Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-29
FLAG GOES TO The PIRATES
Victory Of Philadelphia Over Chicago
Ends Race for Pennaut.
FANS HOLD JoLLIF1CAT1oN
Home Team Loses by Decisive score.
hut Crowd Goes wild when
score IL POsted-ManaEer
Given Purse of Gold.

PITTSBURG, Sept. s.-The Pittsburg
Base Ball club today clinched the 1909 pen
nant Of the National league. Although the
team was defeated by New York by a
score OF 10 to 9, Philadelphia's victory over
Chicago assured the pennant for the Pitts
burg club.
Should Chicago win every game now I'M
til the close of the season and Pittsburg
lose every game it plays, the local team
would still be in the lead at the close Of
the season by half a game.
A wild demonstration was enacted on
Forbes field today at the close OF the game
with New York when the Philadelphia
Chicago score was posted on the bulletin
board. The crowd made a rush for the
bench Of the local players. but they had
retired to their dressing rooms.
Before the game today, Manager Fred
Clarke OF the PittsburG team was presented
with a purse OF gold amounting to q little
over $500, the gift Of local base ball en-
thusiasts. Mayor william A. Magee of
this city made the presentation and lauded
the work of Manager Clarke and the mem
bers OF the Pittsburg team.
Toady's game was a swatfest pure and
simple, with the visitors having the better
Of the argument. The locals used four
NSANAG bul all were MT freely. ADleS
was hit hard in the ninth inning, when
two singles, two doubles and a triple net
ted the home club five run New York
scored early in the game, securing a com
mandlng lead that could not be overcome.
Pittsburg won the National league pen
nant in 1901, 1902 and 1903, this being the
fourth time and giving Manager Clarke the
distinction of being the only man in the
National league today with such a record.
only three other manager Of major league
teams ever had a better record, they being
Arson, Selee and Hanlon, whose teams won
p%ennants five time.
Five players on the PittsburE team at
present hold the record Of being the only
ones ever members Of a club that won the
pennant four times. They are Manager
Clarke, Shortstop Wagner, Center Fielder
Leach and Pitchers Lever and Philippe.
Pittsburg is the best hitting team In
either major league, having 1882 bingles
to their credit, including 94 doubles,
lightweight triples and twenty-four home
runs, and is second in fielding, Chicago
being first.
The Pittsburg team lie remarkable in the
fact that the second division of its lineup
is the hardest hitting aggregation of any
second division in any major league club,
these four men, Miller, Absteln, Wilson and
Gibson, having batted in more runs than
the second division of any other team.
An interesting feature of Pittsburg's win
ming the pennant today is the fact that
O'Connor was catching for the local team
when the pennant was clinched, and the
only other game he caught this year was
on May 5, when his three hits helped
Pittsburg defeat Chicago, thus placing
Pittsburg in the lead In the race.
Catcher George Gibson has caught 13O
consecutive games, his claim to a worlds
record being disputed. Should he catch In
four more games this season, which he
will likely do, he VIII have undisputed
claim to a worlds record OF the number
of games caught. Score: