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AMERICAN AND NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT WINNERS WILL OPEN
SERIES FOR WORLD’S BASEBALL TITLE IN PHILADELPHIA TOMORROW
Series for Title This Year Will Be a Record; for
All Reserved Seats for First Four Con
tests Have Already Been Sold.
With two teams evenly matched,
the world's series which starts in
Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon at 2
o’clock, promises to be the closest and
most interesting since the contests
were started in 1905. In that same
year the Athletic team was one of
the contenders and again this year
they will make their second attempt
to annex the highest honors in the
baseball game.
Never since the national commis
sion took charge of the playing of
these games has there been the inter
est in the games as this year and
for the first time since 1906 the
American league pennant winners
look like me prospective winners of
the title. The Athletics have this year
what the Detroit team has always
lacked in their three tries for the
title —pitchers—and these are essen
tial in the winning of the contests in
such a crucial test. All of the Mack
twirlers are regarded by the ablest
critics of the game as being top-notch
ers and composing one of the best
pitching staffs that has been collected
by any one club for many years. All
are seasoned men and have demon
strated their worth in many a gruell
ing contest . I
It now looks as though Connie
Mack will depend on Bender. Coombs
. and Plank to bear the brunt of the
work, for these three men have been
primed for these games during the
past three weeks and are in excellent
> condition. The remainder of the
1 team will line up as in the games dur
ing the championship season, with the
, possible exception of the outfield. An
Injury to Oldring last week during
the series with the All-Stars is likely
to keep that player out of the game,
but then. Mack has « couple of sub
’ statutes who are likely to get in the
game and make a great showing.
There has been considerable dis
cussion over the playing of Strunk,
the speediest field in the big leagues
today. During the early part of the
season he gave indications of posses- j
sing the necessAy ability to make a
star in the outer garden, while his I
stick-work was classy in every re
spect
Through injury the Cubs may also
lose heavily, although it does not look
as though the loss of Evers at the
present time does not seem to have
affected their playing in the least.
Zimmerman, his understudy, has been
swatting the ball at a terrific clip,
has improved greatly in his fielding
and is likely to prove the star of the,
Windy Citj- aggregation. With the j
exception of the pitchers it looks like I
a stand-off between the two teams, j
and the man in the center of the dia
mond is likely to prove the biggest
factor in the winning of the games.
Of course, the manager must be reck
oned as having a lot to do with the
winning of the games, and it certainly
will be a battle of two of the brain
iest managers, who ever handled a
ball team, when the games start to
morrow.
It now seems certain that all rec
ords for attendance at the world’s
series will be shattered. As early Cs
Monday of the past weft all of the re
served seats for the first two games
STAT/ST/CS OF PLAYERS WHO WILL
REPRESENT CUBS IN BIG SERIES
Frank L. Chance, manager, ha:
' achieved splendid laurels uuring hi;
i brief experience as manager. In th<
live seasons he has led the Cubs the)
have won tour National league pen
1 nants, two world s championships, anc
a chance to annex a third. The Cubi
finished second in 1909 and won th<
i city title. No more brilliant recorc
has been made by so young a man
Chance was born in Fresno. Cal., Sep
tember 19, 1877. He joined the Chi
cago team in the spring of 1898 anc
this is his thirteenth year in profes
sional baseball. All of them hav<
been spent with the Cubs. He startec
his career as a catcher, but in th'
; sumrfter of 1903 was induced to pla:
1 first base by Manager Selee, and al
' most immediately claimed a plac<
I among the first basemen. Chanci
1 gained his reputation on the coast
' where he played with the Wasliingtot
i university team. He was recommend
I ed to "Cap” Anson by Bill Lange, thei
outfielder of the Chicago team. Whei
I Frank Selee was obliged by poo
' health to surrender the managemen
of the Cubs in the middle of 1905
Chance was cjppointed acting manage:
and succeeded to the permanent man
agement the following spring. Hi
won the championship in that year
and repeated in 1907 and 1908, los
Ing to Pittsburg last season and com
ing back strongly this year. As i
leader of men and in judgment o
. players he has few equals. He weigh:
180 pounds, is six feet tall, and bat:
and throws right handed. He wa:
: married in 1901.
Harry Steinfeldt, third base, has
; been a member of the Cubs since
11906, when he was obtained from
' Cincinnati in exchange for Pitcher
I Weimer. He was born September 29,
11876. In St. Louis, but his family
removed to Fort Worth, Texas, when
ihe was 5 years old. He started his
| professional career in the Texas •
league in 1896 as a second baseman
, and played with the Fort Worth and [
Galveston teams. He was drafted by:
the Detroit club in 1897 and was pur
. chased from the Tigers by Cincinnati
jln the following year. He remained
with the Reds for eight seasons, play
ing third base after Charlie Irwin
i went to Brooklyn in 1899. He is five
' feet ten inches tall, weighs 175 pounds!
and bats and throws right handed. He
■ was married in October, 1904.
John G. Kling, catcher, was born;
at Kansas City. Mo., November 13,
[1875, and has lived in that city all!
' his life. He is five feet nine and one
half inches tall and weighs 180 1
i pounds. He came from the St, Jos-|
I eph team to the Cubs In the fall of ।
1 J 900 and for the better part of ten j
years has been its premier catcher. |
Kling first played professionally nt
.Rockford. 11l- in 1896 as an out
fielder. He was released at the end
of the year and did not play ball
again until 1899. When he became a
member of the Houston team of the
Teyas league. He played there only
a few months, but. ip 1900 was signed
by the St. Joe team as a catcher and
was sold along with Strang to the
Cubs that fall. He was second catch-
SUNDAY.
in Philadelphia were sold and thou
sands of dollars were returned to the
applicants for tickets whose requests
arrived at the headquarters too late.
In Chicago the same condition pre
vailed. and this is the greatest indica-
tion that anew record will be chalked
up.
Shibe Park, where the two teams
will play in Philadelphia, is one of
the greatest ball parks in the world.
It was first opened at the start of
1909 season and last year, the Quak
ers broke all attendance figures for
attendance during a series. When the
Detroit Tigers clashed with the White
Elephants on their last trip in the
east, and when these two teams were
fighting the top position in the
pennant race , more than 118,000 per
sons paid admission to see the four
contests—a truly remarkable show
ing. In addition, the single game at
tendance mark was surpassed when
35,181 persons gave up their coin to I
see these teams battle on a Saturday '
afternoon. These figures are likely to I
be wiped off the boards next week, I
for the fans in both towns are daffy I
j over, baseball and will be out in force
to for the teams.
| As yet there is much uncertainty as |
; to the twirlers who will start in the ■
' big series. Neither Manager Mack or
Chance will announce their batteries. :
for both are uncertain as to which of (
the mound artists will be in the best .
condition for the game. From present
indications it looks as though the Cubs I
will depend on Brown and Kling as
the battery while the Quaker leader I
will likely depend on Coombs and 1
Lapp to start the ball rolliing.
Should these two pitchers face each j
other it should be a great battle for :
both of these men are among the best
in the game today, although the Chi
cago pitcher has not been so success
ful this year as In the past. He is at
his best in a' big series, however, and
may cause the Philadelphians plenty
of trouble.
Coombs is the star of the Mackites
and he is in excellent condition for
the opening of hostilities. During the
past week he has pitched fine ball
against the All-Stars in every contest
and the partisans of the Athletics pick
him to win his game.
The Cubs will present the same
team as has been in the field since the (
injury to Evers and they will bat in
the same order as during the past two
weeks of the National League season.
For the Athletics there wilt be no
changes in the team save possibly the:
substiution of Strunk for Oldring in ‘
center field.
The line-up for the two teams for
the opening contest is likely to* be as ।
follows:
Athletics — Chicago—
Lord If Sheckard I
Strunk or Oldring. cf Hofman I
Collins 5b.... Zimmerman
Baker tb .... Steinfeldt
; Davis fb Chance
Murphy .........rf Schulte
| Barry st Tinker
| Lapp c Kling
j Cpombs or Bender p. . ..Brown or Cole
Umpires: Sherlden and Connolly or
American League and Bigler and
1 O’Day for the National League.
er until the season of 1903, since
when he has been the mainstay of the
team behind the bat. He remained
out of the game during the season
of 1909 and established a billiard
business in his home city. He bats
and throws right handed and was
married in 1903.
Edward M. Reulbach. pitcher, was
born December 1. 1882, at Detroit,
Mich., where he lived until 1900, when
his family removed to St. Louis. He
is six feet tall and weighs 185 pounds.
He has been with the team since the
middle of 1905, joining th© team at
the close of the college year, as he
then was pitching for the Unlversitv
of Vermont. His experience as a
minor leaguer was confined to his
college vacations. Reulbach first
gained prominence at Notre Dame,
where he was pitcher and captain of
the varsity nine in 1904. The sum-
1 mer before that he pitched for the I
| Sedalia. Mo., team under an assumed J
name and in the vacation of 1904 j
pitched in the Vermont State league i
under a different name. His work
was watched despite the stage names
and his record prompted Manager
Selee to sign him while still a colle
gian. He pitches and bats right
handed and was married in August,
1906.
Joseph B. Tinker, shortstop, was
born July 27, 1880, at Muskoda, Kas-
FRANCIS C. RICHTER.
The scoring of the world’s series
games has been assigned to Francis C.
Richter, editor of Sporting Life, of
Philadelphia, and Taylor Spink of the
Sporting News, of St. Louis. For some
OFFICIAL SCORERS OF SERIES
HERE ARE THE TWO MANAGERS WHO WILL BE THE BRAINS
OF TEAMS IN WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE STARTING TOMORROW
MANAGER CONNIE MACK OF PHILADELPHIA.
He is five feet eight and one-half inch
es tali and weighs 170 pounds, lie
has been with the Cubs since the
spring of 1902. when he was obtained
by Manager Selee from the Portland,
Ore., team, which won the champion
ship of its league in 1901. Tinker be
gan his professional career on an in
dependent teajn at Coffeyville, Kas
in 1899. He went to the Denver team
in 1900. but played there only a few
months before being released to Great
Falls. Mont. He then was sold to
Helena, where he finished the sea
son of 1900 as a second bfceman. In
the following year he went to Port
land and played third base. He was
tried out at shortstop by Chicago and
has held that position ever since. He
bats and throws right handed, and
was married in 1903.
Mordecai Brown, pitcher, was born
October 19, 1876, at Nyesvllle, Ind
and hit present home is at Rosedale
in the same state. He is five feet o n
and one-half inches tall and weighs
175 pounds. He was obtained from
the St. Louis Nationals in the spring
of 1904, along with Catcher John
O’Neil, in exchange for Jack- Taylor.
When a lad he lost the forefinger of
his right hand and from that misfor
tune obtained the nickname by which
he is famous. Brown was a coal
miner in Indiana when he first began
to play ball and gained a reputation
as a third baseman with the semi-pro
fessional team at Coxville, Ind- in
1898. He soon turned his attention to
pitching and found he could master
the art in spite of his maimed hand.
He became a professional pitcher in
1901 with the Terre Haute''Three
Eyes league team. In 1902 he signed
with Omaha in the Western league
and was purchased by the St. Louis
Cardinals the following year. He
pitched only one year in St. Louis be
fore coming to Chicago, where he has
become known as the lion hearted
wonder of the league. He pitches
right handed, but bats either way. He
was married in February, 1904.
Orval Overall, pitcher, the giant of
the Cubs, was born February 2. 1881,
at Visalia, Cal- where he still makes
his home. He is six feet two Inches
tall and weighs 210 pounds when in
best condition. In the spring of 1905
he came to Cincinnati from California
as the pitching wonder of the coast.
Re was graduated from the Unlver
sity of California in 1904 and signed
with the Tacoma team, which won
the pennant of that season. He was
TAYLOR SPINK.
I reason, scoring post-season games is
| presumed to be more important than
। the scoring of regular championship
contests, hence the choice of the two
| experts. \
SAW ANTONSO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
purchased that fall by the Cincinnati
club and pitched in that city in 1905
and part of 1906. but his success with
the Reds was not as great as had been
expected of him. Consequently Man
ager Chance was able to obtain him tn
exchange for Bob Wicker in June of
1906, and he has since become one
of the few great pitchers ot the de
< %le. He pitches right handed and
bats left handed. He was married
in the spring of 1908.
James T. Sheckard. left was
born Nov. 23, 1879. on a farm in
York county. Pa. He has been with
the Chicago team since the spring of
1906. when he was obtained from
Brooklyn in exchange for Jack McCar
thy, Jimmy Casey, Billy Maloney, and
Bort Briggs. After playing with some
of the country teams around Colum
bia, Pa.. Sheckard broke into profes
sional baseball with the Brockton
team of the New, England league in
1898. He wa4 drafted by the Brook
lyn club in the fall of that year, but
was released to Baltimore in the fol
lowing ’-ear. When that tea'm was
consolidated with Brooklyn Sheckard
went along and played in the City of
Churclffs until traded to Chicago. Ho
is 5 feet 8 1-2 inches tall, weighs 165
pounds, and throws right handed but
bats left handed. He was married
in 1905.
Frank M. Schulte, right field, was
born September 17, 1882, at Cochec
ton, N. V. He weighs 165 pounds and
is 5 feet 9 1-2 inches tall. His pres
ent home is Lestershfre, N. Y. Schulte
was bought by the Chicago ball club
in the fall of 1904 from the Syracuse
team of the New York State league.
He played semi-professional baseball
!at Blossburg, Pa- when he was only
! 16 years old and was prominent on
I the local teams of his part of the
. country for several seasons. He was
picked up by the Syracuse club in
, 1902 and remained with that team
until he came to Chicago. lie bats
left handed, throws right handed, and
Is unmarried.
Arthur F. Hofman, center field,
I was born October 39, 1882, in
Louis, but makes his home at present
।ln Akron. Ohio. He is 6 feet tall and
weighs 155 pounds. He has been a
! member of the Cubs for six years.
| comingxhere from the Des Moines
, teany where he was a star at short.
|He was secured by Pittsburg in the
(fall of 1903, but played only two
weeks before fbeing let out to Des
, Moines, whepe he remained until se-
I cured by Chicago in 1905. Before be
coming a professional he was a mem
ber of the Smith Academy team of
I St. Louis and later played with the
' Bank of Commerce team. Since
I joining the Cubs he has played every
position outside of the batteries and
( was rated as the best utility man in
the game previous to becoming a reg
-1 utar at center field, when Slagle was
released. He bats and throws right
j handed and Is married.
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Henry Zimmerman, second base,
was born In New York City (the
Bronx), February 10. 1886. His first
real bail playing was done with the
Bronx Athletic and lied Hook clubs
In 1905. The following year he was
signed by Wilkesbarre and started
playing first base, but soon was
switched to second. In the fall of
1906 Zimmerman was bought by the
Chicago chib on recommendation of
Evers. He has remained with ths
Cubs ever since as utility infielder. He
is 5 feet 11 1-2 inches tall, weighs
185 pounds, bats and throws right
handed, and is unmarried.
James P. Archer, catcher. Is one
of the two native sons of Ireland on
the Cub team. He was born May 13.
1883, In Dublin, but his present home
I is in Buffalo. He made his profes
’ sional debut as a catcher in Fargo of
j the Northwestern league in 1903. and
I later played a month in Manitoba. In
190? he was with Boone. la- and that
( fall was drafted by Pittsburg, but was
| let go to Atlanta in the spring of 1905.
remaining there througi] the season
of 1906. Detroit then obtained Arch
er and retained him during the sea
son of 1907. He caught one game
MANAGER FRANK CHANCE OF CHICAGO.
against the Cubs in the world’s series
of that fall and was pronounced by
Manager Chance the best of the three
catchers Jennings used. Detroit sent
him to Buffalo in 1908, and there
Chance had him watched with the
result that Chicago drafted him in
the fall. In 1909 he bore the brunt
of the catching during Kling’s ab
sence. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall,
weighs 176 pounds, and bats and
throws right handed. He is married.
Leonard L. Cole, pitcher, was born
on April 15, 1886, in Toleda, la- but
makes his home at- present in Bay
City, Mich- where he first became
famous as a pitcher. His first profes
sional engagement was with the Bay
t’lty team of the Southern Michigan
league in 1909 and he immediately
attracted the attention of the scouts.
The Chicago club obtained him by
combined process of purchase and
draft after the national commission
had straightened out the tangle. Com
ing to the Cubs with only one year's
experience. Cole made good from the
start and became one of the season’s
sensations as well as the team's lead
ing pitcher in point of games won
and lost. He is 6 feet 11-2 inches
tall and weighs 172 pounds. He
। pitches and bats right handed, and
was married this year.
Harry R. Mclntire, pitcher, 1s a
native of Detroit, born there Janu
ary 11, 1878. His home is now in
Dayton. Ohio. Mclntire started
pitching with the Danville team ot
the Three-Eye league tn 1898, re
maining there until 1900, when he
was signed by the Toledo team, then
in the western league. The follow
ing year he went to Shreveport, ana
from there to Memphis, where he
pitched in 1902. 190 S and 1904. The
Brooklyn club took him in the sea
son of 1905 and retained him until
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last spring, when he was traded to
Chicago for Tony and Happy Smith
and Davidson. Mclntire pitches and
bats right handed, is 6 feet tall, and
weighs 180 pounds. He is single.
Clarence H. Beaumont, outfielder,
was born July 23, 1876. at Rochester,
Wls„ and has remained a resident of
that state, now living at Honey Creek.
He is 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weigh. 4
190 pounds. He started in baseball
as a catcher with semi-pro teams
near his home in 1896, and continued
catching the following season. In
1898 he was in Milwaukee and play
ed there under Connie Mack, ths
Athletic leader. It was there he
changed to the outfield. Pittsburg
obtained him in 1899. and he remain
ed a Pirate until 1906, then played
with the Boston Nationals in 1907,
1908, and 1909. Last winter the Chi
cago club secured him by a trade
which involved Liese and a bunch of
coin. Ho throws right handed, byts
left handed, and is married!
Thomas J. Needham, catcher, is
the other native born Irishman on the
team. He was born April 17. 1879, in
Manchester, Ireland, and has lived in
Steubenville. Ohio, since 1883. He
began catching professionally for an
independent team in Coldwater,
Mich- in 1898. The following year
he was with Tecumseh. In 1900 hi.
went to Ashtabula and the next year
to Wheeling, in the old Interstate
league. 1902 found him in Altoona
of the Tri-State league, and from
there he was drafted by the Boston
Nationals, catching for the Hub team
until 1907. In 1908 Needham went
to New York in a wholesale trade
which involved Bridwell and Tenney
in exchange for McGann. Ferguson,
Bowerman. Dahlen. and George
Browne. At the end of that season
he was let go to St. Paul, but before
he reported in 1909 was purchased
OCTOBER 16, 1910.
CUB PITCHERS
ARE READY EOR
WORLD’S SERIES
Four/Members of the Twirling
Staff Declare They Are In
Shape for Big Contest.
LEAVE FOR PHILADELPHIA
Entire Party Departs From Chi
cago on Special Train —No
Cripples In the Squad,
(Bv Bill Bailey.)
Chicago, 11l- Oct. 15. —Those pen
nant winning Cubs closed the Na
tional league season in Chicago by
tackling the St. Louis Cardinals on,
the West Side this afternoon, and
jumped upon a special train and hiken
tor Philadelphia, where they will open,
the world's series on Monday. A more 1
confident bunch of athletes never be
fore left the city than these same pen
nant-winning Cubs. They realize they
have a hard fifight upon their hands.
They are not claiming that they will'
sweep the series and grab the bunt
ing in four straight games. They may
believe it. They don’t say it. They:
claim they have a young team, a club
composed of individual brilliant play
ers to combat with, a teain that has
an excellent staff of twirlers and led ;
by one of the smartest managers in
baseball.
They do.not underrate the foe. Yet
they believA they will win.
The Cubs will be in almost pert'ect
condition. Could Johnny Evers, the
game little second bassman, cast aside
bis crutches and tear away the plaster,
cast which surrounds his ankle and
join his teammates, then all would
be well.
Every man who will be on the squad
is in perfect shape. Yesterday wan
a day of practice . Kling, Archer,
and Needham, the catchers, had no
fault to find with their arms. Over
all, who is expected tq open the series,
pronounced that his' arm never feit
better. His recent work-out put him
in excellent shape and there is scarce
ly a doubt but what he will fight tor
the first game.
Brown and Reulbach. who are ex
pected to follow, also reported th'»»-'
selves in splendid condition. Pfeister
and Cole, the men who may be called
upon in the series, reported that they
were fit and willing to step in at »
moment’s notice.
by the Chicago club on account oil
the retirement of Kling. He is 5 feet
10 1-2 inches tall, weighs 180 pounds,
and bats and >hro<vs right handed. He
is a widowef.
John F. Kane, utility, is a native
of Chicago and lives there. He was
born September 24, 1884, is 5 feet 6
inches tall, and weighs 120 pounds
after a hearty meal. Kane began
playing professionally at Pittsburg,
Kan- in 1903 as an outfielder. Ha
remained there until 1905, and then
went to Seattle, where he played for
two seasons in the Pacific Coast
league. Cincinnati drafted him for
the season of 1907. and he was a ReJ
Stocking until the spring of 1909,
when he came to the Cubs in ex
change for Darbin and Downey. H$
bats and throws right handed and is
married.
A. Lewis Richie, pitcher, was born
in Amber. Pa- in 1883. He is 5 feet
8 inches tall, and weighs 165. His
career as a professional pitcher be
gan in Wilmington. Del- in 1903. Ths
following season he was with Oxford.
Pa- then went to Williamsport in
1905. The Philadelphia National
Continued on Page 21 —First Column.