Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-06
PENNANT FIGHTS.
How the Detroits Won the
Contest in 1887.
THE WAR WAS A LIVELY one.

the Day-The Seasons Work Followed
from Start to Finixh-How the Lead
Fluctuatcs from Club TO Cab.
The Detroits won the championship OF 1857
after successful season and Close struggle.
The club won through It's superior batting
powers and its strength IN batteries. Ii was
more evenly balanced than any OF its compel
itors. The Philaac.phiaS were splendid Sc
ond, but the clubs strength lsy in lis batteries
and in the splendid support rendered. Like
the Cievelsads Of this year they were weak IS
the hat, and this kept them from passing the
leaders At the close of the SEASON the De
trcitS had won - gssIoeS and lost ~ to IS wen
and IS los. for the PhiladslphiaS Ia the series
between the two clubs, Philadelphia won 5
games out If Is The champion nine consist
Ell Of Getzein, Baldwin, Conway, Twitchell.
Weilman. pitchers; Bennett, Briosly, Camel,
catchers: BroutherS, IL; Dunlap, Cd. (; W bite,
Sb.; Rowe. : : Richardson, l. T., Hancock,
c. T.; Thompson, r. +
Toe Philadelphia nine was composed Of
Ferguson, Daley, Casey, Ttcomb, Aurphy
and Henry, pitchers; Clements, Cusiek. Nc
CURE, Dallas and Stating, catchers. Farrar,
lst b. /; Bastian. 2b; Muiyey, Sb.; Irwin. $
s; Wood, l. f.; Fogarty, {. E; McCanley,
+. Z, and Andrews spare man The sensa~
ton Of the season was the purchase Of Kelly
from the Chicago club for $4,000. Great
things were expected OF the Boston club. bat
it finished fifth, barely winning more games
than il lost II started oct grsndiy, winning
=
and May, being splendid se,ond, and rails
ing the hopes of its admirers to . very high
extent The pace was too hot, however. and
the club failed 10 keep up With the leaders,
though at the end of june it Was still in the
second place. Chicago passed it in July, and
New York was Gloss at hand
In August tie Philadelphia club made its
brilliant squirt and won 10 games cut Of q.
TINS placed it ahead of Boston. Had Phiia
deiphia begun the season "a IL ended, it would
have won the championship, Tor da-ing Au-
gust and September, and the ors wcek In
October, il won IS games and lost but II 20
So games won and 10 lost fer Detroit Chr
csgo ended third, and good third, winning
10 games and losing "a. or eight victories be-
hind Detroit and four behind Philadelphia.
The percentage of victories Of thee thres
clubs was "a follows: Detroit, 6ST; Philadel-
phia. 609; Chicago, SO. IL was the great
infeld of Chicago and the twirling work OK
Pitcher Garrison, of that club. tnat enabled
il 10 make as good a showing as was The case.
After losing IS out of the first d played, tbs
club won 81 out Of the Dext A. New York
opened well.
IL should have made "a FAR bitter showing
than was the case, but there were lacking tie
coherency aad harmony that were visihio Ia
the other leading mines. ksefe and WEIGH
were n pair Of pitchers who should have
taken the championship for s.Ay club. There
were two newcomers III the League race--tho
Pittsburgs and Indianapolis--and both fell
far short Of expectations The former snads
a squirt at the end IF the season, winning six
games out OF seven in that month.
The season was an exciting one, sven
though the Detroits maintained the lead
almost without interruption. The othar
clubs made desperate cndsess-s 20 get % thu
front. Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
were close rivals al one tinle or another, bus
each was triumphansiy shaken of
In June TIE Ds;roits mot with the most re-
verses and Chicago with a great deal Of good
fortune, tho 6gurS.,es July being Dctroits
won A, he %; C'.icaasos won e. lost IS
The Detroits forged ahead In the next month,
while the Pbilads' tdias took tie place OK
the Chicagos as chief rivals Of the leaders.
Sept. Detroit had long had, with 90 vso-
tories, 80 defeats To So victories, % defeats
for Chicago, and Is victories, IS defeats fof
Philadelphia. Detroa. held rs vnntage Ia
September, winning rs games ontos "A, while
the Philadeiphias won f6 out 81, aud the CHI
csgos IL out Of =.
The Chicagos fell OF greatly from thar
record of the preceding year, while the De
troits won with "a poorer percentage. Now
York fell behind also, and though Boston
won five games more and host oDe les ia rec
ord wns not at all commensurate with the
efforts 20 strengthen the nine. The Chicago
proved TO be as trslal, thorn in die Eids u
the Detroits, winning 10 out q she II games
IN the series, and the Emiaieiphia1s fOBrd
Anson's men altogether too strong Tor them,
winning but out of the - games, whils
the Chicagos were 50 strong against tho Lss-
troits and Phiisde.p hias they won but 3
games out Of j. from the PrttAbnrgz, and IL
Is a strange fact that the latter won Enors
games from the CbicsEos than from any
other club.
P1,iIadelphia won TIE series from New
York, 10 gsues 20 :. and ted with Baston, Q
and 9. and Kew YORK won from Boston 10
games 10 z The week.-mrs. II The Eossons IN
the games away from h0ias WAS a. n0,e-
worthy IA 4 i today. They SOn - gslssss
away from home 70 a fer the I1ttsbssr -
and - for the " Washington, and they ioSt -
away from bo1s1e 70 - for TIE FitsslsIrgs sssi
~ for the Wazbingtons ~ hDrgas thsy ~oa
81 gaSnaz 20 81 fer Chicago ard Detroit. -
for Philadelphia ard 81 for Sew York. aasl
at home they iost out =. game - II fur i5e-
troit, Il FOR Chicago. - for Fgiladeiphis ansi
% for New YorE SriSE ixrEs.
George Kerr.