GAME 5
RED HOT FOXX POWERS PLAGUE IN GAME 5, 14-2
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP): Jimmie Foxx slammed three home runs and drove in five as the St. Louis Bubonic Plague hammered
the Harlem Knights 14-2 in Game 5 of the World Championship Series. The victory gives St. Louis a 3-2 Series edge and
puts them one win away from a championship as the Series returns to Harlem for Game 6. Foxx, who has hammered an
incredible nine homers in five games, went deep three times in Game Five. With this feat, Foxx has become the third
player in this Series to hit three home runs in one game.
As has been custom in this World Series, introductions of new products abounded before the opening pitch.
However, before Game Five there was an unusual announcement. Russian-American economist Simon Kuznets, at a press
conference before the game, announced a formula that culminated in the creation of a Gross National Product, or an
index of a nation's wealth. The 29-year old Kuznets stated that he hopes the �GNP� will assist nations in relieving
the current economic downswing.
However, financial news was not what the fans in St. Louis were talking about. An excited crowd of 43,648 filed
into Plague Stadium hopeful and anxious. The sight of golfing champion, Bobby Jones, on hand to throw out the first
pitch, further delighted the St. Louis faithful. Child-star Jackie Coogan, the star of Tom Sawyer, performed the
National Anthem. Coogan was accompanied by a large, bald man, reportedly his uncle, to prepare young Jackie for a
role much later in his career. The uncle, preliminarily identified as �Fester� could not be reached for comment.
Plague starter George Pipgras had a creepy and cooky start to Game Five. Much like the second game of the
Series in which the Knights chased Pipgras after four batters, Joe Cronin of the Knights doubled with one out. With
the red-hot Babe Ruth and Chuck Klein coming up, the nervous Plague fans held their breath. A calm Piprgras induced
Ruth to bounce out and Chuck Klein to fly out to end the inning.
Feeling that they dodged a bullet, the Plague went to work in the bottom of the first. Second baseman Johnny
Hodapp homered to left off of Knight starter Pat Caraway. The St. Louis crowd went wild after the home run, not so
much for the 1-0 lead it provided, but that it came off of Caraway, critical of St. Louis fans earlier in the season.
Caraway did not seem effected by the raucous crowd and he proceeded to retire the next eight Plague batters.
In the bottom of the fourth, Caraway fell victim to the St. Louis longball. Al Simmons hit his sixth homer of
the season to raise the score to 2-0 and Tony Lazzeri followed with another solo shot to make the score 3-0.
A half-inning later, Don Hurst put Harlem on the board with a solo shot and cut the St. Louis lead to 3-1.
However, that was the only serious threat to Pipgras for the remainder of the afternoon, as he pitched the biggest
game of his DBS career. Pipgras would not allow another hit until game was virtually settled on the scoreboard and
put the Plague on a threshold of a championship.
Pipgras' mates, meanwhile, blew the game open in the middle innings. St. Louis scored twice in the fifth on a
two-run homer by the scorching Jimmie Foxx, the first of three the �The Beast� would hit in the game.
Caraway was removed after the fifth inning, much to the delight of the St. Louis crowd. The rookie left-hander
pitched fair in his post-season debut, but was victimized by the power hitting that has been the St. Louis trademark
in this Series.
Up 5-1, the Plague kept piling on the runs. A solo-shot by Lazzeri, his second of the game in the sixth was
followed by a three-run outburst in the bottom of the seventh. St. Louis added two more homers that inning, a two-run
shot by Foxx and a solo homer by right-fielder Dick Porter.
St. Louis scored five times in the bottom of the eighth to run the score to 14-1. In the midst of the outburst,
which saw two more Plague home runs was a sacrifice bunt by Pipgras that infuriated the Knight dugout. To many, a
sacrifice with a 6-1 lead at the time seemed like poor sportsmanship, but the maneuver opened the door for a five-run
inning that sealed the game.
Simmons and Foxx highlighted the inning with back-to-back home runs. For the contest, the two combined to go 6
for 10 with five home runs, eight RBI and five runs scored. Foxx became the third man this Series, with Simmons and
Babe Ruth, to hit three home runs in a game, and Foxx leads all players with an incredible nine home runs in the
Series.
The Series now returns to Harlem with the Plague one game away from the title. Sam Jones, who pitched well for
St. Louis in Game Three, will take the hill for the Plague in Game Six. He will be opposed by either General Crowder
or Freddie Fitzsimmons for the Harlem Knights.
| HARLEM | AB | R |
H | RBI |
ST LOUIS | AB | R |
H | RBI |
|---|
| Myer, 2b | 6 | 0 |
1 | 2 |
Combs, cf | 6 | 1 |
2 | 0 |
| Cronin, ss | 5 | 2 |
2 | 1 |
Hodapp, 2b | 6 | 3 |
3 | 4 |
| Ruth, rf | 4 | 5 |
4 | 4 |
Simmons, lf | 4 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| Klein, cf | 4 | 2 |
2 | 4 |
Foxx, 1b | 4 | 2 |
2 | 3 |
| Reynolds, lf | 4 | 1 |
1 | 1 |
Porter, rf | 4 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| Dickey, c | 5 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
Lazzeri, 3b | 5 | 0 |
2 | 0 |
| Kelly, 1b | 5 | 1 |
3 | 0 |
Wilson, c | 3 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Stripp, 3b | 4 | 1 |
1 | 1 |
West, ph | 1 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| Grove, p | 3 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
LSewell, ph | 1 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| Gaston, p | 0 | 1 |
0 | 0 |
Gelbert, ss | 3 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| | |
| |
JSewell, ss | 1 | 0 |
1 | 0 |
| | |
| |
Hallahan, p | 1 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| | |
| |
Luque, p | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| | |
| |
Judge, ph | 1 | 1 |
1 | 0 |
| | |
| |
Bell, p | 1 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| | |
| |
Boone, ph | 1 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| | | | |
| | |
| |
| TOTAL | 40 | 13 |
14 | 13 |
TOTAL | 42 | 7 |
15 | 7 |
| HARLEM | 302 | 122 | 210 |
- | 13 14 2 |
| ST LOUIS | 010 | 013 | 020 |
- | 7 15 0 |
E: Kelly, (1); Ruth, (2). DP: Harlem, 2; St. Louis, 1. LOB: Harlem, 6; St. Louis, 13.
2B: Lazzeri, (1); Myer, (1); Ruth, (3).
HR: Cronin, (1); Ruth 3, (5); Klein 2, (4); Reynolds, (2); Stripp, (1); Hodapp 2, (3); Foxx 2, (6).
| HARLEM | IP | H |
R | ER |
BB | SO |
ST LOUIS | IP | H |
R | ER |
BB | SO |
|---|
| Grove (W 2-0) | 5.2 | 9 |
5 | 5 |
3 | 3 |
Hallahan (L 0-2) | 4.2 | 9 |
8 | 8 |
2 | 5 |
| Gaston | 3.1 | 5 |
2 | 2 |
3 | 1 |
Luque | 1.1 | 2 |
2 | 2 |
1 | 2 |
| | |
| |
| |
Bell | 3 | 3 |
3 | 3 |
3 | 0 |
Umpires: Home, McCormick;
1b, Klem; 2b; Wilson; 3b; Nallin; lf; McGowan; rf; Owens
T: 3:14 A: 45,519
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