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Show r Chicago Fans, Eaer to Slay Th eir Ball Players Few Days Ago, Praise Them Loudly By HARVEY T. WOODRUFF. CHICAGO, Oct. 8. Chicago business houses and offices practically suspended sus-pended business during the playing of the seventh game of the world's series today while returns of the : White Sox victory were being received by : telephone and messengers from all sources available. Twenty-five thousand persons, according accord-ing to estimates, stood in Grant park and received the returns from a free electric scoreboard, and the wild rooting and enthusiasm en-thusiasm left no doubt of the welcome which will greet Kid Gleason's comeback aggregation at Comiskey park tomorrow : afternoon. Orchestra hall, where tho occupants :of comfortable seats contribute 60 cents each, was jammed to the doors and the -rooting at :times nearly blew the roof off .the ordinarily staid and decorous build-' build-' 'r.g. Newspaper switchboard operators han-: han-: died more cails than at any time during : the series, the bulletin special service giving giv-ing up-to-the minute returns to all ques- tioners. La Salle street brokerage offices kept ropea house after the close of the mar-: mar-: ket to accommodate patrons and receive special wire returns from Redland field. Rush for Tickets. ; Out at White Sox park Secretary Harry Cra.Mner and his corps of assistants were . busy all day disposing of tickets for the . game tomorrow. About 1S.0OO box and reserved grandstand seats were sold, leaving leav-ing 5000 more for the early bird3 tomor-; tomor-; row morning, in addition to 10,300 unre-; unre-; served seats which also will be placed on . saie tomorrow morningll begining at 9 ; o clock. ; White Sox patrons were slow In seeking tickets during the morning, hut the waiting wait-ing lines increased in the early afternoon and. Immediately the tickers showed the White Sox had gotten away in the lead, there was a rush of belated patron to the pari:, whose numbers were augmented when the final score was received. Ticket sellers remained on the job until un-til after 7 'o'clock disposing of the pasteboards, paste-boards, after which the windows were closed for the night, but all who went to the park had been accommodated. White Sox patrons,, electrified with new hope by the club's game fight against what seemed hopeless odds, are now speculating upon the chances of ultimate victory by taking tho next two games. The more enthusiastic can see no other result, while those less unrestrained are going back into the records for a precedent. prece-dent. Dig Up Precedent. .... In 1912 the White Sox won four straight games from the Cubs after the Cubs had won three straight. In that vear the first two games played ended In ties. The Boston Braves won four straight games and the championship from the Philadelphia Athletics in 1914. The following fol-lowing year the Philadelphia Nationals won the first game from the Boston Red Sox and Boston followed with four straight. In 1907 Chance's old Chicago Cubs won four straight from Detroit, after the first game had ended in a tie. In 1903, In a nine-game series, Boston won four straight from Pittsburg, after the Pirates were leading, three games to one. In no world's series has a team to date won four straight games when its on-ponents on-ponents needed onlv one victory to cop the world's flag, it is up to Gleason's men, therefore, to set a new record, if they can. |