International: World Series, Oct. 19, 1931

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Fourth Game. Having won the first game and lost the second in St. Louis, and lost the third in Philadelphia, Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack") of the Philadelphia Athletics was faced with a familiar but difficult problem : who should pitch? As usual, he failed to reveal his solution of the problem till just before the game. Large (6 ft. 4 in.), bland George Livingston Earnshaw then began warming up. A game ahead, Manager Gabby Street could afford to gamble by starting right-handed Sylvester Johnson. He gave Philadelphia a run in the first inning, was replaced in the sixth after Jimmy Foxx had hit a homerun over the left field fence. Only one St. Louis batter managed to hit George Earnshaw—Pepper Martin who got a single in the fifth inning, a two-base hit in the eighth. Philadelphia won, 3 to 0.

Fifth Game. Already the unmistakable hero of the series, Pepper Martin heard himself described by Manager John McGraw of the New York Giants as the "greatest World Series player I ever saw." He was unabashed when Manager Street, moving him from sixth place to fourth in the batting order, made him clean-up man for St. Louis. In the first inning, he hit a sacrifice fly on which High scored. In the sixth, after Captain and Second Baseman Frankie Frisch had made a two-base hit, Pepper Martin smashed a homerun into the left field grandstand. In the eighth he singled, scoring Rightfielder Watkins. He was then, for the first time, put out trying to steal second. Philadelphia made a run in the seventh inning, St. Louis made another run in the ninth and won, 5 to 1.

Sixth Game. At Lancaster, Pa., a tire blew out on an automobile in which three men were driving to St. Louis to see the remainder of the World Series. The automobile swerved across the road, landed on the railroad tracks ahead of the train on which the St. Louis team was returning from Philadelphia. A man in the signal tower saw the wreck, switched the train onto a clear track, then shunted it back without delay or mishap.

A mishap occurred in the fifth inning of the next day's game. First man up for the Athletics, Foxx reached first on a wild throw by substitute Third Baseman Flowers of St. Louis. Miller sacrificed and Paul Derringer, rattled as he had been in the first game, walked Dykes. Williams singled. Grove struck out but Derringer walked Bishop, filling the bases. When the count against Philadelphia's Centrefielder George ("Mule") Haas was three balls and two strikes, Derringer delivered a pitch that crossed the plate close to Haas's knees. Umpire Richard Nallin called it a ball. After a long protest, in which Pitcher Derringer later declared Umpire Nallin had admitted making a mistake, the game was resumed. Cochrane singled, scoring one run, and Pitcher Derringer then walked Simmons, forcing in another. He was replaced by Sylvester Johnson. In the seventh inning, Leftfielder Hafey of St. Louis dropped a fly, Philadelphia got four runs more. St. Louis got a run in the sixth inning, lost 8 to i, in the only poorly played game of the Series.