The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-09
WORLDS SERIES.
Big Baseball Fight Begins With
Perfect Weather.
Both the Athletics and New
York Teams Ready.
A FIERCE STRUGGLE.
Vast ThrOng in Waiting at
Ticket Sales Opening.
Philadelphia Cannot Count ON
Waddell's Aid.
Wide Diversity of Opinion as to
Who VIII Win.


Philadelphia, oct 9.-More favor
able weather. conditions for the open
ing day of the worlds championship
baseball series between the New York
National league and the Philadelphia
American league clubs could not have
| been desired. The final details for
the series were completed today when
1 the national committee met the two
umpires who are to oficiate during
the games and later received the GER
! titled checks of the contesting clubs
for $4,000 as a guarantee that the
series would be played.
/ Elaborate preparations were made
to handle the crowds. Although the
prices of admission have been raised
4 to so cents, 81 and 81 an immense
throng. was in waiting when the sale
/ of tickets began
! During the series Manager Mack of
4 the Philadelphia club. will depend
upon Plank, Bender and COakley to
pitch for his team, and Manager Nc
/ GraW of New York, places his de-
! pendence upon Matthewson, McGin-
nifty and Taylor. WaddeH appears to
! be entirely out of condition and is not
expected to participate in any of the
/ games.
Four out of seven games will win
the series this year. Two years ago,
/ when the last world championship
series was held, nine games were
! scheduled, the Boston Americans win
ming five out of eight. The record of
that series was as follows:
At BOston-Pittsburg, z; Boston g.
Attendance, 16, PAP.
At Boston, 8; Pittsburg, O..
Attendance, 9,415.
At Boston-Pittsburg A; Boston, 2.
Attendance. 1891.
At ttsburg-Pittsburg, 5; Boston,
4. Attendance, $500.
At Pittsburg- II; Pittsburg,
2. Attendance, 1892.
At Pittsburg Boston, 6; Pittsburg,
8. Attendance, 1856.
At sburg-Boston, Il; Pittsburg,
3. Attendance, 1908.
At Boston Boston, 8; Pittsburg, O..
Attendance, 1855
| There is widest diversity of opinion
concerning the outcome of the games
this week. The clubs are scheduled
for game each afternoon, alternat-
ing between New York and Philadel-
phia A curious feature of the Bos-
/ -Pittsburg series two years ago
was that the home team always was
beaten when the attendance was ex-
traordinarily large.
Most Rigid Rules.
This will be the first series held un-
der the auspices of the national COM
mission, and the rules under which it
will be played guarantee that the
series will squarely and fairly decide
the championship. Every precautiOn
has been taken to see that such will
be the case. First and most important,
the two leading umpires in each
league blank O'Day and Jack Sheri-
day) have been selected to handle the
duty, backed up by full power to con-
trcl both the game and players The
fans of the country have unlimited
faith both in the ability and fairness
of both men. Second in Importance is
the fact that rules have been made
which will guarantee the game being
played under conditions reasonably
sure to bring out the best work of
the two clubs, and the Outfelders viii
have a fair chance to show their abil-
ity, instead of being jammed up
against the infielders.
All of the minor details of the games
have also been worked out perfectly.
Each club has been obliged to post q
$4,000 forfeit that it Will play out the
4 series and abide by the rules. The
admission fee has been placed at a
reasonable figure and the receipts will
be divided upon an equitable basis.
The commission viii first take ten per
cent of the latter for its expenses
which include the providing of cham
piOnship buttons for the players. After
that the players get so per cent of
the remainder and the clubs 40 The
winning players will get 3 per cent
of the share which goes to them and
the losers %. Possibly it might have
been better to make the division so
and 40, but this is a mere minor de-
tail, and the baseball world has cause
to congratulate itself that the commits
sion has made arrangements so fairly
and in such a thorough manner for the
most important series of the baseball
season.
Admitting the National and American
leagues to be on an equal footing the
Giants would enter the contest over
whelming favorites and the outcome OF
the series would be practically a foreg0ne
conclusion. American league adherents
are positive that the National league is
not as strong as the younger organiza-
ton, and for this reason consider COM
parison on the score of averages unfair
| That they are right in this would be in
| dictated by the fact that the American
/ league has won a majority of the series
: | in which the two leagues have clashed
That the averages made by the two teams
this season do neOt indicate the real
strength of the two clubs is a certainty
but how much difference there really is
is another thing, and it will take the re-
suit of the coming series to decide this
I ! One thing the American league team
followers have good grounds for finding
comfort in is the record New York has
made this season. Against the two team.
1 running second and third in the race
Pittsburg and Chicago. New York has
r done nothing remarkable. In each cas'