New Britain herald., 1919-10-11
GLEASON CHARGED
 WITH POOR TACTICS
White SOx Leader Criticised for
 Choice in Relief Pitchers

New York; Oct. 11.-kid Gleason, White SoX manager, in congratulating the Reds on their victory in the worlds series. expressed the oplnlon that his Chicago club still is Amer ica's greatest ball team. few Am crican league partisans, biased strong ly toward the younger circuit, have expressed d similar opinion. Their argument is that luck and the breaks of the game were agalnSl the SoN from thc start. and that if these clubs met again Chicago would score ] cleanup. They base particular stress on the manner the White Sox hit each Red pitcher when they opposed him the second time, and Eddie Col lins' recovery from his batting slump in the last two games of the series. Gleason has come in for no little criticism himself for his choice of relief pitchers in that last game. l When the second guessers thought it over on Thursday night they decided 1 that Gleason pulled the managerial bone of tho series by permitting { James and Wilkinson to dub around while he had Kerr, a man who had proved he could stop the Reds on | the bench.
 This criticism is more or less just-
 
 hard ten inning game only the day i before it was a case of do or die with 1 the Sox last Thursday If Kerr failed, well and good. Gleason at least would have played out his cards 1 to the bitter end. The proba bilities | arc that little Dicl1ic could have si- l fenced the Cincinnati bats. The talk | of overworking Kerr should not have been taken into consideration. Where l tho stakes arc as high as in this | 1919 series there was no saving pitch 1 CTS. Though Kerr is pitching 1 pygmy he is well knit together and is 1 one of those strong little men so 1 frequently encountered in the West 1 and Southwest. Kerr is a Texan. Had he failed Kerr could have had 1 the entire winter to rest up. Had he succeeded Dickie would have been ono of the greatest worlds series heroes yet developed, while Cicotte would have been Gleason's 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 havo kept Eller in the game. Were it not for the fact that l Cincinnati had nine run lead when the SoX went to bat in the eighth Filler never would have lasted that in
 ming. Ring would have been rushed in as soon as the Sox started hitting.
 Gleason Claim Unwarranted. 1 Therefore the assertion of Gleason and some of his friends that the | White Sox still are balldom's best team doesn't carry much weight. Gin 1 cinnati won the worlds championship cleanly and decisively. and there is 1 oh ho a1c 70 strongest club in the game today. 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 Ma 1 tional league success with an equally ! impressive victory over the White SoX the hardest hitting club the Am erican league has developed since the famous Athletics of the Baker Col lins, McInnis, era.
 Had the series been one of the old seven game affairs and Cincinnati
 had won in five games the Reds un
 questionably would have gone into
 baseball history as one of the games most remarkable teams. It would
 have been the first team capable of showing five pitching aces in a series.
 It must be admitted that Cincinnati
 pitching regulations suffered quite
 bit when the Red hurlers opposed the Sox for the second time. Ruether, Sallee, Ring and Eller VctOrs in their
 first games, were all tanned hard when they tried for their second Vic
 tories. Eller won two games, but
 only big lead and wonderful sup
 port saved him.
 Another season must decide just
 how good the Reds really are It is
 too early to rank the Reds with the
 old Cubs, the Athletics of half a dozen years ago or the Red SoX of 1915 and 1916.