The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

PHILADELPHIA, oct. wen I
still think our gang will win. but
am not so sure because Tuesday
~ mat fourth game our gang was
oue There swinging at a lot of stuff
ana getting nothing.
ihat fellow Earnshaw pitched one Of the
ssleatest games ever looked at. I never
ave seen one Of those perfect ball games
mean where no runner gets 70 FIRST
ase-put that game OF Earnshaw's VIII do
e until more perfect game Of ball
comes along.
Az was SO perfect sinRularly. that It vas
NiearS' can imagine that watching him
pisch was something like spending q day
a the Ford factories. After YOU nave
seen the first Ford tossed together In ten
seconds nat there can't be very much ex-
olement IN hanging around to watch the
next three million Fords made.
one inning was pretty much like the
next one. except to the Cards. who must
nave experienced growing sense OF fu-
eHilS as the innings clicked on. 1t wasn't
pail game. It was an individual effort
AGAINST a team Of National League cham
plons. and in the end the champions came
On looking altogether feeble and whipped.
one OF the odd things about baseball is
now one man-generally a pitcher-can
pull whole team out Of the doldrums
ana make them look like an all-America
squad Of Ben Tichnors. This is what
Earnshaw's pitching did Tuesday.
For the first time since the series
started. the Athletics scampered around
the field and swung their bats after the
manner OF a team that seemed to be going
somewhere. The old time experts who
used to saw that pitching is 30 per cent
Of baseball didn't oyerrate the situation in
the least. If anything they we're too con-
servatiye. Tuesday Earnshaw was prac-
tically 100 per cent Of the ball game
II II
A N exception should be made for
"a that little mug. Pepper Pot
Martin, the untamed Mustang Of
Usage. This bird continues to be
the outstanding hit of the show
and the best part Of him is that
he always has something left for
an encore. I can't remember q
world series where there has been
a performer who played with more
zest enthusiasm, determination and
effort.
Earnshaw would have had a no-hit
game Tuesday II It hadn't been for the
Pepper Pot. who made both of the
Cardinal hits and stole another base.
Connie Mack said Tuesday night he didn't
know whether Martin was the greatest
ball player he ever saw or Just rookie
gone wild For the moment it doesn't
make any difference.
The records speak for themselves. Mack
hasn't a pitcher who can stop him. nor
catcher either. Even the partisan Phila-
delphia fans rise on their hind legs and
cheer when he comes to bat or trots out
to center field TO take his place. In his
highest moments of glory. Babe Ruth never
knew such acclaim.
Through 1t all the Pepper Pot remains
terribly earnest and unconcerned. This
may be a world series with lot of dough
hanging in the balance to such men as
Frisch. Grimes and Hafey. but to the
Pepper Pot it is Just days work
After the game Tuesday. the Pepper Pot
Cards hadn't torn into Earnshaws pitch
ing. With tremendous youthful convic-
says: "Al that big guys got is a fast
ball and I've seen lot Of better fast balls
at Lnab
MO matter now warm the day is,
L ' all ball players wear sweat
shirts-heavy woolens to absorb the
perspiration and thus eliminate the
chance of colds in arm muscles. But
the Pepper Pot doesn't. He comes
out on the field stripped for action.
I like to watch him bat, No school boy
takes the lob more seriously i 0 or pioughs
into pitch with more aggression.
think 1t is, fact that. neither Grove nor
Earnshaw knows how to pitch to him or
what to expect from him.
The Pepper Pot has also got Cochrane
derfui catcher Old timers tell YOU he is
the best the game ever had. and maybe
he is.
He had a chance Tuesday when the
Pepper Pot rot the first hit off Earnshaw.
a single with one down in the fifth.
Pot set out for second and Slid into the
bag head first. kicking up enough dust to
screen major. naval engagement,
It is an anti-climaX to write that he
made a clean steal Of the bag. .Cochrane's
throw was bit low. not that it made any
difference. A perfect throw wouldn't have
got him.
TN like Connie Mack. I don't
Il know whether the guy is another
Cobb or has just gone nuts, but to
me he has been the most fascinating
figure I've seen in years. 1t has
been a positive delight to watch
him.
1t would be hard to pay him a greater
tribute than to say that in Tuesdays
game when his team was completely sub
dued he rose high above the wreckage to
share the days individual honors with
Earnshaw's powerful right arm. If he
does nothing else in the. series he has
time and as Mr.. Home Run Baker says
his only weakness so far seems to be his
teammates.