The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-10-07
$4,000 FANS SEE
WHALES TAKE FLAG
Top Gained After One Game Puts
"' Chicago Third.
TEAM WINS DOUBLE-HEADER
Score Of First Contest Was 5 to 4 and
Second 8 to o-5iII Bailey Hero of
Day-HoIds Plttsburahers to
H&. Two Hits.

Chicago, Oct. 4.-More than $4,000
fans, 34,212 according to the official
figures, saw Charley Weeghman's
Whales put Chicago back into the
ranks of champions after an absence
Of five years. The trick was turned at
Weeghman's park when the North
siders defeated the Pittsburgh Rebels,
to 0, in the ultimate game Of the
double-header that wound up the 1916
Federal league season.
Leading the race when the contests
began, the Whales were dropped to
third place behind st. Louis when the
Rebels made a gallant uphill fight and
won the first game, to 4, after II in
nings of triple-riveted excitement. Joe
Tinker's men drove Elmer Knetzer
from the crag In the sixth inning OF
the afterpiece and when Bill Bailey
continued to blank the aliens the
North siders were proclaimed pennant
winners by the marrow margin of half
game.
WiekIand's Wicked WaIIop.
Any master of thrill-producing sit
uations would have had to go some to
eclipse the absorbing fight that ended
yesterday before one of the greatest
throngs that ever gathered in a Chi
cago ball park. Chicago needed one
Of the two final games to clinch the
flag and the locals amassed big lead
in the opener, which they held until
the ninth inning.
A rally by the visitors then pro-
duced tally and put the tying mark
or on the runways.
Fate SO arranged affairs that the
pennant hopes of Pittsburgh actually
hung on a single pitch. There were
two out in the ninth and the count
was 8 and 2 on AL Wickland, a Chi.
cago boy and former Whale star, and
AL made good in the pinch by lining
out a single that tied things up. Wick.
land drove in the winning run in the
eleventh.
George Mcconnell worked for the
Whales until the fateful ninth. He was
supplanted by Mike Prendergast, who
toiled the remainder of the game
Clinton Rogge was Pittsburgh's pitch,
er for eight rounds, during which all
Chicago's runs were made, and Knet-
Ger finished for him.
Two 5Iffs OF Bailey.
Bailey was too good for the visitors
in the epilogue, holding them to two
singles and not letting a man get past
first base. Knetzer was almost as
effective until the sixth when Doolan
and Wilson and Pechous produced one
baggers which decided the issue.
The game was called in the seventh
on account Of darkness.
Following Umpire Brennan's an
nouncement Of the termination OF
play the fans gave pretty good imi
tation of pandemonium breaking loose
There had been a lot of yelling
stamping, throwing of hats and cush
ions, Indian dancing and other antics
produced by delirious excitement when
the Whales scored in the sixth. but
this was nothing to the insane actions
Of the wild populace after the game
For fully fifteen minutes thousands oil
rooters on the field fought a pitched
battle with the occupants Of the grand
stand, using cushions as ammunition.
Chicago didn't have a real chance
in the second set-to until the sixth
Doolan led of with a drive to left
was sacrificed and scored on Flack's
two-bagger to right center. Zwilling
doubled to the same spot, sending
Fiack in and Wilson's long single tc
center put Zwilling home. Pechous
also hit safely, but Frank Allen ther
appeared and forced Mann to lift tc
Honey.
Bailey issued only one pass and but
four Rebels reached first. Two of these
were picked off that bag, one died
stealing and the other was forced al
second. So those three runs were
amply sufficient to win Chicago's frs
flag since the Cubs brought home the
bacon in 1910.