The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-01
So Declares John Hcydlcr, Ma
tienal League President, on
Eve Of Worlds Series.
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ny FREDERICK @. LIEB.
CINCINNATI, Sept. sol-"I have the
greatest confidence in the Reds It is
team on which the players have kept up
their heads all season, and they will
continue to keep them up In the worlds
series. l don't think there is chance
of that team rafting Heretofore 1t has
played its best ball in tight SERIES"
Thus spoke John A. Heydler, president
of the National League, on the eve of the
sixteenth series between the pennant
winners of the National and American
leagues, which opens on Redland Field
tomorrow.
ms much, but see no reason why Chi
caso should be favoritos," continued
Heydlsr. Il have seen both clubs play
a good deal. and do not minimize the
strength OF Comiskey's club. IL IL q
powerful aggregation and hits very hard
But the Cincinnati team has pitchers,
and my worlds series experience is that
pitching with steady team behind 1t
wins. II was that combination which
made the Red Sox so formidable against
our teams. Game after game they
would l'eat our fellows by one run in
low score games. To my mind a DOW
ity In most every other department
Il believe this will be the greatest
worlds series ever played. / never
observed such genuine interest Much
OF 1t is due 70 Cincinnati winning it's
hrst pennant And the Reds will not
lack for friends. Despite the deserved
popularity Of the White sox, I believe
the Reds will enter the series with more
well wishes all over the country than
any other National League team with
the possible exception Of the 1914
BraveR
"Public With the Reds"
ut is typical Of the American spirit to
pull for the under dog The Reds had
been down SO long and they won the
pennant so sensationally that the great
public outside of Chicago is for them.
Then Pat Moran has made the club
friends all over the nation. Where
people do not care whoop about Gin
cinnati or the National League. they
are roofing for the Reds just fer the
sake of Moran
The last time Heydler was president
OF the National League-19O9-the
Pirates beat Detroit in the worlds
series, four games to three. That was
the year Heydler was elected president
to I'LL out the term of Harry Pulliam.
after the latter's untimely death.
Heydler naturally is pulling for the
Reds to bring back the worlds char.l-
pionship to the National League in the
tirst year of his new term. It also is
natural that he should look at the series
from a Cincinnhtl viewpoint yet there
are lot of succuient truths in his re-
marks. Heydler Is a close analyst of
baseball and a keen observer of the
sport
His remarks about steady fielding
team behind a crack pitching stan are
especially worthy of careful considera-
ton. Admitting that the betting odds
ana the dope still favor the White
Sox. Cincinnati stock has gone up on
the eve OF the series rather than down.
May Duplicate Braves Fent.
There is an undercurrent of sentiment
among baseball men here that the Reds
may duplicate the stunt of the 1914
Braves and overwhelm the Sox with an
abundance of good pitching, steady
FIELDING and timely hitting as did STALL
ings's Bostonians TO the supposedly in
vincible Athletics i've years ago.
''The White Sox are the best bet and
should win, but l have a bunch that the
Reds will pull one OF basebalrs greatest
SuTpElses, IL remark the writer has
heard repeatedly hobnobbing with some
OF the old tinerss and stars of the pres
ent generation.
1t is true most Of the men here are
old National Leaguers--fellows like
Mathewson. Bvers. Tinker. Paester and
Lever. They all are National League
rooters at heart and want to give the
Reds- the best Of 1t. But they all have
lunches that the Reds will fool the
sharps.
Moran's announcement in the late af-
ternoon editions that WRlther Ruether
will start the series came as quite a
surprise. Some of the old fellows doubt
the wisdom of 1t. They think Moran
would be adopting a wiser policy If he
relied on one Of his old timers-Sallee
or Fisher They point out "Old SAL"
or the Schoolnnaster, would be less likely
to feel the strain. of 1t than a young
man like Ruether. who Is starring for
the first time. Others think II is a wise
move by Fltchburg Pat. Their argu-
ment is that II Ruether loses TO Cicotte,
Chicago's ace, Moran still will have top
potchers like Sallee, Fisher or Eller to
throw In against Williams In the second
game.
Ruether however, is as game a lad
as has come into the majors In some