New Britain herald., 1930-10-07
NACKMEN ONE GAME FROM WORLD TITLE
Can Close Series Of 1880 With
 Victory Tomorrow
by GEORGE kIRkSEY

by GEORGE KIRkSEY Limited Press Staff Correspondent
 World Series Special En Route to Philadelphia, Oct. (UP)-There was an intermission in the World series today while the two contend their battle in Philadelphia tomor- row.
 One game ahead, the Philadelphia Athletics needed only a victory in the sixth game tomorrow to retain their world baseball championship. One game down, the St. Louis Car dinals must win the next two games to regain the laurels they once held in 1926.
 The shifting tide of fortune in the present series has added thrills and cxcit ement the post season play-off hasn't known in four, long years.
 The Athletics swept through the first two games at Philadelphia, but the Cardinals staged a courageous comeback to even the series by talk ing the next two games at St. Louis.
 The series was tied and the fifth game deadlocked until along came Jimmy FoXx, pudgy- faced first base man of the Athletics, in the ninth inning and blasted one of Bur 1 leigh Grimes curve balls into the leigh Grimes curve balls into the | bleachars, scoring Mickey Cochrane ahead of himself
 | Twice now the Athletics have won | from Grimes on five hits, but the stout -hearted spitball pitcher was | far from a beaten figure as he 1 boasted. "I'll beat 'em vet, and when it will hurt most is that seventh game"
 Precedents for Athletics :. Only twice in World series his | tory has one team won the first two games lost the next two and won | the fifth as have the Athletics in the present series.
 In 1917, the Chicago White Sox won the first two games from the New York Giants, lost the next two and won the two final games for the championship. In 1921 the New York Yankees won the first two games from the New York Giants lost the next two, won the fifth game, and then lost the next three | The series was five out of nine games that year.
 The Cards are now in much the same boat as they were in 1926 when they won the world champion ship from the Yankees. After divid ing the first two games, the Cards won the third and fourth games, but lost the fifth, and returned to New York to finish the series with the Tanks leading three games to two The Cards then won the next two fol the title.
 wen win the next two as shor, as anything" said Gabby Street.
 'Eiellahan will beat them again {, even the series. Grove will have tt pitch for the As because we'll bea any other pitcher they have, ant we'll beat Grove, too"
 Resume of Series
 A brief resume of the outstandin; features of the five games played follow:
 First game-Athletics 5, Card inals ,. Long hits by the Athletics homers by Cochrane and Simmons triples by Foxx and Haas and dou ble by Dykes-each of which ac counted for a run.
 Second game--Athletics 6, Card inals l. George Earnshaw's super pitching, holding the Cardinals l. five hits, their only run being homer by George Watkins; Franki F'rischs error with two out and tn As leading 2-1, was the turnin point of the game, paving the wa for two Philadelphia runs. Third game-Cardinals ,, Athletic a. Bill Hallahan's great pitching i the pinches and Jimmy Wilson's in