New Britain herald., 1930-10-06
|GELBERT'S FATHER
 MADE HIM PLAYER
Son Of AlI-AmeriCa FOotbal!
 Choice Shines in Series


 series hero, to be a ball player. | When he was 6 he used to make my hands sting in game of catch" l boasts Charles s. Gelbert. 59 year old father of young Charley. the kid shoHstop of the St. Louis Cardinals and outstanding individual player thus far of the 1880 series. Gelbert's miraculous fielding and hitting played a major role in the Cards 3-1 victory over the Philadel- phia Athletics in the fourth game yesterday which enable the Nation- al league champions to even the series.
 The elder Colbert, who was foot | ball star at the U. of Pennsylvania in 1894, 1895 and 1896 and who was selected on one of Walter Camps l AllAmerica teams, told the United Press after the fourth game, that he couldn't be prouder of his boy if he were president of the United | States.
 "I wanted my boy to be a major league ball player" said MT. Gel bert. T played ball with him from the time he was able to talk It was one of the happiest moments of my 1 life when he came through in great style yesterday. The gentleman who sat next to me must be black and blue when I pounded him every time the kid did something" | Leads Team With Bat Gelbert, the youngest player on the St. Louis team, today was lead ing all players in the series with a games paved. He made six hits in 12 times at bat, four of them off Lefty Grove.
 His batting record:
 First games-Two singles in four times at bat.
 Second game-One single in three times at bat.
 Third game-One single in three times at bat.
 Fourth game-A triple, single and walk in three times at bat.
 Alb. R. H. Pct Colbert ..... 12 1 6 800 | Colbert has fielded flawlessly in every game, handling 16 chances l without an error. He has started three double plays, two of which broke up threatening Philadelphia rallies.
 Mack Praises His Work Perhaps the greatest money play of the series was made by Colbert in the eighth inning of the fourth game. With Dykes on first and one out, Simmons hit a slow, bounding roller which Gelbert raced in, field ed and nailed the runner at first.
 "Only a really great shortstop would have been able to make such a play as that" Connie Mack re- marked afterwards.
 In the first inning of yesterdays s game when Jesse Haines was pitch ing uncertainty, Gelbert broke up the only Athletics rally of the game by a spectacular stop and throw on Bing Miller's slow hit roller. If he had failed to make that play Haines might have blown up and the entire complexion of the game changed.
 "Gelbert's fielding was the out standing feature of the game" con- mented Connie Mack. He fielded several balls in back of the pitcher's s box which might have changed the entire game if he had failed"
 It was Gelbert's triple in the third inning-the first hit off Grove which enabled the Cards to tie the other two St. Louis runs.
 Learns to Hit Curves
 T caught a fast ball thrown on the outside right on the nose" said Gelbert, "and drove it with all my mighN Later in the next inning ] singled off Groves glove on curve ball. l used to be a sucker for a curve ball. but they have thrown me so many in the National league, es- pecially the Giants, in the past two years that l have learned to hit them better than anything else.'
 Only "A, Colbert halls from Am | bier, Pa. a suburb of Philadelphia. He attended Lebanon Valley college, where he starred at baseball and football. He made his professional debut with the Syracuse Internation- al league club in 1926, and played there part of 1927. He was with Topeka. Kan, the remainder of 927, and with Rochester International league champions in 1928.
 He joined the Cards in 1929 and made good almost from the very start. He batted BOA in 139 games the past season.
 Stars Despite Injury Gelbert is long and 1.-the and ex- tremely fast and graceful in the field. He has a scar on his righ, cheek. He pulled a ligament in his right leg in the third game and did this spectacular playing in yester- days game with his right leg taped from the knee up.
 Commenting on his play on Sim mons slow grounder in the eighth inning Colbert said:
 ''l didn't think I had a chance tc get simmons, as l was only d few strides away when I felded the ball I took a stride to recover myself for the throw after fielding the ball and let it go with everything l had"
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