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Show REDS' OFFENSIVE IS DUE TO ROUSH Pitchers Not Entitled to All Credit for Keeping Cincinnati Cin-cinnati in Front. They have been talking this year about the amazing effectiveness of the three Cincinnati pitchers, Donohue, Rlxey and Luque, and how they have kept Cincinnati up In the race. But any close follower of the game, any student, will tell you that Kouah's batting bat-ting punch Is and has been the main Red offensive, all through the season, year In and year out, for nine years. And on the defense, Roush never bad but one rival In center field, and he Is the wonderful Tlia Speaker. Rough's center-field play In the 1910 world series was so wonderful that It stopped the first talk and suspicions of a scandal. He cut off triples, and his catches made the suspicious ones believe be-lieve that the White Sox batters were surely trying and that hlg super-play was winning for the Reds. Koush bats around .340 every year, all through the season. lie only varied three points In the four years from 11)21 to 1024. No set of pitchers, no change of summer seasons, sea-sons, no aliments of the llesh. none of the ordinary assullinents of the world, the flesh and the devil can seem to stop or stay that Inevitable batting average, .340 to .350. And only Speaker Speak-er can come up to him In out Held plaj and even Speaker can hardly eijual Roush In the last few years, for he Is slowing down, while Roush Is still np to his best. It can truthfully be said that Roush Is the greatest defensive outfielder In the game today, and any expert, alleged al-leged or real, who picks an all-star or all-world team without Roush Is either prejudiced or blind to the real worth of the man. McCraw traded Roush to Cincinnati for almost nothing, then Roush proceeded to establish himself as one of the first five batsmen and three greatest outfielders of modern baseball. |