New Britain herald., 1919-10-09


 opening frame of the tenth, only to have the Red Sox come back with two in their half on the mistakes of Snodgrass and Merllle.
 Even before yesterdays game the impression was that Moran's chance to win the series is in the game he pitches Eller.
 Williams Likely to Win Today.
 Williams already has lost two four hit games in this series. and he sure ly is due to- win. though, on the other hand, Cincinnati rooterS point out that he can't be expected to pitch another game as good as the ones he already has turned in.
 The way things look now Chicas go really has a good chance to win. The SoX rooters were out strong to whoop if up for their faVorites. The Reds seem to be more jaded and more Tagged out than the Sox. The world series excitement is newer 10 them than to most of the SoX.
 Chicago has hit every pitcher hard who tried to come back at them. Tuesday both Ruether and Ring got thelr bumps and yesterday it was Sallee. Whether they also can get to Eller when he takes another whack at them Tema1nS 10 De seen.
 But the Sox team is hitting now and when the players arc tearing the hide off the ball the team is very dangerous. After making only six hits in two games against Ring and 1Iller. they have knocked out twenty one in the last two games.
 Jackson and FcIsch Hitting
 Both Jackson and Felsch are crack tJoc oo ho tI,n Inn ., T out two ringing smgles yesterday, each of them driving in a run, while Felsch also got in another pair of hits yesterday, the second one driving in two runs Hap had an awful time starting in this series, but it must give him a little satisfaction to know that in each of the last two games his hits drove Ruether and Sallee off the rubber In both Tuesdays and yes terday'5 games cleanup hits by Felsch were the cracks that forced Moran to change pitchers.
 While the Sox batters show signs of getting into their old time stride, the hard hitters of the Reds continue in their slump. Groh got his third hit of the series yesterday, but Roush looked sad at bat. In four times up he couldn't knock a ball out of the infield, and twice he was up in the pinch. With seven games played, these two sterling sluggers have made only seven hits between them.
 Small Crowd at Game.
 Not since Thursday, October A, 1909, when only 10,535 persons paid to see the sixth Pittsburgh Detroit game, have as few people attended a world series contest as yesterday. The attendance was only 13.9 1923, while the receipts sunk to $46,96S.
 This frost was due to the queer machinations of the Teutonic mind When it became evident that the sev- enth game would be played Garry Hermann announced that no seats would be sold until 1 o'clock yester- day afternoon--one hour before the game started. How any sane person. even MT Hermann, could imagine that 32,000 seats could be sold in one hour is beyond comprehension.
 People who held season tickets at Redland field were able to make reservations for the game, but the general baseball public was left out in the cold. The Cincinnati club has adopted rather an antagonistic at titudc toward it's supporters ever since the pennant became a certainty and it is quite likely that many of the other 15,OO0 that could have seen the game decided that they had enough baseball for 1919.
 Not only the Cincinnati club was affected by the decrease of tho re- ceipts, but also the Chicago club and of course the other fourteen major league owners. Each of the other fourteen clubs received only $1,509.S6 yesterday. against $3,269.19 acquired from the sixth game.
 The share of each of the contest ing clubs is $120,236.57. With a crowd of 30,000 or over yesterday and today the purse for each club could have exceeded the share of each own CT in the 1912 series-$147,571.7 That is impossible now, unless Chi cago should win today and necessi- tate a ninth game.
 CicOttc Pitched C1evcrly.
 Eddie Cicotte's back yester- day was marked by steady although not brilliant pitching. On the other hand, "Slim' Sallee, one of Pat Mo- ran's mainstays, blew up In the fifth inning and had to be taken from the box. Ray Fisher, another mainstay completed the inning. Iuque, who finished the game for the Cincinnati Redlegs, pitched invincible ball, striking out five of the White SoX batters in the four innings he pitched An analysis of yesterdays pitching record shows that Cicottc struck out four and walked three Cincinnati players. The three Red pitchers pitched six strilleouts and didn't walk a man. Cincinnati got seven safe hits off Cicotte, while Chicago landed on the ball for ten safe ones most of them off Sallee. SaIlee's pitching al lowed the White Sox to score in the first. third and fifth innings. Cicotte allowed the Reds one score in the