The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
SPORTING NEWS.
Boston Club Has Title of
Worlds Champions.
Is the First on Record Since the
Year 1889.
PIRATES ADMIT FACT.
Hubs Team Not Known as a
Combine of Stars.
List of Players, Their Ages and
Their Weight.
PIRATES ADMIT FACT.

Boston, Oct. 17.-Jimmy Collins Bos-
ton American league team is the cham
pion baseball club of the world. There
is no one to dispute the right of the
Boston men to the .honors that they
have earned. for the team that contest
ed with them was fairly beaten end
Manager Clarke and his men haye
nothing but words of praise for the
fast work of their rivals.
Not since 1885 has the worlds champion
ship been fought and won. That year
the New York National league and
Brooklyn American association teams
fought for the title and the Gotham
ties won it handily.
Never before. though. has the same
amount of interest been displayed in
the outcome of the worlds series and
never have two teams fought for the
honors that had as good a right to try
conclusions as the Boston and Araeri-
can league teams this year. for each
was the champion in a major league.
BoStOnS team is not a cOmb1na ton
made up of what has been recca~nlzed
as star players heretofore, but the
whole team has now earned place in
the gallery of stars. Manager Collins,
Cy Young and Dineen have been rec9g-
nized as among the brilliants for some
saa-onS.
Manager Collins, the third baseEnan
of the team, was born at Niagara Fails
and picked up the game at st. IoseDh' $
college al Buffalo, where he attended 4.
Frank Selee. then manager of the Bos-
ton team, drafted him in 1895 and
farmed him to Louisville. where he de-
veloped into a third baseman- He has
been the manager of the Boston team
for the last three years-ever since II
was organised.
Criger, the catcher. is a native of Elk
hart. Ind. and went to Boston from the
St. Louis Nationals. He is 81 years old
and weighs 100 pounds.
Farrell, another catcher, Is 81 years
old and weighs 210 pounds. He was with
Brooklyn last year
Cy Young IS Sc years old and is one
of the best pitchers in the business to-
day. He weighs 200. He was formerly
with the Cardinals.
! Dineen is q and weighs ITO. He was
with the Boston National league team
before going to the Plymouth Rocks.
Hughes is a Chicago boy, is 80 and
| weighs IT'S. He was with the Baltimore
team last year and formerly with the
| Cubs in this city.
Winter was developed in Boston as a
pitcher. He IS % ind weighs $50.
| Lachance is the first baseman and was
with the Cleveland team last year. He
is SO and weighs 1870. +As>-+
| Ferris, the second baseman, is &c and
weighs 100. He was developed in Boston
| Parent, the shortstop, is another of the
men who made his reputation on the
championship team. He is rs and
weighs 155.
Freeman, outfelder. is 30 and weighs
! 172. He was with the Boston National
league team before going to the cham
/ pions.
Stahl, outfielder, was with the opposi-
ton team in Boston, is so years old ano
weighs ITS.
Dougherty, outfielder, was developed
| in Boston, is q and weighs 1872.
| O'Brien, the utility man, was a Wash
1 ington player. He is 90 and weighs $50
Joe Smart is the business man of the
team and represents Owner Henry Kill
lilea of Milwaukee. He was in the book
business in Milwaukee before going tc
! Boston this year to look after the in
/ terests OF the team.