New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14


Canada. 1917. by The Tribune Association
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-For five innings
this afternoon the White Sox were
beaten and on the raw edge OF utter
rout, with the Giants leading four to
one, then Chicago's battling legion
formed again in the sixth, ripped the
Giant defence into patches and shreds
and drove Sallee from a stricken field.
BY three successive onslaughts in the
sixth, seventh and eighth innings the
American League champions scored
seven runs and won by all odds the
greatest game of the series by the
score of to 5.
Ball games may come and 60 in the
endless drift of the seasons, but none
of that bowling, raving thirty thousand
will ever forget those three successive
charges through Giant lines that
turned lest hope into triumph as
pink and pleasant as the sight of home
in apple blossom time.
Using the terrific impetus they had
gained in New York. the Giants first
shelled Tex Russell off the field before
that eminent lefthander had p .ched
nine balls, with no one out. They
scored two runs in this inning, and
then, in the fourth, broke once more
through the White SoX lines. with Ci-
cote in trouble and his supporting
cast on the verge Of breaking into
countless fragments. AS the Chicago
infeld and outfeld were cracking back
of the box star, the big crowd sur
rendered the last phantom OF hope
when New York's lead moved out to
a four to one margin.
Nothing happened in the fifth, but
in the sixth the Sox came over the
top in one Of those fighting assaults
which turn sedate ard sober human
being into red-eyed maniacs. thirsting
for gore. Three hits in the sixth scored
another Sox run. Three more of the
fading Sallee in the seventh scored
two more. And then, with the score
standing 3 to in his favor, McGraw,
for some reason beyond all dissection,
let his southpaw remain under the
heavy and increasing fire until the
game vas total loss, gone beyond
any hope of recall.
II was not until the Sox had pun
60 n
ard had scored six runs from his de-
1ieery within less than three compact
innings that the Giant leader finally
sent in Perritt TO relieve the stress.
Just why Sallee was left to Joe
Grim fate when il was easily apparent
to even the untutored eyes that his
effectiveness had passed away upon the
cold October cir is one of those mys-
teries that may never be explained. A
quicker shift to Perritt might not have
checked that savage and relentless SoX
assault. but it would have given the
Giants their one last chance to make
an even fight.
From the first ball pitched to the
final put-out this fifth battle was a
nervc-wrecking, scalp-lifting, soul-har-
rowing affair in all its devious details
Both ball clubs batted fercely, both
fielded miserably and both at one stage
or another broke wide open beneath
the we'll known strain. As the game
moved along it picked up added fury
round by round. lnyectlve and pro-
fame repartee snapped back and forth.
Two Sox runners were bumped and
blocked The big crowd. soaking IN
the warlike spirit of affairs, began to
roar and rage with added volume.
From the outside viewpoint at sew
eral turns the contest might have been
a grapple in No Mans Land between
the Princess Pats and the Prussian
guard. No past game in world series
history recalls the intense bitterness
of this fifth battle which again lifted
the Sox out in front with three games
against two.
Rowland was forced TO use up his
entire pitching staff, starting with Rus
sell. switching to Cicotte, picking up
with Williams and winding up with
Faber. before he had achieved his vic
toricus purpose. The fact that the two
clubs tore of twenty-six hits, scored
thirteen runs and compiled nine errors
is sufficient evidence as TO the velocity
Of the attack and the battered condi-
tion of both defensive lines.
The one surviving Giant hope now is
that New York won the seventh game
toss. if seven games are needed, and
thov have the chance of making a game
stand at home, with Benton and Schupp
The Sox defence, in fielding way,
broke even worse than the ragged de-
fence of the Giants. The south side
array ran up six misplays, with the
bobble brigade led by the brilliant
Buck Weaver, who contributed three.
The big Giant break came through the
in6eld. where Herzog's muf from Sal
lee in the seventh gave Chicago the
tieing run.
For GrnntIand Rice's analysis