Risch Banks on Southpaw Slants to Tame Tigers in Second Go WORK Man Who Came Back, MEDWICK’S Collins Comes Home to Help Cardinals Tame Tigers BURDEN of TIGER
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mtm risch Banks On Southpaw Slants To Tame Tigers In Second Go WORK Man Who Came Back, MEDWICK’S Collins Comes Home To Help Cardinals Tame Tigers BURDEN OF TIGER ... WITH WILLOW DIMS ■.—. -m-n. ews Duel With Cochrane a SERIES CHANCES t World Series DEANS’ DYNASTY RESTEDON ROWE a Row Cre* By HARRY GRAYSON Pour Hits in To*day’s Game Was Turn- (Sports Editor NKA Service) ated New Mark For First Detroit, Oct 4—Next to Dizzy and Dean and that Nutsy World Series Game Point For Detroit sr slick slinger, Schoolboy Rowe, the most magnetnic 'at- ing stion in the world series is John Leonard Martin—Pepper, By GEORGE KIRKSEY Champions Wild Horse of the Osage. (United Press Staff Correspondent) Detroit, Oct 4—(UP)—The flrm The story of Martin is that of a of Dean and Dean. Pitchers. Inc, by STUART CAMERON Who came back. The gracious PROBABLE LINEUP to from Oklahoma has had his may have take Joe (Ducky- (United Ptcm Sports Editor) Medwick, into r since he hit .600 and stole FOR SECOND GAME Wucky) Hitter, Ltd, Detroit, Oct 4.—(UP)—Detroit’* before the 1934 world I tn bases In beating the partnership baseball fandom, stunned by the series between the St Louis Car- MMAMA's practically single- Detroit, Oct 4—(UP)—Follow, unhappy collapse of their Tigers in dinals and Detroit Tigers is over. handed in baseball’s fall fashion ing Is the batting order of today’s the opening World Series game, If your highest admiration is for show of 1981. second of the series. looked to (School- game world pitching, then Dizzy Dean is your to-day Lynwood Martin but the swiped everything St Louis Detroit man. But if you like the crack of boy) Rowe as a savior against Cochrane's in steal- the ash the old Mickey glove Martin, White against horsehlde, Onslaughts of the St Louts Car- 3b.cf, then you have to for ing that show. The late John Me- Rothrock, rf.. Cochrane gq Medwick, dinals. o, the ex-coal miner from Carteret, Graw caled it the finest perform- FrlBch, 2b 2b, Oehringer Tiger rooters, cocky and confi- N. J„ just coming on 28 next ance ever turned in by a ball If ....... dent on the eve of the classic, were Medwick, lb, Oreenberg month. player. Collins, lb If, Ooslin forced into stony silence before the in Medwich, one of the few Hun- But Martin tried too hard Delancey, c ss, Rogell opener was as much as two innings and was beset injuries garians in organized baseball, Detroit’s well-oiled 1988, by Fullls or Oraatti, cf .... 3b, Owen Old. infield, He cracked out more consecutive base including a dislocated shoulder. Ourocher, ss rf. Fox rated by all the experts as the from a skin infection, hits to unpatrolled territory in the glso suffered Hallahan, p.p, Rowe betetr of the two, collapsed. and, due to one thing and another. opening game of the World series It's probable, although nobody Klem than Was out of the lineup half of the Umpires: (N. L.), plate; any player ever did befofe in could say for sure, that the five Gelsel the first geason and hit only .238. (A. L.), first; Reardon, battle. Four times ho errors charged to the Tigers in the Mot a few referred to Martin as (N. L.), second; Owens (A. L.), slashed out clean hits—two singles, first three Innings of the opening third. a home a major league morning glory run, and another single game, constituted a record. In any Orsatti took the cen- before he when Ernie flnaljjy tiled Out to center case, the epidemic of misplays from his in ter field berth away on his fifth time at bat. missed by a whisker of equalling the spring of 1933. Under the old rules, Medwick's the all-time record of six errors would Sparky Adams no longer last time at bat would have been for one team in one series contest. was traded. do at third base, and L. I. P. a sacrifice as it advanced a man And the errors were the chief con- decided Bowling So, in desperation, Martin from second to third after the tributing factor in yesterday’s 8-3 far turn. to take a whirl at the catch which would have given him victory of the Cardinals. Awful best describes Martin's ef- a perfect at bat. Ballyhoo day So to-day the Tiger fans hoped forts. Then, one Sunday, early in As it waft, Medwick four hits got that the schoolboy who was poison the season, when Pepper couldn't In five times at bat, and drove By Dllllnger Kenausis in to American league batsmen in the bit the veteran Waite Hoyt, and two runs, for an of They’re off!, shouted the crowd average .800, regular season, would turn back took that long and dismal walk and that's in all as sixty horses lined at the foul good hitting the Cards and level the back to the dugout, he kicked the up series line to open up the 1934-35 L.X.P. leagues, including the EpWorth. out before the teams entrain to- bats in the rack in his anger. season. It was his home run In the fifth for St the Hero Hits Bottom bowling night Louis where com- inning, which supplied the winning petition will be resumed Friday. Martin did this with such force run. The Cards went on to make Our mistake, they are not horses, Mickey Cochrane, Tigers boss, an- and in such a way that one of the four more runs after that, but If but sixty bowlers, who danced Here’s St Ixrals Cardinal llrst baseman In the third of the lint World Series game at Detroit. nounced Rowe as his starting bats flew over the cement rampart hadn't homer “RJp” Collins, dentins theplate Inning around so that they reminded one they Medwick’s would score hard smash which choice when was as it were alive and land- That’s Catcher Cochrane (at right) of the Detroit Tigers, who were subdued 8 to S. Collins’, oame from Delanoey’s yesterday's defeat though of have won for them, anyway. horses going to the post out of past Ftsat Baseman Hank not more than ten minutes old. It ed in the of Mrs Rachel Brea- got Greenberg. __ lap cntrol. Medwlck’s hitting streak has had been wife of the president of the expected that he would don, been accomplished only three pre- choose Tom for St Louis Cardinals. Bridges to-day, re- Father Valentlejus and Presi- vious times In world series annals. on Rowe for the first In Martin was booed louder and And Gathered From lying gam* dent Thomas Matas officially Frank Isbell of Fielder Jones' oid Rumors Reality Missouri. But the defeat in the longer than any athlete in the opened up the season by roiling Chicago White Stockings first did TO-DAY’S SPORT PARADE opener too and memory of Missouri graybeards. stung deeply the first ball and believe it or not it In the 1906 series against the Cochrane decided to The world series hero of two au- gamble every- Father Valentlejus chalked u Cubs. Frank Snyder, New Tork on tumns before had struck bottom. up thing breaking into the winning strike, beating President Tom Giants, duplicated the feat In the By HENRY McliEMORE yesterday they were kidding, play- World column The Cardinals took to the road by This before leaving his home ten pins. 1991 series against the Tankecs, (United Press Staff Correspondent) ing and rough-housing In .and out Sporting port. that night with Martin down in their like the opener was JOHN A. CLUNEY and three years later Freddy Ltnd- Detroit, Oct 4.—(UP)—While dugout By rranicie a risen, leader of the in- the mouth to a greater extent than another In Cincinnati. The strength ot the league as- strom, Giants, repeated It again everybody was looking around Just game spired Cardinal announced Bill Terry and his Giants are to- Martin and Medwlck and Orsattl caravan, serted Itself by showing the same against Washington. But not uhtil today for an explanation, other Contest ho would pitch Wild Bill Hallahan. day. amused themselves, and the .crowd, The Grist Of Athletic sixty men as rolled last year with yesterday did any player ever than the dizzines freres, for why This decision amazed most of the jBut ciud officials ana uabDy the with an exhibition of trick ball twelve men waiting. One man is make four hits in a row in the the Cardinals look like goods experts who expected him to fol- Street, then manager, and his I think that handling; Dazzy Vance walked now waiting two years. At this opening game. And only 14 players In this world series, low Dizzy Dean, winning pitcher in teammates stuck with the pepper 1 stumbled on' a clew to about making wisecracks about rate the other twelve men should have- made 4 hits in one series perhaps Tiger Rag the opening battle, with his only pot, who quickly settled down to in the cocktail llBt of slipping into a world series at last, be able to bowl about 1946. game since Abner had his bright the answer slightly less unorthodox brother. making the customers in St Louis and how he was taking pictures of season In which they copped idea in N. Y. the Hotel Fort Shelby. Whereas, during an American League Paul, the his mistakes. Cooperstown, the so his homefolks down Daffy.