davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30
vS. WHITE S0x--O2 M'GRAW vS. ROWLAND?
Yes, Indeed!

Sad to watch a baby crying When its tumnie is in pain; Sad to hear a Fordlet signing When it tries to run in vain; Sad to hear a kitten moaning A the death of mamma cat; Sad to hear a lady grooming, If she thinks she's getting fat. Sad to see a poodle freezing, When they shave off all her
 hair; Sad to see a bishop sneezing In the middle of a prayer; Sad to live in Arizona Since the darned old states
 gone dry; Sad-how sad, it is to loan a Man five bucks: then have
 him diel Sad to write a ''pome" that's
 rippling, Then to hear somebody say: Punk! He swipes his stuff
 from Kipling; Wonder how he earns his
 pay?" Sad these things are, true; but
 Horrors. If you back the Giants to cop, You will learn of Big League
 sorrows, Should the Sox come out on
 top!
 DOM.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30

ed fine ball. But he has slumped bad ly at times and had to depend on re- lief pitchers to finish his task
 SaIIee McGrsw's Second Choice.
 Next to Schupp, Manager McGraw's pitching choice is likely to be Slim Sallee, whose comeback since he join ed the Giants has been one Of the surprises of baseball Sallee has pitch ed great ball this season against hard hitting clubs Three times he has beaten the hard-hitting Cincinnati outfit and he has also downed St. Louis and Brooklyn three times each. Benton has also been effective against Cincinnati and has beaten Matty's team three times. Sallee and Benton have beaten the Phillies only one game each.
 One of the unknown figures in the coming series will be Dave Danforth of the White Sox, who has shown un- canny ability as a relief pitcher this year. He has won but one game in which he started during the season. lie seems to lack the confidence and control to carry him through a game but as a relief pitcher, he has accom- plished things which have been an important factor in the White Sox success.
 There is a similarity between the Giants and White Sox pitching staffs, inasmuch as both have slumped bad ly at different times during the sea- son, and during these periods of poor box work it has taken two or three pitchers to complete a game. Dan forth has starred in the role of life saver, and it is in this role that Row land expects him to accomplish much during the coming series.
 There is no question, however, about the superiority oi the New York club in one respectable Giants have the greatest manager in the game. Year in and year out "Muggsy" McGraw has been delivering the goods" and each succeeding season demonstrates more clearly his superiority to other base ball leaders, With his vast store of knowledge, with his cunning, and with his experience, he may furnish the Giants with just the fractional strength needed to capture a long, hard series. He is the quickest thinker in the game and he may teach Rowland several new tricks of the trade. Player for player, there is little to choose be- tween either organization, but mana ger for manager, New York has a biz advantage in her Little Napoleon
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30
An Intimate and Complete Sketch
 or tue Players On both Teams WhO
 Meet Saturday M First Title Clash

back and later became a member Of the Boston Americans He was re- leased by Boston to the Chicago White Sox about six years ago. He bats and throws right handed. Ci- cotte is married and resides in De troit. This season has been the best of his career and he is the leading pitcher of the league, rated on earned runs per game. He has mastered a delivery dubbed the shine ball" :" which although a myth. apparently was declared legal by the American league. However. his great work has not all been attributed to the shine" ball as he uses an assortment Of curves. All told he has been in the major leagues for ten years. He weighs 16O pounds and is five feet, s inches tall
 URBAN FABER, pitcher, better known as Red" is one of Manager Rowland's discoveries He was born September 6, 1888, at Cascade. Iowa, where he now resides. He began his baseball career under Rowland at Du- buque. Iowa. in 1909. and came to the Chicago Americans four years ago. He bats either right or left handed but pitches right handed. He has an assortment of curves and a good "spitball" delivery He is rated as one of the best right hand pitchers in the league. Red" is six feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. He is not mar ried Faber got a late start this sea- son owing to illness and this kept the club down in the race for some time When he recovered he took his res ular turn on the mound and has been winning consistently.
 ALBERT F. RUSSELL. pitcher around the American league circuit as "Reb," was born March 12, 1889. at Jackson, Miss, and began his base ball career at BOnham. Texas, in 1912. He is a left handed pitcher and bat ter and has been in the major league four years. always having been a member of the Chicago club. This season when "Reb" reported for train ing his left arm was crooked. A specialist advised him to keep pitch ing and the crook would work out Russell labored hard and although the crook did not leave him. he has been effective. Russell is one of the best batting pitchers in the league. He is five feet, eleven inches tall and weighs 195 pounds. He is married and lives in Indianapolis. Ind Be fore coming to Chicago, Russell was a member of the Wichita. Kas.. team of the Western league
 DAVE DANFORTH. pitcher. Is known as the Ed" Walls of the 1917 Chicago club. Danforth gained this distinction when called upon many times this season to save games ap- parently lost Several times he went in with none out and the bases filled and yet won. He uses the same de livery and displays the same cum ming as Eddie Cicotte. but throws and bats left handed Danforth is six feet tall and weighs 17O pounds. He was born at Granger. Texas, March
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30
CHICAGO AMERICAN LEAGUE
 CLUB.

A-'-
 CHA t.HCE R1N LAND came 10 ,he Chicago White Sox as maaarcr three years ago. He succeeded James CallahsG During lis first season Us ilOt or ComisKey club be f.ni>he third;' last season his team won six teen straight games toward the end of the season, but failed to overtake Boston by two games. This season Rowland, although under some se- were handicaps, reached the final drive with only one cripple, Weaver, third baseman. Rowland was born at Plattville. Wisconsin, February 12. 1879. He began his baseball career in 1903 as a catcher with the Dubuque, Ia.. team of the Three I league. Later he went to Peoria, where he piloted a pennant winner. He then came to the Chicago Americans. Although he wears a uniform, he does not take an active part in the games aside from coaching. He bats and throws right handed, is five feet, nine inches tall and weighs 16S pounds. Row land is a calm leader on the field and seldom pans" a player for an error. Instead he "jollies" his men and this method has won him the admiration of the players. He is married and resides in Chicago. Rowland is a good judge of young players and sev eral of the men on the present Chi cago team were recommended to Co., miskey by Rowland. while the latter was in the minor league.
 When Rowland broke into baseball the first club he played with did not have a suit small enough and the pants slid down 10 his ankles. There upon he was nicknamed pants" and this name has stuck to Rowland ever since.
 WILLIAM KID" GLEASON, coach of the White Sox. has been in the major leagues for 30 years. Gleason. who was born October 26, 1865, at Camden, N. J., began his baseball ca reer in 1886 at Williamsport, Pa. He was with the Chicago Americans for time under Manager Callahan and when Rowland needed an assistant, President Comiskey re-engaged Glea- son. Although he is old enough to be the father of most of the players. he is active and handy with boxing gloves as any man on the team. He weighs 173 pounds and is five feet ' IA inches tall He is married and lives in Philadelphia. Pa. This is his fifth year with the Chicago club. Gleason was a member of the ia nous Baltimore Orioles and is mas ter of the art of handling players and keeping them in training. He bats end throws right handed
 EDWARD V. CICOTTE, pitcher. was born in Detroit June 19, 1884, and began professional baseball in 1904 al Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Ci Cotte has had a varied career. He was a member of the Detroit Ameri- cans. having gone there with Ty Cobb from the Augusta. Ga. club of the Southern Association. He was sent
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30

', 1890. and began his baseball ca reer at Philadelphia in 1911. He has had three years of major league ex- perience, the last two years of which have been with Chicago. He is mar ried and resides in Granger, Texas. He was obtained by Chicago from the Louisville American Association club.
 CLAUDE WILLIAMS, pitcher. is another left handed twirler He was born March g. 1893, at Aurora, Mo, and broke into baseball in 1913 at Nashville, Tenn. He has been in the major leagues for two years, having been a member of the Chicago club during that period He is one of the most effective south paws in the league. He bats right handed. He is married and lives at Springfield. Mo. Williams is five feet, eight and one-half inches tall and weighs 1s0 pounds Lefty" came to the Chi cago club from the Salt Lake team of the Pacific Coast league.
 JOE BENZ, pitcher, known as Bit zen Joe" was born in New Alsace, Ind, January 21. 1886, and made his baseball debut at Clarksburg. W. Va, in 1909. Benz went into the majors seven years ago when he became a member of the Chicago club. He is six feet. one inch tall, weighs l9f pounds, bats and throws righ thanded is married and resides in Chicago. Benz has an excellent record. but this season he has been unsuccessful iE most of his starts.
 MELVIN WOLFGANG. pitcher. has been a member of the Chicago club for four years. This is the length of his major league career also. Wolf gang has done little work in the reg ular championship games. but his work in batting practice has been great help to the team. In prac- tice, Wolfgang works as hard as though he was in a regular game and this has had a tendency to sharpen the batting eyes of the players. He came to Chicago from Lowell. Mass. He bats and throws right handed. He was born March 20. 1890, at Albany. x. Y., and in 1908 he started his baseball career in his home 'townl He Is married and resides in the city of his birth. Wolfsang is five feet, seven inches tall and weighs l60 pounds
 JAMES SCOTTg pitcher. is tall and rangy right handler. who. when right" was one of the best pitch CTS in the league. left the club the first part of September Co join the officers reserve training corps at Presidio. Texas. but the players have voted him a full share Of the worlds series money Scott was with the club longer than any other player. having come to Comiskey nine years ago from the Wichita, Kans.. West ern league clug. Death Valley Jim" as he was known. was born in lSSN He hatted and threw right handed. He began playing in Lander, WyO- his home town.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30
Penndnt Winners M Both Leagues So Evenly Matched That Baseball
 Classic May PrOUe Battle Of Wits

pitchers who are showing class now and have been showing it all season. They are Slim Sallee, Rube Benton and Ferdie Schupp. These men are expected to carry the Giants to the world honors, if those hon0rs are to be attained. It cannot be said that Tesreau, Perritt and Anderson, the three right-handers of consequence on the Giants staff, have done enough tight pitching this year 10 rate them as vital elements in a worlds series, although any one of them is perfectly capable, now and then, of pitching shut-out ball, and might pick a worlds series date to get such game out of his system.
 Chioago's big three, as far as can be told at this distance, would be Eddie Cicotte, exponent of the shine ball, and a highlander; Red Faber right-hander, and Dave Danforth left-hander.
 Pitching Big Factor.
 AS tue pllChtH6 ullQutSlloudbiR VIII be the greatest factor, popular fancy naturally settles on Schupp and C. cotte as the most likely pair for the opening game in Chicago on Saturday October 6. For a left-handed pitcher. Schupp has wonderful control, an as set which is very often missing among fork-hand tossers. Since he has blossomed forth as perhaps the great est southpaw in the National league in the last two years, Schupp has rarely impaired his efficiency as a pitcher by giving bases on balls, as many southpaws do when the tide or battle goes against them.
 Schupp Fitted Against Cicotte.
 Manager Rowland looks to Eddie Cicotte to be to the White Sox in this years classic what Big Ed Walsh was to Fielder Jones' team when the White Sox won the worlds series be- fore. While McGraw looks to Schupp and his other southpaws to stop the left-handed hitters of the Sox, Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins, it is an open question what the right-handed Sox hitters can do against the Louis vile kids southpaw curves. Cicotte has been unusually effective against all kinds of hitters during the past season. In his string of 24 victories, he has accomplished more than any of the Giants pitchers.
 Perritt the Best Right Hander.
 Pol Perritt is the outstanding righ- handler among the Giants boxmen, and he is likely to he the Giants, choice in the second game, which VIII come on Sunday, October ', in Chica- go Perritt's work has improved 50 much during the last few weeks that he is looked upon a. a sure winner by New York fans. His best work has been done against weak hitting teams, however, such as Pittsburg Chicago and Boston.
 If the White SoX should decide to send southpaw against Perritt. it will he either Russell or Williams. but Manager Rowland will probably not put as much faith in his letfhand- CTS as McGraw undoubtedly will Vii. Hams has won most of his games against Cleveland. St Louis and De triot, and against these clubs he pitch
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30

Picking the winner of this falls worlds series is now the order of the day. The White Sox and Giants will line up with well matched strength, and to say that one has very much on the other would be to show inadequate judgment.
 Mccarthy May Outhit SchaIk.
 Behind the bat the comparison of the two teams will depend largely upon whether Lew McCarthy's broken leg has healed sufficiently for him to play in the worlds series. If it has, Lew will be the favorite over Ray Schalk, because of the formers prowess as a frequent and violent hitter. In other respects Mccarthy will have little or nothing on Schalk, who is famous as a thrower, and as one of the fastest running catchers ever in the big leagues.
 At first base the fl points batting advantage Holke of the Giants has been keeping on Gandil of the White Sox is bringing Holke forward as claim that Gandil offsets that with his wider experience in fast company. That may be good dope, but Holke has risen Co emergencies so briskiy that Gandil will have to demonstrate his superiority before it will be con ceded.
 Collins and Herzog.
 At second base Eddie Collins of the White Sox, one Of the greatest play CTS of all time, and heretofore a hit ter far above 300, is now batting 20 points or so under 300, but at that he has big margin on Charley Herzog of the Giants, who is hitting feebly around .222. Unless something is wrong with Collins the White Sox should have all the edge at second.
 How shortstop will affect the re- suit ls a question Swede Risberg, who came to the White Sox from the coast last spring, is going great guns at short for Chicago and is given credit for being the whole infield, more or less, but he was hitting a paltry .196 in the averages ibefore the writer. and that will hardly do. Fletcher, for the Giants, was hitting .354 in the same averages that show ed Risberg at .196, but Fletcher has been so wobbly in his fielding at cri- tical moments that fans may well doubt whether he will rise to the ac- casion in October. If he does, the cold figures are all for Fletcher
 Buck Weaver. the White Sox third baseman, is out for the present with A bad finger. Whether he will be ready for the series cannot be told If he is, the relative merits of Weav CT and Heinie Zimmerman for the Giants at third will furnish material argument for the Stove league. Weav CT, in our averages, was batting .2Il and Zim an even 300, but Zim, while a slugger of renown. is a hit-or-miss sort of person. Those familiar with Weaver assert that he is more de pendable batter than his PIT would lead one to suspect. He will have to show it Until he does, the Nation al league fans will stick 10 the Giant Zim as the best third baseman in tue worlds series.
 iWhy Give sox outfieIders the Edge.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30

American leaguers give the White Sox outfield of Happy Felsch, Joe Jackson, John Collins and Liebold, the last two of whom alternate, the edge over George Burns, Benny Kauff and Davy Robertson of the Giants. Kauff is batting All in the averages at hand and Burns .29S, while Joe Jackson and Felsch are batting PIT and .296, which hardly bears out the A. L. argument. Felsch may be balance for Burns, but American leaguers are undoubteo- ly understanding Kauff, which a number of National leaguers have al done. Kauff's eXcitable temperament may cause him to become flustered in the worlds series, but there is no knowing how the White Sox outfield- CTS will be affected by the crowds and the size of the stake. Liebold, q left-handed batter, is hitting PAY, and John Collins, a right-handed batter, has .255. Robertson has .273.
 On that dope the Chicago outfield does not outclass the Giants It may be that the White Sox suburbanites are figured to csme through on nerve, but even in their own league the White Sox haze been accuser of lacking that very article, while no one has been saying that the Giants were deficient in steadiness under fire.
 Taking it by and large, the belief that the White Sox have a somewhat better chance for the worlds bunting is based mostly upon the supposition that their pitchers will stand the strain better, and that in Cicotte, as a star right-hander, to go with three swell ieft-handers, they have a better fortified pitching staff.
 Giants Confident
 But this belief is not shared by the Giants themselves. McGraw's scrop- py and high-priced talent are getting more and more het up over the notion that the American leaguers are going to show them something. The Giants may be said to be champing at the bi.
 If the Giants win the series the old National league will be pleased to hear of it, as the National league has suffered most frequently in the big games. Last falls world series was a sad one for the National league and worlds championship banner this year would cheer it up quite bit.
 Regarding mere dope on the Giants chances it is seen that the averages give them a slight advantage in bat ting strength This is the only ap- parent advantage they do have, and it may or may not be the result of inferior pitching in the National league, if you want to look at it in that way; or, rather, to a larger mum Der of crack pitchers in the American league Still, the Giants average has been compiled by men who are notor iously good hitters, and it would be unfair to belittle their performances with the willow.
 Any short series is determined largely by the factors of pitching and luck. The seven-game series between the Giants and White Sox should turn on the pitchers. and there the fan has his real guesswork.
 New York has three left-handed
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-30

(Continued on Page Five)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-14
Community Christmas
 Activities Planned by
 the Boy Scouts Begun
plusser.Knight Grain Company Starts. List With Forty Sacks of Flour
 for Needy Families
Statement November 20. 1Ol1
 RESOURCES

The community Christmas activities as planned by the Boy Scouts or BIT m;nrham are taking definite shape and indications point to the movement being a success.
 Some of the local organizations nave already turned in a list of people they know to be in need of help, and others report their lists will soon be com pleted. The lists will be carefully checked over to avoid duplication, and preparations will immediately begin for the packing of the Christmas boxes and baskets.
 The Harris Transfer company has of fered the use of their vans and drays to handle the deliveries which will be made by the Boy Scouts under the di- rection of the members of the Com munity club.
 The first donation to the work of car- ing for the families in need came from the Plosser- Knight Grain company in the shape of 40 sacks of flour. Tho building formerly occupied by the Bir- mingham News will be the receiving station for all contributions of provis- ions and will be open every day, be-. ginning with Monday, the 17th. and it is predicted that before many days the station will look like warehouse in- deed Toys and candies will be re- ceived if sent in, but it is the wish of the committee in charge that utility and economy be the keynoate of the giving. All cash contributions should be sent in as early as possible to Cole man Blach, treasurer of the community fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-14
MUSIC STUDY CLUB CANCELS CONTRACT MYTH BIG ORCHESTRA
KunwaId's Forced Resigna- tion as Conductor of Or ganization Ground for
 Voiding Agreement

The Music Study club. at a meeting held yesterday. decided to cancel the contract signed by officers of the club with the management of the Cincinnati symphony orchestra early in the season for the appearance of that famous or ganization in a concert here on Jan uary r.
 According to the terms of the agree ment Birmingham was to have the en- tire orchestra of S3 men, including the regular principals, with Dr. Ernst Kun wald at the conductors desk, but, not only has pr. kunwald been forced to re- sign, but the concertmester and three other players are aliens and as such the United States department of justice has ruled that they must not travel out side the state of Ohio. In view of the situation, therefore, it is assumed that the manager of the orchestra will promptly release the representatives of the Music Study club as to all intents and purposes the cancellation of the contract acts automatically.
 Anna Case, the Metropolitan Opera house celebrity, will appear in a recital at the Jefferson theatre tonight in the regular artist course of the Music Study club She is known as one Of the greatest sopranos in the United States, and also as young woman of uncom- mon grace and beauty. There will be capacity house, for only few seats were left uusold last night.