New-York tribune., 1919-10-04
Cleason's Southpaw Hit
for Only Three Singles.
While Fl her Tosses
Game Away in the Second
By W. Q. Mcclellan


OF the stockyards, took the third
game of the worlds series. shutting
out the raging Cincinnati Reds bv a
score of 3 to 0. 1t was pitchers
duel. Young Dick Kerr, the Texan
southpaw, let not a Red furtl er than
second base. Ray Fisher, the Yer
mont schoolteacher and former mem
Der of the Yanks, tossed the game to
the wild and aromatic stockvards
winds with a wild heave in the sec
ond inning.
behind young Kerr the White Sox
that looked for all the world like white
RABBITS IN Cincinnati yesterday changed
INTO snappy white bull terriers. and
tne most determined and the snappest
OF the pack was Kerr The little left
at waco, Tex. This lot is half the size
OF good cigar box and any nit that
goes for more than fifty feet is liable
70 go over the fence. Kerr kept the
Ked hits confined almost entirely to
the inheld
The vame was decided practically
as early as the second inning. thouph
the Woodland Bards and the other
stock yards vocalists did not cheer with
any certainty until the last man was
out. There wasn't a thrill o. { svmp.
tom of melodrama to this contest. In
fact. this 1919 classic has been devoid
OF occasions that might cause the bugs
to rise on their hind legs and roar
Joe Jackson Surprised
The climax. which happened all too
prematurely, came as the wind from
the stock yardes laden with life giving
balsam to the White Sox waited over
the diamond. 1t t:ckeled the nostrils
of Joe Jackson. the first of the Sox to
bat in the second inning. Joseph drove
hit to left.
Then Happy Fclsch. who had been
made exceedingly unhappy by tangle
OF circumstances during the unsuccess-
full raid into the Rhineland, was called
upon to sacrifice. Fclsch laid down a
bunt to Ray Fischer. The Vermont
schoolmaster turned toward second and
hurled with vehemence, but either the
ball took wild hop because Ray is
an expectorating pitcher or the school
master was overcome by the fog from
the stock yards. At any rate. the ball
rolled and rolled into centre field. while
Roush made wild efforts to recover it.
While Roush was scurrying about
the field Jackson rounded second and
Felsch had started for A long trip
The throw that tossed the thing away
put Jackson on third and Fesch on
second. Chick Gandil drove a single
into right field and jackson and Felscn
scored. Gandl keeping on his way to
second during the relay.
BY this time there was considerable
anxiety evident in the Reds dugout
Heinie Groh walked over to Fisher
for consultation and the visitors from
Rhineland began to raise entrcaties
that Fisher be removed. The gloom
which had hunk over the park at the
start of the game seemed to lift some
what and the Chcagoans, breathing
the zephyrs from the stockyards,
seemed to imbibe confidence. The CON
fidence and the aroma became stronger
rs Risberg drew base on balls
Why Fisher Pitched
The legend is that Moran had Sc
lected Fisher to pitch to-day because
he used to play in the American League
before Colonel Rupert. with cruel
impulse, sold him down the river to
Cincinnati. Consequently Fisher was
supposed to know all about the Lights
and shadows and odors of Comiskey
Park. He was the only acclimated
pitcher that they had
Ray Schalk shot another one at
Fisher and the schoolmaster got the
range on third this time, forcing
Hanoil. herr drove another one at
him and Fisher this time forced
Leibold was thrown out by Heinie
Groh and what had begun to look like
the utter dem moraliZation of the Gin
cinnati team stopped abruptly.
In the fourth inning the Chicagoans
were breathing their own odorous air
IN short anxious gasps. In the first
two games it was the fourth that
h1 e. r.
Sox. Clcotte was batted from the box
in the fourth of the first game. Will
Jams went wild in the fourth of the
second game.
When Groh got base on balls at
the start OF the fourth inning to-day
the apprehension could be scented de-
spite the dominant scent Of the stock
yards zephyrs. The fate of the Sox,
their chances for q reasonable hold on
first money in tie series. lay in Dick
Kerr, the lcft-handcd Texan.
The White Sox evidently had conf
dence in Gieason's third best pitcher.
The white rabbit appearance had
passed and the inticld looked like 50
many eager and brieht-cycd white bull
terriers waiting for somebody 20 open
r cage full of rodents as Roush stepped
up 70 the plate. Edward. the hard
hitting, slashcd one that passed throuph
kerr's glove, but Risbc.g was there be
hind him. and, getting the ball. threw
crouching TO first, the bali beating
Roush by inches.
Duncan Hits Into Double
This left Pat Duncan, whose late
season performances had made him as
much an object OF interest and admira-
ton IN Cincinnati as ono Of the glass
covered pretzcl bakeries there The
perturbation among the Chicagoans be-
came intensified But Patrick batted
into double play and the crisis
passed. The Chlcagoans lay back and
took more nourishment from their ma
tive atmosphere.
The complete shattering Of the fourth
inning legend came in the second half
Of that fatcd stanza, when the White +
Soz put over their third and last run.
kisberg hit "a long one to right field
and Greasy Neale became depressed
and befogged b. the local ozone. The
ball rolled by the greasy one for a
three bagYer.
Ray Schalk diJ the rcat Ray and
the cccentricltics Of the local inhcld
Schalk shot onc toward Fisher, bat just
az the schoolmaster reached for i The
bali bounded over his head. kisberp
dashed acroxs the plate and Schalk was
credited wi,h single.