Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-15

DETROIT. Mich. October 1.-THE Chi
cago Cubs. three times National League
champions. yesterday won their second
worlds championship. beating the Detroit
Tigers = to o in a fast hard-fought game.
BY winning Chances team accomplished
a feat never before performed in base
ball and climaXed its wonderful fight
10 retain its title by grandly won vic
tory Detroit driven TO bay. desperate and
lighting for the remnants of honor. sent
Wild Bit. Donovan back TO the slab. in
the faint hope that he would stop the
champions: but there was not chance.
Donovan's arm had weakened under the
strain of his brilliant attempt to hold the
Cubs Sunday. and he was forced to re-
sort to trckery and slow curves. Twice.
ut opportune times the Cubs landed on
him and manufactured two runs-enough,
with one to spare.
Chance. determined Ia finish the series
yesterday and ciinch the championship be-
vond pcradventure Of a reasonable doubt
chose big jeff Overall to pitch. Jennings
chose Donovan.
Donovan pitched one of the cieverest
ieadiest games of the series. The ter
pifiC speed with which he dazZled the Cubs
during the carly stages of Sundays game
was entirely missing. lie used the slow
Underhand, sidearm ball. curve more or
less fast. with occasionally flash of
speed. Against him Overall cut loose the
crandest array of curves yet shown in
the series. His fast drop ball was break
ing like flash, and the batters who
swung a il missed it a foot more. He
pitched almost faultleSS game of ball
except at times when he hurried too much
and grew wild. But after he had issued
passes he slowed up and stopped the Ii
gers dead.
Tigers Only Chance.
There was little of the grand brainwoTk
and generalShip OF the previous day in
the battle. This time ii was mechanical
skill. Only once did either team blunder
in performing fielding feats. and that was
because Overall was too good. In the
first inning he struck out batter. and
the curve that fooled him into swinging
for the third time was SO fast and broke
50 quickly and low that it escaped
King entirely and went TO the stands,
filling the bases with two men out. That
was the only chance the Tigers had to
win, and Overall killed that opportunity
by whipping three fast curves across the
plate and striking out the next batter.
leaving three Tigers standing still on the
bases.
y perfect has BAH day. one Of the most
glorious of Indian summer, was vouch-
safed the teams for the final struggle of
the series. The players took little ac-
count OF the attendance. but almost 1000
fans came out to witness the final battle.
Tuesdays struggle convinced the Mchi-
ganGers that Chance has the grandest
team in the world. And yet the throng
poured out to attend the obsequies and
the Cub give the coupe de grace to
the wounded and desperate Tiger
Jennings Full of Fight.
Jennings insisted on fighting. and out
on the coaching lines. paving and
scratching. he screamed the "E-E-Yah'
war cry of the Tigers and tore up grass
and raved, leading the forlorn hope.
Nor was IT an easy game to win. De-
trOit had as many chances, and even bet
ter chances, to score than did the Cubs
In the first or in the fifth inning q safe
drive or an error would have put them
on even terms. or perhaps put the ahead.
Donovan, with every ounce of force in his
bein. was trying to keep the Cubs from
running away with the game.
And through 1t all he managed to hold
them within striking distance and gave
them chance to win. 1t was not the
fault of Donovan that the Tigers lost.
Had they been able to score off Overall
and break the grand defense of the Cubs
he would have given them victory. Pitch
ing brainy. Skillful and clever ball all the
way he managed to keep down the score
of the champions, In spite of their HIT
ting. to keep their hits scattered and to
keep Detroit hopeful until the last man
went out. He could not stop Chance and
Evers. and the slashing hits of these two
forced runs across the plate, and Chicago
won.
The fielding OF the champions was clean,
fast and machine-like Chance had his
old. pennant-winning apparatus working
at top speed again. Nothing went
through. nothing escaped-and the game
put up by the Cubs was irresistible Twice
Sheckard. by wonderful exhibitions Of
playing position for batters, lust hap
pened'' 10 be the boy when hard drives
were slammed out into his field.
Worked Like a Clock.
The infield was working like a clock
with never halt nor a skip. There was
nothing sensational. nothing even bril-
liant, about the work of the team-onIy
clean. fast. precise ball.
Chicago went away in the lead. and in
the first inning it looked as If the Cubs
Chance and Schultz singled In succession
and one run came home. Armed with the
lead of one. the Cubs rolled along in clean
fashion In the fifth. with two men on
bases. Evens turned on more gasoline
and smashed line fly to left center The
hit was perfectly placed and out of reach
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