The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-07

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Catcher Klng-Absolute Integrity
Of National Pastime Shown.
Another worlds championship base
bal, series has gone into history and
another club has picked UP the high
est honors known to the sport. Now
| the fans are busy around the warm
| d:es. figuring it out, balancing up the
play aud discussing the strength OF
| the contenders.
From the mere fact that the Cubs
won the series without the loss of
single game. a feat never before per-
| formed in baseball, 1t is safe to say
that the National pennant winners of
one big league never outclassed the
| remnant winners of another so far as
| the Cubs outclassed the Tigers. The
score does not indicate the difference
| between the clubs. From the time
Chances men tied up the score in the
ninth inning of the first game the
series looked to belong to the Nation
| ais.
From that time on It was merely a
procession, the Cubs having the con-
| fldence, speed and intelligence to keep
| their opponents guessing all the time.
| Jennings and his men thought Dono-
| van was unbeatable. They thought
| they could go through the series in
the same slam-bang style with which
they won the American league pen
nant and stampede the Cubs right
away The fact that Chances men
mad the courage to tie up the score
N the ninth and then take the aggres-
sive, proved to nobody more clearly
than to the Tigers that the Cubs could
lot be stampeded, and psychologically
the series was decided right there.
Chance had planned this series with
the foresight Of great general, He
realized that last year he made mis-
take in using Brown, his star pitcher,
In the first game. Brown was beaten,
and Chance had nothing in reserve.
In addition, the defeat of Brown in
the first game affected the Cubs very
much as the failure of Donovan to win
affected the Tigers
If these games showed one thing
more than another 1t is that pitchers
are not everything to a club. Good
pitchers are necessary, of course, but
good opposing batsmen can spoil their
records and poor catching can ruin
the good work of any pitcher. No
pitcher is so good that he can keep
men off the bases, except in very rare
intervals, and when they steal as soon
as they get on the bags runs are sure
to follow. Detroit's catchers were in
very poor form. Probably they were
not playing their usual game, as Jen-
nings says, but at no time and under
no conditions do they class with King,
whose work was a revelation to the
American league fans.
John was steady and brilliant He
did the right thing at the right time.
and he was the big factor in the Sc
ries. His work counted for more than
that of any of Chances pitchers, with
the possible exception of Brown.
Mullin pitched wonderful game,
but he could not win the battle I'M
aided, and that is almost what he
was called upon to do.
The games demopstrated the abso-
lutte integrity of the national pastime.
If the clubs had wanted to turn the
series into a money-making PROPOSE
ton, Chance could have used a poor
pitcher against Detroit Saturday and
lost the game. which would then have
necessitated a game at Chicago on
Sunday. This would have netted the
club owners in the neighborhood of
$4,000 at the least Perhaps it is
fortunate for the game that the re
suits We're as they were.
Persons who always are CRYING
fraud would have had chance to CRY /
fraud again. AS it is, all of the scoff
ers are silenced-forever The club
owners made practically nothing out
Of the games. President Yawkey. of .
The Detroit club, made his players a
present of all he made, and President
OF the Cubs, gave his men
J'Ol T',uON.
In the matter of umpiring, too. the
games showed a high degree OF
craftsmanship and honesty 1t hap
>ened that most of Umpire Jack Sher
dams close decisions were giver
against the American league club
While Umpire O'Day gave some cost,
decisions against the Cubs. His deci
zion that Slagle was out at the plate
n Tuesdays game because thrown
'all In the tenth inning hit Stelnfeldi
cost the Cubs the game. Slagle woult
lave been safe If there had been nc
Interference, and O'Day could have
,iven Chicago the run without receiv
ng any great amount of honest criti
ism.
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