The Washington herald., 1919-10-02
Cincinnati S Baseball Dream
Becomes Realization as
Moranmen Pound Cicotte
From Mound, Winning by
9-to-l Count.
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You have seen better baseball teams
on the Town lots Only the fact that
this game was the realization OF a
Erand and magnificent dream lifts it
ABOVE The very commonplace of base
hail things. There have been very few
games in the fall-time series, that
has been called basebalrs classic.
half a. lopsided or half as tame.
Tame from the standpoint of base
BAH that is. Not tame from the stand
point e Cincinnati. Anything but
tame tor Cincinnati 1t may have
bored the blase ball writers. sitting
high up in the Grandstand. and it
may have been most distres singly
weird ard inartistic to the veteran
baseball people, but it was a battle
hectic and a thrilling event to Gin
cinnatt
Its Give Pride in Cincy.
1t was one of those games which in
the run of baseball seasons, would be
styled Just n ball game" by the
critics-a matter to be treated lightly,
and as of no great consequence. But
this was a world series game-a
game on which hung the civic pride
Of two great American cities.
The score was tied-l to 1-when
the Reds went 20 bat in the fourth
inning. They did their scoring with
two out.
And il seemed to US, as we sat
watching the rise and spread of Gin
c.nnati's magnificent dream. and. lis
tening to the steady thuds of bats.
and to tho roaring of the crowd, that
across the background passed a dark
shadow of a great pitcher moving into
that baseball oblivion where they all
must go.
Cicotte Has Nothing.
Cicotte had nothing" as they put
u in baseball language. The magic
OF the right arm that carried the
Chicago club through to a pennant
in the American League. had
vanished The spell of the so-called
"shine BALI of which Cicotte is sup
to enthran the batsmen of his own
league, was impotent in today's game
Youth Wins.
And while the veteran seemed to
pass and go his way. a youngster was
coming on to claim his own-to assert
hfs inalienable right to that heritage
Of sport which is the heritage OF
youth.
Walter Reuther. a young Ieft-handsr
from the West Coast. pitched against
the 3S-year-Old Cicotte. and it was his
first game in a worlds series, too.
After one brief nervous furry. the
youngster settled down and held the
Sox safely.
II we were picking heroes in this
first chapter of the worlds series OF
1879, We might pick Reuther.s Besides
pitching with great skill. he hit a
three-bagger into the crowd in center
field in that turbulent fourth. and
drove in two runs. He had great sup
port The Reds played with a rush
and dash that must have surprised
the White SoX- 1t was all the more
surprising because in practice the
Chicagoans seemed much faster. In
the game. however. their work was
drab and colorless as compared to
the Reds. but that's always the way
a baseball club seems behind poor
pitching.
Cicotte to Blame.
Cicotte can blame himself for some
81 the disaster of the fourth. He
was very slow in making a play
hat would have ended the inning
before any runs had been scored.
Maybe il wouldn't have made much
Inference. however. Maybe it would
have delayed the inevitableI
The Sox couldn't hit Reuther. The
Reds could nit Cicotte. There's the
story in a nutshell
Vow we'll drop completely into
baseball vernacuIar. and tell the story
of that fourth inning.
Here's the Tale.
Roush Is out on a fly to center
Eddie Roush. the wide-ranging,
aard-hitting outfield star of the Ma
.ional League. Pat Duncan. Just up
rom the sticks" as the ball play
srs say. and. like Reutrer. playing
ais. first world series game. singles
Snlartly to center.
Larry Kopf. the short fielder who
vas once traded to Brooklyn. and
whose refusal to report there prac-
ically forced Moran to keep him.
cit a ball to Cicotte. 1t looked as
4 the pitcher had plenty OF time
% wheel and throw the ball to sec
Dnd and start u double play which
would have ended the inning, but
instead he waited that fatal few Sec
onds that are often the difference
between victory and defeat in base
ball.
He finally did make the throw to
-Swede" Risberg. but too late for
Risberg to relay the ball on to
iandil and double Kopf. NeaIe fol-
lowed with a single and a moment
Ater Ivy Wingo. the red-headed
Carolinian who did great work be-
hind the bat for the Reds today,
stepped up and slashed a hit to
.fZht scoring KOnf and muffin O
Seale on third and himself on sec
md on the throw. The slaughter
was on and the crowd was in a
geritable frenzy.
Reuther Does 1t.
Now came Reuther. always such a
rood hatsman that he has often hit in