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Show Americans Have Won Six Series By Internationa! News Service. I NKW YORK, Oct. 2. The' world's j scries of 1916, the twelfth under j the auspices of the national base- i ball commission, finds the American Ameri-can league leading in the race for premier baseball honors by the narrow margin of one series, so that a victory by the National league representatives would tie the standing at six series all (;.lng hack to 1905, when the New York .'Nationals defeated t lie Philadelphia Athletes Ath-letes lour games to one in a series in which every game was a shut-out, the American league standard-bearers have -.von six series and the Nationals five. Although outplayed in the series to date, the National league teams have won more games and scored more runs than their American league rivals, when the eleven series are considered as a whole. From 1005 through 1015 the two pennant winners of the major leagues have met annually in a series of world's championship games, the winner of the title to be the team which first wins four games out of the seven yearly scheduled. Up to the present time but one team has won four games straight, the holders of this unique record being tiie Boston Nationals of 1014. which defeated the Philadelphia Athletics four times in a row and thus brought about the Wreaking up of what many consider to be the greatest baseball machine in t he history of the game. Tho New York Nationals and the. Boston Americans figured in the longest scries when they played eight games in 1012. Boston winning four, New York three and one game being a tie. In 1907 the Chicago Nationals defeated the Detroit De-troit Americans four games straight, but the scries consisted of five games, the first being a tie at 3 to 3, when darkness halted halt-ed the play. Comparing the work of the teams in ! the eleven series to date, it will be found : that sixty-one games have been played, of which the National league clubs have i won thirty, the Americans twenty-nine, j with two games tied. Tiie total number; of runs scored in these sixty-one games j amount to 412, of which the National I i league te.ama have accounted for 210 ami Hie Americans 2(12. The averages for the series are as follows: Games per series. 5 li-11; runs per series, 27 6-11;" runs per game, 6i. For the National league. 160 players have participated in the contests, to 159 for the junior league. The least number employed was in the 1905 series, when the Athletics used twelve and the Giants eleven. In 1912 and 1915 a total of thirty-four thirty-four took part, each contender in those years putting seventeen on the field. The 1905 series also holds the record for the least number of runs scored, the total for the five games being but eighteen. The greatest number of runs made came in the play between the Pittsburg Nationals and the Detroit Americans, the two teams collecting a total of sixty-two runs In seven games. A complete record of the games won and lost, together with runs scored, will be found in the appended compilations: 1905. Philadelphia (A. I,.) New York (N. U) Games. Runs. Runs. A. U N. L. o n o i 3 0 10 0 9 0 1 0 10 1 .0 2 0 1 Totals ..3 15 1 4 1906. Chicago (A. L.) Chicago (N. U) Games. Runs. Runs. A. I,. N. Ij. 2 1 I 0 1 7 0 1 3 0 10 0 10 1 S 6 1. 0 5 3 10 Totals ..22 IS 4 2 1907. Detroit (A. Chicago (N. D.) Games. Runs. Runs. A. L. N. L. 3 3 1 3 0 1 1 5 0 1 1 fi 0 1 0 2 0 1 Totals ..' 6 19 0 4 1908. Detroit (A. I,.) Chicago (X. I,.) Games. Runs. Runs. A. 7. N. L. 6 10 0 J 1 fi 0 1 5 3 1 (I 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 Totals ..15 21 1 4 1909. Detroit (A. L.) Pittsburg (N. Games. Runs. Runs. A. I.. N. U 1 4 0 1 7 2 10 6 S 0 1 5 0 10 4 S01 5 4 1 cl 0 S01 Totals ,.2S 34 3 4 1910. Philadelphia (A. L.) Chicago (N. L,.) Games. Runs. Runs. A. U N. b. J 1 0 9 3 10 1- 5 10 3 4 0 1 7 2 10 Totals ..35 15 4 1311. Philadelphia (A. L.) Now York (N. L.) Games. Runs. Runs. A. 1,. N. I. J 2 0 1 3 1 1 0 3 2 10 2 10 3 4 0 1 13 2 10 Totals ..27 13 4 2 1912. Boston (A. L,. ) New York (N". L.) Gaines. Runs. Runs. A. U N. I.,. 3 10 6 1 2 0 1 3 110 2 110 2 5 0 1 4 11 0 1 3 2 1 0 Totals ..25 31 4 3 1913. Philadelphia (A. L.) New York fN. T,.) Games. Runs. Runs. A. T,. N. L. fi 4 10 0 3 0 1 s : i o fi 5 10 3 110 Totals ..23 15 4 l 1914. Philadelphia (A. L.) Boston (N. I,) Games. Runs. Runs. A. U N. I,.t 1 7 0 1 0 10 1 4 5 0 1 1 3 0,1 Totals ..6 is o 4 1915. Boston (A. L,. ) Philadelphia (X. I,.) Games. Runs. Runs. A. I,. N. I,. 1 :i o 1 2 110 2 110 2 110 3 4 10 Totals ..12 10 4 i RECAPITULATION. American league Series won. fi: series lost. 5; games won, 29: games lost. 30; games tied, 2: runs scored, 202; opponents' oppo-nents' runs. 210. National league Series won, 5; series lost, ti; games won. .10; grimes lost. 29: games tic-d. 2: runs scored, 210; opponents' oppo-nents' runs, 202. S,-ri Total series, 11; total games, 61 : total runs, 412. |