The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-09
"ROYAL RIOTERS"
OF BOSTON TOWN
WILL BE ON THE JOB OF BOOST.
ING FOR THEIR TEAM AT
PHILADELPHIA TODAY.
Opening Of the World Series Will Be
Marked With All the Nationwide
Interest That Has Surrounded Its
Predecessors.

signal to roll back the curtain, reveal
ing the Philadelphia Athletics and the
Boston Braves in the worlds series
drama of 1914. The winners of the
merican and National League pen
nants with a week of relation fol-
lowing the clinching of the flags, are
ready for the final struggle of the
season. Each team processes reason
able confidence in its ability to cap
ture the Worlds Championship. Each
in turn comedies that the rival aggfe'
cation is a powerful baseball winner
rather than excuses for the loss of the
series.
The fan, both local and foreign Is
here by thousands each club having
its legion of loyal supporters. The
following Athletics to whom league
and worlds championship pennants
are no longer novelties stand stead
fast in their belief that Connie Mack's
great baseball machine will continue
its triumphant progress while the Bos-
ton bGigate is equally confident that
the Braves, under the leadership Of
George Stallings will halt the Phi,a-
delphia baseball Juggernaut. The
National League representatives, "a
though they open the series away
from home will have amlde vocal sup
port since Boston's famous clan the
Royal Rooters" will be present at
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"Tessie' which has been heard on
every Worlds Series field of recent
years when a Hub club was battling
for honors.
Several Numbered Boston fans have
enrolled. as Royal Rooters' for the
trip will travel in a special train, &C
companied by d band '"ressie' will
be almost it's only piece ut has al
ways been winner; Wen sing again
reads an announcement by the com
mittee in charge. The song was first
adopted during the world series of
1903 between Pittsburg and the Bos-
ton Americans. Shouted from hun
dreds of throats in the games at Bos-
ton and Pittsburg the strains of Ties
sic" upset the Pirate players, and
they afterwards declared, and Boston
won the series after being three
games behind. Again in 1904, the
hooters rallied to the support of a
home team and sang Boston victory
in the last game of the American
i league season at New York Two
years ago the Royal Rooters" travel
ed from Boston to New York and
from New York to Boston, "Tessie'
always on their lips, following the
Red Sox in their wonderful series
with the Giants.
The son2sters from New England
win have to swell strong on the cho-
rus for every seat in grand stand and
bleachers has been sold A big ma
iority Of the twenty odd thousand
spectators will he Athletic adherents
and while they may have 10 organized
cheer or battle song the Braves will
know That the Mackmen, on their
home grounds. are backed by a vocal
tornado that is extremely disconcert-
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drag them from their championship
throne.
This support is not entirely devoted
to cheering and applause for the Ath-
letics' cohorts are willing and eager
to wager on the chances that the
American League club will defeat the
Boston representative of the senior
ORGANIZATIONS. The Braves great ex-
hibitiOn of ability and gameness, how
ever, has made an impression and
while odds are quoted on the Athlet-
les the range is comparatively small
The leading odds are five to four on
the local club to win the series. Dc
casiOnally fans are found who have
offered or given five to three or even
two to one but there is nothing in
the work or strength of the two clubs
to warrant odds approaching to two
to one.
AS the teams will probably lineup
tomorrow the combinations appear to
be evenly matched in offensive and
defensive strength. Where one club
has an advantage in one department.
this is offset by weakness in another
the result being that when the gen.
eral average is struck the luck Of the
game is likely to be a deciding factor
and as Frank Chance once remarked:
"a worlds series is too short for both
clubs to get an even break in the
luck" In battery material the Ath-
letics appear to have greater strength
in their second string pitchers and
the confidence that comes to twirlers
and catchers who are no longer
stranger to the strain of a worlds SER
les. Both from a batting and fielding
standpoint the averages show that
Boston's infield does not quite reach
the strength of the Athletics. The our.
field combinations are more evenly
matched. The Braves are heavier
hitters and field and throw equally as
well as the present Worlds ChaN-
Mons