The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-16
CHANGES MEN ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND THE ODDS FAVOR THEM 10 TO 7-REULBACH IS DE- PENDED UPON

Chicago, October 15.-(Special.)- pennant winning Cubs today closed thd season by defeating the St. Louis Carqi1 nals and at 7:30 o'clock this evening theI took a special train for Philadelphia where they will open the worlds series| on Monday.
 And a more confident bunch of ath1 letes never left Chicago than these sand pennant winning Cubs. They realize they have a hard fight on their hands. The,| are not claiming that they will sweeIl the series and grab the bunting in fourl straight games. They may believe itI But they do not say it. They claim theyi have young team, club composed of individually brilliant players, to combad with, team that has an excellent stah| of twirlels and led by one of the smart est managers in baseball They do not underestimate the foe. Yet | they believe they will win. All of Sunday will be spent upon the| road, and Philadelphia will be reached late in the evening. The men will havs an opportunity of spending a night in bed before tackling the Athletics in thd game which will hold the attention of the baseball world.
 1t will be a team in almost perfect condition. Could Johnny Evers, the gamd little second baseman, cast aside hid erutches and tear away the plaster cast which surrounds his ankle and join hid teammates, then all would be well. for every man who will be on the squad ia in perfect shape.
 Prayers in Shape T Kling, Archer and Needham, the catch- CTS, had no fault to find with their arms Overall. who is expected to open thd series, pronounced that his arm never felt better. His recent workout left him in excellent form and there is scarcely a doubt but he will fight for the first game. Brown and Reubach, who are expected to follow, also reported them selves in splendid condition. Pfeister and Cole, the men who may be called upon in the series, reported that they were fit and willing to step in at a mo- ment's notice. Mcintyre and Richie, the men who have been doing the major part of the relief work, were in form. Of the infielders not a man could bel found who would admit he was not in tip-top shape. Chance has overcome the soreness which attacked him after he re- turned to the game. His long absence was responsible for this, but the man ager has been in the game long enough now to have overcome it, and he knew of nothing to handicap him.
 Zimmerman at second found no fault with his condition Tinker and Steinfeldt were all right. It was so in the outfield. Not a man but what proclaimed himselr in shape to fight for even a worlds cham plonship match with confidence was re- f1ected in the betting. A week ago it seemed that the Cubs would go into the series at no better than even money. That is, that any man who favored the chances ot the West Siders would be able to place all the money he cared at even. But with in the last few days the odds have been shifting until the Cub rooters who want ed to back his choice with his money was compelled to place 10 against z.
 False odds, one may say. But those odds prevail, and whether false or true, the man who wants to wager must put up at these prices.
 Manager Chance is as confident of the outcome as it would be possible for a man to be- No worry about him. He realizes that the series will be des- perate one. But he has passed through three of them and emerged victorious ir2 two So it Is no new experience for him.
 Chance Is Sanguine
 q think we will win, said he early to- day. T do not think there Is any doubt of it, although we will have a tough time turning the trick. Connie Mack has young team and it is composed of ex- cellent ball players. The fact that the team won so handily in the American league shows that it is strong.
 But I cannot figure out where we can be beaten. Our pitchers are in shape. look to Reulbach to play a mighty impor- tant part in the games, and I am sure he will be returned one of the heroes.
 "All I hope is that we meet with no accidents, and do the work with our reg ular team in the field.' r