Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-13
Fans Gather at Ticket Windows at O'clock, When Cof
fee Vendors Do Rushing Business; Build Small
Fires to Keep Warm; Weather Makes 1t Impossible
For Men to Sit Down
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Chicago, Oct. 13.-On a field
swept by frosty winds the New York
Giants and Chicago White Sox swung
into action to-day in the fifth en-
gagement of the worlds series cam
paign that now nears to its end.
Some thirty thousand spectators saw
the champions of the National and
American Leagues come to grips.
The two clubs stand at evens in
games won-two victories cach-and
by either team will determine the
baseball champions of 1917.
Chilling weather followed in the
wake of Fridays incipient snow
storm. A biting wind came out OF
the northwest; frigid comfort to
those home fans whose temperatures
went to subnormal with the double
defeat of the SoX in New York. Spec
tators wrapped themselves in big
overcoats and padded their coe:s
with newspapers. The players at
early practice were jacketed in
sweat ers.
Batteries for New York were an
nounced: Sallee and Rariden; for
Chicago, Russell and Schalk. Um-
pire O'Loughlin gave decisions be-
hind the plate; KLEIN at first base;
Rifler at second base and Evans at
third base.
Game Starts
First inning-Burns up. Ball one
Bal 1.-TWO. Ball three. Burns walked
on four pitched balls. Herzog up.
/. Ball one. Strike one. Herzog
singled to right field and Burns
dashed to third. Cicotte and Will
liams were now warming up. Kauff
base hit to the right field fence Her
zog going to third. Zimmerman up.
Russell was taken from the box at
this stage and Cicotte was sent in.
Cicotte had only a few seconds to
warm up in the outfeld. before talk
ing his place on the rubber. The
crowd boed Zimmerman. Strike one.
Weaver took Zimmerman's grounder
and Herzog was run down between
third and home, the play being
Weaver to Schalk. Kauff moved on
to third. Fletcher up. McMullin
took Fletcher's hot smash and threw
to Schalk who touched out Kauff as
he slid into the plate. Robertson
up. Ball one. Ball one. Ball two.
Zimmerman scored on Robertson's
single to center. On Felsch's throw
othe plate, Fletcher went to third
up. Ball one. Foul, strike one.
Foul, strike two. Cicotte threw out
Holke at first. Two runs, three
hits, no errors.
Continued in Bulletin Boxi
Although the New York Nationals
and the Chicago Americans were to
meet here for the fifth game of the
worlds series this afternoon the line
in front of the ticket window at
.ss.I- 1t I
until four o'clock this morning
Three hundred fans were shivering in
the line at daybreak. A vendor Of
campstools beat a retreat about this
time, as everybody was too cold to
sit down. In several places there
were little campfirse, and a break
business in hot coffee and steaming
frankfurters was done. The weather
man promised clear skies and a
slightly warmer air by afternoon.
Series Even.
Although the series stands 2 to
2, and the utmost Importance at
tached to to-day's contest, scalpers'
tickets were far below the prices de-
manded for the first two games a
week ago. Box seats We're obtainable
at SIS and reserved in the grand
stand at $40. This was in part due
to the increased supply of paste
lIOIIl pdllOllo "ilOB lldNiHE
seen the first two games, disposed
of the third coupon of their Chicago
tickets.
Chicago enthusiasts made ready
for the game in spirits far different
from the confidence which followed
the winning of the first two games by
the White Stockings. At that time
they considered the series as good
as won, but when New York blanked
al OIL
innings on the Polo Grounds that
feeling disappeared kneedeep in OBJ
livion and was replaced by mere
hope. The feeling was that the
break of the game would decide the
series.
Sixth i'm New York.
Only one game will be played in
Chicago this trip. The sixth game
will be played in New York and the