Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
CARDS AND MACKS
RUN TRUE TO FORM
Older Loop Usually Shy Of
Relief Pitcher in Shape
to Help.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

ut. LOUIS, October 2-Since
1924 the National League,
~ through it's representative
club in the world series, has
Vainly been trying to win the first
game in the annual major league
Star-gazing show. st. Louis &C
CELEBRATED that record one year
more in the first game Of this
series.
In 1924, Art Nehf pitched for the
Giants. and they defeated Washington,
4-3, at Washington. in IL innings.
Washington won that world series be-
cause Hack Wilson struck out when the
world was ready to kneel at his feet.
So. after all the first-game charm did
not work out successfully. In 1925,
Washington won the first game from
Pittsburgh. and Pittsburgh won the
world series, which was finished in
second edition of the deluge and near
~ filled the hospitals with pneumonia.
So that evened matters a little.
In 1926, the New York Yankees won
the first game, yet st. Louis won the
world series because Old Aleck-Grover
Cleveland AleXander-after the winning
of the previous day relieved Haines and
saved the final game for the National
League. After that the YankS won the
first game in 1927 and also the series,
the first game in 1923 and also the
series, and in 1929 Philadelphia won
the first game and the series and re-
peated it in 1880. They have won the
first game in 1881. The fan is now
privileged to draw his own conclusions
as to the outcome this year.
IT appears that the National League
i sorely needs a pitcher in condition
to help another pitcher out, an
argument which will be hastily seized to
convince the country that the National
League is shriveling up because of a
drought. If the second game Of the
world series is as humdrum as the first
the public of the great Southwest will
need no sleeping powders the coming
Winter. There was a quite general hur-
rah for St. Louis after the first inning
yesterday when the Cardinals scored
two runs but after that the Cardinals
made hits but no runs. and this is not
national batting championship.
Gabby Street, the st. Louis manager,
went to the fight with Derringer, very
good first-year pitcher. but no match
for the left-hand cunning of Bob Grove
The latter has developed from a bird of
flight to a staid business when he is
pitching and the National League must
Candidly admit it,
For one inning yesterday the St.
Louis welkin rang. But when the game
was over there was no sound save the
mourning Of the turtle dove and the
voice of Connie Mack placidlv observ-
ing, "Oh. the boys did we'll today
DERRINGER started we'll, but he be-
~ gan to use a slow ball too often
and it was his undoing. Al Sim
Soo,oc r1Y1ro Valaj oil If tho warn In the
ball when Derringer threw very slow
one to him over the center Of the plate.
Simmons deposited the ball in the left
field bleachers> for home run.
The first was a game of very clean
fielding Jimmy Dykes did more than
his share for the AS, and, best Of all
made beautiful stop at third base and
caught his man at first. That was the
chef d'oeuvre of the game. Jimmy also
entangled himself in an argument at
third disputing a decision and per-
mitted a man to steal second right
under his nose. That was stupid.
Every run in the game was earned,
but when the Athletics earned four In
the third inning and assumed mastery
OF the contest the crowd didn't give
a WhOOp. 1t wanted runs by st. Louis,
earned or unearned. and the Cardinals
couldn't get them because Grove tight
ened up when he had to do so.
Some of the National League folks
arc respondent now.
Street said he wanted dynamics in
his team. He generated dynamics as
the Cardinals made u hits and the
Athletics II, but the Athletics made
runs to the Cardinals ..
When the game was all over Cy
Prime, who has been a base ball fan
all of his 60 years, said: They both
gan true to form" That sums up the
whole situation.
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