Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-10-02 | Page 9 | Cicotte Gives His Views of Defeat in First Game of Series

Cicotte Gives His ' I Views of Defeat in First Game of Series CINCINNATI, O.. Oct 2 Eddie Ci otte, the master pitcher of the American Amer-ican leapue, who was driven out of I ;he opening ganu- of the world r)p -yeBterday under a broadside of nits, 'oday expressed confidence In his abll-. ity to come back at the Reds whenever when-ever called upon. Cicotte with nearly thirty victories to his credit this season, sea-son, is carrying the hopes of the Chicago Chi-cago fans on his BhOUlders and they have every confidence that he will pitch two and possibly three games. The master of the "shine" and "knuckle" ball declared today that he was completely unnerved when hr hit Rath the first man up in the game yesterday and lost all control of the ball in the fourth inning. "It is hard to explain " Cicotte said, "but I was in no condition to pi'.ch I the gamp that I had expected I fell (Perfectly confident before the game started and 'appeared to have "everything "every-thing vhen I was warming up but When l hit Hath it seemed to have a stranpe effect on me. I felt so badly about it that I trotted with him ilon the base line to seo if the ball had hurt him When Rath assure dnn that he was all ripht I went buck to (the pitcher's mound, but I didn't seem to be right." Supporters of the White Sox say that Manager Gleason will send Cl-I Cl-I cotte to oppose the Reds in the game I scheduled in Chicago Friday or Satur-i Satur-i day.