Show DICK KERR PUTS SOX I IBACK BACK INTO NTO RUNNING I S Little Texans Texan's Good Left Arm Upsets Reds' Reds Dash and nd Lifts Waning Mates Once More Into Thick of Gay and Giddy Skirmish I By Grantland Rice Telegram Special Service h Oct 4 Just t. Just at the moment when the baffled Sox were on the verge of disappearing disappear disappear- ing from the series completely a young left handed Texan by the name of Dick Kerr stepped over the prostrate forms of Eddie Cicotte and i s f Claude Williams and turned the rushing Reds I r oJ inside out Mr Kerr is brief in stature thin of il form young in years light in weight and short I i on worry He is only a trifle larger than the I I J round stick he employed to blow up Red I I i 1 ss trenches But with all aU his lack of physical power and testing experience he carried along the three great reat essentials of success no matter what the game game courage courage brains and skill The star young Texan knew well enough that yesterday was the vital spot upon the Sox highway He had seen the great Cicotte shelled to the shower and the brilliant Williams overt over over- t powered He knew that knew that defeat in the first stand at home meant i utter and rout But in the face of this testing occasion i in front of Red he stepped out I i bats with Hh his pulse pumping a l I normal beat and to the immense joy of some Sox fa fans s II III halted the confident enemy with three scattered hits and no part I of a run 5 5 He triumphed by the count of 3 to Q Q and thereby lifted his I waning mates once more more into 11 I the thi thick k of the gay and giddy I skirmish For where Ray Fisher the veteran faltered but once with a aI I wild and woolly peg to center centerfield centerfield centerfield field that tossed aw away y the game ame Kerr held to the course without a quiver He Ire was was a a. debutante along the Ij world series firing tiring line but he worked out a ball game that will take rank with the master achievements in sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen years of ot world series work Kerr allowed three hits but one of ot these was a a. puny infield scratch and the other two were vere far tar from lusty blows He gave but one pass and as the battle moved along he increased I his effectiveness until through the last five innings ho he had the Reds rolling back in a crimson tide tlde from the plate to the bench KERRS KERR'S DEADLY ACCURACY One by one from his perch In the rifle pit he sniped them in turn as the last fifteen men came to bat and not a one of ot these had an outside chance to get as far as chick Gandil's GandUs station only ninety feet teet away aay Only two Reds weds reached second none reached third and after atter the third Inning Kerr permitted but one colored butt blow I The young Sox star wasted no time lime In poses or in vain and unseemly motions He Ile seemed to understand that his Job was wall to put stuff on the ball than the Reds had on their bats and I with this estimable purpose in view he cut tut away all waste motion and began to stand the Reds upon their closely cropped heads I Of OC the thirty Reds who faced him no noless noless noless less than twenty six took a a. vain rain whack at the ball and then sat down moodily I upon the visiting bench to announce that the kid Idd never had a thing The They never have when hen you jou ou cant can't hit hite e em e I Nothing at aU all all I I AH AU that Kerr had was keen speed a cracking curve and control that carried both o where ere he decided e to plant them e I l He looked oo as much master e of the field as Christy Mathewson looked fourteen years ears ago to the hour when he shut out the slugging lugging Athletics in his first championship championship champion champlon- ship game But where Mathewson was then an experienced veteran six feet talland tall talland talland and carrying OO pounds of brawn young oung Kerr is only 5 feet 7 above the sod weighing weigh weigh- In ing hardly pounds The big feature of ot his first championship championship champion champlon- ship game was the rare coolness that he showed at every turn and the unending grip that he kept upon his nervous system system system tem until the last Red fled faded out The young joung oum star who had divided most of his baseball experience between Texas and the Kerry Patch of East Cast St St. Louis has undoubtedly put new heart into the Sox Rox and has greatly discouraged the Red fled dream of any carefree romping conquest FISHER WILD As Kerrs Kerr's left arm rolled back the Reds it was the vast power concealed in Ray Fishers Fisher's wing wing- that tossed the White Sox out in front The The- Vermon schoolmaster in the main moved steadily along but it was as his own misplay in the second Inning that put the skids under his mates and broke up the battle Joe Jackson had just opened this Inning Continued on following page DIC DICK KE KERR PUTS SO SOX I Continued from preceding page 1 with the first Sox Box hit Felsch Felsch followed 1 I with with a 8 sharp bunt that came directly to sharp Fishers Fisher s wa waiting ting hands hal It so happened i that Just before tracking Backing one at Felsch I Fisher had anointed the ball with a saliva dressing and as asa a c certain soothsayer of ot renown once remarked remarked- The evil that mJ men 2 do lives after them them Fisher Kisher must have nabbed that ball upon the slippery sector for tor with an easy dou dotz ble be Play In tn sight he pegged the ball far tar faran farand an and high a above oy Kath's Kaths quivering reach and the untamed attempt sailed far tar Into cen center ter field r The throw was a a. good five feet beon beyond l Rath's reach and when had re reCovered recovered re- re covered the bounding ball Jackson was resting on third with Felsch smiling at second In place of ot empty bases bue and two out ut there thet were runners on second an and third with no one retired d which as RS remarked to Hindenburg just justa a year ago Is 1 quite a difference Wit With I that throw went the ball game it was Waa precisely the same as If It Fisher had taken the pastime In his hands and tossed it overboard to the fish s Gandl timely timely single scored both men men and with Kerr err ot of Plains the Kerry Patch and the Western sitting on the job the rest of It was merely the e finish of of a cinch l 4 hb A fluke t triple by I and a bad bound from Schalks Schalk's bat In carrying through the squeeze added a third nm run In the next Inning but the can ot of beans beana had already been turned over and scat scattered te around n the e field le The fJ nJg Sox were e 1 In an entirely different f frame of ot mind when they arrived back pack again In the familiar breeze that glides from froni the stock yards to their battlefield Buoyed up by this scented zephyr from the lair of ot the slaughtered steer and the therl rl riven n pig they fell In back of ot Kerr Kerrs a rare pitching with most of ot their pep ep intact especially presented an art exhibition ot of the wonderful work at short where time and again he reached clown lawn tricky infield bounders to nail his hisman hisman hisman man at first The Swede had R a bI big day for more than one elusive chance might have trickled away into trouble Yet let through it au all the famed Sox attack has not yet come to light In their I twenty six Innings innings of of or hard swinging en endeavor endeavor en- en deavor they have scored but one earned run run and this was more a gilt gift let from fate than any robust batting S s Risberg-s triple In the third Inning was merely a single that took a false fale hop to the right beyond Neales Neale's glove and the bunt that scored Risberg was another tricky bounder that struck Fisher Just above the pulse when he stooped to pick it up They picked up seven l lilts hits ts all told but were never able to keep a rally going which sm y early May has been their mainstay on the fl field ld You can credit this offensive slump to fine Red pitching or to a sudden w weakness weakness weak weak- al- al ness around Sox batting eyes but the fact remains that one earned run through three long afternoons Isa ls-a decided change from the attacking power that carried Chicago to the top and finally broke broko up up the race All through this series Sox stars have been crossed time and again but it Is only a question of ot time before their suppressed sup sup- pressed attack will wUl break through The Reds held to four tour hits on Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day found un tl l going even n rougher nl in Fridays Friday's rda mill II Tt They have scored only half hall as many hits in their last two starts start as they piled up back of Dutch Reuther and they may find Eddie Edalo Cicotte in an I entirely different frame of ot mind today The big shift in Sox play now Indicates a long hard series where if it Gleason can only get a well pitched game from his star he has at least an even chance The Reds continued their strong play on defense with Heinle Heinie Groh and Jake Daubert leading the roster Groh gave aVe a spectacular exhibition at third killing at least two clean hits by his daring dives for the ball as it whistled past With two games left lett In tn Chicago before they move again to Redland the Sox now carry high hopes of ot a clean home sweep as they are confident not only that Cicotte and Williams can retrieve I their two disasters but that the loud I and noisy boom of ot the old base hit Is about due to break forth in Its Inspiring chorus and sound the requiem of Ot Red ned hopes k 5 |