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Show SPECULATORS RAISE PRICE OF SEATS CHICAGO, Oct. 12. The victories of the New York GiantB in the third and fourth games of tho world's Beries, thUB evening up the score, caused speculators spec-ulators to raise the prices of seats today for the fifth game, which is to be played at White Sox park tomorrow. tomor-row. For a single grandstand seat the brokers are demanding $10 and for a box seat $15. The sale of reserved seats for tomorrow's tomor-row's game also was re-opened at tho park box office today. The tickets are those redeemed from purchasers who bought for the three games hero, as required by the management, and later found themselves unablo to attend at-tend the third gamo of tho series. A record breaking crowd is expected to attend If tho weather permits. Tho latest woathor prediction for Saturday Is "probably unsettled and warmer." Tho official weather forecast today for tomorrow's championship gamo, reads: "Saturday fair with slowly rising temperature." This prognostication doos not necessarily nec-essarily mean warm weather, as tho temperature was dictinotly cold today, with an occasional stray flake of snow In the air. SERIES SINECURES. Pinch hitting for Joo Jackson. Umpiring tho foul lines. Holding your breath until Kid Glea-son Glea-son starts after Zimmerman. Scoring homo runs made by Pol Per-rltt. Per-rltt. Soiling a $2.00 seat for 10 bones. Scoring the Pittsburgh games In the World's Series. There wa3 a fan In our town and ho was wondrous wise. He read up all the Series Dope By "expert" baseball guys. And when he found they all agreed Which club would cop the fray, He drew his shekels from tho bank And bet the other way. Do You Know That: Of tho 3,675 baseball writing experts nnro in rnntlvlfv 1 R37 nlrlr thn fllnnfo to win the Series, 1,837 like the Sox and the other guy doesn't know any more about it than the others: but ad mlts it? John MoGraw doesn't care any more about winning this series than a chorus chor-us girl does about a millionaire John nyl Chicago was called the Windy City long before the White Sox fans start, ed gassing about their club. Tho softest Job of the entire Series may soom to bo that of tho umps who lamp tho foul lines for $500 or $1,000 each, but how about those playing birdB rwho wear their pants out on the bonch, don't get Into tho Series at all and thon drag down two or three thousand iron men? Of all tho pltohorB in the gamo j There's none like Old Slim Salleo. He surely "has a funny frame To stop a batting rally. i He's one foot wide, a half foot thick And stands 6 feet 3 Inches ' But gosh! He seems to have the trick Of fanning guys in pinches. J Wall Street men aro backing the , ! Giants heavily and they know almost " ; as much about tho gamo as Heinle ' ', Zimmerman does about Greek? FOURTH GAME NOTES. ; Tho fans have not forgotten Christy Mathewson. When Big Six appeared ' In the stand he was given a rousing ; and prolonged choer. Later, when he appeared on tho Hold and presented Bonny Kauff with a, $50 chock for hltr fM ting tho "bull" sign, sign, tho fans kept up a continuous cheer. Christy beat V a hasty retreat, W A tableaux was staged Just beforo K the gamo when tho recruits on the B Giants' bench led by Manager McGraw jri.'Bhfci marched from second base to their dug- fl out, each adorned with an ally flag. 'j McGraw had "Old Glory" in front of M him. fj The photographers were treated to a ' sensation. The picture takers wero ; themselves pictured by the movie man. Some of the fans aro taking to "rid- ' ' y Ing" Eddio Collins. They booed him ) '' when he was called out on strikes in ' the first inning and again when he was j caught flatfooted off second in tho fourth. "Happy" Felsch, hero of tho first ( gamo, made tho most strenuous kick ' of tho day whon "ho was called out ; on strikes in tho soventh. It wasn't a pleasant sensation for tho "homo run" hero. K Itisberg hatting for Faber in the g eighth came up with a plaster on his iJ neck. Schupp tried to peel it off with K the first throe balls ho pitched. The fcj next two were strikes and Risberg aa II a pinch hitter failed whon he filed to fl Robertson. fl Chas. Comiskoy is popular with Now A' York fans even If ho does own the - Whito Sox club. The veteran baseball- 1st marched through the runway with 1; the fans and "threo cheers" wore call- j ed for him timo and again. f Besides bringing' him glory, KaufTs 1 ' two homers brought him two $50 lib- ' ' : erty bonds. With tho $50 check ho re- j celved for hitting tho "bull" sign Bon- ny had a regular a la Rockefeller day. |