Evening star., 1917-10-14
Use Rough-Neck Tactics.

Use Rough-Neck Tactics.
The Giants fought madly, desperately,
and with all the roughneck tactics they
have learned in years of service under
their "old school, manager. They blocked
runners and shattered the atmosphere
with profanity, calling the conQuerors
everything known to the vocabulary Of
the New Yorker. At one time it looked
as il Fletcher and Rowland would break
into the pugilistic column after the In
ming in. which the Giants shortstop had
handed the Sox the game. Rowland was
ready to put the belligerent shortstop
out of commission for the rest of the
series at the cost of being banished from
the sidelines himself But Umpire Evans
rushed in between and averted the slug
ging match that was brewing
1t was the rottenest most uproariously
exciting, rowdiest and gamest fight ever
seen in more than decade of world
combats.
The first mistake was when Boss Row
land nstened to the pleadings of Tex
Russell to let him get a crack at the
Giants and show them what left
handler could do TO them. Tex declared
he was right with a cap r. and ready
to set the enemy down without hit.
IN less than two minutes Rowland dis
covered his mistake. for the only thing
Russell could get past the bats of the
enemy was bad ball. Five of these in
succession passed one man and started
the Giants toward victory. a loud single
and louder double by Herzog and kauff.
respectively. scored one run and put
two more within striking distance or the
plate, with nobody out.
Cicotte to the Rescue.
Cicotte. who pitched tough game
Wednesday. was rushed to the rescue and
stopped that mess with only one more
run scored against the Sox. Then the
Rowland support blew up behind Eddie.
1t looked as if the Sox machine was
going to smash because Of the strain
on its weaker parts. Five errors in three
innings turned the rooters against the
home team. and they were actually pull
ing for the Giants when at the end of
the fourth the count stood to . against
Chicago.
had made only two swats off Slim
Sallee, who apparently had their num-
bers even more accurately than in the
opening game Of the series. There was
hardly man in the ball park who
thought the series would go beyond
six games, except Charles A. Comiskey.
The turning point came In the fifth.
After two SoN were gone in that period
Eddie Collins and Joe Jackson. the two
1eft-handed hitters whom Sallee was
supposed to have faded off the map,
slugged him for solid, unrnistakable
singles. Jackson's drive almost took
both legs off the human slat on the op-
position slab. They produced nothing,
because Felsch rolled an easy bounder
to Sallee. But there was something in
the viciousness of those two drives
that seemed to have its effect on both
teams
:. In the next round the Rowlands
started the drive that carried them to
victory: 1t did not get very far in the
sixth. because three singles netted the
Sox only one tally, and that left them
two behind. In the staging of that at
tack Manager Rowland inserted Ris-
berg for Cicotte. and the Swede deliver
ed a single that sent in the second SoX
tally of the day. The rally broke
down right there because John Collins
and McMullin could not keep it up.
Claude Williams vas sent to the slab
in the seventh and encountered bunch
of tough breaks which put the Sox
back in the hole out of which they
were trying to exIricate themselves.
He struck out three men, but gave the
Giants one run on double and a
single. with a hard luck muff sand
wiched between them. Williams caught
a little hunted fly >for what ought to
have been e double play. but slipped,
fell down and dropped the bali,
Giants Defense crac1.s.
Nothing daunted, the Scx, led by
jackson. assaulted SaIlec in their half
30 hard that they fought themselves to
even terms and cracked the Giant de-
fense in a vital spot.
That home seventh was a corker. Ed
die Collins was out on Il fly before
jackson whipped single to left.
Felsch duplicated II to a Z. Gandil who
had been one of the costly blunderers
in the early rounds. more than redeem
ed himself by cutting loose a drive
that went through right center for two
bases. scoring Jackson and Felsch. The
big concrete stands fairly trembled un-
der the weight of the roofing. which
now had switched to the home team.
Weaver made Sallee pitch dozen balls.
most OF which he fouied off. before he
raped bounder to Fletcher and was