Show h ekeh W 0 r I 1 t a r I 1 L aeh AS aa V 6 ak V N U I 1 7 bv ELMO SCOTT WATSON ill HE birly early poets used to slog sing of october and its nut brown ale one american poet made famous octobers bright blue weather h f but to mr air average amerl can citizen october so much a h a matter of color schemes his tr cl interest n tin in it Is of an entirely diff different eri r sort for now comes ahe the t time me when the attention of a whole nation Is concentrated upon the dally daily athletic activities of approximately eighteen men in two of the leading cities of the country in those cities thirty or forty thousand people fight for a chance to see the eighteen perform the performance Is youve guessed it of course the world series not that interest in the contests to determine who shall be named baseball champions of the world Is confined to the thirty or forty thousand thou in the two cities which are lucky enough to be the scene of the performances wherever the telegraph the telephone and radio operates and that means in every one of the 48 49 states in the union plus a territory or two and a few other possessions find mr average american citizen standing in front of an electric scoreboard in the afternoon during one or all of the five to seven days during which the performance lasts or ringing up a newspaper office on the telephone or calling across to hla his neighbor well who won today so the cartoonist who cabled his cartoon all of Us spoke laconically and truthfully of what the world series means to america at this writing it Is not yet known what two cities will be the scene of the 1920 1026 world series the national league Is seeing a stirring finish with the pittsburgh st louis and cincinnati teams battling desperately tor for the honors the citizenry of the pennsylvania steel metropolis saw r team lose the title to the boston red sox in 1903 win it from the detroit tigers in 1909 1900 and they want to keep the banner which they won last year from the washington senators cincinnatus Cincin natis reds have been crowned only once in 1919 1910 and some of the sweetness of their victory was wag soured by the famous black sox scandal st louis fans enjoyed a world horld title tour four years straight back in the eighties when comiskey browns of the old Amt american rican association won it for them but since that time neither the browns of the amerlean american nor the cardinals of the national have even won the flag in their respective spec tive leagues so that they could battle tor for baseballs highest honor so the 1920 1026 title may be fought for in the national league park of any of the three cities pittsburgh cincinnati or st louis new york probably will be the other battleground for the new york amerl americans otherwise known as the yanks seem to have the american league pennant nailed to their flagpole barring an unforeseen and almost unbelievable lie vable upset this team which won tho the worlds championship in 1 1023 by defeating their fellow townsmen mr McG mcgrawsr mcgraws raws giants of the national league four games to two will again be a title seeker interest in this years world serle series inevitably recalls championship games game of other years but it Is doubtful it the oldest of the old fans can recall the days when the antles of brooklyn and the athletics of ALL OF US cartoon by al G kettner 17 14 1 A 4 BASEBALL AS IT WAS 60 YEARS AGO the second championship gime game between the Ati antics of brooklyn and the athletics of philadelphia in 1866 from an old print in the possession of T H murnane reproduced in annals of american sport in the pageant of america courtesy yale university press no it one of connie macks teams 1 were fighting for the championship pion plon ship away back in take a look at the picture of the second game in that series which 11 illustrates lu this article and see if 1 you can visualize isu alize the 1920 1926 world series in terms of a championship contest cow test of CO 00 years ago notice particularly the underhand delivery of the pitcher the bare barehanded banded catcher standing at such a respectful distance back of the butter batter the wide swing which that gentleman Is taking at the ball and the basemen frozen to the bags notice the cam calm individual sitting in the chair near the first base line just in the foreground of the batter the one with his feet on the box that Is the umpire can you imagine hank oday or billy evans officiating in a world series game thus notice too the crowd probably as many as people it la Is doubtful if any of them stood in line all night to get first chance at the best seats as Is the custom nowadays but they saw lots of baseball in those days heres proof of that statement this particular game ended with a score of 33 to 33 and it was called at the end of the seventh inning on account of dark darkness 1 even it if the oldest fan cant recall this classic contest lie he may bo be able to remember the world series of a little later date 1888 when the st louis BroN branns ns tour four times winners of the american association pennant defeated the new york giants of the national league for the then fourth consecutive championship of the world but the world series did not become a national institution until the turn of the century the national league has been in existence since 1876 and the american since 1000 1900 the custom of having the champions in each league meet at the end of the senon season I 1 to determine the worlds championship began in 1903 there was no world series in 1901 1904 1 but in 1005 it was resumed and lias has continued uninterruptedly since that time if your mind needs refreshing as to who won the world series in what year heres the information year team won tie tl 1903 boston americans 6 pittsburgh nationals 1 2 1905 1906 now york nationals 4 philadelphia americans americana 1 year tear team won tie tl 1006 1906 chicago americans americana 4 chicago nationals 2 1907 chicago nationals 4 1 detroit americans americana 0 1 1908 chicago nationals 4 detroit americans americana I 1 1909 Pitta pittsburgh burgh nationals 4 detroit americans il a 1910 philadelphia americans 4 chicago Chi carro nationals national a 1 1911 ph philadelphia I 1 ladelphia americans 4 now new york nationals I 1 1912 boston americans 4 1 new york nationals 2 1 1913 philadelphia americans 4 now new york nationals 1 1914 boston nationals 4 philadelphia americans 0 1915 1916 boston americans 4 philadelphia nationals I 1 1916 boston americans 4 brooklyn nationals I 1 1917 chicago americans americana 4 2 new ew york nationals 2 3 1918 boston americans 4 chicago nationals 2 1919 cincinnati nationals 6 chicago americans 3 1920 Cl cleveland oveland americans 6 brooklyn nationals 2 1921 new york nationals 6 new york americans a 8 1922 nw new york nationals 1 N new w york americans 0 1923 new york americans 4 N new w york nationals 3 2 1921 1924 washington americans 4 now new york k nationals 8 1925 Fitta pittsburgh burgh nationals 4 1 washington americans some indication of the importance of the world series in Amer amerteen teun life la Is shown by the attendance records during the last 20 years and the I 1 amount of money that has been spent by the american people to see these games heres the record see for yourself how the world series takes its rank as a big affair in the financial as well as in the sport sense year attendance 1906 9 1906 19 1907 07 1908 0 1 23 2 5 28 1909 1 5 07 1910 1911 1 1 it 1 1913 1 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 11 1918 S 1919 1920 1921 1922 1922 1923 1 1934 4 1025 I 1 |