New-York tribune., 1910-10-24
ATHLETICS CHAMPIONS;
CUBS LOSE LAST GAME.
QuakerS Earn BasebaII'S Highest
Honors by Terrific
Batting.
COOMBS HERO OF SERIES
Outpitches Three Fingered
Brown as Philadelphia Downs
Chicago Before a Mon
ster Crowd.

Chicago, Oct. 23-The baseball cham
pionship Of the world belongs to the
Philadelphia club Of the American
League. The Athletics clinched the big
pennant fast to-day. beating the Chicago
Cubs, champions Of the National League,
by a score of Z TO .. and there was none
in the big overflow crowd to say that
they had not won it fairly and squarely.
Five games have been played. and the
Eastern youngsters have taken four of
them by outbatting. outielding and out
rushing the veteran Cubs. They got
the jump at the start. and although Chi
defeat yesterday. it really didn't change
the situation bit.
The Philadelphias We're due They
won the American League banner in
1902 but there was no worlds series
that year. Five years ago the New York
Nationals were too strong for them. So
in this year of grace ii was not in the
cards that they were 20 be denied.
While the series was not the most
profitable ever played, it helps TO sim
plify the high cost of living problem
confronting even such heroes as the Ath-
letics. to say nothing of the Cubs, with
winter coming on. The players share
OF the money amounts to SI9.011 93. OF
this 90 per cent, or 81. .443 II, goes TO
the winners and sol .62S a to the losers
AS there are twenty three players on
each team eligible to share, each of the
Philadelphians is entitled in round num-
o,,1 f'1i.a TO
S1,375.
Players Profit by Generosity.
The nIavers shared in to-day's receipts
by courtesy Of the managcments of the
two clubs. who conceded that if to-day's
receipts should be larger than those OF
any previous day the smaller receipts
should be considered as accruing TO the
fifth game. and the Sunday receipts ac-
credited to the fourth contest, the last
in which the players had financial
share.
The total receipts for the series were
S172 aSo The two clubs share S3S,I
eouallv. while S17,39S goes to the ma
tional commission. The total paid at
tendance was 125,219.
According TO the general verdict the
newly won prestige of the Philadel-
phians and their wealth entities them TO
top places in athletic bluebooks, and Tor
the same reasons, with others added, 1t
/ is declared that while Connie" Mack Is
a good workaday appellation, and fits
nicely into the headlines, as manager
Of the greatest ball team on earth he
I aGdracEa1 4 (
Cornelius McGillcuddy, with never
syllable slurred. When this was put to
Mr. McGillicuddy. however he blushed
modestly. and said it didn't matter what
the manager of a team like his was
called.
They're a grand bunch of boys, he
said. beaming on his men, land I'm
proud Of them. They never quit. In the
first four games we used only ten men,
which speaks well for the way the boys
work together, and not until to-day did
] make any changes"
Coonbs Hero of Series
The performance of Coombs in pitch
ing and winning three of a five-game
series is rivalled only by Mathewson's
1908 record He had only one days rest
between the second and third games,
b,,t three days .ntervened between the
third contest and tO-days exhibition.
He had better contrel to-day than in the
previous contests, and foiled the oppos-
ING batters when hits meant runs.
Brown. for Chicago. pitched excellent
ball. except in the disastrous eighth. and
the result of that inning was by no
means entirely his fault
The day was bright and the weather
that Of Indian summer. Ground rules.
as usual, were necessary. PhlladeIphia
took the lead at the outset. when Hartsel,
who went 10 left field while Lord played
centre in place of Strunk, singled. The
Philadelphians present cheered. for that
was exactly the reason that "Topsy"
was played instead of Strunk. He stole
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