The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-08
bY.>LOU|S HOPES TO
TAKE CHAMPIONSHIP
AT CONTEST FRIDAY
Performance of Pepper Mar
tin Without Parallel In
Baseball History
WINS GAMES SlNGLE-HANDED.
Wild Bill HalIahan, Superb
Lefthander, Has Beaten
Champs Twice
WINS GAMES SlNGLE-HANDED

Aboard the Cardinals Special Train
Enroute to st. Louis, Oct. 8.-(P)-The
)ne man show that is the world series
of 1881 moved westward out of Ameri-
IAN League territory Thursday and
.nto the land of the st. Louis Card
mails, practically the personal prop
erty of John Leonard Pepper" Mar
in.
Never in all world series history
not even in the heydey of baseballs S
immortal Babe Ruth has a single in
iividual SO taken unto his own eager
rrepressible self a drama of the mag
1itude of this world series struggle OF
The Philadelphia Athletics ana the
Red Birds from the banks of the Mis-
sissippi.
Five games have been played since
The world champion Athletics, over
whelming favorites to win their third
straight crown and set a new record
for series conquests, tangled for the
first time with the National League
champions week ago in st. Louis.
Today, as the series speeds westward
the Cardinals lead three to two in
games and restlessly waiting to ad
minister the coup de grace is this
same Pepper Martin, just about the
cause of it all.
There has been pitching, painstak-
ling by the big moose of the Athletics,
George EarnShaw, that for studied,
|painstaking brilliance has never been
surpassed in these annual inter-lea-
que struggles. The great warrior Of
the game, snarling, bitter, uncompro-
missing Burleigh Grimes, hurled an
|other two hit masterpiece And wild
Bill Hallahan, a superb little left
handler, round of face and frail of
body, twice has conquered the cham
pions of the world, once without a
run. allowing only three hits, and
again yesterday, 5 to /.
Martin Again
Singlehanded Martin has won two
of the three games that now belong
to the Cardinals. In the first game,
when Lefty Grove pitched a loose
victory, he hit safely three times
drove in one run and scored the other
Personally he beat George Earnshaw
in the second game, hitting safely
twice, running bases madly, scoring
twice. When the Cardinals were
trouncing Grove in the third game, he
led the way again with two hits. In
Earnshaw's great two-hit victory il
was Pepper who got them both.
But Wednesday, with the series
deadlocked at two games all, the pres
sure on full, the Athletics hitting and
fighting mad, tremendous advantage
or virtual elimination hinging OH VIC
tory or defeat, this wild wahoo came
into his absolute own.
Instead Of weakening, resting on
the laurels already won, letting some
one else go out there and win ball
game for change, all Pepper did
was beat out bunt, drill single into
left and hit the home run that smash
ed the gallant comeback of Waite
Hoyt, veteran Of a half dozen world
series conquests with the New York
Yankees. Moved up to fourth place
in the batting order, the cleanup posi-
ton, Pepper drove in four runs.
All told Pepper has driven III five
runs, scored five himself, hit for a
total of 19 bases and grand aver
age of .667 for the world series sc
far. His IL hits, four of them doubles
already equals the record for most hits
In world series. Opposed by the
might of the Athletics, it has beer
as amazing a performance as send
ing out one man to win a world wal
and having him do it.
Any0ne's Game :
It was anyone's ball game Wed.
nesday as AL Simmons, doubling t<
the scoreboard to open the second anc
smashing a single off Hallahan's lel