The Washington herald., 1907-09-29

o4ss III 'hiCako ifpiht-
Chicagos Cubs are twice champions OF
the National League, absolutely. irrev-
Ocably, unbeatably. and will be until
that twice" is changed 10 thrice"
When Umpire Carpenter. with a Ches-
terheldIan wave Of his hand terminated
Mondays game with Philadelphia at the
end OF seven and half innings, with the
score TO l in Chicagos favor, sending
10000 big and little, old and young, chill
dren caperiug gleefully out into the rain
and thickening darkness, he brushed
away with that hand the last lingering
gossamer Of doubt that the Cubs would
unfurl from their pennant pole next
spring the legend Champions. 1906 and
1e07" That act terminated the one game
Chicago needed 10 make probability GER
tainty and severed the spider web thread
by which Pittsburg clung 10 an impossible
chance 10 dispute with the Cubs the right
to this years championship.
Forgotten in the superlative JOY Of the
moment were the discOmfoTts Of over
TWO hours siege with a measly drizzle,
almost overlooked were the sensational
cluded a triple play, the first in years
by the Cubs. which might have been
made unassisted and so have equaled a
worlds record. Only family remembered
was Evers' second clean steal home from
third within "A month. For those Cubs
certainly made memorable the battle
which gave Chicago its eighth National
League pennant beyond dispute.
Long after those schoolboy tots who
shrilly encouraged their heroes have shed
school books and toys and grown 10 ma
turity the Cubs still viii be their heroes
Written IN their expanded memories will
be the name Of Frank Chance in larger
letters than that OF A. G. Spalding OF A.
| c. Ansou. the only other diamond stars
who have brought National League pen
nants 10 Chicago.
4 Great InfeId.
Long after the baseball world has for
gotten the famous "stonewall infield' Of
the years when Pfeffer. Burns and VIII
hanson earned pennants for Chicago in
the sos II viii remember Evers, Tinker,
and Steinfeldt, the "stonewaIr' defense
of the twentieth century. When those
boy rooters who climbed over the big
bleachers Ike restless. busy ants have
schOolboys OF their own the names OF
Brown, Overall Lundgren. Reulbach
Pnester, and Fraser will have crowded
of the mental slate those Of Corcoran,
Goldsmith. and Clarkson. Johnny King
and Patsy Moran viii be greater names
with which to conjure up past slories
than those OF Silver Flint or even Mike
Kelly. When those schoolgirls hair is
gray and their eyes dim with years the
names of Schultz, Sheckard. and Slagle
"Sigmas three viii have pushed into
the back row Of the shelves OF fame
Gore and Dalrymple, Ryan and sunday
One pennant Only did a. G. Spalding
land FOR Chicago, that Of ISIS Five
championships were won by cap" An
son, three in succession from 1850 10 1SS2
inclusive. and two more in 1855 and 1885
Then followed a dreary desert Of twenty
years until another great name was add
ed 90 theirs until Frank Chance brought
back the glories Of the past by adding
two Haunting pennants 90 Chicago's
store Of honOrs Nor is that all for this
twentieth century leader-"peerless" he
has been called, and rightly-has not
completed his career. Rather he has only
just begun It.
Two championships VIII not satisfy
the young man who came from the
farthest Western slope OF the land 10
make Chicago proud OF him. With that
great aggregation OF talent he has gath
cred under his standard three cOnsecu-
tive penHants already are in sight for
him. Herculean efforts viii be required
by any Of his rival leaders TO rob Frank
Chance Of that honor next season. Then,
when he has equaled the best records Of
the PASTOR no club ever has won more
than three consecutive National League
pennants-there will be within his reach
the ultimate glory OF breaking another
worlds record by landing a fourth
straight championship in the parent
league Of Americas grandest pastime
Then shall Chicago's name on the base
ball map be spelled P-e-n-n-a-n-t-v-i-I-l-e
Fans Look for -Four.
Is it too much, too far ahead To look.
beyond the widest dreams Of possibility?
Ask any loyal Cub roOter in the world
and he will not admit there Is doubt
the Cubs are destined for that honor on
the strength Of their sterling perform
aHces Of the last two years, surprising
as they have all rivals in their circuit
so undeniably as to make the task OF
keeping pace with them impossible and
the work of building up a team to their
high standard of ability and skill difficult
I'm the extreme
Here are the names which will appear
In biggest type on the pages of National
I Tosc 1,o
of the two great races:
Chance, Evers, Tinker, Steinfeldt,
Sheckard. Slagle, Schultz, King, Moran,
Brown, Lundgren. Overall, Reulbach,
Pfester, Taylor, and Holman.
These are the doubly crowned heroes
who have stood the brunt OF two cam
paigns and demonstrated in them their
supremacy beyond dispute. These are
the Champions of 1906 and 1901"
Beneath, or beside them, on the same
pages Of history. will be written in
smaller hand the names Of Gessler, Beebe,
Noonan. and Wicker. who were lesser
factors in bringing the pennant OF last
year to the West Side, and of Fraser,
Howard, Durbin, Randall. and Zimmer-
man, who have contributed their best
when called upon, to earn for Chicago
its 1907 banner.
Not all these names can be written into
the pages Of 1908 history, for some Of
them no longer are champions. but many
of them can and will be baseball heroes
for the children of yesterday, to-day,
and tomorrow, to root for and take pride
In, when they are solid paying patrons
OF the club instead Of delighted guests
No team ever won a major league pen
nant in the face of greater handicaps
than the Cubs have experienced this year
-handicaps which would have proved
fatal TO any other championship aspirant
II is the general impression Manager
Chance has been exceptionally fortunate
for two seasons in the matter OF acci-