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Show CINCIES SHOULD BE HARD BUNCH TO BEAT By ONLOOKER. (Written for Universal Service.) CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 30. Anybody who thinks this world's series clash is a pipe for the White Sox would better revise re-vise his opinion. It isn't. These galloping Reds make some ball club a far tougher aggregation than the Sox have met this season. They have the pitchers, the batsmen, the fielders, the generalship and, most important of all, the spirit. They'll put up a terrific fight before they are beaten if they are. I have my doubts. Of course, good old Charley Dryden can't see anything but the White Sox, but then Charley hails from Chicago, and he hasn't been seeing anything but the White Sox for lo these many years. And there's Damon Runyon. He's no slouch of a picker, but then he's been picking American leaguers so long- .maybe it's got to be a habit. Tonight it looks like a very even thing, with the Reds having a bare edge because be-cause they're playing on their own lot and they'll have the advantage of the home support and enthusiasm. That counts fo ra heap. You can feei it in the air tonight in the crowded and suffo-in suffo-in the qualifying remarks of some of the rabid American league fans who have come to town. All day the feeling has been growing that the Reds are mighty j dangerous contenders, and, if they grab the first game, it will be about time to ! order the world's championship pennant j pole for Redland field. j There's some quiet talk that Cicotte, I the White Sox star hurler, is off form; j that his good right arm is a trifle lame. Of course, nobody can say until he begins be-gins to put the ball over the plate tomorrow. to-morrow. But if he doesn't hold back the : formidable host of Red batsmen it's go-! go-! ing to take all of Manager Gleason's 1 adeptness at handling pitchers to pull , through the series successfully, and there , will be a lot of wise heads who won't be ! able to "see" the White Sox if Cicotte j doesn't pull off the first game for I them. |