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Show EXPECT GLEASON TO CONTINUE POLICY OF PLAYING FOXY BALL Chicago Won Numerous Games by "Trying Something"; Some-thing"; Moran Usually Follows Principle of Playing for One Run; White Sox Take i Happier View of Nine-game Plan. keep his antagonists guessing from start to finish. Moran played the careful, one-run-at-a time game, in the world's series of 1015 and lost to the Red Sox. What he will do this week remains to be seen, but with his experience and his strong attacking strength, lie may cut away from the stereotyped ster-eotyped .stuff and go after a lot of runs. Ji owevf r, his pitching strength may incline in-cline the Red manager to stick to the conservative style and depend on one or two tallies to win a game. One thing is pretty certain. Every game will be fought out to the last trench. There are no two better fighters in the world than the leaders of the White Sox and Reds and they have imbued their followers fol-lowers with a lot of their personal courage. cour-age. The White Sox, in particular, have been famous this year for their ability to come from behind and achieve triumphs when everyone else was willing to give up the ship. To the Death. Gleason's men practically clinched the pennant during their last eastern trip, in spite of the fact ihat Cleveland, their nearest rivals, hnd phenomenal success for a road team. They did it without using us-ing either of the two leading pitchers to any extent, merely by the power of their attack, and by a defense that was at tims miraculous. Willi the White Sox plaving at the peed they went through the east on their final swing, a. remarkable team would ho required to Ptop them. Moran's club won its pennant largely bv heating the enemy on its own ground The Reds went into New York to plav six games in three days, and with only a slender slen-der margin of lead. Thev won four of ihoso six games and went out of Man-hat; Man-hat; an with the victory practical lv in their grasp, because the Giants, licked at home in the presence of tremendous crowds of their sympathizers, were licked for good. ' By I. E. SANBORN. CHICAGO, Sept. 30. Collectively, there is apparent no such difference between the White Sox and Reds as the betting odds demanded by the Ohio'ans would indicate. Chicago is admittedly superior in the eight positions outside the slab, considering them as a whole, but Cincinnati has a better balanced bal-anced pitching staff, according to all the dope that Is available. Pitching has always been the determining determin-ing factor in world's series, yet Red fans candidly are looking for bargains when It comes to backing their pets with the inflated coin of our realm. Possibly the quantity of confidence Chicago lias in the White Sox has determined the odds and the Ohionns will make up in the quality qual-ity of their adherence to the first pennant winners Cincinnati has had what they lack in quantitive backing. When It became known that the two major leagues had granted Garry Herrmann's Herr-mann's request for a longer series it was at first thought the president of, the Reds had put something over on the American league and gained an advantage for his team. More mature consideration, however, how-ever, brought out the fact that the longer the battle the better chance the team with a strong defense would have, because it would not be necessary to play airtight baseball all the time. Expects Exciting Series. Consequently, I look for the most interesting inter-esting and exciting series that ever has been played for the big pennant, not excepting ex-cepting that of 1912, when it required eUht trames to decide the issue between the Red Sox and Giants. Gleason has won the American league championship by cutting away from stereotyped baseball and double-crossing his opponents with a versatile ai lack, which sometimes violated all the sacred canons of the sport. I have seen him pull a double steal with nobody out in i the first inning and runners on third and1 first, and get away with it. What tac- j tics he will use in the coming fray nobody no-body knows, but it is safe to say he will |