The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
CHAMPIONSHIP TO
PITTSBURG TEAM.
PIRATES WIN THE DECIDING
GAME OF THE WORLDS
SERIES.
PITCHER ADAMS THE HERO
Youngster Takes Three Of the Four
Games for Smoky City Team
MuIIin Wins Two for De-
troit-Cubs Beat Sox.

Pittsburg. 8; Detroit, 0. These four
words tell how the worlds baseball
championship for 1909 was won by
Fred Clarke's Pirates in the seventh
game of the series after each team
had won three games.
When baseball history is handed
down to our grandchildren the name
Of Adams will find its place among
the Adamses of the early days o.
America. for it was the pitching OF
Adams. youngster of the Pirate
crew that did much, If not all, toward
landing the championship for the
Smoky City team. Admirers of the
Pittsburgs shuddered when it was an
nounced that Adams was to pitch the
first game. They thought an older
man should be put into the box. But
the crafty Clarke knew what he was
about as the score Of to proved.
Then came the fifth game and again
Adams upheld the judgment of Clarke.
With the series tied, three to three
and victory in the seventh meaning
the highest honors in baseball for the
winner, Adams was again called upon.
He allowed only six hits and with
errorless ball behind him scored
shutout as the GROWING glory of one
of the most exciting baseball battles
ever witnessed on a diamond.
The hitting, fielding and general
playing Of Clarke, Wagner and Leach
contributed no small part to the Pitts
burg victory in winning the champion
ship as it did in landing the pennant
of the National league.
Detroit will have to be content with
calling itself champion of the Ameri-
can league. Hughey Jennings, the
manager who has led the team to four
successive pennants in the league, put
up the best fight he knew how. Two
OF the three games won by the Tigers
were due mostly to the pitching
of George Mullin. wild Bill" Dono
van won the other, which was the sec.
ond of the series.
Jennings selected Donovan to pitch
the final and deciding game, but the
veteran was not equal to the task
relieve him. but he had last his terror
for the Pirate crew.
While he played a faultless game in
the field, Ty Cobb, the champion bats
man of the world for 1909, did little
damage with his stick in the worlds
series. When it became known that
Pittsburg and Detroit were to fight
for the championship there was much
speculation concerning the batting
that Cobb and Wagner, the latter hav-
ing the highest average in the Ma
tional league, would do. Wagner won
the honors, whether by superior hit
ting ability or the quality of pitching
of the opposing slabmen, the dopesters
Of the game will figure out later on.
All in all it was the most exciting
championship series played between
the leaders of the rival leagues. The
games were played in all kinds of
weather, the temperature during one
of them being 35 degrees above zero
at Detroit. Three Of the first six
games were played in each of the
cities. Detroit won the toss up and
had the advantage of playing the de-
Gliding contest at home. but was un-
able to grasp the opportunity.
All records for attendance and re-
ceipts were broken during the first
four games of the series. The total
receipts of the four games were more
than those of the Cubs-Sox series in
1906, in which six games were played.
The average attendance for the four
days was 24,001, record-breaking
figure in itself. Each of the Pittsburg
players got little more than $4,000
and the Detroit players received more
than $1,000 each. The money for the
remaining three games was split by
the national commission and the own
ers of the two clubs.
While Pittsburg and Detroit were
fighting for the worlds championship
the Chicago Cubs and Chicago Sox
were battling for the championship of
that city. 1t took only five games to
decide the issue, the Cubs taking four
of them and the Sox one.