The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-03
.OPPORTUNE HITS
BIG FACTOR IN
REDS VICTORY
Eddie ROush's Splendid
Fielding Also Stands Out
Prominently.
PRECEDENT AGAINST S0X
Chicagoans Must Set New
Worlds Series Record to
Win Baseball Title.
PRECEDENT AGAINST SOX
By FREDERICK G.. LIEB.
Special Desp1tCh 20 TnU SrN.


land stock on the worlds series ex-
change assembled well above par Pat
Morans husky warriors won by no such
margin to-day as in yesterdays slaugh-
ter. but their to 2 victory was equally
impressive. Though outhit more than
two to one, the Reds did their hitting
when il counted. and hitting in the
pinches wins worlds Sc les games. 1t
was this timely hittng and Roush's
wonderful fielding that stood out promi-
nently to-day.
The White Sox returned to Chicago
Tonight with their backs to the wall.
IL they should win now and regain their
honors of 1917 they will do 1t at the ex-
pense of all worlds series precedent.
No club which has dropped the first anu
second games ever captured the series.
The Giants came the nearest to upset
ting this unwritten worlds series rule
two years ago while playing these same
White Sox, but stubbed their toes after
they had victory within their grasp
There is only one chapter of White
Sox history that Gleasons team may
fall back on for consolation. That IL
the 1912 Chicago city series. In thai
series the Sox played five games with
the Cubs before winning one, yet won
the series The first two games were
ties and the next three Cub victories.
Then the Sox won four straight Only
Cicotte, John Collins. Weaver and
Schalk are survivors of that game out
At Of 1912.
saIIee Realizes Ambition.
Big Slim Sallee at the age of 81 has
realized his life's ambition in pitching
a worlds series victory The weather
was kinder to the leathery old farmer
to-day than when he opposed the White
Sox in Giant livery two years ago Then
it was cold and blustery and the Dig
FELLOW had been rubbed in bear grease 10
keep him warm. He lost both OF his
games in 1917 and went back TO MS
Ohio farm q disappointed athlete.
Long Harry needed no artificial anoint-
inr to-day. The weather continued like
midsummer, and in his third EFFORT
against this biting Chicago crew ne
brought home the bacon. Sallee really
pitched brilliant game. Both runs
made by the White SoX were unearheo
This .2s3 mauling American League ag-
..regation has failed to score an earned
run in the two games.
Red hot American League partisans
say tonight that Sallee was lucky ana
declare that he got all the breaks. 1t Is
true that twice Felsch hit drives as
though the ball was blown from the
mouth of a cannon and remarkable
fielding by the Reds shut of runs. But
il the sox lost runs by these breaks II
cannot be overlooked that a fielding
break by Cincinnati enabled Chicago to
score its two runs. That equalized
things.
saIIee often In Trouble.
sallee was repeatedly in trouble to-
day but that's where the big fellow
shines 1t is nothing unusual for Sallee
to be poked for ten hits, as he was to-
day. and pitch high class game. HIS
string of victories this year was studded
with games in which his opponents made
twelve and fourteen hits and one or two
runs. Sallee now is pitching the kind of
ball that kept Mathewson in the game SO
long. Matty would breeze along with
the tide, and reserve all his strength and
cunning for times of actual danger.
It Is Just necessary to look through the
game to see how Sallee stood up in the
pinches. In the second inning he turned
back Gandil and Risberg while jackson
rested on third. Again, in the fourth
Sallee retired Gandl and Risberg or
easy plays with runners on third and
second Felsch was retired for the third
out with Weaver on third in the fourth
though 1t took the best catch of the Sc
ries by Roush to retire him.
A remarkable stop by Groh III Int
eighth turned back Felsch with Jackson
on second. and clean singles by Gandi
and SchallS in the ninth failed to bring
any runs.
Reds Bamed by Williams.
Claude Williams, ehicago's splendid
little lefthander. opposed Sallee, and
as was predicted yesterday. he stopped
the lefthanded batters of the Reds
Daubert and Neale, who with Ruethel
did most of the hitting in Wednesday,
opening game. were held we'll in check
Daubert failed to get a hit and Neal'
looked bad against Williams until the
sixth, when he drove in Cincinnati'l
fourth run. Prior to that he struck GU
and rolled a puny grounder to second
He had two strikes when he cracked GU
his single.
However, while Williams yielded only
four hits against ten for Sallee. he die
not pitch as good a game as the vet
eran Cincinnati southpaw. Claude haC
trouble with his control all through thu
game and worked very hard on batters
While he yielded only four hits. h,
walked six men and four of his passes
were cashed in at the plate Cincinnati
wasted no ammunition. Three of it
four hits were employed in the scoring
The fourth inning. that magic world
series frame, brought about little VIII
iamss undoing. He tried to work hi
batters in that session but he eouldn'
make them hit at bad balls. OF tn
three men who walked in that franz
Rath, Groh and Duncan each had tire
balls and two strikes when William
pitched over the fourth ball.
williams lost Duncan after he ha,
two strikes and no balls on the new
conner. He followed by giving him fou
straight balls That brought UP Kopi
who usually bats lefthanded but change
to right when lefthander is opposing
the Reds.
KOpf's Triple Scores Two.
The Reds had been playing a waitini
game and Williams evidently figure
Kopf would let the first one 20 BY
Either that or he was tempora rily upse
by losing Duncan after having tw
strikes on him. Anyway. he pitched
straight ball to Kopf waist high. Tn
former Fordham lad met the ball clea,
and sent the sphere crashing to tn
center field fence for three bases, scor
lag Groh and Duncan ahead of hin
Roush earlier in the inning had knocke
IN Rath with his first worlds series hi
That bingle OF Kopf's did the trick. !