New Britain herald., 1918-09-05

served. Several scalpers appeared on the streets with pasteboards but tn ere was no call for their wares.
 According to Craighead the mum Der of press reservations also compares faVorably with those of a year ago, despite the fact that through Gov ernment regulations only few wires will be available from the grounds That Cuba has not lost interest in the big American sporting classic was in dicated by the presence of three staff correspondents from Havana papers.
 Garry Hermann chairman of the National Commission, is very optimis-
 tic over the series. He said last night that he expected the series to net $25,-
 00O for war charities H. based his figure on the supposition that the se-
 ries will draw a quarter of a million dollars. He said the advance sales in Chicago and Boston indicate that that
 much will be taken in, even under the lower price scale, provided the series runs to six games, as did that of last 1 year. The receipts of the 1917 White Sox- Giant series in round numbers to- tailed $35O,00O. Hermann said that all the persons involved in the series-- club owners, players and umpires
 
 this cause.
 F1t is very likely that some persons entirely outside of baseball will be asked to pick the charity to which the money is to be donated" sair Herr mann. Tt is possible that we will ask the Secretary of War to designate the worlds series fund to some single charity to distribute it among 2l1 recognized war charities"
 Vaughn Will Start The rainy day caused quite bit of speculation as regards pitchers. but it is well nigh certain that Manager Mitchell of the Cubs will start big Jim Vaughn, his great left handler and l former American Leaguer. The .sos- ton choice rests between Joe Bush and Carl Mays The choice likely will go 1 to the former, as he has been more successful than Mays in worlds series competition.
 The only thing that Barrow would say about his pitchers is that Babe Ruth the former pitching act of the staff. will not pitch today. For the present we will keep the big Babe il a position where he can do the great l est damage with that little stick with which he attacks pitchers," said Bar row gleefully.
 Barrow is not looking for the Chi cago star left handlers to hold up Ruth despite the fact that Babe is a left handed batsman. "While Babe pre- fers the right handlers, he frequently gets hold of a left handlers delivery and the outfeldcrs catch up with it after it bounds off the fences," rom- mented the Red SoX chief.
 Neither Barrow nor Mitchell lin- derestmateS the strength of the op- position. "I guess the Cubs are $, pretty good ball club and play , smooth game" said Barrow, "but the ] great thing about the Boston team iS the way it can pull itself together when Il gets in u tight series, i've ] beat off Cleveland few weeks ago l when they came 10 Boston to snatch 1 the lead from Us, and consider CltVe- 1 land every whit sta strong ;tH the i Cubs"
 There was little betting around the 1 hotel corridors, but such as was done 1 was at even money. There are a great 1 number of dyed-in-t the wool American i league fans in Chicago, who are back ! ing the Red SoN
 Nhllc you do not hear the ser Cs i discussed much on the street, the ho- 1 fe' lo"blcs, especially the one where i the National Commission is staying, l show the worlds series atnospher9 Of l former years with most of the usual
 world series faces in evidence.