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Show HOPE IB PLAY GIEJPL1 Another Postponement of the Fourth Contest, However,. May Be Neeessary. HA IN IS PREDICTED. TO SORROW OF BOTH TEAMS Fifth Game, if Necessary. Will Be Played at Chicago; The Averages. 1 CHICAGO. Oct. 21. A possible postponement post-ponement of the fourth game between the American and National league baseball base-ball champions In the world's series wa3 , discussed tonight when the weather bureau bu-reau issued a bulletin predicting rain tomorrow. "Showers Saturday morning. Continued cool,'' was the official forecast received with gloom at both the Chicago and Philadelphia, headquarters. Officials and others who examined the condition ot tho grouhds at the West Side ball park during dur-ing tho day said that a heavy showciv tomorrow morning would necessitate another an-other postponement or the fourlh game, which was to have been played today. The discouraging weather outlook waa the only subject discussed by gatherings of baseball enthusiasts at downtown hotels, ho-tels, theaters and restaurants tonight. Follower.- of tho Philadelphia turn, in nn rl leuhi r u'l.r.. rlUrli.i-li..- ,.,.. i (..,... ulth the situation. Thcv took loday'a postponement with no great display of philosophy, and when told of the possibility pos-sibility of a second postponement, some of them started back for home. Partisans of iho Chicago team, however, how-ever, are generally hulling todaVn postponement post-ponement as a good omen. Many of them dcclaie thai the break in the scries sc-ries of games will prove the charm that tiicy think will break Chicago's hoodoo. Wet grounds and a drizzling intermittent inter-mittent rain caused a postponement today of tho fourth scheduled world's championship game between the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Aiuernians and tho Chicago Nationals. It will he played off hero tomorrow. .Should Chicago win the fifth gamo will be fought out on tho locul grounds also. Chairman Herrmann made the announcement an-nouncement after an examination of tho grounds. The umpires found tho wholo field .saturated. There wa.s likewise tho oirlclal prediction that more or less rain would fall throughout the day and lhcro was nothing to do but to order the postponement. post-ponement. Anmii L'OO persons, Including a number num-ber of women, were lined up in tho rain wafting for tho ticket windows to open whe.n iho announcement was made. Thero alEo were many boys, who had hoped to sell ihcir positions lo late comcra. Will IIolp Cubs. If there Is any advantage, to anybody in tho postponement it is said to aceruo to Chicago on tho theory that nny.pounl-bl" nny.pounl-bl" change affecting the local plavera In their present gloomy ponltlon can be- only for the better. A da.y'a rest, however, can do "Philadelphia no harm. In the unexpected event that Bender should be hit freely tomorrow. CV.omhf. with a day's reenp&ralloii lo buoy him up. could be used again. Brown ami Cole, either of whom may pitch for Chicago, Chi-cago, aro in no great need of .1 vnci-Urui vnci-Urui Coie has not pitched so far and Brown ha.s not worked since Tuesday, when Philadelphia drove him from tho box. Cuplaln Chance said that the day of Idleness might bo tho turning point in the serlci. Connlo Mack accepted the Incident a.s a. mere Helsiv ,,r T.-n...rn.... hours in annexing tho world'o championship champion-ship emblem. Averages of players and teams, based on the three gajncR already plavod. show a big margin in favor, of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. The latter hav.i scored 20 runs to U10I1- opponents' 9. They have made 1?! ," tor a total of OS basest, against Chicago s 1.7 hits and 2i bases. ' Thev li m Hol,'1 a1.' n?0- of -'ISC. compared vilth .ISO by their rivals. In fielding tho Chlcagos arc 50 points under Phlladel-VI. Phlladel-VI. ' U.lplr lespecllve Percentages beiim SD1 and !S0. Philadelphia has won her games with the use of only ton men. wh le Manager Chance has eniploved e.Igh eon. J.'ollowing aro the batting hud lidding averages of the players today: PHILADELPHIA. Fielding. Batting. Ilfr U .coo coombs , ,14 arl7 1.000 .ni;;: HVn,l?r '-ono .3:1:1 Murphy i.noo- .200 Thomas .ri Lord 1,000 "'j Striink SSO 1 Team average 0.10 .;joi; CHICAGO. ' ; Fielding. Batting. I Inker oou .500 .Schultc , cm; ,:;un Hofmun 1.000 :'S6 Chance 1. 000 Sheckard soo .1B7 Zlniinnniian 1.000" loo Klhig .... i.uou .0D3 Stclnfcbit 700 .OS.'t Beaumont .... , .000 Archer J.000 .000 iN'eedham.- .000 Ovcrnll .... .ooi) Mcliityro .000 .000 Hniwu 1.000 .000 Itlchio .... , .000 Uenlbaoh 1.0QO .000 Pfelstcr 1. 000 .000 Kane .... Team average S01 .Mix Tim national commlssipn decided lhal In the event It wuh necessary Ho play a sixth game It shall be played on Tuos-1 lay at Philadelphia, allowing Monday for tho club to make the trip from Chicago. |
