The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-17
.P|TTSBURG WINS
CHAMPIONSHIP
Detroit Is Badly Beaten In the
Final Game
ADAMS DOES THE WORK
Donovan and Mullin Fail To Stop the
Pirate sIuggers and the Tigers
Can Do Nothing With the
Curves of Adams.
ADAMS DOES THE WORK
BY FRANK B. INCLUSION.

Detroit. October 16-(Special)- Ut is all
over. The Pittsburg National league
team. not the Detroit Americans, are
CHAMPIONS of the baseball world. In
Bennett park this afternoon the Pitts
burg team won the deciding game in
the presence of 1900 persons 1t was
not simply a defeat; it was rout. The
score was to 0.
Bravely did Detroit fight. Like tall
sycamore, not bending before that storm
of base hits, Mulln, the iron man.
and pride of Detroit went down The
afternoon had been raw and cherries
but when the ninth opened with Detroit
going to her death the sun broke from
behind the clouds and for the first time
in the whole afternoon the great crowd
rose at the coming of the sunlight and
cheered madly tearfully and fearfuliy
The thousands of loyal fans applauded
even as their favorites went down and
when Fred Clarke went into the air
at the close of the ninth, pulling down
the fly from Tom Jones bat, closing
the game the crowd of thousands be-
gan to surge on the field. Were they
angry that Detroit had once more lost
the worlds championship? No. They
crowded around the sad Tigers, some of
them were weeping and patted them on
the back, wishing them better luck next
year The Pittsburgs received most
tremendous greeting from the few thous-
and fans who had come from Pittsburg
to see the final struggle.
Antics of the Crowd.
Tommy Leach was tossed in the air
like a cork by the joyous crowd and
Clarke, who tried to escape by the left
field gate. was also run down by the half
insane Pittsburg fans. About 40 of the
frenzed ones tried to rush Hans Wag-
ner whose bat did so much to bring
home victory today, but after falling
on few of them the Dutchman point
ed to a slim young fellow who was es-
Gaping from the field through a gate
under the grandstand.
There's the fellow: get him. He did
It." The Pittsburg rooters dashed madly
after the youngster with cries of Babe
Babe" They got Babe just as he was
disappearing and dragged him back into
the sunlight. Then ensued wild scene
while the thousands of sad Detroit root
ers looked on from the stand. Adams,
who pitched three of the winning games
for Pittsburg, was tossed from shoulder
to shoulder by the fans and finally the
play became so rough that the Pitts
burg players formed a compact body
and marched off the field together swing
ing their bats
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though overworked, being again sent in
to do the heavy work. Donovan was
first sent to the mound by Detroit, but he
could no more stop Pittsburg than he
could fly and finally when there was still
a chance to beat Pittsburg, Mullin was
sent in. This made four times in eight
days that Mullin was facing the Pitts
burg heavy hitters and he had not been
in the box three minutes until it became
plain that, like the other pitcher, he had
been sent to the well once too often.
Ten thousand Mullins could not have
stopped Pittsburg today.
1t was their day to bat and play base
ball as it should be played and they
did So
Last Stand of Tigers.
The last stand made by Detroit was
something pitiful. Tom Jones, who was
SO badly injured that he should be in
hospital insisted on being in the line
up. He was plainly wobbly on his pins.
Moriarity did the best he could for two
innings and then had to retire through
his injury of Thursday. Byrne, the
Plttsburg third baseman, was carried
from the field in the first inning. SO badly
injured that he will hardly be able to
put his foot to the ground for weeks.
1t was discovered after the game to-
night that had the Tigers won the worlds
championship they were to have been
captured bodily by about 200 rooters.
who had arranged to haul them about
town in a sort of triumphant chariot
The deserted chariot was found later
behind the grandstand. There had been
spread at one of the downtown hotels a
great feast for the Tigers tonight, wheth-
er they were to win or lose. but after
the game was over Hughey Jennings
sent word that his boys did not care to