The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-05
.PITTSBURC LOSES
Pirates Eliminated From Ma
tiOnal League Race.
Three Fingered Brown Pitches
Chicago to Victory.
CROWD A RECORD ONE
Over Thirty Thousand People
Pay to See Game.
New York and Cubs May Have
Tie.
CROWD A RECORD ONE

Chicago, Oct. 5-Pittsburg was
Sunday eliminated from the National
league. pennant race when Chicago
scored a to victory before a crowd
which was declared to be the largest
which ever paid to see a game of
baseball in the world. The game was
the final one of the season for Chicago
and Pittsburg, while New York has
three more to play, all with Boston.
II one of these games is not played by
reason of the weather or for other
cause. or IL Boston wins one, the pen
nant will go to Chicago for the third
successive year. BY winning all three,
New York viii exactly equal Chicago's
percentage Of .641. Tonight Chicago
leads the league with .641; Pittsburg
Is second with .6S6. and New York
who did not play Sunday is third
The history of the victory is a sim
pie one. Chicago garnered twelve
hits off Willis and Camnitz, while
Brown allowed Pittsburg but seven.
The contest was cfeanly waged
throughout The umpires' decisions
were questioned only once, and this
in orderly fashion, despite the intense
suppressed excitement under which
the players worked.
EECSlu6nl plly OI IH6 OIICdSO
club announced the paid attendance
at 30.247. This, Mr.. Murphy said, was
the largest attendance ever present. at
a game of baseball in the United
States and presumably in the world.
Il was nearly 1900 larger than ever
Side ball park before.
At the conclusion of the game Mr..
Murphy and Mr.. Dreyfus, the latter
president of the Pittsburg club.
gathered with others In Mr.. Murphy s
Office.
Mr.. Dreyfus, whose team had just
lost the pennant, was smiling cheer
fully and proposing that in the event
of tie between New York and Chi
cage. the series of three games be
better loser than 1 am" said the Chi
cago president; you are the best loser
in the league"
wen play the string out" he con-
tinued. with reference to possible tie
by New York. However, 1 am by
no means certain that Boston won't get
one of those games"
The constitution of the National
league provides that a series of three
games shall be played to decide a tie
race for the pennant. but leaves the
matter of where it shall be played fos
the board Of directors to decide. The
board will meet at Cincinnati tomor-
row to take action on the game III
dispute between New York and Chi
cago. and which President Pulliam has
declared to be a tie. 1t is said the
board may take time by the forelock
at this meeting and settle on a place
for the deciding series to be played III
the event Of New York winning the re-
naming games with Boston
The weather was ideal
Two hours before the ticket window
opened at IL o'clock in the morning the
crowd began to gather and when the
gates were opened it had swollen to
proportions which required severa
squads of policemen to keep in order
BY / o'clock the stands which sur
rounded the field were filled, standing
room in the aisles was at a premium
and a deep fringe of spectators occu-
pied the greensward in left, center an
right field This hour Chicago began
batting practice. Pittsburg at 1:2i
O'Clock came On the field in a body
bursting through the black banks Of
spectators like a gray cloud amid tbs
impartial cheers of a large section Of
the stands BY ? O'Clock, when Pitts
burg began batting practice. the Grove