The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-09
CINCY CITIZENS WILD AS EVERY ONE CELEBRATES
Show Pride in Bill Me- Kechnie- Waited Long
 for World Honor
BY JOE WILLIAMS

AloPpC11Cu 1OA CA4C pCobs AAG 9NdtAOAAaA | League had been victory starved for six years, and now the balance of power has been destored somewhat. | The Tigers scarcely deserved to win. They were shot with mediocrities | and were startled to find themselves | even in the series.
 The good people out here were en- titled to a break. You'd have to be out here to realize how deadly seriously they take baseball and the Reds.
 This is a fine healthy thing in a community and merits its reward. We have seen wild series celebra- tions in St. Louis, Washington and Detroit but nothing to match the hysterical hoopla here.
 It started on the field when the redleg players boiled out of the dugouts and literally mobbed Paul Derringer the instant he got the last Tiger out. It extended through the stands where the customers hugged one another in emotional madness. Women cried, tore their handker- chiefs and wrlIng their hands.
 Our telegraph operator passion ately exhorted the Reds all during the game, iumpiro up and down when one of the Reds made hit, grooming mirerably when one of the Tigers did the same. In the seventh when the Reds got their two runs he simply went berserk and we aren't sure yet whether our epic ever was tapped out over the wires.
 Meantime downtown Cincinnati became a bedlam. Coils of ticker tape spun down on the streets from office buildings. The main streets overflowed with people blowing horns and waving Red pennants. Traffic was frozen solid. Street cars and busSes crawled through narrow lines of packed humanity at a snail's pace. It took an all-time all-America fullback to crash through the hotel lobbies It was Armistice Day, New Years Eve and Election night damned into one.
 Happy People
 We never saw a more tumultuous demonstrations or happ 1T people. It is almost impossible to describe the sheer joy they radiated. Lock- ing at them you realized what a frightful blow 1t would have been to them if the Reds had lost. It would have taken something out of their lives and the community itself for weeks.
 Call it small townish if you like, but we maintain this capicity for emotion over such a relatively un- important thing as Q ball game is a healthy thing. Where this quality exists among the citizens you won't find many political crack pots or any civic neuroses. People who can live and die with the fluctuating fortunes ia ball club are very likely to think this is a damned good country.
 Moreover, the good people have a perfect right to feel proud of Bill McKechnie's team. You wouldn't call 1t great team as measured by some standards set in the past. not ably the Cardinals of 1894, but if anyobdy tries to tell you 1t isn't a game team, call an officer. There's no quit in the Reds. They came from behind three different times in the series to win.
 They won because they are bet ter team and had better reserves. They had the pitching bulge and the defensive edge. They didn't have any big hitters but they got the most out of their little hits. Bucky Walters and Derringer made the celebrated Tiger sluggers look foolish. Along toward the close they had Greenberg and York feel ing happy if they could get even singles =. and these are the two fellows, along with McCosky, who had been murdering American League pitching all year.
 The Reds had secuted the Tigers well. You could tell that by the way Walters and Derringer pitched to the big hitters. Either they are better than American League pitch CTS or else they are smarter. They certainly proved that the big hit ters could be pitched to, and that's what won the series. When you tie up pitching smartness with pitch ing skill you've got something, brother, and it isn't mess of cot tage cheese, either.
 No Defense
 The Tigers went as far in the series as it was possible to go. They carried the fight up to and through the final game. They just didn't have the pitching or the ability to make double plays. They were weak through the vital center slot. You must be tsrong from the plate through the infield on out to center field to be good. The Tigers weren't. It was Newsom who kept them from being routed. The veteran 30 30 was magnificent figure through out the series. If he had gotten any help from the hitters yesterday, he might have made good his auda- ciously gallant effort to win his third game with only one days rest. York was particularly horrible. When the chips are down this bird Is just another Humpty Dumpty. He famed seven times.
 It was an interesting series even If It did have many moments or suffocating dullness. First 1t went seven games and that hadn't hap pened since 1884. When the pitch ing was good 1t was brilliant. The ganlse Walters, Derringer and New som turned ifi were tnconimonly iin- prewlve. Nobody ever played third base better In any series than Bill Werber and Jimmy Ripple made e catch in the outfeld that was un- bellevable.