The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-25
Pennant Goes to Mack,
NoMatter What Hap
pens From Now On
GREAT REC ORD
FOR THE SEASON.
With a Championship Team to
Start With, Mack Has Had His
Ups and Downs, and Ali His
Ingenuity Was Required to
Put Club Where 1t
Now Is.

No matter what happens from now
on. the Philadelphia Atheletics viii I
win the American League pennant for
the seaaon Of 1910 Connie Mack's |
team cannot lose even IL II should
drop every game played and New
York, the runner-up captures every I
contest. New York lost all chance |
to win. although the chance was as
slim as the ideal sheath gown g'rl,
whei Chicago took the fourth straight
game from me Highalnders last week.
That fourth game was the last peg on
which the Highlander hopes were hung
and when that was taken til nope
went.
The story OF the Atheletics cham
p,onship conquest, the third that MACK
las brought to Philadelphia In
period OF ten years which the Attn
letics have beeu represented In the
junior MAJOR league, furnishes
bright chapter in baseball annals. Be-
ginning the season with team that
had made hurricane finish in leos.
critics and public credited Mack with
having tho possibilities of cham
pionship aggregation. But no one
considereded for moment that the
Athletics would make runaway race
for the pennant. During the first Two
weeks Of the championship season mo
Athletics had hard fight to gain
permanent position in the first diyi-
sion. The season opened ina;ispictous-
10 for the Athletics. Washington WIN
Ming the Initial contest with smut
o,,, yictory. But IN Athletics did not
long remain near the bottom OF me
ladder. and April 20 found them In the
first division.
Went After Detroit.
ON April 2s the Athletics tlsd p 1ea
troit for iirst place, but they aIop pr.
hack 10 third before they cneekeu !tista
downward slide. MAY fonnu In ,tt
second 70 the Tigers. and II WAS ~ j, ms rs
carly ueriod OF the race thai the Nhite
Elenhants made their first squirt ptia.
nantward. and since Snat 1llie 80
have always been leading or WITHIN
striEine distance of the team that was
leading the race. On May inc
Athletics secured their first claim TO
leadership; h has 5, al o, .na handiing
of the team BY Connie Mack mao ~
going at n championship clip, and the
Wonderful work of the pitching SAL
,articularly Coonbs. Bender afid MOT
gan. furnished the early sensations OIL
the baseball season.
During the early part Of May the
Athletics played steady consistent paii'
eentase to sis on May is, which was
the high-watar mark OF the season season.
Thirteen successive victories we're
credited to them before the Detroil
their winning career Following TINS
series with the Tigers INJURIES 70 sen
.cral of the players weakened the team.
and they suffered severe slump on
their first Western trip
series In New York.
Tnev l,st steadily. and OIL June O.,
,vhan Da,ro.i won it's third straight
game from Mack's team. the New YORK OF
Iighlanders took the lead. The
Athletics regained the lead on June
1t by defeating st. LOUIS VS., whli NJ, i nn.
Junt 20, when the Western trip nnlsh-
ed. New York was again leading the
Athletics by points. !.
In a series of six games played III
four days in New York, beginning
June 81. the Athletics Won four games.
taxing two double headers on success
siye days. They lost the last two
and celebrated their homecoming in
first place by defeating Boston By a
score Of 2 to |, In one OF the most
sensational games of the season
From June 81. to the present day,
t1he Athletics nave. been leading the
i AMERICAN League clubs in the contest
Sor the 1910 championship. New York,
Boston and Detroit have all made win
IAt is lead until It was only a
iouestion of a few games, But each
time the Athletics proved the stronger
club in the STRUGGLE for the honor POSI-
Inv one, and increasing their lead over
their nearest competitor to more than
100 points.
bconcedcd that, barring acclaenls o.
win the pennant.s Boston's threatened
snurt was nipped when the Red SoX
management disposed of Harry Lord
fone OF its sprlghtest stars. from I'M,
and the Highlanders, who have been
contenders all season, once more made
4 "a bid to overhaul the Athletics. The
lst and q 3he bFiant eldng
hard and timely hitting continued Up
70 the present day, until the race was
Needed, and the championship flag was
z assured far Shibe Park.
Championship Stride.
4 That the Athletics have proved their
4 right to the championship cannot be
denied, for they have won the series
from every club in the league, From
Kew York. their closest rival, the Ath.
6etics have won twelve games and .losl
Eeven. Boston, which was credited
with having great chance TO wiz
khis years race, vas q, an easy Team ! :
Mse est % N eght hs a gass Yepo
j WAS defeated thirteen out of twenty,
Two games. Against. Cleveland the
Athletics were able to win Just twice
ps many games as they lost, winning
fourteen and losing seven. the Other
game, played yesterday. ending In {
Eia. The Athletics Won fourteen ant
lost SIX with Washington.
With Chicago, the Athletics RECORD
rs thirteen Victories and five defeats
4 SndTwith St. Louis fifteen victories ant
Four defeats, a series with each q
fhe latter two clubs remaining to b
played. -,
rhampionship, Jack Coombs leads u,
pther pitchers of MacS's STAFF, Will
Y twenty eight Victories and seven de
Yeats to his credit, Bender has VOL
Twenty-Five and lost five; Plank wol
sighteen and lost ten: Morgan Y y won sey
hnteens and lost eleyen; Atkins Wol
three and lost one. Krause broke eyel
pn ten. games, winning five and losin,
1--WE, and Dygert lost three games an