The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-04
MEDWlCK AND DEAN
STAR AS CARDINALS
BLAST OUT VICTORY
Dizzy Limits Tigers to Eight
Safe Blows; 'Ducky' Gets
Four Bingles
MlSPlAYS ARE COSTLY
Haloed Bengal lnfieId Goes All
to Pieces; HalIahan to
Pitch for Cards
MlSPLAYS ARE COSTLY


Pitch for Cards
Detroit, oct. 4.-(Pl-A beam OF
six-foot- four-inch Arkansas sunshine
(Schoolboy) Rowe-shone
through the gloom Of the Detroit
jungle Thursday and to the dumb
founded. bewildered. and ashamed
Tigers he looked as bright as full
blown MONDAY sun in the desert.
It was Rowe, the 23-year-old
rookie. the big grinning kid from
the wild boar lands, to whom frantic
Mickey Cochrane and the harrassed
Tigers turned for the pitching
strength to beat back crafty. left
handed Wild Bill Hallahan and the
st. Louis Cardinals if the world Sc
ries is to move onto the Missouri me-
tropolis Thursday night in any kind
of balanced condition.
AS a beam of light and hope, the
echoolboy. winner Of is straight games
for the American League champions
during one stretch of the past sea-
son, was both an omen and stand
ard-bearer with a double duty, for
there were rain clouds lowering over
Navin field, threatening to wash out
Thursdays second game and force
postponement for an extra day Of
the second phase Of the series sched-
uled for st. Louis Friday.
Tigers Soundly Beaten
~ ;e. ha Vos.ovor oS1d hnS1o
of Michigan and the midwest as we'll
that the schoolboy gets his chance
Thursday to revenge the one sided
8-to-3 walloping j. Dizzy Dean and
the hard-bitten Cardinals pinned on
the home boys wednesday, practic-
ally shocking them from the start
into stiff-fingered and muscle-bound
ineptness, then battering them mer-
cilessly around like champion show
ing off with his punch drunk spar
ring partners.
Dean no longer is circus charac-
ter in these parts, though always
source of entertainment, and the
Cardinals aren't just a bunch of Ma
tional League farm boys from Mis-
souri, doing the best they can. They've
seen j. Herman in his serious mo-
ments, flinging that fireball down
their heroes Threats, allowing eight
hits and three runs and grumbling
afterward that he was terrible" that
he had pitched his worst game of
the year.
They saw Joe Concrete" Med
wick, %, take toe hold and hammer
their starting pitcher, General
Alvin Crowder and his burly but in
effective relief. Firpo Marberry. for
four straight hits, one of them q
home run, equaling world series
record.
Base Hits Ring Out
They weren't from Missouri and
they could see all too well for them
selves. In fact, the sound of base
hits, Is in all off Crowder, Marberry
and finally the Indian southpaw
Elon Hogsett, still was ringing In
their ears.
Certainly they couldn't play worse
than they did when the haloed iron
man infield Of big Hank Greenberg
masterful Charlie Gehringer, Bill
Rogell and Marvin Owen, cracked
wide open in the first three innings
under the tension and the pressure
In that brief period this death bat.
talon" quartet piled up five errors
within one of the series single game
record for fozzles. and sunk Crowdel
50 deep that he had no chance, pos.
sibly no hope. of escaping anywhere
but to the showers.
Owens tumble of frankie Frisch's
smash in the first inning was ex.
cusable, and slightly historic, in fact
and it caused no actual damage. i
Frankie's belt had come at late1
point in the game he undoubtedl,
would have been credited with a hit
But since Guy Bush was deprived o.
q no-hit game years ago on a first.
inning ground ball that could hav;
been scored either way. midwest
scorers make the hitters earn that frs
safety.
But from there on there were M
excuses. In the second inning, Gell
ringer dropped toss from Rogell o,
2 force play he should have been aoi,
to make backwards with his eye,
bandaged. Instead of ending the in
ming scoreless. it gave Owen a chanc'
to pull Greenberg off first with wild
throw on the grounder Of John Leon
ard Pepper" Martin, the 1881 hero
Then Jack Rothrock pumped singh
to center and two runs scored.
Errors and More Errors
Successive errors by Rogell an
Greenberg in the third let in anothe
after Medwick singled for the secon
time and was forced by Collins. From
there on, though, it was strictly cas-
OF boom boom. MedWick's home
came IN the fifth. Marberry starte
the sixth. but before he escaped tn
Cards had two more runs on q doubl
by Dean and singles by Martin, Med
wick and Collins. Bill Delaney
two-base greeting to Hogsett score
the final pair.
The Tigers nudged Deans fast ba
at intervals. all told collecting eigf
hits, but they gave him no great caus
for alarm. They lost their best or
portunity in the third, when with tw
down, White walked and Cochrane an
Gehringer singled. accounting for on
run, but Big Hank Greenberg was a
easy victim on strikes. Later on 81
hank began connecting. He single
m scored in the sixth, with the hel
pf Ernie Orsattis wild throw and Coos
0oslinS single. He gave J. Dean
parting salute in tn, eighth with
booming home run high into the ten
porary left field stands.
The Cardinals say Hallahan, VIII