Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-09
GAVE ONLY IS HITS
DURING Is FRAMES
Held Rivals ScoreIess ~
Straight Innings-Matty
Did 1t for FL.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, October g.
M There was only one noni.
i Y nation today for the player
most entitled TO enter the
ranks of world series heroes.
He is George Livingston Earn
shaw, New Yorker by birth, Phila-
delphian by adoption and achieve
ment, alumnus Of Swarthmore
College and right-handed iron
man" pitching ace Of the world
champion Athletics.
Earnshaw Is 30 years old now. long
past the day when he used to hear the
old college cheers, but he still parts his
hair in the middle and looks the part
Of an undergraduate. He was . great
foot ball player as well a. q star pitcher
In college. He Is the greatest right
handed iron man" In base ball now
and entitled to rank with such famous
old-time stars as Joe McGinnity, Colby
Jack Coombs and big Ed Walsh.
Pitched Is Innings.
After sharing the pitching "big act"
with his teammate and co-star, Robert
Moses Grove, most Of the way, Earn
shaw wound up in blaze of pitching
glory by hurting Is Of the last 10 in
nings for the AS. Earnshaw broke up
what was expected TO be o repetition
Of the fifth game "act" with Grove by
sticking till the last man was out, even
though 1t was q struggle, while Grove
continued to make gestures in the bull
pen.
Earnshaw altogether pitched Is In
nings against the Cardinals in three
games, beat them twice, and held them
scoreless for the first seven innings Of
the game which Grove finished in St.
Louis, and received oficial credit for
held his rivals scoreless for ~ innings in
row, which, In q day and age featured
by the so-called Jack Rabbit ball,
stands comparison with the remarkable
record Of Christy Matheson in pitching
~ successive shutout innings against
the Athletics In 1895.
Allowed Only - Hits.
Mathewson allowed IL hits IN the
three shutout games he pitched against
the Mackmen Of IS years ago. Earn
runs in the IS innings he worked against
Grove, who scored two victories
against one defeat, pitched q total Of
10 innings, during which time the Car
dinals collected IA hits and runs.
Only three of these runs, however, were
earned, the other two being due to an
error by Dykes.
Al Simmons was the most consistent
Of the Athletics at bat, hitting safely
in five Of the six games as he lived up
to the best traditions Of the leagues
batting king, leading the regulars Of
both teams with the stick. Simmons
had the long-range support, however,
at various times from Cochrane. Foxx.
as well as Dykes and Miller, who staged
hitting come-backs in the final game.
Foxx struck the most potent and I'm
portant single blow, when he fred his
nome run into the st. Louis stands IN
the ninth inning to decide the critical
fifth game.
For the Cardinals, 22-year-old
Chariey Colbert. appearing In his first
world series, was a sensation at bat as
well as in the field, reaching spectacu-
lar heights in the two victories scored
by the Red Birds to even the series nj
81. Louis. He led the Cardinal repu-
lars ut bat and handled 20 chances
without q slip-up In ak games, making
Q number Of sensational plays "a
ground balls.
Bottomley Fans 0 Times.
Sunny Jim Bottomley, Cardinal frxt-
sacker, was the biggest disappointment
Tor the Cardinals ct bat, striking ont
nine times as he fell only one short Of
the record OF ten made by George Kellv
OF the Giants in 1921. Bottomley prob
ably has played his last game In q St
LOUIS UNIFORM, the general expectation
being that he will be traded before an
other season rolls around.
Lnree great fielding plays stood out.
Perhaps the most spectacular was Bot
Lomleys one-handed catch Of Foxx,s
Ioul, as he leaned far into the tempor-
airy held boxes for the ball In the third
game. MAX Bishops fine running catch
OF Douthits short ny In the fourth
game, taking the ball over his shouIder
on the dead run, and Frank Frisch's
amazing stop and throw out Of Mickey
COcnrane IN the nnal game were the
otner sparkling defensive contributions.
Inc series was remarkable, too, for
the effectiveness and long range Of the
athletics hitting In all Of the games
they won. In the first two contests at
home, the AS made every one of their
II hitS figure in producing IL runs
After lapse, they won their next game
on q pass and FoXx's homer-"two for
one" Then In the last battle, the
world champions scored seven runs a
seven hits, all for extra bases, beattnw
the record they set IN the openay -
tailying nve runs On i've extfaAeaSe
drives.
There were total d EIGHT home
runs. six By the AS and only two by the
Cards, but only twice were men on
bases when these circuit clouts were de-
livered. These were the drives BY Fox
and Dykes Simmons and Cochrane.
with two homers each, led the list.
Douthit and Watkins contributed the
home runs for the Cards.
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