The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-05
Ring Newest Hero to Feel
 Glare of Sport Spotlight
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bleachers and stands were piled with
 modish shirtirgs
 The vacant places of yesterday over the ! right field side were soon obiterated. The holders of reserve seats were more leis- | urely in their arrival.
 | Tip" O'Nei, business manager of the | Sox and former president of the west
 ern league. has theory about those gap ] ing spaces of yesterday Tip thinks
 it was because the newspapers had kept l gabbing about crowds waiting in line
 until some of the loyal insects decided
 that it was useless for them to attempt
 an entrance without a jimmy,
 | Another theory which has some merit | is that those two defeats over in Cin-
 cinnati discouraged the home following. 1 Chicago is now different from any other town when it comes to baseball. 1 The Woodland Bards," an organization ! peculiar to Chicago and the White Sox, which has it's headquarters and club
 rooms at Comiskey field. entertained the l visiting experts before the came today 1 in lavish fashion. Charley Dryden did his best to explain the causes and pur-
 poses of the "Bards" to us.
 A WOODLAND BARD E 1 It seems a woodland bard is a guy
 who sings in the woods. fact which i entities him to consideration, because he might be tempted to sing elsewhere. Bill | Shakespeare was the original woodland l tard and the local singers grabbed their
 title from him. They go out into the
 Michigan woods every fall with Charley ! ComislSey and sing like the very dickens, Joe Farrell is president of the Chicago woodland bards, and Joe is a rich card. | He was with the White Sox and Giants i on their tour of the world in 19l4-15. and spilled speeches all over the civilized
 globe. parts of which have never since
 recovered, It is believed that some of
 Joes addresses had much to do with
 starting the big war.
 At 30 o'clock a terrific blast of music
 was heard off in the direction of right
 field and out from under the grand stand came a Cincinnati band ripping
 into the war song of the reds, The
 Stars and Stripes Forever
 1 It paraded the field, making such a
 racket that it quite discouraged the Chi
 cago band, which had been doing it's pest
 to keep the folks cheered up. It had m | troduced a lot of neat new music into it's repertoire but the old Sousa march, as propounded by the Cincinnati band, almost swept it right out of the flelo.
 The Ohio musicians halted in front or
 the Red bunch and did quite business
 before it finally moved off. l The Chicago band was again aided and
 abetted by song pluggers with mega
 phones Song plugging is vice foreign ! to Cincinnati where the latest melody is MY Dads Dinner Pail
 A beautiful young woman in a fawn 1 colored suit stood on a chair and chirpeu 1 something or other through runner a' 1 the mob. At least we assume she was 1 beautiful. on the theory that she IS a 1 ClHcago young woman and there is nc | other kind of young women in Chicago 1 An aeroplane floated over the field while the Cincinnati band was parading, and the bird who was driving It caused
 a lot of palpitations in the stands. Ihe
 early afternoon or a cay m ,n mn, na re | series game is no time for an aeroplane to he turning somersaults over the heads
 of nervous gentlemen.
 The Reds got 9 "razz" from the home crowd when they came upon-the he l field, but a cheer from the olstaht
 left field blsachers indicated Una, | there were some daring Ohloans o"'
 there among the local 'unwasnea, ., A flock of Red pitchers tossed the ball about in front of the Red bench | Jimmy Ring and Hod ' Eller were closely inspected by Pat Moran as their right arms rose and fell. when game time approached and the soS were at their fielding practice all the Red hurlers save Jimmy Ring with drew to the side lines.f Over in front of the Sox bench the chunky figure
 of Eddie Cicotte occupied the warm ur position. Wherefore. the roar of ths one-armed announcer was hardly nee essary for the fans.
 'Kid" Gleason leaned on bat his can cooked on one side of his head. as he listened to the opening colloqus
 between Eddie Collins. captain of his
 club: Heinie Groh. captain of the Reds and the umpires. Pat Moran also lis
 tened in. Just at 2 o'clock and whiit
 the announcer was still believing. a chill wind hit the upper grandstand The sun suddenly went out of business and darkish clouds appeared across one side of tho sky. Experienced Chi ! cagosns snatched up their coats ant
 hissed a single word. Rain" A weather , man who will perform such meteor I ological sleight-of- Is a villain tc he closely watched in the future. RATH STARTS WELL ] Cicotte got a count of two balls ant two strikes on Rath. and then Maurics banged a single into left. rousing tre2- idation in the hearts of the Chicag' : fans. but Eddie Collins made gran play. getting Jake Dauberts groubde and starting a double on the Red pair : Risberg then backed up hastily ant got Groh's short fly. which was fairly hard hit. at that
 The first three men who faced Rims were out on easy pops. They were ? hitting under the ball. Jimmy wa. using his fast one. dropping 1t dowr on the batsmen with a high. overhan, motion.
 A inurmur went through the stand.