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Show PITCHING BIG Veteran Writer Compares I Strength of the Rival Hurling Corps. j ! ; By I. E. SANBORN. Tr'ibLr.e Special Service. CHICAGO, Sept. 27. Hitherto pitching ! next to luck lias been tiie dominant i factor 5n determining t'.e location o a ! -rrorld's pe:;nant and previous post-sea- ; ' dot. dope has deit I'redomir.ant'y on,; 1 the prospective occupants of the s'.b. j j This -was forcibly true in a scven-Eama j ! series and it remains to be seen what cf- : ! ice the lengthening of the world's series (will have. Although the addition of a , ! possible two g-amt'3 is comparatively in- i 1 significant, it will reduce by that propor- ; lion the po-.ver of Pame Fortune and vU ; j increase the chances of the players who J ; do not piLch to determine t:"j issue. j Will Show Them. I When thfi decision to lengthen the world's pennant contest to five out of ; nir.e games was announced the imri.edi- i ate i:r pre?s-ioii was that Garry Herrmann ' h a d rut something" ovt-r on Charles A . : Co.niirsey. because the Reds had a better 1 balan e d p i t c h i n g f t a : f t r. a n the W h i t e Sox. Manager Gieasn quiehiy spiked that ! fcLippoition in his characteristic -a ay. t " T ! . oy eay I've got n n y two p i ten c ra . I That's "a joke, as I whl thow then,; but if it wer- true. Isn't it a cinch that two pi;chera cou'.d win f:,-e out of nine games j j easier than four out of sven, bc-ctuse 1; I couid z.vo them ir.-jre rest between I car.ies?" 1 ; "'everthcless. the hurling will cut a de- j i terminin;? factor in the coming contest i i between the White .Sox arid the Reds, ad- ; ri:it:-g that the lenr -:-r:c-s ill give' ; the et:,ers rn the competing teams or. pur- j tunity to assert tlit-:i ?:v( ' C!enson v :. b;-nk larce'y on the two men v.io have dehverc 1 the god. for him (consistently p h t h-e y. j r H-uc'e Cicoite ', and Clauue Vi!hams. Thv have ber. ; the to aces of his s'ah staff since the j American iea-ue rac hegyn and have 1 p;tch--d :n a bier majority of thy gam.es I the Vh.It Sox have v en. Kerr and James Reserve Men. 1 Bark o them in th- f:-s-. line of r-i r-i serves vTl he T.rk Krrr ar.d B:er fcih. ' Jmi?, both of v.-h.om ha'. e pre t-d strong ! factors in tre ?e ;e race. Feside? tiiese i four slahmen. fjr- aon w: have c . icible for duty in t'a hno:: d-rby Red Faber. Gro'-e- Lowderr.h.k, hhskine Mayer, Jack fc"-h;:v:i:i and Roy Wi ki-.s-om Of thee the f i r 1 t r. r e e c a . i be defended on for gcod ser:c as hfesavers. j Fabtr. who was the hcr of the :S17 ' s-Ti- . '.l'h th- G i t not th- j stti.-r.cth. to work a fuh nin-inning game, las v as k rronstrate 1 on the i:J.?t eastern f;p. bni i.e ra:i hor t!.?M acro-s the t. 'at.-- 'rr a lew ro..;- a? f-'is: and a. ! -:ft'-t;f'.v as 7..e .-a:ne is t"ie of I Muy-r. v " ;Lkr- :th..r. is susce:: ti ie to ore bad mr.'.nr in a can:. R-ow d-. 'f: i'.u s t h. e st . f to s tor any t attack t. e Ro- n : y dt-vlop. and in.-iy I 'tr:r-- wnrmTv-ntlv a a hf-a-r. !f t h j Moraiiri p- t hold "rf -.vhat the f:rs -tr:ng I : re n-: !.k.'".v t-- fl-ur-- this far except j !'t a u--.-; t.-ratt c:r.i rs . ncp. Beat Salee in 1917. I P.vt 'o-n v" -Vrmi on f::r first-( first-( p;-,:.c ;:t. :h e-. S.ihe- Rt uther and I H!:,;, in : h p ro b.i bm t y. v ; .1 rh--..-r and I . j In rs-Tve. t"fj l-ii'-r an.d ! Ring ure riglit-hand-d and Fah.ee a:vi i Rnt'.-.vr pit -h :"rc-;-i ir.e south f:de of t:.c Lshi'v The Vhite Sox ae not a Wt-, Wt-, httn.de u.:t fit, a' d it n.nk.s h.tt'.e differ- :.(. to ihey.i ; th cr t'n-y f.t. e r.orth-I r.orth-I a ws s -::'.hna'A . N v". t-rt heiess t.u y ; t ;.-c: .-"ah. e to c:ve them : -e toncr.es. ir :;n. r.t cf th-- lot. and t.'-.y btat l:.:v. i"i I'VT, u:.-u he worked tor McGraw an.ns. , Chit'a J--. I i : hr r' s p i'""'"'ss is r r .-r t ed cm eral y t r ! ;. );-,s ab". ity to in.!;e the bail I do f uiny m :nt. J:.e i :d to hr. t- a cr. at-r .nir-rn.ind of t.ic 3' n e bah thtn ' Ti C;i-f-. v : i 1 redite J v. ith its ' :n ntn n. T:: v : . i ; S-',,: ha e had to I e.f--e "it 1 the Fame k'.r.l of sU::f ah sni-j sni-j s..n .:!! t :a-. :: c: a -.:: st setrai o: t:te ' teair.. !n their own h..-,.n j K.;:t'-.'-r and R:n wh', bo prohh-:ns I wnah the 'heasn.- w hi have to solve as ' t: v.- 1.0 alone. Tl y f.icd the latter last j s; in an e hihit ". came a r. i Imd t.o ; trcn. e at ah, i.nt a world's se:h-.s is d.:-' d.:-' f rmt. Slabmen Rank Ili.h. F:.-'i r 1-j no tr.ir.cr to the White Pox. Hit v have faced him in former se.i-h.os se.i-h.os wi.ile. l.o was n men. her of the Van-k Van-k s. I .uq-ie :s not oxpeetci to cut a w 1 pm .i '. h Mi : ::c sie-le., 1 -,.t tl'.e ( ;ect. d rrav ha ;") n. ! is no: hke'y Mo-' Mo-' ; : i ",aVt lo ea'.l on Ures;er tr M.te.- e.l. hut H he i,e-i. bo' h ii.ro fa:n!'.ur to Die W'-.iie Sox. All t!a year it has he-vi tl",l t'.at t'O further t'.'o V.'Lte Sox wa-nt ilie better Ibf v wi e in the nutter of s :z:::c i:p pivh. rs. Any a nd n'.l of t':c nod '., irh rs J y j i:rle ti:e O'caMT for :t speli. Kit j if t. .-v Y.ic any fa'.'.'.t-; t' onio ews on ' t h eon .-M pit lines :.:.d m tlio dugouts , i;l d.scov ', them. (, 'b '.m'is'.v t'ae i-'.ab:-.'e:i of bnt:i tear.s Ira;1'., i.ic'i in i'.c m';co-'? records i' :ho ' matter of tames won and 'o. t. Tcr wo-jM not do ot at twim on teams wliich 1 :a r ! w uit t he jh n.r.a nt s In t h ir rested Ivo h-acues. t" p f.T; rnat e'y, there is no d po lavnil.ih.o on th of left ' venes? of the ' p ! t c b e i s hv .-b ; c b , ,1 j : d ce whet h o r v" r ! not t -;r Pi:cce-s 1'as been dne to f'elr pit mine or to the mttacl; of t:-,eir tvnn-s. j Thrt Whit S-x huriers hnvo had to fac more rchh Kitter.5 dnrimr thn fci.son than Ihe It lis' f.incer." liave. That is nio-matic nio-matic bevawe there have hen only three trnm: In the rnnn'mr In t hp National j lca.:nc nil the year, whi'o there hnve been 1 six ha:d teams to bc.it in t ho Ann; : i.'an. |