Show Cards to Be Difficult to Dislodge Chain Store System Brings Results V Hallahan Grimes Martin Prove Aces By Alan Gould Associated Press Correspondent ST. ST LOUIS Oct 12 Gabby 12 Gabby streets street's scrappy crappy flock of Cardinals having soared to the baseball peaks fter a a. dramatic ight right will be F 1 wt luit to dislodge from Crom rom the position j iM mey have fortl- fortl I 9 rEed led w with 1 t h the thc j I strongest es organization organ organ organ-Ir p t of reserve power ower In the national na- na na-I na lonal game I They rule the thel baseball roost for Ion forthe forthe the second time in inix r six six ix years thanks I I j t mainly to the Inspired In In-I In heroics' heroics of t t heir hawk faced f ff youngster Pepper the J. J vz 0 Martin and superlative mound Grimes work of Bill BUl Hallahan and Burleigh Grimes With this combination clicking the Red Birds Bird solved the very troublesome problem of stopping stop atop ping the Philadelphia Athletics by swift daring attacks upon the greatest greatest great great- est cst pitching pair in baseball Earnshaw Earn Earn- shaw and Grove The problem next year and for tor some years to come may be how to stop the Cardinals The success of the new world champions Is a striking Indorsement of chain store baseball As developed devel devel- 00 In far flung and highly ef efficient effi It- It 01 dent cent organization by the Cardinals it Is ts a gold mine of player wealth such as no major league In history has ever possessed Major links UnItS In the chain furnished two of the three Cardinal heroes In Inthe Inthe Inthe the victorious seven-game seven battle with the two-time two world champions Pepper Martin the freshman outfield outfield out- out field Held sensation was re recruited in Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas and polished up for varsity duty by the Rochester Jayvees Hallahan the brilliant southpaw was picked from Syracuse and taught the fine art of or control at Houston another strong outpost In the tern tem em The resources resources' appear limitless just lust as ac the results continue eminently emi satisfactory No ballyhoo Is needed for an organization that can turn up such great young players In short order as Gelbert Watkins Martin Hallahan Derringer and Jim Collins in addition to the colorful color color- ful ul Dizzy Dean who will Join the varsity for tor 1932 after proving himself himself himself him him- self Just lust about the best young right right- right right-I hander In the minors I REAP flEA TITLES TITLES V The Cardinals now have captured four National le league legue gue pennants and two world championships In six years years' They have broken even with Ithe the greatest great two outfits the American Amen Ameri can league has been able to put to together to- to other gether gether the Yankees and anti Athletics They have done more than any club to restore National league prestige since the New York Giants were at atthe atthe atthe the top ten years ears ago Few but the Cardinals themselves prior to the dollar million baseball how chow of 1931 figured they could break even against the pitching of Grove and Earnshaw Extraordinary Extraordinary nary developments such as the amazing game five streak of Pepper Martin and the benefit of the breaks In the final game helped favor the Cardinal cause Nevertheless less e came to w the seventh and final contest the Red Birds were the steadier scrappier more resourceful club Earnshaw the hero of the 1930 series not only was pushed off ot his pedestal by the exploits of Martin but the great right right-hander wound up as the hard luck figure of the 1931 battle In three games last year big George held the Cardinals to thirteen hits and a pair patr of runs blanked them for two twenty-two innings In a a. row This year In three frays he yielded twelve hits and six runs but lost the decision twice In six games against the Cards Earnshaw has blanked them In forty forty- three out of nine forty Innings He has has yielded an average of only four I hits per game he was beaten not only because he couldn't check Pepper Pepper Pepper Pep Pep- per Martin but because his teammates teammates team team- teammates mates went seventeen rimless rimless' In Innings innIngs innings in- in against the combined twirlIng twirl twirl- Ing ng of Hallahan Hanahan and Grimes The well known law of averages had a a big time tune functioning In this years year's baseball party It caught up with Earnshaw and the Athletics It leveled things ot off for tor Grimes whose skill and courage carried him to two brilliant triumphs Including a two two- hit conquest before his arm and strength gave out In the dramatic Inal final Inning Grimes beat both Earnshaw and Grove to square ac accounts accounts ac ac- counts for 1930 the theMar- theMar Marin Martin Mar Mar- tin in bomber down to earth to the disappointment disappointment dis dis- dis appointment of the home town fans and the safety of a number of world series records after the wildest individual In Individual Individual in- in raid In baseball history WILSON STARS The Cardinal big three Martin Hallahan and Grimes had bad fine tine support support sup sup- port from Captain and Catcher Jimmy Wilson The Red RedBIrd RedBird RedBird Bird backstop furnished a 3 surprising feature by outplaying his renowned rival MIckey ey Cochrane Worn out by a hot summers summer's campaign Cochrane Cochrane Cochrane Coch Coch- rane was below his usual standard both joth at bat and on the defense He Helit hit lit for a mere The Cardinals took sufficient liberties with Mickey and his pitchers to post nine stolen bases five of them by Martin WIson Wil Wilson WI- WI son except for his mental lapse In throwing to the wrong base In the hectic ninth inning of the second game nime gave a superb a-superb exhibition of backstoppIng and also his all nU America rival |