The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10

In the eighth and deciding game of the worlds series of 1919, the National leaguers won their fifth victory iron. the Chicago White Sox, champions of the American league. The score was 10 to 5.
 Only the fact that the colsing innings found the White sox ripping holes through the delivery of "Hod" Eller the buriy shine ball pitcher of the Reds, pre- vented 1t from being as dreary finish to the sox and to fans. Too, for that mat ter, as the beginning of the series, when Eddie Ciootte was beaten by a lop-sided score.
 Even at hest the game was sort of burIesqae touch to show that for couple of days gave signs of becoming quite drama.
 Eller, who last Monday in the language of baseball, stood the Sox on their heads, was weakening fast at the close. He went in.o the eighth inning with nine run lead, when the Sox piled up four runs. A marvellous running catch in deep cen Ger by Eddie Roush, with a Sox runner on first saved him lot of trouble.
 FILLER BARELY LASTED
 Pat Moran. the Red muzzled leader of the Cincinnati club, was several times minced to remove Eller in the last two in- hings He had Jimmy Ring warming up tn right, and every time SoX nit crasned across inc diamond or to the distant out field. Ring looked around a Moran ex- pecting the signal.
 The Red infielders were constantly clos ing in on the shine baller," giving him advice and encouragement but there were moments when even they half questioned the judgment of their leader
 But for the fact that the Reds had an overwhelming lead, F,ller would not have lasted past the first couple of batters in the eighth. It was all for them that they had piled up so many runs early in the same Eller's weakening came very sud denly, because up to the eighth he hao been pitching well. A home run by shoe less Joe Jackson to the right field bleachers in the third inning was the only real heavy blow made off his deliveries although he was nowhere near the sensa- tional form he displayed on his first start. Ii was Eller's second triumph Tn the kong drawn -out series. Under the old con- 6itions of the world series which were changed for oais year because some of the baseball inagnates. saw an opportunity to engage in the popular pastime, the affair would have ended there with the keds Vlc- tors by four games to one.
 The elaboration of the series to nine games an idea which originated with Garry Hermann, president of the Reas' almost pI owed the undoing of the Cincln- natl club. The Sox rallied and won two games The series stood four to three when -he clubs returned to Chicago this morning, and many fans seemed to De- Iieve that the Reds were on the rum
 REDS START EARLY
 They quickly erased this notion this aft ernoon hv a first-inning rush, which drove Claude Williams, the Sox left handler. frcm the box. The Reds batted through their lineup in that inning. and scored four runs. It was disheartenlng blow to the Chicago fans right off the reel. Williams had already been beaten In two starts against the Reds, but both times he pitched good ball. He had nothing" today, which is to say the ball refused to answer to his hand.
 Couldn't break an egg" remarked one of the ball players, describing the lack of speed behind the ball as delivered by Will Hams. Big Bill James, a right handler. took the southpaw's place. The seat Of Bilrs white trousers were sadly dlscol- pred from long sitting on the Sox bench He didn't have much more than a prayer" is the ball players repor. on James.
 After James came Wilkinson, a recruit. The Reds massacre of pitchers continued. Nothing but his glove" was the base ball summing up of Wilkinson efforts.
 It is going to he a difficult matter to pick the baseball heroes out of this series when the winter gossip begins. Cincinnati had Eller for it's bright s of course but he will have to divide the 1imelight with Maurice Rath, Eddie Roush, Larry Kopf and several others.
 On the Sox side, Tiny Dick Kerr is the biggest of them all. He pitched two of three games won by the Chicagoans and had the Sox been able to put over vic tory today He would have been pitching for them in the final at Cincinnati tomor- row. Ray Schalk and Buck Weaver are the other two members of the Sox who have stuck.
 SCHALK CATCHES ALL
 Schalk has caught every game with the exception of a few innings of one game