The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-07
MARTIN CONTINUES
STELLAR PLAY AND
GIVES AS uTTERS
st. Louis Freshman Collects
Two Hits to Rob large
of No.Hit Game
JIMMY FOXx GETS HOMER
WaIberg and HalIahan Seem
Likely to Get Pitching
Berths Wednesday

Philadelphia, Oct. 7.-(P-On the
great broad shoulders of big large"
Earnshaw, one of the greatest pitch
ers ever to tread world series
mound, rested the hopes and keen
desire of an aged gentleman today for
his third straight championship OF
the world.
The old gentleman was Connie
Mack, pilot OF the world champion
Athletics. and as he sat in his office |
in Shibe Park Wednesday, pondering !
his pitching selection for the fifth |
game OF the world series with the st.
Louis Cardinals, there was nothing !
but JOY shining out through every |
wrinkle in his SO year old face, and
Thanksgiving in his heart for the
magnificent pitching ability of this |
30-year-old product OF Swarthmore
college.
big Jarge," stepping into the
breach where the mighty Robert
Moses Grove had failed, turned in
one of the world series masterpieces
of all time yesterday to riddle the
National League champions with his
fast ball, BATTLE them with his curves,
huniliate them with his control, and
swing the Athletics back from the
abyss of almost certain defeat to an
even footing again with the Cardi-
mails. They have two victories apiece
after the first four games of one of
the most sensational world series of
all times.
It was do or die day for the mighty
Athletics Tuesday.
It was day when the Athletics.
thirsting for three straight world
championships if only to answer the
prayer of a grand old man seeking
his last baseball record, suddenly
found themselves, the first American
champions to trail the National
League rulers in five years, struggling
on the brink of world series catastro-
phe. They talked the situation over
among themselves, they listened to
Comics plea. watched the lanky old
fellow with the thin esthetic face Of a
priest tap Earnshaw on the shoulder
and say:
George, you've got to do it for me,
Just this one thing
Tackle Cards
Then they went out to tackle the
Cardinals in the fourth game of the
SERIES
They came griinly, and the manner
IN which they ripped into Sylvester
johnson, big Cardinal hurler who has
been doing splendid relief duty
through the past two series, was q
picture of the Athletics the baseball
world has come to recognize as in
vincible until the Cardinals learned
how to take the great Grove apart.
Jimmie FOxx hit tremendous home
run. Simmons. Dykes, Bishop and
Miller all got the range as the AS
emerged from their slump
Leading the comeback surge, mag
nificent in his power, was Earnshaw
rs he turned back all but one Of the
Cardinals, Martin, while the big gun
ners of Comics crew, finding the
range at last against the pitching of
Sergeant Gabby Streets second string
ers, battered out to victory.
Inning after inning, Ear11Shaw
pitching perhaps the greatest game in
world series history. moved the Car
dinals down to add another two-hit
classic to string of pitching per-
formanceS that knows no equal in
past series history.
But there was one fly In his oint-
,nent, the chunky dogged figure OF
John Pepper" Martin. freshman out
fielder who Is playing this series for
the Cardinals, his first in major
league baseball, as no rookie ever has
before him.
AS the series wears on the wonder
ment increases steadily at the fana-
ticism with which this young man, an
ordinary hitter during the National
League season, assaults the offerings
of every Athletics pitcher, even an
Earnshaw on the greatest day of his
career, as well as giving them all q
slight attack of "the jitters" by his
display of speed and daring once he Is
on the bases.
Martin Hits
Pepper" took his cut freely and
whole-heartedly and smacked "Bia
large" for two hits, the entire Card.
1nal quota. He famed in the seconc
inning and the alien crowd cheeree
his every movement, thinking for 6
while he had been finally stopped
Instead, he Fundamentally laced &
single into left field in the fifth and
after getting the entire AS defense or
edge, easily stole second base, hi!
fourth theft of the series.
That blow ended Earnshaw
chances for no-hit game but he still
had an opportunity to ease home I'm,
der the two-hit figure Burleigl
Grimes set yesterday until Pepper
strobe to the plate to start the Card
inals eighth. This time the ire
pressible youngster smashed doubl
against the left field wall but AGAR
he could get no further than secons
as EarnShaw Snuffed out the mate
who followed him.
So despite the glory that wa
Earnshaw's, the blistering attack tina
shattered the Cardinals, the hero VIII
can hardly lose his crown for the ser
les no matter what he does from nov
on, gained himself further laurels. A
the present he is batting gawdy ga
with hits, four of them doubles il
the first four games, surprising tn
all time record of .625 Babe Ruth Sc
when the Yankees conquered tn
Pittsburgh Pirates in four straigh
OQnnoS in tho coviac nf 1000