The sun., 1919-10-09
|SOX FANS JOYFUL;
GLEE AT SUN BOARD
Third Victory by American
Leaguers Brings Saake Dance
From Chicago Rooters.
ny CHARLES r. MATHIsON.

ny CHARLES r. MATHIsON.
Although an eager and nippins wind
blew across the playing field on TIE
SUN score board yesterday afternoon 1t
failed 70 cool the enthusiasm of the thou
sands OF fans who have been kept
promptly and fully Informed Of every
play in the great struggle for worlds
baseball supremacy since the present &C.
rfes started. As a matter OF fact, the
attendance yesterday was greater than
on any preceding day, due no doubt to
the menacing attitude OF the Sox and a
lurking suspicion that the Reds were be-
ginning to utilize the method of loconao-
ton copyrighted by the crawfish.
The defeat OF the Moran clan on the
previous day after having the game in
their hands by 4 to at the close Of the
fifth inning tended to depreciate Cincin-
natl stock in the minds of the fans, and
even before the batteries were posted on
the board there was strong sentiment
In favor Of the Sox and belief that they
would win.
When the name of Slim Sallee ms Gin
ctnnau pitcher was hoisted on the board
there was a shout OF That settles II, the
Sox have this game won right now"
This view of the case was strength
ened when singles by John Collins and
Jackson and Z. Collinss sacrifice gave
a run in tho flrst frame.
Red Roeters Gets Nervous.
"Slim Is very unsteady" said a Red
rooter when three singles were made off
the former Giant moundsman In the third,
the Collins boys and jackson making the
safeties. 1t looked ss though the home
plate was about to be trampled on by a
battalion OF Sox. when Weaver hit into
a double play and the total for the in
ming was one run.
Slim escaped unhurt In the fourth but
THE SUN score board vibrated In the
NTH with the rough usage administered
to Sallee by the Sox and by his own
teammates John Collins, who had be-
come addicted to leading or each in
ming with single, was reported to have
retired on fly.
Eddie Collins. however, made up for
J. Collins's neglect and hit for base
Then were recorded two plays that drew
forth expressions of withering scorn
from the Red fans and hilarious COM
ment from the Sox rooters. weaver's
grounder was fumbled by Kopf and
Jackson's daisy cutter was booted by
Rath. with the result that three Sox
runners were stationed on the bags and
but one man out.
"Moran's men have quit" declared q
Rcd fan.
mo they haven't quit" retcrted a Sox
rooter. they have been playing beyond
heir speed and have juse struc~ their
normal gait"
Cheers FOR the sox.
Happy Felsch then singled, ana e.
Collins and Weaver trotted around the
board to the home plate amid cheers for
the runners and groans tor the Reds.
Some of the Sox fans even gave q snake
dance In front If the Stewart Building.
Then came delay in the clicking Of
the telegraph instrument. and when II
| resumed operations the board announced
Sallee benched: Fisher pitching for
Cincinnati"
WELL" chuckled a Sox fan, that
makes two OF Pat Morans huriers that
have been PROPERLY attended TO. Eller
and Ring viii be the next on the list and
| the Sox will grab the nag"
Fisher managed to get Gandil and
Risberg out without being scored on,
but the Sex now had the eame, 4 to o,
ohu thc outiOOk ioT fSeuS was gloomy
In the extreme.
Fisher. however. was not to pitch any
| more In that game. for Dutch Ruether
was sent In to bat for him in the firth.
! Neale, who had singled, and wingo, who
had walked, were on bases, and Moran
| evidently thought Ruether might drive
| them in. But the news from Redland
dashed the rosy expectation, for Ructher
hit an easy fly and Rath ended the in
ming with an out at nrst. Again groAns
from the Red Rooters.
At this point the man wearing a straw
hat. who was perched in q window of
ths Court House Building. closed the
window and disappeared.
When the board showed that tho Reds
! were snuffed out quickly in the last
three innings, proving that Shineball
Cicotte has regainsd his winning form,
pandemonium reigned among Chicago
supporterO Seldom have such scenes
| been enacted In a worlds series n was
exhibited yesterday.
The Sox rooters were 1uSilant and didn't
| care how they showed It. They declared
| that the Sox would win the noxt two
games In canter.
"lll wager . FEW iron men," said one
fan, that Garry Hermann Ia sorry he
| ever made the series nine games"