New Britain herald., 1930-10-01
Simmons Homer In Fourth for Philadel- phia Starts Winners Toward Lead-Double Adds to Advantage By Scoring Another Tally for Team.
Pitching Duel Turns to Easy Victory as Haas Triples and Sacrifice Scores Him-Boley Exc cutes Tight Squeeze Play for Score.

Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Oct. 1 (AP)-Setting a world series record, the worlds cham pion Athletics combed Bur leigh Grimes for five hits, all for extra bases, and converted them all into runs to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5 to 2 in the opening game of the cham pionship battle today, before a crowd of 32,295 fans, includ- ing President Hoover.
 Although the National leaguers slammed Robert Moses Grove, southpaw ace of the As for total of nine safe hits. they were able to score ia gonly one inning while the world champions made every hit off Grimes count.
 Home runs by Al Simmons and Mickey Cochrane, triples by George Haas and Jimmy Foxx, plus rous- ing double by Jimmy Dykes com DilCo to ol1lC tlC <alIlCllSS VII SAi- umphantly in their fight to retain the world baseball championship.
 Al Simmons home run over the right field wall in the fourth inning and a two base drive against Nthe center field stands in the sixth by Jimmy Dykes, scoring Max Bishop, enabled the American leaguers 70 overhaul their rivals in the pitching duel between Bob Grove, southpaw ace of the As, and the veteran Bur- leigh Grimes, spitball artist.
 These two spurts overcame the registered by the Cardi- nals when they rapped Grove in the third for four hits and { pair of < runs.
 Excitement in Sixth
 The sixth innning produced the most excitement of the game as Grimes fought to stave off the at tack of the As. With one out, Bishop walked and raced all the way home on Dykes wallop to distant spaces for a double. The St. Louis pitcher kicked vigorously on deci- sion by Umpire Moriarty behind the plate but nevertheless retired Cochrane on strikes. Simmons was purposely passed to the accompani- ment of roar of booes from the crowd but it was good strategy as Foxx was a astrikeout victim for the second straight time, ending the inning.
 The Cardinals had obtained six hits in as many innings off grove, while Grimes limited the As to three extra base blows. In both the fourth and fifth, Cardinal base runners got as far as second but failed to ad- vance any further.
 Again, in the first half of the seventh inning, Grove was pulled out of a hole by some great infield work by Boley and Bishop as two more Cardinal hits went to waste.
 A crowd of close to 3S,000, the parks capacity, including President Hoover and a distinguished party of government officials, gathered to see he Major League champions open the classic battle for supremacy with their two acknowledged hurling aces in action.
 Macks selection of the great Grove, leading pitcher of baseball for 1880, ended days of speculation and any prospect that the veteran pilot of the As contemplated sur prise choice. This time the surprise was that Mack decided on what the experts considered was logical selection.
 Whether it was the chilly weather, making topcoats extremely comfor- table, or the fact that World ser les in Philadelphia had become an old story, the big crowd manifested like the enthusiasm mark ng the return of the As to the heights of baseball year ago.
 Crowd Still Coming
 The stands at game time, were not quite filled to capacity but fans were still pouring through the turn stiles.
 On top of the roofs of houses facing the park, outside right-center field, approximately 2,500 additional customers looked on from tempo
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