St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 3, 1926

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Sunday Post-Dispatch sna, 136 Pages FIKST NEWS. SECTION. 16 PAG SECOND SECTION (SPORT). 2 PAGES. THIRD NEWS SECTION, 12 PAGES. FOURTH NEWS SECTION. 15 PAGES. FIFTH NEWS SECTION. 12 PAGES. SIXTH NEWS mys sacri PAGES b aeaie s VENTH NE 5 Oo WAKT SECT & PAGES. REAL USTATE ‘smeTi IN. iA race. ROTOGRAVURE, 12 PAG & ___ OMIC_ SECT SECTION, 8 PAGES. te eee ewe ee oe hn This Section PART ONE. ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1926. PAGES 1-16 —— Ck 10 CENTS CLOUDY TODAY, TOMORROW, Stik my Sei FLOODS THREATEN CARD FANS AN (67,658 SEE YANKEES WIN ~ /MCSINVLLELL, STEISEETING: = OPENING GAME, 2 TO 1, IN THE TEMPERATURES. Tributaries to Menacing Over KSD Follows Play. (IF NEW RC | from reports written for the. | ering the world’s series for this CARDINALS THREE HITS; ete the eighth inning when they lead. At that time they were | deliberately played for a tie and World’s S ° St . of Heavy Rains Raise Illinois) Downtown Business Virtu- and Wabash Ri d| ally Suspended as Gra- vers and} ally Suspended as Gra-| What the a Say | ham McNamee’s Voice | HE following paragraphs Uocumaics*enomtee ite}! The Box Score ALLOWS ONLY '| newspaper: SE CARDINALS, PS ee || Cardinals made what I consid- || ered a mistake in judgment in had their one good chance to break through and take the | one behind. Instead of step- ping out boldly to win, they Cardinals Lose First of the Inexperience Tells on Their Moundsman. ~ No. 26. i cr pL | *Indicates street vt agg | Yesterday's high, 8&4 'm.): low, 67 (6 >. mm.) ae meen 0 anne ~- ~~ B~ror ee ee et et CSD mS OOO ID * -RR * Qs peerings ae wie meh nes > gor tags me I ett AEN AOE SI SAY GIO TE AA ms i Stage. PPL ~ A Le tt ea se “ ST. LOUISANS CHEER GIRL, 11, DROWNED 3 AS IF IN BLEACHERS AT WHITE HALL, ILL. a oe + » rite. Bn! cConnewemonoceo! ~loooocomoococe® erey > to - ‘wlhlocoococconoce. va HIS OVER-CAUTION LETS IN ONE RUN = © ers lower sections of the city. The city gas supply | here, there was none in the game. The whole story was written in the pitching box. There were no breaks’ except Pennocx's wonderful control.” Hornsby—‘We might played a few extra innings if it had not been for Sherdel’s wild streak in that first innings After that, Sherdel pitched jusi as good a game as Pennock, though the Yanks did make a few more hits than we did. The trouble was that Sherry pitched too carefully in the first in- ning.” Alexander—‘“While there was not much hitting, it was a good fielding game. Koenig and Thevenow played a great game is almost exhausted. Meuse] if.... Gehrig tb... And That’s the Margin of Victory — Pennock, Vet- eran, at All Times Master of Situation. By J. ROY STOCKTON, Of the Post-Dispatch Sport Staff. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Miller Huggins’ New York Yankees and Rogers Hornsby’s Cardinals, two great baseball teams, great be- cause of their slugging ability, met at the Yankee Stadium this after- went have Dugan 3b.. Severeid c... PENNOCK P.. cast for St. Louis B to I yanen FANS HAVE and probably and tomorrow perature. temperature. ign Minister Briand a | valleys, occasional show- > B ih ¢ 4 f is | Creek, a tributary of the Illinois | Dispatch was one, his play-by-play|them for the market. Now any- and vicinity: [IT ON THE Mostly cloudy tvo- . in Paris. | = thunder showers: continued mild with occasional! showers and prob- Illinois: Most'y gi cloudy today and This Week's Weather Outlook. By the Associated Press. i1 | Missouri s Chambcriain, who|ers throughout the week, with | moderate eff here to see Briand, on | dn ght whole range of interna- foblems, according to A River.) ‘account of the game. The hats body who can skin a fox ought to By the Associated Press. | that cracked in Yankee Stadium | ‘be able to fool a ballplayer. Her- ; WHITEHALL, Ul. Oct. 2.—! echoed aeross the nation, and Rog-| bert did. Three hits was all he day and to- morrow, with oc- ME. MADE temperature. &: Missouri: Most- ably thunder showers; eon- / tomorrow with | sivowern and probably liocal thun- CHICAGO, Oct. ime tt Was an-;. ~~". Rabe A aa mderstanding ' look for the week beginning Mon- temperature for the sea- son, becoming cooler by the close rhack to Londoa from he conferred Thurs- | = Mique, and they agreed on Bon policy. Helen Hanson. 11 years old of | ers Hornsby was cheered in San’ gave, but he was much more wild : a . I = +s } Drake Station, meer ner | afepped to the plate. number of batters. Still but for a was | : ; ae ; ‘ne ast nicht in the flood wa- | fommunique, but it is an- | British Field — Three of ‘eigen cheno igen i as Here, business virtually was sus-| little handle hit in the first itining A that en told | Victims Women. poetine Khe Matabe, cttemnedl car: pended for two hours while the | the re would have been no score by | of the substance of his con- | et tee Sn ther! ereand “aie Wel whole town got the returns — a | St. Louis and from that round un- || n with Mussolini. By the Associated Press. . d inn had ~ - aeailhed a pee" neni | town that won a pennant after 38) til the ninth no Cardinal reached | || they separated Briand ind | PENSHURST, KENT, ENGLAND, | *S* 4% ” wi 2 ne lean years of major league base- him. 1] sriain showed the same cor- | Oct. 2—Seven persons, five of them | their home. | ball and now is craving a world | Pennock death this spiritually Sacri- wut Theve- not | | He ranks || is physically Associated Prese. lefthanded. 3ROKE ‘5 limacy that has character- | Passengers, met after- | By the championship. ati a on : | A Ti z : = inten. : | ortstop, while Hornsby ) 80. Double play — Thevenow. ~ relations since the Lo- | "00m when a French Air | ome ees NAPLES, Ill., Oct. 2.—A 15-inch | Ru oters Jam Olive Street. among the brainiest in the game | made a wonderful play ia Hornsby and Bottomley. Left on|| noon, before a crowd 6f 61,658 per- SAY BUT. pfere plane, enroute from Paris to Croy- | _. ew ae Sar ee ; and his control is famoug up’ end ‘ ; ter 1 2% the southern quarter of Naples, | Twelfth boulevard wes a F Sasebal! pind Menitee yy egy" 5 ay inning. Taken all in all, the (#@s¢= On ballp-—-Off.. Sherdell, 3 do with the outcome of the con- | 80 good but this slight man is not sheer ice and even a fox has a right to an extra pace of pulse when the chase is on. . The for- tunes of the game were such that Pennock faced his most dangerous miles from its destination and crashed near here. fE TAX COLLECTIONS Every person aboard the great 'four-engine air liner was burned | (Combs, uth, Meusel): off Haines, 1 (Meusel); off Penonck, 3’ (lL. Bell, O'Farrell, Douthit). Struck Out—By Sherdel. 1 (Laz- zweri); by Pennock, 4 (Sherdel, Bottomley, Bell, Hafey. Hits—oOff Sherdel, 6 in 7 innings; off Haines, none in | inning. Winning pitch- ér—Pennock. Losing pitcher— Sherdel. Umpires Dinnecn. forcing families to move out. ‘The teams looked evenly matched and as I have said previously, the series is going to be a hard- fought one.” Babe Ruth—‘“Aside from winning the ball game, the big- gest thing to me was the fa>t that we beat a lefthander to ‘win it. A lot of people main- GREEN ] AN 18 ig pavilien, and except for 2 few! pumping plant has shut down, N0'| street cars which pushe@_their way | train service is possible, and resi- |through the jam with more fans. ) Total Paid for Third o- dents are using row boats to get/ hanging out the windows to listen ' , . . It was believed | ' | 4 ’ of 1926, Treasury | beyond receggnition ) | . 'to the stores. Reports all the passengers were English. store jit was al! reserved for rooters. | | Every block was noisy with the cat |The pilot and mechanic were Beardstgwn, Ml., Bridge Is Closed | pame. six loud speakers bawling foes in the tightest moments. ING ONC Oct. 2.—An in-| French. ' ; : - Ninth. : to Traffic; Ferry in Use. | me Ton Facing Hornsby in more than $100,000,000 in| The names of the passengers 28} ,, . ont MecNamee's account of the | Many times he had to bear y the Associated Press ‘events in as many blocks. Tate. * ’ 7 : ry t 2 wit ota- . = wine * : ' collections for the thir: given out m4 ae line oy the cH | BEARDSTOWN, Ill, Oct. 2. —| comers were pushed over to Locust | down. Coming into the ninth, - Wer the same period last | tion pore = =—6& os ¢ Stal .,.. | The Illinois River, still rising, now | street, Sixth street and Washing- instance, with a slim one-run Itad tained that the Yankees plate; O'Day, first base: Hilde. wfeported today by the pertruce ins ees and |at 21.85 feet, a gain of more than ‘ton avenue. the hleacherg |On which to lean, he watcied couldn't beat a lefthAnder. We ) brand, second base; Klem. third Mito $636. — Paden tebe. The ‘pilot's name| © inches since last night, stopped | were, radioistically speaking. | Hornsby stalk up to the plate, with |; did it. hase. Time of game. 1:48. Offset, however. by a| Was Mallett and the mechanic's traffic over the bridge and forced! “The Cards lost. but no one gave | Bottomley and Bell behind him. ane | : =| over. $90,000,000 in miscellane- | Bayer. The addresses were not | | h til the last srowl of | Rogers Hornsby is always a grin === up ope unt} the ias Frowl OT } COOLIDGE ORDERS “JARDINE static told that the game was over. | figure for anyone to pitch to, «nd test, the first game of the 1926 series for the baseball champion- ship of the world. The Yankees won, 2 to 1, not because they were better sluggers than the Cardinals, but because Herbert Pennock, «a veteran lefthander, was a more ex- perienced pitcher than William Sherdel, the Cardinal southpaw. Each pitched brilliantly. Pen- | nock’s game was a thing to marvel pone eA He held the fence-busting moe ,Cardinals to three hits. He turned bi hw ere |residents to again use the ferry. South Beardstown is mostly evacu- iornsby’s sluggers into impotent . RIGHT | Ss AND 63,000 for the quarter, an } be felt in this quarter, Pi mot expected to be so ee expenditures stands on ™ / of ille cA | aarmer. P@nd his [receipts which resulted repeal of the capital stock se taxes netted $162,000,- period. spective Treasury sur- unwed to grow, however, ms collections amounting [Of more than $11,000,000 year. hover the possible sur- Pitereased because of the the full effect of repeal Btock tax was ex- ned almost $100,000,000 Munition is expected in the turns of income taxes Pérap in the miscellaneous r. Of $238.139.000. re- wury books for the first ‘Ts of this calendar mpared an excess of $129,- ast ast year. uh GETS 4 YEARS | LATION OF DRY LAW Agents, F By Ruse, Cause | P's Conviction of Pos- and Selling Liquor. | Silex) Preag ; aoe, 3. Which has “er law violators in and Water diets, has dealt yeneve | to be ” Stern | placed | among the | 8€Htences ever ordered | =n Of the Volstead act. posse ssion elson. | sentenced to)! f liquor, _Was in the Nebraska State! . He has posted bond my pending appea! to | proms Court brother, John, Were visited by dry ~ Tepresented themselves buyers. While negotiat- them for this purchase. | Oscar a Ugerested that it would UY some “white mule” brothers said they had mule.” but sold the bottles of Canadian $10 & bottle. the agents r™ who has been *d of liquor law vio-| ed not guilty. imposed & sentence of | for legal posse ssion and for ilewal sale 73h consec utively. John Sonvicted, but as the Md ft was his first of- the sen- concurrently. jail| «. ‘| races at the Yorksh | ble, In which it dived cockpit | Rels but was | | ference it was announced 88 given 60 days in jaf! for each count, gen- | available. At least one of the sengers was alive when the ‘lan struck the ground. She died whi the overseer of a nearby -far:n struggled to rescue her Eaward Sands, the overseer, toid a correspondent for the Associat +d Press that he saw the plane "rst into flames near the tail when about 400 feet in the air. It dived to earth. The crash was followed by two explosions and flames shot 30 feet into the air, enveloping che wreckage and making it impossible to rescue the passengers who were piled tn a heap within the burning cabin. The weather was perfect and the cause of the accident had not been determined tonight. The tragedy is the second cross- channel airplane accident in last two months, an airplane en- women Das- | Wabash the ‘ route from Le Bourget to Croyden | chashing near Folkestone, injury of nine others. One Ameri- can was killed and six others were | injured in that crash. The which crashed today. British Woman Aviator Narrowly | Escapes in Crash. By the Associated Press. SELBY, England, Oct. 2.—Mrs. ' Elliott Lynn, noted British aviatrix, cansing | “ | e the deaths of three persons and the | |'for the | Day. air- | | burst in ’ t he’ one | plane was a sister ship to t ‘noon. | Flood Warnings Issued for Missis-| | narrowly escaped death today with | passenger when her little machine crashed a man moth” engine trou- forced sharply to The plane developed necessitating a the during | ire Flying Club. | landing | | feet, river yesterday ground, smashing the propeller and | undercarriage. The -woman flyer ‘and the passenger jumped from the crash and | | 40 feet. just before fhe escaped unhurt. Indiana and Oklahoma lAkely on Itinerary. Hr the Aasociated Prees. CHICAGO, Oct. William E. Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign tions Committee, tendered his the National Senator ry serviceae to inced at joint the Senatorial and Campaign Commzti- it was anno quarters of Congressional! tee. The Idaho Senator held a con- with Cortressman Walter Newton of Minnesota, the Speakers’ Bureau, that Indiana, ‘'k- probally iti- Missouri the Senator's and on lahorna would be nerary. BORAH TO CAMPAIGN FOR 6.0.P.. | Missouri. | Illinois River basin, ated. *-| Wabash River Nears Flood stage | | game by at Mt. Carmel, Il. By the Associated Press. MT. CARMEL, Ill., Oct. 3.--The River here was nearing the flood stage of 16 feet avai today, following heavy stream. The gauge feet, with a prediction from Terre | Haute that 18 feet would be reached. The flood crest two} weeks ago was 21.5 feet. Traffic on State Highway No. 40) Blocked by Flood at Mineola. Special to the Post-Dispatch FULTON, Mo., Oct. Mineola at 8 p. m. today, way No. 40, Louisans and other turning home from Tulane football game at creek went out of fourth its banks There was this section sippi and Illinois Rivers. Flood warnings on the sippi Kiver immediately above mouth of the Missouri, Illinois River, were day by the Weather Bureau At Alton, where is 21 feet, the was 22.5 feet, dicted: at the here. the flood stage Mississippi at 7 a. m. with 23.6 feet pre- Grafton, flood stage 18 20.6, with 21.8 predicted. The Mississippi at St. 25.6 vesterday, with 27.2 by Tuesday Flood Heavy rains in sissippi basin north of the Mis- souri River junction, and itn the have caused stage | the rise. Re- | publican Speakers’ Pureau here ta. day and will take the stump so0%1, | hea1- ‘left an estate | Dr. ‘DR. ELIOT ESTATE, $304,000 2.—United States | Idaho, | Papers on F “ducator’s Property Filed in Cambridge, Mass. Ry the Associated Preee CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Charles W. Eliot. president Harvard Uni vaiued at $3 if was indicated in papers filed in fersi y, 4,225 emeritus of Middlesex Probate Court today. | Hreghes Is Guest at White House. chairman of | after which | | nent | Hague, is a fv the Associated Press - WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Charies Hughes, recently appoinred American member of the Perma- Court of Arbitration at The week-end President and Mre. Coolidge. Evans in 'will sock a | field 2 rains up-|* * stood at 14.7 | | Victory. m time since Labor) enthusiastic about. a miniature cloud-| this after-| 'mitted that something good had | McNamee, Missis- | _ the and for the) issued vester-| | third | They’ll Louis. was predicted | here is. the Mis- | | Sherry, i ond Oct. 2.— | ‘'mordant creafure at ‘ithe Cards play here.” cuest of | That's the hliss of attending a ball radio. Magic comes from who knows but breath Hornsby one into the right Of course, he didn’t. and that Is the sad part of to 1 score. But the St. Louls erowds took defeat in good spirits may come out of the horns ‘today. and it was no shameful de- feat to be beaten by Herb Pennock and next fast the horn the bleachers? | | at his best. New Yorkers Cheer Cards. Quite unexpectedly the New | York crowd was the hero of the 2.—The | flood waters of Loutre creek at! blocked | all traffic on Missouri State High-| tying up many St.! motorists re-| the Missouri- | Columbia. | day as far as the radio fans were concerned. Half of the crowd seemed to be yelling for the Card- inals. When Hornsby went to bat in the first inning there was a rum- ble like Forty-second and Broad- way from the loud speakers. New Yorkers apparently at last found something west of Newark which they deemed worth getting The Cardinals scored first and that crowd a thou- sand miles away ungrudgingly ad- come out of the corn belt. The next important hero was the broadcaster. A Yankee fan, he nevertheless gave Cards a square deal. When Babe Ruth tore his trousers by sliding into second base in the inning. the nation heard the news, impartially reported, everybody in St. Louis McNamee was fair. He Pennock until the fans on street got to hollering: “Walt. get next to the biz But when Pennock walked two men in the eighth. McNamee admitted it. He said Sherde!] wild in the first inning. But everybody yelled, “‘Come on, settle down.” In the sec- inning the horns duly con- ceded, “Sherde| is not so wild as he was in the first.’ “Atta boy, Sherry.” stiff.”’ went ithe ery from Twelfth to Broadway. | Sense of Distance Frased. Fans did not seem to mind be- ing 1000 miles from the game. A Eighth and “This to get when He was not a member of the Little Sect of Coveted Pasteboards. Another humorist who had been listening to a horn at and Olive. moved to the 600 block on Olive, explaining that he want- ed to wet a little closer to the third-base line Some indication of ee — Olive remarked. close as I’m going the ee ew what nt 6 nee ree nr ~ ‘Contineed on Page 2 Coleme & /and | grief 'with all | geries. ‘although he made one fine play in| ‘the field. | well or stricken, 'trifled with. -had | j}now he was solemn as well as sav- ;age. | Three days ago his mother cred » on taking | along | world's | Hornsby has gone upon his shoulders the weight of a The edge was off his game, And still, a Hornasvy, Pennock was careful in pitching to him and to al) the others. Not once did he simply put his back and shoulders behind the ball and merely try to buzz it through. In- deed, Herbert wes not even pitch- ing at the plate. His aim was fcr the corners. Across these tiny 'ar- gets he slipped dipping curves, laying the ball as precisely in the desired spot as some boy setting up pins in an alley. Sherdel’s Wicked Slow Ball. Against him was Sherdel and he, too, belongs among the brainy ones of baseball even though he’s had no dealings ith the foxes. “Slow I am” is Sherdel’s motto. He throws a ball which makes the batter feel like a gross sinner waiting his turn at the foot of the judgment seat. Theré seems to be fury in the pitch but the ball daliies all the way along the journey. It starts for the given point and then mid-way lin- gers awhile to powder its nose. and | laughed. | praised | Olive | power of the swing as the crippled | pitch comes at last up to the plate. was) | scored in | made is just as! Eleventh | Among the long and mighty hit- ters Sherdel's slow ball is as tanta- | wearing | man blights as a rude Something lizing glasses. the is didn't always get there offerings of Sherdel’s spent But Many passes aad the opening inning was without a vestige of a hit. Rut St. Leuis had the lead in the up | beginning. Douthit, the sceptic slugger, |gan the game for the Cardinals by banging a two-base hit into right. On an infield out he went ito third. tarried \tomley's little lift over the head of Koenig. Quickly the Yankees tied | it. for Sherdel passed three in the: last half of the first inning and Combs came home im the sixth thev scored the win- ning run. when Ruth slapped one to left. took second on Meusel’s sacrifice and dashed home Gehrig's drive to right. Ruth's mit S eeeiliniesnanstieaentie ee ” Continued on Page 2. Column 5. TO AID FLORIDA FARMERS Secretary Told Lo Use Money sfc Can Spare From Agricusture Department Appropriation. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Presi- dent Coolidge today informed Sec- * | retary Jardine that “it is my de- is not ever to De | : *|gire that you use every possible | facility” of the Agriculture De- partment for the aid of farmers in the Florida storm stricken area. The President expressed this wish in a letter in reply to a re- port by the Secretary, which said that approximately $300,000 was needed immediately by Florida farmers for the planting of winter crops. Mr. Coolidge wrote that he was “confident that if Congress we-* in. session, it would authorize it.- mediate and substantial relief for thie class of sufferers,”” and that it was his desire that “you use for this purpose funds of your ap-| propriations as will not inte-fere with your current operatiéns.” Queen Marie Start« for America. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Oct. 2 image en Marie has left Bucharest on first part of the journey, hen will take her on her long-awa!* so long a time upon the journey is He was. | that they could not quite remember | ‘the address. He gave many the first run of the Yankees | be- | there as Hornsby | died. and scampered home on Bot- | while Gehrig | was forcing a man at second. And ' visit to the United- States. [her party she left for Paris at 4 ‘o'clock this afternoon. A Refreshing Change Planned A fairy touch is seen in the old home. Pleasing patterns of modern furniture have been placed in their settings. Furnithre of the kind advertised in the Post-Dispatch today. Exchanged furmture of modern styles is presented for the selec- tion of discriminating home- makers, who know values, at about half the original price in the Post-Dispatch Classitied col- umns. —— |) Why be without the attractive things needed? See today's fur- niture offers in the oa POST-DISPATCH St. Louis’ ONE Big For Sale Medium i i i i a i i ! ' i ' ' With | tel ee ee a i i i i i a tis > Aen Benstinet tree a a a a an ee ee a ee a ee ‘5 HURT IN TRACTION CRASH IN WASHOUT AT MAROA, ILL. Harold Pogue, Former All-Amer- U., Among By the Associated Press. DECATUR, Ill, Oct. 2.—Five persons were injured and severaij severely shaken and bruised when | a Decatur-to-Clinton Illinois Trazc- tion System car left the tracks three miles north of Maroa late this evening. A washout of the tracks caused the wreck. Those injured were: Ruby Green of Clinton, head wadly cut: Zula Stuart, Decatur, lew mJjured: Earl Emory, Maloney, knee injured. taken to a hospital in Clinton. Harold Pogue of Decatur, fifth person hurt, was brought to a hospital here. , Pogue was the famous American back of the lof Illinois football teams of about ten years ago. Injured. —_ a ee ae on Virginia Road. WASHINGTON, Oct. ni rar walk through ankle-deep mud | was the most important thing Lady Astor had to talk about to- ii day after a cai! on Coolidge. Her automobile in Virginia yes'erday, Had to set out _ Mrs. | broke down ishe said, and she lalong the soggy road i help. The American-born member of ‘the British Porliament icent, and showed an inclination to ishy from newspaper men. She lwas accompanied to the White |\House by Secretary ‘logg and Henry Chilton of British Embassy staff. : the YORK, Oct. 2—A volun- bankrutcy listing NEW 'tary petition in | was filed today in behalf of Mad- ame Margaret Matzenauer, donna contralto. | Madame Matzenauer judgments and scores of debts, the largest of which $26.000 due to Felix Warburg, banker and music patron. _ Football Player Dies of Injury. | AMUHERST. Mass., Oct. 2.—Al- fred Biadon Pimm Jr., ow ednesday, died today Pimm. | junior, back. injured back; and Charles | They were | ican Football Star of Illinois { ler | the | 'contest was not on his mind. all- | University | hitters who could not do more than knock grounders to the irfield—~ or easy, flies te the outfield, or strike out, when hits meant rune, Worry Tells on Sherdel. Sherdel also was a great pitch- Only ene run was driven over ns plate by Yankee base hits. Each team scored one run in this way, but because Pennock wags more experienced, or rather be- cause Sherdel was less experienced, the Yankees scored another run and that was the run that gave _ Yankees a victory. Pennock had been ‘aan world’s series before. It was noth- ing new for him to go out there on the hill and pitch his best. The strain and the worry that goes with baptism in a championship He just went out there and pitched. But Sherde!l was pitching in his first world’s series. He knew what depended on his good left arm. He |knew that he was matched against |a crafty pitcher, LADY ASTOR TRAMPS IN MUD Walks for Help When Auto Stalls 2.—A two-| President and. | chance looking for. was reti- | of State Kel- | MME, MATZENAUER BANKRUPT abilities of $48,410 and no ass®ts| prima | ‘the lists eight | other | is a’ one of the best, and worry had its effect on the little St. Louls lefthander. Sherdel Walks First Man. In the very first inning he bent the task of putting the ball where the Yankees could not hit it. He did well. In fact, he did it too well. He pitehed four wide ones to the first batter. Combs had no to hit. Two of the four might have been called strikes. They were close to the plate, but they were not over. Um- pire Bill Dineen called them balis and Combs walked. Sherdel put them were Koenig, the next man up, could not hit them. and Koentg was retired on an easy fly to Southworth But when Ruth came up Sherdel again was overcareful and the big Slambarnbino of baseball drew four balle and waiked. Stil! another doughty slugger. Pob Meusel, had to be faced. And Fherdel continued to be overcare- fu) To be sure, at the moment tt appeared that Sherdel's contrél wag bad. He would not Inet long, spectators concluded, if he were cracking and developing « wild etreak s0 soon When Meu- sel also walked, it began to look halls ‘itke a Roman holiday to the New Amherst |time for overcaution was | student, who suffered a fracture of |There was no profit in base on ‘the spine during football practice | belle’ now. a i and two walke meant was a second string naif. |= York fans. Begins to Put Them Over. Then Sherde! realized that the gone. A walk mean a run two rune. rR lehe then and there Sherde} real- A Be Reet ape aeaguaaally Continued on Page 2, Columa 2.