The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-30

My six days of playing is left in
the American League, and today
~ disposition of the pennant Is
as mptn in doubt as It has been at any
tieE this season.
is not Improbable that the result will
not be known until next Saturday, the last
day of the season. Seldom in baseball has
there been such a neck-and-neek finish.
Detroit, Athletics and White SoX are so
closely punched at the top that any one
of the number has a chance to carry off
the championship. As the season wears
to the end the work on the shoulders of
Nack's men increases rather than dimin-
ishes.
The labor of an entire season hinges on
the result Of every game played this week.
Mack's players and Detroit meet in n dou-
ble-header this afternoon. By taking both
games. the Athletics will again take the
lead; an even division will increase the
Tigers chances, while a double reverse
win virtually put the team out of the run
ming.
Connie Mack will concentrate all of his
fire on Detroit this afternoon. Every re-
source Of the teams playing strength VIII
be hurled against the enemy. Mack wants
To sweep Detroit off its feet at this crisis.
Every agency at the of this
able baseball taetician will be brought into
NAV against Detroit. No matter if the
Ouakers are able to stop the Tigers this
afternoon, their troubles by no means end.
Cleveland opens at Philadelphia tomorrow
!. for a three-day series. The season on the
= Philadelphia grounds ends Thursday. On
Friday and Saturday Mack's men finish
their schedule at Washington. The teams
play four games in the two days.
In six days this week the athletics must
nlay nine games. To win the pennant
they must make a better showing than
Detroit or Chicago. Every defeat viii
keep the team that further from the
championship. The players will be under
a strain that they have never before en-
countered at any part of the pennant
fight.
After finishing with the Athletics TO-DAY
the Tigers 60 to Washington, where they
play four games in three days. On form
Detroit should clean up Washington. Moth
ing is SO uncertain as baseball, and the
tail-enders may develop a squirt that will
put the leaders put of the race.
Detroit spends Thursday travelling to st.
Louis. They end the season in the Mound
city with games on Saturday n Sunday.
A double-header will be played on one OF
the days.
Chicago finishes it's season with Nc
Cures ounces at Boston today, and then
the sox 90 to New York for three days.
The SOX are DY no HitduS "a u Al A"~Nf
particularly If the Athletics and Detroit
divide the double bill today, Cleveland is
no longer a contender, but it may put
either the Athletics or Chicago out of the
race.
The Athletics lost the lead and three
points IN the standing last week. In the
first game with Chicago Mack's men lost,
hut they took the series by defeating Chi
cago in the next two.
Detroit arrived in the Quaker city Fri
day with the Athletics holding a hair-ltne
lead. The Tigers won and the Athietlcs
fell to second place. Rain prevented the
Athletics from reversing the verdict Sat
urday.
The Tigers swept everything before it
during the period and improved their per-
centage eleven points. Chicago neither
gained nor lost. while Cleveland dropped
six points and scaht chance for the PEN
nant.
Athletics partisans, although distressed
over Detroit taking the fead, have not lost
confidence in Mack's players. There VIII
be another enormous outpouring today,
and the Quakers will receive the same gem
srous encouragement
One thing is certain. None of the MACK
players has shown any signs of sulking or
quitting. The pitchers and team in general
firmly believe that they are destined TO
meet the Cubs in the worlds series, and
they will enter all the critical games this
week with superb confidence.
No team can sweep every game on the
road. Detroit has only been defeated once
on the present trip, and veterans on the
Athletics team who know the law OF
average believe that the Tigers cannot ex-
pect to maintain their whirlwind clip both
In Washington md st. Louis.
Both the Athletics and Detroits may use
the same pitcher in both games this after
noon. Mack will send Dygert to the mound
in the first. and he will stay tor the second
if his work j~ustifies it.
Manager Jennings said last night that he
might use Donovan in both. Bill is GER
tain TO start the first game. If Donovan
fails Jennings, then Killian or Siever will
be worked.
The Tigers spent yesterday quietly. The
players are very confident that they will
hold their lead until Saturday. and already
many of the men are figuring their chances
against the Chicago Nationals.
The South Orange A. c.-Vailsburg A. c.
game yesterday afternoon, at Heidelberg