The Washington herald., 1919-10-08
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Little White Sox Southpaw
Again Hurls Chicago to
Victory, Landing Uphill
Overtime Game 5 to 4.
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Little Dick" gave a rare exhibition
Of pitching. The dangerous Roush
went out on q grounder to e. Col
lins. Pat Duncan, the young South
ern Lacquer. raised a towering foul
behind the plate. hitting the first
hall pitched. Ray Schalk gathered
II in Collins threw out Kopf and
the game was over.
sloppy Baseball
It was a sloppy sort of baseball
game from the standpoint of tech
nique. perhaps. but IL was one IF
the most exciting of the series. In
cidentally. IL was the first game Of
the series which has gone into extra
Innings.
Felsch got q single in the fourth
after two were out. but was left, as
Sandi's bounder was easy for Kopf.
NeaIe'. Hit Long.
Neale hit what would ordinarily
have been a single to right in
the Reds fourth. but ]. Collins
missed a clutch at the ball and it
went tor three bases. Neale would
have had a homer had he kept run
ming. Collins threw out Rariden.
holding Neale to third. Reuther
doubled across third. scoring Neale.
II Just shaved the foul line. Rath
hit a roller to Risberg. who turned
and threw the hall right back in to
Reuther as the pitcher raced for
third Risberg's notion. OF course.
was to put out the runner at wea-
L
The runner scored. m
Rath stole third. Weaver muffing
schalk's throw. which was none too
good Schalk got Jackson's throw
some distance from the plate and
Jagged his man after n great drive.
Reuther Is wild.
Reuther passed Risberg and Schalk
in the SoN side of the fifth at a
moment when it looked as II there
was no use paying any further at
tention to the ball game. The Reds
Infielders collected about Walter and
spoke earnestly to him Then Dick
Kerr got an infield single through
Kopf. Risberg went on down to and
well past third. Heine Groh had a
chance to make an easy play on him
there, but overlooked II. In fact, the
Reds all probably thought The
Sgede" had gone on about his buSi-
ness and scored.
II was hard to get Risberg away
from that bag. however. ]. Collins
Iit a fly to Roush and the Sox short
stop "culd have gone home, as an in
fielder interrupted the throw. but he
III 20. : safe and stuck Finally
r. Collins slugged another fly 10
EoUsh and Risberg went on in after
TIE catch.
Kerr In Caught.
ROush's throw was to Kopf and
kopf discovered Kerr wandering be-
tween first and second and tagged
him out. II was a bit OF a bone on
The part of the Sox pitcher. but
rttchers are not supposed to be bril-
liant base runners
In the sixth Weaver started of by
dropping one of those Texas
Iearuers" in back of third. between
Neale and Kopf, and it went for a
two-basger and presently Weaver
scored on Jackson's smash across
second. just out Of Kopfs reach.
Reuther was plainly not the Reu-
ther of the opening game and Pat
Moran had a riGht-hander warmed
up back of the right field foul line
Felsch pounded out a two-bagger
TO left center. scoring Jackson. Mo-
ran motioned to Reuther and the
hero of the first GENE marched from
The mound as jimmy Ring, the
Brooklyn schoolboy. took his place
Pitches Carefully.
With none out and a man on sec
ond, Jimmy pitched carefully to
Gandil. the big first baseman of the
Sox finally popping to Daubert.
Nopf threw out Risberg and Felsch
moved on to third. Schalk singled
between third and short and FeIsch
scored with the tieing run. Kerr
ended the inning, going out, Groh
to Daubert
Kerr turned Neale's bounder into
\ hit in the Reds end of the sixth
BY DETECTING the ball with his
glove. Collins could have made the
play easily had Kerr let the ball 10.
barrage of handclapping broke
out from the stands as the Cincin-
1ati roCters tried to disconcert the
:iny hurler of the Sox.
J. Collins -ot Rariden's fly. Ring
'anned. Neale was out stealing,
Sehalk making a good throw.