The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-08
KERR SMALLEST HURLER
 IN EITHER BIC LEAGUE
Little Southpaw, Who Twice Baffled Reds, Not Much on Size But Has Plenty of Nerve Iii Crisis.

Cincinnati, Oct. S-To little Dickie
 Kerr, the tiny White sox left handler.
 must be given the lions share Of the
 credit for keeping Chicago in the series. He wasn't as effective yes
 terday as he was in Chicago last Sat
 urday, and he was handicapped by
 poor support and some bad breaks
 early in the game. With the excep-
 ton of one fine play. he felded his
 position poorly. but he chung on to it
 through all, and was rewarded by a
 sensational uphill victory.
 The game was greatly similar to
 the fifth game of the 1917 series be-
 tween the White Sox and Giants,
 played in Chicago. The clubs were
 tied with two victories apiece, and
 the SOX wabbled badly behind Cicotte
 in the early innings. SalIee had a
 lead of to as late as the sixth
 inning, when he began to falter and the Giants cracked behind him. The
 Sox then did some timely sluggins.
 and pulled out the game by a score
 of to 5
 With the kind of pitching that was dished out earlier in the series, the Reds would have walked in, but the
 game was quite of breaker of worlds series reputations. Dutch Reuther. the hero of the opening Red victory, was wild and ineffective. Only a great catch by Duncan and some John Anderson base running by Kerr kept Reuther in the game as long as the sixth. And Pat Moran was l tempting fate in permitting him to start that inning. The left handler wa, lifted after three Sox had hit with none out and the tieir- run stood on | second base
 Jimmy Ring, who pitched the bril- liant three-hit shutout last Saturday was the rescuer, and he didn't de- i celVe the SoX the way he did in his i first start against them He was an | improvement over Reuther, but his l control also was off, and only a catch l by Rousch, which the writer regards i as the best of the series, prevented 1 the Sox from winning in the efgth i inning.
 This has been such a jumb1ed i series that it has been hard to pick 1 the hero. The first day it was 1 Reuther, and his individual feat that | day beat anything ever done bv ! worlds series pitcher Then came ] the three-hit games by Kerr. Ring ! and Eller, one more brilliant than
 the other, with Hod's performance of | last Monday, when he famed nine men, six of them in succession top- i ping the list.
 Yet for the real hero of the series Kerr today perhaps comes closer to l it than any other. This is the first i series in which two of a teams pitch i ing aces have lost twice and it's i black horse has won twice. ] This pitching mite, said to be the
 tiniest twirler who ever has appearar
 in a major league uniform, alone has stood between the White Sox and an
 initiation.
 ] It was quite a day for outfeId as i sists. Roush, the Red centre feI5- ! CT, has handled more chances in this series than any other Cincinnati play-
 CT outside Of Daubert. Never has 2 worlds series outfelder snatched m l chances like Eddie.
 Felsch also has been getting a great | number, but in the last two days [ Roush has made him look like q Ping ! Bodie contrasted to Speaker. Oscar 1 horribly misjudged another fy to- ! Gay, a whack by Duncan in the sixth ! He walked around in circles under jt and then let it slip. It was scored
 as three base huff. The play came with two out. and did the Sox no 4isiLi4 SiS iAOpIr lLS next batter, | grounded to short.
 F'elsch, however, got his batting eve | hack, and knocked out a double and
 6 single, quite a batting carnage af- 1 ter making one hit in the previous 1 five games. Haps double was the crack which knocked out Ruether. It
 scored Jackson from first. and Felsch | later scored the tying run on | SchaIk's single off Ring.
 GandiI, who fell down badly several ! times in the pinch, came through with the single which won the game in the tenth inning It also was single by Chick which sent in Chica-
 go's winning run in the third gano~ of the series, also won by Kerr.