The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-10
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9 FACTS ABOUT WORLDS
q CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.

. Contending Teams-Chicago Ma .
tionals and Chicago Americans. =
. First Game-On West Side g
. grounds (Nationals.) %
. Other Games-Alternating be- .
. tween the West Side an dSouth .
9 Side grounds. .
- Total Number of Games-Best q
. four in seven. %
. Number of Players Eligible ("
:" Nationals 10; Americans. 21. y
:: Games Conducted-By National .
. commission, Harry Pulliam. Ban .
:" Johnson and August Hermann. g
. Umpires - Frank OLoughlin o
. and ]. E. tombstone. representing .
. respectively American and Ma g
. tional leagues. .
. Estimated Receipts-s75,00O. .
. Players Share-Sixty per cent =
gross OF the first four games; IS %
. per cent of this amount to go to .
9 the winner and % per cent to the .
E loser @
Time of Each Games. p. m. 3
. Price of Seats-Boxes, $500: .
. grand stand, $1.50: general adj 81
. mission, 81; seats in field. so =
g cents. Z"
. Scorers-A. J. Flanner and .
@ Frank c. Richter. 9
Betting 5 to on the Nationals. g
9 MISUNDERSTANDING are call g.
. ed Cubs. Giant-Killers and Spuds. o
. Americans are called White Sox 9
9 and Jones Jays. o
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Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 1O.-The climax
of the professional baseball season is
at hand. For the first time in the his
tory of the big leagues two rival teams
OF the same city are to fight it out for
the worlds championship honors. For
a week the two Chicago teams, cham
pions respectively of the National and
American leagues, will be engaged in
a nerve racking grapple, the games
alternating between the West Side and
South Side grounds.
The statement has been made that
public interest in the series is likely
to be lessened by the fact that both
teams belong to the same city and
that consequently the championship
contests are bereft of the inter-city
rivalry that has characterized the
championships in the past. Those who
are in position to know the state of
mind of the Chicago baseball fan do
not share this opinion. They declare
that no series that has ever been
played in baseball will attract the at
tention this one will, and probably no
series, the weather being suitable, will
equal it in attendance. To begin with,
no city in the country has proved a
better patron of baseball this season
than has Chicago with it's two top
notch teams. Moreover, the Windy
City is in the heart of a large section
of country that supports more pro-
fessional baseball organizations than
almost any other section of the United
States. In view of this fact it is safe
to assume that the host of Chicago
fans who will turn out for the champ
ionship series will be augmented by
good-sized delegations of baseball en-
thusiasts from Wisconsin. Illinois, In
diana, Iowa and other nearby states.
AS to what the series will bring
forth the cranks and the partisans
have been keyed up to a high pitch
trying to convince themselves and
others why their favorite teams should
win. Their conclusions have been
governed largely by the way they
want the series to go. The American
league rooter can furnish convincing
reasons why his team should capture
majority of the series of seven
games and the follower of the West
Side team can give reasons none the
less logical why the Cubs should walk
off with the rich plum. AS to the man
who has not formed an opinion, who
merely wants to see the best team win
and has no particular utilization, he
thinks one way after listening to one
man and changes his opinion after
listening to another.
No one who is closely acquainted
with the game of baseball would be
foolish enough to assert that a series
of seven games is necessarily final
proof of the winners superiority. The
mooted question ,as to whether the
American or the National league Is
the stronger will not be positively
established by this important series
for were the series to be repeated the
loser of the first might be the winner
of the second, and 1t takes a long seas.