The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-06
PHILADELPHIA Pins
FAITH ON EARNSHAW
TO AVERT DISASTER
First Time in Five Years Ma
tional League Has Had
Series Advantage
MACK, SILENT AS EVER
BurIeigh Grimes Holds Down
Opposition Hits in Mas
terful Exhibition

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first time In five years, the Nationa
League, represented by the st. Loui!
Cardinals, held a world series advan'
tage today over the champions Of the
American League.
III as many ways as the situation
could be diagnosed, these surprising
Red Birds of Missouri had the Phila'
delphia Athletics, world champions
for two straight years, OH the run
They lead in the series, two games tc
one, the first time a National League
club has done that since the Cards OF
1926 took two of the first three games
from the New York Yankees and IL
nally won the series four games to
three. They have beaten Connie
A1ack's great pitching duo, Lefty
Grove and George Earnshaw in sue
cessive games. they have all the better
of pitching strength, strategic posi-
ton. psychology and greatest OF all
winning impetus.
Tuesday veteran, Connie Mack,
seeking his third straight world
championship and the fifth series
title in row for the American
League, faced situation truly des-
perate.
Against the chart of the Cardinals
he had but one bulwark to throw up
against them-"Big large" EarnshaW.
# the Red Birds can beat the great
riehthander as they did in the second
game, then there is not a baseball
man in this hive of series excitement
and conjecture who will concede the
AS the slightest chance OF cacnmg
st. Louis in the final three games.
Mack Is Silent
The ancient Mack, silent as ever,
and showing more and more OF his ID
wears as he watches the breakdown
of the machine the baseball world
hailed as invincible only week ago.
was faced Tuesday with the problem
of making quick and drastic repairs
before it was all too late.
There also were reports that connie
had decided to replace his regular
centerfielder, Mule Haas, with Roger
Cramer, young substitute. The
Mule has not been hitting. But II
Connie were to yank the members OF
his club who had quit getting base
hits he would have to send nine sub
stitutes against the Cardinals IN the
fourth game of the series here Tues
day.
OnNe again it was the same old
story yesterday.
Bewhiskered and vengeful. seeking
to balance the scale for the two five
hit defeats plastered on him last year
by the AS Burleigh Grimes. snarling
his hatred added another pitching
masterpiece to the three hit to 0
shutout Wild Bid Hallahan doled out
in the second game of the opening
contests in st. Louis.
AS if the presence OF the president,
who in five games never had seen
the Athletics defeated. were not
enough to insure victory, Connie sent
Lefty Grove. the long left handler with
the tremendous speedball, to pull his
burning brands from the fire. And
eight innings later a youngster named
Leroy Mahaffey was doing Mack's
twirling, Grove was all but in tears in
his shower. and the AS were still
feebly reaching for the offerings of
the blasphemous Grimes.
Get Two Hits
They got to Burleigh for two hits,
one of them Al Simmons towering
home run with two out and one man
on in the ninth innings, as the Cards
belted Robert Moses for IL hits and
four runs before Mahaffey came in
to win 5 to 2.
For seven innings the veteran faxed
spitballS at the helpless AS and baf-
fled them with hts curve and control.
There were visions of a no-hit game
and gradually the crowd swung to the
side of the gallant warrior. They
wanted q no-hit game, something
never before accomplished In world
series history.
But the right hand master of the
dead art, the spitball, passed Jimmie
Foxx to start the eighth and was
faced with the problem Of sacrificing
personal glory for the good of the
team. Rather than take chance on
a rally, he pitched to Bing Miller to
make him hit, following the strategy
that with one out, a ball to an in
fielder might mean a double play.
Burleigh gave Bing pitch trifle too
good and the right fielder banged it
for clean single.
The tension frightened. Grimes hac
equalled the world series record of the
New York Yankee southpaw, Herb
Pennock, who went seven innings
without allowing the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates hit in 1926, and now had only
the record Of one hit in q full nine
inning game set by Ed Reulbach Of
the Chicago Cubs against the Chicago
White Sox in the series of 1906 to
shoot at. He got the next three men
on flies
Grimes Was Ill
Grimes, who had been III late in the
season and was not considered we'll
enough to start the opening game,
had to have a "crick" pulled out of
his neck before he could come out to
pitch the ninth. He got two men on
grounders and then passed Mickey
Cochrane. A few seconds later A.!
Simmons reached for a high ball on
the outside and slugged it over the
right field wall.
Burleigh's shutout went with that
soaring ball and so did his vision of
one-hit game, but the two hits he
did allow placed him in the choice
company Of six great hurlers who
nave performed that feat in world
series game.
Gabby Street, recent convert to
connie Mack's theory Of silence,
would not name his starting pitcher
today, but he can afford to gamble.
Either sylvester johnson or Jim
Lindsey, both right handlers who have