The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-10-15
AMERICANS
CHAMPIONS
Won Greatest Baseball Series
On Record.
PITCHERS TURNED TRICK
Americans. Twlrlers Had the Nalio'
nails Heavy iiitters at Their
Mercy.

CHICAGO. Oct. ~. =. The Chicago
club Of the American Baseball league
II the champion Of the world. by win.
ming yesterdays game by score OF
4 20 3 against the team Of the National
league the Americans earned thu right
90 float the worlds championship pen.
nant M well M the pcnnant OF the
American league, 10 ride 10 the grounds
next season In carriages and 90 have
Worlds Champions" lcttcred on the
blankets worn 10y their horses. The
game was the sixth OF the series and
the fourth victory for the Americans.
When the last National batsmnn had
gone out and the stunning fact that
new champions had been freshly ere.
ated burned It's Impress on thousands
OF excited minds crowd surgcd
around the box wherein sat Charles w.
Murphy, president OF the losing club.
lie smiled gamely ut requests for n
speech and said:
Tho best team won. They won he
cause they played better ball. Too
much praise cannot be- given 90 Prcsl-
dent ComIskey and Captain Jones and
the team which by unprecedented
pluck climbed In mldseason from sew.
enth place 10 the top OF their own
league and then topped on 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"
Chcei after cheer followed the speech.
That tie victory was n 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 81 runs compared with Is by the
Nationals. They made 30 base hits rs
against 81 for the Nationals. The Ma
tlonals made but five errors compared
with fourteen by the Americans.
Among the expert critics of baseball
II Is generally admitted that 10 the
American pitchers most OF the credit
is due despite the fact that the Amer
lean pitchers have but 20 strkeouts to
their credit against * for the Nation.
ais. The Americans gave 10 bases on
balls as against is by the Nationals.
Notwithstanding this the American
pitchers were effective when hits
meant runs. particularly against such
men as Chance, Schultze. Steinfeldt
and Killing. These men. all consistent
300 hltters, were all but helpless dur
ing most Of the series.
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 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 that
the Americans to six hits and one run
during the remainder Of the game. His
support was excellent. Time and again
Tinker and Evers by blocking hits pre-
vented runs, as did Hoffman in center
by spectacular running catches. Sheck-
ard also made Il great backward run.
ming CATCH which kept the score down.
When the Americans assumed lead
of six runs the National players were
grimly determined looking lot, but
try as they would they could not solve
the puzzing delivery of DR.. White,
the opposing pitcher Time after time
the heavy hitters of the team batted
out easy ones when hits meant runs.
All told they gathered only sH safeties
off White.
Part of the crowd rooted hard for a
ninth inning rally. Tinker, to his evil
dent chagrin, went out. Evers raised
Pickering hopes by scratch double
to right but King promptly failed.
Gessler, 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 all
the burden of forlorn hope on his
shoulders he hit grouncer straight to
Donohue, and the great series passed
into baseball history.