The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-09
SEASON GILMAN
STARTS At CHICAGO.
Worlds Champio nship Series At
tracts Attention Of the Base
ball World.

The climax Of the professional baseball season
Is ut hand. For the first time in the history Of
the big leagues two rival teams of the same
city are to fight it out for worlds championship
h0nors. For a week the two Chicago teams, !
champions respectively of the National n and
American leagues, will be engaged in nerX>-
racking grapple, the games alternating daily
between the West Side and South Side grounds.
The statement has been made that public in
terest In the series is likely to be lessened by
the fact that both teams belong to the same
city and that consequently the championship con-
tests are berett Of the inter-city rivalry that
has characterized the Championships In the past.
Those who are in q 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 at
tract the attention this 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 base
ball this season than has Chicago with its two
topnotch teams Moreover, the windy city Is In
the heart Of large section Of country that
supports more professional baseball organizations
than almost any other section of the United
States In view of this fact 1t is safe to as
sumo that the host of Chicago fans who will
augmented by good-sized delegations Of base
ball enthusiasts from Wisconsin,, Illinois, In
diana, Iowa and other nearby states.
Cranks Worried. u,
AS to what the series will bring FORTH, the,
cranks and the partizans have been keyed up to
high pitch trying to convince themselves and
others why their favorite team should win.
Their conclusions have been governed largely by
the way they want the series to CO. 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 give reasons none
| the less logical why the cubs should walk OF
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
one man and changes his opinion after listening
to another. $751; 81 -. ., l-
No one who is closely acquainted With the
game Of baseball would be foolish enough to
assert that a series of seven games is neces-
sarily final proof Of the winners superiority.
| The mooted question to whether the~sAmeri-
can or the National league is the stronger will
| not be positively established by this important
series, for the series to be repeated the
loser of the first might be the winner Of the
! second, and it takes long season to finally
But, none the. less, the winner of this series
will be entitled to- the highest honors Since
the New York giants won the last series of
championship games that were played, the Ma
| tional league is the champion league. Whether
the whitesox will wrest that title from the cubs
and restore it to the American league, the pres
| ent series will divulge. TIE, .-
l. - League Balance.
That the American league as whole is
stronger and more evenly balanced, the races
! Of the American league and the interleague
games have tended to prove. The Chicago Amer
leans have had to play harder to win the pen
| nant in their organization than have the Chicago
Nationals and have been keyed up longer. The
American league partizan points, to the :. fact
that Fielder. Jones' men are fighters and are
the cubs are no whit wanting in gameness
and sticking it out to the last Both teams
have won many game when they, looked to be
beaten ,s.5i; az -. J.. ~ 50 &.s&E5 :
comparing the two teams individually, for base
ball luck, team play, spirit and watchfulnessv tc
make the most OF emergencies as they arise
Will play big part II there: IS any, lone de-
lpartment in which strength is AN essential il
is In the pitching department. Each team is
Equipped with a formidable supply OF pitchers
resourceful and steady, and the strategic due
Walsh, Owen and Altrock are likely to do the
bulk Of the pitching for the I whitesox. witt
lseveral good ones to fall back on, while Brown
Lundgren and Taylor will be the cubs mainstays
in the box. -s@@.. /. 49, '---a-. - )
| Each team has hrstclass, manager Chance
| and Jones are both able generals and each cal
get the best work out of his men. But the issu,
In the championship series will he decided main
> ~ by the players themselves. Managerial abil
ityr will be a. less important item in shor
series The present outlook is for close series
with little to choose between the contestin,
L
Unforeseen circumstance may upset all .calcula
lions now being made by the close followers 0
; the national game. : - =, = 2
I, Excitement was at fever height today. Al
Z tho the gates to the ball park were not ope
0 until noon, there. was a crowd of 100 in lin
! lat the ticket office, as early as $3.50 O'Clock
Z By II o'clock the string of enthusiasts wa
8 a block in length. It became longer ever
4 minute. Despite every effort that has bee
made for the accommodation OF record break
Ii Ing attendance 1T seemed probable that man
thousands would not be able to gain admissio
2 to the games. More than twenty thousan
/ general admission tickets were to be place
2 on sale at double the usual rates. and It wa
s believed that these would be exhausted With
= TWO hours after the ticket offices were opened
5 .=.:.- Police on Hand.
strong detail Of police was placed at til
:. National league park, where the first game Wa
to be played today, and, altho every availab]
p inch of space was to be used for the accom-
mediation OF spectators, it was said by Chief {
Police Collins that the crowding would not
allowed to approach the danger point I,
structions were issued to the police to ARE.
every person who endeavors to purchase mol
4 than six tickets, the aim Of the police and {
1t the managers of both clubs being to prevel
le speculation in tickets far as possible IT
q | weather did not promise to be the best poss
y, ~ Bile for baseball. It was cloudy and dark wit
40 strong breeze from the north. slight sno
!, fell shortly after II O'Clock The game w,
Is scheduled to begin at 2:30 O'Clock and Il
to batting order for the teams was announced ,
10 follows: ~ . - 5:sz...s ID ! e.
y American League-Hahn, right he1d: lone
center field; Isbel1, second base; Davis shor
stop; Donohue, first base; Dougherty, left ael,
Sullivan, catcher; Tannehill, third base, al
| White, pitcher.
National League-Hofman, center 1ie1d;5 shec
ard, left field; Schultz right field; Chance, fir
base; Steinfeldt, third base; Tinker shor
stop; ,Evers, second base; King, catcher, a,
Brown, pitcher.