The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-15
BIG lEAGUERS READY
FOR FINAL STRUGGLE
Giants and Sox Meet Today
in Decisive Battle Of
World Series.
CHICAGO NEEDS ONE
Single Victory Will Leave
Title With Rowland's
Sluggers.
CHICAGO NEEDS ONE

N,
tending baseball teams from the
American and National leagues. bat
Ting for tho championship Of the
world. returned today to resume their
struggle at the Polo grounds tomor-
row afternoon. As a result of the
stormy and loosely played game in the
west Saturday. the series stands three
victories for the Chicago White Sox
and two for the Giants.
One triumph for the American
leagners tomorrow will give them the
baseball championship OF the world.
Victory for the Nationals. however.
will carry the series into Tuesday for
the final game. if the weather man is
kind hearted and assuming there Ia no
tie game.
Chicago Fans Confident.
As Chicago has the odd game safely
tucked away n great advantage at
this stage of the short series, her
followers feel confident the title will
go to Comiskey's men. They still
have Two chances to win while the
Giants have only one. The White Sox
say they do not believe McGraw's
men can repeat their performance Of
last week of taking two straight
games on the Polo grounds. ..
The Giants are pinning their faith
On T'erdy Schupp and Rube Benton.
who helped the New Workers to make
their great come back last Wednesday
and Thursday, Based on their work in
the present series, there Is little
choice between the two and 1t is prob
able McGraw will make no decision.
but will wait and send In tomorrow
the pitcher. who shows the better in
the practice. Benton held the SoX to
five hits for six bases in the one game
he pitched and won. Schupp has
twirled in two games. being taken out
in the second inning Of one contest
ond appearance.
Faber Slated to Pitch.
Manager Rowlands pitching choice.
he said tonight. would be Faber il he
is right and Cicotte to relieve him if
Faber shows any signs of trouble.
Cicotte. the records show, has pitched
% of the 40 innings New York has
been at bat. The White Sox manager
said he was confident tomorrow's
game would be the last. His men
are greatly elated over their victory
when defeat looked almost sure.
Unofficial averages of the five
games so far played show neither
team has had 4 great advantage. BY
reason Of yesterdays fusillade of hits
Chicago leads New York in team bat
ting. The White Sox have team
average of ..Ss TO the Giants o7l.
Chicago has made n total of A. hits
and Il runs, while New York has
made A. hits for l. tallies.
Giants Lead in Fielding.
New York leads in team fielding
with an average Of $50; Chicago's fig
ures are 9iS. The Giants have made
eight errors. three of them in Satur-
days wild game and the White Sox II,
OF which six also Were scored on Sat
urday. The two shortstops, Weaver
and Fletcher, lead their respective
teams in errors. the former having
fonr and the latter three. The aver
age of John Collins, the Sox fielder.
Of three errors in n total of seven
chances is far below the world series
standard for outer garden men. He is
the only outfieldcr on either team TO
make lnisplay so far.
individual batting honors for the
two teams rest with Dave Robertson,
the Giants rightfielder. lie is the
only player on either team who has
double figures in the hit column, hav-
ing slammed the ball safely 10 times
in 10 times at hat for an average Of
80, Raridcn, substituting for the
hard hitting McCarty and whose catch
ing has been of a high order comes
next 10 Robertson. with an average of
| .500--five hits in 10 times at bat
kauff and Zimmerman, the Giants
cleanup men, are batting under 200
Captain Eddie Collins is leading the
| White SoX regulars with eight hits
| out of IS times at bat with an aver
age OF .4i4. Risberg. the pinch hitter.
has an average of 800. coming through
| safely once in his two trips to the
! plate Weaver Is hitting at a .353
| clip, John Collins has averaged 1873
and jackson and Felsch .2l6 each.
| The total attendance for the series
so far is 152,G.5 and the total receipts,
s252,5a0. Only in two of the five
games have the ball parks been filled
| TO capacity and these two instances
! were in Chicago.