In 1887 the world's championship series had become an established supplementary series of contests, and in this year these contests excited more interest than had previously been manifested in regard to them, the demands made upon the two contesting teams--the Detroit champions of the League and the St. Louis champions of the American Association--for a game of the series from the large cities of the East and West being such as to lead the two clubs to extend the series to one of best out of fifteen games. These were played at St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, and Pittsburg in the W st, and at New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore in the East. The series began in St. Louis, and the eighth victory of the Detroits was won at Baltimore, St. Louis winning the last game of the series at St. Louis. The record of the fifteen games, showing the pitchers in each contest, is as follows: Date. |Contesting |Cities. |Pitchers. |Innings.|Score. |Clubs. | | | | -------+-------------+------------+--------------+--------+------ Oct. 10|St. Louis v. |St. Louis |Carruthers, | 9 | 6-1 | Detroit | |Getzein | | " 11|Detroit v. |St. Louis |Conway, Foutz | 9 | 5-3 | St. Louis | | | | " 12| " " " |Detroit |Getzein, | 13 | 2-1 | | |Carruthers | | " 13| " " " |Pittsburg |Baldwin, King | 9 | 8-0 " 14|St. Louis v. |Brooklyn |Carruthers, | 9 | 5-2 | Detroit | |Conway | | " 15|Detroit v. |New York |Getzein, Foutz| 9 | 9-0 | St. Louis | | | | " 17|" " " |Philadelphia|Baldwin, | 9 | 3-1 | | |Carruthers | | " 18| " " " |Boston |Baldwin, | 9 | 9-2 | | |Carruthers | | " 19| " " " |Philadelphia|Conway, King | 9 | 4-2 " 21|St. Louis v. |Washington |Carruthers, | 9 | 11-4 [1] | Detroit | |Getzein | | " 21|Detroit v. |Baltimore |Baldwin, Foutz| 9 | 13-3 [2] | St. Louis | | | | " 22|" " " |Baltimore |Baldwin, Foutz| 9 | 13-3 " 24|" " " |Detroit |Baldwin, | 9 | 6-3 | | |Carruthers | | " 25|" " " |Chicago |Getzein, King | 9 | 4-3 " 26|St. Louis v. |St. Louis |Carruthers, | 6 | 9-2 | Detroit | |Baldwin | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Footnote 1: A.M.] [Footnote 2: P.M.] THE SERIES OF 1888.