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Show Everybody Has Blood in His Eye; Sox Pilot Gets Fighting Spirit Aplenty By CTvITISINBEREY. CHICAGO, Oct. 3.-Flhtln BPl was what tho White Sox lacked in the two games of tho world's series played at Cincinnati, and the thins Boss Gieason demanded of 'J"1 for the third pmo played hero today. Boss C,!w.son got even more than tie had asked for. There was so much ikl inB spirit that once he had to step for ward and prevent possible blows bjt tne Sox won the irame and the south side leader declares that spirit will carry thun throuKh and land thorn the V"a- lt With that old spirit on the team, J I was quite a different outfit than ha heen drassed Into defeat a ""n'?hl times down by the Ohio river. The V. hit e Sox of today were like the White box that knocked Cleveland, the Detroit "fld New York down during the American leiThut spirit, plus tho superb pitching of Dick Kerr, did the business. 'Dlc" hurling was a lot. Ho could havJ8 tfme a ball through a six-inch hole any time during the afternoon. SomatlmeB he hem them over with his deceptive corkocrew curve. Sometimes ha shot a fast one past the batter, and sometimes he handed 'em up with nothing on them but the SI"to''was"a wonderful little pitcher In that game," was the way Manager plea-son plea-son put it tonlsht. "He had control and everything else. He did exactly as ho was Instructed to do, and ho had a fignl-iny fignl-iny ball club behind him. Everybody Het Up. "I like to see that fighting stuff on a ball team. That's tho spirit that makes 'em win. But, you know, there were two or three times in thnt ball same when thero was danser of blows being struck. You would hardly believe that Eddie Collins Col-lins was In a f!Bhtir.R mood, but he was. When Eddlo gets In a fighting mood something Is sure to happen. "Ho would have mixed with Jimmy Smith, too, if necossary. You see, Smith had been saying some things to him, and Eddie got sore, and when he walked across the diamond ho took it up with the kid. Well, I was right there and prevented pre-vented anv trouble. It would have heen bum stuff to have had them mix and got put out of tho game. Smith isn't even playing, and It wouldn't hurt Cincinnati and would hurt us. "Then Jackson and Fisher had a row because Fisher' shot one at Joe's bean, and Joe bunted one toward first base, daring Fisher to go over and cover the bag. Joe was mad enough to have spiked him, too, but nothing came of that. "The funny one, though, was Nemo Leibold. It took a long time to get him to be a fighting ball player, but he's there now. Ho camo walking In from right field once and passed close to Dun-cm Dun-cm and handed him some stuff like this: You lucky bum, you certainly can hit em with tho handle of tho but.' "Well Duncan must have told tho players play-ers on his bench about It, for a little later Nemo was up hitting and struck out and Helnio Groh came back at him with something about lt hoing better to hit 'cm off tho handle than not at all. Nomo walked clear down tho third base line and shot some hot stuff at Groh about having not seen him hit a decent ono yet, and Billy Evans had to cut in and stop the row. i "I tell vou it's spirit like that that makes a ball team win. The gang has that spirit now-and they're going to win, sure. I'm Intending to send Eddie Cicotte right back at them in the next game. He wants to get even for that beating In the first battle, and he is fit to make good, too. Don't ever think there Is anything wrong with him. Ho never was a better pitcher in his life than he is right now, and he won't make any mistakes this time." Pat Remains Tranquil. Over In tho loophole where the Reds are quartered, all was quiot after thu game. Pat Moran, boss of the team, showed no signs of worrying because his boys had been licked, but ho wasn't In the samo confident mood he showed last night when he had two victories and no defeats. "Tho fellows didn't lilt," he said, "and, of course, it takes hits to win games. We didn't have many openings to do any business, and I will have to give that little pitcher, Kerr, a lot of credit for the nice work he turned out. But I don't think for a minute he'll get away with another game like that. We hit some balls pretty hard off him, but not many of them went safe, and wo never could get started in our regular attacking stride. "Howrever, wo have two games won and the Sox have only one. I've got two or three good pitchers yet that they haven't looked at, and I think they will give Chicago a lot of trouble. "That wild throw to second base by Fisher upset everything in that second Inning. Without that, I don't think the Sox would have counted in that round. The three-base hit by RIsborg later on that enabled the Sox to squeeze him home for the other run, should have been held to a single. It took a bad bounce and got past Neale and let Risberg go on. If that had been held to a single thero would have been no run that time. There were two bad breaks against us and both of them proved to be costly. Fisher was a great pitcher, and If he does as well the next time he goes to the slab we will win." |