Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-08
EXPERTS TELL HOW
SOX PUT IT OVER
Funny and Humorous Views
Given by Well-Known
Authors
ALIBIS NOT MISSIN G

ALIBIS NOT MISSING
There are two angles in world series
baseball game, the serious side, seen
by the baseball players, managers and
baseball writer's. and the humorous side, as
viewed by the professional funny men. Per-
haps you would prefer to see just how the
humorous writer's looked at yesterdays
game before you learn Just what the ex-
perts thought of the rout at Chicago.
Ring Lardner is not only a funny man,
but before he made his hit writing funny
stuff he was a baseball reporter. He has
just returned from somewhere in France
and he uses his just accumulated French to
express his feelings. 1t is sort of hog
French, as It were something similar to the
hog Latin Of our school days:
lie bas blanc made it deux out of deux
from les Giants hier apres midi, winning the
second game Of the serie, sept to deux
lie jeu was uu battle royale up TO the fourth
inning, when the Sox lit into Monsieur
Anderson all spraddled out NJ Anderson
was taken hors de combat before the inning
was over and NJ Perritt got his. The
round netted the SoX cinqu runs ct settled
lie jeu.
"Directeur McGraw crossed everybody
by starting another left handler, Herr
Ferdinand Schupp. This Boche was
world beater for un inning, but in the
deuxieme he looked like un franc cinquante.
Opposed to the Hun at the start was
NJ. Rouge Faber, of Cascade, Iowa. Rouge
was hit hard in the deuXieme inning then
| settled down ct pitched tres bien, Rouge
also gave un grande exhibition of base
running, stealing third in the cinquieme
| inning avec that base already occupe.
| Plays like that make the enemy look like
| a sucker"
Fans Stand Up Twice
Irwin S. Cobb, in his description OF the
| game, said that there we're two occasions
when the big crowd stood up, once when
| the national anthem was being played and
| the other time was in the seventh inning
| which is also sacred to the American clt'
| zens. Otherwise, he says, there was no
| occasion for the display of high church
| rltuaistic stuff on the part of those present
| The real tragedy of the game, he de-
| clares was the present of the aged father
| and four brothers of Schupp, who had come
| all the way from Louisville to see the big
| brother twirl his team to success. One or
| the amusing features was when Faber made
| a brilliant steal to third, only TO find that
the base was already occupied by another
White Sox.
Anderson, he says, was knocked almost
! nude by the mighty drive of Eddie Collins
| before a crowd most OF whom were utter
| strangera The ball was hit so hard that II
| neatly parted his hair in the middle and
| caused him to shift his wad of chewing
tobacco from his port to starboard jaw.
"T Told You Soc. Collins
| But to turn to the serious side, made up
largely by albis on the part Of the van
| ouished and 81 told you SOS" on the part
| ~ the conuuerors the first man who steps
up 10 the plate is Eddie Collins. Collins.
| who when he is home lives In our subur-
| han town of Lansdowne, modestly opines
| that the White SoX, even in the estima-
| lion OF the Giants, demonstrated yester-
| dav that the Sox are the best club in the
| second game. He goes ON to say that
! the game showed that the White SoX are
capable of hitting all kinds OF pitching
| southpaWs spitters fast and slow balls.
| he winds up his modest estimate of the
two clubs by crashing out the statement
| that while the New York crowd think they
| have a chance now that the next game
will be in New York, he fully believes
that the Sox will do more hitting on the
polo Grounds than they have at Comiskey
lark
Fullerton Right and Wrong
Hugh c. Fullerton. who dissects base
hail as a surgeon would a frog, with bad
results TO both in that the operation is sue
oessful. but the patient dies said before
the games started that the Sox would win
hotb games He even went so far as TO
nick the scores. He was right In his major
| ,orar,jse and somewhat wrong In his minor,
9e sizes up the situation by stating the
Giants need not despair, for they are not so
had as they appeared during the first four
innings yesterday nor are the Whlte SoN
much better club He goes on 10 remark
thot the hurting was bad and that the
njtchers were either not pitching right to
ths batters or they lacked the control to
sat the hall where they wanted 1t TO go, and
the infielders we're up in the air as TO where
| 10 nlay. He ends with the remark that
H,hiia the Giants should not be disheart-
sned II now looks as IL nothing can stop
the White Sox.
KaanInR on the sunny side or the Chi
| caeo side Of things Charles A. Comiskey
! goes on record by saying that the second
game has clinched the world championship
1s further thinks the series virtually will
be over by wednesday night showing tha'
an optimst never dies
Clarence Rowland says there is nothing
70 IL. and he confidently expects to take
four straight, but what sort of an answer
would YOU expect from the manager OF th'
White Sox?
Naturally, John ]. McGraw furnishes thu
ohhi, and when you consider that the Giants
- I,se a golf term, are two down and five
| ~ nIax aud apparently hopelessly bunkereC
,,,,th topped drives he does the job fairly
,gau He opens with the best alioi In golf
the other fellows had al he uek' M
S,rtber adds that his team Is not hitting
"a thav are not playing the game, but tina
thIs condition OF AFFAIRS will not last. An'
Nth these few words we dismiss MeGraw
AIibi Of Schupp
: But the best alibi of all is supplied b,
schupp. who was taken out OF the game ii
. ~ second inning when the score was tied
tIyo out and three on bases, very pleas
; tnS sItuatlon for the sox but decidedly un
. oamfortabls for the Giants. But, say
: Soh,,nn an a plaintlve tone, n they ha'
SS"ssikh stav In the box ne would have got
: .s, ~, phsnse1 out OF the hole. And then h
7: 20. ~ ~ rineing words, II want to sa,
\ Nef thev're the luckiest crowd eve
looked A." You can't beat 'nHf Tor a