Evening journal., 1912-10-14
EACH LEAGUE WON
4 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Present Series viii be Blue
Ribbon EVent---LiSt of
the Winners


The present series Of baseball
games for the worlds championship
between the Boston Red Sox and the
New York Giants will break the excit-
ing tie between the American and
National league in the number of
championships won. Each organiza-
ton has captured four pennants in
the eight series played. the total at
tendance for the contests running up
TO SS1 1854 and the receipts to $1,2S1,-
65175 Forty-seven games have been
played of which the National league
contenders have won "a and their op-
ponents %, one game ending In a tie.
All records for attendance and re-
ceipts were broken in the series be-
tween the Giants and Athletics last
year when 179.S51 fans" paid $342,-
364.5O to see the games. With a larg-
er seating capacity at the Boston
grounds than at Shibe park, in Phila-
delphia; new figures ought to be set
this year. The players on the win
ming team picked up $4,000 apiece and
the losers got S2,400 each last season.
lt would not be surprising II the win
ner's share ran up to $4,000 each this
year.
Although there were many social
ed worlds championship games play
ed early in the history of baseball,
the first between the American and
National leagues came in 1908, when
the Boston Red Sox won five out OF
eight games from the Pittsburgh, Pir-
ates. The Giants won the National
league pennant in 1904 but John T.
Brush, because his bitterness toward
the American league had not died
down, refused to play the Red Sox for
the title.
In 1905, however, the difficulties
were patched up by the national COM
mission which took charge, and the
Giants defeated the Athletics in four
Of the five games played, Mathewson
winning three of them In 1906 the
two Chicago teams met, the Cubs go
ing down to defeat at the hand OF
the White Sox in four out OF six
games although the Cubs had one of
the greatest baseball machines ever
developed and set new mark OF 1i6
victories for a season. a record which
has never been equalied.
Only five games were necessary TO
decide the championship in 1907, when
the Cubs and Detroit Tigers met. Chi
cagO winning four straight victories,
the first game being a 1S inning tie.
The same teams battled again = 1908,
Chicago winning four out of FIVE. The
following year Pittsburgh and Detroit
had a bitter struggle for honors, the
series going the full limit of seven for
the first and only time in history be-
fore the Pirates were declared the
winners. I'm this series Babe" Adams
defeated the Tigers in three games.
The Athletics and Cubs hooked NJ
in 1910, Philadelphia winning will
ease taking four out Of the five gamei
. played. Last year the Athletics were
J again successful in their struggle will
the Giants winning four out of si'
games The first five weer the hard
est fought and best played of an.
worlds series contests. Two Of then
TO extra innings, the Athletics takinl
II innings to beat Matty in the thir,
game and the Giants beating Coomb
and Plank in 10 innings in the fifth
These two games are the only extri
1 inning games ever played in world
r series, with the exception of the i
inning tie that the Cubs and Tiger
fought out in 1907. The sixth gam
last year ended in a rout for tn
] Giants in Philadelphia
D Following are the worlds serie
r winners and losers since 1908.
3 Result q
r Year Winners Loser serie
e 1908. Boston (A) Pittsburgh (N) s.
1904 No series.
19O5'New York (N) Athletics (A) A.
1906 Chicago (A) Chicago (N) A.
!. 1907 Chicago (N) Detroit (A) "a
1908 Chicago (N) Detroit (A) A.
! 1903 Pittsburgh (N) Detroit (A) 4;
1910 Athletics (A) Chicago (N) A.
: 1911 Athletics (A) New York (N) A.
*First game resulted in 12-innin