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Show Inside Dope From the Umpires oo oo oo oo oo oo Will Cal! 'Em All Out or Safe oo oo oo oo- 00 oo Some Tips to World Series Bettors By Ring W. Lardner. trickv and is libel to throw a ball to a different base than expected. Kopf is the better looking:, but Eisberg is the tallest, and if they ever try to drive a high line drive over his head, they will get fooled. THE two stars of tho coming serious has botn been overlooked by experts, ex-perts, and I refer to Sherwood Magee and John Collins, whom a lot of you think won't be in there. Even if they are not, they are both good fellows. Another question the public keeps asking we experts is, who gets the advantage ad-vantage of havincr the serious nine games in the stead of seven. Well, gents, all as I can say is, it isn't the newspaper men. Further, and more, I wouldn 't be surprised if neither ball club liked the new regime as I have nicknamed il, as it looks to me like both managers would use up all the pitchers they have got tomorrow and wouldn't know what to do next. All together, it looks like a long serious, seri-ous, and whoever made it nine games had it in for us. (Copyright by Bell Syndicate, 1919.) Cincinnati, gopt. 30. GENTS: The world wriea starts tomorrow to-morrow with a big surprise. A great many people figured that the White Sox would be scared out and would never appear. But sure enough, wrhen we woke up this morning and came down to breakfast, here was the White Sox as big as life and willing to play. The first bird I seen amidst them was . Kay Sehalk, the second catcher. " Well, Cracker," I said, "I never expected to see you down here, as I had been told that you would quit and would never appear," "Well, Biscuit," was his reply, "Here we are and that's the best answer." So after all that is said and dono the White Sox is clown hero trying to win the first two games oh their merits, so it looks like the series would not be forfeited after all. TSflrOST of the experts wont to the IyJL two different managers to try and learn wiio was going to pitch the opening game, so to be different from the rest of them as usual, I passed up the two managers and went to tine umpires. um-pires. The first one I seen was Cy Rigler and I have known him 'all my life. "Who is going to win, Cy?" 'I asked. "I don't know," was his ample reply. Vou can take that tip or leave it. Personally, I am botting on his word. He will give them the best of it if possible The next umpire I seen wa3 Quiglcy. "My system," he said, "is to call everybody out." The two American teaguo umpires could not be seen as they was both up writing their stuff. But you can be ..sure that neither of them will give anybody any-body the best of it. So all. and all "it looks like a even break in the umpiring. THAT brings us to the hotel accommodations. accom-modations. A large Chicago newspaper news-paper has got the prize room of the lot namely the smoking room off the ball room in the G-ibson. This means that if anybody wakes up at 3 in the morning and wants to smoke, why they can do so without moving out of their room. And if they want to dance why all they has to do is go in the nex"t room and look for a pardner. A great many people has written in to this hotel to ask how I am going to bet so they can do the opposite and make big money. Well, gents, I might as well tell you where I stand. I don't believe either club can win, as neither 1 of them has got a manager. But I do know both of the so-called managers man-agers personally and I have asked them who is going to pitch tho opening game and they both say everybody on the staff, so it looks like a free hitting game writh Corner and Mayer in there at tho start, and Mitchell and Lowder-milk Lowder-milk to relieve them, but neither has made any provisions in regards to who is going to relieve us newspaper guys. THE other day, as you remember, I tried to make a comparison of the two clubs, man for man, and when I come to the shortstops, why I said the logical thing, which is, that no short stops can win the serious, as nobody ever hits to the shortstops in a big event like this. But thousands of birds wrote in personal letters to know what I thought of the two shortstops, anyway, any-way, so I suppose I have got to tell them. Wei!, of the two shortstops mentioned, men-tioned, Bisberg and Kopf will be in there at the start of the serious, but thev will both be took out before the serious is nine games old. Comparing both of them: Bisberg is a Swede, but on the other hand, Kopf hits from both sides of the plate. Both of them is |