The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
HALLAHAN AND
EARNSHAW TO
Toll ON SLAB
Cardinals, Spirits Still at
Top Pitch, Determined to
Even Series.
WEATHER TO BE IDEAL
Victory for Macks Today
viii Send Rivals Hopes
to Near Zero.
BY L. S. CAMERON
United Press Sports Editor


ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2.-World series
warfare, begun in victory by Connie
Mack's almost perfect Philadelphia
Athletics, and in defeat by Gabby
Streets partly crippled st. Louis
Cardinals, was the attraction which
drew thousands of fans back to
Sportman's park today.
A warm sun broke through scat
tered clouds. giving promise of an
other perfect baseball day for the
second game of the series. The
temperature at "a. m. was about
10 degrees.
Despite the victory of the Ath-
letics, the series was just about
where it was twenty-four hours be-
fore. This was because the Macks
did the expected thing in winning
behind the truly marvellous pitching
of Robert Moses Lefty) Grove.
Experts had said that Grove
would win if he pitched the first
game. Also, they predicted the
Athletics would win the series.
Grove did pitch the first game and
one forecast was realized. What
will happen to the other prediction
remained to be seen.
Fans Are Resigned
Card fans here (and of the
$500 present Thursday, it was be-
lieved all but the nine on the field
we're cheering for st. Louis) would
have been stunned had the home
club won the first game. They in
dicated this when the Cards got
two-run lead in the first inning.
Card fans, with their celluloid
redbird gee-gaws, yelped and carried
on quite a piece over that two-run
scoring festival But. when, in the
later innings, the Athletics got
their runs. the fans seemed to say,
We'll, we expected that"
Unlike uhe first contest, today's
game assumed an Importance I'M
rivaled in recent world series COM
petition. If the Athletics win to-
day, the fans might as well quit
worrying about the Cards chances.
They'll be nil, if not null and void.
Mickey Cochrane, Athletics
catcher, gives one the tip-oft on
that angle. Mickey, one Of the
most popular players in the game,
isn't given to Dragging. But ask
him things about the series and
here's one thing he's sure to say:
"All know is we're mighty tough
back in Philadelphia
Hallahan to HurI
SO. if the AS go home two games
TO the good. they might as we'll bed
down Sportsmans park until 1882.
For there are three games possible
in Philadelphia and all the Ath-
letics would have to do would be to
win two of them.
The experts and the fans spent
some hours discussing lineup
Possibilities of todays game. They
started with the pitchers. Gabby
street settled one problem. He said
that left-handed William Anthony
(Moon) Hallahan of Binghamton,
N. Y, would pitch for the Cards. So
they quit arguing about that. They
talked about the AS hurler and
most everybody said it would be
George Earnshaw, right
incidentally, there was little
laugh in Thursdays game. Mack
steadfaStly refused to announce his
starting pitcher, but the only AS
twirler who warmed up was Grove.
If Earnshaw doesn't pitch today
1t may be Waite Hoyt. 1t might be
your Cousin Fanny, but she isn't
eligible. Earnshaw will pitch.
Bottomley Not So Good
There was an argument afoot
about the first base position on the
Cardinal side. Sunny Jim Bottom
ley wasn't exactly a mutt Thursday,
but he wasn't any double-decke
ice cream cone, either.
He did get one hit in his first
game, but also he got one hit in the
entire series of 1880. His play atleld
was no more than all right and he
didn't even start toward redeeming
himself for last seasons terrible bat
ting flop.
Streets .second-gueSserS, however,
agreed that Sunny Jim was about
the best that the Cards had to
offer at first base and looked for
him to start at least one more ball
game.
Thursdays opening game is a
story that could be told in two in
nings. The Cards made their bid
when they scored two runs in the
first. Singles by Roettger, Frisch
and bottomley. followed by Martins
double, accounted for the runs.
Athletics Bat Around
The Athletics all but ended the
game in the third. They batted
around, with Dykes, Williams and
Foxx getting singles, and Haas scor-
ing a double, while Simmons and
Cochrane were walking. That
gave the AS four runs, and the two
scores made in the sixth on Coch-
rane's single and Simmons home