The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-11
GLEASON CHARGED
WITH POOR TACTICS
Criticised for Choice in Relief
Pitchers in Final Game
of World Series,
MANY CRIES OF "FRAUD"
Cincinnati Fans Openly Ac-
cused Reds of Engaging in
"Frameup" Wednesday.
MANY CRIES OF "FRAUD"
nv FREDERICK G. LIEB.

Kid Gleason, White Sox manager, in
congratulatlng the Reds on their victory
IN the worlds series. expressed the opin-
ion that his Chicago club still is Amer
,ca't greatest ball team A few Ameri-
can League partisans, BIASED strongly
toward the younger circuit, have ex-
messed similar opinion. Their argu-
ment is that luck and the breaks OF tie
game were agninEt the Sox from the
start. and that II these clubs met again
Chicago would score a cleanup. They
Law particular stress on the manner the
white Sox nit each Red pitcher when
thew opposed him the second time, and
Eddie Collins's recovery from his Nbat-
ting slump in the last two games OF the
series.
cism himself for his choice Of relief
pl,chers in that last game. When the
second guessers thought II over on
Thursday night they decided that Gleason
pulled the manageiia l bone OF tho series
bv permitting James and wilkinson to
dub around while he had Kerr, man
who had proved he could stop the Reds,
on the bench.
Though Kerr had pitched hard ten
inning game only the day before II was
Thursday. If Kerr failed. well and good.
Gleason at least would have played out
his cards to the bitter end. The proba-
bIlitles are that little Dickie could have
slenced the Cincinnati bats. The talk
Of oyerworRing Kerr should not have
been taken into consideration. Where the
stakes are as high as in this 1919 series
there was no saving pitchers. Though
Kerr is a pitching pygny he is we'll knit
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men so frequently encountered in the
West and Southwest. Kerr is Texan.
Had he failed Kerr could have had the
entire winter to rest up Had he sue
ceeded Dickie would have been one OF
the greatest worlds series heroes yet
deyeloped, while Cicotte would have been
GleasoRs ace in the hole for the ninth
game.
These arguments, of course. rest on
the assumption that Chicago would have
made FIVE runs and that Pat Moran
would have kept FIller in the game. Were
It not for the fact that Cincinnati had
q nine run lead when the Sox went to
bat in the eighth Eller never would
have lasted that inning. Ring would
have been rushed in as soon as the Sox
started hitting.
Gleason Claim Unwarranted.
Therefore the assertion of Gleason
and some of his friends that the White
Sox stlll are balloons best team doesn't
carry much weight Cincinnati won the
worlds championship cleanly and de-
csively, and there is no question about
the Reds being the strongest club In
the game to-day They beat the Giants,
their nearest rivals In the National
League, in eight out OF the last eleven
games between these clubs and topped
their National League success with an
equally impressive victory over the
White Sox, the hardest hitting club the
American League has developed since
the famous Athletics of the Baker, Col
Inns, McInnis era.
Had the series been one Of the old
seven game affairs and Cincinnati had
won in five games the Reds unouestIon-
ably would have gone into baseball his
tory as one Of the games most remark
able teams 1t would have been the first
team capable of showing five pitching
aces in a series. 1t must be admitted
that Cincinnati pitching regulations
suffered quite a bit when the Red hurl-
ers opposed the Sox for the second time.
Ruether, Sallee, Ring and Eller, victors
in their first games. were all tanned
hard when they tried for their second
victories. Eller won two games, but
q
saved him
Another season must decide just how
good the Reds really are. 1t is too
early TO rank the Reds with the old
Cubs, the Athletics of half dozen years
ago or the Red Sox of 1915 and 1916.
Reds outpIayed sox.
Cincinnati actually outplayed the Sox
in all departments They outhit them.
outpitched them and outfielded them. The
fielding averages show the two clubs
evenly matched, but the Red fielding was
surer, more alert and more spectacular.
Though Eddie Roush is charged with
two Of Cincinnati's twelve errors, his
outheding was the most spectacular eve1
seen at a worlds series. In saying this
we recall Duffy Lewis's great catches of
Gabby Cravath in 1915. and Harry
Hooper's immortal catch off Larry Doyle
In the last game OF the 1912 SERIES, But
Tor all around brilliance no centre fielder
ever played the fielding game put up by
Roush, not even iris Speaker in the
worlds series of 1912 and 1915. In
those series Iris was clearly outshone
nrst by Hooper and then by Lewis.
Three Of Roush's catches are deserv-
ing OF preservation in worlds series his
tory. They include a running catch OF
centre field in the second game, and div
Ing shoestring catches on Risberg and
Leibold in the sixth and eighth games
respectively.
Roush aelded thirty-three of thirty-five
chances. Thirty-three chances for a
worlds series outfielder Is a new record
but Tor the fact that Roush hit so poorly
ne would have emerged from the series
as It's greatest star, But even three hits
N the last days hating carnage only
raised his average to .172.
Kerr the Big Hero.
As has already been pointed out, little
PICKLE Kerr comes closer to being the
nero Of the 1919 series than any man or
ether team. The shortest man that ever
plehed IN the major leagues and q big
league freshman. ne alone stood between
ms club and utter humiliation. What
\ ever credit belongs TO the Sox for carry
H,s theseries out TO eight games belongs
slmost wholly to Kerr.
The failure Of Cicotte and Collins. the
TWO leading lights OF the Sox, was most
conspicuous. Cicotte, who won 20 games
VI tne American League, landed only one
.ut or three games His crushing de.
teat IN the first game started the Sox on
VI the wrong foot and gave the Reds the
'onndence they needed.
Sicotte pitched great ball in his sec
"u ana third games. but his own errors
Ia MN In his second start. However,
~. t was the game in which Ring per.
pted only three hits, and the best
.aMe could have done would have been
ming $50 'A i