The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-10-03
81. Louis MACHINE,
TWOCAMES BEHIND,
REFUSES TO GIVE Up
George EarnshaW Limits Red
Birds to Two Hits in Last
Seven Frames
FLINT RHEM HIT Justify
Possibility That Athletics Will
Win One, Two, Three and
Four Looms

En- Route from Philadelphia to st.
Louis, Oct. 3.-(P)-Confident that q
change in environment will help them,
the st. Louis Cardinals speeded west
ward today to resume their worlds
series quarrel with the Philadelphia
Athletics at Sportsman's park, st.
Louis, tomorrow.
The Athletics, transformed by the
schedule from the home club to the
visitors. also went west today, but the
American league can do no better IN
the National league city than they did
cs home. If they do as well the series
will be over Sunday.
The worlds champions made it two
in a row at Shibe park by giving big
George Earnshaw an early lead, SIX
runs in four innings in clusters OF two,
then suspending their hitting n
scoring activities. AS the big Swarth-
more hurler was in excellent form,
any one of the two-run innings would
have been enough to win. The only
Cardinal run was a long home run
over the right field wall by George
Watkins, who plays right field Tor
the Cards when the opposition sends
in a right-hander to pitch.
Cardinals Kept Fighting
Although they never were I'm the
ball game" in the second contest OF
the series, the National leaguers
showed no disposition to give up the
baseball ghost, and their supporters
did not hesitate to say that, once at
their own homes and firesides, they
would give a good account OF them
selves.
In the first two games Manager
Connie Mack led his two aces, and
each took tricks. Bob Groves victory
in the opener was followed by an even
more impressive pitching performance
by his colleague in the second.
Running true to his schedule,
mapped out in advance, Manager
Gabby Street sent Flint Rhem in to
pitch the second game. The lad with
the big curve was forced into retire.
ment in the fourth inning after he
had been nicked for six runs-four
earned, and the other two made pos
sible through an error.
Jim Lindsey and Sylvester johnson,
two big right-handed pitchers, per-
fectly filled relief roles, neither per-
hitting the AS a safe hit, but when
they came in the Athletics were far
ahead.
American league players say that
when Earnshaw has control he is
practically unbeatable. There was
nothing wrong with his control in the
second game of the series. He forced
eight Cardinals to miss third strikes,
showed a world Of stuff the few times
he was menaced, and after the second
inning gave up but two hits.
Hallahan to Pitch
AS the ~conteSting teams devoted q
day to travel, speculation was rife
as to the probable pitchers for the
opening game at st. Louis tomorrow.
Manager Street said he would sum-
mon his star southpaw, wild Bill"
Hallahan, to the mound. Hallahan is
another pitcher who is almost n
beatable when his control Is working.
Connie Mack, as usual, kept his own
counsel. There were numerous sug-
gestiopS he would give Grove and
Earnshaw each a chance to repeat.
Should he consider this course i'm
practicable, the names mentioned fire.
quently in connection with the pitch
ing assignment for tomorrow will be
Bill Shores, q %youngster, and Eddie
Rommel. a veteran.
The second game of the series
brought q new record when Frankie
Frisch, in his first time at bat, drove
a double to left field. This was
Frisch's forty third hit in six worlds
series, passing the mark Of Eddie Col
line. made In six series, the last
in 1919.
Cautious Connie today warned his
players the series was not over and
that the most important question be-
fore the House of Mack was winning
two more games.
Gabby Street exhorted the Cardinals
to snap out Of it" and get the games
back.