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Vol. VI, No. 4.
Sox. This film met with such success that it had a continuous run in all parts of the country and all over the world for nearly a year. The 1909 series film showed the pennant games between the Detroit Tigers and Pittsburg Pirates. Several months after its release the film was shown in Australia and the Philippine Islands. Last year's game was between the Chicago Cubs and the Athletics.
It is safe to state that the Essanay Company is the foremost maker of sporting films. During each summer a baseball comedy is issued. The first one was released
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under the title of "The Baseball Fan," the second, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame," and the third, made this last spring, "The Baseball Star From Bingville." Besides these comedies and straight series films the Essanay made a picture during Taft's visit to Chicago in 1909, showing Taft at the ball game. This last named film has been shown this fall in several of the towns visited by Taft on his last trip.
Apart from baseball the Essanay Company have other great sporting films to their record. The Indianapolis Motor Races, last spring, is among the most important.
The Essanay Company, now working in New York and Philadelphia, has five cameras covering the series games and it is safe to state that not an important play or any item of interest will escape them.
It was first announced that the picture would be released Thursday, October 26* but this date has been changed to the day preceding it: There will be no state rights for the' film sold and every licensed exhibitor will