New-York tribune., 1908-10-07
DETROIT WINS PENNANT
DONOV4N SAVES THE DAY.
Chicago Fails IN Final Game for
American League Title.

Chicago Oct 6.-One or the greatest fights in
The history Of the American League game came to
an end to-day, when Detroit won the pennant for
the second year in succession. beating the Chicago
White Sox in the final game of the season Dono-
Vah whose pitching has been prime factor in
the fight the Tigers have made to hold the cham
pionship was in the box to-day, and pitched a
mastery game, shutting his opponents out and
allowing only hits. He struck out ten men
and received errorless support. The score was
Z too
The result OF the game bitterly disappointing
to a huge crowd of than thirty thousand
Chicago fans, who expected a repetition of
the great victory by the Cubs last Sunday,
when they put Pittsburg out of the National
League race. The Chicago pitchers, White Walsh
and Smith, could hold the hard hitting Tigers
in check, and the pennant was really won by the
Tigers the first inning, when four crossed
the plate. Five errors by the home players also
helped the champions to victory, and the whole
Chicago team hard to recognize the great
nine that has made such wonderful fight in the
last three weeks to recover the pennant won in
1895.
Close as the American League race has been for
years it has only once hinged the last game of
the season. That was in 1904, when New York and
Boston fought for the flag in New York on
the last day of the season. Boston had TO win one
game of a double header that day TO hold the pen
nant and New York was in the lead in the ninth
inning of the first game when Chesebro threw away
championship by pitching ball Into the grand
stand, allowing two BoStOnianS 10 score
Chicago was threatening only once, and that was
in the sixth inning when Smith got one Of the two
Chicago hits and Hahn walked. The crowd went
crazy with Joy seeing chance to score, but Dono-
van simply smiled and changed the look of things
by making Fielder Jones, the manager of the home
team, and IsbeIl strike out. Dougherty tried hard
for hit. but his best effort was high fly that
was easy for Crawford.
Mcintyre, the first Detroit batter to face White,
gave hint of what to come by driving clean
single left field. Bush struck out. but Crawford
doubled into the right field crowd, ground rules
holding Mcintyre third base Cobb then made
good his reputation with smashing triple-to left
field, scoring Mcintyre and Crawford. White gave
way to Walsh at this point, but Cobb got home
when Isbel fumbled Rossnan's smash. and Ross
man went to second base when Walsh made wild
throw 10 catch him mapping. Schaefer singled to
centre, scoring Rossman, and went to second base
on the throw TO the plate.
A fast sprint by Bush infeld hit Craw-
ford's single and errors by Parent and Walsh gave
Detroit another run in the second inning and two
more We're added in the ninth inning, If to
make the sting Of defeat all the sharper. They
came when Mcintyre safe on Davis's tumble
and Bush and Crawford singled, two outs giving
the opportunities for the completion of the circuit
Donovan won thunders of reluctant applause from
the crowd in the fourth inning when he put the
whole side out alone striking out Jones Isbell and
Tporgherty in a He applauded, too at
the end Of the game, for he gave an exhibition of
mastery pitching that has perhaps never been
surpassed in Chicago.
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