The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-09
BASEBALL BY TELEGRAPH
Crucial Games in Chicago Sunday
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(From Mondays Daily.)

(From Mondays Daily.)
tensely interested in the result of
the baseball games that were played
in Chicago Sunday afternoon be-
tween the Cubs and Pittsburg of the
National League, and the White Sox
and Detroit Tigers of the American
League, both games having an i'm
portant bearing on the championship
of the leagues. Arrangements were
made with the Western Union Co.
to get the returns by innings of both
games.
The standing of the teams i'll the
race made the games exceedingly
important. Pittsburg stood two
points head of the Cubs, and the
winni. Of the game by Pittsburg,
the f4...es would have taken the
championship. with New York stand
ing third, they having lost the last
game with Philadelphia Saturday
by a score of 5 10 2, and put the
Cubs in first place. The Cubs put
up the famous three fingered Browa
to do the twirlias, with King ut the
receiving end, and .ney are a pair
that is hard to 9eaI. The Cubs got
13 hits off of Willis, who pitched f.r
Pittsburg, and he i.:rltes landed on
Brown for seven saiatics. The fol-
lowing is the score by innings:
1 23 4 5 s Z y 9
Chicago ...1 0 0 0 / L L KS
Pitsburg 80 0 0 0 2 0 0 %
The situation in the National Lea
que is a very close one indeed and
might result in the Cubs and the
New York Giants playing a post scr
les to decide the championship. The
CUBS ended their season Sunday
afternoon and closed with having
; played 1853 games during the season
and won 9s games. losing So. Pitts
burg also closed its season, playing
!. 154 games, the full schedule, having
won 80 games and lost Sc, making
it a very close race between the Pr
ates and the oubs.
, Up to today New York Giants
have played $50 and won 95 and
,lost 55. Today they play Boston for
a series of three games. If the
' Giants win the three games they will
tie up with the Cubs. If the Giants
lose one game to Boston the cham
pionship oes 10 the Cubs. However,
it the Giants take all three games
they will have to play a series Of five
games to decide the championship,
a situation that has not occurred in
over a quarter of a century.
The White Sox and Cleveland had
a mighty battle over on the south
side. Before the contest started De-
troit had Won SO games. and lost 81,
while the While Sox had won 81
games and lost 63. White went in
the box for the sox and with Sulli-
van at the receiving end. a fine bat
terry was put up. The Tigers mad Kill
liam and Schmidt in for the battery
tainly held the sox down on hits, for
they only got one hit in he game,
but they were able to garner three
scores off of it in the first inning, and
there was nc more scoring for the
sox. Detroit did not score until the
last inning. getting one run, although
they made five hits during the game.
The following is the score by inn
ings:
2s45s7se
Chicago. "a 1000 %
Detroit $50 900 0 Q 0 ii
The Cleveland team is still a fac
tor in the race for the American
League, and should they win three
games from St. Louis while the tig
-,ers lose the same number to the SO,
Cleveland will take the champion
t ship flag. If Cleveland loses gu,
:. with st. Louis and the sox take tire,
from Detroit they will win the flag
/. Where Bullets Flew.