The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-10-02
ATHLETICS EXHIBIT
POWER TO SMOTHER
FOE IN FIRST GAME
PhiIadeIphians Come Up From
Behind to Beat Cards,
6 to 2
SIMMONS GETS HOMER
Losers Take Early Lead by Get
ting Two Runs From
Lefty Grove
SIMMONS GETS HOMER

st. Louis, Oct. 2-P)-Amid stead
lily increasing plaudits Of baseball
world that knows a truly great team
when it sees one, the world champion
Philadelphia Athletics have picked up
the thread of world series conquest
where they dropped it last fall.
The AS seeking a record OF three
straight series championships, whip
ped the st. Louis Cardinals g to 2
Thursday in the opening game OF
the annual fall diamond classic. One
1bgame, important at the start OF a
4 /hort seven game clash, still does not
mean ultimate victory.
It shows the way the champions
of the baseball world, rose up TO
come from behind. It was the old,
old story of Athletic power, admin
istered with crushing effect. steam
rollering the enemy into broken SUBJ
lection just when hope was Begin
ming to Sprout again.
Last fall the Athletics leaped up
on these same Cardinals in the world
series, blasting them apart at just
exactly the psychological moments,
to win their second straight world
triumph for Connie Mack. They en-
tered the first game of the 1881 pag-
cant a natura. favorite at 8 to 5. AND
today, facing the second and last
game here until three matches lave
been played in Philadelphia next
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
they stand a 4 to / choice to gather
in their third straight series conquest,
something never before achieved IN
the history of baseball.
A crowd Of 38,529, jamming flag
draped Sportsman Park to within a
few hundred of absolute capacity, pald
$165, 161 yesterday to see the Athlet-
les win.
Grove Faces Rookie
There was Lefty Grove, probably
the greatest southpaw of all times,
opposing a giant right handed rookie,
Paul Derringer, No. l man OF the
Cardinals and the first freshman IN
the major leagues ever to start the
opening world series game Tor MS
team.
The big rookie, bent to his task.
Four of the first six men to face him
went down, lunging futilely at his
dazzling curve ball. And in the mean
time the Cardinals, swinging from the
hip in desperation, climbed ABOARD
the mighty Grove.
There was something wrong with
the Great Lefty's curve and control.
In the very first inning, after he had
famed Little Andy High, substituting
in the Cardinal third base corner for
the injured Sparky Adams, Wally
Roettger smacked him for a single.
frankie Frisch shot a single into right
field on the hit and run play and Jim
Bottomley, the hitting bust of the 1890
clashes. promptly brought home the
first run with ar infield single. And
before the inning was over Pepper
Martin, the young center fielder, like
Derringer a newcomer to this sort OF
thing, banged a long double off the
right field screen and the second run
was over.
Some of the highest and widest
cheering and uproar any series ever
saw waited Derringer out there for
the third inning. His two run lead
bulked large as the grandstands. The
winning tide seemed finally to have
turned to the underdog.
Then it was that the House Of Cards
came topping down as the champions
turned their power loose on the rock
lie who had given too much of his
swift ones and benders blotting out
the AS in the first two inning.
Jimmy Dykes bounced a single over
third, first hit off the rookie, and Dill
Williams, sensational young shortstor
who ousted the veteran Joe Boley
from the champions lineup. cracked
q safe shot into right. Grove famed
for the first of three times and Ma,
Bishops grounder led to Dykes beine
trapped off third. Mule Haas beltet
a double into left and one run wa!
over. Mickey Cochrane walked.
Crowd is Tense
But there were two out and the bi,
crowd sat tense as Derringer, his lea,
fading. worked carefully on the out
standing slugger of them all, Al Sim
mons. The big youngster got tire
balls and two strikes on the majo
league hitting champion. One NOR
strike, even a ball hit so that a field
er could handle it, and Derringe
might have come through to hear hi
name sung today all over the basebal
world. Instead the crucial pitch wa
an inch or so wide. Simmons walked
And the deluge came with the run h
forced in. Big Jimmy Foxx ham
mered a vicious single through the in
field. another pair Of runs counted
and the game was on ice.
Later. in the seventh inning, whe
1t meant little except for the pictur
value, Simmons plucked off a higt
wide ball and planted it in the lei
field bleachers. Mickey Cochran
who had singled, scored ahead of hin
Derringer left the game at the en-
OF the seventh and Sylvester Johnso
held the AS hitless for the last two.
Grove. hit harder than was ex
pected, coasted in after the big fourt
inning although the Cards reache
him for IL hits, one more than tn
AS got off Derringer. They hit tn
Big Lefty only when hits did nc
mean runs, however.
Friday the Cards had big large
EarnShaw to contend with and eve
In the hearts Of the most rabid Ma
tional League partisans there was lit
tie hope. Gabby Street named Wi
Bill Hallahan, the lefty who shut OF
the Athletics last year. to do h
pitching. But the general impressio
now is that it doesn't matter much.
The probable lineups:
Philadelphia ca st. Louis IN
Bishop 2b Adams or High :
Haas CT Watkins
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