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Show FAMOUS SHINE BALL INTRODUCED BY SOX, h COMES HOME TO ROOST Hod Eller Makes 'Em Whiz Past With Even More Zip Than Cicotte at His Best; Chicago's Hitherto Most Dangerous Hitters Go Down Before Moran's Chunky Right-hand Pitcher. a couple of pitchers who could "pitch up an alley." "This F.or ain't a pitcher," some of th Giants u-ued to fay during the run of tho .season. "Ho'h just a thrower." But Kiier was a mighty good pitcher this afternoon aft-ernoon and if you want further testimony on thr; Hubjuct ask the White Sox. Very few people believe that the Chicago Chi-cago White Sox have a chance. The game tomorrow in Cincinnati Is regarded regard-ed as a pure formality. It is possible, of course, that Kerr, the forlorn hope of the Sox, may come through, but you can get enormous odds in Chicago agalnHt the possibility of the Sox winning the series. Charley Rigler. the stout umpire from the National league, came out all alone this afternoon, ahead of the usual pall-hearerish pall-hearerish looking cortege of umpires, and filled his pockets with a lot of nice new baseballs. He was the umpire In chief behind the plate. The other three umpires um-pires arrived soon afterwards and the chic Hilly Evans went behind first, crossed his legs ant? grew there. Nallin was off third and Quigley back I of second. Nallin stood with his hands In his pockets. All the gostlculators ; looked tired. Maybe this is a tough town on umpires. ! "Same ground rules," bawled the one- ! armed announcer, at the same moment confiding the news of the batteries to tho anxious multitude, which today was Just, as multitudinous as Saturday, though later in getting there. Eddie Murphy again got into the series as a pinch hitter. He batted for Williams after two were out in the eighth. He was one of the few Sox batters to look over ihe first ball. He finally fanned. F.rakine Mayer, nicknamed "Irksome," the Hebrew pitcher with the weird underhand un-derhand delivery, who was with the Philadelphia club of the National league for years, took Williams' place. Razzing the Experts. The Cincinnati fans behind the press box began "razzing" some of the "experts" "ex-perts" who had been picking the Sox to win. They gave three satirical cheers for especially well-known sharks. Overcoats showed up at the series for the first time today. It was clear overhead over-head and the sun was shining, but there was just enough of a hint of chill in the breezes to warn veteran Chlcagoans of potential influenza, pneumonia and other ailments to which the lakeside flesh is heir. Another terrific battle of the bands featured fea-tured the hour before the pastime. It was a good, close draw. The Chicago band snatched a sheet from the Cincinnati musicians' rack and, Instead of committing commit-ting sundry jazzes as was its custom before the Ohio outfit came along and almost blew it out of the park with ''The Stars and Stripes Forever," it introduced in-troduced a lot of military musical matter. mat-ter. Chicago led with a hard swing, consisting con-sisting of the "Second Regiment March," the greatest foot-lifting, spine-tingling melody ever written, barring only Sousa's masterpiece. Cincinnati staggered from the blow, but recovered and did a lot of footwork Cy DAMON RUNYON, Special Correspondent of Universal Service. Ser-vice. COMISK KY PA UK, Chicago, 0 t. 6. C.fnn; tile eyes of the Chicago Wl.Ue Kox this afternoon there .'pun a base bail that acted as a t.iing bewitched. A FjM'i'iesi f pitching legerdemain was performed for them In a manner .that left, them a -j dazed and bewildered as an I . audienee before which a great magician ! lias Just exeeutc.d so me astounding feat. The ball came from the hand of Hod Eller, a thickset young pitcher for the 'hie!nn;i! 1 Reds. He seemed no dlffer-t dlffer-t :it from any other pitcher as ho drew back his right arm and lashed the ball toward the Matters with all the stereotyped stereo-typed motions of the mound man approved ap-proved by years of baseball. But the ball, as It went whistling across the brrasts of some of the greatest hitters In the American league, twisted and turned and dipped and dropped In unci un-ci nny f;i shinn and the throaty voice of I "m pi re 'barley Rigler came to the ears of the startled batters, slowly Intoning the striken. It was the- "shine ball," which carried the Chicago White Sox home to a couple of AiTic:ii-an league championships, com-ing com-ing home to roost, for they say Eller rubs tho magic of his pitching into the baseball along the seam of his trousers, alter the manner of Eddie Cicotte of the Sox. Today the young hurling Aladdin of the Reds held 'the Chicago club to three ; hits and shut them out, 5 to 0, in the fifth game of the world's series of 1919. One more victory and the Clnclnnatians are champions of the baseball world. "Tho funeral is tomorrow," bawled an excited fan from the banks of the Ohio at the disconsolate crowd filing out on the field late this afternoon. "No flowers." flow-ers." Given Great Ovation. Eller struck out nine of the Sox. Six of them went down before the strange spoil of his delivery In succession. The 34,000 persons banked around the field sat breathlessly silent as" they watched him In the early Innings to finally leap to their feet In a tremendous ovation. Like Eddie Roush, Kller is a "White Sox castoff. He had a brief trial with the Chicago club some years ago. They sent him away as lacking In ability, experience and about everything else that a baseball base-ball pitcher Is supposed to have. Some-' Some-' t , where in his subsequent wanderings, Eller learned the secret of the shine ball, lie Is a young master of that particular mystery of1 the pitching craft, as Eddie Cicotte, tiie veteran who first found it, sinks into world's series oblivion. A two-bagger by Eller himself started the Reds on their seemingly inevitable one-round rush to victory. That was in the sixth inning. A couple of errors by the Sox helped the Cincinnati men quite a lot, but. in the main, the White Sox around the field with "Semper Fidelia, the great oid march of the marine corps. This was a piece of strategy and the Windy City band was not quite so cheerful cheer-ful when It came back for the second round. Only the points it scored in its opening blast saved it from utter defeat. de-feat. The Cincinnati rooters came in today wearing red arm bands and big chrysanthemums. chrysan-themums. This lent a suggestion of football foot-ball to the proceedings. While the Reds were at infield practice their band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner" and thus inadvertently uncovered many secrets of the club, such as the bald, spots of Heine Groh and Maurice Rath. A Cincinnati bug armed with a horrible police whistle was seated in the upper tier of the grandstand and he made the afternoon hideous with hie noise. The same fellow was there Saturday, but it had been hoped that something had happened hap-pened to him since then. Before the Battle. Adolpho Luque, the Cuban curver, hit the pill to the Red Infield during fielding field-ing practice, giving the newspaper brigade bri-gade from the Pearl of the Antilles another an-other opportunity to work a little work. Pat Moran knew he was going to draw a sidewinder, so he had Rube Bressler and Gerner, his own port pushers, shoving them at the Reds during practice. Old Slim Sallee worked out at first base to keep warm. The weather was seemingly cool, to remind Sallee of his distrustful days of 1917. In starting Elier, Moran was carrying out the policy he decided upon at the beginning of the series. He said he wanted to give all his regular pitchers a chance to get into the big game. Reuthei. Sallee, Eller, Ring and Fisher are what might be called his first-string first-string men. with Luque, Bressler and Gerner in the second line. The first four carried the club during the early stages of the season. Fisher came along late. Luque has also pitched good ball for Moran at times, while Bressler was his left fielder for quite a spell. As It now stands, Moran's club ought to breeze through the National league next season, but then the same thing was said of John J. McGraw's club last fall. The best McGraw's club got was a premium pre-mium out of this series for finishing sec- ' ond. wore outplayed anyway. Claude Williams pitched a great game against Eller. He allowed but five hits. However, a club which canon t score a , run never deserves to win. All the excuses ex-cuses in the world and all the breaks In the luck against a club cannot cover tip a failure to produce a tally. Barring the first inning, Eller held the Sox in Ihe dent of his battered glove. He was going go-ing at. such a tremendous rate in the first few Innings that many people did not believe it possible for him to last 1 the entire game. Eller is a very power- : ful youngster, however, and he closed . just as strongly as he started. New Record Set. : All manner of world's series records were broken in the game today, especially especial-ly In the pitching line. Old Pat Moran's men will receive a pretty reward If they win tomorrow in Cincinnati. This was the last game in which the players have a share. Under the conditions of other years, the Reds would now be champions. cham-pions. Ray Schalk. the great little catcher of the White Sox, was put out of the game today by Umpire Rigler for disputing a decision 'at the plate with too much fervor fer-vor in the heated sixth. The Sox were keyed way up at the start of the game and Schalk's outburst against Rigler was an indication of the tension. Fred Merkle and John J. Mc-Graw Mc-Graw were heavily fined in the world's series of 1911, but no one can recall another an-other expulsion of a player, and especial-' especial-' ly a star such as Schalk. The futility of their hitting against Eller probably had the Sox pretty well steamed up. Ball clubs get that way. Their heaviest sluggers were striking out, popping up, or dribbling weak grounders to the infield. Out on the mound the burly youngster grinned at them derisively, nnd it fs likely that before be-fore the sixth was reached the exasperated exasper-ated Chicagoans could visualize "Hod" with horns and a tail. Kerr Last Hope. Reuther- beat them, Sallee heat them. Ring beat them. And now liller. It was enough to make them sore, especially in view of the fact that they had gone into the series overwhelming favorites and with the assurances that Moran had only |