Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — CUBS ARE CHAMPIONS [ARTICLE]

CUBS ARE CHAMPIONS

WIN DECIDING FAME BY SCORE OF 2 TO 0, ». - * t. Chicago National League Leader* Win HiftheKt Honor When They Shut Out Detroit Team—Change’s Men Make Clean Sweep. ' ifHiicagb’s world’s champions as well as twice champions, and for the first time in baseball history the big pennant, symbolic of everything that is best in the nation’s great-est-sport, will float over Chicago’s National League ball park next season. For thenisetvee world lieaters lieyoud all possibility or mischance in Detroit by winning their fourth straight victory over Detroit’s American League champions. The score whs 2 to 0, and that puts four knots in the Tiger’s tail that never will come out, besides drawing the claws from all four of the wild beast’s paws. -. , . Never before has a team gone through a world's series without losing a game. The Giants came nearest to it in 1905, when , they lost only one battle in five with the Athletics. Never before has a Chicago National League club won a world’s championship. The nearest the Tigers came to a victory was in the opening clash, when they stood off the world beaters for a twelveinning tie. Eye* -of AH on Toa-ma, When they went into the arena, Tiger and Cub, the eyes of 80,000.000 people In the United States were upon them. Besides the sport-loving people of other countries were watehTng the outcome of the combat which was to decide the supremacy of the greatest sport in the pastime of nations. Confronted in the Chicago ball park by more than 23,000 persons, the Cubs and Tigers met in the first game. It was a Titanic struggle. Both soughs wi th all the courage and determination that they possessed. The Cubs had ~Been once beaten in arsttuggle for the world’s supremacy, and it is seldom that either a whipped man or beast comes back to resume combat with a rush and determination which will carry them to victory. I The Tigers were growling savagely and were openly charging that the I Cubs, magnificent baseball team as they ■were, did not have the courage and stamina to carry them through a grueling cont^Trdfehffmprongfilp hohois. The Cubs growled their defiance and the first battle was on. It was a magnificent struggle and ended in a tie game. This is the best that, the Tigers got during the entire series. Four in Row for Cuba. The next four games went to the Cubs, who would not be denied. They simply played with Jennings’ dreaded menagerie. They cuffed and kicked them about as they pleased. They outran them on the bases. They outthought them. They outhit them, and they played in such a whirlwind fashion that the Tigers were utterly bewildered and forced to admit that they could not stand the onslaught. It is seldom that a team is beaten in such a decisive manner as Hugh Jennings’ Tigers were. While the Cubs have won the championship of the world, Jennings should not be robbed of the credit which Is due him. He took a team which was only a fair team before his advent and made it a contender for world’s honors. Chance did the same thing with his team. He traded and strengthened them up until thej- were the best in the National League. He tried for world’s honors, as has Jennings, and lost. Nothing dismayed him and he tried again, and now’ has won. There is hope for Jennings, because his career follows that of his younger rival Chance.