Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-15
RESUME STRUGGLE
ATPOLO GROUNDS
White Sox Victory Over Giants
To-Day Would Decide Worlds
Championship.
FABER WILL OPPOSE SCHUPP
Both Clubs Confident, but Chi
cago Has Advantage in Stand
ing and Team Batting.
FABER WILL OPPOSE sCHUPP
IBy Associated Press.l


conte5ding baseball teams from the
American and National Leagues, bat
tling for the championship of the
world. returned to New York tonight
to resume their struggle at the Polo
Grounds tomorrow. AS 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 New York Giants.
One triumph for the American
Leaguers tomorrow will give them tho
baseball championship of the world.
and the spoils that go with it. Victory
for the Nationals will carry the series
into Tuesday for tie final game, pro-
vided the weather man is nd-hearted.
and assuming there is not a tie game.
AS Chicago has the ,dd game safely
tucked away. great advantage at this
stage of a short series, Chicago follow
ers here feel confident that 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 performances OF last
week of taking two straight games on
the Polo Grounds.
The Giants are pinning their faith
on Ferdy Schupp and Rube Benton.
who helped the New Workers. to make
their great comeback last Wednesday
and Thursday. when all but their most
faithful followers thought tho team
was out of the running. Based on their
work In the present series. there Is
little choice between the two, and 1t is
probable McGraw will make no decf-
sion. but will wait and send in to-mor-
row to hold the Sox the pitcher who
shows the better in the practice.
Benton held the Sox to FIVE hits for
six bases In the the one rame he
pitched and won. Schupp has twirled
in two games. being taken out in the
second inning of one contest, and shut
ting out Chicago on his second appear
ance. ~,
noWI.AHDssAysA FABER
WILL START If RIGHT
Manager Rowland's pitching choice.
he said tonight. would be Faber, IL he
is right. and Cicotte to relieve him IL
Faber shows any signs Of trouble.
Cicotte. the records show has pitched
twenty-three CT the forty-three innings
New York has been at bat The White
Sox manager said he was confident that
to-morrow's anne would be the last.
His men are aeeatly elated over their
victory when defeat looked almost sure.
Unofictal averages of the five games
SO far played show neither team has
mad great advantage. BY reason of
yesterdays fusillade of hits, Chicago
leads New York in team batting. The
mite SoN have team average of
2SS to the Giants 271. Chicago has
made total Of forty-seven hits and
seventeen runs. while New York has
made forty-five hits for fifteen talIies.
New York leads in team fielding,
with an average of .959: Chicaso's
figures are .9iS. The Giants have made
eight errors. three Of them In Satur-
days wild game; and the White Sox
eleven, OF which six also were scored
on Saturday. The two shortstops,
Weaver and Fletcher, lead their re-
spective teams in errors, the former
having four and the latter three. The
average Of John Collins. the Sox
fielder. OF three errors in a total of
seven chances is far below worlds
series standards for outer garden men.
He is the only outfielder on either team
TO make misplay so far
ROBERTSON LEADS ALL
IN INDIVIDUAL BATTING
Individual batting honors for the two
teams rest with Davy Robertson, the
Giants right fielder. He is the only
player on either team who has double
figures in the hit column, having
slammed the ball safely ten times In
nineteen times at bat for an average
of .526. Rariden. substituting for the
hard hitting Mccarthy, and whose
catching has been Of a high order.
comes next to Robertson, with an aver
age OF .500-fve hits In ten times at
bat. Kauff and Zimmerman. the Giants
cleanup men, arc batting under 200.
Captain Eddie Collins is leading the
White SoS regulars with eight hits
out Of eighteen times at bat. with an
average OF .44. Risbers, the pinch
hitter. has an average OF 500, coming
through safely once in his two trips
to the plate. Weaver is hitting at q
1853 clip, John Collins has averaged .3s3
and Jackson and Felsch 1916 each.
The total attendance for the series
so far is 152,e'5 and the total receipts
S352,530. Only in two Of the five games
have the ball parks been filled to ca
pacity and these two instances were In
Chicago, where the first two games
were played