Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-12
BALL TEAMS RUSH
CH|CAGOWARD FOR
FIFTH WORLD CLASH
BOTH SOx AND CUBS ARE GER.
TAIN OF ViCTORY-ShADE is
GIVEN AMERICAN LEAGUERS
BY BEING ON HOME GROUNDS.

Aboard Giants train enroute to
Chicago, Oct. l2-Where gloom
reigned supreme but few days ago
there was nothing but JOY unrestrain
el today The Giants are positive to-
day that at last they are on the road
10 The. baseball championship OF the
world Confidence fairly exudes from
them. They believe they have broken
the spirit OF the White Sox and that
nothing can keep them from captur.
'ng the series
McGraw is out TO win the next two
games. Slim Salee goes TO the mound
against the American Leasuers to.
morrow. The Giant leader is abso.
lutely confident that this time the tall
portsider will be returned winner.
sallee Is fairly aching TO get another
crack at the Comiskey club. He
thinks they were mighty lucky to
beat him in Chicago last Saturday
when he bowed TO Eddie Cicotte.
The Giants expect 10 face Tex Rus.
sell in tomorrows game The Ma,
tional Leaguers think they have con.
yinced Rowland that his right hand
ers cant stop them and their bunch
Is that the Chicago manager will send
in one OF his southpaws.
Standing at an even footing with
the McGraw men today in the mat,
ter OF glory won, the Sox will hold
a slight advantage tomorrow on their
home grounds. They also have an
unknown quantity in the hole in their
forkhanded pitchers and the fact that
the Giants have looked at nothing but
Natural pitching so far may be ex
pected TO worry them when Rowland
shoots one OF his queer" sl.lbers in.
to the breach. This Is the way the
Sox figure il.
The SoX have vision of old Slim
Sallee. the Higginsport sheriff, loom.
ing up on the horizon for tomorrow s
game. And the vision may be leal
lied, tor the slim one doesn't care
whose backyard arena he pitches in
and he was good. mighty good, In the
first game. SO with Slim figured for
the Giants and Russell, the only real
hope of the Sox for the fifth game. it
appears there Is going to be left
handed argument In Chicago on Sat.
urday. e u.t
Figuring that it Is a pair OF horses
apiece, the SOx are due to win. and
by the time they must come back at
the Giants on the Polo grounds. Ed
ClcOtte will have had sufficient rest
to get bac!. in there and work like a
Turk. CicOtte isn't thru. The Sox
will have to use him at least once
more, unless the dope fails. and the
Giants have just as much reason to
ear him as the SOx have to fear
Schupp So there you are
The taste OF victory Is sweetest.
just after victory is gained. That is
why there are a whole lot of people
IN this fair land today who are now
willing to hook the family plate to get
down on the "Jints" or to hedge on
bets they already have made.
Wen say the Giants have terri,
ic punch. They are club that
swings hard They put most OF their
energy into one terrific wallop. II
they connect, it's pay day. If they
miss they swing themselves off their
own feet. So it is up to the Sox to
duck those terrific swings from now
on and whether or not they will do
Il is strictly up to the Sox.
AS the series stands now it appears
that the Sox and Giants of 1917 are
destined to 60 down In world series
history as the two most evenly match.
ed clubs that have ever met in a mod.
ern worlds title conflict for the high.
est honors in baseball. Both are great
clubs. Both are fighters and both
have punch, tho of a somewhat diff.
ferent variety.