The Washington times., 1906-10-07
COMISKEY'S HITLESS CHAMPS
TO FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY
WITH CUBS GREAT MACHINE
White Sox viii Go Down
in History as Freak
Pennant-Winner.
By W. A. PHELON.


presence thereof. When the official
averages OF 1906 are footed up. it will
be found that the Sox made fewer hits
than any other club in the American
League-7a,nd more runs in proportion
10 those few hits, than any other team
IL will also be found that the SoX made
fewer long drives. fO- extra bases than
any other club, and the wonder Will
grow -aBace- as 10 how they did it
The Cubs won out on the face Of the
records as wen as the macnine-like per
fection OF play which they developed
10 So wonderful a deEree. They lead
the National League ia batting. extra
bases, stolen bases. and neIding. How
could any team stand up against
club that had reached topnotch perfec-
tion i'm each ana every department of
the game, and. In addition carried
staff Of pitchers such as few other
teams have ever bo3sted2 The only
wonder. judging by the face OF the re-
turns. is thar the Cubs lost as many
as ten games ON the entire season. But
81 was far different with the Sox. There
was a team which didn't have a 800
batter nor q. long-distance slugger on
its list. There WAS team that had to
wEz games by dash and nerve. and
which had to develop team-play ana
the craft or the diamond 10 an uu-
paralieled degree.
The SoN had no. burly hitters 20 step
up and bring home tine runs by crash
ing walops. They had 20 rely on a
few short FinBles, on nerve In getting
around the baseEr-and ON preventing the
other fellows from reaching the sacks
TOO frequently. Hence their whole cam
H.sfe.. Of. fr IN frrf1
and incessant strain upon their heads
and nerves. They were also crippled
bv accidents II. an unusual degree, and
had TO be continually tinkeTing with the
daily lineup, "a process which usually
means disaster Vet handicapped by
weak hitting, crippled by frequent shifts
and d-aceidents, they~Went ahead, brought
down the other fellows week after week.
and pulled in ahead after one of the
most sensational finishes of many years.
Give them credit, Well rather The
work they did bordered on the impos-
sibie. The feats they performed were
almost beyond ina ginaJiOu. and they
Will live iu baseball history as the Hit
less W0nders-the slugless stars who
Won a flag.
The machine play of the SoX was less
fascinating and less Snowy than that of
was broken TOO frequently, and the huge
superiority which the cubs seemed 10
hold over all competitors was not so no.
Iiceable In Comiskeys machine. Many
Of the Cub victories were pitifully one
sided, and served only TO show the eX-
tFaordlnarN efficiency OF the great. ALL
crushing baseball machine. The SON,
MEANWHILE had 60 nEht ike tigers 10
win ther games. and their machine.
weak ln Ihe one great essential OF bat
Ting. -was continually receiving shocks
ana Jars All the more credit 70 them,
therefore, Tor the final yictory-t was
hard-earned, and never did a team have
L. labor harder for its iaurels.
After mid-summer it became evident
10 AN good judges of baseball that the
Cubs could not be beaded, and IL was
from then on simply question OF now
far they would beat all opposition. They
were lighting desperately al every jump,
ana We're headed on again and again,
only no push FORWARD by superb rallies,
and TO finally win out on merit. nerve
and actual baseball her0ism
Ilore j. UckI uf course, l2 an base
talt campaigns, and tnaL lelps 10 make /
the game doubly fascinating, And this
was the luck Of the SOX. That day
after DAY some one OF their number
some one of those feeble hitters-Would
cat Iu with the good, rOUSiug hit, just |
when it was needed one day, with JWo /
down and the bases full, 1t would ne
GcOTge Davis who would spank the
leather The next day, perhaps, JIggS
DonOhIe would deliver the hit tnat
won. and the next afternoon lsbell [
Jones, or Hahn would insert the one
noble sWipe when the sWlpe was want l
ell The SON won games with one and l
two hits, Just because That hit was
the one hiJ of the game that count /
cd. And how they did take chances and /
play the Eamet One battle with the
Ntllelics-au extra inning night that
was .Whirl or eNcitemenl-Was a sam
pie With men ON third aHdf second /
only Gne .ofathe Athletics out, and a |
hard hitter up, Jones ordered him 90 be /
uas5Clt-tO- take a chance on, tdl pases /
with the havd-hitting Schreck coming. /
just 30 take the long chance of double /
play. And &c worked too, for Schreck /
hit down into the intield. and the nall I
was transferred from point 70 point /
like lightning Then, in the SoN's half. /
Jhe-eu eIny-. tried. 10 work exactly the /
same aIriCk.t GHd nIled the bases, trust /
ing 10 the same good fortune, Jones al /
once took out the batter substituted /
heavy reserve Litter-Oue swat. and the /
game was won And iu this fashion |
the 6oE delivered goods all season, and /
by nerve like that the nag was won
VIII that nerve and pluck win out IN I
the last great struggle with the Cubs? /
VIII that dauntiess, tireless energy /
avail against the great baseball machine /
ana IT'S brlstling armOry of heavy hit
ter5t Wait ana see! Win or lose 10 !
VIII be a gallant fFht, and when IL
Is over 10 NAV well be said, In such q
victory p glory and in such a defeat
So much for the Sox. their baseball
machine and their method OF play
one OF the foremost figures {n base /
bail Tor the past fVt-and-tweutv years
has beer Charles COmiskev, THE mas /
ter OF the SoX-' This great old war /
rior broke into the game with the old
Dubuque club somewhere back I'm lS-9 /
and was soon translated to the famous
ST. Louis Browns ....
Comiskey is hale and hearty. bannv
and jOvial, one of the most nODIilar
magnates thaQ ever took up the base
ball business, 'Eae old Roman hasn't
an eBcmy IN tie world-no. not even
Ban Johnson, Ter their. differences are /
differences. ar baseball politics win
notlfugNper The master of me ;
SON owns All Chicago from the sourb
branch 90 the yards. and MAYBE after.
this coming series he VIII own tbe
west and north sides, too.
So much Tor the VI bite SOx-s0 much
for the Hiuess WOpders. And now
comes the tlig Of war
The greatest hitting machine Is 70
be matched with the hiuess charnpiops /
Great catchers VIII arrive 10 outfox
great catchcrs. and two of the finest
pitching STATS in the werid VIII work
against each other. Can the defense
of the SoX hold out against the awful {
crushing auHck of the Jerrible machine7
Can tthe fsiscttic play of the Sox cut
through theF Cogs Of the machine and
halt. It's progress? Wait and See. il