Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-08
CHICAGO IS WITHIN
EASY DISTANCE Of
COVETED BUNTING
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SPORT
ING EXPERT SAYS SOx HAVE
THE JUMP ON GIANTS BEING
BEST BALL CLUB IN EXIST
ENcE TODAY.
By JACK VEIOCK.
International News Service Sports
Editor

iHlel HuiiolidI NcNS StfNAtt opoi 10
Editor
Aboard the White Sox Special. Oct
S-The White Sox are as good as in
with the old bunting.
They are the best baseball club in
the business today, but they will have
to 90 through the formality of win
ming two more games from the men of
McGraw, a thing which they should
4 do easily. r.
The series may end in New York
Wednesday and II the Sox play the
kind of ball they put up in the first
two games there will be nothing to it
but the shouting.
Fact of the matter is, the Giants
backs are just about broken They
have no reason to believe they stand
chance and for this obvious reason
they probably feel that it is just a
matter OF time. However. they hap.
pen to have a gent who Yields mean
Upper In Slim Sallee, and the Slim
one may throw a moneky-wrench into
the Sox machinery in one of the New
York games This looks like the
Giants only chance. but in order to
give them all that is coming and that
isn't much, to be truthful is neces-
sary to mention that Poll Perritt
must not be counted out until he has
had chance to start a game.
McGIaw has Benton and Tesreau
in reserve too but the Sox have PROV
d en- that they do not fear Giant pitch
ers and they are all to the merry with
the punch-the punch that wins. They
are by far the smoothest fielding club
and the hes thase runners. Their pitch
: ers have SO far turned the Giants
heavy hitters into weak sisters with
, the we'll known bludgeons. Neither
= kauff nor Zimmerman has slammed
: the ball into safe territory so far
: Fletcher has but one hit and Herr
og has one. George Burns is prac
tically the only member of the New
York club who has played baseball
g az though he was accustomed to make
|. q business Of ii. McCarty's bat Is
g still dangerous and his catching has
o been good, though he isn't in the race
o with Raymond Schalk.
e The ease with which the Rowland
e men tumbled Ferdie Schupp off hi
II perch was somewhat Of surprise Il
u the Giants. Freddie is McGraw's pitch
y ing ace, but he was like the fifth ac,
y in deck Sunday He did not count
The exporting persons are all agree,
u today that 1t will be only matter o
. going through the motions for tn
~ White Sox from now on. And witt
:, the confidence that they have game
- through two great victories, they vii
:, be so hard to stop as hard-boile
:, egg running from a collector
- OF course. there is always the pos
A., slbility Of an upset, but when 1t
10 remembered that even the weakes
members of the Sox are delivering tn
foods IL is next to impossible to I'll
ure how New York can ever overcom
hu the advantage Chicago holds today
''' The teams will arrive in New Yor
W. tonight and on the morrow there wi
nc be baseball shindig at the Poi
', grounds, In which a gentleman name
nv Edward V. Clcotte may be expecte
-. u.s. to play the role Of master OF Ger
monies for the Sox against Sallee
Benton OF the Giants. McGraw mig
send Schupp back at the Sox, but 1t
N, believed he will wait until Wedne
days game II he decides to do So
'ds On their home grounds the Clan
ire will put up their last battle. TIL
TO have their backs to the wall now al
NIB they won't die without making a fig
IN but three more games ut the outsi
Oct should enable the Pale Hose TO pro
DC conclusively that they are the goo,
They are the class, and class will Il