Show I ITS iT'S ALL RIGHT EDDIES EDDIE'S PITCHING AND WIL ILU WIN IN WORLD SERIES White Sox Contented in the Belief That Their Hero Will Crush the Giants By Paul Purman Sept 22 It 2 It took Eddie Eadie C yara and to become a V popular hero f Most of these theBe baseball heroes ere ar born in a aday day day some when they have hate hatt scarcely been heard of before 2 But not so with Cicotte He lIe became a hero just like hike he does everything els 4 by bv persistent effort and the best bast thing thine about it is that the little Frenchman l wont won't admit even to himself that he is a hero But here in Chicago you ou can stop even een evena a sons son's o discussion c latest r f faux of U Mayor laJ pas by Big I mentioning Bill l Thomp 01 Cl- cottes cotte's name J For or to Cicotte m more e than to an any other person h is credit given Io n for putting ln th White S Sox way out on t top fr from which hl l leven even ardent Boston fans will reluctantly admit It will wilt be Quite suIte t some ome little job to dislodge them And it is on Cicotte that th the Whit Sox fans depend mainly to crush McGraws McGraw's Mc Mc- tc- tc Graw's brilliant Giants In a a. short series like the annual classic Cicotte can tC pitch c every other eer day f and around Chicago they believe Eddie t ha baa just the kind of ot stuff that McGraw batting staff will not care ft great reat deal about t What is the secret of Cicotte's 81 su cers In a a. good many cities around this league they will tell 1 you it is t the shine ball or rW r Ug fn J which h is giving I him remarkable success In Chicago they declare its it's because h his he has the stuff Cicotte himself believes It is due to hard work and hi his hta long decade-long study of opposing op op- posing batters It Is undoubtedly a combination of the last two with the possibility of the first having something to do with it H. Cicotte undoubtedly has the stuff on the ball Whether he gets this from the he shine ball or not is relative relatively unimportant ant now Around the circuit they say nay 11 It is impossible for a pitcher to be doing dOing- what Cicotte is doing doing- at 3 35 without ut some come artificial aid ald Cicotte and his teammates teammates team team- mates naturally n arent aren't talking about the shine ball Be that as it may Cicotte has won twenty-three twenty games so EO far this year more than any other American league pitcher and to do that he must must hava have ability whether he uses a a. shine ball au PS p y not Much of ot Cicotte's is undoubtedly due to his study of opposing batsmen Then The has 1 probably abl b been no pitcher h in base base- me cue exception 01 ot Matthewson hI who gave ve so O much h of ot his attention t to this Naturally studious Cicotte scarcely ever grooves es the ball for an opponent and usually is able by his uncanny control control con con- to place it where he knows the batsman is w weak ak It js is indeed strange that Cicotte should have his be best t season after a decade or more of rather unprepossessing seasons easoM but there is nothing meteoric about Eddie Ed Ed- die and there is no question that he has hall hs been greatly underrated in the past In his entire career with wills the Red and White Sox Cicotte has allowed an average of ot 21 earned runs run per r game an accomplIshment which few of the more brilliant pitchers in elter eiter league las has achieved There is nothing erratic about Eddies Eddied That la is why when hI his name is announced d to the stands Chicago breathes a sigh of Qt relief sits back easily in the I seat eat and says Its all right Eddie EdlIe will do tie it it |