The sun., 1919-09-24
BASEBALL SEASON
ENDS THIS WEEK
Only Few More Games Will
Be Played Before Wind
Up Of Races. :
TWO GAMES HERE TO-DAY
Yanks Play Red SOX-Ruth
Will Have Chance to Better
Home Run Mark.
TWO GAMES HERE TO-DAY

Az dead autumn leaves fiutter from
ha branches to the ground and are
rhlsked along by the wind, the growing
strength of which presages the advance
A the saddest season of all the year,
,ha hall player hero of months of stress
md strife on sunlit ball fields. prepares
for the winters Information. In few
says more he will lay away his uniforms
M gray and white. his sun glasses, his
cloves and his spiked shoes. and in the
attire of the private citizen hike to his
winter quarters. - OF all his parapher-
ralla the only thing he will take with
him will be his favorite bat This he
win nut IN n dry place and watch over
carefully until the bugle calls to action
in the spring.
The last few games OF the pennant
season are now TO be played, and while
many Of the diamond heroes will watch
the battle Of the Reds and Sox. the ma
iority will head for their homes
Locally the season will end at the
Polo Grounds Sunday. for the Robins
said farewell to Ebbets Field weeks ago
Tha Yankees will meet the Boston and
Red Sox and Babe Ruth at the Polo
Grounds this afternoon in a double
header, and then will come the Athletics
for a brace of games with the Higgins
clan
The Yankees then viii go to Philadel-
mia and play a double header with the
Mackmen, which ends the season for the
New York team Of the American League
II is the ambition of the Yankees to fin
ish in third place and the outlook for
them is excellent
Giants Here on Saturday.
The Giants after a five game series
with the Braves in Boston will return to
the Polo Grounds next Saturday and
open series with Philadelphia. The
last official games at the Polo Grounds
will be double header with the Phil
lies next Sunday It will then be in or
DER TO speculate as to the chances OF
New York's trio of teams getting into
the money in the season OF 1920.
Possibly the Reds have a slender
chance of beating the White Sox for the
worlds pennant. Charles ]. Butts,
second sight expert of Upper Sandusky
who foretold the defeat of Jeffries by
Jack Johnson and the conquest of ].
Willard by Jack Dempsey. predicts that
the Sox will beat the Reds. He de-
clInes to go into details and admits that
as HdllNt VI lllo DuChtye oldle IL goes
against the grain to make such a
prophecy. However, he declared he
never permits his personal feelings to
interfere with hts business as a prophet.
Therefore It seems that Moran and his
crew may as well prepare for defeat.
/. Chance for "Babe" Ruth To-day.
There is lurking suspicion In the
minds of the fans that Babe Ruth of
Bostou will this afternoon shatter the
home run record made by the late Ed
williamson. Ruth already has equalled
The Williamson mark of twenty
sven home runs and as he has two
games in which to shoot at the figures
there is an excellent chance that he will
DO the trick.
Ty Cobb will hike for Augusta as soon
as the season ends, for he has received
word that an eight pound baby girl has
arrived in his domicile, and this event
overshadoWs in the mind of Cobb the
third PLACID controversy between New
York and Detroit.
Bill KLEIN recently left his uniform
case on a street car in Cincinnati and
was compelled to go on the field and Of
fciate in his street clothes. When KLEIN
discovered his loss the street car was too
far away to be chased.
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