The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-08
r.Ioemher that Cincinnati has not had a

remember that Cincinnati has not had
 worlds S series in 50 years
 People from the nearby towns came
 Hooking in on the early trains and In
 motor cars to stand around the hotei ioo-
 bies and do heap of talking untli game
 time. The bunch that came back rom
 Chicago with the ball clubs was prac-
 tically inarticulate with joy and one
 thing and another, especially one thins land another.
 Not many Chicagoans had the heart to
 return to Cincinnati. It is said that the remnants of Comiskey's famous rootlng organization, the Woodland Bards, Wnich led the first trip to Cincinnati on spe- cial train, came back on handcar last night, and there was plenty of room. It was the contention that Cincinnati has outeriesed Chicago in every respect but one The Reds put it all over White Sox and Garry Herrmanns hospitality ex ceeded Comiskey's by about pint and half, but the one big disappointment of the series has been Wild Will Pelan, the | famous Cincinnatian.
 WILL FELL DOWN It was generally predicted before the series began that Wild Will would show 1 form far above everything ever before l seen in an event of this nature, but fell I flat. For the benefit of those who may not have heard of Will, it might be said that he is a Cincinnati sporting writer who has followed the Reds for many years
 Tn the old days Will used to carry pet squirrel around with him, which subsist- | ed chiefly on nuts, herbs and berries One day in the Hotel Ansonia, New York. the squirrel came to realization of the fact I that it was travelling with the Reds and l it brooded over the matter until finally | it committed suicide by leapng from the l top of a door and banging it's head against a bed post. Some say the affair was an accident and that the squirrel merely muffed a hop at Wild Will in- | tending to take a bite out of him under the impressoin that he was squirrel fod- l der, but this tale is untrue. We have it | on unimpeachable authority that it was | a case of self f-destruction. It is too bad that the squirrel did not live until this l fall.
 | The Cincinnati band got busy early this afternoon, putting on the war song of l Ohio 'The Stars and Stripes Forever, withsunusual vim. The noble athletes of ] both clubs grouped themselves at the plate before the game and received pres ents of one kind and another.
 l Little Dick Kerr got watch He is the | only letter of the Sox who was entitled 1 to anything up to the presentation hour. SCHALK BACK IN GAME 1 Schal,S, who was chased out of the game l in Chicago yesterday, was again hack be- hind the bat for the Sox. Under ordi- nary circumstances the little backston would probably have been suspended .o- several days. but no one wanted to de- prive the Sex of one of their feat pillars of strength. Furthermore, Ray probably
 made his apologies to Umpire Charley
 Rigler.
 Panther quickly retired John Collins
 and E. Collins in the first inning. John
 was back in right field instead of I4iebold
 because a left handler was working. Buck
 Weaver the outstanding figure in this
 series on tre Sox side. singled across sec
 ond but Jackson hoped out. Weaver has
 kept his head up and his heart ticking
 steadily all the way through. He comes
 tContinued on Page Twelve)