing him skij ll’rn.mnd the bases and homa City I knew he was on his way to the big leagues. I never doubted it, but my family hadn't the same faith in him I had. “We waited until I was of age, and Johnny came for me two days after my 18th birthday, in 1927. We ran away and got married. “My family forgave us, but I had té go back to high school and finish my course.” (Copyright. 1931. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. OSTON yesterday beat Washing- ton, 8 to 1, in the Nationals’ final game of the season. Carl Cashion, Washington pitcher, was wild and inefTective. Georgetown University’s eleven smothered Willlam and Mary, 66 to 0. Hart, Wymard, Greer, Magner, Costello, McGrath and others were prominent in Blue and Gray's win. Gallaudet. downed Baltimore City College eleven, 17 to 0. Lawrence Phillips, who has been calling u'xje“ bugenu and _line-up changes through a meniphone at the Wi n ball park for a long time, and the originator of the idea, has been selected to handle the megaphone in the world series, Mat Matches ' By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio—George Calza, 219, Italy, won over Jack Washburn, 228, Salt Lake City, 16 minutes (Wash- burn for use of strangle holds). ONCE HAUGHTY K'S PLAYING IN A DAZE Meekly Submit to Severe Jolts Handed Them by Street’s Club. BY JOHN B. KELLER. PEEDING toward St. Louis, where tomorrow the John Leonard Martin base ball show will be resumed, the jubilant Cardinals, National League pennant winners, doubt- less consider everything over but the shouting, while the once- haughty Athletics, flag victors in the American League, probably are wondering what all of it is about. For the first time since 1926, when the Cardinals were 1 up on the Yan- kees after the third game of the series was played, an American League en- trant is on the wrong end of the stand- ing in the annual diamond classic, and, what is worse, the Athletics are on the wrong end in the current series for the e There the A's bel re the A's long, too, ju from what they showed in the (:gll'nt: games played on their home lot this week. Merely going through the mo- tions of playing ball much of the time, the Clan McGillicuddy was all but help- less against the peppery St. Louisans. It was a sorry-looking lot of Ameri- can League leaders that took the fleld against the Cardinals, and but for Man- Gabby Street’s lingness to gamble with his pitching the series might well have ended in Philadelphia. Against the top-notchers of the Ca: dinal pitching staff the A's never were in the running. Against the St. Louis second-string moundsmen scoring was extremely difficult, and only a wonder- ful piece of pitching by their one hurler who has been at all effective got the Macks by. Before the series started the Athletics generally were picked to cop the laurels easily. And it is no secret that they regarded themselves virtually unbeat- able, But their confidence suffered such a severe jolt early in the tussling that the American League champions have not been able to pull themselves ther since. Whether they will be to do 50 in St. Louis this week end questionable, very questionable. A once-powerful White Elephant ap- pears on the verge of becoming a meek and mild mouse. A GREAT thing in the Athletic's | favor was their long-hitting abi! | ity, it was argued by many who made the American League cham- | pions their choice to win the series. | The A's while not batting for a par- | ticularly high club average in the | league seasonr had socked many extra- base hits that told heavily against op- | ponents, those pickers of the two-time world champions pointed out. It was not the number of hits the A’s made, but the kind of hits that won so often for them was the contention. Quite true, so far as the Athletics’ progress toward the American League championship was concerned, but in this series with the e Mack’s hnvxyn n{rm'lez {n}:s not been so daxnmg. fact, e three games in S Park the Cards did the more solid slapping of the horsehide. Five of the twenty-one hits made by the Macks in Philadelphia were of the extra-base variety, three being doubles and two homers. Six of the Cards' twenty-six safeties were longer than singles, five being two-baggers and one a home run. And the Cards, more shifty and speedy on the base paths than the A's, got much more from their hits. The St. Louisans certainly looked far bet- ter than the A's as a first-to-third out- fit running in front of singles. In this series speed as well as smart pitching and sharp hitting is telling heavily and the Cards have it all over the A’s 80 far as speed is concerned. Tm'\’ said Wild Bill Hallahan couldn't come back for another win, but those ardent supporters of the A’'s had to eat their words yes- terday when the frail left-hander step- ped to the hill in Shibe Park to pitch & superb game and make Mack’s minions like it. Hallahan's control was good, he had plenty of sip on the ball and he un- corked a change of pace that had the A’s off balance much of the time. Four of the nine hits made off him were rather scratchy and had Third Base- man High heaved to the plate instead of electing to try for a double play that did not materialize after snaring Miller's bounder in the seventh the southpaw slabman very likely would have scored a shutout. Simmons would not have had a chance to score from third had High fired the ball to the catcher. ACK'S pitchers and pinch-batters yesterday were woeful failures. Hoyt was rocky throughout the six innings he toiled on the hill to take & beating, the left-handed Walberg was not impressive in his two rounds and Rommel had little more than nothing in_the ninth. That Mack pitching staff which was such a puzzle to batters of the opposi- tion in the American League campaign- ing appears to have dwindled to one good hurler, George Earnshaw. Mack lifted the left-hand swingers, Bishop and Haas, after letting Hoyt take his batting turn in the sixth and sent up McNair and Moore. Both subs were helpless against Hallahan in that inning, and in the eighth McNair fanned. Moore got & hit in the latter round, but it was a high bounder in front of the plate that did not come down in time to permit a throw to first. Heving and Boley were picked to bat for pitchers and Hallahan made both look foolish, winding up the game by striking out Boley. 'OTHING left to say about this Pepper Martin. So much has been written of that crazy, hustling Cardinal all who read must know he is “the” world series. More than al gkll'lefi, thedA"fh:eluud lhh.h in Phila. lelphia, an y went haywire every time Edeped to the front. Just a gouog, .working ball player, this SEALS INCREASE MARGIN Beat Hollywood, 7-5, to Become Two Up in Coast Play-off. SAN FRANCISCO, October 8 (#).— The San Francisco Seals. winners of the second half of the Pacific Coast e season, defeated Hollywood, first half winners, 7 to 5, last night to take a two-game lead in the play- off for the championship. \ San Fran first game, cisco took the 4 to 2. Elll'ood B T A AN S