Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-02
DREAMS OF C|NCY FANS
/ ARE FINALLY REALIZED
j
Damon Runyon Says CicottesCan BE
Blamed for Loss Of
Game.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR YOUTH
Seems to SEQ Shadow Of Passing OF
Great Pitcher as Reds Bats Ham,
mer Ball-Bugs in Ohio City 90
Wild
ny DAMON RUSION.

I. Wild.
:; ny DAMON RUNION.
-, CINCINNATI Sept l.-Dneams 90
- come true. Little dreams and niS
- tireanne come TO pass. however the
:, scoffers may deny it
:. Here on the banks OF the old river
= thi, night is I whole city happy In
- the realization of a big drcam-slo-
q riously happy: hoarsely happy.
= :. The Reds won the first game Ss. or t the
J. Chicago White sox. The score was
:. Be of with you skeptics, now: Be
l. OF with you! Cincinnatfs dream came
:, true. Let those who hold there arc
: brighter dreams than a dream OF base
e ".6an greatness gaze upon and listen 10
this study mid-WsteTn town tonight 10
- their confusion!
b Didn't everybody say the dream was
: nonsense? Didn't everybody say the
: Reds couhnt possihlyswin? Experts;
!, ball players and fans-didn't they all
., laugh at Cincinnati's baseball preten.
!, sione this year as they have laughed
= win tell you they did. Didn't they tell
!. you Pat Moran's ball club Was made up
(. Of cast-offs-the leavinEs; in short the
/. on scourings Of baseball. and that 1t
f. was a sort of baseball joke rs COM
! pared to the $1.ooo.ooo club that repre-
(! q SCENTS Chicago -,
q Cincinnati never tires Of telling. in fact.
but all the time they were SAYING
those things about the Reds. Cincin--
natl was secretly dreaming tho great
dream that was realized at Redland
field this afternoon, with 10000 pop
f: eyed, breathless Cincinnati people
looking on.
:. Cincinnati Fan. Nhoop.
q, So Cincinnati whoops tonight, and
Cincinnati sings II may not have an
other night. but this night belongs to
the Queen City, and TO the queen
: old-iashioned baseball language is
apt to be bit of extravaEant Yet
spld fashioned language which speaks
Casually of slaughter" and "annihtla-
..tion," with reference to onc-sded base
ball defeats. best describes the realiza-
ton OF Cincinnatis dream today.
Well use the word "siauGhtcr' 1t
was baseball slaughter Of ChicaEo's
club. A baseball fan does not have to
go beyond the score to know that.
In the fourth inning, the Reds bat
tered Eddie Cicotte. the star pitcher OF
the American Lea gue' for 1--WE runs.
They drove him from the box After
that the White Sox were never In the
hunt You have seen better baseball
games. on the town lots. Only the
tion of a grand and magnificent dream
lifts 1t above the very commonplace of
baseball things. There have been very
has been called bascball's classic. half
as iop-sidcd or half as tame.
Not Time for He'd Fans.
Tame for the standpoint Of baseball,
that Is. Not tame from the standpoint
OF Cincinnati. Anything but tame for
Cinclnnati. II may have bored the
the grand stand, and IL may have been
most distressingly weird and inartisti,
to the veteran baseball people. but it
was a battle hectic, and thrilling
event to Cincinnati.
It was one of those games which in
:. the run OF baseball seasons would be
.;-styled just ball game by the critics
+" "a matters to be treated lightly and
AS OF no great consequence. But this
was worlds series eame--a game on
which hung the civic pride OF two
great American cities.
The score was tIed-l to when the
i, Reds went TO bat in the fourth inning
- They did their scoring with two out
And It seemed 10 US, AZ we sat watch
ing the rise and spread of Cincinnatis
magnificent dream, and listening 10
the steady thuds OF bats and TO the
background passed dark shadow OF
a great pitcher moving into tina,
oblivion where they all must go.
Il Cicotte Minus Stun.
Cicotte had nothing" as they put
it in baseball language. The magic
81 the right arm that carried the Chi
caSo club through TO pennant n the
American League. had vanished The
spell OF the so-called shine ball" OF
which Cicotte is supposed 10 be mas
ter. mi which seemed 10 enthra!l the
batsmen of his own league. was i'm
po,en, before the Reds
And while the veteran seemed TO
al
coming on TO claim his own-io assert
his inalienable right TO that heritage
3. OF sport which is the heritage OF yourel.
! Walter Rcuther. a young left-hander
r.. from the Yves; coast. pitched against
i, The thirtyfve-y old Cicotte. and it
- was his first game in worlds series
too. After one brief nervous furry
The youngster settled down and held
I .--the SoS safely.
~ II we were picking heroes in this
- first chapter of the worlds series OF
h1r Rn-
! sides pitching with great skill, ne hit
a three-ba gScr into the crowd in cen
drove in two runs. He had great sup
port The Reds played with rush
and dash that must have surprised the
+, White So1. II was all the more sur
prising, because in practice the Chi
cagoans seemed much faster In the
At game. however, their work was drab
and coiorless as compared 10 the Reds
but that's always the way a baseball
=, club seems behind poor pitching.
Cicotte Cnn Blame Self.
cieot'e can blame h!mhe!f for some
OF the disaster o: the fourth He was
very STOW in making \ play that would
have ended the inning before any runs
had been scored Maybe it wouldn't
Maybe 1t would have delayed the in
evitable.
The soI couldn't hi, Ren,her. The
/ Now we'll drip completely into base
DALI NefIiaculaE' ana teli the the story
of that fourth inning
-, Rousch is out on a Nv to center Ed
die Rousch the wide ranging hard
hitting outheld star OF the National
! laEue: rat DUNCAN, just up from The
sticks" as the ball players say. and
Il like Reuther. playing his nrst worlds
series game, singled s'nartly 10 cen
I, ter.
~ Larry Kopf. the shor. fielder who
was once TRADED 20 brooklyn and
* whose refusal to report there n-acii
e cally forced Moran to keep h m MI a
4; ball 10 Cicotte. 1t looked as II the
4. pitcher had plenty o! time TO wheel
9, and throw the ball to second and start
a a double play. which would have ended
Is the inning. but instead he waited that
IL fatal few seconds that are often the
81 difference between victory and defeat