The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-10
CUBS WIN MIDST
 SPARKLING PLAYING 22,000 See National League Champs Submerge Tigers
 in Defeat. MULLlN PROVES UNSTEADY Sheckard's Double Wins Game -Rossman's Hitting Features.
MULLlN PROVES INSTEAD

Chicago, Oct. 9.-The Chicago Ma tional league team defeated the De- troit pennant winners of the American league in the second game of the se- ries for the worlds championship thls afternoon. The score was to L SLOW pitching and several slight accluellIs caused the contest to drag out oYei two hours, the delays trying the pa tience of the big crowd which agaln filled every inch of seating room
 The local team discarded the new gray uniform in which they appeared yesterday, appearing in tneT soneu and worn white home uniforms. The change seemed to put them more at ease, and also apparently oenentea tne Detroit players, for both teams playeu more steadily than on the opening day
 After the first four and half in- nings had dragged through an hour and thirty-hve minutes some spark ling fielding and sharp hitting and base running hastened the contest to an end
 Mullin and Pfeister were the pitch- CTS. and Payne went behind the bat m nlace of schmidt. Otherwise the teams lined up as on the preceding day. Schnidt's retirement was due primar- ily to his inaccurate throwing, but m this respect the change brought small Improvement as the five stolen bases credited to the local team testify.
 Playing conditions were improved for the second game, the crowd number ing M,901, as against over 24,OOO yes terday. while warm sunshine and the absence of the chill breeze of the first day, kept spectators and players in more comfort What wind there was blew across the diamond and aided the play more than it hindered 1t.
 Rossman. whose hitting was the req feature of the contest, scored the tirs' run of the game in the second inning He hit a grounder to Tinker whici bounded away from the shortstop ant rolled far out to leftfeld, the batsmaf making three bases on the hit. Cough lin struck out but Payne lifted shor f1y to leftfield which Tinker migh have caught, but left to Sheckard. I'm ball fell safe, and Rossnlan scored Payne stole second, but O'Leary an Mullin could not bring him home.
 Chicago tied the score in It's half the inning, Mullin giving a queer ex hibition of poor and good pitching King, Evers and schulte singled succession, filing the bases with non out. Then Tinker dwew base on bal Forcing King home. Right there Mu lin, suddenly regained control of h1 curves, striking out Pfeister and Sla gle, while the best Sheckard could q was a puny grounder to schaefer.
 In each of the next three inning Detroit batsmen reached first base wit none out, but poor base running an the inability of the following batsme to find openings in the Chicago dt fence stopped the embryonic tallie Chicago missed a similar chance in tn third when double play and a strik out left runners on first and third.
 The winning runs came in the fourt inning. Tinker's hit bounced off Mu lins glove. He went to second on sacrifice and stole third. O'Lear fumbled Slagle's grounder, Tinker scol ing. Slagle stole second and came tf rest of the way on Sheckard's two base hit past first base After Chanc had popped out sheckard was caugl trying to steal third,
 After that fast fielding prevente further scoring. OLeary cut off tv hits by marvellous stops and throws the fifth, and repeated the feat in u sixth. sheckard caught a low fly c his shoe tops in the seventh, and u three Detroit runners who reach' first base were cut down by Kling fine throwing.
 As in yesterdays game, a ia double stopped an incipient rally the last inning. This time, howeve the visitors were the victims. link held Coughlin's hot liner, and thre to Chance in time to double up Ros man, who had reached first on | fourth successive hit Payne end the game with little hit in front the plate which Kling threw to fir
 The teams will play here again morrow, and then, unless a postpon ment or tie game intervenes, " move to Detroit for two games, I turning here Sunday. Score'
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