The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-04
RING LARDNER ADMITS HE BET
ON ,EM BOTH TiMES-YESTER-
DAY HE REFUSED TO BET AND
SOx WON-LARDNER SAYS HE
SHOULD HAVE BET ON REDS
AND SCORE WOULD HAVE BEEN
SIX TO NAUGHT.
teY RING w. LARDNER)

Chicago, Oct. Scents, credit If any
for beating the Reds today belongs
Dick Kerr and /. Dick on account
of his pitching and me for not betting
on the White Sox The very instant
1 made UP what is left of my mind
not to lay a bet on Gleason's birds
bowed they could win and If 1 had
of went a step further and bet on the
Reds the score would of been. six to
nothing instead of half that amount
In the place of going up in the press
coop where I would of had to set next
to Bud Fisher or who knows what /
set this time in a box right close
to the White SoX bench and as soon
as the boys come out to warm up
told them I was not wagering which
give them the added confidence need
ed to win. Another advantage of me
setting down there is that l could keep
my ears open and overhear a lot of
witty remarks which certainly would
never happened up in the press coop
even sitting next to Mr.. Fisher. For
instance when Heine Groh come out
to practice a bird in the next box
hollered "Hellow you big egg" which
is certainly a vivid description of
IIeine who is pretty near as big as
Dick Kerr and looks more like a
cucumber than an egg though he
may resemble Mr.. Egg in one respects
namely being worth a whole lot of
money. On another occasion somebody
hit a foul ball out in left field and Pat
Duncan couldn't get to it and bird
setting a couple of boxes away yelled
you couldn't catch nothing you big
bum" Pat is bigger than Heine all
right but I have met him and never
seen any evidents on him that he Is
"a bum and when the man said he
couldn't catch nothing he was telling
a fib about him as l seen him eaten
several baseballs down in Cinciny. So
all and all 1T was very laughable re-
mark and a person can't help from
wondering how just plain fans can
think up thos remarks right on the
spur of the moment like calling a man
bum or a egg. Now you take Charley
Risberg and Jimmie Smith and Heine
himself and, If they had of been call
ing each other eggs or buns, why it
would of been just a laughing matter
instead of them getting all het up
and pretty near coming to blows but
it must of been something else they
was calling each other and I am sor-
ry ] wasn't in a position to hear all
of their conversation so I could tell
you birds what it was all about but
the only remark I heard was when
Hine said to Charley, You viii be
setting on the bench next year." Well
he shouldn't ought to say a thing like
that If he don't know If it's true or not
and 1 don't believe Manager Gleason
has been confiding his plans for next
summer to no Cincinnati bali players
even if Heine is their captain. Be
sides that if / was a ball player !
would rather sit on the bench than
stand out there in the sun and get all
heated so don't see where that would
make Charley sore only on general
principals.
| From where I set could see every
decision Belly Evans made and I'm
| pleased to state that he was right on
every occasion and / wished ! could
say the same for the rest of the UNI
| pires but I wasn't close enough 10
watch them with the naked eye hut
will try and give report on them
later.
1t looked at the start of the battle
| like the Reds was going to try and
play a bunting game on Diclxey and
guess maybe it was because perhaps
they had heard he was the best field
ling pitcher IN the American league
land wanted to find out il it was true.
Towards the finish they quit trying to
hunt and some of them even went SO
far as TO swing their bats all the way
around and hit line drives to the CATCH
er.
| I suppose a great many Of the other
experts will criticise Ray Fisher for
| how he pitched but / will say nothing
Iabout him as I expect to move down
to Connecticut as soon as this only
cost is over and he teaches school
down there in the winter and I might
j meet him some day when he had bis