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Show i 1 CHRISTMAS WEATHER I , FOR BASEBALL GAME II CHICAGO, Oot 13. The weather to- ! day was less suggestive of a ball game I than of starting the Christmas shop- ! ping early. ! Although the New York Nationals ; and Chicago Americans were to meet here for the fifth game of the world's j j series this afternoon the lino in front ' ' of tho ticket window at Comiskey park I did not Btart to form until 4 o'clock I this morning. Tnreo nunarea lans I wero shivering outside the park at day- broak. A vendor of camp stools beat ! a retreat about this time as everybody was too cold to sit down. In several places there wero little camp fires and a brisk business in hot coffee and - steaming frankfurters was dono. Although tho series started two and two and the utmost importance attach-j attach-j ed to today's conflict, scalpers' tickets ! wero way below the prices demanded ! for the first two gamos a week. ago. Box seats wero obtainable at $15 and reserved seats in grand stand at ?10. This was in port due to the Increased , supply of pasteboards from patrons who, having seen the first two games, disposed of their third coupon of tho ! 1 Chicago tickets. There Tvas no indication of changes 1 1 made familiar during the first four 1 i games. The exports' figures in Sallee I or Pol Porritt for the visitors and Ci- I cotto or Reb Russell for the White Hj Sox. The forecast was thought to rather strongly point towards Perritt and Russell. The latter remained on the bench during the first four games. Chicago Ardor Chilled. Chicago enthusiasts made ready for tho game in spirits far different from tho confidence which followed tho winning win-ning of the first two games by tho whito stockings. At that timo they con- r I H nrnI Vis o -I r, 1 . . u.uuiwu til o aonua tia fcuuu aa won DUl when the Now York blanked tho team for eighteen consocutlvo innlngB on tho Polo grounds that feeling disappeared disap-peared knee-deep in 6bllvlon and was replaced by mere hope Tho feeling was that tho broak of the game would decide the series. Only ono gamo will be played In Chicago this trip. The'slxth game will be played in Now York and the sov-nth, sov-nth, if there is one, in which ever of the cities tho toss of a coin determines. Playing on the home grounds was, of course, counted on by Chicagoans as a factor in thoir favor. Each team has its victories at home. The Giants, helpless here, simply stood on tho Americana on their mettle when they got on their sod of the Polo grounds. The partisans of tho Chicago team hODOd that it TErmll rlrTTn nnii.. i apiratlon here with the team on home grounds with, tho support of local fans. |