The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-07

| Ray SChalk, the great little catcher
/ of the White Sox was put out of
! the game today by Umpire Rigler
! for disputing a decision at the plate,
/ with too much fervor in the heated
/ sixth
/ The Sox were keyed way up at the
start of the game. and Schalk's out
burst against RiCler was an indica-
i ton of the tension. Fred Merkla
and John J. McGraw were heavily
fned i'm the worlds series of 1911,
/ but no one can recall another ex-
/ pulsion Of player, and especially "a
star such as Schalk.
Sox Swung Futily.
The futiiity of their hitting
against EIler probably had the Sox
pretty well steamed UP. Ball clubs
get that way Their heaviest slug
ger were striking out, popping up,
or dribbiing weak grounders to the
/ irrtteiri. and il Is likely that befors
! the sixth was reached the exasper-
/ ated Chicagoans could easily visua-
] lie red" with horns and tail.
Reuther beat them. Sallee beat
! them. Ring beat them. And now
Eller, II was enough to make them
sore, especially in favor of the fact
/ that they had gone into the series
+ overwhelming favorites and with the
assurance that Moran had only a
couple of pitchers who could pitch
| up An alley.
This Eller amt a pitcher. some
| Of the Giants used to say during the
/ sun Of tho season, Hes just
/ throwcr." But Eller was mignty
good pitcher this afternoon and IL
you want further testimony on the
subject ask the White Sox
Very few people believe that the
I Chicago club has a chance. The
game in Cincinnati is regarded as a
pure formality. II is possible, of
course that Kerr, the forlorn hope Of
the Sox may come through. hut you
can get enormous odds in Chicago
against the possibility ~ the Sox
winning the series
Overcoats showed UP at the series
for the first time today. It was
clear overhead and the Gun was
shining. but there was Just enough
OF "a hint OF chill in the breezes TO
warn veteran Chicaroans OF poten-
tai influenza. pneumonia. and other
ailments 70 which the lakeside flesh
is heir.
Another terrific battle of the bands
time II was "A good. close draw
The Chicago band snatched a sheet
from the Cincinnati musiciansrack
ana instead OF committing sundry
ldzes as was It's customs before the
onio outrit tau5s airrtg asid Utmost
blew II out OF tho park with Stars
and stripes Forever" ii introduced
lot Of military matter.
Chicago led with hard swing
FeyNYa. sT1sFt r,Sr
March thu greatest foot lifting.
spine tingling melody ever written.
barring only Sousa's masterpiece
Gncy Band Comes Back
Cincinnati staggered from the
hlow bur recovered ard did lct 3f
sfootWnrk around the fleld with
"Semper Fields" the great old
|, march Of the Marine Corps.
This was wonderful piece of
strategy. and the Windy City band
, was not quite so sophyrful when it
came back for the second round
only the points IL scored in its OPEN
ing blast saved IL from utter defeat.
The Cincinnati rooters came in to-
day wearing red arm bands and big
chrysanthemums. This left a sug-
Eeatton OF football to the proceed So
ineS. While the Reds were at in
heid practice. their band struck up
The Star Spangled Banner and
thus inadvertently uncovered many
secrets OF the club. such as the bald
spots OF Heinc Groh and Maurice
Rath,
A Cincinnati bug armed with a
horrible police whistle was seated
in the upper tier Of the grandstand
and made thc afternoon hideous with
, his noise.
he, AyxNh fnlN Gaf
. urday. but 4 was hoped that some
thig had happened TO him since
then.
Adopho Lnque. the Cuban curry
err, hit the pill to the Red infield
during fielding practice, giving the
newspaper brigade from the pearl
of the Antilles another opportuni-
~ to do a little work. Pat Mo-
ran knew no was going to draw a
| side win1er, SO he had RUDE Bress-
Ter and Corner, his own port push =
! ers, showing them at the Reds dur
ing practice. Old Sallee worked
out At first base to keep warm
The weather was commencing to
remind Sallee or these distrustful
days of 1917. In starting Ellcr
Moran was carrying out the policy
he decided upon at the beginning
Of the series.
lie sdld ne Wantcd 10 give al ms
regular pitchers a chance to get in
to the big game, Reuther, Sallee
Filler, Ring and Fisher are what
might be called his first string men
with Luque, Bressler and Corner If
the second line. The first four car
ried the club during the early stages
of the season. Fisher came along
late. Luque has also pitched gooc
ball for Moran at times while
Bressler was left fielder Tor quite 4
SPELL.
AS 1t now stands. Moran's clut
ought to breeze through the Nat
ional league next season, but thor
the same thing WAS said OF John j
McGraw's club last fall. The BEES
McGraw's club got was a premium
out of this series for finishing soc
end.
Charley Rigicr, the stout umpir,
from tho National league came GU
all alone this Afternoon ahead OF tn,
usual pallbearisn-l looking cortege o
umpires. and filled his pockets with
q lot OF nice new baseballs. He wa.
the umpire-in- chief behind the plat
The other three umpires arrived