Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-05
EVERYBODY IN BOISE TALKS BASEBALL
TO-DAY, AND REAL FANS FOLLOW GAMES
ONELECTR|C SCORE BOARD IN GARDENS
White sox Supporters Loudest
Until Reds Hammer Cicotte
in opener-$1ooo Bet, Even
Money, Goes Begging.

Everybody in Boise is baseball fan
today. One fourth of the population
was talking world series Wednesday.
Fully half the people of all walks of
life discussed the recovery of the White
Eox Friday. And this morning every
housewife who was up when the milk
man called asked him who would an
mex the crucial contest today.
IL Exactly half Of the fans are Red
rcoters. Time was, and as late as moor,
Wednesday, when all the wise ones
seemed to believe Gleason's veterans
were invincible. There were a few
followers of the game who held that
these doughty batsmen might find
themselves making futile swings when
they met that crafty string of pitch
ers Moran had in waiting for them
Reuther Sallee, Luque, ct al.-but not
very many of these had the courage
to say so and back their opinion with
ELOQUENT currency.
HOW DOPE RAN
When some local prophet vouchsafed
the free prediction that the champion
ship would revert to the National
league this year straightway the dope
ster overwhelmed him with the history
OF past performances; showed him I'M
SoX were a stronger and more perfect
machine than that with which Moran
won the pennant once before for Phila-
delphia, and then sent him to cover
with areverberant salvo of the one and
only Cicotte.
But from the moment the Cincy
sluggers turned loose in the memoir
able fourth inning of theopening game
some echo of the manlacal joy of Gin
lcinnati fandom reached even unto
Boise. The few who had courageously
ventured few beans on the Reds now
bravely, though modestly of course,
boosted of their judgment and argu-
ment concerning the succeeding games
and the series through the medium OF
wagers became more general.
AS matter of fact there has been
no great amount of betting of the spec
tacular kind. One staunch Chicago
partisan announced two weeks ago that
he had cold thousand dollars he
would like to double, but 1t wasn't
taken. He was giving odds. Friday he
was still willing and arrangements
were made yesterday TO cover part of
$he amount.
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
Real difference of opinion at the in
teresting stage of betting on games
and scores developed at the Liberty
Gardens before the electric scoreboard
on winch the games were recOrOeu
play by play as they came over the
wire. Crowds have hungrily waited
for bulletins in front of the Capital
News office, and each Innings end has
been marked by excited comment and
Applause. But dyed Lint the wool fans
have hustled into the Liberty Gardens
long before noon and spent the lunch
hour noisily watching the board as
though it were Redland field or Co
miskey park itself. Here the congre-
cation has behaved just as baseball
crowds do behave, in every respect.
The board has grown in popularity
day by day. Wednesday was rainy and
Friday chilly, but each days attend
ance showed an increase. Today the
'bleachers' will doubtless be filled to
zee what Is expected to be the key
stone game of the series. It's remark
able how electric lights, flashing when
a ball is called or when a tall fly Is
poled out to the left field stands. can
send that genuine thrill up the spec
tator's spine that he feels when he
gees the real thing. But they do, and
there is noisy accismation when a
glowing bulb announces that Eddie
Collins. Chfcago's foremost batter, or
Duncan, Moran's hard hitting recruit,
has stepped to the plate,
II any Boise citizens wandering in
the east attend the series they win
have a big audience when they return.
Next year we're all going if the signs
are right