Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-04
WHALES CRAB FED FLAG
CHICAGO GETS PENNANT
BY WINNING FINAL GAME
st. Louis Finishes Second md Pitts
burgh Thir,l-Poor Old Bai-
tlmOrc Inst.

CHICAGO. October 3.-In the tight
est League race ever staged, the Chi
cago Federals narrowly won tho flag
by taking tho second game Of dou-
blc-header from Pittsburgh after hav-
ing dropped the first clash game.
Darkness held off Just long enough 20
permit the Chicago team to take the
title and put Pittsburg I'm third place
Three runs In the sixth inning of the
second game. however. settled the
ownership of the emblem. The enor-
nous crowd went wild over the vic
tory.
The scores were. Pittsburgh, SO:
Chicago, 4-3. The first game went to
eleven innings. while the second was
called after tho visitors half Of the
seventh inning. The league race was
IN, IN uouot until the hnal game was
played to-day, as for weeks past there
mad been constant shifting of posi-
lions on the part of Pittsburgh, Chi
caBo and st. Louis. the Missouri city
not being eliminated until yesterday,
when n defeat by Kansas City put 1t
out of the running. The three teams
finished with only n little over three
points separating them.
In the first game to-day Chicago
seemingly had the game and pennant
won. lending by three runs up to the
ninth inning, when, with two out, the
across,
tying the score. Pittsburgh won In the
eleventh with another tally.
In the unfortunate ninth for tho
nome team with Mowrey on base as q
result OF a pass, Lewis knocked a long
fly between center and left, and Mann
ana Iwtlling both attempted to make
the catch, collidinE and Zwilline
dropped the ball. Mowrey scored
double by Berghammer and single
by Wickland scored Lewis and Ber-
Ghammer. The winning run came in
the eleventh, after Berry had struck
out. knetzer singled. went to second
on Berghammer's out, and scored from
second on WiclSland's Texas Lacquer.
Darkness Gathers Quickly.
hnetzer replaced Roggc at the be-
ginning of the ninth inning, and only
one hit was made off his delivery In
the second game darkness began to
settle over the field I'm the fourth in
ming, willis knetzer and Bailey were
both going in good form, neither side
having been able to score. with this
game needed by Chicago to win the
pcnnant. the locals went to bat In the
sixth inning determined to put nj least
one major league pennant in Chicago.
Three runs resulted, and the game was
called in the next inning on account
or darkness. The three tallies came
when Doolan started with single and
was sacrificed to second by Bailey,
tHlIu OH LelnerS out. FlnCk
made what ordinarily would have gone
for three bases. but as 1t went into
the crowd, ground rules held 1t to two
bases. Doolan scored. ZwIlling fol-
lowed with double I'm the same place,
scoring Flack. and Wilson singled,
Zwilling stopping at third. Zwilling
scored on Pechous single through
short
Pittsburgh changed pitchers, Allen
going to the mound, and tho inning
closed without further scoring
First game
Score by innings: r III. e
Pittsburgh IL % o3O1--5 II Q
Chicago .....0o 0o21 00O0-4 l2 4
Batteries: Royce, Knetzer and Berry:
McConnell. Prendergast and Wilson.
Second game
Score by innings: r. II. r.
Pittsburgh onOn0 90 n
Chicago OOOoo3s-3
tCalled; darkness.)
batteries: Knetzer, Allen and Kerry.
Bailey and Wilson