Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
PEPPER IS MAKING
PULP OF MACKMEN
Cards Within One Game Of
Title Due to Rampaging of
Usage "WiId Horse"
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sports Editor, The Star.


TOHN LEONARD MARTIN to-
day is en- route to st. Louis,
~ where tomorrow he expects
to win the championship OF
the base ball world. Accompany
ing him are an assortment of ath-
leteS who also draw pay from
Owner Sam Breadon, and it is
possible they may assist Mr.. Mar
tin in the task, otherwise the
brash young fellow may do the
job all by himself.
Few there are who witnessed the part
Oklahoma's most distinguished resident
played yesterday in the humiliation OF
the Athletics at Philadelphia, on top OF
the annoyance he had caused them prev
iouSly, who will doubt Martins ability
to complete the rout of the American
Leagues three-time titleholders, least
of all the AS themselves.
All he contributed toward putting
the Cardinals within one game of the
bunting they covet was home run, two
singles and a tally-producing long fly
driving in all but one of the five
markers registered by the Red Birds,
which happened to be the margin by
which the Mackmen were sunk.
MARTIN was facing brand new,
M for him. pitcher in the veteran
Waite Hoyt when he first came
to bat yesterday with third and first
bases occupied by mates who had
singled. He also was batting in a brand
new position, the cleanup fourth hole,
to which he had been elevated by
Manager Gabby Street in recognition
Of his prior nine hits in IA times at bat.
Hoyt here stopped him, so far as
hitting was concerned, but his long fly
was responsible for the tally that got
the Cards off in front and during the
remainder of the afternoon they were
unable to get him out.
BY way of demonstrating his ver-
eatility the Pepper Pot beat out a
perfectly placed bunt, for single in
the fourth frame and that nothing
came of it was due merely to the fact
he was leading of.
Martin was much more appropriately
placed when he came up in the sixth
after Frisch had doubled and proved it
by hammering one of Hoyt'S heaves
into the upper left field stand for
pair of tallieS and the first Cardinal
circuit clout of the set.
Then in the eighth, with Watkins on
S&cONQ Dy Virtue VI d pass anu oIedL, llC
raped one of RUDE Walberg's offerings
to an unguarded spot for still another
tally.
Mickey Cochrane and the rest of the
AS are entitled to any satisfaction they
may have felt when Pepper was tagged
stealing a moment later, for 1t was the
first time in five efforts during as many
games that he was turned back while
a-thieving bent.
Martin had no part in the tally
cleaned off Ed Rommel, third Of the
Mackian moundsmen, in the ninth in
ming, for he didn't get a chance to bat.
Singles by Hafey, Wilson and Colbert
turned the trick here.
WHILE Martin was adding more gems
w to his unanimously awarded crown
as the outstanding hero Of the
series. Wild Bill Hallahan was doing
a very workms Mike job of pitching. The
frail left-hander was neither so wild
nor SO effective as en- the occasion OF his
first appearance, but until the seventh
session had allowed only three hits, all
by Al Simmons. and it was the last OF
these that paved the way for the AS to
avert another shutout at his hands,
the marker accruing when Foxx and
Dykes followed with hot infield smashes
that were recorded as hits.
Hallahan yielded two hits in each
of the eighth and ninth rounds, three
Of 'em also cracks that bounded on the
anatomy of some infielders, and OBJ
viously was weakening. but had enough
left to fan Pinchhitter John Boley for
the final out.
When this fifth game got under way
Martin boasted the top-lofty average OF
SAB, but before he got through for the
afternoon he had boosted the marx 10
.667 and he has furnished plenty OF
reason for believing the end Is not yet.
DACK on their own lot at Sportsman's
ID Park tomorrow the Cardinals un-
doubtedly will have to face George
Earnshaw, who hurled that two-hit shut
out classic against them Tuesday, but II
is significant that it was Martin VINO
garnered both of those bingles and on
the occasion of the big right-handers
first start last week he picturesquely
named Wild Horse of the OSageS also
chalked up a brace Of bingles.
Whether Burleigh Grimes had nm
ger injured in the process Of limiting
the AS to pair of bingles last Mon
day, or Paul Derringer from an alb
scessed nose. will be in shape to give
Earnshaw good argument tomorrow Is
problamatical, but the Cards have two
chances to end the reign Of the Mack
men as champions of the base ball
world and If Martin keeps his health
the chances are, all in favor Of them