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Show I DEFEAT OF WHITE HOSE I TODAY WILL PRACTICALLY CINCH FLAG FOR CINCIFS CHICAGO, Oct. 3 Carrying a two game lead, the Cincinnati Reds to. invaded the home territory of the Chicago Chi-cago White Sox for the third conr.st of the world serif, the game which virtually will decide whether the American Am-erican league pennant winners are to be serious contenders for the championship cham-pionship or fare .m overwhelming handicap during the remainder ot the series- The two teams, accompanied by some 2000 Cincinnati rooters, arrived here this morninc on more than a dozen trains, the Reds confidenl thai they will return to Ohio Sunday ni rhl possessors of baseball's hlghesl hon- B ors and the White Sox determine to overcome (heir handicap while play- 2 ing on their home grounds Despite the far- thai the White Sox, B 8 to 5 favorites before the series, lost j two straight games to the National! J leaguers, the followers of Comiskcv's team werr confident that today! CO- test would be the start ol a winning streak, for the favorites and tana be- gan gathering at. the baseball park last night, waiting In lino to pun 1 i i J 'he general admission tickets placed J oa sale at 9 o'clock this morning The ff ret fan appeared at the park at 5.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and shortly others appeared By midnight mid-night more than 10u were in lin. and all night the ticket seekers increased in numbers Special details of police po-lice were placed at the park, but no disorder was reported. Included among the waiter? waj B fair sprinkling sprink-ling of women, eacfa d-tmiin. id get a point of vantage tor tho third game. In order to prevent ticket! falling info hands of scalpers and to i pi ditc the sale special arrangement were made by the club managemi n:.. Each prospective purchase was requested re-quested to have the eracl change for his ticket ready, the bleacher seat! selling for $1,10 and pavilion jpac for $2.20, including war tax. No p.r- '" i" iiuinwsf more than one ticket and after receiving the pasteboard everyone was required to 1 go directly into the park T n thou- 6and bleacher Uckets and G500 for the pavilions were placed on sale. 2 Discussion of the series centered largely this morning on who would be P "liven the pitching assignment by Manager Gleason.of the Sox Although Manager Gleasou announced lui I night In Cincinnati that he probably would select Dick Kerr, the aensa- tional young left hander. there was a general feeling that the youngster would not be called on at such a crll leal time and that Gleason would switch to one of his veterans befi re game time. lOddie Cicotte, leading burler of the . American league, who sas pounded K0111 box in the foirth inning of the first gjimo and Urban Paber, hem 1 of the 1017 series are considered (he I foremost probabilities Kabr-r, how-J how-J ever, has pitched onJy indifferent ball this season Kerr is facing his first world series and has Just finished his first big league season The fact thai he is a southpaw, however, may bring him the assignment, because of the manner in which Lefty ' Willinms yesterday held down the' Reds' hits despite the loss of the game. For the Red.-. Manager Bforan tin doubtedly will pitch "Hod'1 Eller or Ray Fisher, former New York American Ameri-can league hurler, both right banders and both stars of the Reds' pennant campaign In what little betting reported todav on the series, the Reds were 8 to 5 favorites. On today's game there were ,-ome bets a( even monev, but In I most cases the White Sox followers demanded odds. There was plenty of Cincinnati money but few Chicago takers. oo |