The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-10
BOTH TEAMS ARE FIT
Chicago and Detroit on Edge for Championship Clash
 To day.
FIRST GAME AT DETROIT
Worlds Series to Go to Chicago, AC- cording to Captain Chance and
 President Murphy,

New York, oct, 9,-The night helofe the opening of tho game for the worlds baseball championship finds both the Detroit American league and the Chi cago National league teams in oXcel- lent condition and filled with conhd- ence that victory is to be their por- ton. Every indication tonight is that tho opening of the series at Bennett Park tomorrow will be under the n )st suspicious circumstances Baseball enthusiasm Is at high pitch in the city and baseball is practically the sole topic of conversation in hotels, thea ters. cafes, street cars and all public places. Bennett park the home of the Detroit team, is in good condition and the indications are that it will be filled with. a record-breaklng crowd when play is called at o'clock tomorrow aft tenoon. The Chicago team, sixteen mer strong, with President Murphy, Secretary Williams and a number of newspaper men, arrived from New York over the Michigan Central rail- way this afternoon They went imme- diately to their quarters at the Hotel Fuller. All of the players except Cap tain Manager Frank Chance are in ex- ceflent condition, for the game Chance was struck on the throat by a rowdy while leaving the field after yesterdays game in New York and the blow njur- 'nS na ar4h aefa t.I ,Sf chords 80 that he can barely speak above whisper tonight. While an- moving the hurt will not prevent the Chicaeos captain from taking his place at first base. Immediately upon his arrival here, Chance called in a throat specialist and his throat was under treatment during the late afternoon and evening. Pitchers Brown and Pfeister were also buffetted about in the attack on the Chicago players after the game yesterday but did not suffer hurts of any consequence.
 The boys are in fine shape" said Captain Chance tonight And l feel confident that we can win another worlds series from the Detroit Tigers However, I am not looking for any such victory as we had last year De- troit's team is too great to suffer such defeat again. But we feel that we can beat them Either Overall or Ruel- bach will open the series tomorrow af- ternoon, probably Ruebsch if he warns up we'll"
 President Charles W Murphy of the Chicago club repeated Capt Chances statements about the condition of the team. We are In splendid form" he said, land will open the series with every confidence" When told of the statement issued tonight by John T Brush president of the New York club. denying that the alleged tie game be- tween New York and Chicago would be taken into the United States courts, MT. Murphy said that the report was too ridiculous to need any denial
 Manager Hugh Jennings had his American league champions on the field at Bennett Park all the morning giving them their final practice for the first of the games which means so much to them. Tonight he said that his entire team was in satisfactory shape. He said of Shortstop O'Ieary, who has been out of the game for several weeks, that his injured thumb Is well enough not to trouble him seriously tomorrow. Catcher Schmidt has bad finger, but 1t will not keep him out of the game. "The pitching choice for tomorrow lies between Killian and Donovan" said Jennings this evening, with the prob abilities favoring Killian. We are go- ing into the fight for the worlds cham pionship filled with confidence. Our last game with the Chicago American league team, which gave us the cham pionship of our league, showed me that I still have the gamest and greatest team in modern baseball"
 Within two hours after the reserved seat sale was opened this morning at Bennett Park every reserved seat for Saturdays game was sold and there were still hundreds of men in line waiting to obtain the coveted adnis- sions Circus seats which will accom- modate 10000 spectators arrived at Bennett Park today from Chicago and a large force of carpenters put them in place this afternoon under the super vision of architects.
 Telegrams of congratulation on his victory In the American league con tinue to reach Manager Jennings Manager John McGraw of the New York Nationals, former teammate and close friends of Jennings telegraphed to him to-day:
 tIf justice had been done you would be playing 1t off with the Giants now. My hearty congratulations, May you always prosper as you have this year."