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Louisville. Ky. Oct A-The
Louisville Colonies will carry their
never say lose" spirit into ti3 in
ter-league series, with the Bait
more Orioles, according TO Mana
ger Joe Mccarthy of the tean1-the
same spirit that enabled them 20
land the championship Of the Amer
lean Association, although they
neither led the league in hitting
nor fielding
The first game of the minor
league classic will be played here
tomorrow.
BY playing consistent baseball all
season, Louisville has been out in
front since June IS. Since then
the race has been a close one and
at the close the Colonels had as
big a lead as at any time in the
season. Ranging from one point TO
six games, Minneapolis has stayed
just behind the Colonies, ever ready
to take first place If the Kentuck-
ians lost their hold. On one occa-
sion, when the teams were playing
in Minneapolis, a one-point margin
separated the two clubs ana a VIC
tory for the Millers would have de-
posed Louisville
The team is third in hitting. de-
spite the fact that the heaviest hit
ter of the league. Jayson Kirke,
is the leagues leading batter.
Since the organization of the
American association 20 years ago,
Louisville prior to this year twice
has won the pennant The runners
up in the 1920 flag chase, strength
ened by the addition of players from
the Southern association. led since
June 12 with Minneapolis the most
dangerous contender.
Twelve members Of the 1921 men,
nant winners were with the Colo
nels last season. These were Pen
lineup, pitcher and outEeIde-:
kirke. first base; Ray Massey. oat-
field; Bruno Bethel, second base.
who is out of the game with a
broken leg; William Never and
Bradley kocher. catchers: Joe
Schepner. third base: W. B. Wright
Earnest KooA and Thomas Iong'
pitchers, Merito Acosla, outfeli
and Mccarthy. manager.
The 1921 additions include Al
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FANS FR0l9ALL
parts COUNTRY
INVhDE n'YANIK

tUritcd Press star Cores CEdentI
New York Oct. An cager-eyeI
army Of 5000 baseball fans swooped
down on blase Broadway today.
From Walla Walia and Podunk
they came to lounge in the plush
cushions of Broadway hotels and
chew the rag behind quarter cigars
until the worlds series opens to-
morrow.
They changed the Hobbies OF the
big hotels into ''meetin' houses"
where only two subjects were dis
cussed-the Yanks and the Giants
and 10 you know where one can
get 4 drink"
And as they talked the army kept
pouring in.
The hotels had made no prepare
tons for the delUge. They had fig
ured it out that this is New York
worlds series and that the rest Of
tie country wasn't ii on it.
A large number of visitors were
sport writer's. The west ball room
Of the Commodore hotel was turned
into a sport room for their benefit.
Four hundred typewriters and
desks were waiting for them. Uni
formed lackeys with gold braids
served as Office boys.
Delegations from all parts of the
country kept pouring in during the
day. Percy c. Thompson, mayor of
Lowell. Mass. came with d large
party 10 the Pennsylvania, where a
party of business men from Topeka,
Kan, also are registered Every
state is represented.
There was little betting in evil
dence. The Giants were considered
favorites in most of the wagers at
short odds. Most of the bets were
at six, seven and eight to five The
general trend seemed to be to wait
until after the first game is over.
They appeared to fear that the
Yankee sluggers might not slug or
that the Giants pitchers might
f1Z8le
Several big bets were reported in
Wall street, the highest being
$1,000 to $4,000 on the Giants.
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Substitutes played an important
role in the second game OF the 1916
Red Brooklyn series at Boston
Boston evened up Brook!yR's one
run in the third inning and the
game dragged on with neither team
scoring until the 14th. Dick Hob
Htzel then drew a pass, and Lewis
sacrificed.
Manager Carrigan sent McNally
to second to run for the big first
baseman. pulled Gardner out of the
lineup and sent in Del Gamer to
bat for him.
Gamer connected with vicious
liner that went for a single and Nc
Nally, the other substitute, brought
home the run that won the game
Ten times since 1903 pinch hitters
have worked the pitchers for
passes, thus bTid lying the danger
gap successfully for their teams.
Murphy of the White Sox got a life
in the 1919 series with the Reds
when he went IN 20 pinch h;t and
got one OF Uod EiIer's offerings =
me middle OF the back.
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the Dakotas and one from Colo
RADIO. With the exception of Har-
ward and Princeton, Notre Dame
playing the largest number OF con-
ference games in many years, is
expected to be the most serious
contender met in the northampton
ship schedules.
Harvard and Indiana nave the
center OF the stage, Saturday, Oct.
s, while two South Dakota teams
invade the Big Ten: Notre Dame
plays at Iowa, Michigan meets Case
and Ohio meets Ohio Wesleyan.
Michigan and the Michigan Ag
gies and Purdue and NOtre Dame
present a pair of games worth con-
siderirg for Oct Is. Chicago and
Prin ceton will center thu thoughts
of the east and west on Oct. p
while Notre Dame, from its place in
Big Ten territory. meets Nebraska
of the Missouri Valley conference
in a game which attracts much at
tention from the followers of both
teams.
The last Saturday of October has
a meeting between Notre Dame and
Indiana as its piece de resistance
while the final meeting between a
team of the conference and non
conference team follows on Nov 5,
when the Walker Merriam Goa che1
De Paw squad does battle with
Illinois.
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GAME CALLED AT / O'CLOCK.


While n raving mob will sit Mt
the Polo grounds, New York. to-
morrow afternoon at the OPEN
ing battle Of what promises to
be one of the greatest world
series ever contested. an equally
enthusiastic crowd of Rock Is
land fans win see every play
faithfully recorded on Tho Ar
gus Star Ball Player on Second
avenue, Rock Island.
Come early and avoid the rush.
seems ahout the most timely
bit of advice at this Late hour
The gnmes. which win be called
at 2 O'Clock I'm New York. will
get under way promptly at l
O'Clock In Rock Island. due to
the hour difference in time be-
tween the cities.
What win Babe Ruth do
against the star pitchers Of the
New York Giantsf What can we
expect from George Kelly, one
of the chief home run hitters.
against the expert fliBging of
Carl Mays, Waite HOyt and 9TH
er members of the Yanks' firing
line squads
These questions are on the
lips of every man, woman and
child who has ever Witnessed a
ball game and followed the won
derfuI records of this pair in
the matter OF home runs III you
make 1t a point 10 arrive early,
and are lucky. you should be
anchored In a place OF vantage
from which to watch this eele-
brated pair at the plate and in
the field.
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Giants. The teams had each won
three games.
The great Mathewson was in the
box and the Giants were leading by
one run when Boston came up in the
seventh inning. There were two out
and enc on base. Bedient, Red Sox
pitcher. ives next up.
Manager C&rrigan jerke3 Bedient
and sent in a young Danish out
fielder, Olaf Henriksen, TO pinch
nit
Helriksen struck at one ball The
next was called strike. The Giants
were getting all set for the gravy
when Olaf caught the third bal Oh
the nose for 4 double, scoring Stahl
with the tying run.
In the tenth inning New York
scored again. A second Red SoX
pinch hitter, with the aid of Mr.
Snodgrass' well-remembered muff.
made it possible for Boston to win.
EnSie batted tor Wood and lifted
the high one that SnOdgrass let
tlichle through MS fingers. Speaker
then scored Eng.e VITA tEs tying
run. and the winning run came III
on Gardeners sacrifice fly.
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BY ROY GROVE,

Pinch hitters have been called
upon So times in world series games
dating back as far as 1903, the real
beginning of the inter-leagUe post
season Clashes.
And only u times have the men
thus jammed into the breach pat
over the old wall0p, il quest OF
which they were introduced into the
lineup.
viii pinch hitters in the series
now coming up be able to better
this record?
Abolition Of freak pitching end
introduction of d live ball. which
turned baseball iuto a game CT free
and heavy hitting. ought to turn ont
in the 1921 world series 2 crop Of
pinch hitters that will shattec all
precedent for ability to pail games
out of the fire.
Pinch hitters once decided
world series. They were EngEe ard
Olaf Henriksen. pinch!ng tor the
Red Sox in 1912. in the last game
of the series with the New York
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West HASFOUR
GAMES IN EAST
Eon-Conference VS.. Conference
Squads Aise Attracting Much
Interest.

Chicago, Oct Awhile the cen
Ger of interest in the big Ten"
football race is in the games for
the championship. many games are
played with non-conference teams
which have traditions of years
around them and which attract as
much attention as all but the cham
pionship contests. In some cases,
this is because of rivalry in the
state. in some because of early
associations and in some because
of intersectional rivalry.
This year teams of the middle
vest will travel to the east for four
games of note. The games in which
big Ten" teams are combatants
rs the meeting between Indiana and
Harvard, Oct. s, and the clash be
tween Chicago and Princeton, Oct.
y. The third game is the annual
battle between Notre Dame and
West Point The other is the sec
md meeting between Nebraska and
Penn State.
For the first time in many years.
q game is not scheduled between
= team of the Big Ten and of the
Missouri Valley conference. Three
while the older conference has a
vast majority of games won, the
games usually were hard fought.
Several attempts were made to
arrange games, but each one of the
teams approached found it impos-
sible to arrange its schedule 10
meet the open date of the proposed
opponent One OF the reasons is
the growth of interest in the con-
ference race itself so the teams
of each organization feel its hard
games should be for the honors
within its own organization and
bot against a non-conference oppo-
helt
With Missouri Valley teams not
available. the non-conference teams
outside Of the immediate states OF
the Western conference come from
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HOW DO GET
IN? BASEBALL
BUGS INQUIRE
MOI ERcagh Seats To
Take Core of De-
radr7ds.

New York, Oct. Anew York to-
day was wrestling with the prob
lem:
How am I to get into the Polo
grounds? ''
With the worlds series starting
here tomorrow between the Yam
KEGS and Giants. the baseball lust
took a firm grip On Manhattan.
John Heydler, president of the
National league. was pulling his
hair and fiourishing a sheaf of teie-
grams:
There were 1000 boxes in Chi
cago and there are only 1,400 here.
How can l take care of them he
moaned-
The rooters were faced with the
alternative of going to the scalp
ers or journeying to Coogan's BLUM
before sunrise and stand IN line I'M
til the fog lifts of the Harlem riv-
err Every little detail for the series
had been completed this morning.
There was nothing else to do but TO
open the gates and put the players
in their new uniforms.
The umpires will probably get to-
gether today and decide on uni
form ground rules for the series.
The rules of the two leagues
vary slightly on dead ball of
the backstop" and the time for the
nome teams practice
THE umpires have been appoint
ed and every detail has been ar
ranged. Looks to me like they're
all ready to play" Heydler said to-
day.
Judge Kennesaw Lands. com
missioner of baseball, is established
at the Commodore hotel, where
also are most of the baseball celeb
rites and out-Of-tOwn writer's. Ban
Johnson, president of the American
league, was TO arrive today from
Chicago.
Everyone who is in any way con-
neCted with the game is being trod
den down for tickets and there are
none to be had. The Yanks and
the Giants have signs out with the
notice that boxes and reserved
seats are gone The business man
ayers of both clubs said they could
have filled 100, 600 seats on the
checks that are now in their Of
fees.
"Of course I favor the Giants but
I am not making any promises"
John MCGraw said.
Il have faith in the Yanks after
the way they came through the
hard pennant race but the series
is another thing. ! believe we will
be there" Miller Higgins. the pc
lite pilot Of the Yanks said.
%ei-her manager would give a
hint of his pitching selection. Nc
Graw. however. is figured to favor
either Artie Nehf or Phil Douglas.
while higgins is almost sure 10
start Carl Mays, his bulky ace.
Betting with small money being
offered is very brisk. There are
no established odds. Giant rooters
are offering to > and Yank fol
lowers are ofier.ng the same price
On their f2vOriteS.
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COME THROUGH
FIRST BATTLE
IN GOOD SHAPE
Local Pans Intending to Make Trip
Can Secure Reservations
Here.

The Independents came through
The gruelling battle with the De-
troit Tigers In fine shape. All Of
which is a strong argument in ia
vcr of continuous conditioning drill.
Aside from few black and blue
marks, such as are bound to result
IN any game. the players are as in
tact as when the referees whistle
sounded at the start of the game.
The team was permitted to rest
yesterday, but heavy practice was
resumed this afternoon at Douglas
park in preparation for the game
with the Staleys at Decatur next
work through Friday on the local
lot. Tentative plans call for de
parture Saturday and stay over
night at Peoria. Arrangements are
being made for a long workout
Sunday morning at the Tractor
city. The team expects to proceed
into Decatur Sunday afternoon.
Over a half hundred calls for
reservations have been received by
Manager Walter Flanagan already.
He states that those who intend to
make the trip to see the game
should leave their orders for tick
cts at Foley's drug store. or Mar
tins and Hickey's cigar stores, or
with him, and they will be taken
care of without Inconvenience to
the purchaser. If a sufficient num-
Der of Rock Island fans make the
trip, il may be possible to secure
special train out of Decatur Mon
day night that would land everyone
back home with the least delay.
Commander D. K. Brennan OF
Rock Island post of the American
Legion calls attention to the fact
that legionnaires can obtain a re-
duced rate to Decatur because Of
the state convention which opens
there next Monday. Identification
credentials that will give man the
right to the LAWYER rate can be Sc
cured from him by the legion men.
The Staley management -antici-
900 at the game. The contest is really
at the game. The contest is really
being staged under the auspices of
the American Legion as the biggest
feature on it's entertainment pro
gram for the convention. Several
thousand members OF the legion
from all parts OF Illinois will be in
Decatur Monday. and fully nine
lenths are expected to avail them
Eelves of the opportunity Of seeing
these great teams in action.
The Independents will go against
such formidable stars as Chick
Harley and Pete Stinchcomb. all
American backfeld products of
Ohio State university While the
Etaleys have but five Of the play
ers who last year beat Rock Island
nv a single touchdown. the other
positions have been filled with
ZONE of the greatest grid talent in
the country. and If anything. the
Decatur aggregation is stronger
than ever
Denfeld Uncertain.
Fred Dendeld. star lineman of
last years Independents. seems TO
be on the fence again about com
ing to Rock Island for the season
After wiring he was ready to cora.
providing employment could be fur
nished. he is holding back again
Denfield is captain and coach of
the Duluth team, which already has
won four games. He believes ne
has a championship club in the
northern city ard is lukewarm
about DESERVING Manager Flanagan
was to make final effort to have
him change his mind today.
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Ellis. right fed. Who has been one
Of the hardest hitters in the league
this season. and Pelham Ashley
Ballenger, shortstOp, both OF whom
came from the Southern association,
Ellis from Birmingham and Eallen-
ger from Nashville. \. A. CuIi0p,
formerly with several major league
clubs, was obtained from the ST.
louis Browns and has been pitch
'ng winning ball since Joining the
club. Roy Sanders, q pitch r re-
turned to organized baseball this
season from retirement and has
worked well
When Betzel was lost to the team
through injury, Charles Buck"
Eerzog. former major Lacquer. was
purchased from Columbus. SHAN
ty' Gaffney, Philadelphia sandIot-
ter, ana Elmer Miller, secured from
the Philadelphia Nationals, are the
utility infie.d ers
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'CnAWBANKS
ON HURLERS TO
HUMBLE YANkS
Pitching Always Wins, He Says,
But He Should Remember
BrOOklyn's Fate.
BY HENRY J.. FARRELL.
Omitted Press staff Correspondent,

Omitted Press Stan Correspondent
New York, Oct. 4.-Pitching al
ways decided the worlds series
says John J: McGraw but remem-
bering the fate of the all-star
Brooklyn staff last year, the doc
trine seems anything but infalIible
Everyone figures, perhaps right
fully, that Arthur Nehf is the best
pitcher in the ranks of McGraW and
that Carl Mays is the best thing in
the way Of puzzle that the Yanks
will have to offer in the series.
The Yanks while they do not love
left handler have faced pitching
as good as Nehf can put over but
the Giants have never faced an I'M
derhand pitcher with the cunning
and skill of Carl Mays
Mays might be the hurler to put
over the decisive game in a tight
series.
The Giants ought to know Waite
Hoyt, the boy wonder, because it
was for the National league cham
pions that he left the high school
lot in Brooklyn. When the Giants
know a pitcher they generally have
a means of beating him without US
ing their bats.
Phil Douglas, the squirrel hunter.
may be McGraw's choice for the
second, or perhaps the first game.
He has been going good all season
with a guardian at his side and he
has turned in some great ball
games.
Fred Toney also has been a con-
sistent worker but Jess Barnes is
too cratic to be figured upon seri-
ously while Ryan and Shea are too
young to be of great help in the
series and old Slim Sallee is past
the day OF starting a game.
Higgins is almost as bad off for
pitchers. 1t has Shawkey, who
has been bothered all year. with a
sore arm and Harry Harper, a wild,
doomed when they start waiting
them out"
Jack Quinn is just about through
and Higgins would never think of
starting Collins or Piercey in a
series of games.
The Giants seem 10 have the
edge on pitching because they have
more finished veteran performers.
One of the most interesting
things to observe in the series will
be the conduct of the Giant pitch
ers against Babe Ruth.
McGraw has always maintained
since the Giants and the Boston
Red So1 played a preseason ex-
hibition tour in 1919 that he knew
how to keep the BAN from hitting
homers.
New Workers think that McGraw
is too proud to have Ruth passed
in the series.
And as Lee Fohl says:
Amy one that lets Ruth hit is
q
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HARD BATTLE
At GALESBURC
is EXPECTED
High School Team Settles Down TO
Prepare for Contest of Next
Saturday.
Ell PIGSkIS PRTE.

Eiated by the decisive victory
over Geneseo, Rock Islands high
school football team renewed daily
drill today in preparation for what
undoubtedly viii be one of the
hardest games OF the schedule-the
clash with Galesburg at Galesburg
next Saturday. Coach kimmel will
spare no work in having his charges
in ship-sEape to meet the srong
Knox county gridGers on equal o.
better terms.
Hard scrimmages and long SEES
sions of signal drill were the or
ders OF the mentar. The effect of
continual signal practice was evil
dent last Saturday against Geneseo.
when the locals ran off plays
smoothly and chung tightly to the
ball in the toughest mixups. Scrim-
IMAGES should put the squad in ex-
celent physical condition 10 with
stand the knocks they are sure to
buck against Saturday
kimmel is expressing satisfac-
ton with the work of his line. II
stood up sple1didiy against Gene
SEQ, and he expects il to give even
better account Of itself in the
coming tussles.
Reports from GaIesburg tell of a
formidable aggregation that has de-
signs on the title in this sec-iCu of
the state. Only the hardest kind of
fight can bring Rock Island
through unscathed.
Some of the hest tri-city battles
in many years are forecast by the
victories Of Davenport. Rock Island
and Moline in their initial games.
The Iowa team handed West Lib
erty quite an unexpected drubbing
Saturday in the opening of the lid
in Davenport This would indicate
that Davenport is not going to
prove as weak as its rooters have
been attempting to convey sincaA
the team was called out for frsN
practice Moline seems to haveN
fallen snugly into a winning stride
Initial victories over Kewanee and
Peoria Central have whetced the
appetites of the Swedetown boys
for everything that is to come
An i!ea of the comparative
strength OF Rock Island and Dav-
export will be conveyed next Sat
urday when Davenport goes against
GeneEeo at Davenport
Moline is scheduled to play OF
taWa high school at Browning field.
Moline This game should not prove
dimcllc for the MoIiners, based on
past records Of the upstate boys.
Seconds TO Play.
The Rock Island second team
will be given its first taste Of real
blood next Saturday when it goes
up against the East Moline high
school team on the East Moline
field East Moline was defeated II
to by the ST Ambrose Juniors last
Saturday, so Rock Islands seconds
expect to come out on the long end
of the score.
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CUBS And S0X
START SERIES

Chicago, Oct A meeting of
the four umpires, the managers and
captains of the two local major
league clubs, who are 10 start q
series to decide the championship
of Chicago. will be held today, VII
liam Macarthur. president of the
Pacific Coast league. who has been
designated by Judge x NJ. Lands,
commissioner OF baseball, to su-
pervise the series. The series is
scheduled to start tomorrow and
will be the first meeting of the two
clubs since 1916.
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HOREMANS LEADS
JAP BuLLARDIST
IN 2,400 MATCH

Philadelphia. Pa. Oct. 4.-Unit-
ed Press. -Horemans. Belgian bill
liarfast. was far In the lead today
in his 2.4O0 poiDt 1872 balkline
match with Koji Yamada, the Jap
arese champion, which started here
yesterday Horemans. playing a
superior game. won the afternoon
gama, 400 to 70, end the night game.
400 to 143. The Belgian's high run
was 1872 while Yamada 8 was 81.
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Stanley King, a Lexington, KY,
high school pitch sr. has S gned with
the Colonies. Manager Mccarthy
probably will groom the youngster
for next season. King had a trial
with the Chicago White Sox this
season.