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Show Rowo Starts First Series DETROIT, Oct. 2 lH Notes on the world series: This is Schoolboy Rowe's first world series. .. more than that, he wiH be pitching in the' first world series game he has ever seen... They take baseball seriously out here... one ticket purchaser, cash,' in hand and only one step away from the box office, fainted... the cops bought his tickets for him and then drove him home... hotels are jammed. .. room clerks' were turning 'em away at the hotels... the baseball writers have made two unofficial agreements they promise not to call the Tigers the Bengals, and not to point out that "in a short series such as this anything can happen and probably will". . .nothing else is barred. . .railroad men expect to send four special trains from Detroit to St. Louis after the second, game on Thursday . . . these will be the two specials for the Cards and Tigers, one for baseball writers and photographers, and one an extra section of the regular 8:30 train. . .a poll of baseball experts ex-perts made before the Giants began be-gan their fatal crack-up, showed the Tigers to be the favorites... now the Cards are pie choice... the reason: Two Deans. . .there's one important absentee Bill Terry, manager of the Giants... "I just plain am not going," he said in New York on Sunday. "I think the Cards will win and I'D be pulling for 'em." ... |