The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-10-24
American League Champions
Defeat Cubs in the Fifth
Game Sunday by Great Raj
" in Eighth.
C0OMBS MAKES RECORD
WINNING THREE GAMES
Chicago Team Was Played Off
Its Feet by the Brilliant Play
Of 0pponents-Barry Was a
Star.
~ c. Z. VAN LOAN.


Chicago, Oct. 24.-The King ID
dead. Long live the Jack. At exact
ly Z minutes after I Sunday afternoon
q young man named Barry reached
down, nipped q ball off the ground.
galleried over to second base. touch
ed Il with his spikes, and by that tok.
On there passed into history the
worlds championship series for this
year OF grace. 1910. won by the Phila'
lelphia Athletics by the score OF I
games to la great baseball team.
gentlemen. All credit and honor to
them. for they won fairly on their
merits. whacking their way to fame
with many . long hit. Philadelphia
may well be proud Of them.
We do not deny that for seven inn.
ingS We believed our illustrious pa
tient 10 be doing well. You win re.
call that on Saturday Charles Albert
Bender stepped out to nail the lid up
on the coffin, but the ceremonies were
indefinitely postponed. The patient
objected to being buried alive.
Cornelius McGillicuddy. the under.
taker Of our hopes. then handed the
hammer and nails to one J. Coombs.
who had already driven two nails into
Chicago's sarcophagus. Mr.. Coombs
may now be mentioned reverently In
the same breath with Christy Mathew.
SON and Babe" Adams. two pitchers
Who scored three victories In worlds
series. Coombs beat the Cubs three
times inside Of six days. justifying
the confidence OF his now famous
chief, the aforementioned McGillicud-
dy.
Patient Did Not Survive.
The patient was not entombed with
out . struggle. There were several
times when he seemed about to break
out and kick Mr.. Coombs all over the
cemetery, and he was still struggling
valiautly % late ~ $3.50 In the after
noon. The score. remember. was to
1. with the undertakers leading by an
ace.
Dr.. Mordecai Brown. who assisted
IN reviving the patient on Saturday.
was sent out to administer oxygen and
"details. and for seven innings he
seemed to be fairly abreast Of his
duty. Then came the fatal eighth,
when the patient blinked. rolled his
eyes . few times and settled back %
dead a. Rameses I. Ram. old Boy.
may have been dead a lot longer. but
you can take our word for 1t that II
he stays dead for the next million
years he will never be any deader
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inning.
The entire batting order of the Ath'
lstics marched against Mordecai In
the eighth inning. and with three
doubles. . single. two bases on balls
and one large juicy error. the patient
was neatly handstitched into his
shroud and the lid clamped down fol
keeps. Five runs went upon the
score board after that inning and
nothing but respect for the dear de
parted kept the mourners from leav
ing In . body.
Chant the ooxoioey.
And nothing was added to the pleas
ure Of the occasion by the singing o
the Doxology. bit Of gratuitous i'm
pertinence contributed by the Phila
delphia rooters In the grand stand.
The wake. ~ We understand 1t. Il
to b held In Philadelphia-an excel
: lent location for the service.
TIE game went along to the bite
end with the Quaker rooters singing
their polite little songs and wavini
their perfectly correct little blue ban
aAv~xHAa WA A. uot vv.euA Anluo Nt~l,
ed. but We hate to have people sini
about us.
Mr.. Killing hit tho last ball In tn,
series. and he hit II quite some pelt
but Barry waltsed over. picked It VI
and forced Archer ut second base.
Now. n you havc any floral offer