Evening journal., 1909-10-08
BIG SERIES
BEGINS TODAY
Record Crowd Of Fans Out
to See First PittSbure-De-
trOIt Game
JENNINGS, CONFIDENT.

JENNINGS CONFIDENT.
The third time is the charm, so
you see we are due TO win for we
lost in the other two series.-Hush-
ey Jennings.
PlTTSBURG IN FINE FORM. .
! have nothing TO say except that
the Pittsbure Club is in excellent
condition to make the fight Of the
season.-Fred Clarke. .
Public opinion concerning the out
come of the series Of games between
the Detroit Americans and the Pitts
burg Nationals for the baseball cham
pionship of the world, which opens
today Is pretty evenly divided. although
betting men are giving odds of TO
I'm favor OF the Pirates. Close to $780,
600 in pools, had been laid this morning.
According TO unofficial averages De-
troit eNcels in club batting by about
four points, while the Pirates have the
better fielding team. jennings men
far outclass the Nationals in base run
ming, they having stolen 285 bases to
Pittsburg's III. The superiority Of the
National league catchers over those Of
the younger organization, however, is
probably responsible for some of this
difference Pittsburg is better in long
hits. while Detroit may have a shade
the better In the pitching department.
Manager Clarke will most likely de-
pend on Camnitz, Adams. willis and
Maddox to do the box work. while for
Detroit Summers Mullin, killian and
Donovan viii probably pitch. Pitts
burg has no hrst-class left handed
pitcher.
The fact that each player who takes
part in the series will receive a share
Of the receipts, divided according TO
the winnings of his club, the amount
sometimes being as high as 1000, will
go TO show in a way the advantage
there Is in victory. Every player viii
do his best to win and those persons
who arc fortunate enough to have Sc
cured seats for the games will see the
best baseball talent in the world in a
real battle for supremacy. Details for
the series have been announced by the
National commission as follows:
Schedule Of Games.
Friday. oct. s, at Pittsburg.
Saturday. oct. Q, at Pittsburg.
Monday, oct. IL, at Detroit.
Tuesday. Oct. II, at Detroit.
Wednesday. oct. 10. at Pittsburg.
Thursday, oct. a. at Detroit.
In case Il becomes necessary to
play a seventh game the city in which
il is TO be played and the date will
be determined by the commission.
In case either one or both of the
games scheduled for Pittsburg Friday,
oct 8. or the following Saturday. are
not played on account of rain OF any
other cause. such postponed game will
be played after the Pittsburg club re-
turns from Detroit. provided, how
ever. that the Pittsburg club shall be
required to remain in Detroit until the
first two games scheduled in either OF
those cities arc played
/ Eligible Players.
Pittsburg- g-Abbaticchio, Abstein, Ad
ans. Brandon, Byrne, Camnitz, Clarke
Trock. Gibson. Hyatt Leach, LeeveI
Lichold, Maddox, Miller, Moore
II O'Connor. Philippe, Powell. Simon
! Wagner, Willis Wilson.
BccSendorf, Bush, Craw-
ford. Cobb. Dclchanty, Donovan, Jen'
lnings. Thomas Jones David Jones
Killian. Mcintyre, Moriarity, Mullin
OLoary, Stanage. Schmidt, Speer
Admission Prices.
At Pittsburg-BoX seats (reserved)
81: grandstand (reserved), $3.50; left
field stand and field seats, 81; bleach
er seats, so cents.
At Detroit-BoX seats Preserved
$3.50 CON account Of limited capacity
grandstand (rescrved), 81 Con account
Of limited capacity; pavilion $3.50 Cor
aat
seats and overflow 90 cents.
1 Officials for Games.
/ Umpires-National League, ]. +
tombstone and William KLEIN; Ameri.
can League Frank OLoughlin anC
Il William G. Evans.
Business representatives of commits
sion-Robert b. McRoy; assistant
William II. Locke and Charlie
Schumm.
Omcial scorers-A. j. Flanner an
Francis g. Richter
The games shall be called I'm bot
cities az 2 y. m. Rain checks shall b
+ issued each day, regardless Of weathe
conditions. Tickets sold for a gam,
4 In which for any reason there are les
y than four and half innings playc,
4 will be good for the day on which tn
4 postponed game is played.
In designating the players who ar
n eligible 10 participate i'm the world
= series games the commission is EN-
i phatlc In declaring that no others wi
a be allowed 70 take part.
II has been a long time since Dc
s trot and Pittsburg have met in dc
n bates on the diamond. In 1887 an
\ SIS these two cities were men
( bers OF the National League I
. 1887 the Wolverines outclasscd II
i Pennsylvanians, winning IA out
Is games the National League tins
season having a schedule of l26 cor
tests. In 1883 the Wolverines and II
Pirates were more evenly matched. an
they split even on the series for n
year. each team winning 10 game
Their last meeting was on Septemb,
%. 1855. I'm Pittsburg, the Pirates the
winning by a score of TO /.
M MOQF R0IIER POLO