Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — WINNING BIGGEST SUCCESS IN THIRTIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WINNING BIGGEST SUCCESS IN THIRTIES

Thirty-three years old and just beginning to have his most remarkable success as a pitcher—that’s the record of Eddie Cicotte. Credited this year with the most successful use of the “shine ball,” he also is given credit for having some control over a knuckle ball and is more than the average performer with the spitter. Cicotte, a veteran who, according to usual records, should be getting out of the way, heaved himself into the records for keeps when he hurled a nohit, no-run game this year. When Jack Coombs was getting his first experience as a major leaguer, Cicotte had been taken on by Detroit, found wanting and sent back. He graduated from the same club that turned Ty Cobb loose and they both went to Detroit the same year. Since the beginifing of the 1908 sea-

son Cicotte has been twirling them over in theAmericanlengue^-first as a member of the Red Sox and then as a member of the White Sox. Cicotte missed participation in the 1912 world series by a hair, for he was transferred to the Chicago club in that year, after he had been turned down and spurned by Jake Stahl as of inferior caliber. Cicotte has beeh going along In an even way, winning a game here and losing one there. His most successful season was while he was with Lincoln in the Western league in 1907. He won 23 and lost 10 games. If the White Sox land the pennant, it will be largely the work of this veteran heaver. His work is the most consistent and really brilliant among all the curvers of the great baseball club.