Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
AS WILT D|SMALLY
AFTER FAIR START
American Leaguers off Color,
While st. Louisans Play
Like Champs.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

PHILADELPHIA, october g.
- There has been a noticeable
L lack of master minding"
in this world series between
Athletics and Cardinals, and as
the tussle for base balls premier
laurels progresses this is not sur
prising.
ALI the master minding" in
the realm of the diamond pastime
wouldn't benefit the AS, who seem
unable to create a situation where
a bit of inside stuff might help,
and the Cards have made such
fine Roadway with the old garden
variety of base ball that they find
Shrewd Strategems unnecessary.
Old Man Slump seems to have the
AS by the heels ready to throw them
for a stack of BARRACKS at any time,
while the National League champions
continue to startle even their most
ardent supporters by playing the kind
Of game 1t was thought could be played
only by the high and naughty Amer
lean Leaguers.
Thus far in the series the AS have
not looked their old selves at all, while
the Cards are q wonderful improvement
over the 1880 st. Louis edition.
GENERALLY hailed as sweet swat
~ tiers and packing q lot Of pitching
power before the battling got I'M
der way, Mack's minions have been
morning glories. Like that familiar
flower that blooms and blows so gor-
geously in the morning only to fold up
as the day wakes, the AS opened this
struggle for world base ball glory DASH
their National League foes, looking
every whit major league champions.
blaze by.
AS they have performed, the Cardi-
mails in every way deserve to hold the
| lead in the series. They haye been far
more potent in attack than their rivals
and on the firing line immensely SUI
perior. Holding two-games-to-one
advantage doesn't mean ultimate series
victory for Gabby Streets club, OF
| course, but unless Connie Mack's hire
lings snap out of it suddenly and move
along as they did during their Amer
lean League campaigning all the rec
| fire to be burned after this set of games
ends will fare along the banks Of the
Mississippi.
THE plight of the AS after the thirc
l. game of the series Is sorry indeed
| They have seen their unbeatable
left-hander, Robert Moses Grove, twic,
punished severely. They have seen thef
right-hand ace, George Earnshaw. tax,
a trouncing, albeit George pitched
ball game that ordinarily would win fol
his club. And they have discovered
that there IS some corking good pitch,
ing in the National League, pitching
good enough to restrict them to five
hits In their last 20 innings at the
plate.
Most damaging to the Athletics cause
has been Groves failure to produce tr
q pitching way. He managed to gel
away with q mediocre piece of pitching
his first time out, but yesterday he tool
q real licking. For the first time ir
many q moon Sir Robert actually wa.
driven from the slab. It might be argued
that Grove was lifted in that eighth in.
ming solely because the AS, with two or
and two out, seemed in a position Il
find the counting block. something they
had not done for Is innings.
Not so. Really the left-hander wa!
ripe for retirement long before. Connie
showed that he figured Grove hac
reaches The end of the string by send
ing Lee Roy Mahaffey to the warm-ul
pen in the seventh.
In taking that licking yesterday Grove
yielded all but one Of the dozen safetie.
and all but one Of the runs the Car
dtnals registered in their 5-to-2 success
Twice he was found for as many a!
three hits In an inning. and each TIM