| Show IL w The Season In Review The baseball season of 1905 will go down Into history as the most prosperous prosper-ous season ever enjoyed by organized baseball The attendance at both National and American League games this season has Increased wonderfully probably 20 per cent around tho entire circuit and out of the sixteen clubs not moro than three will bo losers financially Prosperity has attacked the game again and tho magnates aro gleaning rich harvests after many lean ears The season has been one of surprises sur-prises and upsets In the American league astonishing reversals of form I and yet In the National the teams have run pretty close to their true ability abil-ity except Cincinnati The American has outdrawn tho National and strengthened Its position although tho quality of ball In that league and In the National has improved with the exception of tho three dead clubs that the league was forced to carry through tho year This partly is because the old stars of the American are getting older and because the youngsters that were picked up by the National at the tlmo tho American raided them and carried off their stars are Improving Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly the fact that the National league race has been one sided from the start and that almost every team In the American has held the lead at times or been within striking distance has made the Interest keener and the brilliant finish of Chicago has aroused interest all through the circuit The three notable disappointments In the American league wero Boston New York and Cleveland These three great clubs have failed to play great BIG LEAGUE PILOTS WHO HAVE STEERED THEIR TEAMS TO VICTORY VIC-TORY IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1905 s rs Pi l 4k I ff y r JQhV 7iCUIY CQlZf 4 r wwwww ball and they were beaten out by Philadelphia Phil-adelphia and Chicago two inferior teams that played superior ball Boston on paper the best team of the lot got away bad suffered defeat and humiliation at the hands of Washington Wash-ington then making its sensational bid for too pennant never fully rallied Late in August tho team started a wild rush toward the lead The players play-ers who had allowed themselves to become fat and lazy while brooding over their tough luck suddenly saw a chanco and for two weeks made a strong bid then they struck Chicago fell six times in three days and crumpled crum-pled up never to rally again Now York off bad and handicapped by bad pitching and by Elberfiolds sickness was making Its run at the same time as Boston but Grits men also were crumpled up in the West and never rallied Washington after a sensational start dropped back to Its true form For a bunch of minor leaguers It made a good showing and got out of last place i which was as much as could be hoped for Philadelphia really played the most consistent ball in the league Wad dells wonderful pitching kept the team up close to the lead All the team and Macks veterans played steady If not brilliant ball When pressed at the finish they seemed to quit but Bender and Plank by wonde ful pitching saved them and they held their scant advantage to the finish Tho victory of Philadelphia really Is a victory for Connie Mack Just as Jones and Comlskey deserve the credit for Chicagos remarkable showing Comlskey had just an average team and It suffered from sickness Injuries and two breaks on the part of players It played consistently except In two series and during those two series it threw away a pennant that should havo been easy for It Then when hope seemed dead It started away on tho most wonderful tour In tho history of baseball Almost six games behind and with all Its games to play on the road tho team waded through Its rivals clear to Philadelphia and arrived them within half a game of tho lead Luck defeated them In tho first game and after that the chances wero slim Philadelphia Inspired by new courage cour-age refused to lose and Chicagos task grew harder and harder until hopo died last Thursday Cleveland really was the worst disappointment dis-appointment of the season It came homo from a victorious trip through the East leading tho league then went all to pieces Lajolos Injury and tho sickness of Bradley coming at once killed its chances and It went steadily from bad to worse Detroit showed vastly Improved form and played at a steady gait almost all year and this coupled with tho reverses of stronger teams puttho Tigers Into tbo honorable honor-able mention class St Louis was a consistent last the team getting weaker weak-er In every way Yet it was St Louis and Detroit that knocked down the leaders Detroit killed Chicagos glorious glori-ous chance by driving home four defeats de-feats In two days and then walloped Philadelphia to help out Chicago but not quite hard enough Tho Nattlonnl league clubs havo run close to their true form the only serious seri-ous disappointment being Cincinnati That team which looked strong In the spring was wrecked by bad management manage-ment and played wretchedly New York given a running start by Unfavorable Un-favorable schedule which enabled It to play at homo against weak teams I for tho first few weeks of tho race took the lead and never was beaded Plttsburg mado the only serious bid and that late lu September The Pirates Pir-ates had a chance then as the other Western teams wero busy whipping New York and for a tlmo New York was badly scared But when the pinch came the Pirates proved that they were not as good a ball team as Mc Graws and they lost for themselves Chicago was looked upon In tho spring as a strong pennant probability especially by those who know of tho troubles In the New York team which threatened to disrupt Chicago drew a bad schedule and got away bad bo Ing handicapped by the Injury which kept Capt Chanco out of the gamo for the first month Afterward tho sickness sick-ness of Selco affected the team but It I closed strong and brilliantly showing good form Hughle Duffy made Philadelphia strong this season developing a lot ol talent down that way and he hold hi team up In the fight all the way Ill made the team practically from nothing noth-ing and closed the season looking like a dangerous factor for next year If he can develop any more strength St Louis Brooklyn and Boston arc unworthy of mention Ono of the remarkable features ol the season was the dearth of good ballplayers ball-players among tho newcomers The Chicago Nationals seemed to develop about all tho now stars that were found In Reulbach Schulte and Hof man Duffy found Doolin a wonder al short or Doolin rather found himself Few others of tho newcomers eel give any signs of promise KIT I League to Be Reorganized The Kitty League will bo rcorgan ized with many now towns next season sea-son If the plans of tho officers ant stockholders aro carried Into effect At a meeting of the officials anc stockholders of the Kitty League held recently at Vlncennes It was decided de-cided to reorganize the league and in elude tho cities of East St Louis Jacksonville Mattoon Marlon uric Cairo 111 Vlncennes hid and Paducah Padu-cah Ky It Is also proposed Urn Evansville and Terro Haute Ind b < added In the event the Centra League Is rearranged and ono of the other cities bo left out of the organl zatlon Condensed Dispatches Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati U angry because tho SteInfeldt deal foi elmer leaked out and threatens tc call tho whole thing off According to a Kansas City dls patch Arthur Irwin is to bo deposed from tho management of tho Kansas City club According to St Paul advices tanager tan-ager MIke Kelly will not manage To lodo next year as was reported but Minneapolis President Ebbetts of Brooklyn emphatically em-phatically denies tho story of a rupture rup-ture betwen himself and Manager Ilanlon and says Hanlon will make Brooklyn again a pennant winner In 1906 or 1907 At Beltzhoovcr day at Exposition Park Plttsburg Oct 7 Hans Lobort now with Chicago and Otto Knabe drafted from Pueblo were presented with gold watches by admiring frlerds Both boys aro graduates of tho Beltzhoover team |
