The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1919, Page 9

ae i ~~ —— ee Qj CHICAGO AND eH Hardly a Chance That Either American or National League Leaders, With Their Short- - Handed Pitching Staffs, Would Have Stuck It Out for 157 Games. SHORT SEASON HELPED WW RED PENNANT By Hugh S, Fullerton. HE schedule committees of the major leagues in all probability won the championships for the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Gox last winter, Now these two teams Dave as good as cinched their titles— the Labor Day games giving the @maesthetic to the few lingering hopes @t contenders, _ The chances are, however, that had Bot the alarmed and dublous club own- ere decided last spring that there was Mitte hope of any return of interest in baseball and that they bad better re- @uce the schedule to 140 games, the World Series quite probably would be Planned now for Cleveland and New York, Odd the way things turn out. make every claims yt Folie’ be ta be inde They are tal of holding « + 4 cial election jn Cincinnati to deci which rege | mall have honor of throwing out the firet are about claimants for the honor, but the owners are wait to have Marshal Foch beg for the before deciding. MoVey They are modest down tm Cincin~ bd 1 San proton whet, it one of With the 157-game schedule there | Cults ts hardly, a chance that either Chicago or the Reds, with their short handed pitching staffs, could have lasted out g ‘the season without @ serious break. Had they been forced to double up games rapidly to clear the schedule in all probability it would have meant a quick collapse of the pitchers who were tm form and @ sharp slump that would have wrecked their pennant hopes. Now that the thing is about set- Ged and the hopes of several clubs are wrecked, it is time to take stock of the situation, Cleyeland has the Sreatest cause for mourning. This team certainly is the best in the @ountry, It tossed off @ chance for &@ championship which perhaps will mot come again for years. The fans in Cleveland, I discover, are blaming Lee Fohl, who probably had little more to do with it than I did—which was nothing. He may have made mistakes, but probably he won more | veg) for the olub than he lost. ey deciare that he used his pitchers at the wrong time, Clevelands Didn't Hustle at the Right |e Time. The truth seems to be that the team did not hustle during the mid- Season the way it should have done, ‘ and did not fight the weak clubs as bard as it did the mronger ones, My records show twenty-one games lost that the Indians had better than qual chances to win, and had they Pressed the issue and won even half & dozen of those they would havo hud | \} fhe championship sewed up. Most of | Hen those games were lost under the Fohl regime, and after Speaker toox Mar the team it did scem to fight harder and work harder, Pittsburgh, too, is a disappoint- ment. The team lost its pep and fight carly in the year and has shown only flashes, Bezdek has one cause for rejoicing, He did not allow the team ‘to quit, but spurred it along and kept it trying when all hope was gono, The Giants really have no | ¥. excuses, nor have the Yankees, Th Yanks simply were to the pace when the bi, @nd fell back steadily, \ Now that the standings have about Bil been settled, save for minor shitis, the talk of big changes te heard. It is pes that the National League make changes, shifting the Cards to socenapeid and possibly moving the Washington team. This fe merely annual talk. The present alu locations are about the best pos- gible for a sixteen club league, ‘De- froit, of course, is better prepared to @arry two clubs than St. Louis is, but uch a change is improbable. If the Detroit owners are wise, however, ‘they will mak quiet, peaceable or- rangement to allow an Association |} x @lub to come into that territory on hon-confiicting dates. Cleveland, too, | Maher, Os ‘would'do well to make some such ar- fangement with a minor league team. Cleveland and Detroit are grow ng fo rapidly in population that they | wi pen a field for the formation of other Federal League. The reason I mention this is that a few days ago I was approached by So, very eatimable man who are wealthy and wise, and who have an Wea that there is 4 field for a big inde- Pendent league At first I sco nd reminded them of Fede-al League losses, They knew all about | i * that, but this is what they sald: “There are more fans than ever before, more interest in the game, more good towns open to clu! major league clubs are the we tm the history of the game, and thoy @re not developing ballplayers. The brand of baseball being served is ter- Fible, but the fans like it because the teams are tolerably well balanced and furnish close contests. Salaries are low. T can get a ball oluly equal to a first division team in the National for less than half what it coat the Feds to get worse clubs. The players are more dissatisfied than ever before, and besides that the major leagues could not fight us w'th the tactics they used against the Feds, the Baltimore Fed case taught them something. We could get the friendship of the minors and make proper territorial arrangements with- out much trouble"— Maybe they are right, At Teast they are hustling around and figur- ing on the situation. Getting Ready for Big Series in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is making wonderful ar- rangements for the World's series, Tt will be the greatest event of baseball history if they ball park into Paich’ to put the people, One of the really interesting events during the series there will be the re- turn of the two survivors of the Reds of 1869, the pioneers who spread the game over the United States and went through that season without wing @ game. Only two of the old ya aro left. They are George Wright, shortstop of that great old time team, and Cal McVey, Wright fe 8 rich and prosperous man now, and McVey ts in financial straits in Big old age. One of the features of the homecoming of these two vaeter- will be a quiet little benefit to the one who ‘8 needy and to pay expenses from Callfornia to his Syatons of ot pee slow to stand | © drive started | x man in the National Ring—One of the Oest right-handers in the league. Ed Gerner—Best young left-hander in the country.” No wonder they wea But the funny part is the way the same writ- ers panned these “bests” and “near- bests” last season. (Coprright, 1019, the Bet Gyndicate, Ine.) BASEBALL Of American and National League Pitching. PENS S 2sSeSeShmeckSesvcocrenser: pe ie Hi SSP am ae Sesceeets Mecked 2 Fee enunenne ans eos Si cuseS nes els aeee eo og ea EY kf : Set owt reeS EE pee. rEesesl. sabia ee aie steBetes ow Sa ES 35 PeESE SIGN ESS <2 Mises SQESASS TH SAZ-BSH3- PV aSATE PESTS TST SAAS SS aS LETHSFE Ro Sl 1% y ae 8 i F bc m ae 4 a ae ras a (Copyright, 1819. by Al Munroe iline.) 7 Uferak np reas : > 8 OT good enough for any of the Dea 4 4 i three local teams but setting % he $ the world afire for Cincinnatl. “foo | 4 Si That's the story in a nutshell of i 4 i pitchers James J, Ring, Harry Sallee bs 0 1 and Ray Fisher, The first mentioned i pid 4 twirler is @ product of the semi-pro (NEWS OF ALL THE SPORTS Three Pitching Discards.of Local Teams Have Twirled Cincinnati Toward Pennant FISHER CINCINNATIS RING. AVERAGES National Leagues American League Pitching, CINCINNAT) Sallee, a Giant Cast-Off and Fisher Not Good.Enough for - BuceetWitiet tev enpene-sSe-ww2-cF" By Richard Freyer. oweo--necresseemweoctSEESES et Sater! ranks of Brooklyn, He was given 4 try-out by the Dodgers and taken | One of their training trips but his be- ing retained on the Brooklyn pay roll ended right then and there, The Yanks then signed Ring but his career with them was a short one After @ year or #o in the minors James attached his signature to §| Cincinnat) contract and up to the! present hig record is ten games won and five Jost, fs Sa ome? “Sheriff” Harr; was | Z| traded to the Reds its and ig one of Pat Moran's mainstays in the hex. He has participated 1 twenty-three games, winning seve teen and coming out on the short end of six, Ray Fisher is an ex-Yankeo twirler who was traded to Cincinnati | by Manager Huggins. Ray did not take an gotive part in last year’s rac as he was acting as physical instr tor at Fort Sloeum 250%) Bi Sittlenenatbawer ZEESE-oP OS® ent sstseiabiiae beeséecke = S gas tebsetle cept so oSousy: SISOS SLLANFAVEAS SAVIOUR IE ae ASSERE, ret a al are members of t Reuther with seventeen won and five lost is leading. Then comes Luque with ten wins and three losses. Sallee and Fisher follow in order and Hod 4] Eller is next on the list with \] enteen victories and eight defeats. eobisPn: | ga) tn the latest Nation 8 { it eB EY' i EDUCATIONAL, INSTRUCTION, &C BABE RUTH OF RED SOX EQUALS HOME RUN RECORD. Big Babe Ruth equalled the major league home run record yesterday when he smashed out his twenty-fifth clrcutt clout of the geason In the game between the Red Sox and Athletics at Phila- delphia, The next time he faced the pitcher after his home run feat he ham- mered another drive that hit the fence only two feet from the top—thus AL- MOST giving him the feat of equal- ling aad eollpsing the record in the made five hits ale together to the day's proceedings, HATIONAL LEAGUE. Clubs, . Cincinaatt \m Chicago . Pitsbure <i. cane |Poiedetpbias at 78 GAMES VESTEQpAY, Greokiys, 8: New York, GAMES TO-DAY, Brooklyn at New York, et ee STANDING OF THE CLUBS AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL KNOW YOUR CAK Half the pleasure im driving ¢ satisfaction of knowing the You can repair or adjust every part of it your mole. The kheroumh. practical course at the Stewart Automobile School will enable you to master any uallfy you to pass Bz stpm|nation. AWERICAN LEAGUE, CINCINNATSE EVENING WORLD'S OWN SPORT HISTORY BASEBALL. wift to its ¢lose «the out the 1919 season; and swifter yet is ebbing the thin chance of the Giants to get into the World’s Series. They lost a game to the Brooklyns yeater- day, 3 to & that they should have wos oe to 1 and it looks as though the lest gad rites over old Pennant H will be held next Week in Chicago or Pittsburgh, U cumeetnecers ain- eat followed py alngle in'th he sight inning, he ol run p od CrTTeRUROH, Sept. paced invincible Chi ST oe Pitts. ‘of |®nee to stop further litigation and series | straighten out things in the American nepiinen More Damaging Admissions Made by American League President Before Judge Wagner. By Bozeman Bulger. ‘BE fighting Colonels who own the Yanke were jubilant last night. They believe they've got Big Ban Johnnson licked. They feel convinced now that the other Ameri- the facts in the case, will see the no- cessity and the benefit of a confer- League. The Colonels insist, though, that there will be no compromise, win and |lose, They are going through to the last ditch. Moreover, they assert ine | most positively that their activities baseball motion pleture which will be made oy California et the close of the league season, It was an- nounced here to-d ce) the | ease, xa%s | League will have no more peace until of tl pi = ind in thine Discs and De- it in second SCELLANEOUS, Jim Rice, famous as @ conch of col- Announcement is made signed a two-year contract and take up his duties this fall when didates for the Aro called out some prolieioary, prection, —An offer of 00 to Jack Dempooy to fight Witte an twenty-five rounds in Reno gime after the firat, of the Uhen made by the Reno Athletic Jack Kearne, hem Steel @ its first defe here, It was bs by & score of Celtic Five Opes ‘The original York wilt open their basket Dall, season ‘Sunday at Central Opera % , centre; Barry and and Whitley and All first class teame rite to ‘Thomas ¥. Weat 19th Street; tele- £2542 Bryant. Cell iuendot and Von Tr LEADERS IN THE GERMAN CONSPIRACY TO DOMINATE THE WORLD ¢ The two fall and lost the The downfall of Germany and the col- lapse of its great military machine is fully described by Gen. von Ludendorff in his own story of the Great War. this exclusive document, The publication of including, as it does, many things which will become real history, is something of more than usual moment. It is, in fact, an event in journal- ism. The simultaneous appearance of the Memoirs of Von Tirpitz gives added interest to the unveiling of Germany’s war secrets by the man who knew them all. behind thescenes in Germany’s futile struggle have each issued their version of Germany’s down- =a Py GENERAL von LUDENDORFF to cleanse the game of unsportsman- ifke and domineering tactics will not cease with a final decision on the matter of the injunction in the Mays It looks now as if the American somebody or, 0m. prnetions aro ut- terly crus! ey say they are parte Uy willing to take their chances of escaping the crusher. Whetever may be the final outcome of the case, Han Johnson was tom- porarily crushed yes! terday. The fa- miliar caricature of the Ma A Sore ‘a vainglorious is no longer apt, ter the 4 grilling "y Attorneys eee pee uttle ‘be- fore Judge Wagner, Ban looked af if, had he one feuther loft, he “would have Never before had the Czar heard such things said to bis face. He may not have known that, all th be was an “unmolosted despot” but the lawyer explained it ‘Just that way to the Judge, This time the Colonels had bim under direct fire and there was no shortage of ammunit) neys took Ban's to worded aMfidavit and ripped out the works to see what made it tick. ‘They waded right through everything im sight until time was called for dinner, Stephen Baldwin, counsel for John- son, thereupon arked for more time and it wax agreed to continue the Yankee Colonels Are Nou Confident That They Hat Ban Johnson Beate can League owners, having learned | | A Me lad right on to a finish, was taken By forces of ine Colonels ase " room was baseball people—magnates, umpires and writers. General satisfaction was by all the baseball people = was to be heard by ger. Brecynony, there knew asa boy fod A amateur bal “savvies Tanguage of baseball”; that Ee technical talk is Greek to fact both sides were Ls << aie ee bog the comes to knowing \b Wagner ‘The two most bro } 4 i Jureditron at 7 ne tage rie In the mean time club owners In American League are begin realize that the Colonels mean ness; that all may not be so the organization as they had Front seats for are premium. —_—_———_ “TREAT "EM _ROUGHS” hearing Monday afternoon at 2/\ v'elock, ‘This rea i for a postpone. ment, following Mr. Baldwin's numer- ous assertions that be wanted to go big men why she war. Both of These Stories Begin To-Morrow in THE SUNDAY WORLD And Appear Daily and Sunday Thereafter Admiral von Tirpitz, the Arch Militarist, | by his ruthless submarine policy was the man who largely forced America into the He has written a book, the con- tents of which proved of such a nature as to cause it to be suppressed in Germany. His will be a story that the people of America Great War. have long wanted to director of submarine ruthlessly lays bare the heart of Germany, and his own countrymen are not permitted | to read his memoirs. e AominaL von TIRPITZ hear. The ruthless, attacks now equally