The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-05
WORLDS BASEBALL SERIES
Coming Contest the oath in National
Gamo History.

Although thirty-one years have
elapsed since the first battle for the
baseball championship of the world
was won by the Providence Or. ID
"Grays", there were several years in
which the struggle was not repeated,
so that the coming contest between
the Boston Red SoX and the Philadel-
phia Nationals will be the twenty
fourth series to be played for the
worlds title. The inaugural contest
in 1884 was won by the Rhode Island
team, then champions OF the National
League, in three straight games from
the Metropolithns, the standard bear'l
ers of the old American Association
of that year Observation-Disclosures oc-
Cured in eight of the subsequent sea-
sons. There was no competition in
1891 or 1s93; '.There, was alspla Aver
year lapse from 1898 to 1902, inclus-
i've, but in 1903 the Boston Americans
beat the Pittsburgh Nationals five
games to three. The following years
championship was claimed by the
Boston Red Sox by default, as the
New York National League Club
would not permit its 1904 pennant
winners to play the American League
Champions
In 1905, however, the two major
leagues arrived at an understanding
after the matter had been thorough
ly discussed during the Winter
months, and the worlds champion
ship competition was placed on
solid basis. The National Commits
sion assumed control of the annual
series and made it compulsory for
the pennant winning clubs in each
league to have their teams play ser
les of games. Rules were adopted by
the National Commission which gov
erned everything connected with the
post-season battles. Arrangements
were completed regarding the dis
bursement of the gate receipts be-
tween the winning and losing play
ers, the club owners and the Nation
al Commission, and everything was
done to the satisfaction of everybody
interested. f
Under these new conditions the
post-season games were resumed, and
they have been played every year
regularly since 1905. In the Fall OF
that year the New York Giants defeat
ed the Athletics of Philadelphia four
games to one, and scored the first
winning of the worlds title under the
new regime. The rival Chicago clubs
had the issue between them in 1906,
Comiskey's White SoX winning the
honors by four games to two. The
Detroit Tigers won the American
League pennant for the next three
years in succession, but failed to add
the worlds title to their string of vic
tories, as they were beaten in the
post-season battles of 1907 and 1908
by the Chicago Cubs and the follow
ing year they lost to Pittsburgh, |
when the Pirates nailed both the
worlds championship and National
League pennants to their mast. Con- |
ME Mack and his Athletics were domi
nant factors in the two following
years. They score da four to one vic
tory over the Chicago Nationals in
1910 and in the 1911 series they
squared their defeat by the Giants in
1905 by taking McGraw's players into |
camp four games to two in the battle |
for the worlds title.
Then followed the great eight |
game series between the Boston
Americans and the Giants. Probably |
for long time to come 1912 will be
remembered as the banner year. as |
in addition to tie game, the Red
Sox players, several of whom are
still in the Boston lineup, went the
limit and forced Manager McGraw to
q four to three defeat. The Athletics
scored third worlds victory in 1913,
with the Giants again losers, the New
York team winning only one game