Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
CARDS TAKE SERIES.
BY BEATING MACKS,
4 TO z, IN 7TH GAME
Grimes and HalIahan Turn
Back Athletics, Defeating
George EarnshaW.
WATKINS HOMER PROVES
DECIDING HIT IN BATTLE
Receipts fer Seven Contests Total
$1.030,723, But Last-Day
Crowd Sets Low Record.
BY ALAN GOULD.

ASSOCIATED TICSS CpO'tS 1-cAfoA'
SPORTSMAN'S PARK. ST. LOUIS,
October 10-In finish that alternated
thrills and chills for the home forces
The Cardinals recaptured the banner of
the world base ball championship to-
day. bringing 1t back 10 the National
League and st, Louis after lapse OF
five lean years.
The National League champions, in
A spirited comeback. conquered their
nemesis. none other than George Earn
shaw. Gnd whipped the Athletics, to
9 in the seventh and deciding game
of the prolonged battle. 1t gave the
Cardinals the decision, four games to
three. duplicating their margin OF tri-
umph over the Yankees in 1926.
Old Burleigh Grimes, the 37-year-old
master of the spiCball was the hero
Of the final victory for the high fly-
ing Red Birds. He scored his second
triumph of the series over the Mack
men to avenge his 1880 setbacks, but
weakened in the ninth and was re-
leTed by Southpaw Bill Hallahan. The
southpaw, who twice had whipped the
Athletics, came to the rescue with two
out the tying run on first base. and
ended the game by forcing Max Bishop
to fly out to Pepper Martin.
Burleigh Kept Fighting.
1t was an exciting climax. as the AS
put on a belated drive with two out,
due mainly to the wildness of Grimes,
whose strength was fast ebbing and who
appeared to feel the strain of hurting
with battered little finger on his right
hand, hurt by a line drive in last Mon
days game.
Old Burleigh, fighting every step OF
the way, outguessing and outsmarttng
the AS with his splitter. yielded only
five hits and no runs whatever in the
sluggers, Al Simmons and Jimmy Foxx,
looking foolish at the plate as he fought
to keep the four-run lead that his
mates, led by little Handy High and
George Watkins, had piled up on Earn
shaw in the first three innings.
Watkins had driven the small crowd
numbering only 20805 and occupying
barely half the stands-into a frenzy
with home-run drive over the right
field pavilion in the third inning. 1t
was the last hit of Earnshaw, but it
was the blow that decided the game and
gave Grimes the courage to bear down
with all the cunning and curves in his
repertoire.
Macks Fill the Bases.
But old Burleigh was feeling the
weight of years as the game drew to-
ward its close in somewhat drab fash
ion. His control began to slip and it
took all his craft to pull himself out of
hole in the eighth, after he had
reached his peak in the seventh by
striking out Simmons, FoxX and Dykes
The AS wasted two passes in the
eighth. and then Simmons. first up in
tai a n
peared all over when Foxx fouled out
to Wilson and Miller raped double
play ball to Colbert. Simmons was
forced out but Umpire MCGOWAN. at
first. ruled Miller safe on a close play,
and the Cards were checked as they
started to gallop off the field with the
victory they thought was won.
This break" was the signal for a
brief but exciting revival of the AS
sagging hopes. Dykes walked and Will
liams bounced a single over Highs head,
filling the bases. Hallahan was warm
ing up furiously on the sidelines.
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