The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-10-03
CONNIE IS ACCUSED
OF MAKING MISTAKE
TWO Times RUNNING
All Hands Agree As Must
Speed Up to Control
Cardinals
EARNSHAW IS BEATEN
Contest Ends Dramatically Aft
er Wilson Makes PecuI-
lar Error

st. Louis, Oct. 3.-P-Not since
Fred Merkle failed to touch second
base nor since Gene Tunney took the
long count" has the sports world
found more to argue about than the
strategy, Or lack of it, in the second
game of the world series.
If the Athletics had come through
to beat Hallahan and the Cardinals,
with the bases full in the ninth, after
Catcher Wilson threw to the wrong
base on Jimmy Moore's strikeout, the
st. Louis backstop would have been
nominated for a place with Merkle
among the goats" Of baseball hts
tory. But the Cards survived this
brain-slip and the second-guessors to-
day took o less than the old mas
ter, Connie Mack, to task for ques-
tionable tactics.
Mack made the same mistake twice,
many seasoned baseball men declar-
ed, when he allowed George Earnshaw
to take his turn at bat, instead of
sending in a pinch-hitter. with the
tying run on third base and others in
the offi1fg. Connie explained after
ward he had confidence in Earnshaw,s
hitting ability, especially against a
left-hander, but the facts were, first,
that big George hit into q double play
in the fifth with the bases full, and
second, famed in the seventh with
men On first and third.
AS Must Speed Up
The Athletics, all hands agreed, will
have to speed up their control Of the
Cardinal base-runnerS. especially
Pepper Martin, If they are to stop che
National Leaguers from galioping
away with the series. Right under the
noses of the finest defensive club in
the American League the Cards Fri
day ran wild.
1t seems that after all the National
League champions are not q sort of
beautiful but helpless trilby of the
baseball world.
Cards Win
The Cards, to be sure, suffered from
dizziness a few moments in the ninth
inning of Fridays game, before the
brilliant pitching Of Wild Bill Hala-
han, the hitting and baserunning of
Pepper" Martin, and the defensive
skill of Jim Bottomley finally broke
the spell and brought st. Louis stag
gering to the finish line a 2 to 0 VIC
tor.
To add to the impressiveness of the
occasion from the Cardinal viewpoint.
the Athletics hurler was none other
than big large" E~arnshaw, Connie
Mack's right handed ace.
While the pitching duel Of Earn
| show, nVNI EYo11oINoN cyhAca rr,i1IxaAaw
after the third inning kept him cor
stantly pulling out Of desperate holes,
had the crowd Of $4,000 in a state of
tremor, one of the widest finishes
ever put to a world series game sent
the fandom wandering honneward
wondering in a daZe If the Brooklyn
Robins hadn't somehow crept into the
Cardinal uniforms.
To open the ninth inning, Hallahan
issued his sixth base on balls to Jimmy
FoxX, and with n out he gave his
seventh to Jimmy Dykes. Young Dib
Williams. over anxious, famed and
Connie Mack, making his final effort
to break the defense. sent the Texan,
Jim Moore, to hit for Earnshaw.
Moore Fouls
Putting everything he could mus
ter OH the ball, Hallahan swept two
strikes past Moore. He whipped over
a third but Jim tipped it for a foul
and Jimmy Wilson, Card catcher, fail
ed to hold it. Then Hallahan fired
a curve ball that seemed to break
fully a yard. Moore lunged franti-
cally, missed, and the ball bounced in
to tho dirt a. vxyilcopSc feat
Moore, realizing the third strike
had not been caught, dashed for first
base and to the amazement of the
crowd. Wilson, instead of tossing to
first for a simple putout, fired the
ball to Jake Flowers at third base,
Apparently he chose to make a force
play of Foxx, who had dashed fol-
the bag with the pitch.
AS soon as Flowers caught the ball
the Cards flocked in from their posi-
tons, believing the game over. Halla-
han raced for the 'dugout and ever
moore stopped in his dash to first
base. Only Eddie Collins, Athletic
coach, visualized the situation i'm.
mediately. Frantically he shouted K
Dykes and Foxx to hold their base'
while he chased Moore to first.
The dazed Cards wandered aroune
and finally received the umpire's de-
cision that all hands were safe. Tn,
game wasn't over. The bases wer'
filled. And Max Bishop was at bat
Amid tremendous excitement Bisho]
lifted a high foul into a orner of tn
field boxes in far right field. jim
Bottomley raced over, just reached
; the ball, and tumbled into the Grove
the ball and victory tight in his grasp
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