The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-17
LEAGUE
TO HAVE Big DERBY

Philadelphia, Penn. Oct. 17.-The
great baseball derh.5 the blue ribbon
event of the American diamonds, will
start today when the championship
teams of the two major leagues will
meet in the opening game for the
worlds championship. The contest
ing teams are not only the champions
of their respective organizations, but
also generally considered as the finest
developed teams that the National
league and the American league have
ever produced.
The Cubs will be made up of prac-
tically the same men that won for
Chicago two worlds championships
from Detroit in 1907 and 1908, while
with the exception of five players, Pit
cheers Bender and Plank, First Base
man Davis and Outfielders Murphy
and Hartsel, Philadelphia will be COM
posed Of young men, who have joined
the team since the locals lost in a
worlds series competition against the
New York Nationals in 1905.
Each team is managed by veteran
Icampaigner, Chicago by Frank Chance,
who will play first base, and Philades-
phia by Connie" Mack who will di-,
rect his forces from the bench.
Injuries to players this month have
changed some of the early forecasts
as to the series. Chicago lost Evers,
who had isyleg broken in a game at
Cincinnati on Oct 1
His place at second base will be
filled by Zimmerman. who is nearly
as good fielder as Evers, and a bet
ter batsman. Philadelphia suffered a
greater loss last week when Centet-
fielder Oldring, who is rated as their
second best all around players, in
Jured his knee so severely that he
cannot play against Chicago.
Manager Mack has four players
from whom to select for two outfield
places, for Murphy is considered a fix
ture in right field. These men are
Hartsel, Lord and Strunk, who played
In the outfield during the champion
ship games, and McInnis, an infield az,
who is an excellent batsman.
None of these men however, has
the same all around ability as Old
ring.
For the first time since the worlds
series has been played under the rules
of the national commission, both of the
contesting teams will take the field
with nearly every man trained to the
minute. Each team won it's pennant
easily. Both are rated as the highest
types of baseball machines. The fol-
lowers of baseball throughout the
country, therefore, look for the great
est worlds series ever played. The
majority of the critics generally con-
slider the two teams so evenly matched
that 1t is almost impossible to pick the
winner
Tremendous interest has been shown
in the series all over the country.
Nearly 100 of the largest newspapers
of the country will be represented by
their baseball experts. So great was
the demand for seats for the opening
games here that even before the ma
tional commission announced the plan
of distributing them, practically every
seat was sold. Philadelphians were
given the preference and several spe-
cial trains, which were to have been
run here from Chicago, Pittsburg, Bos-
ton, Wilkesbarre and various points
throughout this state had to be can
celled because of inability to secure
tickets.
The grandstand at Shibe park will
seat about 9,100 persons and the
tickets to this structure were sold for
SO and 81, netting about $4,000 for
each game. 1t is expected that more
than 10000 persons will be able to see
the games each day from the bleachers
and from places back of the ropes in
the outfield, SO that If the anticipated
crowds turn out, each game is expected
to net about $4,000 The national
commission will get 10 per cent of
the receipts of each game. The play
ers will figure in the receipts of the
first four games only. After the ma
tional commissions percentage is TAX
en- out, the players will receive so per
cent and each club 20 per cent.
Some of the biggest men in baseball,
including many of the club owners,
will be here for the series. Some ar