New-York tribune., 1907-10-13
CUBS GET THE TITLE
TIGERS SULK IN LAIR
Chicago Wins Fourth Straight Game
and Baseball Cham pionshiD

Detroit. Oct 12-The Chicago No.
League baseball team won the wOrId,s .o"1 ,So
pionship to-day by defeating the Detroit A.
lean League team by the score Of To a T.
the fourth successive victory for the C,,b- " vas
many days. Taking advantage Of ever, : 80 as
made by the local players and running tba ha' sup
cleverly they scored two runs in the Arvt - -
innings while the Detroit team did not s,,ccaa,
in getting one man over the home pIata
The rooters, who had followed tbo CL,
team from their home city, swarmed dc
the diamond when the ninth inning cIossS On Oa
showered the players with congratuIationT ,S auu
several hundred formed in line and noarone oL9a
uo"h NLlchlgan avenue headed by band cbaa-
ing and singing in celebration of the Iit-U e'ef-
1t was a disappointing day for the Ti.onS
more ways than one The weather was re,-, "a
cold entirely unfit for baseball. and Ias- . ana
nan the expected $4,000 persons attendoa ii .S
game The official count was 7.37O tn 'ns
perature was below so degrees and = - 'en-
swept across the field throughout the ,"+iH ~Ina
The sun broke through the clouds o1I same same
ana then for only a few moments VOe.
Mullen and Brown pitched well. but ~ -.
caso man received better support from bjS III
mates Brown was also steadier than Tr'T1- i
giving only one base on balls to MulIa, '-iisil'
one of which developed into a run in - 'n5ee,
inning. uie nrse
The Detroit team failed to show the 10.
vim which carried it TO the top of the s-,a- ai
can League Twice the Tigers had a r1a- ~
'44AAu De'SCs Oul toCu JlIlle Brown held tha -.
ceed1ng batters safely. In an effort 10 ohoor
the base stealing of Chicago Jennings ssrt a
Archer to catch. but the Cubs s11ccaa5s5 - -
stealing four bases from him. which fg7Ired NJ -
terially in the scoring of both their rms
Tinker and Eyers made a fine double steal in
the second inning -
Cobb. the generally accepted star OF the n
troit team. showed fash OF his usual form an
the bases in the sixth inning when he stretcbas
ms MT TO right field into a double He rounded
hrst S4se as the ball bounded toward Schults
and when the fielder handled il a Bit sloUly
Cobb continued TO second. beating the throw
safely Cobb then tried to steal third but was
thrown out by King the decision by Sheridan
being so close that IL brought a storm OF pro-
test from the Detroit supporters.
Chicago scored in the opening inning. SlagIs
waited for a base on balls. Sheckard sent ay
10 Jones and Howard struck out With two
out Slagle stole second base, and scored on
Steinfeldt's single 70 centrefeld When Jones
walked in Detroft's first inning the fans had
visions Of run also. Schaefer, Crawford and
Cobb were easy outs. however. and Jones was
left at second base.
Rossman dropped Coughlin's throw Of Evers's
grOunder at the opening Of the second inning
and he was safe. taking second on Tinkers
single after Schultz had popped out to Archer
while trying 10 bunt- They t&e1 worked
clever double steal Brown got q base on balls
and the bases were full. with Only out.
Evers scored on Slagle's grounder to Schaefer,
on which the centrefelder was put out at first,
and Sheckard ended the inning, and the scor-
ing for the day. by flying out.
In the fourth inning Detroit had its best op-
portunity to score. Crawford opened with
two-base hit. Cobb struck out and Rossman
singled. He did not. however. run toward Sec
ond base to draw a throw from the Chicago out
field and there was no opportunity for Craw-
ford to score The next two men were easy
outs
The Chicago team left for home at s:15 o'clock
tonight The gross receipts to-day were $12-
63s. OF which the players received S6.S24S2. the
commission 81 263 so, and the two clubs S22I4 S4.
The score follows: