Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16
BASEBALL FANDOM
RECALLS OLD DAYS
impending World Series Reminds
Veterans of Championship
Games of History

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-All veteran
baseball fans are now indulging in
retrospectiona They talk of players
who were in their prime before some
of the present stars were born and
when others were rolling gaily colored
balls across the floor and scrambling
after them on all fours.
The first official worlds champion
ship games were played twenty-six
years ago between the Providence
team and the Metropolitans. Three
games were played and Providence, |
with Sweeney and the famous Rad-
bourne as their boxmen, won them
all The scores were to 0, to 1
and IL to 2. The series took place in
New York city. beginning october %.
In 1885 st. Louis and Chicago played
q series of seven games, each team
winning three games and one game re-
sulting in a tie. st. Louis forfeited
the second game, which was played
in st. Louis, after eight innings had
been played.
The fifth and sixth games of this Sc
ries were played in Pittsburg and Gin
cinnati, respectively. OF the remain |
ing five games, three were played in
st. Louis and two in Chicago. The Sc
ries began on October IA and the total
receipts of the games were $4,000.
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.
The first three games were played
in the Windy city and the last three
in st. Louis. It took ST. Louis ten in
nings to win the deciding game, which
was played on October 23, by a score
of to 3. The players who composed
these two teams were men whose
names have come down with unoimin-
ished glory through the history of the
national game. The teams lined UP as
ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO.
comiskey ......... ID. ......'...... Anson
Robinson ..........2b .2b.........' Pfetfer
Gleason ............ss........ Williamson
Welch Fielder. ...',. Dalrymple
Foutz ..,........ Fielder. ........... Gore
O'Neill ......... Fielder, .........., Ryan
Bushong '.c...'''''.''''.. AeiIy eiIy
Boyle ......'..'....c.. .....'...'.'' Fllht
Carruthers ....''''.p. ...''.'.''', Ciarkson C5oI
Hudson .........s..p. ......... Mccormick
HARD HITTING SQUAD
1t has been written that these men
were essentially sluggers, but the
very fact that they were hard hitters
proves that they must have been good
fielders too, because the game of that
series with the highest combined score
was II to f. When the fact that each
one of these men has wonderful rep
utation as a hitter is considered this
seems a very respectable score and two
games were won by figures Of to o
and to g. Could our modern fielders
hold team composed of Cobbs, La
joies and Wagners to lower scores
than that? In that year of 1886 An
sons batting average was .371, kelly's
1888, Ryan's .9O6, Latham's 1903, Car
ruthers' .342, O'Neills 1888 and most
of the other men hit around 300.
In 1887 St. Louis and Detroit played
fourteen games and cleared 900.
The games were played around a cir
cult taking in st. Louis, Detroit,
Pittsburg, Brooklyn, New York, Phil
adelphia. 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
12 was won by Detroit in thirteen in
nings by a score of 2 to 1.
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
worlds series. The receipts of this Sc
ries were $24,362.10.
In 1889 Brooklyn lost six games out
of nine to New York The first game
was played on October IS and the
last on October 90. The game of Oc-
tober 25 went to eleven innings and
was won by New York 2 to 1. The
receipts of this series were less than
those of the year before, being $23,623
Brooklyn and Louisville broke even
in 1890, each 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 neither team scored in
eleven innings.
ANOTHER OFF SEASON
The year 1898 was another off season,
but in 1894 the series for the Temple
cup began New York won four
straight games from Baltimore, largely
through having the pitching services
of the famous Rusie. These games
ended on october and the box office
took in $4,000.
ms 1895 Cleveland won four games
out of five from the Orioles, with
Young and Cuppy doing sterling work
in the box, thinner catching and Te
beau on first. Baltimore had McGraw, 4
Jennings, Kelley, Brodie, Keeler and
Robinson in its lineup.
The next year found Baltimore play
ing the wonderful "inside ball" devel-
oped by McGraw and Robinson and
they defeated Cleveland decisiVely
four games in row.
In 1897 the same bunch of Orioles
let Boston get but one game out of
five. At this time Bowerman had be-
come a member of the Baltimore
team.
There were no further championship
series until 1903. In 1900 the American
league had come into existence and
three years later, when Boston and
Pittsburg had won the championship
of their respective leagues a world
series was arranged.
The younger organization triumphed
as Boston won five games out of
eight. The series began October ] and
the total receipts were over $4,000.
In 1904 no series was played, but in
1905 the worlds championship title re-
turned to the National league. That
year the New York Giants defeated
the Philadelphia Athletics and Chris
tie Mathewson pitched himself into
lasting fame by winning three Of New
York's four games won. The Athlet-
ics won one game. A remarkable
thing about this series was that every
game was a shutout. The attendance
was 91,723 and the total receipts We're
s6S4S5.