Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-09

inning affair in 1924.
Earnshaw Expected Call.
But the dopesters and the fans
were not alone in their surprise
occasioned by the strategical
maneuver of the Mackian Ma
hout, for George Earnshaw con-
fided, while waiting for the
players bus after the game, that
he felt confident until the last
minute he would be called on, and
Ehmke himself admitted he had
entertained but small hope Of see
ing service.
But while the gentry supposed to be
in the know Speculated as to whether
Mack again would pass up Earnshaw.
regarded as his best bet, in favor o.
Jack Quinn or Ed Rommel, his othe!
two seasoned right-handers, or risE
using Southpaws Grove or Walberg, 1t
generally was agreed Pilot Mccarthy
would pin his hopes on Pat Malone,
who, with % victories, led all National
League hurlers in the course of the
campaign and fell but one win short OF
the total compiled by EarnShaw.
That Mccarthy made no mistake in
nominating Charley Root for box toll
in the initial combat was attested by
his feat In limiting the mauling Mack
men to q pair of singles over the first
two-thirds OF the route, with but one
Of the visitors getting as far as second
base, while the Cubs collected twice as
many bingles of Ehlnke and on one
occasion, In the third, occupied third
and second bases with only one out.
Fox Gets First Hit for AS.
II was the 2l-year-old Jimmy Foxx
who made the first hit off Root, in the
second inning, and reached the midway
left when Boley drilled into double
play, who single-handed produced what
with perfect play would have 3een the
only tally Of the pastime.
Displaying the same keenness of eye
and power Of arm that enabled him to
afnass a total Of 80 home runs during
the season, Foxx connected with one OF
Roots hooks in the seventh inning and
sent it soaring into the bleacher stand
alongside the scoreboard in distant CEN
ter field as the close to $4,000 chilled
fans in Owner Wrigley's spacious PARK
vocaEy hailed the greatest individual
exploit Of the combat.
Catches Punctuate Monotony.
Up to that point so effective were the
rival siabmen the.fans had little to en-
thuse over, although Dykes tumbling
grab of hot liner BY Stephenson, SIM
mons one-hand nab Of Taylor'S foul
against the stand In left field and Will
sons shoeString catch of liner at the
expense Of Simmons had punctuated
the nonotony.
The pair Of markers registered by the
AS In the ninth were out-and.out gifts
fumbled successive Founders from the
bats Of Simmons and Foxx after Coch-
raYle had hooked single to right field
OF Bush, the tallies accruing when Bing
Miller rified short through the box
to center.
AS it turned out. these markers. or
at least one of them, was essential to
Philadelphia's triumph. for the Cubs
horned into the run column In their
half Of the final frame when rift APP
peared in the previously impregnable
defense Of the AS.
= Heaves Bali Into Dugout.
Ehmke had just resumed hurting
after handling smoky smash from
Wilson. when Cuyler bounded to Dykes
and the latter, in his haste to head OF
base wild heave into the Mackian dug
out. Stephenson promptly came through
with the productive blow. and when
Grimm followed suit the Athletic adj
herentS became apprehensive. Ehmke
had sunk to the turf after stopping
Wilson'S crash with his bread basket.
and although he elected to carry on. it
was feared his effectiveness had been
impaired.
The tension was partially relieved
when Blair, batting for Gonzales, drilled
into force play. but Charley Tolson,
another emergency swatsmith was yet
to be commended with. But Ehmke then
turned on the same stuff he flashed in
the third, when he famed Hornsby and
wilson with two Cubs on the runway,
and again in the seventh, when he
whitfield Pinch Hitter Hartnett. also with
q pair Of mates aboard. The graduate
Der IS on Ehmkes record list Of strike