Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
GROVE IS FAILURE
AS GRIMES STARS
SpitbaIIer Yields but Two Hits
and Bats Effectively in
STOP Victory.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sports Editor, The Star.

HHILADELPHIA, october g.
r. When the current edition
4 of the world series got un-
der way it was the consen-
suS the Athletics handily would
defeat the Cardinals for two rea-
sons. One was that Gabby Street
had no pitchers in the same class
with Grove and Earnshaw. The
other was the reputed superiority
Of MackS maulers over any the
st. Louis outfit could boast.
With the fourth tilt of the set
getting under way today with the
AS a game in arrears as a result
Of the 5-to-2 sinner hung on them
yesterday through the brilliant
hurting of Burleigh Grimes, and
the heavy artillery of the White
Elephants spiked to the extent of
two Safeties, their supporters have
reached the conclusion their pre-
series dope was a bit damp, if not
downright OrenCneQ.
In successive games the mound stars
OF the American Leagues three con-
secutive pennant winners have been
outpitched by a wide margin, and all
the effective Slugging has been done by
huStling and ambitious set of Red
Birds, who are COMFORTING themselves
more like vultures than the glorified
chickadees they were represented to be.
When Grove got away in the opener
81 to \
up for the expansive total of IL hits,
1t was opined by the supposedly base
ball wise that he merely had suffered
an off day and would stand the Cards
on their heads the next time he faced
them. There followed a well pitched
game by Earnshaw. in which he had to
take the short end of a 2-to-0 count
because Hallahan hurled even better,
and now Grove has followed him in de-
feat, again walloped for an even dozen
safeties. and this time with deadly
effect.
YESTERDAY, in oppressively hot
i weather, before a crowd Of more
than 10000, which packed Shibe
Park, and included President and Mrs.
Hoover, single by Bing Miller in the
eighth round was the first hit the AS
were able to muster off Grimes. and
when Al Simmons rainbowed a pop fly
just over the edge Of the right-field
fence with q franked mate on base, the
redoubtable PhiladelphianS had tailed
for the first time in 20 innings.
The last tally they had manufactured
was In the seventh frame of the initial
combat at st. Louis last Thursday, when
Simmons propelled one of Derringer's
slantS out of Sportsman's Park. His
second safety of the set also was
circuit clout, but in the meantime he
had failed to get anything resembling
q bingle, which is not exactly what
might be expected of an athlete who
has captured the American League bat
ting championship two years in row.
Simmons, crestfallen as he must feel
over his failure to deliver up to ex-
pectations, has plenty Of company
among his mates, as Philadelphia
average of two and one-half hits per
game for the last two contests proves.
Yesterday the AS not only were baffied
as few teams of their hitting caliber
called Fall classics. but with the two
exceptions noted failed oeven get hold
Of the ball solidly.
AS result the Cardinals were called
on for no fielding fireworks and only
a couple of stops merited comment.
One was Sparky Adams clever handling
OF Miller's sharp bounder in the fifth
an arched liner from the bat Of Roger
Cramer who batted for Grove in the
eighth. Frank went through a lot of
contortions, including a sprawl, but the
catch was not nearly so difficult as the
Cardinal captain made it appear.
IN obtaining sweet revenge for the two
i lickings he suffered last Fall, despite
pitching hve-hit ball in each in
stance, Grimes yesterday fairly covered
himself with glory by tying the featS of
Ed Walsh, Mordecai Brown and Ed Ruel-
bach. all of whom turned in tWo-hit
efforts in the White SoX-Cubs series
back in 1906, the set in which your
Uncle Nicholas Altrock so distinguished
himself Some of the record books
credit Ruelbach with holding Comiskey's
''hitleSS wonders" to single safety, but
that is in dispute, it being claimed that
double obtained by Fielder Jones in
that battle was overlooked.
j., Grimes potentcy was not confined to
making monkeys of the AS with his
salivary shoots, however, for he was
an exceedingly prominent factor in at
tack, ably abett1ng the efforts of Pep
per Martin with pair of safeties. The
latter, with five hits to his credit in
the preceding two games, was the cy-
noSure of all eyes when he first stepped
to the pan in the second round, with
Bottomley on first base by virtue Of
pass. Martin came through impress
sively with solid shot to center that
put Bottomley on third and two runs
accrued when Wilson followed with
single and Colbert delivered long fly.
Grimes first hit, which followed, was
wasted, as Adams couldn't keep the
ball rolling, but there was far diff
ferent story to tell of his next bingle,
In the fourth frame. Martins second
STRAIGHT hit and seventh Of the SariaS
was a double lined against the fence
in right center, and sent to third
Hafey, who had opened the inning with
q single. Neither Wilson nor Colbert
could help at this stage, so Grimes took
the situation into his own hands by
whacking a clean safety to right for
another brace OF markers.
This didn't end the hitting off Grove,
who was in trouble in both the seventh
and eighth, but did terminate scoring
at his expense, for Lee Roy Mahaffey
was on the hill In the ninth when the
Cardinals concocted their final tally
through the medium Of a lusty double
had walked. Several other hard-hit
balls by the Cardinals served merely
to give williams and Dykes opportuni-
ties to distinguish themselves on de-
Tense.
THE Cardinals entered the combat
4 today jauntily confident of their
ability to upset the done and drive
another nail into the world title they
seek, but there was a fly in the ONT
ment, for it was believed they would
have to battle through the remainder
of the series minus strong defensive
efforts of Sparky Adams, who rein
jured a bad ankle in stopping hot
shot for q force play in the fifth inning
AyAx7 had 60 erlxrA Sxrau IN Tl0wnre