SIMMONS HOMERS TWICE AS HARLEM WINS 6-3. FELLER STRIKES OUT 11.

Al Simmons homered twice as Harlem overcame an eleven strikeout performance by Bob Feller to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the World Series, beating St Louis 6-3.

St Louis needed a win desperately, and put their fate in the hands of Bob Feller. Feller, the nineteen-year old phenom, is coming off a 19-win season and his second season of well-over 200 strikeouts. He was going up against Cliff Melton, who struggled at times for the Knights this year.

St Louis got on the board first when Cecil Travis lead off the first with a double and scored to batters later on a Bill Dickey fly ball. The lead was short lived, as in the top half of the second inning, Al Simmons homered to left, his second homer of the series.

In the third inning, Ival Goodman added another solo home run off of Feller to give Harlem the 2-1 lead. The Knights added another run in the sixth, and St Louis matched it with a Bob Johnson home run in the bottom of the frame. But the ninth inning was the point where Harlem blew it open with 3 runs, including the second of the game by Al Simmons. The Plague went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth as Harlem won 6-3 and took a commanding 3-0 lead in the Series.

                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1938 Knights           0  1  1  0  0  1  0  0  3     6 10  0     6  0
1938 Plague            1  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0     2  8  0     7  0

Knights              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Plague               AB  R  H BI   AVG
Gehringer         2b  5  0  2  1  .214    Travis            ss  4  1  1  0  .167
Walker            rf  4  1  0  0  .077    Myer              2b  4  0  1  0  .455
Goodman           cf  4  1  1  1  .077    Dickey            c   3  0  0  1  .273
Greenberg         1b  4  0  1  0  .462    Foxx              1b  4  0  0  0  .091
York              c   4  0  1  1  .400    Johnson           cf  4  1  3  1  .417
Simmons           lf  4  2  3  2  .727    Chapman           rf  4  0  2  0  .417
Cronin            ss  3  1  0  0  .500     Klinger          p   0  0  0  0  .000
Higgins           3b  4  1  2  0  .545    Radcliff          lf  4  0  0  0  .167
Melton            p   3  0  0  0  .000    Rolfe             3b  3  0  1  0  .222
                     35  6 10  5          Feller            p   3  0  0  0  .000
                                           Lazzeri          rf  1  0  0  0  .500
                                                               34  2  8  2

Knights                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Melton           W 1-0           9.0  8  2  2  1  7 121  81  2.00
                                 9.0  8  2  2  1  7 121  81

Plague                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Feller           L 0-1           8.0  8  5  5  2 11 135  80  5.63
Klinger                          1.0  2  1  1  0  0  21  13  9.00
                                 9.0 10  6  6  2 11 156  93

STL: Lazzeri inserted at rf in the 9th

2B-Travis, Johnson. HR-Goodman(1), Simmons 2(3), Johnson(1). K-Gehringer,
Walker, Goodman, Greenberg 3, York, Cronin 3, Higgins, Johnson, Chapman 2,
Radcliff, Feller 2, Lazzeri. BB-Walker, Cronin, Rolfe. SH-Goodman, Melton.
SF-Dickey. PB-Dickey. BALK-Klinger.
GWRBI: Goodman
Temperature: 73, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from right at 15 MPH.