Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-09
SOx Confident
OF EVENING UP
SERIES TODAY
With Pat Moran Needing Only q
Single Game, HOd EIIer Was
Expected to Take the Box.

Chicago. Oct. 9.-Again contend
er for the worlds baseball cham
pionship by virtue of their 4 to l
victory over the Cincinnati Reds
yesterday, the Chicago White SOx
returned to Comiskey park today
to make a determined effort to
draw abreast of the Reds in the
matter Of games alone at a.. Re-
garded as virtually out of the race
for premier baseball honors when
games of the series at the Ohio
city and then took two out of three
games here.
Needing but the single game to
bring his team the championship.
Manager Pat Moran was expected
to send "Hod" Eller, his pitcher
extraordinary, to the mound today
in the eighth game of the series.
Eller it was who established the
worlds series record OF six sue
ceSsiVe stTikeouts when he held
the White Sox to three hits. one a
scratch, in the game here Monday,
when Cincinnati won. 10 0.
Claude C'Lefty") Williams, twice
defeated by the Redlegs but hold
ing them to an aggregate OF eight
hits in the two games, was expect
ed to be Manager Kid" Gleason's
selection for mound duty.
1t was generally admitted that
Williams pitching would have
won nine of ten ordinary games"
but each time he opposed pitching
that White Sox heavy hitters vir-
tualiy were poWarless before" With
the assertion that his boys" had
recovered their batting eyes and
fighting spirit, as was evidenced
yesterday, and Tuesday, when they
batted from the box Ruether and
SaIlee, who oVercame them in the
first two battles. Manager Gleason
was confident his star left-handeE
would pitch a comeback game as
did Cicotte yesterday.
Moran Surprised.
Manager Moran. while rather
surprised that his charges had
failed in two attempts to assure
the National champions possession
of the 1919 worlds series, merely
pointed to the breaks of the game
as responsible for what he termed
the 'postponement." lie seemed
confident today would end the ser
les, making unnecessary the ninth
game tomorrow at Cincinnati.
Showers were included in the Of
fetal weather forecast for today.
making it uncertain just what
brand Of weather the eighth game
would draw, after seven playing
days OF unparalleled worlds series
sunshine and warmth Moderate
temperature was forecast, how
ever, and it was stated the game
would be played unless there was
a heavy rain at o'clock.
Interest in the series with Chi
cago was renewed by the come
back Of the White Sox, and the
prospect of a good crowd was sp-
parent today A large crowd was
gathering about the bleacher and
pavilion entrances last night and
were gathered to during the even
ing and throughout the early
All the grand stand re-
served seats were sold yesterday.
but many of the box seats were
The sale of the $500 pavilion
anu DlSdtu6T SOdbS DoSdH at . D"
O'Clock this morning.
Red" Faber, hero of the 1917
worlds series, was mentioned as
a White Sox pitching possibility
today. but the consensus of opinion
was that Williams would be given
the honor. Faber is said to have
recovered form, though he was vir-
tually on the retired list all the
season.
In their renewed hope that the
White Sox vet would win the ser
les, local enthusiasts began to cast
about for presidents to fortify
them in what others regarded here
as rather far-fetched.
1t was found that the American
league representatives would have
to establish yet another record III
this record-breaking series to be
regarded as winners. In no world
series has club won four straight
games when its opponents needed
but single contest. In 1907 Frank
Chances old Chicago Cubs machine
took four straight from Detroit
after the first game ended in a tie,