Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-06
CHICAGO IS NOW
BASEBALL CENTER
Eyes Of Worlds Fans viii Turn
For Dope to Windy
City.
WHO WILL WIN CHAMPIONSHIP
Chicago Has at Least the Assurance
That the Honor VIII Remain
Within City Limits.

Interest IN Salt Lake has never been
lacking towards the great national
game despite the fact that local sup
port hasn't warmed towards Father
John and his unvictorIous Salt Lake
team, The press dispatches conveying
Intelligence OF the National League
fight for the pennant and the American
League fsht for the same article have
been scanned eagerly enough.
Just now II is the privilege OF Salt
Lake readers to turn to Chicago for
news OF all that's doing IN the baseball
world. The Sox and the Cubs pushed
New York of the soft pedal Of their
JOY. and this week have cut loose IN
the fun consciousness that both rags
were TO be hung up at home. Just
now the prospect Of large family
gathering to settle the worlds cham
plonship Ia sending Chicago wild, and
making New York wonder II after all
the confines Of America 20 beyond the
city limits. All season the youngsters
nave planned to be great baseball
pitcners as once they planned To be
presidents OF colleges and OF the Unit
ed States. Now they must turn their
optics to Chicago and see what nice
family gathering Is there for the elect
ed OF the world.
A PITCHERS BATTLE
The Chicago fight for the champion.
ship will be interesting as both teams
are well known TO the fans. In the
coming pitchers battle the batteries
are both we'll known. A Chicago Inter.
ocean writer compares the Gwo teams
supply Of ball tossers as follows:
who Will be the pitchers In the first
game for the worlds championship be.
tween the cubs and white sox? WIN
Mordecai Brown and DOC" White daz-
gle the multitude at the opening game
with their brilliant twirllng, or will
Walsh and his famous spit" ball try
conclusions with one Of the cub stars +?
The pitchers will be the chief factors,
II Is expected, In a series OF the best
four out OF seven games. The cubs are
some times easy prey to the wiles of
great south paw" and White and Alt
rock OF the sox pitching corps answer
that description. Perhaps Pfester win
be snt to the slab IN the first game, as
that side-wheeler would find evn more
left-handed hitters opposed to him than
White or Altrock would encounter on
the National league team. Brown has
been by all odds the most reliable twiri-
er on the cub team all season, his per-
centage OF victories now being .sl2
Naturally all the cub twlrlers have
fancy averages, as the team itself IN
over the $50 mark. White shows up AS
the most successful OF the sox slab
men, his feat Of winning seventeen out
OF twenty-three games being q high
class performance, considering the fact
that the team back Of him has won only
about go per cnt Of Its games. Whites
average Is .T3s. Lundgren. who started
the season so brilliantly for the cubs,
Is now returning to form, and VIII
doubtless get into the thick OF the post
season fighting. "Lundy" is a cold
weather pitcher, and is at his best IN
the spring and fall. Brown likes the
going at any time. and so do Reulbach.
Pfiester and Taylor. The cubs at the
present time have more OF their star
twirlers In condition than the sox. but
all Of the cripples on Comiskey's string
oughat to be In shape by the time the
hell rings for the greatest baseball show
Chicago ever staged. From all indica-
tions white. Altrock, Walsh and Owen
will bear the brunt OF the sox work.
while Chances quintet OF Brown,
Pfiester, Taylor. Lundgren and Reul-
bach will be depended on for the bulk
OF the twirling by their side. Overall
Of the cubs has been going along SPLEEN
ddly OF late and may get into the
championship scrap. He has won his
last eight games. Taylor OF the cubs
has a fine record with twelve victories
out of fifteen games pitched, but was
never successful against the white sox,
and may not be asked TO start any OF
the games.
RECORDS OF PITCHERS.
The records established by the lead
ing men OF both teams are as follows;
SOx.