Show ALL OF BABYLON I WILL BE MERELY INCIDENT NT IF SOX I NOW NOv NOvIN WIN IN SERIES I led kd Fans Sure to Jump Into Ohio River Says Grantland Grantland Grant Grant- land Rice River Will Be Useless for Navigation By Grantland Rice Telegram Special Service 1 Oct 9 In In a gray and ghostly drift rift of hurried shadows shadows shadows shad shad- thousands S of dejected figures fig fig- lures ures could be t I seen practicing qui quick k starts last I night in the general general gen gen- eral direction of the Ohio river Jh The spectral line is growing rowing in length th and amI d' d mer and his hope saying saving shine tall laU dont don't roll back the surging ing hite Sox ti tide je in Chicago ago today his is purling Ohio stream will oon bo hO dogged clogged with floating odis who ho in in the thc anguish of lIe Jie mom moment nt and amI the heartbreak f T the hour have o c c committed tl a Brodie to end cud the agony gony gonyor v or ver Between Vc n the highly fashionable ours of ot 2 and 4 p p. m m. on Tuesday the Keds were within one one me base bate hit of ot being champions pons of ot othe he e world This TIIs lone lono blow blo was was was' all hat at separated them from the proud proud- st at title of the old ola game Today rola they ire ue on the verge ergo of a a. panic with heir big lead cut down to one jono no game staff blown to ost of ot their pitching le leces 8 and the th abiding knowledge kno that f Hod nod Eller cant can't stem today the ush rush the Sox will wUl be bo champions of ot ho o world by Friday night The dope cru crushed hed to earth will rl r ris re e gain agaIn You can keep kep it choked tori tor for a. a i day or a week but you jou ou cant can't keep It t choked forever forcer The Sox looked to be bo the class dora before tho the series opened and the Sox box gain looked to be all 1111 the tho class In Int t esterday's decisive battle If tr we can only get by Slim lIm SaUce Sallee we C will be worlds world's champions champion by Fri Irl- Kid lit Gleason as ash asto da 53 j night remarked h to C sent Ill I'll his platoon in 1 for a I second cond counter coun- coun ter er ar attack In the seventh battle baUle of the series aeries The Sox not only got by slice allee but their big bats drove him In rout out ut from the hill bill before fore the fifth In InIng Inning In In- ning Ing had pU passed td and while the th Sox Box nere ere re clubbing Sauce Sallee to so death Eddie Clotte CI- CI otte Dite held the Red Redi In easy check Less loess than Red fled fans sat moodily round around the half halt filled park and watched their heir machine wrecked at home for the second day dar In succession WHAT HAT A FALLI FALL Oh what a fall fail all la is this my countrymen countrymen country country- men men aen Only twenty four hours ago the tho el crowd that ever eter swarmed Into Redland edland field was wu cheering th the Reds ant Md and the heir run four-run lead But as the surging n Breakers changed from Red fled to White the he I. I big crowd faded laded out and the roar roar- Ing nir ig chorus sank to the faint applause of ofa the he a half beaten The pitchers pitcher that stopped the Sox Pox so hll through the early drive are now wing dismantled one b by one and group by V group Kid ICid Gleason rushed up his howitzers on Tuesday to blow way gray i Reuther and sand Ring Yesterday esterday he witched twitched his Ill range rane against Sallee Sauce and andL before L the barrage had lifted the lug- lug sheriff was wall a battered mass mau a Continued on page 3 3 U FALL OF BABYLON Continued from page page 2 2 human replica of the outer forts of ot old Verdun The games game's baffling psychology turned against the Reds when they faltered so soon soon soon on B By all the standards of fItten years on Monday night with four victories registered thEo the that would have been champions of ot the game That haunting thought seemed ot of seize upon their imaginations on Tuesday when they began to slip lIp and they have never l Joked kell like the same ball club since In this seventh game it was the Sox So who strode to battle with all the confidence o of a victorious phalanx It was the Heds Reds who took toot the fi field ld and without dash Beaten in advance they seemed to know that Sallee was due clue for his at last and that Cicotte premier pitcher o of the American league was not to be humbled three times In a row This vast dejection dejection dejection de de- slipped from the moody athletes to the half filled stands where all involved in involved in- in except the Sox seemed to be bo waiting g for the worst The sheiks sheik's curse was on the lied Hed tribe and before a ball was thrown you could see their hopes were not centered upon Sallee in Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cin- but upon Hod Eller in Chicago It was up to the shine Rhine ball and if the Sox Rox knock the gleam from its folds today today to- to day dav countless dredges will be needed to tomake tomake make male the Ohio river navigable after Fri Trl- day night night for for it will be he the greatest upset that sport ha has ever known if you take lake your our start from the fifth firth inning of the sixth game CUT AND DRIED Wednesdays Wednesday s battle was a II cut and dried cinch foi for the Sox from the time Shano Collins the first man up touched Sallee bailee for a single and scored on Jacksons Jackson's s smash to left Sallee barely escaped further fur- fur ther thel disaster then and there but his hia ancient an ancient ancient an- an cunning saved him until the third when Shano again opened with a hit and lusty singles by Eddie Collins and amI Joe Jackson drove him across That quick rush was all the Sox needed with stalking al g gea steadily ea across o the bent necks gR ai of the R Red tribe tro in the e fifth the Sox box tide surged through the Red infield with witha a roar when Eddie Collins singled again and both Groh and Rath booted hooted easy tasy chances leaving Hap 1 Felsch In the position 1091 tion to drive two additional runs across the plate Ue and anel make male the eighth game a certainty With Sallee driven in retreat to the bosky dell Moran called on Ray i fisher r i for one round lound and then fell back backon on Adolfo Luque the sprightly Cuba l who in his four cantons stopped slopped the tho Sox box with one lono ono blow While turning In this highly creditable ible display the Cuban Cub also fanned five men with Eddie Collins Buck Weaver and Hap eloch Felsch 1 included but the snappy snippy little Cub Cuban in had arrived too late to save a waning cause The big shadow had already aready spread the field and his mates were no longer counting countIn count count- In ing up the winners winner's end j They were vere already beginning to cut cutaway cutaway i away a few luxuries they had decided upon Monday fonda night and their complete dejection left no chance for w am any final rally rail They nicked ed Cicotte for a arun a run lun inthe inthe in inthe the sixth hon Groh doubled and Duncan Dune singled but this was wi t last la t display dl pl j of force A feeble rally lally opened the ninth which Cicotte quickly suppressed after putting the field under martial law all told II held the tho Reds to six III hit hits but these In the tho main were badly scattered 1 and he lie won without being forced to work I I at it top speed I TRADITION TO BACK THEM t I j IThe The Sox today have tradition to back bick them up Some seven years vears ago they opened with two drawn battles against the Cubs and then lost the next three threes I straight Out of five games they had failed to produce a i victory but with I their broad hacks backs to the wall they suddenly sudI suddenly sud sud- denly whirled and won the next four contests con con- I tests a testa a trick they now confidently expect ex expect expect ex- ex to repeat with Lefty Williams due As was to grind out at least on one victory from three starts so if Williams can beat beit J riler hiller lIer today there is Dick Kerr to return for his third thira rush at the Red ned Redline lineIn line In case Williams wins the deciding battle battle battle bat bat- tle will be fought In Cincinnati as Garry Herrmann won the toss in planning the thel l Ideation catlon ot of the the final game In tn case t the e series serieS' goes the I entire route and it will surely go the complete distance unless 11 the dazed attitude t Reds d In in n ti time af and from recover their r de dejected dejected de- de the confidence that broke bloke when Reuther weakened and his support began to slip The spirit of the Sox box last list night Is at atthe atthe atthe the crest Their confidence now is based upon more solid I grounds O tha titan than their overconfidence over over- confidence g Hd of last week They h believe they can cin win but only by te fight ht fighting ing and they expected to go o after Eller I today with a rush h that l not t even the i fl Y nast 1 can stop J They a are aie u under way i 1 at last and the tide Ude increased Inc its flow i when Eddie Collins at last broke his long drab spell and began be to club the bill ball I Eddie looked to be he the old time hero InI inthe in In- inthe the seventh game and now that he has started at least 20 per cent has been added to the Sox attack I Zt's It s all up to Eller to leave the Ohio Oho river aver free for for passa passage E for If It the Reds neds should blow the championship now the fall of Babylon will be merely an incident nt I in the current history of or the fairly well wellI i I known w world |