The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-02

l While patrons and students of the Ma. tional league games are mourning the rlsk of heart disease in following the course | of the final games for the pennant it is | still anybody's flag in the American league Next Tuesday practically sees the finish in the American league for the games played on Wednesday and Thursday among the eastern teams cut no figure in the result.
 Who will win the pennant? The man who can name the winner could live easy for the rest of his days if he could place his knowledge on the market against the opinions of the followers of the leading teams. Detroit looks like the winner at present writing with the advantage of the lead by a short margin, but Cleve- land and Chicago cannot be figured out of the running unless the figurer is prejudiced or has some dope up his sleeve not at present known to the 1 public.
 The St. Louis Browns also have look ] in for the rag, but it is about 20 to l against their chances, so they cannot 1 now be called contenders The Browns have done some good work this season 1 and some very, very rotten work At least a dozen times since they lost the lead in the race in July the Brown have had a chance to regain the top position and fell down every time. Why this 1 should be, no one can say. unless the l statement is true, as has been made several times that the Browns are quit ters Luck has not figured much in the American league this season, and cer- tainly not with the Browns At one l time and for about two months they l were called sure contenders for the pen nant, but they do not figure now to land above fourth place unless some surprise occurs, such as Is common in baseball. Cleveland has been a big surprise to , baseball fans this season as Lajoie is making a sensational finish and the pen nant is not out of his grasp by any means. When his team lost the lead last month it was called a bunch of quitters and the prediction was made that the Maps hadn't the slightest chance for the. l pennant but in spite of the anvil chorus, Lajoie has kept his team right at the top and it is not yet decided that Cleve- land will not play in the worlds cham pionship series
 Hughey Jennings has had a strenuous time with his Tigers this season. At the outset the Tigers played poorly and hit the bottom early. The team started | to leave the bottom round of the ladder before the season was a month old and by the end of May was in second place. i The Tigers took the lead in July and were lad 1fAof xV1p a predicted slump following Ty Cobb's mar riage brought the Tigers down to prac- 1 tically even terms with the other three western teams and subsequently Cleve- land grabbed the lead and held it for a few days.
 The Tigers have suffered nightly during the past month from the hammer gang and they have been called quitters even more fiercey than the Maps. That they are not quitters is shown by their present position and if they play ball in October as they did in May or as they did last October, the pennant can very easily be located.
 White Sox Surprise.
 The most wonderful showing of the sea- son has been made by the White Sox, the team which was counted out of the pen nant race entirely for four months of this i season. Comlskey's men now have as Isgood a chance for the pennant as either Detroit or Cleveland, as they finish at home, where about 20,000 crazy fans will root for victory at every game. The re- maining decisive games are as follou'si
 Friday, October 2:
 St. Louis at Detroit.
 Chicago at Cleveland.
 Saturday October 3:
 St. Louis at Detroit.
 Chicago at Cleveland.
 Sunday, October 4:
 1 Detroit at Chicago.
 Cleveland at St Louis.
 Monday, October ,:
 Detroit at Chicago.
 Cleveland at St. Louis.
 Tuesday, October G.:
 l Detroit at Chicago
 1 Cleveland at St. Louis.