Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-09
Moran Must Win to Preuent
Ohio Riuer From Be,
coming Choked With
Bodies of His Admirers
DOPE RISES AGAIN
BY GRANTLAND RICE

thCdBO, oct. ".
TN A gray and ghostly drift of hur-
l. ried shadows, thousands Of detected
figures last night could be seen in Gin
cinnati practicing quick starts in the
general direction of the Ohio river.
The spectral line is growing in end
less length; and if Hod Eller and his
hope saving shine ball don't roll back
the surging White Sox tide here today
this purling Ohio stream will soon be
clogged with floating bodies. who, in the
anguish of the moment and the heart
break of the hour, have committed
brodie to end the agony forever.
Between the highly fashionable hours
of and y. IN. on Tuesday afternoon
the Reds were within one lone base hit
of being champions of the world.
This lone blow was all that separated
them from the proudest title of the old
game. Today they are on the verge of
panic, with their big lead cut down to
one game, most of their pitching stall
blown to pieces and the abiding knowl-
edge that if Hod Eller cant stem the
rush the Sox will be champions of the
world by tomorrow night.
The done. crushed to earth. will rise
again. You can keep it choked for a
day or week but you cant keep 1t
chOked forever. The Sox looked to be
the class before the series opened and
the Sox again looked to be all the class
in yesterdays battle. "If we can only
get by Slim Sallee we will be world $
champions by Friday night" remarked
Kid Gleason, as he sent his platoon III
for second cOunterattack.
In the seventh battle of the hectic
series the Sox hot only got by Sallee
but their big bats drove him in roW
from the hill before the fifth inning
had passed. And while the Sox were
clubbing Sallee to- death as Eddie Cicotte
held the Reds in easy check, less than
20 900 Red fans sat moodily around the
half filed park and watched their ma
chine wrecked at home for the second
day in succession.
Only Faint Applause
o, what a fall is this, my country
men, only twenty four hours ago the
greatest crowd that ever swarmed into
Redland field was cheering the. Reds and
their four run lead But as the surging
breakers changed from Red to White,
the big crowds faded out and the roar
ing chorus sank to the faint applause
of the half beaten.
The pitchers that stopped the Sox
SO handily through the early drive are
now being dismantled. one by one and
group by group. Kid Gleason rushed up
his heavy howitzers on Tuesday in to
blow away Reuther and Ring. Iester-
day he switched his range against
Sallee and before the barrage had lifted
the Higginsport sheriff was battered
mass, human replica of, the outer
forts of old Verdun.>
The games battling psychology turned
against the Reds when they faltered on
Tuesday. BY all the standards of fifteen
years on Monday night with four victor :
les registered they would have been
champions of the game.
Reds Detected
That haunting thought seemed to
seize upon t cir imaginations on Tues
day when they began to slip and they
have never looked like the same bal
club since. In this seventh game il
was the Sox who strobe TO battle with
all the confidence of victorious pha-
lanx. 1t was the Reds who took the
field soggily and without dash, beaten
in advance. They seemed to know that
Sallee was due for his at last, and
Cicotte, premier pitcher of the Ameri !,
can League, was not to be humbled
three times in row.
This vast detection slipped from the
moody athletes to the half filed stands
where all involved except the SoS
seemed to be waiting for the worst.
b beIOre II DILL WAS lHToWh SOu CDulu Sct
the Reds homes were not centered upon
SdlIee in Cincinnati, but upon Hod
Filler here. 1t was up to the shine
ball and if the Sox knock the CLEAN
from it's folds today, countless dredges
will be needed to make the Ohio river
navigable after tomorrow night. For
it will be the greatest upset that sport
has ever known if you take your start
from the fifth round of the sixth game.
Cinch for Sox 81
Yesterdays battle was a cut and
dried cineh for the Sox from the time
Shane Collins. the first man up, touched
Sallee for single and crossed on Jack
sons smash to left. Sallee barely
escaped further disaster then and there
but his ancient cunning saved him
until the third. when Shane Collins
again opened with hit and lusty sin :
gies by Eddie Collins and Joe Jackson
all the Sox needed with Cicotte stalking
steadily across the bent necks of tbs
Red tribe.
In the fifth the Sox tide surged
through the Red infeld with roar
when Eddie Collins singled again an,
both GrOh and Rath booted easy
chances, leaving Hap Felsch in the po
sition to drive two additional runs
across the plate and make the eight
game n certainty.
With Sallee driven in retreat to tn,
bcsky dell. Moran called on Ray FisheI
for one round and then fell back OF
eLuque, the sprightly Cuban, who in hi
four cantOns stopped the Sox with on
lone blow. While turning in this highl,
creditable display the Cuban also famed
five men, with Eddie Collins, Bucl
Weaver and Hap Felsch included. Blu
the snappy little Cuban had arrived to-
late to save waning cause. The bf
shadow already had spread above TIN
field, and his mates were no longe
counting up the winners end.
Figuring Losers Share
They We're already beginning to GU
away few luXuries they had decide,
upon on Monday night, and their com
plete detection left no chance for an,
final rally. They nicked Cicotte TO
a run in the sixth, when Groh double,
and Duncan singled, but this was thei
last display of force.
A feeble rally opened the ninth, whicl
Cicotte quickly suppressed after puttin
the field under martial law. All toll
he held the Reds to six hits, but these
in the main. We're badly scattered, an,
he won without being forced to worl
at top speed.
The Sox today have tradition to bac
them up Some seven years ago the
opened with two drawn battles. agains
the Cubs and then lost thes next thFe
straight. Out of five games they ha
failed to produce a victory. But wit
tbair hroad hacks to the wall thew sud