Evening journal., 1912-10-14
EACH LEAGUE WON
4 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Present Series Will 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-
tion has captured four pennants in
the eight series played, the total at
tendance Tor the contests running up
to 88l,S64 and the receipts to $1,23l,-
65775. 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 179,851 fans" paid $342,-
564.5O 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.
It would not be surprising if the win
ner's share ran up 10 $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 1903, when
the Boston Red Sox won five out OF
eight games from the Pittsburgh, Pr
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
we're patched up blythe 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 a new mark Of 116
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 13 inning tie.
The same teams battled again = 1908,
Chicago winning four out of FIVE. The
following year Pittsburgh and Detroit
had bitter struggle for honorss the
series going the full limit of seven for
the first and only time in history be-
fore the Pirates were declared the
winners. In this series "Babep Adams
defeated the Tigers in three games.
The Athletics and Cubs hooked ur
in 1910, Philadelphia winning with
ease taking four out Of the five games
played. Last year the Athletics were
again successful in their struggle with
the Giants winning four out of six
games The first five weer the hard
est fought and best played of any
worlds series contests. Two of them
to extra innings, the Athletics taking
II innings to beat Matty in the third
game and the Giants beating Coombs
and Plank in 10 innings in the fifth
These two games are the only extra
inning games ever played In worlds
series. with the exception of the IL
inning tie that the Cubs and Tigers
fought out in 1907 The sixth gam,
last year ended in a rout for tho
Giants in Philadelphia.
Following are the worlds serie.
winners and losers since 1903.
Result o
Year. Winners Loser series
1908. Boston (A) Pittsburgh (N) s.:
1904 No series.
1905 New York (N) Athletics (A) A.
1906 Chicago (A) Chicago (N) A..
1907 Chicago (N) Detroit (A) a.
1908 Chicago (N) Detroit (A) A.
1909 Pittsburgh (N) Detroit (A) a.
1910 Athletics (A) Chicago (N) A.
1911 Athletics (A) New York (N) A..
%First game resulted in a 12-inninl
tie.