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Show ! CINCINNATI REDS WIN BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR FIRST TIME sJ&M$2i ymic , : was. 4- -O- irl,-! ;( tm WvV - I'- - WvSS: J $531 -tfNyi- - r xhF 4 v'v ' : ELLER'S SUCCESS NOT DUE TO SHINER j '. Jack. Ryder, veteran baseball scribe of Cincinnati, denies Hod Eller's J success in baseball is due to the so-called shiner. "As a matter of fact, I Eller has been successful ever since joining the Beds in the fall of j I 1916. He had been with the White Sox on the training trip that j spring, but the manager of the team had not considered him ripe for j '. fast company and sent him back to the minors," he writes. j "The lieds picked him up that fall, and he made good from the i ' start. He was just as successful under Manager Mathewson as he has J ? been since. His work in the fall series of 1917, between the Beds and i ! Cleveland Indians was the sensation of the series, so the story that Pat ? f Moran taught him the use of the shine ball and so made him an effective f i pitcher is simply gutT. I t "As to the statement that without Eller the Reds would be hanging f i onto the second division, the work of the other pitchers and the entire j club speaks for itself. Eller is the best right-hander on the tea.n, but j he is not solely responsible for the fact that the Beds are so far up in i ! the race. The Chicago dope was inspired by a couple of disappointed f f managers, whose teams have not lived up to expectations and who are i I looking for some sort of an alibi." |
