Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1931 — Page 12

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CARDS AND ATHLETICS HEAD EAST WITH SERIES EVEN

Brilliant Hurling by Hallahan, Martin's Running Give Birds Win

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Pepper Martin

Talking It Over BY JOE WILLIAMS

EN ROUTE TO PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 3.—You will read elsewhere in the news columns about the purple-tinted complications which developed in the ninth inning of the second game of the world series between the Cards and the A’s. But I want to talk about the guv who Won the ball came the guv who nut. St,. Louis and the National League back In the running, the Individual who practically single-handed evened un the annual October orgy. I refer, of course, to Fenner Martin. So far as I have been able to discover Pepper Is the only name he wants to be known bv. It is a very ant name. There is more nenner In him than you will find in b Juarez chilli con came. What I like most about Pepper 1s the Very obvious fact that he likes to plav baseball. I will try loosely to describe him for you He is a fairly big man. He has the kind of shoulders you usually see en University of Nebraska full backs. Nobody would call him an intellectual. Indeed. I suspect if you called him that to his face he would insist that you smile when you said those words. He is finely trained, clean-fared and belligerent. I am told that he eats T-bone steaks and custard pie for breakfast. His favorite movie actor is two-gun Hoot Gibson. The Pepper will not read the newspapers Unless his name is on the top of the page In big black face. His opinion of newspapermen who write baseball is not high. "They are lust a bunch of dopes’’ h Insists —and mavbe he is right. The Pepper ehews gum Incessantly. An advertising company wanted to use his name to bnllvhoo a certain gum. He was offered SI.OOO. It was not the kind of gum the Pepper chews. He spurned the grand. "It s lousy gum and I don’t want mv name associated with it " explained the Pepper. A man who ran he faithful to gum con not he altogether bad. The Pepper Is a swaggering egoist, and this is probably the wrong phrase because he has a sincere belief In himself. Before the series started he gave out an interview in which he said: "There ain’t no pitcher I can’t hit." He had been asked what he thought of Leftv Grove The interview was given considerable •race in the St. Louis gazettes. It caused manv of the experts to chuckle. But the Pepper went, nut and cot himself three hits against the great Grove and stole a base of him. 1 say he stole it off Grove because nobndv could have thrown him cut after the lead he had taken. AND Friday) he got two hits and . stole two bases oil Earnshaw. Both of the hits led to runs, the only runs made in the game. In the second inning he doubled and stole third. The sacrifice was on but Wilson, the batter, failed to come through. It didn’t matter. The Pepper was on third base at practically the same moment the ball thudded into Cochrane’s mitt. In the seventh, he singleu to right, stole greond. It is linrd to do justice to the Pepper in cold type. I mean there is so much eagerness and enthusiasm about him that it leaves you in a sort of a rapture —and I have no objections to raptures when mv tealn is in there winning. The Pepper was the big hero in the dressing room after the game—The Pepper and Jim Bottomley who made a great catch to end that uproarious ninth inning with three on. Bottomley had made a catch which in the usual run of things would have been little more than ordinary. But because the stage was set for a dramatic denouement it took on the shadings of a master-piece. That's all right, too. More power to mv man Bottomley. But the guy who won the hßll game was the Pepper. Alt Bottomley did was to save it. You can t save anything that has already been lost. So the Fepprr is in the dressing room and he is the hie hero among his team mat*s and he says to them: "These nuigs are ittst another ball team ar.d I'd like to be batting against pitchers like Grove and Earnshaw all my life. They’d never get me out." You are asked to believe that you are listening actually to the Pepper talk, because the Incident was relayed to me by one of the Cardinals. Personally I would not need anv confirmation. It sounds precisely as a Pepper Martin would talk. And what’s more why shouldn’t he talk that wav. Grove couldn't get him out. Ar.d neither could Earnshaw. IHAD dinner with Sam Breadon the owner of the Cardinals, just before I left St. Louis Friday night. There is a story in Breadon himself. He used to be a newsboy in New York, down on Ninth avenue. Be still speaks with a distinct and fascinating Bowery lingo. Talking, for instance, of his early days, he says “oily.” "What about this fellow Martin?" I asked. "Well. I think he is swell.” answered Breadon. "You know why—h/s got plenty of fight. The tougher they come the better he likes ft. I've noticed that all year. If it wasn t an important series he didn't seem to be trying very hard. But iivthe pinches he always was our star. He won the pennant for us. and he'll win this then proceeded to sketch to his back-ground. He started out m Will Roger*’ town ot Ardmore. Okla.. as a pitcher. Apparently he wasn't much of a pitcher In late years he played the outfield and (he infield, mostly at second or short. In’Hlouston two years ago he stole 43 bases, largely because when he got tc first base he was not content to stßv there. Last year, at Rochester, another Cardinal farm, which mean* a place, he hit 363 and on the strength of that was called to the National League. The Pepper is a very refresh, ng character," added Breadon. "His only Interest aside from baseball is guns. All of his money goes into guns. He probably has more guns than A1 Capone, or, as a aecnnd choice, the United States Army. He is still living in the dime novel days when Buffalo Bill roamed the plains. He was brought up in the heroic tradition that the American Bov must shoot at least fifty Indians before he amounts to anything. It would never do for ua to viait an Indian reservation and take the along Something ghastly would %be sure to follow."

Wild Bill Allows Three Hits and Pepper Scores Both Runs in 2 to 0 Triumph; Grove Will Be Ready Monday and May Battle Grimes. BY L. S. CAMERON United Pres* Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE WITH THE PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS, Oct. 3.—A very much bigger and very much better world series rolled eastward today as Connie Mack’s Athletics of the American League and Gabby Street's St. Louis Cardinals, National League pennant winners, headed toward Philadelphia for their third game Monday. The Athletics, behind Lefty Grove’s pitching, won the first game, just as all the experts said they would. The Cardinals, with William Hallahan. Binghamton’s <N. Y.) supreme gift to baseball carrying the burden, won the second. The latter game was the important one. There had been*no wealth of expert opinion as to its outcome. But everyone agreed that if the As made it two straight, it would be just too bad for a lot of things.

Now, however, and while the Athletics are still the end men of this minstrel show, the Cardinals are given some consideration. The Street boys have shown that they can beat the Athletics and there were some well founded doubts as to this ability when they quit play in the opening game. Betting odds which are, after all, a good indication as to possible results. took an abrupt switch immediately after the second game ended. Couriers from the establishment of Tom Kearney, St. Louis betting commissioner, told departing members of the Athletics party Friday evening that odds favoring the A's had changed from 1 to 4 to 1 to 3. A great bear story was making the rounds when the Athletics pulled out of St. Louis. It had Lefty Grove out of the series with a blis- ! ter on the middle finger of his pitching hand. Lefty does own a blister and it’s on the middle finger, but it is only a 5-cent blister. ‘lf Mr. Mack tells me to pitch on Monday I’ll be able to, all right,” Grove said today. And it’s probable that that’s just what Mr. Mack will tell Grove. It's also probable that Gabby Street will select Burleigh Grimes. That second game was a crackerjack. It was, to invent some I terminology, packed with thrills. After all, it’s one thing to see a procession of base hits and sacrifices. It’s something else again to have the unexpected happen. And surprises abounded in the game the Cards won. Hallahan started the | ruckus. The Athletics were three up and i down in the first, second and third ; innings. Only four of their number came to bat in the fourth. Meantime, Pepper Martin, the other hero; of the game, had made the first of the two Cards’ run. (Incidentally ; he made the second, too.) Then came the first climactic mo- j ment. Handsome Jimmy Foxx of the A’s led off by walking. Bing j Miller singled, moving Foxx to second. Jimmy Dykes sacrificed. Foxx j reaching third. Things didn’t look I so good. One down, two on. Dib Williams up. Jim Wilson. Cards’ catcher, sauntered out to talk to Hallahan. They agreed to give Dibrell a free i pass to first, and to pray they could j get pitcher George Earnshaw to j strike out or hit into a double play. I It was the most daring sort of daring strategy. But it worked. George rolled into a easy a double out as j you ever saw. and the first big moment was over. The second tight spot came when Martin made the other run of the game on the first of consecutive secrifices by Gelbert and Hallahan. Consecutive sacrifices are baseball rarities. The third one occurred in that genuinely thrilling final inning. j Cards fans saw their favorites on j the brink of victory. Just three j more outs with less than two scores | and the game was won. For the Cards’ side, however, the j inning started poorly. Jimmy Foxx j walked. Bing Miller then flied out j and the Cards fans were getting ready to start a celebration. Jimmy ! Dykes got a free pass to first, and Foxx reached second. It looked a bit bleak once again. Williams followed witu a strikeout. One more out ana the game was won. Connie i Mack sent in Jim Moore to pinch ! hit for Earnshaw. With two strikes j against him, Moore whiffed at a j cripple and Catcher Wilson failed to catch the ball, Jimmy raced to first. Wilson, of course, should have thrown to first. Instead, seeing Foxx streaking toward third, the catcher pegged to Jake Flowers, third baseman. Foxx was safe, so was Dykes at second, and Moore at first. Max Biship, mean a hitter as there is in the majors, came up I swinging, but he cracked out a foul ! which Jim Bottomley took among a group of spectators back of first i base. The Athletics, while anything but | pleased at the outcome, were somewhat philosophical about it. Mack said that “you’ve got to score runs to win, and if you don’t, get any j hits you won’t get many runs.” The A’s got three hits.

Friday Fight Results

AT LA CROSSE, Wis.—Prince Saunders. 134. Chicago, won a ten-round decision over Babe Herman. 135, New York. AT SAN FRANCISCO—Jimmy Hannah. 162. San Francisco, knocked out Harry Smith. 160 1 -. Negro New York GO). AT HOLLYWOOD—Varias Milling, 125. Philippines, won technical knockout over Harry Walllnder, 128. Los Ar.geles i2i. Max Tar.ev, 124. Philippines, defeated Ray Montoya. 125, Elcentro GO). MARINE ELEVEN WINS SCRANTON, Pa.. Oct. 3. The Quantico marines football team defeated St. Thomas college here Friday night, 14 to 7.

Dozen Major League Records Are Erased in 1931

By United Prefix ' NEW YORK. Oct. 3.—An even dozen records were bettered or tied during the major league season just finished, according to statistics released today. Nine of these occurred in the American League, against three in the National. The number of new re-ords is considerably below that of recent years, a fact accounted for by the less lively ball. Batting averages were further hampered by the new ruling on sacrifice flies. • The outstanding achievement in the American League was the pitching record hung up by Grove of Philadelphia, whose thirty-one vic-

Cubs Go One Up on Sox in Chicago Play 1 By United Press j CHICAGO. Oct. 3.—The Chicago Cubs held a one-game advantage over the White Sox today as the two teams met at Comiskey park in the fourth game of their annual city series. The Hornsby clan won a 2 to 1 victory Friday behind the masterful pitching of Bob Smith and Charlie Root. Until the eighth inning, the contest was a pitching duel between Smith and Ted Lyons. Smith allowed four hits in the first seven innings and Lyons allowed six—all of the hits the Cubs got during the game. Two hits and a walk in the first inning paved the way for the two runs garnered by the Cubs. Tommy Thomas was expected to get Donie Bush's call to pitch for the Sox today and Pat Malone ivas his probable slab rival. Orcutt Plays Title Match li}i United Press TORONTO, Oct. 3.—Miss Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J., is a favorite to defend her Canadian women's open golf championship against Miss Marjorie Kirkham of Montreal in the final round to be played off here today. Miss Orcutt entered the finals by virtue of her 1-up victory Friday over Miss Virginia Van Wie of Chicago, while Miss Kirkham defeated Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser of Ottawa by the same score.

Wild Bill Produces

WORLD’S SERIES GAMES NO, 2 PHILADELPHIA AB R H O A E Bishop. 2b 5 0 0 0 5 0 Haas, cf 4 0 1 5 0 0 Cochrane, c 2 0 0 4 0 0 Simmons. If 4 0 0 F 0 0 Foxx. lb 2 0 1 13 1 0 Miller, rs 4 0 1 0 0 0 Dykes. 3b 2 0 0 0 2 0 Williams, ss 2 0 0 1 2 0 Earnshaw, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 Moore 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 29 0 3 24 11 0 Moore batted for Earnshaw in ninth. ST. LOUIS AB R H O A E Flowers. 3b 4 0 0 2 1 0 Watkins. rs 4 0 2 1 0 0 Frisch. 2b 4 0 1 4 4 0 Bottomley, lb 3 0 0 7 0 0 Hafey. If 4 0 0 4 0 0 Martin, cf 3 2 2 0 0 0 Wilson, r 3 0 0 7 0 1 Gelbert. ss 3 0 1 2 3 0 Hallahan, p 2 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 6 27 8 1 Athletics 000 000 000—0 Cardinals 010 000 lOx—2 Runs batted in—Wilson. Gelbert. Twobase hits—Watkins, Martin. Frisch. Double Dlav—Frisch to Gelbert to Bottomley. Left on bases —Athletics. 10; Cardinals. 6. Sacrifice hits—Dykes. Hallahan. Stolen liases—Martin, 2. Struck out—Earnshaw 7 . 5. (Hallahan. 2; Hafey. Bottomley, Watkinsi: bv Hallahan. 8. (Haas. Cochrane. Miller. Williams, 2: Bishop. Moore, Earnshaw i. Base on balls—Off Earnshaw. 1. (Bottomley); off Hallahan. 7. iCochrane. 2; Foxx. 2: Williams. 2: Dykes). Wild Ditch—Hallahan. Umnires —Nallin. plate: Stark, first base; McGowan, second base; Klem. third base. Time—l:so. JAMES CLARK ILL James Clark, 2005 North Delaware, street, coach of the Rhodius park swimming and water polo teams during the summer, underwent an operation Friday night at city hospital for acute appendicitis. Clark is a student at the Indiana law school. BLUE RESERVES WIN Shortridge reserve gridmen defeated Plainfield varsity here Thursday, 13 to 0. Hendricks and Griffith tallied the touchdowns with Hendricks booting the extra point. Pope led the losers.

St. Paul and W ings Resume Little W orld Series Action

By United Frets ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 3. All square, with one game each, Rochester and St. Paul were ready to resume their little world series play today. Raymond Starr, mound ace of the Rochester International League pennant winners, was Manager Billy Southwcrth's pitching choice. Betting odds, which favored the

tories against four losses, for a percentage of .886.'was the highest mark ever reached by a pitcher. Grove turned in a winning streak of sixteen straight games, tying the circuit record made in 1912 by Joe Wood and Walter Johnson. Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, drove in 182 runs during the season, beating his own league record of 175, made four years ago. Gehrig equaled a record set by Ken Williams, St. Louis Browns, in 1922 by hitting six home runs in six successive games. Earl Webb of Boston hit sixtyseven two baggers, bettering by three the record held by George Burns of Clevew'L Babe Ruth's

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Ah, Here’s Another Rookie Who Knows He’s Good—But They Can’t Stop Pepper!

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They couldn’t stop Pepper Martin, the Cards’ rookie outfielder, in Friday's battle, so St. Louis evened the world series count with a 2-to-0 triumph, Wild Bill Hallahan pitching. At the top, the speedy youngster is shown in his sensational slide to the plate in the seventh inning when he scored the

Surface Leads Franklin to Triumph Over Greyhounds

Franklin college gridders romped to their second victory of the season Friday night at Indiana Central field, scoring a 33-12 triumph over the Greyhounds under the arcs. Last week Franklin upset Butler 7-6 and their conquest Friday night stamps them as a team that will bear watching by future opponents. Captain Bud Surface, the ripping, dashing fulf" back of the Grizzlies, and the big show a week ago against

Hanover Turns Back Louisville

By Times Special LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Oct. 3.—E. C. (Red) Money brought a scrapping Hanover team to town Friday night seeking its first victory in three starts. When they left they held a 3-0 verdict over the Louisville university eleven, the result of an eighteen-yard drop kick by Razevich # early in the game. During the second and third quarters the Panthers fought a brilliant defensive battle to protect their narrow margin and then cut loose in the final period in an effort to score again. They reached the l-.vard line before they lost the ball on downs.

American Association champions at the outset of the series, shifted to even money today. St. Paul’s pitching choice lay between Bryan (Slim) Harriss and Johnny Prudhomme, both of whom saw service in relief roles in Thursday’s game. Harriss, however, worked in only one inning and probably will take the mound for St. Paul. The series will move to Rochester next week.

forty-six home rims, a number tied by Gehrig, made him league leader ; for the twelfth tame in that department. and brought his lifetime total of circuit blows up to 611., The Yankees established anew league mark for runs scored, with 1.067, beating their 1930 total by five runs, and went to bat 5.598 times, also a reccm for the circuit, j In the National League. Cincinnati set anew record for double plays, completing 195, bettering by one their 1928 total. Lloyd Waner, Pifsburgh, went to bat 681 times i during the season, to beat the 1922 mark of Rabbit Maranville. In a game played on July 12, the Cardi--1 nals and the Cubs hit twenty-three

second run. Catcher Mickey Cochrane is shown trying to tag Pepper, but Martin already has passed the plate. Umpire Nallin is shown calling the runner safe. Pepper started his wild base running in the second inning. Here he is shown safe at second on a two-base hit. after which he stole third and scored on Wilson’s fly.

I Butler, again held the spotlight, ! scoring two touchdowns and standing out even when he was the only regular in the lineup of third string Franklin players late in the game. Harry Good's boys had a continuous fast passing attack that thrilled the spectators but it was effective only between the 20-yard line, with one exception when Farwick caught : a short pass over the line for a touchdovzn. The other Central ; counter came when Del Moore plunged over after passing carried | the ball down. Downey and Martin also looked 1 good in the Franklin back field and the center linemen played defensively perfect ball for Coach Roy Tillotson. STECHER TAKES MATCH Joe Uses Body Scissors to Win Over Allen Eustace. In the first weekly wrestling show staged by the National Guard Athletic Association at the Armory Friday night, Joe Stecher, former world's champion, downed Allan Eustace in the main go by taking two falls in three. Eustace won the second fall. Stecher used the body scissors to score twice and Eustace registered one fall with a slam. In other matches Charlie Hansen and Hardy Kruskamp went to a draw and George Mulholland tossed Ralph Hancock. PLAY FOR CLUB TITLE Spencer Deal and Harry Schornstein will clash over Pleasant Run links Sunday for the 1931 club I championship. The winner of the ! thirty-six-hole match will receive a silver trophy. In the semi-finals Friday, Deal defeated Arthur Lockwood, 3 tc 2, while Schornstein clicked off a fine 76 to eliminate Bobby Munro. 1 Beech Grove Reds are without a game for Sunday and would lilce to hear from a ! fast team. Call Lincoln 7383 or Beecn l Grove 33-W and ash for Bvland.

two-baggers, surpassing by six the previous record, which had stood since July 3. 1883. Chick Hafey of the Cardinals hit .3488 to take the league batting honors from Bill Terry, New York, last year’s champion, who finished with .3436. A1 Simmons. Philadelphia, won the American League batting championship for the second consecutive year, a feat which has not been accomplished since 1919. Two no-hit. games occurred in the season. Wesley Ferrell, Cleveland, turned the trick against St. Louis on April 29. and Bob Burke, Washington, made the Boston Red Sox his victims dn Aug. 8.

Service Rivals Urged to Play By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. Proposals for a post-season charity football game between the Army and Navy have been put up to the heads of the academies by Washington officials. The Salvation Army has again offered to sponsor a game at some central point and has taken the matter up with the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy. Sentiment in Army and Navy circles is enthusiastically in favor of another meeting, similar to the post-season contest last December in New York. The tentative date discussed is Dec. 12. HIGH SCCHOOL SCORES Manual (Indianapolis), 14; Washington (Indianapolisi. 0. Tech (Indianapolis). 12; Bloomington, 0. Jefferson (Lafayette). 7; Shortridge (Indianapolis), 0. Carmel, 32; Broad Ripple (Indianapolis). 0. Shortridge reserves, 13; Plainfield varsity, 0 Valparaiso, 20; Frankfort. 7. Greenfield. 21; Noblesville. 0. Kirklin, 13; Lebanon. 13 (tie). Sevmour. 6: Shelbvville. 0. Kentland. 33; Thorntown. 6 Lawrenceville, 26; Vincennes. 6. Rushville. 6; Wilkinson. 0. Crawfordsviile. 13: Brazil. 0. Jasonville. 13: Greencastle. 0. Central i Evansville i, 13: Linton, 0. Anderson. 14: Martinsville, 0. Horace Mann (Gary), 33: Bowen (Chicago). 0. Washington (East Chicago), 26: Whiting, 0. Spring Valley, 111.. 19: Froebel (Gary), 0. Clinton, 7; Emerson (Gary), 7 (tiei. COLELGE SCORES Franklin. 33: Indiana Central, 12, Hanover, 3; Louisville, 0. Delta. 12; Murray. 12 (tiej. Georgetown. 51; Union, 0. Louisiana Tech, 13; Conias-Lirtcoln, 7. Louisiana Normal. 92: El Dorado, 0. Glendale Normal, 0; West Liberty, 0 (tie). Duquesne. 6; Oglethorpe. 0. Muskingum, 21; Findlay, 0. St. Xavier. 41; Kenyon 0. Wittenberg. 13J John Carroll, 8. Southwestern. 20; Friends. 0. Kansas Weslevan. 47; McPherson. 0. Chilocco Indians, 12; Bethel. 6. Missouri Valiev. 51: Kemper, 7. Emporia Teachers, 27; Hays, 0. Omaha. 7: Cotner 0. North Dakota, 41; De Paul (Chicago), 7. Marpuatte, 39; Lawrence. 0. Drake, 20; Simpsqn. 0. Temple, 19; Albright. 7. Union. 19; Bethel College. 0. Detroit. 20: Western Teachers. 0. Chattanooga 6; Lloyd (New Orleans). 0. Quantico Marines. 14; St. Thomas. 7. Presbyterian. 20: L°noir Rhyne. 0. Long Island, 9: Baltimore. 7. Howard. 31; Georgia State, 0. WOMEN GOLFERS PLAY A women's invitational tournament will be staged at Willow Brook Golf Club Monday, open to all women golfers of the city vicinity. The course is located at Forty-sixth street and Keystone avenue. A cup and fifteen other prizes will be awarded. HOOSIER NINE BEATEN By United Press CINCINNATI, 0.. Oct. 3 Evansville, only Hoosier entry in the amateur division of the National Municipal Baseball Association title tourney, lost two games Friday, bowing to St. Louis, 13 to 4, and Cincinnati, 20 to 1.

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BV GEORGE KIRKSEY United Tress Staff Corresoondent ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.—Philadelphia Athletics have two days to devise some means for stopping a dashing, daring rookie outfielder who has suddenly injected new life into the world series hopes of the St. Louis Cardinals. “And they’ll need ten,” says John Leonard Martin, Cards’ center fielder, whose speed and cunning on the baselines accounted for the two runs by which the National League champions won the second game, Friday, 2-0, squaring the series at one victory each. Until this series opened, the baseball world in general, and the Philadelphia Athletics in particular, thought of this player whose daredevil deeds have made him a hero overnight in terms of: Martin, CF Before the series opened, Martin openly boasted about his batting prowess. “I Can Hit ’Em AH” “I can hit any pitcher in the world,” he bragged, "and that includes Grove and Earnshaw, too.” Martin isn’t any piker, as can be seen from that statement. He didn't pick out any cripples to jump on—just Grove and Earnshaw. Manager Gabby Street got in the same boat with Martin by saying, ‘‘He’ll probably do it, too.” Down in his home state of Oklahoma they call Martin the ‘ Wild Horse of the Osage,” and that just about describes this amazing rookie who boasted what he was going to do in his first world series and in two games has done everything but ride a pinto pony around the bases. In seven times at bat he has made five hits and leads all world series players with an average of I .714. He has stolen three bases, scored two of the Cards’ four runs and driven in one of the others. Mickey Cochrane, generally recognized as baseball's greatest catcher, has been made to look foolish in an effort to halt Martin’s wild | dashes on the basepaths. In FriI day’s game, Martin had Cochrane | dizzy from his spectacular base i running. Twice Cochrane tried to head him off and failed. Uncontrollable on Paths Once on base Martin in unconI trollable. His feet itch to go places. ! In his first appearance at bat Friday, he sent a low liner to left field. The ball almost handcuffed A1 Simi mons on the first bounce, and the A’s left fielder finally sprawled in | the turf. Did Martin slow up at first? He did not. Showing no respect whatever for Simmons' deadly arm, Martin raced on into second, and with a hook slide that might have drawn ; praise from that peerless base runner, Ty Cobb, was safe and half way home. A moment later Martin was gone again. This time he slid headlong into third, and Dykes never had a chance t-o tag him as Cochrane's throw was high. When Wilson flied to deep center, Martin scored. Chances are this devil-may-care speed demon would have taken | himself a chance at stealing home if Wilson hadn't brought him home. Again in the seventh Martin created havoc with the A’s defense. He ripped a single to left for his fifth hit of the series, and then a moment later he was speeding toward second. He dived in head first in a cloud of dust, for his third stolen base. He breezed to third on an infield out, and came, charging, tearing home on a squeeze play after Gelbert had bunted the ball. Was he safe? Well, Cochrane | hasn’t touched him yet. First Year in Majors This is Martin’s first year in the majors. He is 27, weighs 170 and lis 5 feet 8 inches in heighth. He j was born at Temple, Okla., but now 1 lives at Oklahoma City. Ball play- | ers call him “Pepper” or “Pep.” | He is a typical product of the ! Cards’ farm system, playing at Houston and Rochester before coming up to win Taylor Douthit’s job. When he was in the Texas League, Martin says he used to drive a display wagon advertising the ball game in the morning, help the ground's keeper put the diamond in shape, and then chase flies in the outfield before each day's game.

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Manual Is Grid A ictor r~ * BY DICK MILLER A perfectly executed cut back play early in the game placed quarter back Welton out into the open for an 80-yard goalward sprint Friday afternoon, and Manual was off to a 14-0 city series victory over Washington, 1930 public schools champion, Friday at the south side field. The second touchdown was scored the result of a bit of forgetfulness by Washington, but the south siders were more aggressive throughout. Tech, gradually rounding into shape, scored a 12. to 0 victory over Bloomington. Shortridge lost another close decision. 7-6, to Jefferson of Lafayette, and Broad Ripple took a drubbing from Carmel. 32-0. Second Marker ‘Gift* Washington never was organized at the right time. Frequent fine runs and gains were wasted. The breaks were entirely in Manual's favor and the second touchdown came as a distinct gift when Washington players stood and watched the kickoff following the first Manual touchdown roll into the end zone where Cowden. Manual half back, fell on it for six points. Coach Henry Bogue quickly inserted an entire new team in retaliation against the mental lapse of his varsity, but no combination was able to threaten seriously the powerful line and defense that Coatn Harry Painter has assembled at the south side school this fall. Manual, with a veteran lineup, now becomes a serious contender in the i city public school championship 1 series after several seasons out of 1 the running. Tech looked classy at Bloom- ! ington, the back field functioning well and the defense at crucial moments responded perfectly. East led a march down the field after Tech received the first kickoff and scored within three minutes. East Runs 92 Yards In the second quarter, after Tech I stopped a Bloomington passing i ifd j running attack on their eight-yard line. East dashed around end and down the field 92 yards for his seci ond touchdown and a 12-0 Tech vicJ tory. The powerful Carmel team, which held Washington two weeks ago and looked strong in other games, cut loose on Broad Ripple and. I scored in every quarter. Jefferies, a half back, tallied three of the five Carmel touchdowns, Cox one and Smith another. Ed Deiderich’s boys never threatened. Shortridge opened up with an aerial attack late in the game that nearly gained them a touchdown and a chance for a tie but the drive fell short when a pass was intercepted. Fumbles hurt Bob Nipper's boys after they had gained much ground with line plays throughout the game

To Rockne By United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Oct. 3. —With a gigantic rally, climaxed by the unveiling of a life-sized portrait of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame students gave their 1931 football team a tumultuous send off Thursday night for their game today with Indiana university, a traditional rival. More than 3,000 students attended the pep session. It was addressed by Coaches Heartly Anderson and Jack Chevigny and by Professor Pat Manlon of the law school.

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