The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-26

Thus ended the baseball dynasty of the Athletics that had prevailed two years, and the incidents of It's dissolution were among the most dramatic of the year of sports. George Watkins hit the home run that beat the Athletics in that seventh game of one of the most thrilling world series Of ali time, but Watkins was not the man who won the series for the Cards.
 Grimes and Martin
 The characters who played heroic parts in that drama were an old gentleman farmer with n spitball and heart as big as washtub-- and q daring young hick hailing from Oklahoma, who for the mo- ment imagined himself cross between Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. and whose unprecedented exploits on the bases made the batterymen of the As think there was n flock of wild horses on the diamond.
 Grimes and Martin! What pie lures they furnished--old Burlcigh on his last legs pitching as he never had pitched before--and lit- tic Pepper diving headfirst into the bascs
 Heroic figures go scurrying through tho sports world with the passing years. but it will be q long time before 1 forget the exhaust ed Grimes squatting down on the mound between pitches in the wan Ing moments of that last struggle.
 And Martin, the nonchalance N. nhnira pitches of Earnshaw, Grove and Hoyt for n batting average Of .5oo and an inspirational average Of something more than 1000 per cent.
 simmons Best Batter These are glowing pictures. but in their intensity they were almod matched by other features of the diamond campaign. Babe Ruth fought Lou Gehrig to n tie with 4G homcrs to lead both leagues In the department of sock. And Ruth still remains the great story of the baseball world as he comes 10 grips with Colonel Ruppert over the matter of continuing that ESQ., 900 salary. But. to hurry along over the ground
 Batting supremacy of the Amer lean league, however, was won Tn n hard drive down the stretch by Al Simmons. In the other league Chick Hafey, Cardinal outfielder, won the honors by fractional point.
 Lefty Grove took his place among the greatest pitchers of all time by winning 3l games,
 Baseball in tho minors suffered d failing off of receipts and pay cuts were ordered all along the line at the recent meetings of the leagues at West Baden, Ind.
 The same economies were agreed upon by the major leagues Il short time later in Chicago.
 New Managers
 After long fight, Wilbert Rob- inson finally was deposed as man ager of the Brooklyn Robins m favor of Max Carey, and baseball lost one of It's most colorful and beloved figures.
 Jewel Ems was displaced as man. ager of the hapleHs Pirates by George Gibson, former Pirate catcher-and q few weeks later Ems was employed by Bucky Har- rls aB coach.
 Donle Bush was dismissed as manager of the White Sox, and Outneldcr Lew Fonsoca. after play ing the role of castoff for years, was named boss of the Hose.
 Rochester. most important unit in the powerful farm system by which the Cardinals are building baseball supremacy, won tho little world series" in n battle with St Paul of the American association,
 Important trades were conducted between Washington and the White Sox md the Cardinals and Cubs the Senators giving up Hadley. Hayes and Judge for Reynolds hnd Kerr, while the Cubs shipped Hack Wilson and Bud Teachout to the Cardinals for that same MT Grimes, qpriea hero