New-York tribune., 1919-10-06

drained off. The betting is that Nj
but opinion persists that he might
make the remainder Of the series q
With the pre-series arithmetic so
badly tangled that its own parents
would not recognize it there is no wild
enthusiasm at the present writing
over the chances of tho Sox taking a
brace and beating the Reds out. The
Sox have not been hitting the Red
pitchers, and it takes hits to produce
runs. To date the White Sox have dis
played no more aggresslveneSs than so
many white rabbits. They are not GO
ing to get anywhere-in the light of
what has happened-by playing it safe.
A statement credited to William
Gleason. over his signature, is turning
the laugh on the grizzled Kid. Gleason
is alleged TO have given utterance to
the declaration tMot The Reds are not
team to take -. chance. In view Of
the fact tha. the White Rabbits have
played the sacrifice and safety-tirst pol
icy from tho start this utterance from
Gleason seems entirely cut OF order.
Sox Should Take Chance
1t is every ybody's opinion that the
White Rabbits ought to come right out
duration of the current war. They
might get massacred, but they seem to
be undergoing the process Of being
massacred as it Is.
If Kid Gleason has anything up his
sieve but his cuffs right now ne ls q
magician at keeping it concealed. The
rain, according to the experts inquest.
which has been going on since noon,
Will help the White Sox, but non
experts and merely casual observers
are OF the opinion that nothing can
help them.
There remains one game to be played
here before the return jump to the
Rhineland, where two games are sched-
ued The White Sox have four games
to win. the Reds have but two. At the
present writing it looks fairly safe to
predict that it Will end at Cincinnati,
where it began.
But hardened experts froth at the
mouth at the suggestion Of such pos
sibility. They still clutch at spars and
fragments of figures as they wallow
in the wet
Wait till the sox start hittiug.'
they say. "Their team batting is
twenty points better than the batting
of the Reds"
Must Brace Up Quickly
But four games is reasonably long
time to wait for any team to hit them
where the fielders are not. If the
White Sox intend to emerge from the
Businesses of their batting slump at any
time during this series it is about time
that they were poking their heads out
of concaalment They never will emerge
until Kid Gleason becomes less eau
tious.
The Kid, whose brow was fairly we'll
ploughed with burrows before this series
started, has a brow so wrinkled that
1t looks as though it had been rudely
massagcd with q curry comb. But at
that one has to admire the tenacity
with which he sticks TO his strategy
of caution. Only a very game or stub
born person could do that.
Gleason must have known when he
gave Felsch the order to sacrifice yes
terday, with Jackson on second and
nobody out, that he would be on the
pan to-day ii what happened did
happen.
The strategy of Gleason would have
John Joseph McGraw frothing at the
mouth if he happened to be exporting
the hit-and-run policy and it makes a
good game. 1t would have enhvened
this Junket TO considerable extent.
"Dope" Is All Crossed
All sorts OF dope have been crossed
here. During the American League
season the White Sox were regarded
as dangerous demons on the bases.
They were held as too swift, too dar-
ing and too smart for the Reds. But
to date they have not been stealing q
whole lot of bases nor have they been
dazzling anybody along the paths.
Eddie Collins, regarded as the po-
tential big noise Of the series, has
been doing nothing but play second
base. There has not been any real
melodrama staged so far, but the near
est thing to melodrama has been
staged by Patrick Morans men.
Patrick Is the outstanding and domi-
mating figure Of the struggle TO date.
That grlzzled, red-haired Hibernian
has dominated it by his blarney, which
is known in this country by the short
er and uglier word Of "buli.' Patrick
has convinced the crowd OF seeming
Inisfts that were dumped into his no
tel in Texas early last Spring that
they are great and wonderful ball
players. They believe it, and if the
series continues to develop in the man
ner in which II has started whole
lot Of US VIII begin TO believe it, too.
This Irish Svengali has convinced
lot Of crow-voiced persons that they
are flock Of larks. More than that
he has made them chorus like a lot Of
larks. Consequently they are larks to
all intents and purposes. From cx-
ternal appearances they should just
be sQuawking their way from bali park
70 ball park.
Moran's Rlarney Does 1t
It's the way that Pat Moran has with
the youngsters that seems to do it, It's
the way Of a Mulvaneycsque sergeant
taking the recruits through their first
hop. The old sergeant says:
Rene mber, sons, they're just as
scared az We are and maybe "A whole
lot more And It's only bit OF a
scrap, only a skirmlsh, after all And
when It's over Wen be having can OF
beer and laughing al -
1t Is because Of Moran's confidence
n the power OF his own barney that
ne nay pitch Hod Ellcr to morrow. 4
more cautious stratc9ist might come
back with the Californian, Ruether
who was Ruther than Ruth, the Babe
IN the first game. Bu, j, viii be Just
Fatrick's way 10 give Eller his chance
m tne series, 70 hand hIm that hyp.
motto pat on the back aad tell him 20 70
IN and win. And II is an even chance
or better that Eller will 20 in and win
tonsequently Patrick wi.l have .
cheerful and confident young pitcher
win It al Moran is one Of those