Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-08
.1O-6 ON YANKEES
TO WIN SERIES.
Odds for Today's Game 1919,
Provided Mays Hurls for
Miller Huggins
BETTING IS VERY LIGHT.

New York. Oct. 5.--Betting odds on
the oHtcomc Of the World Series
naturally underwent decided change
as result Of the third game between
the Giants ana the Yankees. Whereas.
after thr Yankees had won two straight.
they ruled almost prohibitive favoritcs.
when the National Lenguers rompcd
away with the third contest by such
one sided margin. their supporters
returned to the financial battle with so
much renewed vigor that the prevailing
odds this morning were short ended to
10 to 6 with the Yankees the favorites.
John Doyle reported that quite few
wagcrs were made at this quotation. lie
also said that 10 to q was being quoted
against the Giants in today's game if
Carl Mays pitched, and that Z to was
quoted against the Yankees if any other
pitcher worked for Iluggins. A ma
iority of the bets that were made on
todayS game were made with the pro-
vision that Mays pitch for the American
l'eaguers. Most of the bets we're COM
paratively small
Doyle figurc,l out that there were
forty five different combinations re-
naming in the series. BY combinations
IS meant that the Yankees win the next
two and then the Giants win one, or
that the Giants win the next one and
then the Yankees win. and so on. After
all of the different combinations had
been inquired out It was found that of
the forty -hvo, the Yankees have twenty
nlne chances TO win aud tho Giants
sixteen. In other words. the Yankees
have almost twice as many chances TO
win tho series as it stands now as have
the Giants.
AZ far as any real big betting being
done there was very little. Commits
sioners in all parts OF the city reported
that there was somC activity but that
most Of it was in small amounts. Late
Yesterday afternoon in Wall street the
Yankees were quoted to ; favoritrs to
win the series. and W. l.. Dnrncll &
Co. announced that il had commission
of $1,000 to place at that figure. The
same firm also announced that 1t had
S5GN0 it was willing to lay against
$1,000 that the Giants would win the
series.
In the financial district oven money
was the prevailing proposition on to-
days game, and some wagerS at odds
Of | to 2l2 were made that the Giants
would win the next two. The betting
continued to be light in comparison with
Other years. but the opinion seemed to
obtain among the larger commissioners
thar, now that the Giants had demon
stratcd their ability to muss up Yankee
pitchers, there would be greater uC-
tivity among those who are willing to
back up their opinions with money.
Fred Schumm reported that the pre-
vailng odds on the result Of the series
wcrc to ). with tn" Yankees the
favoritos. lIc also reported that most
Of the wagcrs on the result of tho fourth
game this afternoon had been placed at
cvCn money. He said that one bet of
| 5000 against $500 had been nadc that
| Babe Ruth would hit a HON" run in to-
| days game; that Il $1,000 at cvens had
| been placed on the Giants to win to-
| days game: that $500 even had been
bet that the Yankees would make more
! errors in today's game than the Giants ::
! that 500 even had been put up that the
| pitchers in the fourth game would be
Douglas VS.. Mays, and that stIll an
! other bot had been made Of 500 against
| 5000 that the Giants would win four
straight, including their victory Of yes.
! terday.