White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-29
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The reactions of an a18lyear old
White Bluffs boy, witnessing for the
first time a World Series ball game,
are disclosed in the following letter
to his parents from Jack O'Larey, at
tending college this year at Springfield,
Missouri, and who saw the last two
games of the current series in st. Louis:
"For about four blocks around the
park the crowd was pretty thick. They
sold everything you could want at a
game and all types Of pictures, souven-
irs, cards, etc. We had fine seats, we
found, about five or. six rows back in
the lower grandstand, right above the
Cardinal dugout, between third and
home plate.
"By one o'clock the thing was pretty
well packed and when the game start
ed, the aisles were nearly all full. The
upper decks reaching from left to right
field via home plate, was solid and
several were up on top including the
cameras. They said the bleacI1ers were
full an hour after the gates opened, at
8 in the morning.
Frank told me that as soon as the
game was over in Philadelphia that
cinched another game in st. Louis,
j they began lining up in front of the
gate and stayed there for two days.
Bleacher and pavilion tickets are all
sold the day of the game.
!. EVERY one in St. Louis was pretty
sure that this was the last game. They
had Groves number and he wouldn't
stay very long and Earnshaw did not
have long enough rest. The way it
started it looked little that way
The AS went out one, two, three for
Cards didn't get any hits they were
snacking him hard.
J, "Then with two on, Umpire Nallin
called what every one thought was a
strike, ball. In about two seconds
, every Card was over there protesting
but it didn't do any good. Derringer
blew up after that and finally just
walked out. Street waved him over to-
wards the Jumps and he said some-
thing to him and then walked over and
sat down.
, "Of the procession that followed him
! in the box, liked the looks of Flint
Rhem the best. He looks like good
; one but they say he isn't a World
= Series pitcher.
/. "You should have heard the razz-
berry Nallin got after that very close
one. He was booed nearly as much as
Martin was cheered, which was lot.
Peppers not getting hit didn't af-
feet his popularity much and he got
an ovation whether going to bat or
taking his place in the field. The pa
pers were all full of his name and
about every window would have some
placard about him or advertising his
appearance at some theatre. He was
presented with some guns before the
game had his picture taken in all
types of poses and autographed about
100 balls, books, etc.
''Grove just worked along giving his
trousers a hitch and his cap pull
before every pitch and didn't have
bit of difficulty. He was given fine
support except from Cochrane, who
dropped lot. Every one else played
good ball. liked to see Simmons and
Foxx bat. They're big brutes and al
though they are not very fast they
got on lot.
II thought it was keen game but
Uncle Tom said it wasn't the kind you
see during the season as the tension
was too great for the finesse you get
ordinarily.
'St. Louis was mad that night at
the Cards for fizzling and they didn't
give them much chance in the next
and last game. Every one there, it
seems, takes his baseball pretty SER
iously.
''The next forenoon, with Uncle Tom,
went over to the Lindbergh building
and looked at the presents and things
Indy has received. We went to the ball
park after lunch. The crowd was much
smaller. OF course the bleachers were
packed and pavilion also. But the up
per grandstand was not very full and
the lower could have held more.
"Uncle Tom and I had couple of
box seats. They set down on the field
in front Of the grandstand We were
between first base and right field
pretty good place.
cit was a much better game They
couldn't do anything with Burleigh
Grimes as he was just going good. Bing
Miller was hitting pretty hard but
Cochrane was shown up pretty bad by
Wilson He dropped them and couldn't
hit thing.
"Earnshaw did some pretty smart
pitching after the first inning except
when he threw that fat one to Wat
kins The ball cleared the top of the
oavi1iOn nv about two or thraa foot