The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-02


 Let those who hold there are brighter dreams than a dream of baseball great ness gaze upon and listen to this sturdy old mid-wostern town tonight. Didn everybody say the dream was nonsense: Didn't everybody say the Reds couldn't possibly win? Expert ball players and fans-didn't they all laugh at Cincin- natl baseball pretensions this year as they have laughed every year for e5 years? Cincinnati will tell you they did didn't they tell you Pat Moran's ball club was made up of the cast-off, the ieavirss in short of of-scourings of baseball, and that it was just a sort of a baseball joke as compared to the million dollar club that represents Chicago?
 Cincinnati will tell you they did-Ctn- cinnati never tires of the telling. in fact but all the time they were saying those things about the Reds Cincinnati WAS secretly dreaming the great dream that was realized at Redland field this after noon, with 5000 pop-eyed, breathless Cln- cinnati people looking on. So Cincinnati whoops tonight and Cincinnati sings. II may not have another night but this night belongs to the queen City and the queen City Reds.
 A SLAUGHTER
 Old fashioned baseball language is apt to be bit cxtravagant yet old fashloned language which speaks casually CT slaughter and "annihilation" with ref erence to one-sided baseball defeats, oest describe the realization of Cincinnati dream today-we'u use the word "slaugn- : ter" It was baseball slaughter Of the Chicago club, a baseball fan does not have to go beyond the score to know that
 In the fourth inning the Reds battered Eddie Cicotte, the star pitcher Of the American league, for five runs-they drove him from the box. After that the White Sox were never in the hunt. 10" have seen better baseball games on the town lots Only the fact that thls game was the realization of grand and mag nifcent dream lifts it above the very conmonplace of baseball things, There have been very few games in the rall series. that has been called baseoaii classic half as lopsided, or half as tame. Tame from the standpoint or paSeoat. that is. Not tame from the standpoint o' Cincinnati. Anything but tame TOT Cin- cinnati It may have bored the oaseoa.i writers sitting high up on the grand stand, and it may have been most us tressingly weird and inartistic to the vet erap baseball people, but it was a bat tle hectic, and a thrilling event to Gin cinnati.
 It was one of those games which Tn the run of baseball seasons, would be styled just a gall game" by the crtics-a mat ter to be treated lightly, and as Of nc great consequ enice. But th's was world series game-a game on which hung fne civic pride of two great American clt'es
 The score was tied to when the Reds went to bat, in the fourth inning. Tney did their scoring with two out And II seemed to us as we sat watching tne rise and spread of Cincinnatfs magnin- cent dream and listening to the steady thuds of bats and to the roaring of the crowd that across the background passed dark shadow of great pitcher movints into that baseball oblivion where they al must go. Cicotte fhad nothing as they put it in baseball language.
 SHINE BALL" HELPLESS
 The magic of the right arm that car ried the Chicago club through to a pen nant in the American league had van ished. The spell of the so-called "shint ball." of which Cicotte Is supposed to bt master. and which seemed to enthral the batsmen of his own league. was i'm potent before the Reds
 And while the veteran seemed to pas' and go his way, youngster was comint on to claim his own, to assert his in alienable right to that heritage of spor which is the heritage of youth. Waite Reuther, young ft-hander from thu west coast, pitched against the 35-year old Cicotte, and it was his first game il a worlds series too. After one brie nervous furry. the youngster settled down and held the Sox safely.
 If we were picking heroes In the frs