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Show AMERICAN LEAGUE HAS WON NINE OF FOURTEEN BIG SERIES SINCE 1905 Games Have Been So Close That Nationals Are Only Three Runs Behind on Combined Engagements; En-gagements; Boston Braves Only Club to Win Straight Victories, Without Loss or Tie; Eight Games Longest Set. CHICAGO, Sept. 25. Records of baseball base-ball world's series of past years show that, although the American league entries havo been victorious in nine, of the fourteen series, the games have been so closely contested that the National leaguers aro only three behind be-hind their younger opponents in tho number num-ber or runs scored and six In games won. So-called world scries were played as far back as 1SS4, but it was not until 1905 that the National commission tool: charge I of the series and promulgated rules gov-j gov-j erning it. Since that year the winning I clubs in each of the major leagues have f met in October in a seven-game series to decide the championship, although this year the series will be lengthened to nine games. During the past fourteen years, soven- Ity-eiglit games havo been played an average av-erage of five and a half per series including in-cluding two ties. In winning their nine series the American league teams have triumphed In forty-one games while the senior league entries have been on the long end of the score in thirty-five games in winning their five scries. In runs scored the Americans lead with 2ji3 against their opponent's 250. The shortest series of the twelve was that of 1914, when the Boston Nationals defeated the Philadelphia Americans in four straight games. The Chicago Nationals Na-tionals of 1907 also won four straight from the Detroit Americans, but this run was ! preceded by a tie game with the score standing 3 to 3 when darkness halted the play. The longest series was that of 1912, in which eight games were played with the Boston Americans winning four and the New York Nationals three, with one tie game thrown in for good measure. A complete record of the preceding fourteen series including the score of each of the seventy-eight games will be found in the acenmnq nvintr tn huln tinns 61 " 0 10 " 0 ' 8 0 1 I " 4 10 I " 8 0 1 Totals 28 1 Totall . .84 3 4 1010. PHILADELPHIA. CHICAGO. (Amerk-an League) I (Naiiouui League) Runs 4 t)atnes. 01 AL.NL. 121 Runs ... 1 1 0 SI " 3 10 71 " 5 10 I " 4 0 1 1 " 2 10 Totals 331 Totol ..15 4 1 1611. PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK. (American League) (National League) Ruus 1 Games. " S AL.NL. " 3 nuns ... 2 0 1 " 41 110 " 3 " 2 1 0 " 13( " .... 2 1 0 1 I " 4 0 1 I " .... 2 1 0 Totals 27 1 Totals ..13 4 2 1913. BOSTON. I NEW YORK. Runs . . 4 (National League) " G Games. " 1 AL.NL. " 3 Runs ... 3 1 0 " 2 " .... 0 " 2 " 2 0 1 " 41 110 " 31 " 1 1 0 I " .... 5 0 1 I " 11 0 1 I " 2 10 Total 25 Totals ..31 4 3 PHILADELPHIA. I NEW YORK. (American League) i (National Leuguo) Runs G Games. " 01 AL.NL. " S Runs .... 4 1 0 " 6 " 3 0 1 " 31 " .... 2 10 i " .... 5 1 0 1 " .... 1 1 0 Totals 231 Totals ..15 4 1 RECAPITULATION. SERIES. 1805. PHILADELPHIA I NEW YORK (American League) (National League) Runs 0! Games " 31 AL.NL. " 0 Runs ... 3 0 1 " 0 ' 0 10 " 0 " 9 0 1 1 " 10 1 I " .... 2 0 1 Totals . : 3i Totals .15 1 4 1906. CHICAGO. CHICAGO. (American League) (National League) Runs 2 Games 1 AL.NL. 3! Runs - 1 1 0 01 7 0 0 8 " 0 1 0 8 " 1 0 1 i " 0 10 " 3 10 Totals 221 Totals ..IS 4 2 1907. DETROIT. I CHICAGO. (American League) (National League) Runs 3 Games. 1 AL.NL. liRuns . ... 3 11 " 3 0 1 01 " .... 3 0 1 I " .... 0 0 1 I " .... 2 0 1 Totals 0! Totals ..19 0 4 1008. DETROIT. I CHICAGO. (American League) (National League) Runs C Games. 11 AL.NL. Si Runs ... 10 0 1 Oi " 0 0 1 0 " 3 10 I " 3 O I " .... 2 0 1 iota, PHILADELPHIA. I BOSTON. (American League) (National League) Runs II Gaines. " 0: AL.NL. " 4!ftims .... 7 0 1 " II " .... 1 0 1 I " 5 0 1 I " .... 3 0 1 Totals . ; 0 Totals ..16 0 4 ln5. BOSTON. I PHILADELPHIA Runs 1 (National League) " 21 Games. " AL.fL. " 2; Runs ... 3 0 1 " 51 " 110 I " 110 I " .... 1 10 J " 4 10 Totals 12 Totals ..10 4 1 BOSTON. BROOKLYN (American Leugue) (National League) Runs ft AL.'L. 2 Games. " 3 Runs ... 5 1 0 " 6 ' 1 1 0 " 4 " .... 4 0 1 1 " .... 2 1 0 I " 110 Totals 21l Totals ..13 .4 1 CHICAGO. NEW YORK. (American League) (Nnlional League) Runs 2! AL.NL. 7;Rnns ... 1 l 0 " 0 " 2 10 " 01 " .... 2 0 1 " 8! " .... 2 0 1 " 41 .... r, i o j " .... 2 10 Totals 211 Totals ..14 4 2 19'S. BOSTON. I CHICAGO (American League) (National League) Runs . . II Games. " l! AL.NL. " 2' Runs ... 0 1 0 Totals 151 Totals ..21 1 4 1909. DETROIT. I PITTSBURG. American League) I (National Lonpuo) Runs II Games. 71 AL.NL. GIRuns ... 4 0 1 Si " 2 1 fl 4J " 8 0 1 . .... a o l " 0! .... i i n " 2 " .... 2 10 1 " SOI ( " 110 Totals 9 Totals ..10 4 2 t RECAPIT- TJT.ATION. Series Series Games Games Gnmes Runs Opponents' Won. Lost. Won. Lost. Tied. Scored. Runs. American lencue . 9 5 -11 ;io 2 2.13 250 National lcartue ..5 9 3n 41 2 2oQ 253 SEE rE3. Total series Total games Total runs 14 7S 003 |
