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OCTOBER
1919
IN THE NEWS:
Just before the start of the WS, the highly favored
White Sox became the betting underdogs. A year later
the White Sox will become the Black Sox, and 8 of
them--pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, outfielders
Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, 1B Chick Gandil, SS
Swede Risberg, 3B Buck Weaver, and utility infielder
Fred McMullin--will be barred from baseball for taking
part in throwing the Series. It will take that long
for the story to unfold, as most observers at the
time see nothing amiss when the Series opens in Cincinnati.
Eddie Cicotte, a 29-game winner, is driven to
cover in a 5-run 4th. Cincinnati's Dutch Ruether
pitches a 6-hitter, and has 3 RBI on 2 triples and
a single for a 9-1 win. Reds OF Greasy Neale,
the only man to play in a WS, coach a football team
in the Rose Bowl, and become a pro football Hall of
Fame coach, also has 3 hits. He will top the Reds
with .357 for the Series.
IN THE NEWS:
In game 2 after an easy 3 innings, Lefty Williams
walks 3 Reds, gives up a single to Edd Roush and a
triple to Larry Kopf, and the Reds lead 3-0.
Slim Sallee scatters 10 hits as Risberg and Gandil
fail in the clutch. The final score is 4-2.
Joe Jackson has 3 hits; his .375 BA will make it appear
later that he was trying.
Charles Comiskey tells NL president Heydler
that Sox manager Kid Gleason is suspicious of his
players. Heydler confers with Ban Johnson, who takes
no action, fearing it will look like revenge against
Comiskey, with whom he has been feuding. As the games
unfold, reporters Ring Lardner and Christy Mathewson
do not like what they see. Chicago reporter Hugh Fullerton
will raise questions during the winter. Comiskey will
offer a reward for information, but the 1920 season
will open with the same lineup for Chicago, minus
Chick Gandil, who will be in the PCL.
IN THE NEWS:
Back in Chicago, 5 foot 7 inch rookie lefty Dickie
Kerr pitches a 3-hitter, as Chicago wins 3-0.
Joe Jackson is 2-for-3 and Gandil drives in 2 runs.
Ray Fisher takes the loss. Cuban Adolfo Luque becomes
the first Latin American ML player to appear
in a WS game, pitching one inning of relief for the
Reds in game 3 at Comiskey Park.
IN THE NEWS:
Ed Cicotte makes 2 errors in one inning of game
4 to give the Reds the only runs of the game. He walks
none and gives up 5 hits, but Jimmie Ring gives up
only 3 hits and wins 2-0.
IN THE NEWS:
After a Sunday rainout, Hod Eller blanks the Sox
on 3 hits, fanning 6 in a row -- Gandil, Risberg,
Ray Schalk, Williams, Leibold, and Eddie Collins --
in the 2nd and 3rd. Once again a big inning gives
the Reds a victory. A couple of hits, some slow fielding,
and poor throws by Jackson and Happy Felsch result
in 4 Reds scoring in the 6th for a 5-0 win, their
4th in 5 games. Lefty Williams is the loser. Sox C
Schalk is the 2nd man to be thrown out of a WS game
when he disagrees with the call on Heinie Groh's slide
at home.
IN THE NEWS:
Happy Felsch's error and 2 boots by Swede Risberg
help put Dickie Kerr in the hole 4-0, but Felsch,
Weaver, and Jackson combine for 7 hits as the Sox
win 5-4. Dutch Ruether doesn't survive the 6th;
Jimmie Ring is the loser, as Kerr wins his 2nd.
IN THE NEWS:
Ed Cicotte pitches game 7, and the Sox play like
they mean it. Joe Jackson and Felsch drive in 2 each
for a 4-1 win. The Reds make 4 errors behind
Slim Sallee's pitching, before 32,006 Cincinnati fans
who pay a record WS game receipt total of $101,768.
IN THE NEWS:
Lefty Williams gets one man out in the first
before departing. The Reds lead 4-0, and go on
to give Hod Eller a 10-5 victory and the Reds
the world title in 8 games. Joe Jackson hits the only
HR of the Series. Eddie Collins's 3 hits give him
a total of 42 in WS play, a record broken in 1930
by Frank Frisch, and bettered by Lou Gehrig in 1938.
A SB by Collins is his 14th in WS competition, a record
tied by Lou Brock in 1968.
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