The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-10-18

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game. 8 to 3. against the To-
cal club Of the National league the
American MS EARNED ths right to float the
world's chamnionshin remnant as vel
MS the pennant of the American league.
to ride ia She grounds next season In
carria ges and to have "World,s Cham
pions" lettered on the blankets worn
by their horses.
The game was +ha siyth ar the series
and the fourth victory for the Amer
leans.
When the last National batsman had
gone out and the stunning fact that
new chamniong had been created
h,,r,a1 its p,rraSc;o, +bro,,oh +t,a
thousands Of excited s%nectators . crowd
surged around the box wherein sat
Charles w. Murphy, president of the
losing club. He smiled gamely at re-
quests for a speech and said:
"The best team won. They won be-
cause they played the better ball. Too
much praise cannot be given to Presi-
dent Gomiskey and Captain Jones and
the team which by unprecedented pluck
climbed in midseason from seventh
place to the top of their own league
and then topped off that great accom-
~plisffnent by winning the worlds
championship from the team that made
a runaway race of the national league
contest. I call for three cheers for
Comiskey and his great team"
Cheer after cheer followed this
speech, but they We're lost to the hear
ing Of most of the crowd, which was
busily cheering other things-the in
dividual players, the players collective
ly and humping said players on the
had to fight a way out to the waiting
carriages. And cheers for the losers
were not lacking. They had lost the
greatest distinction which baseball Of
fers to it's votaries, but are still a great
team, and the crowd which followed
their carriages through crowded blocks
did not spare their throats in saying
SO.
s'e'ory was Ia'nea.
1hat the Victory was a falrly earned
uhe Is SHOWN not only by the fact that
.ie AileIICaHs won TOUR out OF SIX
MAKING II unneces-
sary 10 play the seventh. but by the
nus ana runs. Inc Americans all
loiu iiaue lWehly.tWo runs compared
VIII e!snteen py the Nationals. Ihey
Inaue tllftS-nlne pase mus as against
enlt.y-seYen LOT the Nallonals. me
paaloi!ais mace put llVe errors, COM
Rp,a' M VII louiteen py sie americans.
~ scails aiso liaas the greatest
muii.per OF extra pase hlts, put the
ground rules made nearly all OF them
sooa lor only Two bases. !.
a. T..
. - ReIieraily conceded that to the
- I'll M pl.ellels liost OF u credit
- uus. Inns uesNlle the Iact mat the
A a. pilcnefs nave put tWenty-
- y tneif cIeait, asalnst
thlrty-nVe Tor the Nationals. The
Aiherleahs gave nlneteen passes on balls
as asainsl eighteen by the Nationals.
eeesIiuiihs ene fhilerican pltchers
~ nen+iou Will ni.s meant runs,
~ ~ p~aittculaiiy against sucn men as
T,i,aan Sehur.e, olei.ilelot n KING.
h h insni, an Ioisislent .ooo per cent.
rno.sis, MeIe an put heipless during
~ ss."
Americans Hit Hard.
On the other hand the Americans
popularity called the "hitless wonders"
batted more strongly thar their oppo-
nents, who during the season had done
the heaviest batting in the National
lea-ue.
. 81. sha suea nlag t Gases ,na Nationals had
go 2 a assi me 1AiIlerlcans. C~atchers
hIlls ana oulllVan, VINO caught the en-
IRE series, were poth formidable to
paaaeea iulilers, put OF the total thirteen
Daeee e.oiea, Inc NaLlonals got eight.
yer lS,ooo PAID admissions had been
leslsteIed at noon the balmy weather
alld the monday bringing the crowd out
ea NY
Inc GROUNDS belng full to bursting,
.he gates were closed and the play was
begun at 2:l5 O'Clock. Completely en-
clrcilng the grounds was a closely
packed crowd of SIS Smo1l