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Show 'TANNING" CHICAGt . "et. 9 Again contenders for the world's baseball championship by virtus of their I to 1 victory ocr the Cincinnati Reds yesterday, ih-Chicago ih-Chicago White Sox returned to Comis-key Comis-key park today to make a determined effort lo draw abreast of the Reds in the matter of games won at 4-4. R -garded as virtually out of the race for premier baseball honors when the Red- I legs took the first two game of the series at the Ohio cit and then took two out of three games here, the American league pennant winueis apparently ap-parently found their long-lost batting eyes and the two victories they hammered ham-mered out on successive days on foreign for-eign soil brought a return of the pie-series pie-series confidence in the ultimate outcome out-come to l heir supportors here. Needing but the single game to brine, his team the hamplonship. Manager 1'at Moran was BXpsoted semi "Hod" Eller, "shins ball" pitcher, to the mound today In the eighth game of the erles. Eller established ihe world series record of six RUCCeSBlve strikeouts strike-outs when he held the While Sox to 'hrcp hit, one a scratch, in the game here Monday when Cincinnati won, " to 0. Claude "Lefty" Williams, twice defeated de-feated by the Redlegs, but holding them to an aggregate of eight hits in the two games, was expected to be Manager Gleason's selection for mound duty. It generally was admitted that Williams' Wil-liams' pitching would "have won nine out of ten ordinary games," but each time he opposed pitching that the White Sox heavy hitters virtually were powerless before. Witb the assertion that his "boys' had reroered their batting eyes and lighting spirit, Manager Mana-ger (iieason was . nnfident his star left bander would pitch a comeback game as did Cicotte yesterdav Manager Moran pointed to tho breaks of the game as responsible for What he termed the "postponement." He seemed confident today would end the series. Interest in the series at Chicago was 'renewed by the comeback the White Sox staged and with two days of ticket Sales for today's game the prospect Waa that approximately a capacity crowd would be out. "Red" Faber, hero of the 1917 world s series, was mentioned as a White Sox pitching possibility today, but the con-J Census of opinion was that Williams: i w ould be given the honor Faber Is I said to have recovered form though he1 i w as virtually on the retired list all the1 season The American league representatives will have to establish yet another record rec-ord in this record establishing series to be returned winners In no world's series has a club won four straight games when Its opponents needed but a single contest. Regarded as most reassuring In lis ; value as directly concerning 'he White I Sox. however, was the record of the 1912 city series when the Sox, with I their backs to the ball after the Cubs had taken three straight, fell on their ! National league rivals and won the I necessary lour games That showed lit "can be done." some said, j Few wagers on the outcome of the . series were reported today. Prevailing Prevail-ing odds on the day's result were 2 1-2 to 1 and even money. oo |