Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-05
RAIN PREVENTS
 WORLD SERIES
 GETTING START
First Game Will Be Played Today, Weather Permit ting; Herman Hopes for $25, 900 for Charities

CHICAGO, Sept. 4.-Preyented by
 rain from staging the first game ol
 the worlds series today, the Chicago
 Nationals and Boston Red Sox spent
 the day under cover in preparation
 for the game tomorrow. which, weath'
 CT permitting. will inaugurate the last
 strdggIe for the premier baseball hon
 ors to be played during the war. Fred Mitchell, manager of the Cubs,
 and Manager Barrow of the Boston
 club kept their legions segregated to-
 day, working cut problems of defense
 and attack preparatory to the opening round of the battle tomorrow. Both
 leaders expressed confidence in the outcome.
 The only outcropping of news which enliyened an otherwise dismal and gloomy session of the hot stove" league, lay in the injury to Dave Shean, the Red Sox second baseman, who split the middle finger of his throwing hand during practice, and who, it was said, may not appear in tomorrow's line up. Jack Coffey was picked to substitute for Shean with a possibility that Fred Thomas, who IS on a furlough from Great Lakes training station, might be called into the frey to play third base.
 August Hermann, chairman of the natlona. baseball commission, enliv- ened the hotel gossip with the an- nouncement that he expected the series to net $25,000 for war charities. He said Indications were that the total receipts this year would ap- proach a quarter of a million dollars, to be divided between the players, the clubs. leagues and commission, with the split for the runnerup and thir and fourth place clubs. MT. Hermann based his estimate on the receipts of last year, which, in round numbers, totaled $350,000.
 Tt is possible we may ask the sec retary of war either to donate the fund to some single charity or to dis tribute it among all recognized war activities" said Hermann. Tt is un- likely that the commission will take upon itself the distribution of the funds"
 Possibilities of a Sunday game in Chicago loomed large today. Over cast skies augured ill for tomorrow's scheduled contest, and it was an- nounced that in the event of another postponement or a tie contest the first contest at Boston might be put over until Tuesday and game staged in Chicago on Sept. 8. The club own CTS were frankly in favor of the plan.
 Big Jim" Vaughn, the most consist ent winner of the Chicago Nationals this season, was a favorite among the mound possibilities for tomorrow. It was admitted that the choice of the Chicago twirlers was between Vaughn and Tyler, both lefthanders. Vaughn's prestige among the fans was counted to overcome whatever advantage might accrue to Tyler as the resplt of previous worlds series experience Boston's choice for mound duty was in doubt. Harry Frazee president of the club, was authority for the statement that whoever was chosen 1t would not be Babe" Ruth," inttmatr ing that Ruth's prowess with the bat was considered a highly important factor in the series. It was believed that Manager Barrow would give Mays preference over Bullet Joe" Bush, to hold the latter under wraps for use in case Mays cracks.