New Britain herald., 1919-10-09
Williams and Filler Are Ex- pected to Be Selected As Opposing Twirlers in Cru cial Contest.
TEAMS ARE CLOSELY
 MATCHED; FEW BETS

Chicago, Oct. 9.-Again contender 1 for the worlds baseball champion 1 ship by virtue of their to 1 victory 1 over the Cincinnati Reds yesterday, 1 the Chicago White Sox returned to 1 Comiskey Park today to make a de- | termined effort to draw abreast the 1 Reds in the matter of games won at 1 4 to 4. Regarded as out of the race l for premier baseball honors when the 1 Reds took the first two games of the series at the Ohio city and then won ] two out of three here, the American l league pennant winners apparently i found their long lost batting eyes and 1 the two victories they hammered out on successive days on foreign soil l brought a return of the pre-series 1 confidence in the ultimate outcome to l their supporters here.
 "Hod" Ellcr May TwirI. Needing but the single game to bring his team the championship 1 Manager Pat Moran was expected to | send "Hod' EIler, spitbalI pitcher to | the mound today in the eighth game 1 of the series Eller established the | world series record of six successive 1 strikeouts when he held the White 1 Sox to three hits, one a scratch, in 1 the game here Monday When Cincin- 1 nati won to O. Claude "Lefty" Will 1 Hams, twice defeated by the Reds but 1 holding them to an aggregate of eight | hits in the two games was expected l to be Gleason's selection for mound 1 duty.
 Gleason is Confident. Williams pitching was of high or der, but each time he opposed twirl-
 CTS before whom the White Sox ri less With the assertion that his boys" had recovered their batting eyes and fighting spirit as was evi- denced yesterday and Tuesday when they batted from the box Ruether and Sallee who overcame them in the first two /'battles, Manager Gleason
 was confident his star left handler would pitch a comeback game as did Cicotte yesterday
 Moran, Confident, Too. Manager Moran, while somewhat surprised that his charges had failed in two attempts to assure the Ma tional league champions possession of the 1919 worlds championship merely pointed to the breaks of the games as responsible for what he termed the "postponement.' He seemed confident today would end
 
 ninth game tomorrow at Cincinnati. Fabcr or Williams. "Red" Faber hero of the 1917 worlds Scries was mentioned aS a l White Sox pitching possibility today, but the consensus of opinion was that Williams would be given the honor. Faber is said to have recov- cred form. though he was virtually on the retired list all season. In their renewed hope that the White SoX yet would win the series, local enthusiasts began to cast about for precedcnts to fortifY them in what some others regarded as a rath-
 CT far fetched desire.
 Regarded as most reassuring in it's value as directly concerning the White Sox however was the record of
 the 1912 city series when the SoN with their backs to the wall after the Cubs had taken three straight, fell on their National league rivals and won the necessary four games. That
 showed it "can be done some said.
 Few Wager On Game.
 Few wagers on the outcome of the
 series were reported today. Prevail
 ing odds on the series result appar-
 entlv were 21a to and even money
 on today's game.
 The probable lineup for todays
 game follow:
 Cincinnati-Rath, 2b; Daubert, 1b;
 Groh 3b; Roush, of; Duncan, If;
 Kopf, ss; Neale, If; Rariden, c; El-
 Ter, D.
 Chicago-Liebold, If; F. Collins
 2b; Weaver, 3b; Jackson, If; Felsch,
 of; Gandil, 1b; Risberg, ss; Schalk,
 C. Williams D