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Brian C.Robert and Steve are correct. The Tigers beat the White Sox three games to one during Sept. 16-18, and then finished the season with eleven wins, three losses, and one tie to win the American League pennant by 1.5 games over the Philadelphia A's. (The A's went 8-5 with one tie over that stretch). The author of the postcard is predicting on the postcard's front a Tigers World Series win and a good show by pitcher Donovan, which gives it a nice World Series connection. On the back he's saying that if the Tigers don't win the AL pennant, he hopes the White Sox will. The White Sox finished 5.5 games behind the Tigers. Unfortunately for the sender, the Tigers lost the Series that year to the Cubs. Donovan had no wins and one loss in two complete games, pitched 21 innings with a 1.71 ERA, and gave up 17 hits and struck out 16 batters. The problem for Donovan and the Tigers is that they couldn't score runs; the Cubs scored 19 runs in the Series to the Tigers' six. Also, Steve is right that the sender is the one who numbered the players on the front and then identified them on the back. I've never seen all the players identified (or the dog 
) so for me it's a nice feature of the postcard.