Evening star., 1919-10-04
WHITE SOX VICTORY CHANGES
ASPECT OF THE TITLE SERIES
Causes Reds Fans to Offer Shortest Imag-
Unable Odds-Kerr Gives Masterly
Exhibition of Pitching.

, the Reds in order in the last four
rounds, three of them taking the
| count on strikes. as Groh did in the
opening session. Kerr's sterling per-
formance brackets him with Ruether
and Roush as the heroes of the bat
safe bet that more will be heard of
him before the series is brought to
close.
Fisher was victim of circum-
stances in that, first, he was pitted
| brilliant game in his system as Kerr
and. secondly, that on two occasions
when confronted by situations fraught
with great possibilities he found
himself totally and completely out of
luck. 1t was an unfortunate slip of
his own that gave Gandil his chance
to live up to his reputation as dan
gerous batSman in a pinch by produc-
ing the hit that scored Chicago's first
two runs. 1t happened in the second
inning, which Jackson started with
single to left, when Felsch attempted
to sacrifice. Hap's bunt was none too
good. bounding straight to Fisher. The
pitcher had plenty of time to force
Jackson at second and would have
done SO. but in throwing the ball his
fingers were in contact with the
moist spot he had produced in prepar-
ing splitter for delivery and a wild
throw to center field that sent Jack
son to third and allowed Felsch to
reach second resulted. Then with the
inffeld pulled in Gandil drilled sim
gle past Rath that meant two runs.
The other occasion when Dame For
tune frowned instead of smiled upon
Fisher was in the fourth inning, aft
eh Risberg registered a triple on
drive that bounded past Neale in the
right field: Schalk was up to pull the
squeeze play. His bunt was dumped
directly in the path of Fisher, who as
a rule is adept at breaking up such
tactics. but the ball on a short hop
bounded over his hands instead Of
into them. Schalk was credited with
hit and Risberg Tailed with the third
and final counter of the game.
Except for the two instances the
fielding of the Reds was snappy and
clean-cut, Groh particularly proving a
tower Of strength on defense. while
Neale, Daubert, Rath and Rariden all
executed plays worthy of comment.
Fisher himself contributed a pair of
force-outs at third in that fatal sec
ond inning, without which the Sox
might have gone ON a scoring ram
page.
The Sox did not have so many .op-
portunities to distinguish themselves
afie1d, but what came their way were
made the most of. especially by Ris-
short. and Gandil. who starred in his
work around the initial station, as
well as proving himself the right man
in pinch on attack.
Sherwood Magee. who lost his fiy-
chasing job to Duncan by reason Of
illness in midseason and who has
been batting around in the big
leagues for sixteen years without
getting chance to participate in a
world series, finally broke in in the
eighth inning when he was sent in to
bat for Fisher in an effort to start a
rally. but the best the thirty-five-
year-old veteran could produce was
an easy loft to Leibold. This brought
the Cuban, Adolpho Luque. into the
in his one round Of duty.
Bad blood between Joe Jackson and
Ray Fisher was evinced in the sixth
compelled to hit the dirt quick and
hard to avoid being beaned. In run
ming out bunt that proved foul Jack
son collided with Fisher and had a
lot to say about 1t. A little later, in
the eighth. Jimmy Smith. utility in
attack on Eddie Collins that looked
for a time as if 1t might develop into
f1sticuns. but the umpires separated
the athletes before any blood was
spilled.
Bare spots were visible in the right
field pavilion and in both the left and
right fields bleachers. The belief that
no more seats were obtainable is
thought to account for this.
Rariden's pegging to bases could not
have been improved upon, Schalk,
Jackson and Felsch, the only Sox who
tried to take liberties with his arm, all
being cut down with ease. The Reds
backstop did not look SO good in the
second. when Felsch scored from Sec
ond on Gandirs rap to right, how
ever. Neale made a good throw to the
plate and it appeared Rariden had an
even chance to flag Felsch. but he did
not even attempt to put the ball on
him.