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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-06-11
PROBATE COURT


The estate of Thomas f. Gordon
deceased, is not subject to inheri-
tance taX Gross value Of estate is
$1,000: debts and costs Of admin
istration, $1,097.71: net actual mar
ket value OF estate is $102.29, di-
vided equally among deceased's
children-Bernice Patterson, sylvia
Tysinger, Oliver and Raleigh Cor
don.
stephen A. Sharp. trustee Of the
Grace Adair, under the will Of John
5. Adair. deceased. files fifth and
final account, which is approved.
By terms of will, trusteeship was
terminated when younger child be-
came q years Of age. Said child is
21, and trustee and bondsmen are
discharged and released Amount
in hands Of trustee at time Of filing
account, $71S.S4. same to be dis
tributed as follows: Probate court.
$6: stephen A. Sharp for services
as trustee, $3.50; John Franklin
Adair, beneficiary. $51.42; Mary
Carroll Adair beneficiary, $301.42.
The estate OF Harlan d. Richard
son, deceased, is fully settled and
Emma ]. Richardson, eXecutrix, is
discharged. Compensation is al
lowed eXecutrix in the sum OF
$13O.59.
a. J. Sohenssen, guardian of
Thomas and Marjory Lewis, minors,
files first partial account. Same is
allowed and confirmed. Compensa-
ton is allowed guardian for care
and maintenance of ward, in the
sum of $287.15.
Dora Nelson is appointed admin
istratrix, with will annexed, of es
tate of Sarah c. Nelson, deceased.
Bond, 100000 Appraisers-Mor-
rison Scott, Ludwig Stegner and
Charley Brown.
Margaret Inman, executor of the
estate of Francis Walker, deceased,
files inventory which shows ap-
praisal of assets to be $1,064, of
which $714 is moneys, and $3.50
real estate.
The estate Of J. II. c. Smith, de-
ceased, is not subject to Inheritance
tax. Gross value Of estate is ST.
252.50 which passes to his wife and
their seven children.
In the matter of the estate Of
Annie z. McIntire, deceased, Kate
G. Finley files final account, which
is approved. The court finds at
time of filing account there is no
balance remaining in the hands of
Kate C. Finley, eXecutrix of H. NJ
Finley. who was executor of estate
Of Annie E. McIntire, deceased, such
funds having been receipted for by
T. j. Bailey, duly appointed admin
istrator de bonis non, with will an
nexed. Balance in hands of said
administrator, SS19.15 in cash and
5000 in securities.
The will of T. H. McLain, late of
Homer township, Is admitted 70
probate. BY its terms, all furni-
ture, books, pictures and violin are
bequeathed to Mrs. Mildred White;
TO May McLain, $500, cash; the re-
mainder of estate, both real and
personal, to deceased's brother
Charles II. McLain, who is named
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-06-11
ARTHUR TORBERT.
NOTICE

Probate Judge of said County
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Hafey Muffs Fly

Later, of course, Hafey
dropped Williams fly in the sun
and a lot more damage resulted
in connection with a weak in
ming, otherwise by Lindsey, but
the game was already lost and
tragedy has indeed overcome
the Cards.
Too, the day had to ulti-
mately come when Pepper Mar
tin would fail. Only his own
neighbors from Oklahoma.
blinded by loyalty, expected
Martin to keep going on and
on forever. He had defied
human frailty too long and
flouted Philadelphia pitchers
too often.
It was by far the best show
Ing Grove has made in the
series. He looked very shaky in
deed in his first game which he
won, and none familiar with
him at his best were mistaken
as to his being off form. He
looked no better in his defeat
later in Philadelphia, but in
tieing up the world series at
three games each. Grove was
his old self; the way we have
been accustomed to seeing him
in Washington and other Am
erican League points.
It is now up to Burleigh
Grimes to carry the National
League colors to victory. He
will face the Athletics today
in the final and most important
battle Of the series, and his task
will not be a light one, as he
will be up against George Earn
shaw, who, in breaking even
with the Red Birds in two
games, has held them to eight
hits and two runs in seventeen
innings.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
AS SRATED4 To 5
FAVOR|TES

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-The
Athletics of Connie Mack, who
is cunning for a record never
before attained by any major
league manager, still in
slight favorites to win the sev-
enth game and the world series
from the Cardinals today.
Today's prices, set by Jack
Doyle, betting commissioner, are
4 to against the White Ele-
plants, and even money against
the Red Birds. With George
Earnshaw, the iron man Of the
Athletics, regarded as a GER
tainty. to pitch the final game,
a majority of the bettors favor
the Mackmen, but there still is
plenty of money for the Card
inals in sight.
Yesterday those who bet on
the Athletics we're wagering on
Earnshaw, as everybody expected
he would be, Mack's pitching
choice, and Groves comparatively
easy victory came as something
of a gift.
Now, according to Doyle. the
bettors who backed Philadelphia
to win the series at yesterdays
pre-game price of 21a to l against
the American Leaguers, are "sit-
ting on top of the world with
an opportunity to win a little
and lose nothing or win a lot or
lose a little"
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

Derringer and Lindsey devel-
oped glass arms and every player
on the opposing team was a
Peeping Tom.
Gabby Street now realizes the
truth in that old saying, People
who have glass arms shouldn't
throw baseballS."
Martin Halted
Pepper" Martin didn't get any
hits or steal any bases. He was
a live wire up until yesterday,
but somebody must have turned
his power off. He did succeed,
however, in knocking out a few
flies.
But Connie Mack's boys
brought them down with fit
guns. Mrs. Martin never at
tends any Of her husbands
games. Pepper knows how to
smack the ball and he doesn't
want a wife sitting up in the
grandStand doing his driving
for him. /.
The Cardinals. were held down
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Nick Altrock Says:

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.-Young
Paul Derringer may have been
the Cards coolest pitcher all sea-
son, but they took him out of
the ice-box too soon for this
series. Then Lindsay started
forcing in runs in the seventh.
In order to save LindSey's arm,
Chick Hafey cropped an easy fly
and let two more romp in. In
yesterdays game the Cards looked
as if they'd run out of cocaine.
Well, today may finish it. up.
Statistics on the series so far
show I have travelled 5000 miles,
with another thousand to go,
probably by freight. I have eaten
a half ton of hot dogs and
written 40 reams of world series
predictions, 50 per cent of which
were wrong. I am still ahead of
the other experts, however. Most
of them have been 200 per cent
wrong with no discount for cash.
While all this has been going
on, Pepper Martin has accumu-
lated 100000 yards of pub
licity, five stolen bases, $500
square rods of still pictures and
III miles of news reel interviews.
There were no empty seats in
Sportsman's Park yesterday. In
fact, the end of the ticket line
wound up. somewhere in Kansas
City. The ticket scalpers can
sure thank Pepper Martin for put
ting the series back on a gold
basis.
Practically over night, Pepper
Martins legs became more ia
nous than Marlene Dietrich's. Pep
per has posed for so many
cameras he's got Judge Lands
jealous. The judge will have to
do card tricks or else produce
rabbits out of his hair to get back
the attention he used to draw.
Pepper even hogged the limelight
from Calvin Coolidge. For nine
days nobody has cared whether
Calvin was going to run again so
long as Pepper was on base.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
c. j. DISPLAYS
WIDE VARIETY

Utterly unable to stem the
surging tide of Catholic U. grid.
ders, who, resorting to a wide
variety of tricks, were tallying
touchdown after touchdown on
them for a 91-to-0 score, Gallau-
diets team Of silent players
fought back gamely all the way.
1t is the biggest score ever made
by c. u.
The Cardinals completely
dominated the play from the
opening gun, ripping through
the Kendall Greeners line,
circling around their ends and
occasionally flashing accurate
passes for yards and yards of
territory.
c. U. chalked up "a first
downs, while the Silents only had
one. Johnny Oliver, C. U. quar-
terback, started the riot by
streaking rs yards to a touch
down on the opening kickoff.
Oliver, Tom Whelan, Bus Sheary,
Bob McVean and Howard Cal
lender scored twice each, while
JankoWiski, DeMello, Fraatz and
Donahur had one touchdown.
Felix Ferris, C. U. end, broke an
arm in the last period and may
be out for the season.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
NJ A OK PRAISES
MAX BISHOP

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1O.-Connie
Mack picked Max Bishop as the
key man in swinging the tide OF
the worlds series battle in favor
of the American League today.
"GrOve was himself. That's
all there was to that" said
Mack. "But, before there was
any scoring, there were two
plays by Bishop which pulled us
through pinches that might
have changed the whole course
of the game.
"The way he fielded Frisch'S
difficult bOunder in that first
inning to make it a double play
may have prevented the Cardi-
mails getting q flying start. But
his best play was on Derringer'S
bunt in the third. He amazed
me not so much by getting to
the ball as fast as he did, but
by making the throw to first
for the putOut with his feet all
tangled up,
''It would have meant two on
base with one out and the top
of the batting order coming up
If it hadn't been for Bishops
great play. Later on we didn't
have to worry about bunts, but,
just then, it might have made
a difficult game out of it,"
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Peppers Hour Comes

So it is probably all right
that Peppers hour Of reckoning
came when and as it did, for
If he went down, certainly he
had plenty Of company in Der
ringer, Flowers, Hafey and
some of the other Cards. The
latter as a whole, played their
worst game Of the season when
they should have played their
best.
Despite Martins momentary
lapse in effectiveness, he re-
mains the darling of the series.
We believe that while it may
not have been good baseball
it would have been a great ges-
ture on the part of Grove had
he grooved a couple for Martin
in the ninth,
It would certainly be great
thing for baseball to shoot
Martin right on up to the
heights with a record for hit
ting in every game.
Baseball can use such a hero
this winter to keep the emberS
Of the game alive, but pitchers
usually don't have. imagination
enough to keep young kids on
their way with a harmless
throw down the notch to make
& winter of hot stove league
gossip for the good of the
game.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
SHOWS
GAMENESS

Mickey Cochrane, AS catching
ace, is playing on his nerve in
this series, and, in spite Of
stolen bases and his error yester-
day, he has proved that he is
greater catcher than everybody
agreed he was.
He is way under weight and
he has q severe charleyhOrSe
that causes pain every time he
tries to run.
He was sick with a stomach
disorder on the trip from Phila-
delphia to st. Louis and one Of
his fingers is bruised.
But he keeps on fighting in
spite of this physical condition.
He is giving remarkable exhibi-
ton of gameness because every
pitched ball requires an effort
by him.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

to five hits by Lefty Grove, a
southpaw from the North. He
put so many curves on the ball
that Gabby Streets best sluggers
couldn't have hit it with a pref
Eel.
Trouble in Fifth
The fifth inning was when all
the trouble started for the Cardi-
mails. The Athletics had so many
men on bases that first, second
and third looked like a tenement
district.
Gabby Street wasn't satisfied
with his delivery department
and was changing hurlers 50 Of
ten that the pitchers box
looked like a tourist camp.
The decisive game will be played
today and Pepper Martin says
he's going to knock the ball so far
that it'll cost nine dollars to mail
it back to st. Louis.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Last Nights Fights

At New York-Joe Sekyra, Day
ton heavyweight. defeated Jimmy
Braddock, Jersey City (10. Billy
TwnSend, Vancuveor, B. G., vel
terweight, defeated Eddie Ran,
New Work 1O. Steve HamaS,
New York heavyweight, knocked
out Tommy De Stephano, Bos-
ton (2).
At Rutland, Vt.-Frankie Lefay,
Troy, N. Y, lightweight, defeated
AL Bryant, Bayonne, N. j., (tech-
nical knockout when Bryant In
lureQ haOd)s
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Enthusiasm Is High
An1ONn Quaker Fans

'PHILADEL P HIA, Oct. 10.
Philadelphia fans are highly ex-
cited over the current world
series, which now gives the AS
an excellent chance of returning
home the winners.
Yesterdays victory over the
Cards caused more excitement
than any Of the other five games
in the series. Imposing crowds
) jammed around the many score
boards, telling the story of the
game.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Ruth ShOWs Martin
Art of AUtOqrQphiElQ

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10. - Babe
Ruth stepped down to the field
to give Pepper" Martin some ad.
vice on not straining his hands
autographing balls and score
cards. Pepper" was kept so
busy signing things handed to.
him by fans before yesterdays
game that he had little time for
practice.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
MACKS SCORE
ONE-S|DED
VICTORY
BY BABE RUTH


SPORTSM ANS PARK, ST.
LOUIS, Oct. 9.-The Cardinals
today saw the same Lefty Grove
whom the American League hit
ters saw during the regular PEN
nant season, and it wasn't any
surprise to see him pitch the
AS back into tie in the world
series. / expected Earnshaw for
this game and Lefty for the
finish, but Connie Mack appar-
emily knew that Lefty was right
again.
I figured as soon as the fifth
inning was over that school was
out for the Cardinals. When
Lefty is buzzing them down the
alley as he was yesterday, he
seldom needs four runs to win
his ball game. I could not be-
lieve that the Cardinals could
pound Grove again as they did
in his other starts because he is
too good a pitcher to be hit so
hard three games in a row.
I am wondering whether it
will be Hallahan or Grimes to-
day. BurIeigh pitched last
: Monday and HaIIahan on Wed
neSday. That would make the
Highlander the logical choice,
but they tell me his injured
finger on his pitching hand may
not be well enough for him to
pitch.
My choice to win the final
game is the AS, with Earnshaw
pitching. If they fail then my
hat is off to the Cardinals. It
won't be the first time I picked
the wrong team. said it wouldn't
surprise me if the series went to
the seventh game, though I fig
ured the AS would win in the
six.
I didn't think much of the
game except for Groves pitching.
The Cards made their errors
while their pitchers were wild,
and that made it one-Sided af-
fair.
Only two Of the eight runs
would have been scored on error.
less play, but that would have
been enough with Grove going as
he was this afternoon.
Umpire Human
didn't think the crowd was
very fair to Umpire Nallin. Even
If he missed strike it would not
have been worth all the hooting
and jeering that he took.
Whether he missed the ball or
not, it was an honest mistake,
such as they all make.
1 felt sorry that Pepper Mar.
tin did not come through with
hit or two, or do something
spectacular.
When a young player goes as far
as he did without failing to do
something remarkable in each
game, it seems too bad he failed.
But he already has done more
than enough to win a place with
the greatest Of world series play
ers.
I don't mean he played bad ball.
He handled his only chance
cleanly but he simply could not
hit one safe. Three times he flied
out and once he walked. 1t
seemed that everybody in the park
was there to see Martin do some
thing unusual and this happened
to be his one dull day.
Mickey Cochrane'S injured hand
and Lefty'S speed made a poor
combination in the ninth inning.
Mickey dropped four or five balls.
twice dropping third strikes.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
DOME Bush Resigns
As ChiSOE MANAGER

CHICAGO, Oct. 1O.-Owen
"Donie" Bush, as expected, has
resigned as manager of the Chi
cago White Sox. He has man
aged for the Sox for the past
two years, coming here from
Pittsburgh, where he piloted the
Pirates. Previously. he had man
aged the Washington Griffmen.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
ALC0vA PLAYS

Alcova Motors footballers will
tackle Engine Co. 5 of Alexandria
tomorrow at 2::30 o'clock on the
Arlington field. Manager Charlie
Deuterman, of the Motormen, re-
quests all his players to report
at 10 O'Clock.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Bergman to Address
C.. u. Alumni TOdGy

Arthur j. Dutch" Bergman,
head football cocah and athletic
director at Catholic University,
will speak before the C. u. alumni
at dinner tonight at the Uni
versity Club at $50 p. m. Others
to be heard will be Assistant
Coaches George Vlk and Forrest
Cotton and Joe Holman, director
of sports publicity at Catholic
University.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

History did a bit Of repeating
IN the case of Paul Derringer's
defeat in his second start of
the season. If you recall, it
was a ground ball to third
base that started his downfall
on the opening day, and it was
. similar blow yesterday which
wound up with a four-run mar
sin for the Athletics before the
fatal fifth inning was over.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Rochester Nine Wins
Little World Series

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct. 10.
BY scoring a 9-to-3 victory over
the st. Paul Saints, American AS
sociation flag winners, here yes
terday, the Rochester Red Wings,
winners of the International
League pennant, today held the
little world series title. It was
their fifth victory in eight games.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
AS IN STRIDE,
SAYS MICKEY,
SHOULDCOP
By MICKEY COCHRANE
Catcher Philadelphia Athletics

ST, LOUIS, oct. 10. We're
off now; the new Philadelphia
Athletics finally are. clicking as
they did while winning the
American League pennant, and
when the seventh game OF the
world series is completed this
afternoon nt Sportsmen's Park,
Connie Mack, and not Gabby
Street, will be pilot of a world
championship ball club.
It took the AS a long time to
get started. For five games
against the st. Louis Cardinals
we were just an ordinary ball
club, trying to beat an alert,
smooth working machine that
was geared too high by the
extraordinary efforts of one
Pepper Martin.
Finally Get Going
We weren't hitting and we
weren't fielding with the dash
and fire that enabled us to
sweep past the New York Yankees
and Washington Senators. Only
our pitching was holding up its
end.
But yesterday, faced with
the task of winning or relin-
gushing the title we'd won for
two years, we snapped into it.
We had to. BY the law of
baseball percentage we were
bound to get going sometime.
Just as it was in the books
for Pepper Martin to come
back to normal in his hitting.
A team that wins three conse-
cutive American League titles
can't stay in the diamond dold-
runs for ever. It has to hit its
stride sometime. And I'm glad
we came to before the Cardinals
had robbed Connie Mack of the
chance to realize his long
cherished dream of winning
three World Series in sequence.
"Wen VIM" Says Grove
Grove had only one worry. He
knew he was right but wondered
if his team mates would give him
a run or two to work on. You
known. no pitcher can win a
game unless he gets some kind
of batting support. After we had
scored four runs in the fifth
inning I walked off the bench
with Lefty and remarked that
we should win this one.
"Win?" said Lefty, Tn say
we'll win. With a fOur-run lead
they will never beat me-"
We had the old fight and be-
hind the sensational fielding of
Max Bishop and the aggressive
ness of Mule" Haas and the
others we can't see how the
Cards with Burley Grimes or Bill
Hallahan in The box can beat
us with George Earnshaw doing
the pitching for us. The playing
of Bishop yesterday was remark
able. I never saw such wonderful
fielding in one important game.
He was all over the territory
around the keystone sack and his
efforts made the rest of us
redouble our fight to down the
Cards,
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Than
TEAMMATES,
MARTIN
JOHNNY ("PEPPER"O MARTIN
OutfieIder, st. Louis Cardinals

Outfielder, st. Louis Cardinals
Copyright, 1881, by International
News Service)
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10.-Folks, ]
am no hero. am just a good
ball player trying all the time.
I didn't get into this series with
the idea of busting any records
or doing any sensational stuff
I've just been aiming to make all
the hits and runs I can to help
the Cardinals win-just like all
the other boys have been doing.
But I've been luckier than the
rest of them. They've been crack
ing that ball as hard as I have
but where the whole difference
comes in is that I'm banging
them to the safe places. Gabby
Streets puts it up to me to do
what think best while at the
plate or on the bases, but I al
ways talk over things with him
in advance of any game, just
like the other boys do, and he
"slnarts" us UP on what to do
or not to do-when the old criti-
cal moment gets around.
There was a sample Of that
in the ball game that we lost
yesterday. Gabby always lets me
take a swing when the count is
three balls and one strike, which
is what some managers won't let
their men do.
In the ninth the count was
3 to / in my favor. It was up
to me to do as I wanted, but I
halted the game and ran over
to Gabby and said:
"Want me to try to help the
team and work for a pass, If
/ can get it, or should / take a
crack at the next one and try
for hit?
"Use your own judgment"
said Gabby.
I decided to get on base in any
way that could. The next throw
was such a bad ball that I pro-
bably could not have reached 1t
with a good swing. But I knew
it was bad enough to make ball
four SO let it go by and got a
pass. Sure, I wished it had been
good so 1 could have taken a
crack at it and maybe smacked
out hit. But team play is first
of all with us; the records we
might make don't count. If I
don't make 13 hits in this series
and hang UP a new record, I'll
still be the guy that manufac-
tured a dozen.
Grove Tanned Him .
This fellow Bob Grove tanned
me plenty today. He got square
with me for humping him around
a bit in the other two games.
He sure was blazing that ball
down the alley at me and he had
plenty of stuff on it. He kept it
in close most of the time and I
never could get a good swing at
it. That's smart work.
Everything broke the wrong
way for us yesterday and we
had to take an awful lacing.
But this is another day. 1
think well be a more fighting
team today than ever before.
We can come from behind, just
as well as we can step out in
front. I have sort of hunch
that we will get a few breaks
today-and bust up that machine
like pitching of Earnshaw.
Hafey, Bottomley and Colbert
are certainly due for a little
hitting streak so are . the other
boys. I'll be in there trying with
all I've got and if I'm lucky just
once more Well all contribute
enough hits and runs to win
that ball game for Bill Hallahan.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Joe Sekyrd Victor
In ListIesS Ring Bout

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Joe
Sekyra, the man who unmakes
regulations, was ready today to
write some more ring history. The
Dayton. heavyweight defeated
James J. Braddock, of New Jer-
sey, in 10 rounds here last night.
The bout was dull and, the fans
clapped in vain for more action.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
HAWKS PREPARE

Brentwood Hawks will hold a
practice session tonight at 1880
o'clock on their field in prepara-
tion for their game with Palace
eleven In the Capital City League.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
STRIB SEES SERIES

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1O.-William
CYoung) Stribling, who is en-
gagged in a series of plane hops
around the country this week,
timed his schedule so he could be
at Sportsman'S Park yesterday.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
'REDS" ALTMAN STARS

"Reds" Altman, brother of Sap
Altman, former Eastern High
School star, starred for Gonzaga
Highs senior class in its victory
over third year B yesterday in an
inter-class football series game.
The score was 80 to 0.