Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-10
MARTIN IS STOPPED
AS GROVE COPS, 81
Witness of Derringer and
Mates Errors Settle
Issue.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.


is exactly what Grove old, and as a
result of his amazing capture the
seventh and deciding game of
this world series is left dangling
between the two strong right arms
of George Earnshaw and Burleigh
Grimes, the two-hit heroes of the
big week.
With Martin stopped for the first
wide open as Grove beat Derrlnger,
johnson, Lindsey and Rehm, to /.
Derringer and Lindsey both heard the
call of the wild and started forcing run
ners over the plate faster than the
doorlran could take up tickets.
Derringer, the Kentucky Cardinal,
turned suddenly into a stormy petrol In
the fifth inning after Flowers threw
wild to first and mixed up four passes
with two hits for net total OF four
Athletic runs. This broke up the ball
game with Grove holding the halter
around Pepper Martins neck, after the
manner of an ancient Roman captive
tied to the conquercr's chariot wheel.
You could hear the Western winds sing
ing or signing:
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the
Somewhere a bloke can get drink or
flash a dollar bill,
Somewhere the bands are playing and
there's laughter in the fold,
But old st. Looey knows no joy since
Grove stopped Pepper cold.
AS Chance in Final.
With the slashing Martin haltered
and collared, the Athletics now step
iof0 f7Ya 70 in
dope. For they have EarnShaw, the Big
Moose, alias the Swarthmore Scythe all
set to go after the Cardinals in the
final game and he has been rank poison
for the Red Birds for two years. They
have beaten him once, but even then it
took the flying spikes of Pepper Martin
to cut him down after he pitched a six
hit game.
On the other side of the argument
Burleigh Grimes has held the Athletics
to II hits in three games, terrific
pace, so if the past performance chart
Is working on any one of six cylinders
Earnshaw and Grimes should put on a
pitchers battle worthy of the Tyre that
Homer Smote, ITO Make Men Hear by
Land and Sea-"
Before taking up this matter in fur
ther detail it might be just as well to
record a few. of the sornbre facts con-
pected with the sixth game of this Sc
TIES. AS SHOW IL was complete mop.
Then the Motor Stalled.
The beauty and chivalry of ST. Louis
had assembled to the number Of 10000
on a dawless october day to see the
Cardinals mop up and close out the
show. For four innings they saw a
ball game, with Grove and Derringer
neck and neck. Then the tidal wave
broke, the blast went off, the mine
blew up, the murder occurred, the tor
nado arrived and the volcanic eruption
took place before 10000 highly excited
spectators knew the blackjack had
fallen across their domes of thought.
1t all started when Jimmy Foxx
tapped one to Flowers at third in start
ing the fifth inning and Flowers threw
wild. Bing Miller sacrificed and Dykes
walked. Then Williams, who had made
only two hits in the series and had
struck out eight times, hammered a
single that scored Foxx.
Derringer then famed Grove and
there were two out. Things were not
so bad. But Derringer, lacking the
control that made his namesake famous
in the old South, walked Bishop. This
filled the bases and brought up Mule
Haas. The count was three and two
on Mule when Derringer cut the corner
of the plate, possibly a trif1e low. Any
way, Umpire Nallin called it a ball,
forcing in another run, and then the
cyclone struck.
Mr.. Nallin Hears Plenty.
About ne-tenths of the Cardinals
surrounded Mr.. Nallin, bringing him the
telephone numbers and Office addresses
Of leading oculiStS. 1t was a matter of
an inch or two either way, but it ended
the ball game then and there, for Coch-
rane singled and Simmons walked and
there were four runs over the plate,
with Grove wheeling that fast one
through and getting better and better
inning after inning.
Sylvester Johnson took up the Cardi-
nal burden and he was followed by
Lindsey, who stepped into manhole in
the seventh when he walked one man,
hit another and allowed three hits
While Hafey was muf1ng an outfield fly
that sent two men across.
Here were four more runs, and by this
time the assembled multitude, so full of
Joy and excitement an hour before, was
beginning to yawn when it wasn't raz-
zing Nallin.
The Cardinals finally got run in the
sixth when Flowers doubled and Frisch
singled but that was only drop in the
ocean, piece of ice in the Arctic or a
grain of sand along the Atlantic Coast.
This was a ball game the Athletics
never had to win. It was handed to
them with the sauce and dressing all
prepared.
A Terrible Ball Game.
Outside of errors and bases on balls,
the score might have been l and l.
but think what might have happened
If you had got out of the market two
years ago? They still pay off on the
score in world series game. 1t was
a terrible ball game, the one big bust
of the series, and it lost most of its
Pepper Martin and brought the big
star of the series back to earth.
Martin needed only one more hit to
set new record of 10 safe blows in a
series, but he couldn't slip by Groves
fast one. He grounded out the first
time, lined to center on a hard drive
the second, popped out the third and
walked on the fourth. Here was the one
game in six starts where he failed to
shine, as he turned the job over to his
mates.
1t might be just as we'll for him to
resume his stuff in the final game if
Earnshaw is anywhere near his former
pace. The Swarthmore scythe has had
a good rest from the harvest fields and
ne has the youth that Grimes once
knew
Grimes held the Mackmen to a brace
Of hits on Monday Earnshaw held the
Cardinals to pair of singles on Tues
day and here they are face to face in
the deciding test of the series, the first
series. that has gone to seven games
since 1926.
In the meanwhile they have cut
Pepper Martins batting average from
.667 to ST.. This is something in the