New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-04
Chicago Fans Rally
TO Baseball Classic
Red Sox Team Strikes for
Pay to September 5 and
Wins Demand
By w. !. Macbeth

BY w. J. Macbeth
CHICAGO, Sept. 3.-The Boston play
ers before coming East waited upon
Harry Frazec with the ultimatum that
they would not engage in the titanic
struggle even for the prescribed rich
spoiis of $4,000 per man win or $1,400
per man lose unless the Boston mag
nate would agree to pay prO-rata sea-
sons contract salary in full up to Sep.
TENDER Is. The Red Sox carried their
point, needless to say. Also, needless
to say, the Cubs will do likewise when
they hear of the Hub coup.
CHICAGO, Sept. 3.Somebody forgot
to page the world series. Here. in the
hotbed Of baseball enthusiasm, there
seems to be about as much excitement
over the annual classic of the national
game as there is regarding the identity
of the next President of the National
League.
The Old Roman, Charles Comiskey,
who can have the mayoralty any. time
he asks the. honorA never overlooked
any bets, nor is he now. Commy made
himself strong with local fandom by
rendering his spacious South Side Park
for the use of the rival Cubs. 1t means
more money, provided there happens to
be enthusiasm enough to crowd a
ground as cramped as the cigar box of
the North Side on which Weeghman's
team plays it's games. Comiskey made
good fellow Of himself through this
bit of generosity, but he does not in
tend to halt there.
Fish Chowder for Scribes
He is going to open the headquarters
of the Woodland Bards, at Comiskey
Park, for the ente rtainment of the press
tomorrow. The gala occasion will be
featured with a fish chowder for the
deans of the baseball writer's. A
couple of weeks ago Commy dispatched
to his Wisconsin Lakes delegation of
guides, with lines, hooks and nets, to
against to-morrow's banquet,
Whether the guides went to Wiscon-
sin or the Fulton fish market, the fact
remains that the 'lunge to-day laid
shimmering in Commy's ice box, chilled
with the thought of to-morroW's boil
ing
The coming fish chowder was all that
the deans could talk of to-day. Which
shows into what moral decay the world
series has fallen. Usually, Fullerton's
dope furnishes a rare tid-bit for dis
cusssion. Hughie is in there batting
em out, as usual, but he gets no more
tumble than RUDE Marquard could ex-
pect to get if he ambled along.
Why, Ed Barrow and his champion
Red Sox, when they put in a belated
appearance around 4 o'clock this af-
ternoon, failed to get tumble. They
excited less attention than the brass
band of a travelling minstrel troupe
that ballyhooed the main streets and
the side streets as we'll.
Indeed, for the time at least incident
to the arrival of the Red Sox, the
Windy City was absorbed in the sham
battle of the air, which served the eli
max finale of the war show on here
now in honor of varied commiss ons
from our allies. Chicagos streets dur
ing the air maneuvres Of an hour or
so looked like a New York thorough
fare just after some newsboy happens
to call attention to window cleaner
above the fifth story. 1t would give one
a crick in the neck to regard the up-
turned vsages.
A Rattle of Artillery
From the ramparts of the toy forts
along the Lake Michigan exhibition
shore swapping shrapnel pulled it's
/ ING planes that swerved and dipped
and dived toward or from the gunners.
i The rattle of artillery from across the
park shook the press room windows of
/ the Congress Hotel.
But bell-cow dean, James Isaminger
like Casabianca, held the deck ano
ground out ream after ream of world
series copy, plugging away at his mill
from a standing position while the
band was closing the show with "The
Star Spangled Banner" Oh, that versa.
tile soul!
AS to the opening of the 1918 world
series, which will take place at Comis.
key Park tomorrow afternoon between
the Cubs and Red Sox, little supple
mentary can be vouchsafed to what
has already been said aside from the
tact that the threatened deluge appears
to have passed The sun was up brigh,
and early to-day, and has been workine
overtime since. He and snappy NORTH
wind combined dried out Natures
shampoo of Yesterday from the thatcf
OF Comiskey Park, SO that Fred Mitch
ell and his Cubs were able to disport
themselves with the most rockies:
abandon as early as l o'clock this at
ternoon.
Mitchell, as usual, was non-commit
tai, and his players even more so. A
feeling is growing that Mitchell will
open with George (Lefty) Tyler to-
morrow, because Of Tyler's worlc
series experience OF 1914. That would
leave Big Jim Vaughn, who is inclined
to be Eighty, for the second game, anc
Claude Hendrix for the third. Their
Tyler or Vaughn, either one Of them
would be fit for heavy service in the
opening game at Boston on Monday
next.
Manager Ed Barrow of the Red Sos
was less communicative and commit
tai than Mitchell. To hear him rave one
might expect anybody from Babe Ruth
to Jean Dubuc to fire the first gun fol
the Hub. 1t would surprise nobody il
the underhanded Carl May, provided
his control happens to be right, shoulo
be given the honorary assignment.
Big Demand For Tickets
If the reports of those National Com
mission representatives who have ir
charge the sale of tickets are to be
believed, the series in Chicago will MOI
lack for patronage. 1t was said to-
night that all the reserved seats hac
been sold and that nothing remained
but the general admissions, which
would be put on sale at the park to-