Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-10-19
RAIN MAKER WAS
CRUEL TO FANS
FOURTH GAME OF WORLDS SER
les CALLED OFF AS THE
"BUGS- GATHERED.
ARE GIANTS ALL IN?
Ne" Workers Uphold Snodgrass But
Connie Mack Says He's Dirty
Athletics Are Anxious.

Philadelphia, Oct. 1S.-Hiatus-the
guy who invented that w2rd must
have had to spend a rainy day be-
tween the worlds series games and
Philadelphia. Hiatus means a hyphen
with both ends cut off-and that was
what it a today.
Except for singing of Its Always
Fair Weather. the day was about as
aspiring as cream soup without salt.
The New Workers. mooted and gloom
ed around the bars and incurred be-
cause they had to stay there over
night, while the Giants r~eioiced be-
caused the weather man gave them a
fresh lease on life. The Giants were
beaten this morning, tonight they are
urging that they still have a caance
because of tire day of rest, they claim.
will give Marquard more strength to
come back and make Matthewson a
certainty for the following games.
The crowd down here. including
players from all sorts of teams how
aver, does not take Tins view OF the
situation. Betting is practically at a
~standstill, but the odds Of two to tne
that Philadelphia will win
are offered freely, and in
many cases insisted upon. McGraw
and his men are not downhearted, or
are at least they are pretending they
are not, and tonight they were the
guests of a local theater which tried
to induce a crowd to come to the show
by advertising that the Giants and the
Athletics would both be guests. Then
a rival theater made the same an
nouncement. Some of the players went
to the theater but most of them re-
manned away or gave their passes to
people who resembled them enough tc.
get past the ga%tekeeper.
The fact that the weather man pre-
diets fair and clearing weather for to-
morrow keeps most of the crowd down
here most of the night, but many of
them returned to New York to find a
place to sleep.
1t was pouring rain this morning
and there was no chance that a game
could be played or, at least, it did not
look as if there was a chance. But
the Mash Commish" had a hard night.
and did not catch the early trains
that brought the big slice of News
Workers. and other followers of the
worlds series down to the City of
Brotherly Love.
The Commission arrived shortly af-
ter IL O'Clock and as soon as possible
they called off the game and declar-
ed for playing it here tomorrow. But
the crowd refused to believe it.. At
i10 o'clock, with the rain pouring
down, the Philadelphia fans began to
flock outside the park. By II o'clock
there were at least 5000 bugs dodg-
the rain and 'hcping that the gates
would soon open. The rain really was
W. D"u oAou6u " lolce d postpone
ment, but the day was quite bad
enough to give real cause for carry
ing it over. 1t might have been play
ed but it would have been uncomfort-
able playing, especially as the field
was wet and heavy. The infield was
fairly we'll protected by canvas and
could have been played on, only a
small amount of rain fell during the
afternoon and the weather man pro-
missing fair weather tomorrow every
thing should be fit for battle.
The Giants did net receive the wosl
the game was off until they
reached here. They stayed in New
York as long as possible, expecting
word that the game was off, hoping
that they would be able to stay at
home instead of coming down to the
crowded city. The game was called
off before they reached the Majestic
The Athletics, confident, but not
Boosting, were at the Park early and
expected and hoped that they would be
able to play. They wanted to clean
up and finish and they were confident
that they could. They thought that
had the Giants on the run anl
the delay in the proceedings did 10.
add to tFeeir chances.