The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-04

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 The story of Martin is that of 2 man who came back. The gracious chap from Oklahoma has had hil bumps since he hit .500 and stole i've bases in beating the A.AlAAsAAAA's practically single. handed in baseball's fall fashion show of 1881.
 Martin swiped everything but Mickey Cochrane's glove in steal ing that show. The late John Me- Graw called it the finest perform apce ever turned in by ball player.
 But Martin tried too hard in S922, and was beset by injuries. Including a dislocated shoulder. He elso suffered from a skin infection, and, due to one thing and another, was out of the lineup half of the season and hit only .232.
 Not few referred to Martin as Q major league morning glory when Ernie Orsatti took the cen- ter field berth away from his in the spring of 1883.
 Sparky Adams no longer would do at third base, and was traded. So, in desperation, Martin decided 60 take a whirl at the far turn.
 Awful best describes Martins eff. Sorts. Then, one Sunday, early in the season, when Pepper couldn't hit the veteran Waite Hoyt, and took that long and dismal walk back to the dugout, he kicked the bats in the rack in his anger.
 Hero Hits Bottom
 Martin did this with such force and in such a way that one of the bats flew over the cement rampant as though it were alive and land cd in the lap of Mrs Rachel Brea- don, wife of the president of the St Louis Cardinals.
 Martin was booed louder and longer than any athlete in the memory of Missouri graybeards. The world series hero of two au- tumns before had struck bottom.
 The Cardinals took to the road that night with Martin down in the mouth to a greater extent than Bill Terry and his Giants are to- day.
 But club officials and Gabby Street, then manager, and his teammates stuck with the pepper pot, who quickly settled down to making the customers in St Louis forget his mistakes.
 By July 8 the transformation
 
 ing the National League All-Stars against the pick of the American League in the first perfect game in Chicago, used Martin at third base throughout the entire nine innings. And this with the pol ished Pie Traynor, of Pittsburgh, who has been rated with immor- tals, seated on the bench. Martin pitching this season il- 1ustrates his versatility and spirit. It was the Cardinals esprit de coeps, as much as the Deans, that enabled the outfit to hang on so well and finally emerge victorious.
 Rally Around Frisch
 When the Deans walked out, fol- lowing their suspension and fines for failing to catch a train for De- troit and on exhibition game on August IS, the players rallying around Frankie Frisch, the trou- b1ed manager was admirable.
 Pitchers who previously could get no one out came through. And Martin, who had been on the side lines with a chipped bone in his left elbow, volunteered for mound duty. He broke in as a pitcher in the minors in 1928.
 Martin made his major league bow and exit as a pitcher on Au. gust 19, when he acted as relief worker with the bases loaded and none out and the Cardinals behind several runs. Pepper checked the rally and only one man reached first base in the two innings he t0iled before his arm commenced to hurt.
 When he returned to third base Martin wanted to pitch every fourth day. He possesses speed ga- lore, and the Cardinals declare he has loads of stuff and a knuckle bah like that of fat Freddie Fitz- simmons, of the Giants.
 Martins batting average was .2S9. The Oklahoman participated in no engagements. He stole 23 bases.
 Steal on Pitchers
 Pepper explains that bases are stolen on pitchers, not catchers, and that he swiped his world series i've off Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw in 1881. and not Coch- rane.
 In this years series, there was little question but that Rowe, Bridges, Auker, Crowder. and Mar berry were cautioned against mak- ing false moves with the base ahead of Martin open.
 The resumption of the base rum ming duel between Martin and Cochrane was to be one of the most interesting features of the show.
 Martin went into the series very much on his game and a strong candidate to repeat, or at least ap- proach his feats of 1881.
 Little wonder that Cochrane was all ears when he got the word that the Deans and Martin and the Cardinals, and not the stale and choked-up Giants, were to oppose the Tigers.