Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-03
WORLD SERIES DATES ARE FIXED Schedule for Post Season Event Arranged by Base
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 H THOUSANDS INVOLVED Interesting Baseball "DOpe" By Ora. phic Special Correspondent on :
 Scene of Battle.
THOUSANDS INVOLVED
BY MONTY

series between the Giants and Ath- letics will begin at the Polo Grounds here on Tuesday, October [. This is the conclusion arrived at following numerous informal talks between the members of the National Commisslon.
 When the big guns get together and officially arrange the schedule for the post-season event, they will merely set the date and announce that coin will be Tipped to decide where the battle will be staged-whether here or in Shibe' Park, Philadelphia. But it is already known how that coin is going to land. There is a sort of divinity that shapes such things-the divinity being that mo- body is present but baseball mag mates when the Tipping is done and the additional fact that they know an opening in New York will draw more money than one in Quakertown. The Tipping of the coin" is a great little piece of stirring news though no coin is Tipped.
 The scheme for the games as map- ped out differs from the worlds series of the last two years in one respect. The games will alternate today in New York, tomorrow in Philadelphia-as they have in the past The change in the system con- cerns interference with the original arrangement because of rains. Last year when it rai1ed the teams would stay in the city where they happened to be until it cleared up and they could play on the grounds they. This time they will adhere to prearrang- ed schedule strictly regardless of weather. If the teams are in Phil adelphia, for instance, to play game number two and rain should prevent it, they will move into New York the next day for game number three and number two will be postponed to the end of the series. '"
 The season in both National and American Leagues winds up this year on Saturday, October 4, so far as the eastern teams are concerned. The western teams play their finales on the next day, Sunday October ,. After the Giants conclude their series here with the Phillies on that last Saturday and the Athletics wind up in their home town against the Yan- kees on the same date, there will be two days of rest before jumping in- to the big fray. Sunday and Monday intervene. Then, on Tuesday the grand climax gets under way. The complete sched- ule for the series as outlined fol- lows:
 Tuesday, October z, at New York Wednesday, Oct. S., at Philadelphia Thursday, Oct. 9, at New York.
 Friday, Oct. 10, at Philadelphia. Saturday, Oct. II, at New York.
 Monday, Oct. 13, at Philadelphia. Tuesday, Oct. IA, at New York.
 This plan will be in force until one team wins four games, the same as in the last few years. In order to appreciate the importance, finan- cially, of having the first game in Gotham, one needs only to glance at the complete schedule. If rain should not interfere and if the series should go the entire seven games the big Polo Grounds would stage not only the opening game, but the Saturday game an also the fina
 battle, besides fourth one or Thursday. Philadelphia would gel only the Wednesay, Friday and Mon day games. The Polo Grounds car hold almost double what Shibe Parl accommodates. And that is the way
 it will be fixed. Were the schem, reversed, it would mean difference O
 maybe over $5O,0OO in the total gat'
 receipts, and $5O,OO0 as we all know
 is $50,OOO.
 With the two big league race
 sewed up as they are, it is interesting
 now to look down along the line a
 the teams just below the top ant
 prognosticate on their chances Many temporary surprises hay cropped up in both races since tn beginning of the season, but of lat !, affairs have strengthened themselve out into their expected condition outside of a few teams we'll 'towar the bottom of the lists.
 Your Uncle Monty, for one, picke , the Athletics and the Giants to wi , the two pe1nants. So far so goo(
 Then he. chose the Senators to b