CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—Rain began to fall on Comiskey Park last night, and the fifth game of the world’s series, set for this afternoon, was put off. When play is resumed Cincinnati will want two victories out of five, and Chicago four, and the club that came into the series as the favorite has so far won once.

Nobody who saw the four games will say the Reds have been lucky in all of them, and nobody will say they have been lucky in none. They have outpitched the White Sox, they have made the plays when the plays were there to be made, and they have had the better of the breaks. In four games the Sox have scored six runs, and the men who were supposed to carry them, Jackson and Gandil excepted, have not hit. Kid Gleason, after the second game, said that his club had outhit the Reds nearly three to one and that the breaks had gone against it. He was right about the hits in that game, and it did him no good.

The experts, most of whom picked Chicago, are explaining the upset as experts do. They put it down to the breaks, to the Cincinnati pitching, to Gleason’s caution and, in Cicotte’s case, to nerves; Hugh Fullerton, in his syndicated column, thinks the Sox held the Reds rather cheap. The Chicago men called the opener the poorest game Cicotte ever pitched, and McGeehan, after Saturday, wrote that the veteran’s nerve seemed to crack under the strain of the series.

THE FIRST GAME: CINCINNATI, 9; CHICAGO, 1

Cincinnati got its money’s worth on Wednesday afternoon. The day was muggy, the men in the stands carried their coats and sweltered, and a little German band played “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here” as the White Sox took the field. Cal McVey, who played on the Red Stockings of 1869, was in the crowd.

Cicotte, the winner of twenty-nine games, hit Rath, the first man he faced, in the ribs, and the Reds scored in the first inning. Chicago tied it in the second, when Kopf fumbled Jackson’s grounder and let Gandil’s pop fly fall between himself and Roush. The game turned in the fourth. With one out Kopf tapped the ball back to Cicotte for what looked like a double play, and the pitcher was slow in fielding it and slow in getting it away, and the Sox got only the man at second. Neale and Wingo singled, and then Ruether, the pitcher, tripled with two on. Rath and Daubert added hits, five runs were in, and Cicotte went to the bench. Grantland Rice, in the New York Tribune, wrote that Cicotte had fielded the ball “with all the leisure of a steel striker.” Fullerton wrote from Cincinnati that there had been rumors there for two days that Cicotte was not in condition, which Cicotte had denied, and that it was his fielding, not his pitching, that lost the game.

After that it was Ruether’s afternoon. He held Chicago to the one run, and at the bat he made two triples and a single. When it was over the fans ran on the field to pat his left hand. Rice observed that if Boston had her Ruth, Cincinnati had her Ruether. Lowdermilk, the last of three Chicago pitchers, hit Daubert on the head in the eighth, and Daubert went down as if he had been shot.

The paid attendance was 30,511 and the receipts were $98,778.

THE SECOND GAME: CINCINNATI, 4; CHICAGO, 2

The White Sox made ten hits on Thursday to Cincinnati’s four and lost. The reason was Williams’s control, which deserted him in one inning. It was even at no runs to the fourth, when Williams walked Rath, Groh and Duncan, Roush singled Rath home, and Kopf drove a triple against the temporary fence in center field that brought in the other two. The Reds got one more in the sixth. Chicago made its two runs in the seventh, on Risberg’s single, Schalk’s hit and a wild throw by Neale.

Sallee, the left-hander, was not always easy in his mind. He was charged with a balk that put Weaver on third. But the Sox could not bunch their hits, and in the sixth, with a man on third, Roush went back for Felsch’s long drive and caught a ball that looked good for a home run. McGeehan of the Tribune described Williams as wild and nervous and the Sox behind him as nervous and irritable. The heat was steamy again, and the men in the bleachers blistered.

The paid attendance was 29,690 and the receipts $97,136.

THE THIRD GAME: CHICAGO, 3; CINCINNATI, 0

The series moved to Chicago on Friday, and Dickey Kerr, the left-hander, shut the Reds out on three hits. Duncan, Kopf and Fisher made them, and no Cincinnati man got as far as third base.

The game was won in the second inning. Jackson singled, and Felsch bunted. Fisher, the Cincinnati pitcher, picked up the bunt and threw it toward second, wide, and the ball rolled into center field. Jackson went to third and Felsch to second, and Gandil singled them both home. In the fourth Risberg tripled over Neale’s head and scored on Schalk’s bunt. It was all Kerr needed.

The day was bright and still, with hardly enough wind to lift the flags on their staffs. The park was not full: the Associated Press saw a few empty seats in the left-field bleachers, McGeehan several thousand. Kerr, who was a boxer before he was a pitcher, was described by the Associated Press as having more mysteries in his left arm than the Sphinx.

The paid attendance was 29,126 and the receipts $90,569. There was bad feeling on the field, and the Reds jawed at the Sox from their bench. The reports of one passage differ. The Sun reported this morning that Eddie Collins had spat at Jimmy Smith of the Reds during the game, and that Smith would not take the apology Collins offered before Saturday’s game. Jack Lait, in his column in Saturday’s Chicago Tribune, tells it differently: Smith made a pass at Collins, who laughed at him and turned away.

THE FOURTH GAME: CINCINNATI, 2; CHICAGO, 0

Gleason sent Cicotte back on Saturday, and the veteran pitched a far better game than on Wednesday and lost it on two errors of his own in one inning. Jimmy Ring won it for Cincinnati on three hits, though he walked three and hit two, and Moran talked to him from the bench all afternoon like a father.

A cold wind came in from the southeast as the game started, with the threat of rain in it, and black dots began to show in the bleachers where men put on their coats. In the second the Sox filled the bases with one out on Jackson’s double, Felsch’s sacrifice and two passes, and Ring got Cicotte to ground out on three balls and two strikes.

The fifth decided it. With two out Duncan hit a grounder that Cicotte knocked down, picked up and threw wild past first, and Duncan went to second. Kopf singled to left. Cicotte stepped in to cut off Jackson’s throw to the plate, and the ball glanced off his glove toward the stand. Duncan scored and Kopf went to second, and Neale doubled over Jackson’s head for the other run. Both were unearned. The Star and the Sun said plainly that Cicotte had beaten himself, though the Sun found an excuse for the cut-off; the Washington Herald called it hard luck, and Fullerton called Cicotte the hard-luck pitcher of the series. McGeehan blamed Gleason for having Felsch bunt in the second when he might have hit.

The paid attendance was 34,363, the largest of the series, and the receipts $97,807. For four games the attendance is 123,690 and the receipts $384,290 ($384,281 in the New York Tribune), of which the players’ share is $207,516.60.

THE FIGURES OF THE SERIES

Batting, four games, as issued at Chicago, Saturday night. Each club has made twenty-six hits; pitchers and substitutes are not shown.

As a team Cincinnati is batting .252 and Chicago .211. Chicago has scored one earned run in thirty-six innings, Rice notes, which is the story of the series so far told in one line.

THE BETTING

The Sox went into the series the favorites, but the price came down before the first ball was thrown. In New York they had ruled favorites at 7 to 10 late in the week before. On Tuesday a report was current in New York that Cicotte had a sore arm, the quotations suddenly shifted, and by Tuesday night the best price to be had on the Sox was 5 to 6. The Times put the sudden appearance of thousands of dollars of Cincinnati money down to the rumor. One bet of $1,000 was made on the Reds at even money in Wall Street, and that night more Cincinnati money came out at John Doyle’s.

At Cincinnati McGeehan found the Reds’ friends suspecting the story of being put about by the Sox to lower the odds on their club. Gleason, asked there whether Cicotte’s arm was all right now, said it always had been, that the stories about a sore arm were all wrong, and that Cicotte would be in there on Wednesday to show the people. On the eve of the opener the quotations at Cincinnati ran anywhere from even money to 3 to 2 on the Sox, with little doing, and the Reds’ backers holding out for 8 to 5 and better. On Wednesday morning the United Press reported more Cincinnati money in sight in Chicago than at any time since the betting began, most of it from outside the city, and the odds at O’Leary’s, one of the best-known betting houses in Chicago, came down to 5 to 4 on the Sox.

After the first game the Reds were the favorites, at anything from 6 to 5 to 8 to 5. Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune, who found them 6 to 5 in Chicago at most of the places where the gambling fraternity gathers, reported that a lot of money had been won on the Reds in the stockyards district. According to a well-known gambler, the tip had gone out through the yards that Cicotte was not in his best form, and once he was known to be Gleason’s choice there was Cincinnati money enough to cover all the Sox offerings. After the second game the Reds were 8 to 5 in most reports and longer in some. After Kerr’s shutout the Times had them favored at 3 to 2, and a Washington report at not much better than even. After Saturday’s game one report had the Reds at 1 to 2 with no takers. Two of the Washington correspondents say that the betting this year has been lighter than usual, and that not a great deal of money is ever bet on a world’s series anyway.

Saturday’s game, in the Chicago Tribune’s view, finished the sore-arm story. Under the head “’Arm Gone’ Pipe Burns Out,” James Crusinberry wrote that Cicotte had shown that the rumors about his arm were wrong, and that his trouble was being too keen and alert, not a sore arm. Gleason said the Reds should not have scored on Cicotte in forty innings.

The regular season’s figures, as they stand before the official averages are issued this winter, give Ty Cobb the batting championship of the American League with .381 in 124 games. The Associated Press counts it his eleventh title in thirteen seasons, and one New York paper his twelfth. Harris of Cleveland is second at .375. Eddie Murphy of Chicago, the pinch hitter, has a higher figure than either, but in thirty-one games, and he is not counted.

The National League title is not so easily given. The Associated Press gives it to Cravath of Philadelphia, .340 in eighty-three games, with twelve home runs; he played only part of the time, and Mitchell of Brooklyn, with .376 in thirty-four games, is not counted at all. One New York paper, counting only the regulars, gives the crown to Hornsby of St. Louis at .322, with Roush of Cincinnati close behind at .320, and Thorpe, at .327 in sixty-two games, ahead of them both on part-time play. We print both, and the league will settle it.

Cicotte is credited with twenty-nine victories and seven defeats for the season, and Babe Ruth with twenty-nine home runs, though one printing of the averages gives him an even thirty. Ruth batted .323 in 130 games and scored 103 runs.

The season is over but Ruth is not. With a team of Boston American Leaguers he beat the professionals of Portland, Maine, last week, 8 to 6, and hit a home run, and he was billed with the Red Sox for the fair grounds at Rutland, Vermont, this afternoon. Nothing has been heard of his salary for next season, and nothing need be until the winter.

The Carl Mays case is where it was a week ago. Mays is pitching Sunday baseball for Guy Empey’s club in New York, and last Sunday he lost a game of fourteen innings to the Bacharach Giants, of which more below. The Yankees made sure of third place, and the third-place money, on September 29.

DYCKMAN OVAL, New York, Sept. 28.—Dick Redding and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City gave Carl Mays a lesson in the national pastime here this afternoon, before close to ten thousand fans. Mr. Mays, whose services the New York American League club valued at forty thousand dollars and two ball players, pitched the first game of a double-header for Guy Empey’s Treat ’Em Roughs, and it took fourteen innings to beat him. Redding struck out twelve men. The score of that game is given as 5 to 1 in one New York account and 6 to 1 in later notices. Rube Benton took the second game for the Roughs, 2 to 0, so the honors of the afternoon were divided.

The two clubs met again early in the week at Philadelphia and Atlantic City, where the New Yorkers are reported to have won, and a return double-header was billed for Dyckman Oval to-day, with Heinie Zimmerman signed to play for the Roughs. The result was not at hand when this number went to press.

Manager Tom Jackson of the Bacharachs has secured Shibe Park at Philadelphia for several games this week, and opens there Monday against the New York Giants of the National League.

SCHORLING PARK, Chicago, Sept. 28.—Rube Foster’s American Giants closed the Chicago season of the Cuban Stars this afternoon by beating them, 4 to 2, behind the masterly pitching of Whitworth, who allowed three hits. A week ago Professor Foster’s graduates, fresh from their southern invasion, trimmed the Peoria barnstormers, 6 to 1, with “String Bean” Williams holding them to three hits. It has been said in this city that the Cubs could make more money playing a series with the American Giants, and they have been advised not to let prejudice get the better of their judgment.

In New York “Cyclone” Joe Williams pitched the Lincoln Giants to two victories over a team of big league players at Olympic Field last Sunday, 1 to 0 and 4 to 2, outpitching Ray Keating in the first.

Mike O’Dowd, the middleweight champion, met Augie Ratner eight rounds at the Armory A. A., Jersey City, last Monday night before a packed house, and the newspaper men at the ringside gave O’Dowd the decision. The law of New Jersey allows no other kind, and only a knockout could have changed the title. None came.

The men were to weigh 158, but O’Dowd came in at 164 and Ratner at 154, and the ten pounds told. Ratner, the cleverer boxer, had the first two rounds and cut the champion’s left eye in the second. He opened a cut over Ratner’s right eye in the fifth, had him reeling in the seventh, and Ratner, to his credit, lasted the limit.

Jack Dempsey is reported tired of the stage. He has a contract to finish, and he has offers from the moving pictures as well, but the champion is said to hate the footlights, and Jack Kearns, his manager, now talks of taking on Fulton, Beckett and Carpentier all in the one evening, which is a manager’s way of saying he has not yet made a match. Dempsey himself, talking to a New York writer, blames a stoppage in the nose for his slowness in the second and third rounds against Willard, and says the nose has since been operated on. He calls Willard the strongest man he ever met. Neither Dempsey nor Kearns sees a match for the title in the near future, and the champion has a circus engagement to fill before he looks for an opponent.

An Australian soldier is quoted as saying that Carpentier was hurt in the war and is not the fighter he was.

Benny Leonard has been offered forty thousand dollars by the Atlantic City Sporting Club to meet Lew Tendler ten rounds in December.

Sam Langford and Harry Wills, the two leading heavyweights of the Race, met for ten rounds at Syracuse on Tuesday night, and the reports do not agree on what happened. Two of the New York dailies call it a draw. A Memphis paper, on the notices at hand, credits Langford, the Boston veteran, with a clean victory over the younger man. Wills has lately been boxing as sparring partner to Mike O’Dowd, and one New York daily calls him the best Negro heavyweight in the world. Earlier in the month he stopped Jeff Clarke of Joplin in four rounds at the same city.

When is Wills to have his chance at the title? Jack Johnson won it. Willard, who took it from him, refused to meet a colored man while he held it, and Dempsey has intimated that he will do the same. So the colored heavyweights are to have a championship of their own. Billy McClain is holding an elimination tournament at Tulsa for a diamond belt, which is valued at $2,500 in one account and $1,500 in another. Langford and Jack Thompson drew over fifteen rounds in August and meet again at Tulsa on October 20. The winner goes on toward Wills and Kid Norfolk. A Dempsey-Wills match of twenty rounds would stir the sporting world, and the whole sporting world knows why it is not made.

Kid Norfolk himself was busy this week. At Baltimore on Friday night he won the referee’s decision over John Lester Johnson in fifteen rounds. The bout had first been announced for Jersey City on the 30th.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28.—Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, knocked out Kid Cutler in the sixth round in the bull ring here this afternoon, for what is billed as the heavyweight championship of Mexico. Mr. Johnson is promoting as well as boxing, and has Mexico City going his way.

LAUREL, Md., Oct. 4.—Commander J. K. L. Ross’s Sir Barton carried 133 pounds to victory in the Maryland Handicap at a mile and a quarter this afternoon, and did it in 2:02 2/5 before a crowd that filled the stand. Loftus rode a waiting race. Mad Hatter, of the Hildreth stable, went out in front and set a terrific pace, and Loftus let him go until the stretch, where Sir Barton came to him and the pace told. Audacious was third, having outgamed Thunderclap for third money. The race was worth $7,750 to the winner, and it was the fourth ten-thousand-dollar stake the Ross stable has won in Maryland this fall.

Sir Barton now leads the country’s three-year-olds in money won. S. C. Hildreth has let it be known that he would like to match Purchase, winner of nine races in eleven starts, against Sir Barton at weight for age, 120 pounds each, and a special race may yet be framed. Purchase beat Sir Barton in the Dwyer in July, and the match would settle more than one argument.

The Laurel meeting opened on Wednesday with the first running of the Capital Handicap, at three-quarters of a mile, and it went to another Ross horse. Billy Kelly, with 123 pounds up, forced the pace from the start and in a driving finish beat Papp by a scant half length. The crowd was one of the largest of the fall season, though no figure has been given, and the favorites were beaten in three of the first four races. On Friday W. S. Kilmer’s Exterminator beat the Cuban-owned Orestes by a neck at a mile and a sixteenth, in what the Racing Form called one of the best races seen in Maryland this fall. It was an extremely warm day for October.

At Jamaica the week was thin; on Saturday only two horses started for the Pierrepont Handicap, and one of them, Naturalist, sulked and was pulled up.

At Latonia on Saturday J. S. Hawkins’s Stockwell won the Twin City Handicap at a mile and five-eighths, easing up by three lengths from Under Fire, in time only three-fifths of a second slower than the American record held by Fitz Herbert since 1909. Vulcanite was third, and the crowd was the largest of the meeting. Cudgel, the winner of the Havre de Grace Handicap a week ago Saturday, was given top weight in the race but is still in the East. The Latonia Championship, worth $50,000, will be run Saturday. At Laurel the National Handicap for two-year-olds on Wednesday has drawn 134 nominations, and the Annapolis Handicap, at a mile and a half on Saturday, 96.

The college season came in earnest on Saturday, and the story of the day was Centre College, of Danville, Kentucky, went into the Big Ten country and beat Indiana, 12 to 3. Indiana led by a field goal until the closing minutes, when the Kentuckians came through to win. The Associated Press, reporting the result, asked who had ever heard of Centre. Bo McMillin and his teammates made ninety-five points against Hanover a week ago.

Yale opened by beating Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, 20 to 0, without showing much. Braden kicked a field goal from the forty-yard line, and Thorne Murphy, the substitute quarterback, kicked one from the thirty. Yale threw many forward passes and completed one, and that one lost ground. Princeton had an easier time with Trinity, 28 to 0, the visitors making one first down all afternoon. Harvard beat Boston College, 17 to 0, but found it harder going than the score suggests. Casey’s run of fifty-five yards with the opening kickoff set up the first touchdown, Horween added a field goal from the twenty, and in the third period a long Boston College pass reached Harvard’s eighteen-yard line before the Crimson held.

The Army beat Holy Cross, 9 to 0, and McQuarrie, the former University of Montana player, made all nine points: a placement goal from the thirty-six-yard line and a plunge for a touchdown from the three. There was no scoring until the third quarter, and both sides fumbled freely. Navy beat North Carolina A. and M. by 49 to 0, though one list has it 40; Alford, Koehler and Rawlings did the running, Navy completed five of seven forward passes, and King kicked all seven goals.

Notre Dame was held scoreless for a half by Kalamazoo and then won, 14 to 0, on touchdowns by Bergman and Bahan. Gipp, the Notre Dame halfback, was hurt in the second half, and the crowd gave him an ovation as he came off. Cornell beat Oberlin, 9 to 0, in heat that forced frequent rests; Captain Shiverick, the quarterback, playing for the first time since 1917, was the star. Ohio State beat Ohio Wesleyan, 38 to 0, with Harley back in the backfield.

SATURDAY’S SCORES

In Michigan, the Michigan Aggies and Albion scored 14 and 18 by one account, which makes it an Albion victory, and 14 and 13 by another, which does not. The Associated Press, which gives Purdue 34 and Franklin 14 in its table, says in its story that Franklin held Purdue to a tie at 14. We print the figures as they came and will correct them when the matter is settled.

At Ottumwa, Iowa, Raymond Beinfrow, the only colored boy on the high school eleven, helped his team to a 54 to 6 victory over Seymour. Howard University, which expects to regain this fall her old place at the head of the colored colleges, opens her season at Washington on Saturday against Virginia Theological Seminary and College, and closes it on Thanksgiving Day against Lincoln at Philadelphia.

THE PROFESSIONALS

The professional clubs of Ohio opened their season this afternoon, Canton against Pitcairn with Jim Thorpe back at the head of the Bulldogs, but no Sunday score had reached New York when this number closed. Massillon, which calls itself the challenger of Thorpe’s Canton team, comes to the Polo Grounds on the 12th to open the season of Charles Brickley’s new New York Giants.

SHAWNEE-ON-DELAWARE, Pa., Oct. 4.—Miss Alexa Stirling of Atlanta won the women’s championship of the United States Golf Association here today, beating Mrs. W. A. Gavin of the South Shore Club, Long Island, by 6 up and 5 to play. It is her second national title; she won the last championship played before the war, in 1916.

Mrs. Gavin, formerly the metropolitan champion, had been the star of the tournament, and she won exactly one hole in the final, the short eighth. Miss Stirling went out in 41 and was two up at the turn, and she won all four holes played on the homeward nine. The match ended on the thirteenth green. One New York correspondent reckoned that she was playing at a rate of 77 for the round, only six strokes above par, and called it easily the best golf ever seen in a national final for women.

In the earlier rounds Miss Stirling beat Miss Marion Hollins, 3 and 1. The only upset of the first round came when Mrs. G. Henry Stetson of Philadelphia put out Miss Elaine Rosenthal of Chicago.

Pennsylvania has won the Lesley Cup.

The Bethlehem Steel association football team is on its way home from Scandinavia on the Stavangerfjord. The last cables of the tour report a draw of one goal each with Djurgarden at Stockholm, a draw at Norrkoping, and a victory of four goals to none over All-Skane at Helsingborg, Ratican scoring two.

Mrs. Mallory and N. W. Niles won the mixed doubles at the Greenwich Field Club on Saturday, 6-2, 6-3.

The national motorcycle championships at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway were called off on Saturday because the mist fogged the riders’ goggles.

Yale has named Professor Mather Abbott its head coach of rowing once more, with F. H. Van Sanford, formerly of Oxford, to assist him.

The national cross-country championships of the Amateur Athletic Union will be run at Van Cortlandt Park on November 29.

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