The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-08

afternoon.
 e7s With the Sox in complete rout and
 banquet ready to be spread by Cincinnati |, in honor of the home team club for win
 ming the championship of the baseball es world the tiny Iefthander today stopped 7 the rush of the Reds as he stopped them over in Chicago last week.
 Only knee high to a grasshopper but
 with the heart of lion in his breast, ett"f Little Dick pitched with ,eonsummate scourage against seemingly hopeless odds.
 At one time the Reds had four-run lead
 and the club behi0d him seemed mak <elg away, but the wee Texan never gave " The game went into 10 innings and the i final score was to 1 in favor of the Sox. { IL was the second game they have taken ..Th the series, and Kerr won them both. EIp to the sixth inning the Reds had the ] Ii orld $ championship in their grasp. ss Walter Reuther the star of the first
 game and potential hero of the series. suddenly failed. Pat Moran, manager of stsle Reds, made desperate effort to hold s;,sjle Sox by putting in Jimmy Ring, who <had shut them out in one game with Two hits.
 t- SOX RALLY
 4.~ The Chicagoans put the winning re- YEeiver on Ring in the 10th. Buck Weaver. ssr1e game third baseman of the Sox. SIropped q two bagger into left field frShoeless Joe Jackson, the gangling .qutfielder from the Carolinas, bunted un- der instructions from Kid Gleason, ffeader of the Sox As Jackson's bat tfinally met the ball after one miss it seell just in front of the plate
 tA-@ ~Waal Bill'' Rariden. the Hoosier hackstop of the Reds. dropped off his tsnask and leaped for the ball. Rariden faathered up the ball all right, but appar- f6ntly juggled it for an instant, as he ssIaneed at it as if to make sure he had K in hand.
 v~ IL was too late to get Weaver, who was .rready sliding into third, so Rariden .t5srew to first man effort to get Jackson .sThe long legs of the Carolinian were Estraddling out beyond the bag a yard .Shead of the throw. "
 fs.sss The 32oOO Cincinnati fans who had come. Efo the ballyard expecting to celebrate the Eformal transfer of the worlds champion sship who had been jeering the sox only. "a short time before, grew very silent as
 Happy Felsch stepped to the plate Y Felsch has been dubbed Suicide Hap : ,py' by satirica critics because Gleason has used him in sacrifice role so fre- esouently during the series. Now he had .ehance to break up the game, but Ring ,.struck him ut4with the count two balls land two strikes on him.
 z; Then came Chick Gandil, the big first ,baseman of the Sox. who has done very little of note in this series. Gandil s.snashed Single toseenser,the ball clear ting second very sharply. and Weaver fscored. Jackson went to second. He had .started for third and was doubled up before he could regain second.
 With victory in reach. Little Dick ]. gave a rare exhibition of pitching The t.dangerous Roush went out on a grounder ito F. Collins. Pat Duncan, the young Southern leaguer, raised a towering foul
 behind the plate, hitting the first ball
 pitched. Ray Schalk gathered it in. Col ! lins threw out Kopf and the game was | over, So small is { Little Dick that twice ' he got in troubles because he leaped at < the bounders hit over his head and de- flected them little. They would have been easy for a taller pitcher. Once the little mans pitching hand was benumbed sand we'll nigh broken by liner hit back
 at him, but he kept right on pitching. t SOX SEEMED BBEATEN
 < His delivery was hit pretty hard and he
 had none of the best of the luck. His
 support did not give him the comfort of < a few runs with which the pitching path of Reuther was bestrewn fairly early in the game. It looked very much as if ' the Sox were licked before they started,
 to all but Little Dick Kerr, the game
 bantam of baseball. There was never a
 minutes. in front or behind, when he was mot pitching with all the confidence of Z sure winner.
 It was a sloppy sort of baseball game
 from the standpoint of technique, per
 haps, but 1t was one of tk@-@ost excit-
 i ing of the series. Incidentally it was the tfirss game of the series which f1as gone
 into extra innings. gSs Ssss' 4 Cincinnati returned to It's worlds se-
 ries with just as much zest as on the opening day. Usually interest in those
 games slows down to a walk after four games, especially when one club has demonstrated superiority. but you must