Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1917 — Reversal of Giants Causes Alarm Among Sox Supporters. [ARTICLE]

Reversal of Giants Causes Alarm Among Sox Supporters.

Back home on their own lot among friends, with their backs to the wall, Harry Hemstead’s New York Giants played characteristic Giant baseball and flayed the hired men of Comiskey, putting themselves back in a position where they have a chance to cop the premier honors of the baseball world. It was a chastened bunch of New Yorkers who left for Manhattan Island last Monday. Broadway, sickened on her former pats, turned them down cold and panned John McGraw unmercifully. Today these same fickle New York fans, who can see no good in anything west of the Bronx, are singing the praises of their representatives in the baseball classic. Some fans, those New Yorkers. At the opening of the series the betting along the curb made the Giants favorites. Within two days the Giant supporters were asking odds of 3 to 1 from the Chicago backers. Today part of their confidence has been restored and they are again making their team the favorites. The fifth game of the series will be played in Chicago Saturday. At the present time the Hose are on the run, but amid familiar surroundings they may again be able to get in their winning stride. Who will draw the slab assignment for Chicago tomorrow is not certain. So far Rowland has used but two slabmen, both righthanders, and in this respect it looks as if he had erred and it may be that he will switch to Russell tomorrow. Both managers are confident, McGraw that the championship will remain east of the Alleghanies, and Rowland that it will be brought back to the uncultured "West.