Sy, "All the Honors Come To Chicago," Chicago Daily Tribune v. LXV, no. 239 (Sunday, October 7, 1906); Section II, p. A.
ALL THE HONORS COME TO CHICAGO
Nothing Worth Fighting For in the World of Baseball Allowed to Get Away by Local Clubs.
FORM A PENNANT TRUST
Take Flag in National for First Time in Twenty Years and in American for First Time Since 1902.
ESTABLISH OTHER RECORDS
Greatest Number of Victories in One Season, Highest Run of Successive Victories, and Biggest Winning Percentage.
[By Sy.]
Oct. 7,1906-All the honors worth winning in the most sensational, record breaking, and financially most successful season in baseball's history belong to Chicago, admittedly the greatest, most loyal, and enthusiastic baseball city in the world.
The National League pennant for the first time In twenty years, the American League pennant for the first time since 1902, and since that league forced universal recognition of its majority by including New York in its circuit, the world championship of 1906-these three which comprise the highest baseball prizes possible for any city to hold, are Chicago's beyond recall.
Such eagerly sought rewards would in themselves be sufficient to satisfy the most rapidly hungry fanatic. But Chicago has won more glory than that.
Other Records Made.
The world record for victories in one season, the highest run of successive victories in modem baseball, the highest winning percentage ever attained by a club since championship seasons reached anywhere near their present length, the greatest crowds that ever saw diamond battles anywhere-these are a few of the lesser honors which have come to Chicago along with all the bunting worth winning in this year of grace, 1906.
Add to these the possession of the greatest team that ever represented any city in the National League and the gamest, pluckiest team that ever won an American League pennant and the cup of joy runs over. Is it any wonder Chicago is baseball mad? Did any spot in the world over have a better right?
Pennant Trust.
Yet the list of Chicago's baseball laurels has not been exhausted -not nearly. For the first time in history a world championship will be fought and decided in one city by two champion teams representing the same city; for the first time since baseball’s birth the pennants of two major leagues will fly in the confines of one humanity, and the heroes, the winners of all these honors, are the most popular exponents of clean baseball and sportsmanship in America, which means the baseball world.
No club in the National League has won more or better friends, outside its own following, than the team led by Frank Chance, himself a firm believer in fair play and clean baseball. The victory of no other team in the old league would have been half as popular the country over as that of Chicago's Nationals. No club in the American League has won greater admiration nor more loyal supporters, not alone at home but wherever the tide of battle has taken them, than Fielder Jones and his White Stocking braves, who never have quit, no matter how ragged their ranks became, but fought the harder as their task grew more difficult, always cleanly and in the true sportsman s way. The victory of no other American league club would have aroused greater enthusiasm, or bear [?] with more general delight.
No Slur on the Victories.
In all its madness of joy, Chicago is proud of its two clubs, the greatest two that ever met on a diamond, and proud of the way they have won their honors, without blot or shadow, without a chance for any to cast a slur, without leaving defeated opponents an excuse or complaint that they were not beaten honestly and squarely by greater merit, superior skill, and indomitable gameness.
Today, on the eve of what promises to be the greatest World Series ever played, all Chicago has buried and forgotten, for the time, its likes and its prejudices. The outcome of the battle for the highest baseball title known is being discussed eagerly and earnestly. Tomorrow or next day it will be different. The battle will be on and the old rivalry will rage with greater spirit and bitterness than ever. But today there is nothing but gladness and good fellowship-and wishes that the best team may win.
