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Show GIANTS NOW CONFIDENT Will Put Up Great Fight for World's Pennant Pen-nant ON BOARD GIANTS' SPECIAL TRAIN, Oct 12. No more confident ball club ever sallied forth to battle , than the New York Giants today enj route to Chicago for the fifth game of their world's championship series with the Whito Sox. Having evened the, count at two all, tho National league j champions wore convinced that they i had only to continue playing at the same speed they developed In the two games at Now York to overcome, their American league foemen and thoy felt not the slightest doubt on that Bcoro. Yet the Giants carefully desisted any temptation to prophesy a complete com-plete triumph within tho next two playing days. They were frank to con-1 fess that they regarded the Whito Sox as alroady beaten, but they do nott display tho slightest tendency to i under-rato their opponents. Thoy expressed ex-pressed a belief that Manager Row-, land of tho White Sox will almost cer-! 1 tainly stirt Ed Cicotte, of shino ball 1 j fame, against them in tomorrow's en-1 : gagement at Comlskey Park, and an-j an-j ticipiated another gruelling contest In which the "breaks" in tho luck would probably decido tho issue. They also predicted that Harry ("Slim") Salleo will lead the New York club into action in tho fifth gamo of the series and the third to be played in Chicago, and that he will oven be more effective against the White Sox than he was last Saturday Satur-day when he hold tho American leaguers to seven hits whilo yielding a 2 to 1 decision to Cicotte. All the Giant players excopt Lew McCarty were In perfect physical condition con-dition as thet club traveled westward and Mccarty's injured shoulder has mended to such an extent that ho was able to carry his own handbaggage. McCarty announoed that while he will be probably unablo to catch another game this year, he will be ready within a couple of days to resume play as a pinch hitter. Manager McGraw had nothing to say for publication beyond the mere statement that he never had Igst faith In his champions and that ho now regards re-gards their chances of winning the baseball championship of the world as better than over. White Sox' Special. ON BOARD THE WHITE SOX' SPECIAL TRAIN, Oct 12. The Chicago Chi-cago White Sox, having lost their edge on tho world's series by dropping two games to the Now York Giants, are hurrying west today to meet tho Polo grounders on' Comlskey Park, whoro tho American leaguers hope to como out In front again. The Sox were nono too happy a lot as they contemplated con-templated 18 consecutive innings of play without scoring a run against against tho Giants on the Polo grounds. "We simply could not hit," said Chick Gandil. "If you can't hit you can't win. Wo will start again in Chicago. Benton pitched the best gamo so far against us. We have hit better. pitcherB than Schupp." Some of tho Sox players complained that tho Giants roughed them aa they went into second base and said that if the Now Yorkers were looking for troublo they would find It before the sorles was over. Managor Rowland plans to uncover Rob Russell against the Giants on Saturday. Cicotte says ho is ready to go on the pitching hill on Saturday if Rowlands calls upon him. |