Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-07 | Page 14 | "Didn't we have Him Onct?" Asks Sox Fan. Ya Did, Ya Couldn't See Him Then, An' Ya Sure Can't See Him Now

"Didn't We Have Him Onct?" Asks Sox Fan. Ya Did, Ya Couldn't See Him Then, an1 Ya Sure Can't See Him Now with both Williams and Eiier apparently in their best form and likely to pitch each ' other to a standstill, with one run enough : to win. The Sox had an opening in the 1 very first inning, when Leibold walked and went to second on E. Collins's rap to Kopf, on which Eddie perished. 1 The Sox obtained what might easily: have proved the break of the game, just such a break as the Reds have seized for most of their victories. W-eaver's sharp hit to Eller oozed away from hia glove and Buck was safe at first with Leibold on third. A Chicago paper would say Jackson and Felsch failed in the pinch. From the Reds' viewpoint; Eller, by masterly pitching, pitch-ing, closed the opening. Playing Jackson Jack-son to three and two, Eller forced him to pop a tall fly which -Groh smothered, while Felsch was forced to hit a perfectly harmless fly to Neale. Thus ended the only real opening the Sox had all day long to gather any tallies tal-lies off their one-time recruit. Just as Dutch Reuther by his pitching and batting beat the American league champions, so Eller produced the break of the game which started the Reds on the way to victory. When the break came, the Reds were there just as they have been all through the series, making comparatively few hits, but making them all count. By HARVEY T. WOODRUFF. CHICAGO, Oct. 6. "Didn't we have him once?" asked a fan in the up- per grandstand of his neighbor, ! just after Hod Eller had fanned ; Williams, Leibold and Eddie Col- j lins in the third inning, after perform--Ing a similar favor for Gandil, RIsberg and Schalk in the second. The conversation con-versation was plainly audible in the press box. "Didn't we have who, and who the is we?" growled the disgusted fan interrogated. . "Why, Eller, of course. Didn't the Sox have him once?" "Yes, thev had him back in 1916; and Eddie Cicotte tried to teach him to throw the shine ball, but Eller was a big boob and couldn't learn anything. At least that's my dope, and I guess it's as good as any spilled by experts that I bet my coin on and lost. Anyway, they let him go." The fan's dope was correct In part, at least. Eller did make the spring training train-ing trip with the Sox -in 1916, having been obtained from Moline, where he had plaved two seasons. The Sox were pretty well supplied with slabmen and Eller barely survived the training trip, being returned to Moline in April. That fall he was drafted by the Reds, and in 1917 won ten and lost five games for the Cincinnati aggregation. Hod's Turn to Laugh. , "Whether or not Cicotte imparted any of the mvsteries of the shiner to Eller may be doubted, but certainly Eller was about the freshest minor that ever came up for trial. If he had been a freshman at college, col-lege, he was the type who would be hazed. He was not offensive, except as freshness is always offensive to a seasoned sea-soned player. Instead, he was the butt of all the jokes it was possible to pull, including "snipe shooting." If the Pox made a joke of Eller in 191R, he certainly returned the favor and then some in the fifth game of the series. They were just as helpless before his sailer as they had been before Jimmy Ring's fast ball on Saturday. That the White Sox should be held to six hits in two games, two of which were scratches, by a fast ball pitcher and a sh'ne ball artisan, seems ainiost unbelievable, but thev were, and that's all there is tn it. The game started an airtight affair