The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-10
'RICHYHANDERS Will
Bring CCURTANDOWN
ON THRILLING SERIES
Baseball Championship At
Stake in Seventh Game of
1881 World Series
ATHLETICS ARE FAvORITES
Connie Mack Crosses Up Ex.
perts BY Sending Grove to
Mound Friday

st. Louis, Oct. 10-(P-The curtain
that flashed back 10 days ago on a
vivid world series drama started flut-
tering down Saturday, the play all
but ended.
Six games the world champion Phil
adelphia Athletics and the St. Louis
Cardinals have played, yet Saturday
the question of conqueror and con-
quered rested solely on the decision
of one ball game, the seventh and last
of the world series of 1881.
It came to an end as it began, one
OF the most exciting struggles In all
the history.
On one side was big large" Earn
shaw. the mighty right hand ace Of
Connie Mack's pitching staff. saved
by daring bit of strategy for this
one climax effort. Glaring at him
across the stage. backed almost off
the board by tactical blunders as open
to censure as Mack's gamble was 10
praise, stood bitter Burleigh Grimes,
the embattled spit-ball veteran. his
snarling, pugnacious features bristl-
ing under two-day growth of whisk-
erS.
Pepper Martin Too
There was another hero in the
piece, too, although the brightness of
his armor had dimmed a bit In the
reverses every hero must meet be-
fore right can triumph and justice
mete out its final award. He was
John Leonard Pepper" Martin. the
wild wahoo. lionized, feted. presented
with everything from watermelon to
q shotgun, all of which he would glad
~ swap Saturday for couple OF those
base hits that came SO easily in the
first five game of the series
It was just possible that Pepper"
the irrepressible. could throw off the
shackles Robert Moses Grove. the left
handler. placed upon his wrists and
ankles Friday in the Athletes to !
victory that evened the count at three
games all and forced the series into
seventh game for the first time IN
five years. True drama is like that.
And Pepper" still hitting ST., the
| bat that broke up three Of the six
ball games and was thunderous fac
tor in two others, still swinging. can
make or break the final act for the
Cardinals.
Once, more. in the rise Of the AS
back to a commanding position, 1t
was the strategy of the 68-year-old
Connie Mack, fighting desperately Tor
his third straight championship. per-
haps the final record Of his so years
in baseball, that turned the tide.
While the baseball world looked Fri
day for the appearance OF EarnShaw
the AS best bet to prolong the fight
Connie gambled with Grove. the
southpaw who won 81 victories in the
; American League last season. but who
was touched for q hits by the Cards
in two earlier games.
Cracked Second Time
Gabby Street. with two winning
pitchers, Burleigh Grimes and the
two-tine conqueror of the AS. Wile
Bill Hallahan, chose to send out
great big boy, 225-pound Paul Der
ringer, tllC 1OONAC, w NV cAAN VSANN -
a man. And for the second time II
, ;, the series the right-handed freshman
!, cracked after fine start, lost his con
: troll. and what might have been tn
deciding game flew right out OF Cab
+. bys window.
Robert Moses rarely has been bet
ter than he was Friday as he boome'
his fireball down the alley, held tn
Cards to five hits, only two OF then
put together in the sixth for the onl
run the National League champion
could score, completely vindicate
Comics judgment. Earnshaw tn
ace. seeking his second conquest t
match his work last fall, Is a 2 to
favorite to do just that.
The probable lineups.
, philadelnhia (A) st. Louis IN
!, Bishop 2b High or Flowers $
: Haas CT Watkins !
y Cochrane Frisch 2