 His absence obviously hurt the stability of the pitching staff, as when he returned in 1910 the Cubs won the pennant again, although the veteran club was unable to defeat the young Philadelphia Athletics in the Fall Classic.During that 1910 season, the club's star infielders, Tinkers, Evers, and Chance, gained even more national acclaim after turning a critical double play against the New York Giants in a July game.The trio was immortalized in Franklin P. Adams' poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", which first appeared in the July 18, 1910, edition of the "New York Evening Mail"