The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-15
HISTORY OF POST
SEASON CONTESTS
GREAT SERIES IN WHICH All
FANS ARE INTERESTED uN.
HEARD OF UNTIL 1884.
PROVIDENCE TEAM VICTORIOUS
winner Of National League chsmnior.
snip Defeated American Associate,
champions in Initial eames-cor
vests for the Temple cup-seri.,
Between Major Leagues.

roSt season games, the great series
battles to which all fans arc non,
oohlhg forward with intense eaeer.
ness were unheard of mill 1891
when the Providence team winron 80
.ne National league championship
anu 'he Nets, winners of the Amer
van association, played three games
Ut lhe Polo grounds. Providence
won them ALT to 0. 8 to 1 and II
90. anu IL
ne next year the Chicago Nation.
avs and the St Louis Browns-win.
ners respectively in the National
league and the American association
piayeu seven-game series. the
hrst being played in Chicago, the next
,nlee IN st. Louis, the fifth in Pitts.
purg' the sixth in Cincinnati and the
seventh In Chicago, Each team won
'hree games and one was a tie.
III 1886 the Chicago and St. Louis
teams again played off, and Comis.
Keys team won four games 70 An.
son team. The pitchers for
chicago were Mccormick and Clark
son. Tor st. Louis, Carruthers. Fontz
and Hudson.
Detroit, winner of the National
league pennant, and the self.same 81
LOUIS Browns fought it out in 1887.
and Detroit won 10 of the IA
games, which We're played in ST
Louis, Detroit, Pittsburg, New York
Brooklyn. Philadelphia, Boston, Wash
ington and Baltimore. The receipts
of these games were $4,000.
In 1888 the New York Nationals
beat the st. Louis American associa
ton champions six out of ten games
Tor the worlds championship. The
total receipts were S24,362.
In the post season series of 1883
the New York Nationals won six OF
the nine games played with the cham
pion Brooklyn team Of the American
association. Keefe, WEIGH, Crane and
O'Day pitched against Terry, Lovett
Carruthers and Hughes.
The advent of the Players league,
generally regarded as an outlaw or
ganization, detracted from the inter
est in the post season series of 1890,
between the Brooklyns OF the Nation
al league and the Louisvilles of the
American association. Each team
won three games and one was a tie
Nothing in post-season way happened
In 1891, but in 1892 came the double
season championship" of the new H.
club National league--one season end
ing in July and the other In October
Boston won the first series and
Cleveland the second. In the play-off
the games came out in this way:
Boston VS.. Cleveland III innings)
90.
Boston VS. Cleveland, Az
Boston VS.. Cleveland, 80.
Boston vs., Cleveland, 40.
Boston VS.. Cleveland, 12-1.
Boston VS.. Cleveland, S-3.
The four series for the Temple cup,
IN 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897, attracted
much attention,
In 1894 New York won four straight
games from Baltimore.
In 1895 Cleveland won four of the
five games from Baltimore. The net
receipts were only s14,752.
In 1896 the Baltimores won four
straight games from Cleveland,
In 1897 the Baltimores won four out
of five games from Boston for the
Temple cup.
From 1897 to 1903 there were no
post.season games. Then the Boston
Americans won five of the eight games
played with Pittsburg Nationals for
the worlds pennant. The receipts ex'
ceeded $4,000.
In 1905 the New York Nationals won
four out of five games with the Phila'
delphia' Athletics. The total receipts
were $6S,435.
hTe outcome of the series between
the White SoX and Cubs in 1906 and
the Cubs and Tigers in 1907 is familiar
history. The six games at Chicago,
in 1906, resulted.
October 9-SoX 2, Cubs /.
October 10-Cubs 7, Sox l.
October 11--SOx 3, Cubs 0.
October 12-Cubs |, SoN U.
October 13-SoX 8, Cubs 8.
October l4-SoX s, Cubs 5.
Last year the games came out in
this way:
October S-Cubs 3, Tigers 3.
October 9-Cubs 3, Tigers /.
October 10--Cubs 5, Tigers l.
October 11-Cubs 6, Tigers /.
October 12-Cubs 2, Tigers 0.
The players share of the receipts in
1906 was 1873, 4O1, and in 1907, $54,sS5
New Baseball League Planned
. An attempt is being made TO organ
IL, an eight-team baseball league IN
that number of northern Illinois towns
and TO be known as the Northern llll'
nols league. The Arrangements oil the
teams in Aurora, Elgin, Waukegan'
Rockford, Freeport, Streator DanVllle'
sterling and Galesburg are discussing
a., Hon These nine towns nave