The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-10
AS AND CARDS
PLAY DECIDING
GAME TODAY
Mackmen Are FavoriteS.
After Friday Crackup
of Streets Crew.
EARNSHAW VS.. GRIMES
Rival Shippers viii Stake
All on Right Handed
Veteran Stars.
BY L. S. CAMERON
United Press Sports Editor

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10.-The worlds
baseball championship will be de-
termined today, when Connie
Mack's freshly confident Phila-
delphia Athletics meet the now dis
tracted st. Louis Cardinals.
Six times have these clubs faced
each other since the world series of
1891 inaugurated here one week ago
last Wednesday, and each club has
Won three OF the games.
The series moved into its final
phase as a result of Philadelphia
8-to-1 victory on Friday. Needing
only to win that game to acquire
the championship, the Cardinals
We're held helpless by Robert NJ
Grove, tall left-hander of the Ath-
letics, while Derringer, johnson,
Lindsey and Rhem, st. Louis
pitchers, we're willing before the
Philadelphians.
Deciding Game
Now the rivals are to meet in the
seventh and decisive game. The
Athletics are favorites to win and
retain the title they won in 1929
and successfully defended last year.
Gabby Street, Cardinals manager,
announces definitely he would start
Burleigh Grimes, despite reports
that Grimes has a lame throwing
shoulder. Mack is almost certain
to start Earnshaw, the towering
Highlander of the Athletics staff.
1t had been expected that Earn
shaw would pitch Fridays game,
but Mack fooled most of the ex-
perts gy naming Bob Grove.
1t was Earnshaw who limited the
Cards to six hits in the second
game, which he lost, and who tied
a series record by allowing but two
hits in winning the fourth.
Record to Be Proud of
A record of eight hits in two
games is something to point at
with pride. It's a record, incident
ally, which can't be duplicated in
this series.
The Athletics may have the Cards
on the run. It's all very we'll for
Sarge Gabby Street to make his
optimistic statements. Maybe He'll
prove to be right but unless the
Cards snap out of the "do-lesS"
spirit in which they found them
selves Friday, only a miracle can
prevent the American league entry
from winning once again in the an
nual baseball feature.
With all due respect to the fine
play of the Athletics generally, and
10 the splendid pitching of Lefty
Grove, the Cards beat themselves
and did it by being over confident.
Just look at the records: That
disastrous fifth inning, which was
the break of the game, had its in
ception in a needless error by third
baSeman Flowers and then Chick
Hafey. who simply never misses"
failed to catch an easy fly which
Schoolboy would have Snagged.
Cards Must Wake Up
If the Cards play that kind of
ball again today, they are due for
further humiliation. But if they
return to the dashing, cocky sort of
ball which twice enabled them to
hold the upper hand in the matter
of games won, then the end of
American League dominance may be
effected
Betting odds, which have been
right more than wrong, have made
the AS favorites to win today, and
hence win the series, Latest odds
showed the AS quoted at 5 to 3.
Today's game provided the big
test for Pepper Martin, series star.
After having hit safely in every
game, equaling two batting records,
and having become the national
baseball hero, Martin fell down Fri
day 1t was only natural that the
Pepper should have slumped event.
tually.