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The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Rochester Squares
Little World Series

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 2.-The
Little World Series was dead.
locked today as the Rochester
Club Of the International League
took the field against the st.
Paul team Of the American Asso-
ciation in the third game of the
minor league classic. Behind the
able pitching Of Herman Bell,
Rochester evened the series yester-
day by winning, 5 to 2. Bell con-
fined the association team to six
scattered hits. st. Paul won the
first game of the series.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Expensive Failures

Those were expensive failures
on the part of EIafey and VIII
son and two golden opportun-
tiles fled with their ignominious
faltering at the bat. AS it was
the Cards got two runs in that
frame. There were at least
two more in the making had
Hafey and Wilson been able to
at least single.
New let US skip on down to
the sixth inning, avoiding the
fireworks of the Mackmen's
bats in the third which every
body knows all about today
anyway. In the sixth inning
both wilson and Colbert rotted
at the bat with men in scoring
positionsA With Hafey on Sec
ond and Martin on first, didn't
Johnny Wilson dump a lazy fly
down to AL Simmons, whereas
any kind Of a hit at all would
have sent Hafey scampering
home to pull the Cards up to
within a run Of the AS?
Then Immediately after this
didn't both Hafey and Martin
steal, putting it up to Charlie
Colbert to advance them? And
what did Gelbert do? Wen tell
you what he did-he bounded
to williams who retired the SIDE
with golden opportunity No. 2
fleeing forever from the Car
dinal clutches.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Simmons Sews It Up

Came the seventh inning and
Cochrane's single and Simmons
home run which made the game
irretrievable for the Cardinals.
But this situation might not
have been so had the Cards not
fallen down in pinches in the
first and sixth.
And then in the seventh Jim
Bottomley could not come
through when FriSch was on
first and Roettger on third.
There were three distinct hitting
failures in the face of opportun-
ity knocking distinctly at the
st. Louis door.
They were expensive hitting
defaults, my brethren and SIS
ters, and therein can be seen
the difference between the OPP
portune-hitting Athletics and the
sluggish-hitting Cards who
cringed before chance which a
short baseball series seldom
gives a team.
Meanwhile there appears on
the horizon to be a possibility OF
another pitching /duel between
Grove and Derringer in Phlla-
delphia next Monday when
President Hoover will be a spec
tator. The way Judge Lands
has arranged this series with
two-day rests between cities
there is no reason washington
fans who go to Philadelphia
might not see yesterdays duel
re-enacted at Shibe Park, and
if it is, my friends, it will be
worth going that far to see.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
CARDS MUST HIT.
IN PINCH

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2.-Manager
Gabby Street lays the defeat OF
his st. Louis Cardinals in their
opener against the AS in this
years world series to the inabil'
ity of the players to get that
third hit"
In other words, Gabby feels
that if a hit could have been
collected, especially when two pre-.
ceded, his club would have had
Robert Moses Grove on the run
and would have won the game
despite Simmons homer later.
"We must hit in the pincheS
If we're to be returned the
winners in the following gameS,"
says Street. "OtherwiSe we
might rs well give up right
now, as the AS are either too
lucky or too good to keep from
getting all Of the breaks"
Continuing, Street had this to
say in the clubhouse after yes
terday's game:
"The kid Derringer pitched
great ball and deserved to win.
Nervous? Not q bit of it. He
was as cool as q cucumber.
1 probably will shoot him right
back at them. We're not licked
yet. The series has just started"
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
NICK ALTROCK
SAYS

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2.-Well, folks
and other people, Uncle Nick is
too old a rooster to start crow
ing now, but didn't I tell you
the AS would win? Follow your
Uncle Nicholas dope, then throw
away your rowboat and buy a
steam yacht. I haven't been
wrong since I used an oyster
fork to eat pie at Mrs. Astor's
coming out ball.
Derrringer started off pitching
like a fairy tale. But I knew
he would never marry the heautl-
full princess as soon as the AS
oiled I'D their bats. Still, I give
the boy credit for being cool in
his first world series game. A
guy that can strike out AL Sim
mons twice, must have been de-
Mvered by a penguin, instead of
a stork, and raised in q frigidaire.
Changed to Confetti
In the first inning, the Cards
landed on Lefty Grove like a ton
of bricks, but they only used
confetti after that. From the
second inning on, Lefty was back
on the gold standard again. It
is true the Cards batting aver
ages weren't damaged by Groves
smoke, but, 1 guess they were
waiting for a fire sale to get
any runs.
Twill let Ely CuIbertsOn and
Milton Work figure out how
the Cards could slam out
IL hits, and only collect two
runs. II ]. p. Morgan squand-
cred his assets like that, there
would be q rim on the bank.
Poor old Pepper Martin. who
was supposed to have very bum
leg, only whammed out three
hits. Pepper must have had
houSemaid's knee, which always
disappears on q Thursday after
noon.
In the ninth, Blades came up
as q dangerous pinch hitter, and
whitfield on three pitched strikes.
Still, he could have done worse.
He might have hit into a triple
play.
Well, Uncle Nick has added up
his score book, and had it au
dited, and the standing Of the
teams today is this:
Athletics, 1000; Cardinals, 900.
Well, with the first game out
of the way. us experts have to
start worrying about who will
pitch the second game. Connie
Mack has got to decide who to
pitch for his team, and from the
way the AS pounded Derringer
today, Gaby Streets problem is
who not to, pitch against them
next.
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st. Louis and PhiLLy
MnuOrs See ODevIeT

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2.-ComInis-
sioner Of Baseball KeneSaw M.
Lands and the rival mayors
were the leading notableS In yes
terday's crowd.
Their HonorS Victor Miller, Of
st. Louis, and Harry A. Mackey,
Of Philadelphia, posed for camera
sharpshooters before the game,
but the ceremony of firSt-ball
throwing was dispensed with, that
being reserved for President Hoo
yer when he visits Philadelphia
Monday,
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The game was very slow and
unintereSting, but I understood
the management took in the
neighborhood Of $165, ,00O-well,
they certainly took in the neigh
borhood.
The mayor was supposed to
start the proceedings by tossing
the first ball out into the field.
but changed his mind. With the
depression all over in st. Louis,
the city isn't throwing anything
away.
At half past the band played
"The Star-Spangled Banner" and
IS, 900 Americans stood up, which
gave the foreigners a chance to
get seats.
The Cardinals were the first
on the field. They wore Grim.
SON socks and crimson caps to
show that MIR. Streets team
was only partly in the red.
For twenty minutes a mys-
terious looking fellow had been
hanging around the home base.
Nobody seemed to know who he
was, but he finally turned out to
be the Fuller brush man waiting
to- sell the umpire a new whisk
brook with which to dust off
the plate.
Bishop was the first man TO
bat and struck out. He had de-
cided to knock a home run, but
at the last minute changed his
mind and the new one didn't
work any better.
The Cardinal batters Smacked
over three dozen of these leather
pellets into the bleachers which
were never returned. This is too
many 70 lose in one game and
Judge Lands hit upon a good
idea. Next season he's going to
cross all the base-ballS with
homing pigeons.
Cochrane then knocked u
grounder and took so long run
ming to first base that Connie
Mack wanted to have him
pinched for vagrancy.
But it wasn't Cochrane's fault
He had put his shoes on inside
out and the spikes were hurting
his feet.
The Cardinals now came to
bat and the first man up was
High, an ex-pIumber. He was
very absent-minded and swung
at the bali three times before
he discovered that he didn't
have q bat in his hands.
Lefty Grove fooled him in g
very novel manner. Instead Of a
baseball, he threw him q white
door-knob and struck him out
while High was STOPPING down to
look through the keyhole.
In the third inning the Ath
leticS had three men on bases
They would have had more, but
they only had three bases. and
under the new sanitary laws
you're not allowed to have two
men on q base. But something
had to be done to solve the hous'
ing problem, so Williams came
home and all was forgiven.
Philadelphia made four runs
in this inning but that wasn't
enough for Connie Mack: he
wanted more to feel safe. Connie
worries q whole lot. In fact, il
was Mack's worrying that turned
Judge Lands hair white.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Series Spectators
LOwer Prices Due
TO Hard Times

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2-The
good old days Of baseball ticket
Spectators are evidently gone.
A strip OF three tickets for
the coming world series games
in Philadelphia could be had
today for from $40 to $50.
Their face value is $3.50.
Two years ago a fan was
considered fortunate to get
three Of the tickets from spect.
lators for $50.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02

Three times the Cardinals
failed to come through at the
bat on occasions when one
single would have meant addi.
tional runs to them. In the
first inning Hafey struck out
swinging with FriSch on second
and Bottomley on first and a
moment later with Martin on
second and Bottomley on third,
Wilson grounded out to Will
liamS.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Ruth in Benefit Tits
For ChiLdren's Clinic

NEW YORK. Oct. 2.-B b e
Ruth, home run king of the New
York Yankees, will play in three
exhibition games in Los Angeles,
starting october 18. The pro
ceeds of the series will go to the
Marion Davies Chtidren's Clinic
in Los Angles.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Student FOregOes
COLLe0e For Horses

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Leo Sal
win, Is, and q recent entry ct the
Columbia University, quit the col
lege to become jockey for Elmer
Trueman, Laurel Stud Farms
owner.
Salwin has been riding since he
was years old.
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"I slept with that dog every
night" he told Simmons.
Cubs Blank CIaisOr
To EUeIa CitY Series

CHICAGO, Oct. 2-The Chi
cago city series entered its third
game today with the National
League club and the American
League White Sox each in pos
session Of a victory. The Cubs
yesterday blanked the White Sox
l to 0. The lone Cub tally was
scored in the last inning.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Al. SIMMONS
DUPLICATES
1890 FEAT

ST. LOUIS, Oct. Zine oyna-
mite in the bat of AL Simmons
exploded again in the first world
series game when the slugger OF
the AS repeated his opening
game feat of last year and blasted
the BAH out of the park with
Mickey Cochrane on base in the
seventh inning. What Grove is
to the AS in a defensive way,
Simmons is on the offensive. His
lethal bat has kept them in pen
nant races when others were in
a slump, and his hitting has
made him one of the most feared
Sluggers in the game.
Bothered with rheumatism that
settled in his ankles, Simmons
carried on in spite of legs that
might have kept others on the
bench and has been one of the
inspiring factors to the AS in
their business of winning pen
nants. A hustler, a wicked hitter
and great ball player he never
gives up on q ball'' as the
players put it. He may be fooled
by a pitch now and then, but
served to him second time he
Is likely to crack that same type
Of pitch over some distant fence.
Simmons is now serving his
seventh year with the Athletics.
He came to them from MiIwau-
kee, where he batted 1893 in
1923. and it took him two
years to blossom into a star.
He played in only "a games in
1924. but in 1925 he saw ser
vice in 152 contests, winding up
the season with an average of
.3OS. The next year brought star
dom for he finished with a bat
ting average Of 1856, and in
1929 he was voted the most valu-
able player in the American
League. He won the American
League batting championship in
1929, last year and again this
season for three titles in a row.
Off the diamond Simmons has
done some fine things and they
tell two stories about him that
serve to illustrate the type of
man he is. In 1927 he received
letter from a youngSter, asking
for ball autographed by most
of the players. The boy was
seriously i'll, and thinking that he
might be able to cheer him, Sim
mons not only had the ball signed
but personally took it to the
child'S home.
When he arrived q crepe was
being placed on the door.
This spring at Hot Springs Sim
mons, was tossing a medicine ball
about with a negro boy. The lad
took q step backward and stumbled
over his hound dog, which was
cavorting about. The dog suf-
fered q fractured leg and the boy
was heartbroken.
II slept with that dog every
night" he told Simmons.
At first Simmons was inclined
to laugh, but he realized that it
was a tragedy to the boy and he
bought him a new houn' dawg.
In 1925 Simmons was voted the
most valuable man in the Ath-
letics club, and was runner-up to
Roger Peckinpaugh for the league
honors. The fans Of Philadelphia
presented an automobile to him
when the vote was announced.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
PH|LA, FANS HAIL
VICTORY

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.--More
than 5000 Philadelphia fans,
massed around City Hall, received
word of the Athletics 60 opening
victory over the Cardinals in the
world series, with wild acclaim.
In other parts CT the city where
returns were coming in the en-
thusiasm was just as stirring.
When Lefty Grove got away to
a poor start and was hammered
for two runs in the first inning,
there were cries Of "they picked
out the wrong day to use Grove. I"
but that soon turned to shouts
when the Athletics got to Der
ringer in the third inning.
The height of the celebration
came in the seventh when Sim
mons hit his homer.
They're just too good for
the Cards or anybody else."
said q gray-haired fan.
One by one the bleacher line
outside Shibe Park Is lengthening,
there now being five customers
in place. The sale of bleacher
seats will not begin until 9 q. m.
Monday morning.
Shibe Park officials have mailed
about $1,000 letters to those fans
who have been allotted two strips
of tickets each, and they must
call for them tomorrow between
9 a. m. and 6 p. m. otherwise
they will be awarded to other
applicants.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
ST. LOUIS

lBatted for DerriAgee In seventh.
eBafted for johnson In ninth.
Stated for High In niHth.
phlHadelDhia. OO4O 90 . 0 O-6
81. Touis. ......... 3 OOOO 60
Runs batted in-BOttOmley. Martin.
Haas, simmons (3). FOxx (2l. TwO-base
hitp--MaFtln. Haas. Colbert. H0me run
Simmons. Stolen bases-Hafey, Mar.
tin. Double DIays-BishOp to Williams
to FOxx. BOttOmley (upaselstedD. Left
on bases-Phlladelphla 4; St.. L0mis, 3.
Bases on baIls-Off DerringeP, 3. struck
out-By DeFrlngeF, .; BY JOhnsOn, 2i BY
GFOVe, Z. Umplres-klem (plAtel, NalllD
flrstl, Stark (Sec3nd). and MeGowan
tthlEOs
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
NATURAL GOLFER

Walter Travis, one of golf's i'm
mortalS. held a club in his hands
for the first time when he was
35 years old. but within q year
was scoring in the high seventies.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
JUNIORS CASTING

The Virginia Juniors eleven
wants games with 125-pound
teams. Call Manager "Jinx" New
ton at Alexandria 1156 between
7 and 10 p. m. ...
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TEMPLE SEEKING

Temple BaptiSts want games
with 125-pound teams. Call Roy
Hunt at Potomac 2S0O.W, after
3 2. "a.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
FAIL To HIT
GROVE IN
P|NCHES
By BABE RUTH

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2. This
world series of 1881 imposes on
the Cardinals the same Difficult.
ties which overwhelmed them a
year ago. Tanning that powerful
hitting trio of Simmons, Coch.
rane and Foxx, is one problem.
Scoring many runs off Lefty
Grove, is the other. They failed
in both departments in the open.
ng game of the 1881 series, and
the American League champions
have again got away to win.
ming start.
thought for a few minutes in
the first inning that the Cards
had encountered Grove in one Of
his quite infrequent off days.
They tore into him, in that first
inning, as if he we're rookie Of
whom they had never heard.
Sitting up in the stand, almost
on a line with the plate, it struck
me that Lefty did not have his
usual amount of stuff.
Must Have Stuff
You know even a Grove can't
get by big leag-, hitterS on one
Of those days when he suffers a
lack of what ball players call
stuff.
B0ttomIey's hit in that first
inning was handled by Viii.
iamS, but the singles of ROte-
teger and Frisch, and Pepper
Martins double, were well hit
balls. 1t was an inning such
as Grove has but seldom, being
tagged for four hits by five
successive batters. I figured
he was due for q trOuncing.
Then he rallied fast. His
speed improved; his curve broke
more sharply, and he held the
Cards runleSS until his own team
had chalked up a two-run lead.
Then ] knew school was out for
the Cardinals, as four runs are
enough for Grove when he is
right, and he began to show
signs Of that, in the second
inning.
Fail to Tame Trio
Then, there was that other
problem of tanning the AS heavy
hitting trio. Foxx drove in two
runs with a single; Simmons
drove in two more with a home
run. and his batting ability was
good for another run when he
walked with the bases filled.
Derringer had to try to get
AL to hit At bad balls, and he
would not do it. So Simmons
gets credit for pushing three
runs over the plate, and FOxx
added two more. Haas sent in
the AS other run with double.
thought Derringer did a won.
derful bit Of pitching for q
rookie, who has had but a year
of big league experience. What
pitcher that boy is going to be.
Striking out nine AS in seven in
nings Is a remarkable feat, and
he got everybody on Mack's team
except Cochrane and Dykes.
The youngSter was in a tough
spot, in that third inning. and
it wasn't surprising that his con.
troll got away from him. But he
Steadied remarkably after this
poor inning and, though he had
runners on the bases in each Of
the next four innings. the only
scoring was the result Of one
powerful swing, by Al Simmons,
in the seventh.
I did not think it was a par.
ticularly thrilling game, though
both teams played errorless ball.
That one hand catch by AL Sim.
mons, which robbed Jimmy Will
son Of double, was the only real
thriller of the game.
My hat is off to Pepper" Mar
tin too. Here is another first
year man and he slapped a great
pitcher for a double and two
singles. Pepper was the hitting
hero.
look for Earnshaw and Hal
lahan in the second game and I
don't look for so much hitting as
we saw in the oYAayoor
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
Cards Only Partly In Red,
Socks and Caps Prove
By JOHN P. MEDBURY

ST. LOUIS Oct 2-Neary 10000 people turned out to see
first game of the world series The park so crowded
that oontortions who came late had sit his lap
The Washington times., 1931-10-02
CARDS FACE SAME DIFFICULTIES AS IN 193(
Hitting, Not Pitching Cards FGI in Crisis
Opportunity Knocks To Drive OUeT kNHs
Not Once: Three Times GrOUe Us. Derringer

ST LOUIS No. Oct. at appears from this Observer
viewpoint that the margin Of difference between the MACK
men and Cards in this series be found in the hitting
column Not so much the number Of hits understand as
but the teiness thereof So far the pitching has been
almost stando Where Grove showed more control Der
ringer allowed fewer hits Where Grove famed seven Der
ringer and Johnson II between them
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Then he rallied fast. His
speed improved; his curve broke
more sharply, and he held the
Cards runlesS until his own team
had chalked up a two-run lead.
Then knew school was out for
the Cardinals, as four runs are
enough for Grove when he is
right, and he began to show
signs of that, in the second
inning.
The Washington times., 1931-10-02

BOttOmIey'S hit in that first
inning was handled by Viii.
hamS, but the singles Of ROte-
teger and FriSch, and Pepper
Martins double, were well hit
balls. 1t was an inning such
as Grove has but seldom, being
tagged for four hits by five
successive batters. / figured
he was due for q trOunciI1g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-29
Glass Against Class in the
Election

WORKERS have something by vodng-f
capitalism the working merely and by casting
easily and will finally
oa movement of workers and farmers led by the Commu
mist Party who will establish their Soviet Government
None the less today and gain something by voting Com
murs and ONLY by voting Communist Let tell how and why
You know from your own bitter experience of the hunger that the
capitalist crisis has brought millions of workers and still millions
you
sary Inevitable its Causes and its cures But ONLY the Com
ers NOT NEcEssAPy II EXISTS becanse the csStaI class re-
fused the
the working class bearing the whole burden of crisis
But still the Communist Party the ONLY which has
workers struggle against this starvation There
have been all kinds of remedies" swop the Electric
capitalist pretending to grant unemployment nsurancebu he asks
the workers to for it!
The socaed socialist" party which really AGAINST socialism,
has switched around first standing for what
that wanted unemployment insurance to be paid by the bosses But
only TALKS and it does not FIGHT for anything
Only the Communist FIGHTS unemployment
at the entire cost Of the bosses at FULL WAGES and
You know that the Party workers
everywhere in struggle not
strikes against cus
to get Winter Relief of $3.50
pendent And only the Communists fight
diate aid and against eytcions
workers
Vote put in your city governments
where they will be able relief for the
jobess Without the Communists hunger
marches and demonstrations not the ng and miserable relief
now given by capitalist charity would
munst and the struggle into city governmental
Only the Communists organizing
striking against cuts! workers rail-
democrats and the fake Socialists
American Federation Labor which which
consents ana really puts cutsi supports
tne revolutionary trade unions of the
organizes industrial unions and shop committees against wage
Put Communists in office stkbeaking city govern
ents the police tools of the bossesi
voting for ANY republican, the notion
that they mot They are
ALL Tor capitalism and the you against
tansn and for your class is to VOTE
The capitalists have in cities
Communist Party off the BALLOT Do why
PROOF that not losing Communist
workers should want to put into city offices
the capitalists to keep out! the names
OF the Communist candidates in cities
off the ballot! - ~
workers should vote! They AGAINST GLASS;
And the only they
taIst class is to VOTE COMMUNIST!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-29
MO. GOVERNOR REFUSES
HUNGER MARCH DEMANDS

Council of Verona Monday night, at
mass meeting of the unemployed,
committee of unemployed workers
was elected and sent to the Borough
Council to present the demands
worked out by the unemployed work
ers of Verona.
Afraid to meet the delegation of
the unemployed workers, the Borough
Council had its meeting only for Is
minutes, and adjourned before the
committee arrived. Meeting the
Burgess the committee demanded a
special meeting of the council. In
face of the committee the Burgess
was forced to promise special hear
ing next Monday.
The demands worked out by a
committee of the unemployed were
unanimously accepted. The demands
read as follows: ID SIS a week for
married men and SO additional for
every dependent; 90 $40 a week for
single unemployed workers; CD no
eVictions of unemployed for non
payment of rent; "a noN ment on
mortgages, nor any foreclosures on
properties of unemployed workers;
go free rent, gas, light and water
for the unemployed workers; co. no
payment of taxes by the unemployed
workers; [76 free food an dclothing
for the school children of the unem-
ployed workers; 60 no discrimina-
ton of Negro, foreign-born or young
workers in giving out relief.
The Unemployed Council of Verona
is now preparing a huge demonstra-
ton for next Monday in front of the
Borough Council to demand immedi-
ate action of the demands of the
unemployed.