The sun., 1919-09-21
MORAN WON WHERE
A LEGION FAILED
Skaters Red HOodoo and
Gains Pennant in His First
Year in Cincinnati.
FIRST TO TURN TRICK
Pat Succeeds in Post Which
Threw Some of Games
Greatest Leaders.
by FREDERICK C. LIEB.
Copyright. 1919. all rights rsscrped.


Copyright 1919, all rights reserred.
IT'S a long long lane which has no
ending. Yes and for a while Cincinnati
thought it's long, long pennant lane ex-
tended right into the lap of eternity.
The belief was prevalent on the banks of
the American Rhine that there abso-
lutely was no ending to the thing at all.
But II took the Fitchburg Irlshman, Pat
Moran, to prove that they were wrong.
Pat proved last week that IL the road
was explored far enough the end could
be reached Glorious Fitchburg Pat
He has conquered over a path In which
the briars and thorns wore the heart
out of a string of noble men,
There were markings along that road
showing that Tom LOTUS, Buck. Ewing,
and Charley Comiskey, the noblest Ro-
man of them all, had traversed 1t. Gin
cinnatians pointed out the gloomy spots
where the McPhee and Kelley expeditions
were forced to come to a halt. Ned
Hanion, who had made great conquests
in Baltimore and Brooklyn, was COM
missioned to find the end Of that road.
but met with dismal failure. And then,
in more modern times, John Camel,
Clark Griffith, Hennery O'Day, Joe Tin
ker, Buck Herzog and Christy Mathew
son tried to follow that Redland pennant
road to its jumping off place. only to
i. decide that It was rainbow with no
end to It
Along Came Pat.
And then along came Pat. Nothing
to II, that lane has got an end to 1t, he
insisted And then he dashed right
through 1t, driving off the wicked Giants
which beset his path. And 10 and be-
hold last Tuesday he announced to the
world that he had reached the end and
that the dangers on that lane weren't
near as terrible as painted. And there
he found, glory be, a Cincinnati pen
nant No wonder Redland fans exult.
Not only did Moran win Cincinnati its
first pennant. but he won the first real
major league banner that ever fiuttered
from a pennant pole in the Buckeye
State The commonwealth of Presi-
dents has come into it's own 1t now
has won a baseball championship.
One must be a little versed In base
ball lore to really understand the nature
of Pat Moran's historic achievement.
A few weeks ago we talked OF the ram
Gus Cincinnati Reds Of 1859, the cluD
that went through an entire season with
out defeat.
Well, since those happy days Redland
fans have had little balm. Cincinnati
fans have long been known as the worst
knockers in the world. Prior to this
year of grace the anvil chorus In the
Cincinnati stand had no equal In base
ball, although when It comes to swing
ing the old mallet the st. Louis fan at
least deserves honorary mention. But
can you blame man for carrying a
hammer when he grows up to be
\ grandfather before he sees his team
win q pennant? Patience is virtue,
but the American colonists deemed 1t
impractical In 1775. The Cincinnati
H-fpFf hA
division They wanted their place In
the sun with the Giant, Cub and Boston
fans. And having no other implements
they used hammers. and knocked ana
knocked and knocked.
Cincinnati was a charter member in
the National League when that famous
organization was born in the centennial
year 1876. The Reds made an unhappy
start, finishing eighth with the sad per-
centage of .135. That's even worse than
! Connie Mack has been able to do in
Philadelphia the last five years. The
Reds won only nine games of sixty
five game season.
Two players of the original Gin
cinnati Red Stockings of 1853 were
members of that first Cincinnati Ma
tional League team-Gould. the first
baseman, and Sweasy, the second base
man. 1t must have been rather strange
for these old fellows to play on a team
that won eight games season after
playing with the Reds Of 1859 and 1870,
which were beaten once In two seasons
In those early days most of the clubs
used the president-manager combination
which Hickey now nils in ST. Louis Old
Cy Keck was Cincinnatfs first man.
ager-presIdent He had the club two
years, finishing last both years with
percentages of 1875 and 1858 respectively
In 1873 J. NJ. Neff took the club from
Keck and Immediately things began to
prosper He raised the club to sec
ond place, the highest position 1t has
held prior to this year. Among the
players hired by Neff were the White
brothers battery-Bill and Jim BAL
was the pitcher and wore spectacles.
He was the only major league player
VINO wore cheaters up to the time that
Leo Meadows came up with the Car
dinals.
Famous Players in 1878 Team.
Some of the best players In baseball
were members of that 1878 Red team
Club Sullivan. Joe Gerhardt Cal McVey
and VIII Geer composed It's inield. while
its outfleld consisted of Charley Jones
Lip Pike and the famous Mike Kelly
The Reds slumped Off to fifth in 1879
and there was another change OF owners
J. Horner owned the club and o. p
Caylor, one OF the games LEADING
n writer's of that era, was practically II
charge of the team and II fell to eighth
me experience Of Horace Fogel In New
York and Caylor in Cincinnati proveI
that baseball writer's can manage better
from their sporting pages than from th'
bench. Fogel wanted to make a frs
baseman out of Matty IN 1902.
The Reds were dropped out of the Ma
tonal League for various infractions o
I the rules, and in 1882 the club joine,
the American Association winning tn
only other league championship tina
Cincinnati has to its credit. The Ameri
can Association of that year was mad
UP of six clubs: Cincinnati, Pittsburg
Louisville. St Louis, Baltimore AM
Philadelphia.
In 1890. the year OF the Brotherhoo,
war, Cincinnati transferred It's Amer
lean Association franchise to the Ma
tional League and has been a membe
OF the old league ever since. A. s. Steri
then owned the team and It was man
aged by Tom LOTUS. The next yea
John II. Brush, who had owned n Ma
tional League club in indianapolis, CAV
up that club and purchased the Cir
+ cinnati franchise.
LOTUS Manager Under Brush.
Tom LOTUS remained manager undo
Brush, but In 1891 Brush induced Char