New Britain herald., 1919-10-02
EDS CRUSHING VICTORY
 CAUSES CHANCE IN BETTING
Wonderful Showing of Moran's Team Places Them On Even Money Basis With White Sox
 to Win B ig Series.

@ SlHClliIldl u, onlO, oCl. -.-A1Ief fQl- Mg favorites before the start of yes Mday's game, the White Sox were b better than even money in the Fitting on the worlds S series here last #ght. Several wagers ranging from
 N % to $2,500 were made on yester- &y's contest at 5 to ' and to 8. Mr revious to the opening game odds Mere given that the White SoX would Fin the series.
 M Scalpers reaped a rich harvest sell @g tickets for the opening contest, < an hour before the game was Billed the spectators slashed their Mrices and were apparently anxious to Mspose of their tickets at face value. %ox seats for three games, costing 9.S0, were snapped up at prices Mnging from $40 to $60 early in the @y. One visitor paid $125 for three B .50 seats for yesterdays game. Persons having seats to sell circu- Mted among the baseball crowds 8 8lronging the hotel corridors peddling B cir wares. The spectators also #ere busy on street corners and other Races where baseball crowds gath Fed.
 # Federal authorities made one arrest
 hd held one witness in connection #ith the ticket selling. Under the #w, speculators selling tickets for #ore than face value are obliged to Ny federal war tax of 50 per cent of amount received.
 # Revenue agents were stationed in #btel Hobbies to watch for violations &hd a score of suspected scalpCrs Were questioned.
 @ Very Hot in Cincy. M Cincinnati's great triumph was Famed in a most singular world Fries setting. For the first time in Me history of the classic fans sat in # cir shirt sleeves; red faces rather Nan blue noses ruled Instead of @e cold weather which usually
 Marked the opening game of series of
 8e past, Cincinnati was favored with
 H e kind of climatic conditions which x ew York usually got early in Au- Rst-a temperature that firted with M e 90 mark, humidity such as only @ e river cities Of the Middle West # n develop, and a sun which beat
 bwn just as relentlessly as that &hich burned the pates of the onlook-
 Is at Dempsey's victory in Toledo 8 July 4.
 8 It was hot, with nary a breeze, but #ncinnati minded it not. There had % on a yelled threat of showers. for Re game, in spite of the optimism N the weather forecaster, but when Ne throng assem bled to await the Ell of "Play ball." blue skies, only Nere and there fiecked by fair weather Mouds smiled down on the scene. It Mas an orderly crowd which jammed Zealand field. In spite of the ac-
 Bmmodations provided for the over Mpw of perhaps 4,00O beyond the or Binary capacity of the grounds, there @as no confusion. Everything went #ong shipshape.
 IN When the Reds took the field for #-actice Ruether was the only pitcher # warm up, indicating that Pat Mo-
 n had decided to adhere to his se- 8ction of the night before. And when e White Sox came on Cicotte was @ e only pitcher to warm up for them. |Mhe preliminaries were punctuated by # #veral prodigious hits, particularly Mle by Jackson which made some of
  &erents gaze on the outfelder with no Mhall trepidation.
 M SOuSa Leads Band. # Most of the formalitieS of past #orld's series were done away with. #here was no parade, there were no
 Beeches. The park was decked out & gala attire and the fans were there 9eady to enjoy a Roman holiday but Everything was carried out in a bus hess like way. The principal extra Baseball feature which marked the &reliminaries was a little band led by #ohn Philip Sousa. The famous band # #aster had been invited here for the #ries and consented to lead the band A its rendition of 'The Stars and #tripes Forever"
 # As game time neared factory smoke Backs in the distance which had been %elching black clouds Of soot ceased #1eir operations. Probably the stok- Mrs had left for the game. The skies I Hrew even brighter above the acropo- #s which stands behind Redland field, natural height which should be dec Srated with some work of art rather 8aan be marred by the unsightly Baroness with which it stands out 8gainst the sky.
 @ The one armed announcer who 8ems to be fixture at worlds series #ames came to the center of the field #nd announced th9< Charley Ri2ler M ould umpire a~ the plate, Billy Evans at first base, Dick Nallin at #hird and Ernest Qugley at second. #he batteries he did not need to an- Mounce. Nary a fan in that assem-