Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-16
CHICAGO SOX WIN WORLDS TITLE IN THE SIXTH GAME
 
Deciding Contest is Won By
 the Champions of the Amer ican League. New York's Errors Contributing Factors.
(By Review Leased Wirel


 of the west like Lochinvar of old, the Chicago Americans won the world ser ies baseball championship here this afternoon, defeating the New York Ma tionals to in the sixth and deciding game of the 1917 diamond classic. For the first time in almost a decade the titular banner will flu ter over the fans in the middle west metropolis next spring when the series pennant is rais- ed at Comiskey Park, as evidence of the great national game.
 Af:er winning the first two games on their home field and losing the next two at the Polo grounds, the Chicago clan clinched the gonfalon with two straight victories. one at Comiskey park and the other at the lair of the Giants. The New York club did not go to defeat today without desperate resistance. The battle was surcharg- ed with sensational situations and thrilling plays, but the invading com bination with the edge of a one game lead was not to Dc denied. It was the Giants who eventually broke,under the strain of the confiic--.
 Fatal Fourth.
 With ''Rube" Benton, the towering southpaw from Clinton, N. C.. waging a pitching duel for the locals against the curves of Urban Faber, the Gas cade. Iowa. hurler of the White Sox, the battle was fought through three full innings without either team giving the slightest marging either defensive ly or extensively. In the fatal four h." however, the Giants faltered for just a moment and seizing their advantage the players of Chicago rushed the breach and captured the first worlds series championship emblem won in the city on Lake Michigan since Frank Chances Cubs" defea:e Detroit in 1908. While the Nationals made a game rally in the fifth and the Sox add ed another run in the ninth the three runs scored by the Chicago team in the fourth session were the deciding factor. The play in this inning con- vinced the thirty-odd thousand specta- tors present that for this season a. least the pennant winning club of the American league is better than that which won the race in the senior or ganization.
 Championship Decided.
 That the championship had been de- cided in the fourth inning was in keep ing with the feature and factor play throughout the series. The Chicago club scored its winning run in this in. ming during the first game and collect ed five in the second contest in the same period. In the third and fourth contests, won by the Giants, the win ming team scored the only runs of the battle in fourth inning of the third game and the first of the five runs in the fourth game which was a five-to- nothing shutout in favor of New York. The scoring of Saturday proved an ex- ception, but today the Sox reverted to their original system, and aided by misplays by the Giants closed the ser ies with decisive victory.
 Big Attendance.
 The largest assemblage of specta- tors to witness any game of the pres ent inter-league combat was on hand when the rival clubs grappled. Accord ing to the official figures. 33,969 per sons paid admission to the Polo grounds, their contributions totalling S73,634. Of this sum the stockholders of the two clubs will each receive $33.- OO6.O6 and the national commission ST. 3S4.SO. The players ceased to partici- pate in the gate receipts after the fourth game but they will receive $l52,- SSS.5S as their share, this amount be- ing divided sixty per cent to the Chi cago team and forty per cent to the New York players. The totapreceipts for the six games amounted to $425,- SIS and after subtracting the money paid to the players. the two clubs are each richer by s115.2OO.S1 and the na- tional commission s42,5S7.70.
 Day A Wonder.
 AS was Dehtting the climax of the baseball year, the day was the best of those on which games were played Under these favorable conditions thousands of fans entered into the spirit of the play with more American baseball enthusiasm than was the case in almost any of the preceding con tests. As was natural, they rooted long and lustily for the Gitants. but
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