MAD BASEBALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 3

MAD BASEBALL

FINAL GAME IN HOTLY CONTESTED SERIES.

£1250 MATCH FEE

NEW YORK, October 10.

America) went baseball mud to-day, when tlio final and deciding 1 game of the world's series championship begin* between it New York (American League) team called the Yankees and a St. Louis (National League) team called the Cardinal*. The- Cardinals defeated! tho Yankees to-day by three runs to two, thus winning the championship.. , The series'was decided on tho best of .seven games, and the teams had! won .three each when play began. Sixty-live thousand 1 spectators came to seo the game, and a- quarter of a million moro crowded the streets in front of the newspaper offices, where tho play was reproduced! on largo boards, which were made like miniature baseball diamonds. There were similar .scenes in St. Louis and in every largo city in America and 1 Canada.

A description, of the game was broadcast throughout the country, and it is estimated that 15,000,000 people listened! in to an eye-witness' description from the field.

Each member of to-day's winning team of 25 players, including nine regular players audi all tho substitutes, will receive £1250, and! each member of the losing team will receive £B2l. These sums represent 35 per cent, of the receipts of tho first four games of tho world's series. Tho total receipts for the seven games of the series, includinjT to-day's- game, was £250,000. A GREAT HIT. " Balm " ltuth, the famous home run hitter of tho New. York team, made a sensational home run in. the third innings, driving the ball far into the right held seats, one of (he longest hits on record. The crowd was wildly enthusiastic, as the hit put New York ahead—l lo 0, but in the next innings New York's defence collapsed.

PLAYER'S AMBITION

CLAIMS £50,000 A YEAR

NEW YORK, October, 11

Tlie Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has requested Grover Cleveland Alexander, the famous St. Louis baseball player, to stand 1 as the Congressional candidate in the November election. They believe that hia name and tho great, skill he showed in the world's series baseball championship will will many votes for the Democrats. " Babe " Ruth, the famous New York baseball player, intends to demand £30,000 a. year next season from the New York Baseball Club, says the New York Evening Post," in consequence of the attraction he provides by home run hitting. His previous contract, which ended this season, was for £10,400 a year.