The Marshall republican., 1910-02-25
CHAMPIONSHIP TO
PITTSBURG TEAM
PIRATES WIN THE DECIDING
GAME or THE WoRLp,s
SERIES.
PITCHER ADAMS THE HERO
y~ounsster Takes Three OF the Four
Games for Smoky City Team
MuIIln Wins Two for De-
troIt--cubs Beat Sox. y

Pittsburg. 81; Detroit. o. These -four
words tell how the worlds baseball
championship for 1909 was won by
Fred Clarke's Pirates 10 the seventh
game Of the series after each team
had won three games.
When baseball history is handed
down to our grandchildren the name
OF Adams will find its place among
the Adamses OF the early days Of
America. for It was the pitching Of
Adams, a youngster Of the Pirate
crew that did much, II not all. toward
landing the championship for the
Smoky City team. Admirers Of the
Pittsburgs shuddered when II was an
nounced that Adams was to pitch this
first game. They thought an older
man should be put into the box. But
the cfafty Clarke knew what he was
about as the score of 4 to 1 proved.
Then came the fifth game and again
Adams upheld the judgment of Clarke.
With the series tied. three to three
and victory in the seventh meaning
the highest honors In baseball for the
winner, Adams was again called upon.
He allowed only six hits and with
errorless ball behind him scored q
shutout as the browning glory Of one
of the most exciting baseball battles
ever witnessed on a diamond.
The hitting, fielding and general
playing of Clarke, Wagner and Leach
contributed no small part to the Pitts
burg victory in wining the champion
ship as 1t did In landing the pennant
of the National league.
Detroit will have to be content with
calling itself champion of the Ameri.
can league. Hughey Jennings. the
manager who has led the team to four
successive pennants in the league. put
up the best fight he knew how. Two
Of the three games won by the Tigers
were due mostly to the pitching
Of George Mullin. wild Bill" Dono-
van won the other. which was the sec
ond of the series.
Jennings selected Donovan to pitch
the final and deciding game, but the
veteran was not equal to the task.
relieve him. but he lad last his terror
for the Pirate crew.
While he played a faultless game in
the field, Ty Cobb, the champion bats
man Of the world for 1909, did little
damage with his stick In the worlds
series. When II became known that
Pittsburg and Detroit were to fight
for the championship there was much
speculation concerning the batting
.k.k Nohh aud Uyagoar tho Jaktar hay-
ing the highest average in the Ma
tional league, would do, Wagner won
the honors, whether by superior hit
ting ability or the quality of pitching
of the opposing slabmen, the dopesters
Of the game will figure out later ON.
All In all It was the most exciting
championship series played between
the leaders OF the rival leagues. The
games were played In all kinds oil
weather, the temperature during one
of them being 35 degrees above zero
at Detroit. Three Of the first sis
games were played In each of the
cities. Detroit Won the toss up and
had tho advantage OF playing the de
, Gliding contest at home. but was un
; able to grasp the opportunity.
| All records for attendance and re-
!, ceipts were broken during the frs
four games of the series. The tota
receipts of the four games were NOR,
than those Of the Cubs-Sox series II
1906, In which SIX games were played
The average attendance for the fou
days was 24,001, Q record-breakinl
figure in itself. Each of the PittsburI
players got a little more than $500
4 and the Detroit players received NOR
3 than $1,000 each. The money for tn
& remaining three games was split b,
/ the national commission and the OWE
L ers of the two clubs,
While Pittsburg and Detroit wer
fighting for the worlds championshi
the Chicago Cubs and Chicago So
a were battling for the championship G
i that city, II took only fve games I
I decide the issue. the Cubs taking fou
4 OF them and the Sox one.
4 The New York Giants of the M
d tional league and the Boston Red So
h OF the American league played an Il
. ter-city series and the Giants. inclu,
v Ing the great Christys Mathewsol
q went down to defeat.
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