The Elbert County tribune., 1906-10-18
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.


American Base Ball League Is the
champion aggregation of the world.
BY winning Sundays game by
the score of to 3 from the Chicago
club of the National League. the Amer.
leans earned the right to fly the
worlds championship pennant as well
as the pennant of the American
League, to ride to the grounds next
season in carriages and to have
Worlds Champions" lettered on the
days game was the sixth of the series
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 It's impression through
thousands of excited minds, a 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 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
of that great accomplishment by win
ming the worlds championship from
|.the team that made a 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
thirgs-the individuals. the players
collectively, and humping the victors
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 a 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
| tive rally and the great series was
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 pouSA-
| 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 II 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
Il Is generally admitted that to the
American pitchers most of the credit
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
| wnen hits meant runs particularly
| against such men as Chance, Schultz,
| Steinfeldt and Killing. 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
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
bases stolen, the Nationals got eight.
| 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 1929. making the total attendance
for the series 99.S45. The receipts for
today's game were s2O.s61. and the to-
tai for the six games was s105.540. OF
| this amount The players share Is $685.
| 402. The American League, with
twenty-one men. will receive $25,O52.
| The Nationals share for nineteen men
is $3.50. The receipts for last years
| champion series were S6S, ,405. and OF
last years American-National series