The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-09
WHITE SOX REFUSE
 ID BE COUNTED OUT
Pat Duncan Drives in Only Run Reds Make-Sox
 Hit Like Fiends
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Hy Astoct&teu Ffess Cincinnati, October 8.-Win- ming today's game against Cin- cinnati, 4 to 1, the recently de- jected and all but hopeless White Sox of Chicago now con- sider themselves real contend CTS for the worlds baseball championship.
 The series now stands four games for Cincinnati and three for the Amer ican league leaders. Tomorrow weather permitting. they play in Chi cago. The athletes of the pa1lid hose took the train tonight jubilant at tho manner in which they have snatched chance victory from what seemed certain defeat. and were determined that the eighth contest, played on 1eir own familiar real estate and cheered by their loyal following. will see the series tied up.
 The serio- comic assair of yesterday was succeeded today by real baseball. lnG flSltOfS cATucu lWO VI tuCiA ttAh~ lies by conscientious workmanship. and this was enough to win. The other two came partly oy the grace of the Reds errors. Four misdeeds were charged against Garry Herrmanns athletes and but one against tho Co., miskey entry.
 Cincinnati trotted out pinch pitchers, pinch batters and pinch runners in n n behind. as the Sox did yesterday. but all to no avail
 The Reds used three pitchers, Sallee, Fisher and Luoue. and another pitcher. Rcuther appeared as an emergency batsman Despite the array of huvl- CTS, the Sox accumulated 10 hits. while the National leaguers were able to pole out but seven.
 CICOTTE IN FORM
 EdSie Cicotte. who was driven from the Lox in the first game of the series and lost his second game because his teammates couldn't hit anything. came into his own in this afternoons at traction He exhibited control, speed and judgment and his comrades played with a confidence. properly tempered and qualified by recent severe les sons, and dash that reminded their clientele of their best rnid-season form The narrevvfnG of Cineinnatfs
 msrgin of victories eapsed serious
 consideration of the possibility of a ninth game. Cincinnati won the toss taken fnsmediately after to- days enxaxene.t and the deeid- the contest. if Chicago evens thin<s up tomorrow. will be played here next Friday. Preai-
 S~nt John A. Heyaler of the Ma tionaI league tossed the coin and MT. Herman Guessea 1t would be tails, and tails it was.
 For the first time in tho series ma,sr seats were vacant. due. it was said, to the general belief that seats would be difficult to obtain. Everybody ex- pected that everybody else would be ahead of them and the result was a ha1f crowd in the left field bleachers. rnanv vacancies in those in the right and little unpopulated matches even in the grandstands Usually the official attendance figures are ready during the game. but A'shalf hour after the last out today none were at hand and it was announced that they would not he ready for an hour. Just what went wrong was not stated. but it was not because the crowd came too fast to be counted.
 A stiff wind was blowing from cen fer field across the plate during the struggle. When the Sox came on .he field the band. which on the Rcd grounds always has some little mus ical sarcasm at hand. played "She May tCentinsea sa Fase Eleven)