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Show SHOELESS JOE JACKSON, Sox slugger, who did yeoman's service serv-ice with the bat in third championship champion-ship tattle. Wit as She Is Witted in Old Chi H U M U K. Fans Make Some Original Remarks u M u . H n tt Buck's Unsportsmanlike Treachery BY RING W. LARDNER. V !' fc y ' . ' y i i Ir 41 ', " ' l f ' 1 i - : , j - , iy si l. naw ' Chi, Octp. 3 GENTS Credit if any for beating the Reds today belongs to Dick Kerr ' and I, Dick on acct of his pittching and I for not betting on the White Sox. ; The very instant I made up what is left 1 of my mind not to lay a bet ori Gleason's birds I knowed they would win and if I ; had of went a step further and bet on i the Reds the score would of been 6 to 0 j instead of half that amount. In the place of going up in the .press 1 coop where I would of had to set next to Bud Fisher or who knows what I set this time? in a box right close to the ; White Sox bench and as soon as the boys came out to warm up I told them I was not wagering which give them the added confidents needed to win. Another An-other advantage of me setting down there is that 1 could keep my ears open and overhear a lot of witty remarks , which certainly would never of hap- pened up ih the press coop even setting next to Mr. Fisher. For instants "vhen Heine Groh come out to practice a bird in the next box hollered "Hellow you big egg" which is certainly a vivid description descrip-tion of Heine who is pretty near as big as Pick Kerr and looks more like a cucumber cu-cumber than a egg though he may resemble re-semble Mr Egg in one respects namely i being worth a wlKe lot of money, i ON another occasion somebody hit a foul ball out in left field and Pat Duncan couldn't get to it and a bird setting set-ting a couple of boxes away yelled "You i couldn't catch nothing you big bum." : Pat is bigger than Heine all right but I have met him and never seen any evi-dents evi-dents on him that he is a bum and when the man said he couldn't catch nothing he was telling a fib about him as I seen him catch several baseballs 'down in Cinoy so all and all it was a i very laughable remark and a person can't help from wondering how just plain fans can think up those remarks right on the spur of the moment like calling , a man a bum or a egg. Now you take Charley Risberg and Jimmie Smith and Heine himself and, if they had of been calling each other eggs or bums, why it would of been-just a; laughing matter instead of them getting get-ting all het up and pretty near coming to blows but it must of been something ; else they was calling each other and 1 i am sorry I wasn't in a position to hear all of their conversation so I coult tell , you birds what it was all about but the only remark I heard was when Heine said to Charley "You will, be setting on the bench next yr." Well he shouldnt I ought to say a thing like that if he dont i know if its true or not and I dont believe be-lieve Mgr. Gleason has been confideing his plans for next summer to no Cincinnati Cin-cinnati ball player even if Heine is their captain. Besides that if I was a ball player I would rather set on the bench than stand out there in the sun and get all heated so I dont see where that would make Charley sore only on general gen-eral principals. THE only unsportsmanlike thing I seen - occur was In the 3rd innings when Buck Weaver come up with Collins on first base and the Reds expected him to bunt. He hit a single over Kopfs kopf and I dont know what Cincinnati will thmk of Chicago hospitalitv after that. To square old Chi for that piece of rudeness I will say to the Cincinnati fans who come here with the team and failed to get rooms ..that I noticed thev was a few vacant seats out in the bleachers and I dont believe Mr Comiskev would have any objection to you going out there- nights and sleeping in them. Comeing down to the loop after the game we got a hold of a taxi and the man drove us down Da Salle St and he says "You will notice they is very few cars going down this way." "Yes, sir," said we. "That is why I come down this way," said he. So there is a tip for you motorists namely if you want to keep out of the heavy traffic why keep out of it. I know of no more fitting wav to close than by giveing a report of the inning Luque pitched in pure Cubanola. El Deiboldo whiffoed. Si Si Senor Collins was outo Jako Dauberto to Adlolfo. Bucko Weavero outo Ratho to Dauberto. No Runos. No hittos, no bootos. (Copyright, 1919, by Bell Syndicate.) |