The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-19

1t happens right along through the
regular season.
Pittsburg went into the pennant SER
les severely handicapped in its pitch
| ing department. Had Camnitz been in
condition there can be little doubt that
the Pirates would have ended the SER
les sooner. The Pirates did not have
a cold weather pitcher.
But for George Mullin the Tigers
would not have been in the fight.
With two teams so pre- eminent in
hitting as the Tigers and Pirates were
it is almost fatal for one of the teams
to have q weakness in it's pitching
staff
When the Cubs played the Tigers the
result of the series both years seemed
to indicate that Detroit was outclassed
AS matter of fact, the Cubs won
because Of their superior pitching, and
not because they outclassed the Tigers
as a baseball machine. In the major
leagues as now constituted under the
modern evolution of baseball, it is
foolish to talk of one team outclassing
another. The differences in the teams
are slight. Some are better than 9TH
ers, better balanced, more finished, but
they are all in the same class.
Hughey Jennings must be a heart
broken man In the Cub series his
team was so decisively beaten that he
could have had no excuses. In the
present series, however, the result was
| so close as to leave him open to bitter
personal regrets for whatever things
went wrong.
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year. Baseball men generally agreed
that Pfttsbgurg was not so great a
baseball machine as the cubs. Jen
nings knew that his team was better
/ than ever, especially in his pitching
department. And he felt confident of
the result. But while his pitchers
we're in good shape, his team did not
play as good baseball altogether as
it had played the year before.
AS a matter Of fact, the worlds
series this year was not an exhibition
of great baseball. The games were
exciting enough, and that one game
where Detroit closed up and won af-
ter the pirates had scored three in
the opening inning. was rare spec
tacle But neither team played re-
markable ball.
The series at Chicago was much
better baseball
Neither Jennings nor Clarke handled
their teams with that perfection which
has characterized other series. Jen-
nings threw away one game by send
Ing in Summers when all the logic of
tie situation was against it. Clarke
threw away game by putting Lei
field in against the tradition that De-
troit can slaughter a left handler, and
that on day when 1t was so cold
that Leifeld appeared at his poorest.
The games were slugging matches,
played with tremendous desperation,
and filled with such uncertainty as to
create an intensity of interest lacking
In former series which have exhi-
bited much better baseball
George Mullin is the hero of De-
troit as he ought to be. Detroit has
participated in seventeen worlds
championship games in three years
and has won four of the games. or
these four victories three have been
won by MuIlin.
Charley Adams is the one real hero
Of the worlds series. The young
Louisville recruit won three OF the
games for the pirates, and got bet
ter each time, ending the series with
grand shut tout. Had Adams not
been in condition the pirates would
have been ignominionsly beaten in the
series. He was the one best bet.
The two Detrot stars most counted
ono Crawford and Cobb-did not make
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with the stick. and this greatly handi-
capped the tigers. Wagner more than
made good hitting grandly and run
ming bases at his best The two stars
Of the series outside Of Mullin and
Adams were Delehanfy for Detroit
and Byrne for Pittsburg. The wonder
full work Of Byrne at third base was
the leading feature OF Pittsburg ,
play. Delehanty batted like a fiend,
leading both teams with the stick.
Fred Clarke Ia the least known man :
ager In baseball because he is the
most modest. He has never been d
press agent. He Is great ball
player. but he has not been advertis-
ing the fact excessively. Little is heard
Of him in the, public print No one
can regret that 30 worthy leader has
won this signal honor in baseball.
The National league gets the most
sgatisfaction out OF the post season
series. PittsbaIrg won four out OF
seven from Detroit and the cubs won
four out OF Ave from the eox. The
New York giants lost four out OF six
to the Boston Americans
The BostonNew York series was 4
poor one, and seemed to prove that
| had Boston won the American cham
pionship, Pitts0urg would have, had
an easy time in the worlds series.
The cubs played In their old tirna
form against the SIX, their pitchers
all being right AZ once.
There II little sense Ia harping on
the superiority Of one league over an
other. For several seasons everything