Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-15
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CHAMPIONS.
Chicago American League Team
Wins Title from Nationals
by Score Of 8 to 8.

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club of the American Baseball league
is the champion of the world. By win
ming yesterdays game by score of
s to against the team of the National
league the Americans earned the right
to float the worlds championship pen
nant as we'll rs 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. The
game was the sixth of the series and
the fourth victory for the Americans.
When the last National batsman had
gone out and the stunning fact that
new champions had been freshly Gre
ated burned its impress on thousands
of excited minds Il crowd surged
around the box wherein sat Charles w.
Murphy. president of the losing club.
He smiled gamely at requests for a
speech and said:
"Thc best team won. They won be-
cause they played better ball. Too
much praise cannot be given to Presi-
dent Comiskey and Captain Jones and
the team which by unprecedented
pluck climbed in midseason from sew
enth place to the top of their own
league and then topped off that great
accomplishment by winning the
worlds championship from the team
that made runaway race of the Ma
tional league contest. | call for three
cheers for Comiskey and his great
team"
Cheer after cheer followed the speech
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 % runs compared with IS by the
Nationals. They made 80 base hits as
against 81 for the Nationals. The Ma
tionals made but five errors compared
with fourteen by the Americans.
Among the expert critics of baseball
it is generally admitted that to the
American pitchers most of the credit
, is due
] A total of fourteen hits, two of them
doubles, tells the story of how yester-
days game was won. Captain Chance
elected to place Mordecai Brown in
the pitchers box. although Brown had
! pitched a hard game on Friday. The
Americans connected with his weak
ened delivery for eight safe hits in
one and two-thirds innings. and he re
tired to the bench. Overall, who was
called in Saturday to retrieve thai
game. was again called upon and helt
the Americans to six hits and one ruI
during the remainder of the game. Hi!
support was excellent. Time and agaii
Tinker and Evers by blocking hits pre-
vented runs, as did Hoffman in center
by spectacular running catches. Sheck
ard also made a great backward run
ming catch, which kept the score down
! When the Americans assumed leat
of six runs the National players wer,
grimly determined looking lot, bu
try as they would they could not solv,
the puzzling delivery of Dr. White
the opposing pitcher. Time after tim,
the heavy hitters of the team battet
out easy ones when hits meant runs
All told they gathered only six safetie
off White.
Part of the crowd rooted hard for ;
ninth inning rally. Tinker. to his evi
dent chagrin, went out. Evers raised
Pickering hopes by scratch double
to right, but King promptly failed
Gessler. a substitute. batted for Over
all and was allowed to walk. Hoffman
singled to left and Evers scored
Sheckard was safe on an error
Schultz now came to bat With al
the burden of forlorn hope on hi
shoulders he hit grounder straight t.
Donohue. and the great series passed
into baseball history.