The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-10
CUBS WALLOP
TIGERS 3 TO |
Chicago Fans Now Look for
the Nationals to Win
Worlds Series.
PFEISTER AND MULLlN
RoSSMAN'S HITTING is REAL
FEATURE OF CONTEST.
PFEISTER AND MULLlN

Chicago, Oct. 9.-The Chicago National
League team defeated the Detroit pen
nant winners OF the American League in
the second game of the series for the
worlds championship this afternoon. The
score was to !. Slow pitching and sew
eral slight accidents caused the contest
TO drag out over two hours, the delays
trying the patience of the big crowd.
which again filled almost every inch of
seating room.
the locals discarded the new gray uni
forms in which they appeared yesterday,
appearing in their clean white home uni
forms. The change seemed to put them
more at ease and also apparently Scne-
fitted the Detroit players, for both teams
played more steadily than on the opening
day. After the first four and half
innings had dragged through an hour and
thirty minutes some sparkling fielding and
sharp hitting and base running haStened
the contest to an end
Mullin and Pfeister were the pitchers
and Payne went behind the bat in place
of Schmidt. Otherwise the teams lined up
as on the preceding day. SchmidtS retire
ment was primarily due to his inaccurate
throwing, but in this respect the change
brought small improvement, as the five
stolen bases credited to the local team tes-
tify.
Playing conditions were improved, the
crowd numbering p 800 as against over
o4000 yesterday, while warm sunshine and
the absence of the chilly 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 it.
Rossman whose hitting was the real
feature of the contest, scored the first run
of the contest in the second inning. He
hit a grounder toward Tinker, which
bounded away from the shortstop and
rolled far out TO the left field, the bat
ter making three bases on the hit. Cough
lin struck out, but Payne lifted a short
fly TO left field, which Tinker might have
captured. but left to Sheckard. The bah
fell safe and ROssman scored. Payne
stole second. but OLeary and Mullin could
not bring him home
Chicago tied the score in its half of the
inning. while Muliin was giving a queer
exhibition of poor and good pitching.
cession, filling the bases with none out
Then Tinker drew base on balls, forcing
Killing home Right there Mullin suddenly
regained control of his curves, stirling
out Pfeister and Slagle while the best
Sheckard could do was puny grounder
TO Schaeffer.
In each of the next three innings Detroit
hatsmen reached first base with none out
but poor base running and inability of the
following batsmen to find openings in
he Chicago defense stopped we embry-
Gic rallies. Chicago missed a similar
snce in the third when a double play
strike-out left runners on first and
he winning runs came in the fourth
sfinker's hit bounced off Mullins glove
He went to second on a sacrifice and
stole third. O'Leary fumbled Slagle's
grounder, Tinker scoring. Slagle stole sec
ond and came the rest of the way on
Sheckard's two-base hit past first base
After Chance had popped out Sheckard
was caught trying to steal third.
After that fast fielding prevented fur
Their scoring. O'Leary cut off two hits
by marvellous stops and throws in the
fifth and repeated the feat in the sixth
Sheckard caught line drive off his shoe
tops in the seventh and the three Detroit
runners who reached first base were csc
down by Kings fine throwing.
Fast Double Stops Rally.
AS in yesterdays game, fast double
play stopped an incipient rally in the
last inning. This time. however, the visi-
tors were the victims. Tinker stabbed
and held Coughlin's hot liner and threw
TO Chance in time to double up Ross
man. who had reached first on his fourth
successive hit Payne ended the game
with a little hit in front of the plate,
which King threw to first
The teams will play here again tomor-
row and then, unless a pOstponement or
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