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Show H00FEDS TAKE ANOTHE FLAG INTHE FEDER Indianapolis for Second Time Wins Pern Race Has Been Closely Contested, Ever Club Being Contender for Leadership . INTDIA.lt APOLIS Oct Bv win rung from St Louib today the In d anapol s Federal league team lor the second t me in two years captured cap-tured the Federal league pennant To Manager Whoa B 11 Phill ps the s lent leader of the team, who also was at the helm of the club last year when it won the first flag of the league is given credit in a large meas ure for the winning of the second championsh p He however ascribes the victory to his players JThe fea ture of the local team s work this sea son was its strong attack The race between the Chicago and Indianapolis teams has been close al most from the start of the season with first one club and then the other in the lead leaterday s victory for In dianapolu while Chicago was losing two games gave tbe local team whieE was a half game behind, a one game lead President Gilmore of the Federals has announced that he will challenge the winner of the world a series on behalf be-half of the winner of the Federal league pennant but there is little hope that a series can be arranged. Hard fought Race The federal league race was one of the hardest fought of modern baseball history nearly every team at one tune or another taking part in a rally that gave it an apparent chanee for the flag At the start St, Louis lumped to the front and at tbe end of the f rst two weeks led the league. The first clash with eastern clubs proved disas trous for the Mound City crowd and after a campaign of two weeks aronnd the western circuit Baltimore was in front and retained the lead until June The addition of Charlie Carr the vet eran put such batting strength into the Hooner lineup that Indianapol s began to elimb in June, and on lune lb a doublo defeat of Bait more by Kansas City and Indianapol s win over Pitts burg gave the Hoosiers the lead A serious slump bv St Iiouis late in June let the Chicago t tm into the race and bv beating Indianapol s Julv Tinker s men went uto f rst place The Hoosiers for a timo suffered a de cline once on their downward gl de landing in fourth place while Balti mora again became a factor August 18 the Hoosiers went to tbo front and from that time on tho race was ma nlv between them and Chicago The Chicago team was on top in the last few days until a double defeat bv Kansas City in Tuesdav s ga ne pushed Tinker s men into second place In diana polls beating bU louis. Leading factors in the Ind anapol is ictorv wore the pitch ng of Falken berg and Kaiserhng tbe batt ng of ts team in general and the all around f laying of Benn e Kauff who leads he league in stolen bases and for the greater part of tho season has been leading batter |