Show U 0 A 2 T rhe HE cincinnati reds are JL onsol nate fellows and and refused to t bt lieve what they were told about themselves when espe especially clany they the rae yankees last Z ri off alq boun bounced ull bruised axa an all over ov they were told that they were clowns ll 11 and that ernie loni loin WH bardi barfly who y up in the dirt at the th plate was the big fy gest clown of at this s spring pring they were told that neami so humiliated world in world series serico do i ma 1 abot grantland rice come back back and that thai they were due to ta give way to either the dodgers the cardinals or but here they are with denotha series under their belt I 1 asked bill mckechnie if he hal hadi any trouble bringing the reds red s back from the big crash none at all he said they knew just how bad they looked but instead of being depressed bout about it they simply were fighting niad mad it and lombardi lombard he brushed the series off bill bili said ive never heard him refer to it except lightly and I 1 know he do any brooding about it riis s team came back ach A game crew the reds believed in i nobody but themselves and so es S the fate of other clubs that thai had been run over by the rolling yankees no other club beaten in ia four straight games by the yankees ever came back to win the following fol lowis VI 0 p g R VIV na V X Q arx BILL Alc mckechnie KECHNIE year and that was more than a coincidence the morale of the victims had been shattered by the defeat and the criticism and abuss abuse that followed it mckechnie himself was a victim of one of those debacles losing his hh job when the cardinals cracked to in 1929 after the yankees had flattened them in the fau fall of 28 but this time he had a stronger bunch and they hammered back from the th ragged edges of ruin the big three barring that one slump early in august when lombardi and gene thompson were out with injuries and the whole team rocked under the tragic fate of hershberger the reds have given such a smooth performance that it is difficult to pick out this man or that and say that if it been for him they have rushed to another flag without but ill cite three men whom the reds would have ad a joe re much harder going lombardi B beggs eggs and bill werber beggs case illustrates once more is indispensable that a capable relief pitcher baseball in mod modem ern bacena those eighteen datues anta mckechnie do co that saving at least eight games his nu since not appear in his record two victories victorie s and only onay record was 10 18 games chalk up defeats you can with ww the reds would not have wor won out out him take those 18 games thein and put of the victory column coluar in yer and ana leda ledger on the other side of the wk stuns ing been the reds would have hav e won id less a 11 much for a pennant series that hat beggs has the two qualities are most essential to a relief 2 and nd W baah qi control er bill said in to in himself A enow be inus check an enemy assault as around the tb a III P blatt ate able to get the ball account 0 f the and must take no bas alas wall odds against him basss saw delful control and I 1 never W the y without being beings ht pitcher who we the I 1 least conceited never ever bas est doubt about himself himl elf |