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Show eTie Laps ' mi n SEAT Dutch Greatest Man in America; White Sox Not Discouraged, By HARVEY WOODRUFF. CINCINNATI, Oct. 1. Walter Reuther. by occupation a southpaw baseball pitcher. Is a hero in Cincinnati tonight, in comparison com-parison with whom Prosidont Wilson, Governor Cox, Mayor Gal via or Garry Herrmann, his employer, aru not to bo mentioned in the same breath. "Reuther day" was celebrated at Red-land Red-land field thU afternoon and Heuther put on almost the entire show himself, thoro-by thoro-by endearing himself to all except a few hundred of tho 30, 00 spectators. Hecauaa Iteuther was the direct meana of Put Momn's crew taking tho first of these world's series gamea and of beating the mighty and feared Cicotte, Cincinnati's baseball population, embracing the entire community wince the winning of tho National Na-tional league pennant, is fired with wild enthusiasm and confidence tonight. Where the confidences heretofore had seemed partly hope, and only partly re;U conviction, the partisans of the Redn now consider ultimate victory only a matter of how many games. From their viewpoint, the conclusion Is logical, for they solved Eddie Cicotte, White Sox ace, and drove him discounted from the slab In less than four rounds. All Honor to Reuther. These Reds earned their victory so easily that the "If s" and "breaks of tha game" will sound more like excuses than anything else to those who did not see the contest. Let us first give the Reds their meed of credit and then consider the effect upon the chances ot the Sox. In giving credit to the Reds Just consider con-sider that every member of the team played up to the expectations and then revert to Reuther. With his control, hia change of pace and his curves and tha greatest of these was control Reuther net the Box down so effectively that the visitors vis-itors to these parts should not have scored a run. So much for his defense. Then, turning the reel, it was Routher'a clout which broke up "the baseball game, as Mr. Sanborn has told you in his story. It was Reuther who made three hita and had a walk in his other journey to the plate for a perfect batting average. What sort of fellow, then, is this modern superman, super-man, who in one day has earned a place in the hall of fame beside those Cincinnati baseball heroes of fifty years ago? Normal Young Man. Reuther is a perfectly normal young fellow, 26 years old. He smokes, drinks in moderation and goes out o' nights. He is married and is good to hia wife and his folks. He lives on the Pacific coast, and it .was there while attending a Catholic Cath-olic college in 1913 that he first saw a White Sox uniform. Against those Sox of six years ago Reuther pitched an exhibition game for his college nine and held them to two hits, one of which came in the tenth inning and was called a home run by the umpire, although the scribes present thought it was a foul. Pittsburg had him that year, but he did not last. Later he was with the Salt Lake club, and the Chicago Cubs secured him in 1917, later selling him to the Reds. Reuther served in the army at Camp Lewis and pitched for his camp team, winning win-ning forty-two of forty-seven games. Critics here say he came back a better pitcher than he went. He looked it today, to-day, although Kid Gleason says he never will win another game from :he Sox. Whether Reuther will or not. he waa the object of the utmost solicitude on the part of his teammates. After each inning, in-ning, and when he came to the Reds' bench after his long hiis, he was hustled . to a seat, while reserve players swung towels before him to create a breeze, just , as champs are treated between rounds In their big prize fights. Sox Not Discouraged. So much for Mr. Reuther and what he did to the Sox. Now for the future. Are the Sox discouraged? They are not. White Sox players and White Sox partisans parti-sans have a more wholesome respect for the Reds. This respect is probably Just what the team needs. It should arouse a fighting spirit. If, perchance, the Reds should win again tomorrow, however, the faces of Chicagoans would be drawn down a little lit-tle longer and they would lose some of the cocksureness which has not been seriously seri-ously disturbed oy the disaster of this afternoon. |