The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-05
By GEORGE KIRKsEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

5-iJP1-ShOQs II lIOm TIC
house tops all the way from Edo
RADIO, Ark. TO Salem, y. j.
Schoolboy Rowe, the Arkansas
hllbilly. and Goose GOslln, tn
Jersey farmer, teamed up yester'
day TO lead the Detroit Tigers TO
a dramatic l2-inning triumph over
the S.. Louis Cardinals in the sec
ond game of the world series. 81.
The 22-year-old Rowe, only
three years away from the Ozarks,
pitched with head, heart and arm
before a throng of 43,45l until
old Goose Goslin, veteran of three
world series, cracked the deciding
hit to center field in the twelfth
inning.
Rowe's stout-hearted pitching,
which from the third inning
through the twelfth was almost
flawlesS. conquered the slashing
Cardinals, and evened up the Sc
ries ut one game each. Both teams
boarded special trains last night
for St. Louis, where they will re-
sumo play today for the next
three games. ,
The rival pitchers in the third
game today will be Paul Dean,
younger brother of Dizzy, " n o
gave the Cardinals victory in the
opening game, and I ON m y
Bridges, the Tennessee boy with
the greatest curve ball in baseball.
Raking Rowe for six hits in the
first three innings, the Cardinals
led all the way into the ninth IN
ming yesterday, first 10, then 20,
and finally 2-l. Rallying back
from the bring of defeat, the IL
gers tied the score, %, IN the
ninth.
"Peter Rabbit" Fox. Tigers
rightfelder, first up in the ninth,
singled sharply to right off Wild
BilP' HallahaR, who pitched su-
perbly. until he was derricked
with the score tied in the ninth.
Schoolboy Rowe, who had famed
on his three previous trips to the
plate, laid down perfect sacrl-
flee, sending Fox TO second.
10 10 White, left-handed bat
ter, was taken out, and Gerald
Walker who drew a ten-day suS-
pension without pay during the
season, for indifference, was sent
UP to bat for him. With the count
two balls, and one strike, he drove
a clean single to center, and Fox
came home with the tying run.
II was the first time since the Sc
ries opened that the Tigers had
been up on even terms with the
Cardinals and the crowd broke
loose in a roar. They have waited
rs years TO let off. The game had
to be halted, while newspapers
were picked off the field and order
was restored.
Hallahan, the pug-nOsed south
paw who was a world series hero
in 1881, when he beat the Athlet-
les twice, was taken out after
pitching a magnificent game. Bill
Walker, another Southpaw, came
in TO relieve HIM, and pulled the
Cards through this. tense spot. He
trapped Gerald Walker off first,
and the Detroit player was run
down in the base paths with Frisch
finally tagging him out. Then Bill
Walker famed Mickey Coehrane,
the last strike being called, and
sent the game into extra innings.
They battled on inte the twelfth
making it the longest world series
game since the Giants and Sena-
tors played a thinning game in
1924-and then Walkers control
gave way. After retiring Coch-
Eane, Walker threw, seven straight
balls before getting strike over.
He walked Gehringer, and threw
three balls to Greenberg, who
twice in early innings had famed
in the clinch, before getting over
a strike on the Detroit first base
man. Another ball gave Greenberg
a walk, puttin~ two men on, one
out. and bringing up Goose GoSlin.
Goslin had badly misjudged a
flv ball in the treacherous winds
off the Detroit river in the second
inning which permitted the Cards
to get their first run.
Goose, coming on 81. October
16, strobe up to the plate, and
looked over Walkers first pitch,
q ball low and outside. Walker
cut loose with his second pitch,
and it came Streaking down the
middle. Goose dug in deep in the
dirt with his eleats, and met the
ball on the nose.
II took wings, and fell in CEN
ter field, over the upturned heads
of frankie Frisch and Leo Dur
Ocher. and far in front of Ernie
Orsatti. Nobody could have reach
ed it with 40-foot pole.
Gehringer, who had aided the
Cards to victory in the opener
with his miSplays afield, came
sprinting home with the winning
run. 0rsatti played tSe ball fast,
and tried to make a play at the
plate, but Gehringer was coming
down the stretch with the plate
only few strides away, when the
bah hit the turf. Bin Delaney,
Cardinals catcher, didn't even try
to stop i. He headed for the dug
out, knowing the game was over,
After his nervous start, Rowe,
who vowed before. the game that
he would check the Cards, settled
down and pitched nine innings OF
the most remarkable baseball in
world series annals After the
Cards had made their two runs
Rowe handcuffed. hog-ied ant
hypnetzsd the St. Louis batters
But for a double 20 left-cente
by Pepper Martin in the eleventh
inning, Rowe would have pitcne,
nine innings of perfect baseball
ne runs, no hits, norman reacj
first base. The long, gangling Al