Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1919 — ALL RED FANDOM GREETS THE NEW CHAMPIONS. [ARTICLE]

ALL RED FANDOM GREETS THE NEW CHAMPIONS.

All Cincinnati had an early breaklast this Friday morning and hurTied down to the Big Four station to greet the newly-crowned champions of the baseball world—their own Reds. The train bearing the precious athletes arrived *in the Rhine city at 7:30 apd a few moments later all were bundled into taxis,and taken to one of»the leading hotels. A celebration and banquet to be given in _ honor of the series winners is being arranged for by Cincinnati businessmen and will last throughout today- an<t Saturday. When Morris Rath took Ray Schalk’s roller in the ninth inning of Thursday’s game and tossed it into the eager mit of Jake Daubert the realization of a hope «of fifty years’ standing came to a city that had been denied a championship ball club since the year 1869. The Sox, dejected and silent, wended their way to the club house, their heads bowed in grief as the jubilant Redlegs, laughing and excited, made hurried preparations for their getaway on a night train for dear old Cincy, thinking all the while of the nice plump checks which were soon to be theirs for the winning of the title. The final game of the series was the most poorly played of the entire set and there was but little for the throng to enthuse about. Williams was beaten unmercifully by the Reds in the opening round and gave way to James ,who also came in for considerable battering, Wilkinson finishing in a wobbly manner. Eller, who slabbed for the winalso came in for several ii _ rL ° ~ , i . weather the storm until the finish.