The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-07
Reds White Wash Sox in the
Fifth Game of Worlds Series
Eller Holds Windy City Boys in Palm of His Hand and Lets
Them Down With Three Hits While He Himself Starts
Things for Oh1oans With His Bat.
nv DAMON RTSYON

BY DAMON RINSoN
Comisky park, Chicago, oct 6
Before the eyes Of the Chicago
White sox this afternoon, there spun
o baseball that acted as thing be-
Witched
4 snecies of pitching legerdomain
was performed for them in man
ner that left them as dazed and be-
uildered as an audience before
which a great magician has just
executed some astounding feat.
The bali came from the hand of
'FIod" Eller a thickset young PIT
cher on the Cincinnati Reds. bullted
out there on the pitching mound.
He seemed ne different from any
other pitcher as he drew back his
right arm and dashed the bali toward
the hattcrw with all the stereotyped
motions of the mound man approved
nv years of baseball. But the bali,
as il went whtstlIng across the
breasts OF some OF the greatest hit
ters in the American Ieague, twisted
and turned, and dipped and dropped
in uncanny fashion. and the thr@aty
voice Of Umpire Charley Rigler
came to the ears OF the startled bat
ters slowly intoning the strikes.
II WAS the shine" bail. which
carried tho Chicago White Sox home
10 a couple OF American league
championships coming home 10
roost, for they say Eller. rnbs the
magic of his pitching into the base
ball along the seam Of his trousers,
after the manner of Eddie Cicotte OF
the Sox.
To-day the young hurting Aladdin
Of the Reds held the Chicago club
70 three hits. and smut them out
to 0, In the NTH game Of the series
OF 1912 one more victory and the
Cincinnatians are champions OF the
baseball world The funeral is
tomorrow. bawled an excited fan
from the banks % the Ohio at the
dlsconsolate crowd fling out on the
neld late this afternoon, No
towers
Fllcr strikes out Nine
Ener struck out nine OF the Sex.
SIX OF them went down before the
strange spell Of his delivery IN sue
eesSsion The 34,0do people banked
around the field. sat hreathlessly
silent as they watched him IN tho
early innings to finally leap To their
feet In "a tremendous ovation.
White Sox cast of He had brief
trial with the Chicago club some
years ago. They sent him away as
lacking IN ability. experience and
about everything else that "a baseball
pitcher IL supposed 20 have some
where in his subsequent wanderings.
Eiler learned the ,8ecret u tho
shine bail" Tonight he is the
Young master Of that particular
mystery OF the pitching craft, as
Fiddle Cicottc the veteran who first
found IT. sinks into worlds series
oblivion.
A two eagGer ny Filler himself
started me Reds on their seemingly
inevitable one round rush TO VIC
tory That was in the sixth inning
couple OK errors nv the Sex helped
the Cincinnati men quite a lot bat in
the main the WtISr ScX wers our
played anyway
Claude williams pitched 4 great
game against Eller. He allowed but
Ave hits However. a club which
cannot score ran never deserves
10 win, All the excuses tn the world,
and all the breaks IN the Tue X
against a club cannot cover up q
failure 10 produce q tally. Barring
the first inning Eiier held the Sox
in the dcrt OF his battered glove. lie
was going al such tremendous rata
In the first ftw innings that many
people did not believe it possible for
him TO last the entire game. Eller
is very powerful younGster how
ever. and he closed Just as strongly
as he started
All manner Of worlds series
records were broken in the game to-
day especially IN the pitching line,
The financial records Of other years
have been beaten long ago. old Pat
Morans men viii receive "A pretty
sweet reward for iheLr efforts II
they win tomorrow in Cincinnati
This WIS the last game In which the
players have a share Under the