The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-30
National League in Losing End
of World Series.
Americans Have Taken 10 Out
of Is Contests.
BOSTON ALWAYS A WINNER
Bean City Never Has Lost
World Baseball Decision.
Giants and Cubs Hold the "Shut
Out" HOnOrS.

National league fans look to the
Reds to restore some of the prestige
which the old league has lost in the
annual duel for the worlds champion
ship.
Since the playing for the champion
ship between the two league winners
was resumed back in 1903, the cham
pions of the Ban johnson circuit have
won ten out of the fifteen series. This
has been taken by many of the fans
as evidence of the superiority of the
younger organization and the White
SoX will have many hackers in this
years setto on the strength of past
performances.
If the Reds succeed in nabbing the
honOrS in the poSt-season battle this
year, they will accomplish a number
OF noteworthy things. A victory will
give Pat Moran his first worlds cham
pionship club. He won the national
league pennant with the Phillies in
1915, but was beaten out for the big
honors by the Boston Red Sox. The
Reds, incidentally by winning their
first championship, will replace the
White Sox in the select trio which has
never lost q worlds championship
struggle. This list now includes the
Boston Red SOx, the Boston Braves
and the White Sox. The Red Sox have
gone thru five series without defeat,
can League storm once and the White
Sox have twice emerged the victor in
the big baseball classic.
Only Five Series.
+ Since 1908 the national league team
has won only five series. In 1905 the
Giants beat the Athletics; in 1907 the
Cubs whipped the Tigers; the follow
ing year the Cubs repeated by again
trimming the Detroit champions; in
10 Go
fore the victorious Pirates and in 1914
Stallings and his miraculous Brave
club sWamped the Athletics four
straight. Since 1908 the national
league champions have been taking a
turn every five years in winning the
national flag. If this can be taken as
an oracle, the Reds are marked by
fate to win this series.
In sixteen years, only two teams
have won the series in four straight
games. The Cubs turned the trick
against the Tigers in 1907 withiut Civ
ing the American leaguers game and
in 1914 the Braves pulled the same
stunt against the Athletics.
The Giants and the Cubs hold the
record for shutting out their oppo-
nents in the worlds series, each time
having performed this feat five times
Detroit and Chicago played the longest
series game-a thirteen inning affair
in 1885.
Boston Always Wins.
Boston is the only city in the major
leagues whose pennant winners have
not lost worlds series decision The
Braves and the Red Sox have both de-
livered the goods when they repre-
scented the Bean city in the big games.
The following is the result of the
annual fight since 1903:
1903-Red Sox beat Pittsburgh out
of 8.
1904-No series played
19O5-Giants beat the Athletics 4 out
of 5.
1906-White Sox beat Cubs 4 out of 6.
1907-Cubs beat the Tigers four
straight.
190S-Cubs beat Tigers out of 5.
1909-Pirates beat the Tigers out
of 7.
1910-Athletics beat Cubs 4 out of 5.
1911-Athletics beat Giants out of s.
1912-Red SoX beat Giants out of T.
19h3-Athletics beat Giants 4 out of s.
1914-Braves beat Athletics four
straight
1915-Red Sox beat Phillies out
of 5.
191s-Red sox beat Brooklyn out
1s17-white sox beat Giants 4 out
of s.
191s-Red sox beat Cubs out of 6.