Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-11-13
OF
YEARS GONE BY
THE VETERAN BASEBALL FAN n
RETROSPECTIVE
WHEN | WAS YOUNG"
total Worlds Championship Series
Receipts az one Time amounted
to only $1,000

Ncv York. Son. l2.-Au veteran
! baseball fans are now inlulgng iu
IreTosp, They talk OF players
who We're iu their prime before some
of the present stars were born. and
when others were rolling liyIy color.
ed balls across tho floor and soumb-
Hing after them ON all iours
The first official worlds champion
| ship -umcs vert played twenty isis
years ago between the Providence
team ana the mctropolitaus. Three
Ip.mes were played and Providence,
| IwI,h SWcouy and the famous Rad
| bourne as their hoNmau. won them
LAM The scores were TO %, to I
|uud II to g. The series took place
, in New York city beginning on Octo-
her 80.
In 1855 ST. Louis and Chicago
played q series OF seven games, each
team winning three games and one
game resulting IN a tie. St Louis
forfeited the second game. which
was held in st. Louis after eight in
Inngs and been played
The firth ana sixth games Of this
series were held In Pittsburg and
Cincinnati respectively OF the re-
lmainlng five games three were played
In 81 Louis and two in Chicago The
series began on October IA, and the
, total receipts of the games were
- 900.
The following year the same two
teams played again, but this time
only six games were necessary. as ST.
Louis won four to ChiCagO's two.
In 1857, St Louis and Detroit
ItI4RHnI Il
$4,000 The games were played
around circuit taking in ST Louis,
Detroit pittsburg, New York, Phila-
deIphia, Washington and Baltimore.
Detroit won ten out of the fourteen
games. The series started in st.
Louis on October 10, and finished at
Detroit on October 26 The game of
October ~ was won 10y Detroit In
thirteen innings by a score of to l..
The following year St Louis was
still one OF the contenders. but lost
six games out Of ten to New York,
and has never since then figured in
a worlds series, The receipts of this
series We're S243G2.lO
In 1889 Brooklyn lost six games out
of nine mayed In New York. The
first game was played on october 10
ana the last on October 20 The
game of October % went eleven in
nings and was won by New York. .
to 1. The receipts of this series were
less than those of the year before,
being S23,623.
Brooklyn aud Louisville broke even
IN 1880, eacn winning three games
and playing one to tie,
There was no series In 1891, but in
1892 Boston and Cleveland played six
games, Boston won five, and in the
other contest Mother team scored i'm
eleven innings
lhe year lS93 was another Off sea-
son, bul in 1894 the series for the
Temple cup began, New York won
four through having the pitching ser
9ices Ot the famous Ruse. These
games ended ON October s. and the
hos Ct,ice took in $4,000,
In 1895, Cleveland won four games.
out Of five from the Orioles with
NomI and Cuppy doing sterling work
In the box, Zimmer catching and To-
beau on first Baltimore had Nc
Grew, Jennings Kelly, Brodie, Keeler
and Robinson in its line up.
The next year found Baltimore
playing the wonderful inside ball"
developed by McGraw and Robinson
and they defeated Cleveland decisive
y four rames in p row,
IN 1897 the same bunch of orioles
Ilet Boston get but one game out of
five At this time Bowermau had
become a member of the Baltimore
team
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