The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-18

p. L. SkIPS ONLY ONE YEAR.
THEN BRINGS BACK CHAMPION.
SHIP TO cHIcAGo-ADDs NEW
cOGS TO WHEEL-kLING.c COLE
RICHIE AND MINTIRE BUILD UP
WEAK POINTS.
By !. e. Sanborn.
King came back

6CrOeS-1fOm E1lcQlSau TO Qelp ChlCa-
COS Cubs win their fourth almost
straight pennant.
When Chances great team of veter.
ans cinched the 1910 championship Of
the National league by defeating Gin
cinnau on Oct. 2, they finished the
accomplishment Of a feat unequaled
in the annals Of the organization to
which they belong. Never before has
pions come back nthe short space Of
one season after surrendering their
title of champions.
Once in the old league a three times
champion club has come back into
the championship after an interval of
of two seasons. That was a Chicago
team, too. It was Cap Anson's old
White Stockings who won the Nation
al league pennant three times in sue
cession, in 1880, 1881 and 1882, were
beaten in 1883 and 1884, and came
back on top of the race in 1885 and
1885.
seIee, Chances Nearest Rival.
Once a three times champion team
has come back into the title after an
interval of three seasons. That Was
the Boston team, managed by the late
Frank Selee, which won the pennants
Of 1891, 1892 and 1893 in the veteran
league, was beaten out by Baltimore
in 1894, 1895 and 1896, then claimed
the championship again in 1897 and
1898.
Still another time has a three time
National league pennant winner come
back after an interval of five sea-
sons. That was Fred Clarke's Pitts
burg team, which was title holder OF
the old league in 1901, 1902 and 1903,
gave way to New York in 1904 and
1905. to Chicago in 1905, 1907 and 1908,
then wrested the champion ship from
the Cubs in 1906, only to surrender it
to the same team this year.
All honor to those other teams, led
BY Arson and Selee and Clarke, but
greater honor Is due the one led by
Frank LIE Roy Chance. His achieve
ment has surpassed anything Of the
kind in the history of baseball except
the four straight pennants won by
Charles A. Comiskey's old st. Louis
Browns in 1885, 1885,, 1887 and 1888.
p. L. Wins With Old Team.
Even that unbeaten record totters
under the weight of the feat accom-
plished by Chance and his Cubs. The
ST. Louis Browns, with whom the Old
Roman won his fourth straight pen
nant, were changed greatly from the
Browns OF 1855 while the champion
Cubs Of 1910 are the same old Cubs
Of 1906, in the main.
To the twelve members of the Five
Hundred club, therefore, belongs a
greater distinction than that of win
ming more than 500 victories in Ave
successive seasons. Those twelve
m l~A r. h4A IL
bone, the nerves and the sinews Of
machine which triumphed four times
in five successive years, setting anoth
er record for the National league.
Those twelve men are: Frank Chance.
Steinfeldt, Mordecai Brown, Orval
Overall, Edward Reulbach, John
Pfester, John King, James Sheck.
ard, Arthur Holman, Frank Schultz
coqs In Wheel Missing.
One of them was missing from the
machine all Of the season and another
of them part of 1909, and to that fact
seems to be due the loss Of fourth
straight pennant in that year. Those
who asserted that the absence Of
King during the entire race and OF
Evers durink its first six weeks was
responsible for Chicagos failure to
win out last year appear to have the
floor to themselves in the light of this
years events.
The only argument to the contrary
is to enumerate the new strength
which has been added to the veteran
machine before and during the come
back year It cannot be said without
dispute that the Cubs came back this
year soley because John King did be,
cause it cannot be said without dis.
pute that the Cubs would have come
back if King Cole had not come across
the lake to strengthen nightly a
pitching staff which has needed help.
Besides Cole there was added to that
staff two strong members in McIntire,
for whom the club gave up much OF
value before the season opend, and in
Richie, who was acquired at no small
expense early in the race. Nor can
one overlook the added strength given
the team by the substitution Of q sea
soned campaigner like Beaumont in
place Of Stanley as reserve power in
the outfe1d.
New Pts:-ers Big Aid.
Without Cole and Richie and McIn-
tir the pitching staff, which could not
carry the strain successfully in 1909.
almost surely would nave been I'M
equal to the burden this year. For
the veteran pitchers Of the team were
in no trlm to carry heavy load much
of the time Reulbach's attack of
diptheria in the spring made it i'm
possible for him to be Of much as
sistance to the Cubs for many weeks
at the start, when games count as
muc has any other time.
Overall's powerful arm went bad
In the middle OF the season and for
weeks and weeks he not only could |
not pitch, but it was feared the injury |
might be permanent Pfester was |
injured seriously twice. Once a broken
hand put him out Of commission for
more than a month, and and at a time
when the Cubs were having some Of |
their fercest battles to subdue in
persons, who would have rob. |
bed them Of their come back laurels. |
What would have happened to Chi
cago but for the three new corners
on the pitching star never will be |
known. Perhaps Frank Pfester might |