Pay attention. I’ll keep it short and to the point. Game Two was played in Cincinnati. The first game the White Sox lost with the help of their pitcher Eddie Cicotte. Game Two, same story with their pitcher “Lefty” Williams. Williams was a control pitcher. It was routine for him to complete games without walking one batter. So it was definitely odd when the fourth inning rolled around and Williams gave up three walks and three runs. Let me tell you straight: that was the inning where Williams played his part in the fix. He saw Cicotte get hammered the day before. Williams wanted to lose, but look good doing it. So he kept it to one bad inning. That was enough. His major accomplice in this game was Chick Gandil who hit weak ground balls on two at bats with runners in scoring position. The Sox lost 4 - 2 and were down two games in the Series.

Both Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver smashed the ball around the park that day. Weaver going 2 for 4 and Jackson going 3 for 4. Risberg held the only defensive error of the day for the Sox.

A few side notes: somebody flew a plane over the stadium that day and dropped a dummy onto the field. It was a joke on the White Sox.

With rumors of the fix running wild, Kid Gleason told his catcher, Schalk, to watch Williams. Schalk later told Gleason that Williams did not throw the pitches he called, especially in the fourth inning. Later Schalk physically attacked Williams outside the locker room. This followed Kid Gleason attempting to jump on Chick Gandil in the locker room. The Sox were falling apart.

Vocabulary, okay. A “walk” is when the pitcher throws four balls to a batter, allowing that batter to take first base. A “runner in scoring position” is a base runner on either second or third, because a single can bring them in to score.