Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25
RACE FOR PEANANT.
Work OF the Baseball Clubs Dur
ing the Past Season.
CLOSE FIGHT IN AMERICAN.
White Sos Held Good Lead Until Az.
sust-Athleties Played Well, De-
troits Passing Them Only at End Of
Season-The National League Games.

Season-The Nstionat League Games.
Careful analysis OF the 1907 baseball
season brings out in bold relief the
extraordinary similarity between the
pennant races this year and last. says
the New York Globe aud Commercial.
Then, as this year. the Chicagos had a
walkover in the National league, and
any of four clubs had a chance TO win
Ban Johnsou's flag TO within ten days
OF the finish, and two clubs had a
''look in" until all but four games had
been played.
The American league race was a
wonderful one. The White Sox. cham.
pions of 1906, got Off ahead but Phila-
delphia and Detroit tied them on April
- for two days. when the Chicagos
again forged ahead and kept an un-
broken lead until the week OF Aug 3,
when Detroit--coming with a brilliant
spurt. winning twelve out of eighteen
games-jumped from third TO first
place. simultaneously the Athletics
put on speed, captured eighteen out OF
twenty-four successive games and
showed In front on Aug. II and the
week thereafter Then Detroit's supe-
rior stamina asserted itself for a week.
but the Athletics stubbornly assumed
leadership again on Sept. Z and held IL
for two weeks, Detroit forging ahead
the last week OF the season. Chicago
fell away the last three weeks Of the
year, and Cleveland's chances dwin-
died after July 81, when she was sec
ond.
Following is an interesting record
showing the games won and lost the
last three weeks of the season by the
four leading clubs:
WI w. L.
Detroit ..........15 Cleveland ......l0 10
Philadelphia ...,s 7 Chicago ........ s 10
Detroit won three Of these games
from Chicago, one from Philadelphia.
two from New York, three from Bos-
ton, four from Washington and two
from St Louis. New York blighted
the chances of the Athletics and Chi
cagos 10y taking two games from the
former and three from the latter in
the final series of the year.
The Highlunders had another disap-
pointing year. They were in second
place May and from June 1S to the
end of the season were never better
than fifth. On their three western
trips they won sixteen games and
lost twenty-seyen. At home with the
western clubs their record was even
worse, winning but fifteen games and
losing twenty eight. The st. Louis,
Boston and Washington clubs never
showed championship form, but inter
mittently worried the leaders by un-
! expected strength.
In the National league the two time
champions got off first, dropped TO sec
ond place the third week, assumed the
lead again on June l and were never
headed. In 1906 they led the league
from May II TO the finish.
The Giants were In first place nearly
| all the month of May and second in
June and early In July. Beginning
June 10. the Cincinnatis, Pittsburgs
uiit NilituSoS Got ltNtIlSS dl tuG L olo
grounds and tumbled McGraw into
third place July 81. During the last
week of August the New Yorks show
ed In second place for a week, then
dropped back and closed the year dis
astrously in fourth place, losing ten of
the last dozen games. The one sur,
prise of the race was the good showing
made by the Phillies under new man
agement. Change OF ownership didn't
help Boston, however. and St. Louis
and Cincinnati were weak The Brook
| lyns lost seventeen of their first twen-
ty games, a handicap they struggled
desperately all season to overcome,
and they did rise from eighth to fifth
place. Pittsburg put up u game fight
all year. but the Cubs commanding
lead early In the summer spoiled
Carke's chances to finish better than
second.