The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

- say that n swallow does not
make an Indian summer, nor neces-
sarily the delirium tremens and
while the Cardinals started this
world series by retreating agrees
sively it does not mean that they
are through yet.
No matter what happens YOU can count
on my ball club staying in there and
fighting until at least four games are
played. or maybe five. In the bright
lexicon Of modern youth there is no such
word as skidoo. t~wenty-three for you.
The tact is that my ball club might
very easily have beaten those AS OF yours
IN the opening game Thursday If it had
not been for one or two important FAC
tors. I will admit that one of these was
Mr.. Lefty Grove. who was very good when
he had to be. and the other was the cast
of eight players who supported Mr.. Grove
both in the field and at the bat.
But there we're still other vital con-
alterations. 1.-THE presses will pause two
minutes while the author dom the pow
dered gray wig and flowing robes OF an
exnert) AS YOU know my team got away
10 a two.run lead in the first inning, ana
FOR a DIlEI NptA ~ AOOhNA az
would hast Mr.. Grove right out OF there
and make a Greco-Roman holiday u INC
occasion.
A Young country boy BY the name Oh
Derrineer. making his hrst start IN d
world series. was doing the chucElng anu
for two innings he was as complete d
mystery as what happened that tragic
night on the Penguin. He hao
tanned four Of the first six men to lace
him and as Mr.. Nick Altrock, sitting in the
nress box. remarked, it looked like a
breeze for him"
starting the third the AS got their hrst
hit a high bounder by Dykes whlch
caromed off Andy Highs glove at thlro'
7 won't saw anything about High being a
substituta third baser because the same
kind Of a ball might have got away from
snarkv Adams. too. But in any event u
was a lucky hit. 1 mean had 1t been an
inch lower in its fight it would have been
a simple out.
Young Dib Williams. the one new face
IN the AS picture. followed with a clean
single TO right and Dykes raced to third
Grove took a third strike. Had the lates
been plaving with the Cardinals instead
Of the AS this normally would have been
the second out" Bishop. clean laced
fidpetv. colorless but altogether efficient
was the next hitter. and slashed a
prounder down the first base line. On the
plav DYKES was run down between third
and home.
Continuing to hctionize this would have
made the third out for nv team with no
scoring If the opening break had not gone
AGAINST us. In this connection 1t is I'M
portant to remember that before the IN
ming ended the AS scored four runs ana
that was quite enough to chill the TO-
matoes.
Rut don't run away-I am not through
experting. With two down in this same
inning Mule Haas. who is so called oe-
cause of his large, expressive ears
damned a double to left. scoring Williams
Tbis smash seemed to upset young Der
ringer and he passed Cochrane to I'LL the
bases. Make note that the score at this
point was still 2 to l in favor OF the
Cardinals. w.
simmons was the next batter. He
worked the count to three and two. From
the nress coop it looked as If the next
hitch might have been called either way
n WAS a tough decision for Old Bill KLEIN
A National League umpire. to make. de
called it a ball. AS I say. from where
sat. he might. with equal correctness
have called 1t a strike. But a pail ne
cared it and Bishop came home with the
tying run.
Mool-faced Jimmy Foxx then proeeeoeu
10 lift the entire situation above the realm
Of speculation by cracking a single 10
center. on which both Haas and Cochrane
scored. To all practical intents and pur-
poses that was the end of Derringer ana
the end Of the first game.
y = =
A LMOST on the instant long
N lines of loyal Missourians were
seen to leave the park and start
for the banks Of the Mississippi
which rolls lazily past the town, a
melancholy, turgid stream quietly
reckoning to distressed souls.
It is true that later in the game the AS
got two more runs on a homer into the
left-held stands with one on by Simmons
but aside from the artistry of the per-
Torrance and the extreme muscular VIC
lence involved the homer had no more
bearing on the outcome than Legs Dia-
mona y ODlllDA On VIM RGANe
Taking it fore and aft. it was a rather
vapid ball anne. deficient both in con
sistency and earnest vigor. and at times
dropDing to the unkempt level OF a sun
day afternoon conflict between the Bush
wioks and the Cuban Giants.
Gabby Street made an audacious move
in starting a kid pitcher. 1t was even
more audacioas than the strategy Cor
uelus McGillicuddy exercised against the
Cubs two years ago when he started the
supposedly outmoded and decrepit Howard
Ehmke. For two brief innings street
looked ike the Smartest guy in baseball
But after the AS had batted around In
the third 1t was evident that he had beer
carried away by his ambition and imaEi-
nation.
Derringer is a brawny young giant witt
a eaudy windup and a high knee actor
which makes IL appear as If he is always
trying to knock himself out with a right
knee cap to the Jaw. His technique con
sists wholly Of closing his ewes, bearinl
down and blazing away. 1t is a technique
that will yield dividends for only a limited
time. In his case Thursday two inningi
was the limit.
GNbF4OAlk Oh AnC view pullts GAOht
pitched an ordinary game or a great game
The Cardinals got twelve hits of him. Ant
that's q lot of hits to make of the great
est pitcher in baseball. But they only
made two runs. and both OF these came
IN. the first inning before he a fully
settled down.
After that. with the exception OF three
INNINGS. he always cot the nrst hitter out
To repeat, the raw boned Marylander
was good when he had to be good ard
when he needed help in the pinches twr
vouna men by the name OF Simmons and
Williams we're not at all reluctant tc
obliee.
But even 20. I still think my team has a
chance. At the very least they have DEM
onStrsted that they can score on the Az
and while that may not be much Il is
something. For all I know it may even
represent . moral victory.