The sun., 1919-10-12
JACKSON LEADS
SERIES BATSMEN
Tops Regulars With an Aver
age of 1875 in World Cham
pionship Games.
ROUSH AMONG HEROES
His Fielding Was Most SensaA
tional in Contests-Duncan
Gained Prominence.
RoUsH AMONG HEROES

staggered to a close. 1t staggered, too,
All the way from the fifth game-when
N would have been won under the old
fegulations-through the eighth. The
sdope"-that food of experts--was veri-
6ed in the final averages. but the Reds
nroyed that figures can lie and won the
series at the same time they were max
eng those averages for the dopesters.
The White Sox still have margin on
naper Joe Jackson leads the series
players in batting, the regulars. at least,
and the Chicago team has two other
regulars. Weaver and Schalk, in the 800
class. against a single entry. Neale. for
the Reds And in the field the White
Sox had an edge in every position except
The pitchers box. where honors are
about even, and shortetop. where kopf
held a big margin over Risberg.
The 1919 series was striking in that
not one hero was developed to the .ex-
elusion all Others but several players
rose to herculean accomplishments. Rue
ther, with his pitching wizardry and his
mighty bat, reigned supreme in the first
game, but the hashy young southpaw
found Roush stealing his stuff In the
second combat.
Dickey Kerr usurped the throne for
the third day. and Jimmy Ring occupied
n the fourth. Eller came into the glow
OF the spotlight by his remarkable
ptCling IN TIE nun cOHltSl, Wiit rNcii
came back in the sixth. The seventh
combat was noted for Cicotte's remark
able comeback, and Joe Jackson's noble
Aght for lost cause was the feature
the last day.
Remarkable Pitching.
Worlds series of the past have been
noted for good pitching. but never In
the history OF the classic have three
haa al a the
fans on succeeding days. This Is ex-
acty what Kerr. Ring and Eller> ac-
compllshed in the third, fourth and fifth
games
In addition, Eller, whose work was
most brilliant in both games he worked.
established worlds series record Tor
continuous strikeouts by tanning six in
row. He ran his string higher by
throwing the next three men out at hrst
base This feat is not likely to be dupli-
Gated in the classic for many years.
Until the sixth game. the pitchers
held the batters in almost complete sub
iugation, but after that the games re-
solved themselves into slug tests 1t is
hardly likely. however, that Eller would
have been hit as hard as he was In the
sShth game had he not been enjoying
ten run lead.
The series is important from New
York standpoint in that Jimmy Ring.
who shut out the White Sox, is the
only Brooklyn boy that ever participated
IN the big games. Jimmy got his start
about five years ago on the Brooklyn
lotl
Although the White Sox nominally
lead In fielding In both right and centre
fields. those positions. everything con-
sHered, should rise above figures and
should be given to Neale and Roush
The work of Roush especially was
revelation, but he was unfortunate
enough to make two entirely excusable
errors He established worlds series
fielding record In the first game when
he retired eight Chicago players and
In the second game when he robbed
Felsch Of an almost certain three Dagger
at a critical moment.
Duncan's Work a Feature.
The remarkable all around work Of
Pat Duncan, the Reds new left fielder
from the Southern League, was supris-
ing This is the first time in the his
tory OF the series that a young player
90 fresh from the minors, played such
stellar role.
On the whole the work of the Cincin-
natl pitchers excelled that of the White
so1. Until the sixth game the Chicago
club had manufactured the amazing to-
tai Of one earned rum They turned loose
averages rose. Hold Filler practically
made them a present of five earned ones
In the last game.
In losing the series GLEASON employed
al but four of his eligible men, while
Moran called only seventeen OF his
twenty-three players. Gleason's substi-
tute pitchers did better work in the box
than did the regular boxmen. Cicotte
and Williams, heralded afar, ranked
tenth and twelfth, respectively, among
the thirteen pitchers who entered the
Dox during the series
Luque Pitched Well.
Adolpho Luque, the Reds little Cuban
hurler, ranks first in the earned run av-
erages, but scintillaung as his work
was for the five innings he worked he
cannot be given the palm because he
was only a relief pitcher. Luque did not
allow a single earned run.
Ring of Cincinnati allowed fewer
earned runs than any of the other
pitchers who started game. Rings
average of runs per game was 0.64.
Of the men who finished two games,
Kerr takes the lead with 1.50 runs per
nine innings Eller allowed $50, while
Ruether permitted 2.57. Cicotte was
responsible for 2.91 runs per game. and
Villains, the most unfortunate hurler
In the series, was victimized for 6.06.
LoWdermilks average showed nine runs
per game, but this hardly does him
Justice. since he was In the box only one
Inning and was uniuclSy enough to let
one earned run inter across.
The traditional fourth inning. famous
In worlds series history. played its
part in many of the games of this series.
The first and second games were won In
That round, and all during the series II
was the latest for the Reds. They
preferred il to any other for scoring
runs, making a total of ten runs. In
various fourth innings during the series.
The series was marked by the affec-
Ron Of the umpires by the money
madness'f that was the keynote OF the
entire chart OF games. The Jumps"
sent word to the National Commission
Nat they wanted more than $1,000. and
they can hardly be blamed In view of
,he prominence which money received
IN the 1919 games.
schaIk's Distinction,
schalk the peppery little Chicago
catcher. suffered the distinction OF being
Ne only player TO be elected from a
worlds series game since Frank Chance
was chased from the Cubs park in the
1910 series with the Athletics. Schall
became too vigorous with a protest in
he NTH game and found himself pre-
msturely under the showers.
The work Of Kopf at shortstop showed
rarf.a N ia -.