Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-03
HalIahan's Arm, Martins Bat
and BottomIey's Skill Save
Second Game.
WILSON NEARLY TOSSES
VICTORY AWAY IN NINTH
Throws to Third After Moore
Misses Third Strike and Mates
Leave Diamond.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,

ST. LOUIS, October 3-The sun shone
brightly today and there was music In
the Missouri air. Citizens whistled
cheerfully as they went about their
chores. Even Old Man Mississippi
seemed to chuckle softly as he drifted
placidly past the shores of the city.
The beloved st. Louis Cardinals, idols
OF this countryside, had turned at last
upon their tormentors.
1t seams that after all the National
League champions are not a sort Of
beautiful but helpless Trilby of the base
ball world, tripping dizzily about under
the spell Of that horrible Svengali Of
the diamond, the world champion Phil
adelphia Athletics.
Instead the Cardinals, after having
been hypnotized upon all but one i'm
portant occasion by the great Lefty
Grove in the opening game of this
world series, headed eastward TO-DAY for
the third, fourth and fifth games of
the series in Philadelphia on absolute
even terms with the naughty champions
OF the world, their mesmerizers in six
games last Fall
Dizzy in Ninth Inning.
The Cards, to be sure suffered from,
clzzlness few moments in the ninth
inning OF yesterdays game, second of
tne series. before the brilliant pitching
OF Wild Bill Hallahan, the hitting and
naSe running OF Pepper" Martin. and
>the defensive skill of Jim Bottonlley
nnally broke the spell and brought st.
LOUIS staggering to the finish line a q
To add to the impressiveness of the
| occasion from the Cardinal viewpoint
the Athletics hurler was none other
IMAM Big large" Earnshaw. Connie
Macks right-handed ace and the chief
tormentor of the National League cham
| pions last Fall.
Against all the Cards but Martin
Earnsnaw was just as good as he was,
| In 1880, when he beat them fwice ar5
pitched % scoreless innings in sncces-
sion. but with this cocky yo,lnester
VINO MT safely twice, stole two bases and
scored both runs, he could do nothing A.
an. Earnshaw allowed only six hits
Jour OF them in the first three innings,
"fllie HaIIahan held the AS to three
Wilson Tosses to Third.
Wnlle the pitching duel of Earnshaw
ano Ha4lahan, whose wildness after the
tniro inning kept him constantly pulling
OUT OF desperate holes, had the crowd
oI So,OUO In a state of tremor. one of
me widest finishes ever put to a world
S S game sent the fandom wandering
homeward wondering in a daze If the
Brooklyn Robins hadn't somehow crept
INTO the Cardinal uniforms
10 open the hectic ninth inning. Hall
!anan issued his sixth base on balls tn
J;tnmy FoxX. and with one out he gave
ms seventh to Jimmy Dykes. Young DID
WlA4ams, oVeranxious, famed and Con-
me Mack, making his final effort to
break the defense, sent the Texan lin N
Moore, to hit for Earnshaw.
FutClng everything he could muster
on the ball, Hallahan swept two strikes
past Moore. He whipped over a third
put Jim tipped it for a foul and
Jimmy Wilson, Card catcher. failed to
noIo IL. Then Hallahan fired a curve
pan mat seemed to break fully a yard.
Inc Dali bounced into the dirt at VIII
sons feet
Collins Realizes Situation.
Moore. realizing the third strike had
not been caught, dashed for first base,
and, to the amazement of the crowd,
wilson, instead of tossing to first for q
simple putout-fnal out Of the game
turned and fired the ball to Jake Flow
ers at third base. Apparently he chose
10 make force play on FoxX, who had
dashed for the bag with the pitch.
AS soon as Flowers caught the ball
the Cards fiocked in from their posi-
lions, believing the game over. Halla-
han raced for the dugout, and even
Moore stopped in his dash to first base.
Only Eddie Collins, Athletic coach,
vlsualized the situation Immediately.
Frantically he shouted to Dykes and
Foxx to hold their bases while he
chased Moore to first.
The daZed Cards wandered around
and finally received the umpire's deci-
sion that all hands were safe. The game
wasn't over. The bases were filled, and
Max Bishop was at bat Amid tremen-
douS excitement Bishop lifted a high
foul into corner of the field boxes in
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