The sun., 1919-10-08
CHICAGO BEATS
CINCINNATI, 5-4
In Uphill Contest Sox Take
Sixth Game Of Series in
Tenth Inning.
CANDIES HIT DECIDES
Sends Weaver Home With
Winning Run-Ruether
Knocked Out of Box.
CANDIES HIT DECIDES

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By Stdr Correspondent OF TIE Sur.
CINCINNATI. Oct. This day saw
a subject for heroics. degenerate into
slapstick comedy; perfection sullied
until only here and there 1t showed
a vagrant flash of its former bril-
liancy; the ideal hurled to the level
OF the commonplace. After FIVE base
ball games which had written into
worlds series history a veritable saga
Of the Vikings of old the Chicago
ais gave way under the strain. They
We'd with each other in Ineffective
ness of pitching. puerile plays, tactics
Of the tyro and slashing hitting Of the
kind that warns the heart OF the aver
age enthusiast. And by a strange
trick of fate the more insistent sinners
were the victors. 1t took ten innings
TO decide the issue. the Chicago team
winning by 10 4. The series now
stands four games and two in favor
OF Cincinnati.
1t was not a bad ball game to watch,
this medium for the second triumph
OF the White Sox. But placed against
any other of the five previous con-
tests between the rivals for baseball
supremacy 1t was as a piece Of plate
glass compared with the Kohinoor;
Booths Hamlet compared with the
rawlings OF a village thespian. And
for Cincinnati the bitterest part Of
the defeat came In the shattering of
one of its leading idols.
Walter Ruether, the left handed
pitcher whose work on the mound and
with the bat had sent the Reds of to
a to victory in the opening con-
test of the series, once more was
pitted against the Chicago batsmen.
But the Ruether OF this afternoon was
only the shadow Of the Ruether who
had scored so remarkable a triumph
His power to baffle was impaired and
his ability to control the ball constant
ly kept slipping and getting him into
uncomfortable situations.
Ruether Knocked From BOX.
Then came the debacle. in the sixth
inning. The White Sox had forced
Ruether to yield sIk hits and three runs.
A Chicago runner was on second base,
thanks to a two base hit, and not
single one Of the opposition had been
retired. The Reds still were one run In
the fore. II was a situation fraught
with possibilities for disaster for the
Reds. While the gathering of 10000
sat in mute expectation and unconcealed
trepidation Pat Moran Hgnalled to him
who only a few days before had been
the hero of heroes.
Ruether strode OF the diamond
knocked out of the box. And as Jimmy
Ring of Brooklyn stepped onto the hill
to take up the task of trying to stem
the tide a pretty little woman in field
box sobbed. Tears streamed down her
face while her husband, beaten and In
retreat, kept right on to the clubhouse
Surely Ring, who had beaten Eddie
C.cotte and the White Sox by to O,
would stop all this nonsense and put the
Chicago men where they belonged. At
least so thought the Cincinnati adher-
ents. but It was trying heritage
which had come to Ring. A man on sec
ond, no one out and the White Sox rid
ing the high wave of hitting success.
For a time Ring kept the gnashing
Sox at bay. but they were not to be det
MED. Came another safe blow and the
Chicagos tied the score.
An unwonted stiffness came over the
park which only few minutes before
had been a bedlam, Blu; before long
Ring retired the third man and the
huge horde heaved sigh OF relief. II
was true, the score was tied. but wait
until the Reds got going with their
bludgeons.
Reds Not Up TO Their standard.
The Reds did peck away at their
bats, but the breaks were not with them.
And they were not playing the baseball
which won them four out OF fve.
They faltered repeatedly. They got
one hit and base on balls In the
seventh inning. two hits in the eighth
and one In the ninth, and then came
the Anal effort in the tenth. Dickey
Kerr. the little left handler, once more
pitched the way he had worked in his
2 to shutout and three Cincinnati
batsmen swung their bats TO no effect.
The Reds had had their fling and the
day was done.
For the winning White Sox Buck"
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