The sun., 1919-10-04
CHICAGO DEFEATS
CINCINNATI BY 8 TO 0
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of the American Association, "a club
with no apparent chance for anything
but certain number of defeats, and
which finally did finish last in the race
When Milwaukee sent Kerr his contract
he sent word back that he had decided
to become major Lacquer.
II want to be sold or traded to the
Chicago Americans" wrote Kerr. "Un-
less 30 to that team am not going to
play professional baseball this year."
Milwaukee was astounded. What right
had this little fellow to aspire to the
greatness OF a major league pitcher
and White Sox pitcher to boot 1t
seemed Hike joke, but little Dickey was
not fooling. When he demonstrated that
he was In grim earnest Milwaukee did
send him to Chicago.
Acted ss Relief Pitcher.
There Dickey labored as a relief
pitcher. TOO small to 60 the route"
was the dictum anent this newcomer,
and for a while all he did was to finish
up the poor jobs of others But all the
time Gleason knew that this little fellow
with the cunning left arm was a real
star. He tried him out every now and
then. Toward the end OF the season ne
put him In against the Yankees and
little Dickey came through with a brill
liant shutout. Gleason took note. He
remembered, and to-day he decided.
This afternoon Kerr realized the am
bition and the dream which he had built
up last spring. He was the complete
master of the situation. The Reds never
were in the hunt They could not have
hit him had their bats been as broad
40 f,Il he taaf a..
bur. For one thing, the shoots which
Kerr sent at the Cincinnati batsmen were
| of the left handed variety, and it long
| had been known that against a pitcher
\ Of southpaw persuasion the champions
of the National League were not very
| proficient.
! The Reds got only four hits Off the left
handed shoots of williams yesterday,
and when they went against Kerr they
found themselves confronted with a far
more formidable proposition. For while
Kerr was ever harder to locate than
Williams, Dickey. in addition, had great
| control, and above everything else had a
head and the ability to use 1t.
j Kerr Uses Good Judgment.
4 In a mechanical way Kerr really had
little to send against the Reds He had
very little speed and only a good hoater
and drop and a fair curve. He did
nothing to the white pellet, although a
lot with 1t. He neither rubbed 1t on his
trousers or shirt nor spat on 1t. He
used neither artificial means nor me-
chanical subterfuge. He was as open
faced a full moon. But Kerr used
that part OF his body which in baseball
parlance is referred to as the noodle"
Kerr evidently had studied out every
batter on the Reds. He had found out
what each man liked and what each
despised, and he succeeded In a most
uncanny way in evading the grooves OF
the Cincinnati batters. He pitched with
his head perhaps more than with his
arm. He outguessed and outgeneralled
his opposltin, so tonight the name OF
Richard Kerr Is being passed from
mouth to mouth from one end of the
country TO the other and overseas
wherever followers OF the great Ameri.
can game congregate.
Great as was the exultation of Kerr
greater still was the misery OF Ray
Fisher. the one time Yankee, who was
the pitching choice of Pat Moran. Fisher
pitched sort Of crazy quilt game.
performance which perhaps would have
won on Wednesday or Thursday bu
which, with Kerr going as he did thi.
afternoon. was altogether insufficient.
seven Hits on Fisher.
Fisher allowed seven hits In sever
innings, and in the eighth. after Sher
wood Magee had batted for him, was
relieved by Luque. Fisher was unsteady
from the start, and II was seen early
that Moran had made an unwise selec
ton. The leader of the Reds had fig
ured that Fisher. with his spitball anc
his intimate knowledge of the Chicago
batsmen, would be the best choice. Blu
for once in this series Moran wen
wrong. and on second thought he die
not go very far wrong at that
1t would have taken a Ruether in hi,
pitching and batting form OF las
Wednesday to have earned the decision