New-York tribune., 1919-10-09

Kid Cleason's
Sluggggers Again
Hit.Foe Hard
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blow away Ruether ana Ring. To-day
he switched his range against Sallee
and before the barrage had lifted the
Higginsport sheriff was battered
mass, Il human replica of the outer
forts Of old Verdun
The games battling psychology
turned against the Reds when they fall
tered so on Tuesday. By all the
standards of fifteen years on Monday
night with four victories registered
they would have been champions Of the
game.
That haunting thought seemed to
seize upon their imagination on Tues
day when they began 10 slip, and they
have never looked like the same bali
club since. In this seventh game it
was the SoX who strobe to battle with
all the confidence Of victorious
phalanx. 1t was the Is'ds who took
the field soggily and without dash,
beaten in advance. They seemed to
know that Saflee was educ for his" at
last, and that Cicotte, premier/pitcher
OF the American League, was not to be
humbled three times in q row.
Sheik's Curse on Reds
This vast detection slipped from the
where all involved except he Sox
seemd to be waiting for the worst.
The Shelk's curse was on the Red tribe
and before q ball was thrown you could
see their hopes were not centred upon
Sallee IN Cincinnati, but upon "Hod"
tller IN Chicago. 1t was up to the
Shine ball and ii the Sox knock the
gleam from its folds on Thursday,
countless dredges Will be needed to
Ito ba 1
Friday night. For it will be the great
est upset that sport has ever known
If you take your start from the fifth
round OF the sixth game.
Wednesdays battle was cut and
dried cinch for the Sox from the time
Shane Collins, the first man u,.
touched Sallee for a single and scored
on Jackson's smash to left. Saliee barely
escaped further disaster then and there
until the third when Shane C.llins
again opened with hit and lusty sim
giles by Eddie Collins and Joe jackson
drove him across. That quick rush
was all the Sox needed with Cicotte
stalking steadily across the bent necks
Of the Red tribe.
Sox Tide Surses In Fifth
In the fifth the Sox tide surged
through the Red inield with roar
when Eddie Collins singled again and
both Groh and Rath booted easy
chances, leaving Hap Felzch in the po-
sltion to drive two additional runs
across the plate and make the eighth
game certainty.
With Sallee driven 10 return to the
Bosky Dell, Moran called on Ray Fisher
for one round, and then fell back on
Adolfo Luque, the sprightly Cuban, who
III his four cantons stopped the Sox
with one lone blow.
While turning in this highly credit
able display the Cuban also famed five
men, with Eddie Collins, Buck Weaver
and Zap Felsch included
But the snappy little Cuban had ar
rived too late to save waning cause.
The big shadow had already spread
above the field and his mates were no
longer counting up the winners end
They were already beginning to cut
away few luXuries they had decided
upon on Monday night, and their com
plete detection left no chance for any
final rally. They nicked Cicotte for a
run in the sixth, when Groh doubled
and Duncan singled. but this was their
last display of force.
A feeble rally opened the ninth, which
Cicotte quickly suppressed after put
ting the field under martial law. All
told he held the Reds to six hits. bat
these in the main were badly scattered,
and he won without being forced TO
work at top speed
Tradition Upholds Sox
The Sox to-day have tradition to
back them up. Some seven wears apo
they opened with two drawn battles
against the Cubs and then lost the next
three straight. Out of five games they
had failed to produce a victory. But
with their broad backs to the wall they
suddenly whlrled and won the next four
contests, trick they now confidently
expect to repeat with Lefty Williams
now due. as Cicotte was. to grind out
at least one victory from three starts. I
Chicago there is Dick Kerr to return
Tor his third rush at the Red line. In
case Williams wins. the deciding battle
VIII be fought in Cincinnati, as Garry
Hermann won the toss in planning
the location of the final game in case
the series goes the entire route. And
It Will surely go the complete dis /
tance unless the dazed Reds emerge
from their detected attitude in time
and recover the confidence that broke
when Ruether weakened and his sup
port began to slip.
Spirit OF Sox at Crest
ne sDirll OF lne S0X tonight Is at
the crest. Their confidence is based
on more solid ground than their over
confidence of last week They believe
they can win, but only by desperate
fighting, and they expect to go after
EIler on Thursday with a rush that
not even the shine bail can stop. They
are under way at last. and the tide in
creased its flow when Eddie Collins at
last broke his long drab spell and
began to club the ball. Eddie looked
to be the old-time hero in the seventh
game. and now that he has started. at
least 90 per cent has been added to the
SoX attack. It's all up to EIer to leave
the Ohio River free for passage. for
If the Reds should blow the Champion
ship now the fall of Babylon will be
merely an incident in the current his
tory Of the fairly well known worlo,