The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-17
SERIES WILL OPEN
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Major League Championship
Teams in First Clash.
EXPERTS ARE ALL AT SEA
Philadelphia Has the Better Pitchers
but Chicago Excels in
Team Play.

Philadelphia, Oct 17.-The great
baseball series, the blue ribbon event
of the American diamond, will begin
here today, when the championship
teams of the two major leagues will
meet in the opening game for ne
worlds championship. The contest
ing teams will be Philadelphia OF the
American league, commonly known as
the Athletics and Chicago of the Nat
ional league which is usually refer
red to as the Cubs" They are not
only the champions of their respec-
tive organizations but also generally
considered the best developed teams
that the National league have ever
produced.
Each team is managed by veter-
on campaigner, Chicago by Frank
Chance, who will play first base and
Philadelphia by Connie Mack who will
direct his forces from the bench. In
/ iuries of players this month have
changed some of the early forecasts
as to the series Chicago lost John
ny Evers who had his ankle broken
In game in Cincinnati on October I
Fvers is generally regarded as one of
/ the brainiest players on the diamond.
His place at second base will be filled
bv Zimmerman who Is nearly as good
a fielder as Evers and a better bats
man. Philadelphia suffered greater
loss last week when Centerfielder
Oldring who Is rated the second best
all around player, injured his knee so
severely that he cannot play against
Chicago
For the first time since the worlds
series has been played under the
rules Of the national commission each
OF the contesting teams viii take the
field with nearly every man trained
to the minute. Both teams are rated
as the highest types Of baseball mach
ines: that Is, individual brilliancy is
tempered by collective skill The fol
lowers of baseball throughout the
country, therefore. look for the great
est world series ever played. The ma
iority Of the critics and the public
generally consider that the two teams
are so evenly matched that is is al
! HNNrl lAllU0NAUlt W ifAAh ZIG NAhhNA
AS to the batteries, II is conceded that
Chicago has in King and Archer a
pair Of catchers superior to Philadel
phia backstops and that the Athletics
pitching staff Is superior TO that oil
the Cubs. Huge interest has beer
shown in the series all over the
/ country. Nearly 100 OF the largest
newspapers in the country will be re
presented by their baseball experts
SO great was the demand for seats
for the opening games at Philadel
phia that even before the natIona
commissions representative. John A
, Heydler, announced the plan Of dis
; tributing them. practically. every sea
: was sold.
The grand stand in Shibe park will
seat about 300 persons and the tick
= cts to this structure we're sold for s
/, and 80, netting about $4,000 for eacl
] game. II Is expected that more thar
: 10000 persons will be able to see tn
games each day from the bleacher
Q and from places back Of ropes In tn
. outheld. so that II the anticipate
. crowd turns out each game is expect
\ ed to net about $4,000. The nation
4 Al commission will receive 10 pc
cent commission from each game. TIL
Il players will figure ia The receipts c
! the FIRST four games only. After tn
> national commissions percentage
y taken out the players will receive G
g per cent and each club % per cen
"a Should the series go over four game
/. all the money. less the national con
missioner's percentage, will be divi
IN ed among the two clubs. The player
money will be divided as follows
. Sixty per cent TO the winning teal
"a and 30 per cent to the losing team.
"a Manager Mack of the Athletics ha
o. no comment to make yesterday as
the outcome of the series. He sal
the batting order OF his team won
not be announced until after he han
,a cd Il to the umpire today No chan
- es are expected In Manager Chance
:, team. II Is expected that Overall 4
d Chicago and Bender or Coomhs W
u be the pitchers in the opening gam
UT The batting order will probably be:
Al. Chicago phlladelph
ly Sheckard. II H. Hartsel or 10
de Schnite. RI, m, McInnls or Strul
en- Holman, m, 2b Coli
It's Chance. ID, 30. Bak
,m zimmerman, %, III. pa,
nm Steinfeldt, 3b, RI, Murp
,ad Tinker, IS, IS. Bar
~ King c. c. Thomas or Ia
Overall, p, y, Bender or Coon
The