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Show DUTCH REUTHER TO MEET ED CICOTTE IN OPENING GAME White Sox Invade Cincinnati With Determination , to Win; Reds Equally Determined to Win Themselves; Them-selves; Chicagoans Tune Up in Forenoon and Home Players in Afternoon; All Players Reported in Top Form Except Groh, Who Will Play Despite Broken Finger. Batting order for today: CHICAGO. CINCINNATI. J. Collins, rf. Rath, 2b. E. Collins, 2b. Daubert, lb. Weaver, 3b. Groh, 3b. Jackson, If. Roush, cf. Felsch, cf. Duncan, If. Gandil, lb. Kopf, ss. Risberg, ss. Neale, rf. Schalk, c. Wingo, c. Cicotte, p. Reuther, p. or the dormitory of a prep school during commencement week. Cots to accommodate accommo-date 191 White Sox rooters have been provided pro-vided on one floor, which is given up entirely en-tirely to that purpose, even the hallways being strewn with cots as thick as peas in the pod. All Ohio has gone crazy, apparently, ap-parently, and a considerable percentage of the rest of the population of the United Unit-ed States is either here or due to reach here tomorrow morning. In spite of the popular vote which made Cincinnati dry last May, it was wet today, to-day, not in spots, but everywhere. Heeavy thunder showers in the late afternoon deluged things copiously, but that brought hopes of fair skies tomorrow. The local weather shark says conditions are inclined in-clined to be unsettled, but with the chances in favor of no more rain in the southern part of Ohio. If he is correct in his prognostication, even the league of nations and the steel strike will have to step aside while Uncle Un-cle Sam bends over the ticker from 2 p. m. until he knows who has won the , first game of the 1919 world's series. I By I. E. Sanborn. C1 TNCINN ATI, Sept. 30. Quietly, but intensely confident of their ability to crown their 1019 leag-ue championship cham-pionship with a world's pennant, Chicago's White Sox today put the : finishing touches on their preparation for i what everyone expects will be one of the hardest fought post-season coniests since j baseball outgrew its infancy. It will be- gin at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, weather permitting. There was nothing boastful about the I way Gleason's men talked or acted in accepting the welcome which Cincinnati fans gave them this morning, but they 1 told everybody frankly they had come here to trim the Reds and expected to accomplish the purpose of their visit. In the camp of Moran there is apparently appar-ently the same sort of confidence and a fixed determination to disappoint the invaders in-vaders in their anticipations. The Sox pilttt will send E. Cicotte to the Reuther to oppose the Chicago star. The managers announced this tonight. Reds Left-hand Hitters. The first game is not as big a factor in the combat as it was when four out of seven would cop the banner and the big end of the coin. Still it is sufficiently important to call for the best pitching each manager has, and that means Cicotte and Reuther. The Reds are predominantly predomi-nantly left-handed in batting, with Wingo behind the bat, but some managers might feed them southpaw pitching at the start. But I believe Gleason will play his ace to try to stop Eddie Collins and Joe Jock-son, Jock-son, and naturally will expect a southpaw to do it effectively. Every player on both teams, with the possible exception of Heine Groh, is on his i toes and in perfectly prime shape for the battle. Groh will play third base, the Red manager declares, but whether or not he will be in shape for the world's series form after nursing a broken finger for so many weeks cannot be foretold. The rest of the men are in shape to give their utmost in the line of endeavor without a physical alibi. Sox Tune Up. Through the courtesy of Manager Moran and the Red owners, the local park was turned over to the White Sox for their exclusive use this morning, and. Gleason had all his men out. He put them through a snappy workout, both in batting and fielding, and then dismissed them for the . day. After lunch the whole' Sox party journeyed to the race track to try to beat the paris-mutuels and also to keep their minds off the business which brought them here. The Reds spent the afternocn in practice at the ball park, and when Moran dismissed them he said he was satisfied sat-isfied every man was ready. An incident of the Red workout was the appearance of Joe Tinker and Jack Pfies-tor, Pfies-tor, former Cub stars, in uniform, in an effort to show up some of Moran's youngsters, young-sters, which Joe and Jack claimed they did. Moran was non-committal, but admitted ad-mitted his two former pals might have slipped the Reds a few pointers about the way to win ball games. Preparations at the Red park have been completed and every ticket, including those for the bleachers, has been sold. The Cincinnati club introduced the innovation inno-vation of selling even the general admission admis-sion seats in advance, instead of on the morning of each game, as has been the rule everywhere else and as will be done, in Chicago next Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings unless It rains here. : Specs Closely Watched. The result may be that Cincinnati scalpers scalp-ers will be able to peddle general admission admis-sion tickets as well as those for reserved scats, but the federal government is watching the scalpers both here and in Chicago with such determination that it is not believed their operations will be as general as in some previous falls. A certain number of aliens from distant cities will pay any price the scalpers ask for seats, but agents of the government plan to see that Uncle Sam gets a 50-50 split of the excess coin if the scalpers scalp-ers ask more than 50 cents in excess ex-cess of the face value of the tickets. Moreover, the Ohio laws make it compulsory com-pulsory to take out an occupational license li-cense if you want to scalp world's series tickets or even take photographs of world scries players. Cincinnati was congested with advance arrivals for the big scries as early as Sunday. Every incoming train today has increased the congestion, and hotel clerks wear a stereotyped smile of derision when anyone with a reservation less than a rrionth old asks for accommodations. The business men have opened a bureau through which nearly 1000 rooms to rent in private homes have been listed and still there is a good chance that every billiard table in town will have to accommodate accom-modate two or three fans by tomorrow night. Preparations for the Woodland Bards have converted one floor of the Havlin hotel into what looks like a hospital ward |