Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — FANS HOPING FOR A CHANGE [ARTICLE]

FANS HOPING FOR A CHANGE

Tired of Seeing World’s Series Battles Played by Giants and Athletics in October Haze. The rank and file of,fans are hoping that the next world’s series combat won’t be between the Giants and Athletics. They’ve grown a. bit tired of seeing these two clubs fight it out in .the October haze, and theV are pulling for some other club to “horn into” the big doings. If the Cubs and Athletics had another world series duel, or the Giants and Tigers, or Giants and Red Sox, fandom would be somewhat satisfied. But the great mass of fans would rather see the Rex Sox and Cubs, or the Tigers and Cubs, than to see either of the teams that battled last year in action again this year. The reason for this is that in the case of a tferies 'between the Giants and Athletics, the fans take it as a foregone conclusion that the Athletics again will conquer. It’s sort of an old story repeated—and they want to hear a new one. They’d rather see two totally different teams in action. \