The Springfield herald., 1906-10-19
BASEBALL CAME
AMERICANS WIN THE WORLDS
CHAMPIONSHIP.
DEFEATING THE NATIONALS
Nineteen Thousand People in Chicago
Witness Sixth and Last Game-To-
tai Admission Receipts Over One
Hundred Thousand Dollars.


Witness Sixth and Last Game-To-
tai Admission Receipts Over One
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Chicago.-The Chicago club of the
American Base Ball League is the
champion aggregation OF the world.
BY winning Sundays game by
the score OF to from the Chicago
club of the National League, the Amer
leans earned the right TO fly the
worlds championship pennant as we'll
as the pennant of the American
League, to ride to the grounds next
season in carriages and to have
Worlds Champions" lettered on the
blankets worn by their horses. Sum
and the fourth and decisive victory for
the Americans.
When the last National League bats
man had gone out and the stunning
fact that new champions had been ere
ated burned its impression through
thousands of excited minds, crowd
surged around the box wherein sat
Charles W. Murphy, president of the
losing club. He smiled gamely at re-
quests for speech and said:
THE best team won. They wen be-
cause they played better ball. Too
much praise can not be given to Pres
ident Charles Comiskey and Captain
Fielder Jones, and the team which by
unprecedented pluck climbed in mid
season from seventh place to the top
of their own league and then topped
Off that great accomplishment by win
ming the worlds championship from
the team that made runaway race
of the National League contest call
for three cheers for Comiskey and his
great team"
Cheer after cheer followed this
speech, but they were lost to the hear.
ing of most of the crowd, who were
busily engaged in cheering other
things-the individuals, the players
on the back with such enthusiasm that
every one of them had to fight his
way out to the waiting carriages.
Nor were cheers for the losers lack
ing. The Cubs had lost the greatest
distinction which baseball offers to its
votaries, but are still great team, and
the wildly excited enthusiasts who fol
lowed their carriages through the
crowded blocks did not spare their
throats in saying so.
Comiskey's face was wreathed in
smiles long before the game was over,
for the Americans put their victory in
storage in the first two innings. When
Schultz went out at first after an abor-
two nd hn Y.tn
over. Comiskey shook hands with such
of his players as he could reach. The
others were fighting to save them
selves from their friends, and had no
time for congratulations save pound
ing each other on the back.
That the victory was fairly-earned
one is shown not only by the fact that
the Americans won four out of six
games, incidentally making it unneces-
sary to play the seventh, but by the
hits and runs. The Americans all told
made twenty-five runs compared with
eighteen by the Nationals. They made
thirty-nine base hits as against thirty
seven for the Nationals. The Ma
tionals made but five errors, com
pared with fourteen by the Americans.
The latter club also made the greater
number of extra base hits. but the
ground rules made nearly all of them
good for only two-base hits.
Among the expert critics of baseball
it is generally admitted that to the
American pitchers most of the credit
is due. This despite the fact that the
American pitchers have but twenty-six
strike-outs to their credit against thir-
ty-five for the Nationals. The Ameri-
can League pitchers gave nineteen
bases on ball as against eighteen by
the Nationals. Notwithstanding this
the American pitchers were effective
when hits meant runs, particularly
against such men as Chance, Schultz.
Steinfeldt and King. These men, all
consistent 800 hitters, were all but
helpless during most of the series.
On the other hand the Americans,
popularly known as the "hitless won
ders," batted more strongly than their
opponents, who during the season had
done the heaviest batting in the Ma
tional League.
In stealing bases the Nationals had
a shade over the Americans. Gathers
King and Sullivan, who caught the en-
tire series, were both formidable to
base runners, but OF the total thirteen
Over $4,000 paid admissions had
been registered at the gate at noon,
the balmy weather and the holiday
bringing the crowds out early.
The attendance at Sundays game
was 19,249, making the total attendance
for the series 99,S45 The receipts for
to-day's game were s20,s61, and the to-
tai for the six games was $105,54O. OF
this amount the players share is s33.
402. The American League, with
twenty-one men, will receive $25,052
The Nationals share for nineteen men
is $3.50 The receipts for last years
champion series were sGS,405, and of
last years American-National series
S2G,T44.