The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-13
FLIP COIN FOR CITY
Giants and SOx To See Where
Final Is Played.
Gossip of Day "Just Before the
Battle, Mother"
BY H. c. HAMILTON.

the POLO GROUNDS, Will be decided mere
today-this thirteenth day of october.
Before the sixth game of the worlds
series is played, according to rules of
be Tipped to decide the surroundings
for the seventh game. Today's game,
the fifth, will be followed by this cere-
mony. Fifty-fifty the two teams
stand now, just as they met each
other when they began their strife
here a week ago. Two games for
either will decide the series.
The weather man had a fierce dis
position today. He shot snow storm
into The worlds series works yester-
day, and today was considering
whether or not he should open the
skating season. A wind tipped and
howled up and down Chicago's streets
and the thermometer was common
cause for cuss words However, the
man who pulls the handles has prom
Used to relent some before game ume'
SO there is no chance that the contest
will be spilled.
Confidence and grim determination
are alternating spirits in the breasts OF
the White Sox. They are eonfldeht
they can again win the upper hand or
theiR surprising rivals, and they are
| backed by a determination to go IN
there and fight.
The Sox declare themselves to blame
| and not their pitchers for two de1eats
slammed against them in New YORK:
| Cicotte, they say, pitched fully as gooo
game at the Polo grounds as he
| did a week ago in Chicago. One more
run was chalked up for the Giants
| than they managed to drive out Wnen
they first faced the White Sox star,
but the result they declare Shoulu nave
| been no different.
sFaber, according to their way of
! looking at it, was in better form in
? his contest with the national leaguers
| in New York than when he met and
! downed the wrecking crew led by
! John McGraw in Chicago.
Sox In Slump.
The Sox contend they have been
in a slump. one of the worst they
| have experienced during the year
| That slump, they say, will be buried
without honors today, and the world s
series then will begin to look exactly
| different.
There was some inclination to
criticize Clarence Rowland today for
| his attempt to win a worlds series
with two pitchers. Critics agreed that
! sending Cicotte out for the first game
in New York wasn't bad step, but it
| is realized here as well as elsewhere
that Red Faber's health has been
uncertain and his control too precar-
| ious to take chances with. Another
days rest, they believe, would have
changed things.
crack at the Giants. He has pointed
| out and his supporters, have been
many, that the Giants have been
weakest against left hand pitching
when the south paw was good. There
is more than one follower of the game
who believes a different result might
| have been attained had Reb been per-
mitted to start that second contest.
| Selection of pitchers to oppose each
other in the game that means the edge
for one team or the other depends a
great deal upon hoE much the wealth
er moderates and upon the showing
the rival staff make at the baseball
park. Slim Sal1ee. is expected to take
another whirl at the American league
| champions, and every one is guessing
that Rowland will come right back
with Cicotte.
Sallees best work has been done on
warm days. He doesn't like cold
weather, so, unless the difference in
temperature is considerable by 2
| o'clock, the former Cardinal is not
expected to get his second chance to-
| day. In that event McGraw is expect
ed to come right back with RUDE Ben
ton and to shoot Ferd Schupp back
when the teams get back to the Polo
grounds for their sixth game.
Post Mortems.
| Clarence Rowland has been ready
at all times to enter into an open dis
| White Sox. But not so today. Good
! baseball would be to send left hand
| er against the Giants, now that they
have punished his two star right
| ried over Reb Russell's chances for
| full control, and doubts the ability
| of Claude Williams to stand up under
such hard labor.
All summer long Rowland has
banked heavily on Cicotte, sending
him out after games when contests
were badly needed, sometimes with
only a days rest. And Cicotte has
made good many, many times. He
/ has had plenty of rest since he
worked in New York. He is strong
enough to go back and hurl an ex-
cellent game. Likewise he dotes on
the cool weather, unless the field is
wet and damp, and this will have
something to do with the decision.
Rowland's decision probably hinges
| on the condition of Comiskey park.
/ If it is dry Cicotte will start, if not
| Reb Russell or Claude Williams will
be flung into the breach with Joe
Benz the probable relief man, in view
| of the warm welcome the Giants ex-
| tended to Dave Danforth in his only
/ appearance.
The Sox are holding up their heads
with the argument that they have
! been at their worst all year on the
4 9olo GROUNDS. Iney nave won fewer
games there than any place in the
league, altho the Yankees offered
them very weak opposition. Stumps
are good thing to get out of their
| systems, they held, and they believe
it is time for the Giants to slide into
| one.
WESTERN FOOTBALL TO-DAY.
Ohio States VS.. Northwestern, at Co
lumbus.
Chicago VS.. Vanderbilt, at Chicago
Illinois. VS.. Oklahoma, at Urbana.
Minnesota vs. South Dakota, at
Minneapolis.