The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-02
Cicotte, American League
Pitching Ace, Batted Out
of Box in 4th Inning.
REDS FURNISH SURPRISE
Use Mace With Telling Effect
on 3 Hurlers in First'Game
Of Worlds Series.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Br stan correspondent Of Tun sux.


BY Std6 Correspondent Of The Sun.
CINCINNATI, Oct This southern
most end of Ohio is just one lurid. red
smear tonight and Cincinnati is in
the widest throes Of an ecstasy which
it never before had known. And well
might this city celebrate. While 30,511
persons looked on in varied stages Of
acute frenzy at Redland Field this af-
ternoon the Cincinnati club of the Ma
tional League triumphed over the
Chicago team of the American League
in the first game OF the worlds series
for baseball supremacy. And as might
be gathered from the score, which was
9 to 1, it was none OF the ordinary
successes either.
Not since the Philadelphia Ameri-
cans had beaten the New York Ma
tionals in the final contest Of the 1911
classic. by 1s to 2, had any club been
able to record as clean cut and deci-
sive a result In the annual interleague
competition. ADD to this the fact that
Cincinnati never before had been rep
resented in the classic and that II
had gone into the series conceded only
the slightest of an under dogs chance
and you have all the ingredients Of a
wild exultation which the Queen City
lost no time N concocting. even as the
players still were battling on the dia-
mond.
Standing out in bold relief against
the carmine background of Cincin-
nati's splendid achievement was a
young man of twenty-five, Walter
Ruether by name. Ruether was called
on to pitch against the great Eddie
Cicotte, hero OF the 1917 worlds series
with the Giants of New York. And
Ruether pitched. He did at'least that.
When the last Chicago batsman came
to the plate, with neither ambition in
his mien or menace In his pose, thor
oughly cowed by the cunning and the
power of the lefthanded delivery which
his team had tried in vain to solve,
Ruether was still in the box, pitching
Cicotte Driven From Mound.
And while Ruether was out there bask-
ing in the smiles OF the multitude and
wallowing in the salvos of their approval.
Ccotte was sitting in the club house,
rummaging over the strange upsets
which Fate delights in staging. For
while Ruether had more than triumphed.
Cicotte. accounted by most men as the
most likely hero of the series, had been
driven from the mound in a wild assault
which had netted the Reds five rups in
the fourth inning.
The shine ball master. who had gone
through another league season with the
awe and respect Of every batsman who
had faced him, had not only been
forced to ,stire under severe fire. but
he had bee chastised most ignominiously
and greeted by the Cincinnati batsmer
with no more respec. than II he had
been the veriest Of tyros. just breaking
into the major league.
Great as was the wonderment over
the fall of the Chicago star, greater still
was the delight OF the intensely parti-
san gathering over the wonderful show
ing Of Ruether, who at the end stood out
as the heroic figure Of conquerins
Alexander OF old.
Ruether's Hitting n Feature.
Ruether not only made his left hand
work with consummate mastery and Gun.
ming, for he allowed the White Sox only
six scattered hits. but he welded his bal
with the terrific effectiveness OF a Cobb
Jackson and Roush all rolled into one
Four times Ruether came to bat and
at the finish his percentage was 1000
The first visit to the plate yielded him
pass. Good enough for pitcher
shouted the fans. But 1t was not good
enough for Ruether.
This young man OF rs, with eyes ever
turning to pretty. smiling young wife
who sat In a box close to the playing
area, had other and more heroic plans
and ambitions. Huether was not salts
fed alone with playing a great pitching
role, He was bound to prove his versa.
tility with the ash, too. and let II bt
the Widest wishes and most sanguint
hopes OF his wife. himself and the thou
sands who sat In wonder stricken enjoy
ment OF his performances.
The second time Ruether came TO bat
IN the fourth inning. he faced Cicotts
with an overpowerlng desire to hit thii
chicago idol, already tottering. JUS
Where his clay feet showed. One iusty
swing and Ruether had smashed out 6
three base hit into centre field and hat
scored both Neale and Wingo. Clcott'
remained on the mound yet while. bu
. mat triple OF his rival was the one mur
d'rous blow that struck right at the vet
Grams heart and sent Roy Wilkinson, .
gounsster only recently acquired by thu
"hlle Sox, warming up.
certainly Ruether had done enough FOL
one day. particularly for a pitcher work
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