Show 1 BOSTON MAY HAVE HAVES I S f ITS RUTH BUT REDS HAVE A Former Salt Lake Left Hander Is Talk of Hour in x Cincinnati Red Town Willing to Hand Him Anything for Asking Today Rice Bet Believes Ber Be- Be r 1 t Moran Men Have Secured I 4 Important Jump on Sox I I f i By Grantland Rice I Telegram m Special Service I TI Oct 2 Kindly Kindly insert this classic r i phrase on the sporting scroll of a winning season season i Boston Boston may have her Ruth but Cincinnati 1 I has her Reuther Between the immortal strain I the star is more Reuth-er Reuth than Ruthi Ruth i iI i 1 I i It was Reuther yesterday who struck off I r J two triples a single and a walk in four trips to toi i the plate It was was also also Reuth Reuthers Reuther's rs r's willowy left arm that held the slugging White Sox to three clean blows and three filmy blue scratches I-a I It was wa Reuther who stalked into the spotlight spotlight spot- spot I light supposed to be held in close reserve for liddie Cicotte an and l in the thep p presence of f astonished persons I 1 eld ld Collins Jackson Weaver and Felch to one scrawny scratchy Single ingle For the greater part of four innings Eddie Cicotte tIle the American league premier gave Reuther an an even battle but in the dlos spasm of the four with the count even at t 1 and 1 1 the Red attack tta k broke down Cicotte's defense and drove him to the shower with one of the fiercest onslaughts that any single in inning inning in- in I ning fling of a world series has nas ever known i r Man by man the Red guards j I stepped up and drove the best that Cicotte had to give from one one part of the field to another Continued on page 3 BOSTON MAY HAVE Continued from page paSo 2 But the bi big cavern arrived d when Dutch Reuther stepped up two on and hammered the first of of his two triples triples' far f r beyond beyond be be- yond Chicago reach This was the blow that broke broke up up the battle bat I tle tic gave Cincinnati the jump game and turned the Reds Reds- from fromI forlorn hopes to red hot favorites favorites favorites favor favor- I ites at 8 to 5 The ball club I winning the opening scrimmage I has ultimately triumphed on no noless noI noless I less than thirteen occasions The only two clubs that ever lost the tile I first are the tIle Philadelphia Athletics of I 1911 2911 On all aU remaining occasions the tile I team that won the opener galloped safely safe safe- ly h along to a II certain triumph The not only won the tile jump game yesterday esterday but they won von it in the tue most decisive fashion that any any first game has ever been won before They won by bv a margin of ot 9 S to 1 1 and nd they outplayed the Othe the White Sox in every department by the same margin They not only slaughtered 1 j Kid Gleasons Gleason's best bet within four In InI Innings In In- I flings but they continued the merry ju juI jubilee lu- lu bilee of swat against Wilkerson and I I Lowdermilk running up a juicy total of ol fourteen hits for twenty-one twenty bases I The White Sox were out- out pitched and outfought For after that first rugged attack the great Chicag machine lost all heart and faded from the tile field Dizzy and dazed dazed foundering foun foun- derin dering 8 and d reeling it looked like Willard Villard Willardin in the second round taking a world of punishment but offering nothing but feeble feeble feeble fee fee- ble and forlorn thrusts In iii return WENT TO PIECES It is hard Ilard to imagine a great machine so hopelessly outclassed for even one game For after the Red tide began to surge forward in that fourth inning there was nothing left to the game but a Red stream around the bases ad a weary flutter of white legs up to plate and back to the bench While Reuther was the big star of the day with his great speed his fine curve I ball his superb control and his Babe Ruth RuthI batting he was not the tile lone factor in I Redlands Redland's opening triumph Moran Sloran sent gent genta a machine e to the tf f field that t gave e el the l e tall tail I southpaw o eb b brilliant t support p with t the I lone exception n of Kopf's double break in the tile second round that gave Chicago a totally total total- ly ty unearned tall tally Both Infield and outfield outfield outfield out out- field pla played ed the game in championship style while the entire team fought with witha a cool and confident courage that was not to be denied Xo No Reuther wasn't the entire Red ned show for there was Ivy Wingo's deadly right arm that broke up the Sox attack on the tile bases within two innings killing Collins and Gandil by a double stride WIngo Ray nay Schalk rated as the great greatest st catcher of the year Then again there was the panther stalking Eddie who roamed around the outfield like a gray ghost with lied legs In the tile pursuit of long high flies files and low rakish liners Rush ush ran down eight fly balls and some of them were ticketed for extra bases until this fleet athlete interposed his classy paws and turned the tide LEAD RED ATTACK Reuther Daubert and Neale led the Red attack with nine telling blows blow evenly evenly even- even 1 ly distributed enough to win without any I further ther help But after all the incidents i ard episodes episode t that hat we have offered here were not the leading features s of a Hed Red tinted afternoon Before the game R-i R lands fans In bulk bull were more than a trifle dubious regarding the outcome They had little hope of beating Cicotte the veteran veteran vet vet- eran who has turned in twenty-eight twenty or 01 twenty rifle victories against such sucil sluggers sluggers sluggers slug slug- gers as Ruth Cobb Speaker and They were hardly looking for a double miracle So in itt that fourth inning with arout an ar out and anti Kopf at bat they had settled down to await the outcome The Red Rec shortstop passed gently to Cl Ci Cicotte otte otle Eddie In place of jumping swiftly for the ball bail took his lime time with all the tue leisure of z a steel striker He lie made no attempt to tc hurry the ball along to Risberg for a sure sur double play and Risberg in turn found th the alert Duncan using his head In blowing blo up ui the play The Red side might here liere have hav been easily retired without a run but there were two out as It was when Neal Nea singled and antI when followed with witt another long blow scoring Kopf The Red ned chorus opened with a whoop of Joy rattled the stands There were two orand on or and two out when Reuther came to batand bat and then the big feature of the day broke from the raving crowd when Ruther Reuther tripled and drove two more over The Tile wild outburst that followed must have filled every valley in tn the tile Buckeye state It was something more than a mere vocal cataclysm being the loud throated heraldry of a second miracle come true For Foras as the two additional Red ned legs cantered cantered cantered can can- over the tile plate and Reuther swept the paths on his way to third there was conclusive evidence at last that the great Cicotte could be beaten and that Gleason's Gleasons Gleasons Gleason's Gleasons Gleason's Glea Glea- sons son's big mainstay was only a few jumps from the cooling shower beaten to toa toa hit a a. pulp if he lIe never allowed another And then as Rath Hath doubled and Daubert singled for additional runs RED FANS GO BUGS The Tite clamor that greeted Cicotte's exit rose in a roar as the big crowd gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered In the full fun of Cicotte's retreat It meant something more than one ball game gameS It meant that Chi Chicago's cagos cago's greatest star had been powerless powerless powerless power power- less to hold the Red drive In check and that in place of being the underdogs underdog the Reds neds stood out with every advantage advantage ta tage e their way For it was Cicotte a and Williams al almost almost at- at most alone who with thirty victories had carried the White Sox through the long seasons season's fight tight And here hero within less than forty minutes th main dependence Inthe in inthe inthe the box had been crumpled into a n. shapeless shapeless shapeless shape shape- less mass slaughtered by a fusillade that sounded like machine gun fire ire beyond the drift of an Argonne dawn Cicotte's amazing failure to lo hold the Reds at bay was not the only depressing depress depress- ing ins feature from a Chicago standpoint The other was that at least one Red ned nedI I pitcher could put an utter crimp in the tile big four four Collins Weaver Jackson and ind Kelsch Ielsch The two base hits this slashing quartette gathered were both puny blows lacking the resounding echo t that hat t follows a lusty whack The tall lIed led left hander bander had them all powerless power power- less ipso I proving again that great pitching can tun an stop hard hitting nine times out of ten len no tto matter who the tile ball players are Al All the way through Reuther w ws s as ase e cool as RO a slice of cucumber lifted from the ice ice He gave no sign of any men- men worry worry- If he was nervous he was i Iso a 51 great actor for he gave no evi- evi U noe of any fluttering at any stage stag of the affray DESERVED SHUTOUT He deserved a n. shutout and but for l Kopf's fumble and wild throw in the hi cond would have retired the hardest Jutting hitting ball club of the American league without a run Mixing his fast ball and his fast breaking breaking breaking break break- ing curve urve with fine control he held his power to the end With Cicotte beaten Chicago's next best bet will be Lefty Williams who will make mae a gallant attempt today to hold Chicago in the fight The Sox have always been hard game fighters and they have not quit They are still a trifle dazed and ancl bewildered but today they are sure to crash back hack in itt with everything they have to offer They will need it now flow The Tue Reds have tasted t blood and amI with Cicotte beaten are confident of cutting their way through within seven games They still have four fine pitchers left while Gleason has but hut butone butone one star on hand Ci Cicotte Cl- Cl cotte otte can get gel hi his bearings again and come back for another start In addition to pla playing great baseball the Reds Red have proved once again that that I they battle In a pinch proved that more than once against the Giants when lIE he he pennant was at stake stale They proved it be beyond ond an any fin final doubt yesterday esterday when they dashed headlong at the Sox Sos and put nut across the first stunning punch They The looked yesterday much as the Braves Draves looked in 1911 a 1911 i-a i a ball club that lifted Itself itself it it- I self above the dope and had made alade tip up- un-i un Its mind to win They had everything yesterday that a n champion needs But today loday toda is alwa always alwa's s another day if jf the Sox ate are to r remain main in the fight the they v must heat Sall Salle Sallee e or Eller r anti and get goIng goIng go Ing log before taps Is sounded above their dreams dream of being the wInners I II I |