St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-05
WELL-EARNED TROPHY
The National Base Ball Pennant to Find
Resting Place in Chicago the
Coming Year.
Chicago's Giants and the st. Louis Asso-
citation Team to Play for the
Champion Cup.
History of the st. Paul Lacrosse Club
and Gossip About the Cana
dian Game.
Events of the Past Week and What
is to Take Place in the Near
Future.
Base BaIl Season Nearly Ended.


Last weeks feature in sporting circles
was the New York Chicago series, the re-
suit of which practically decided the cham
pionship in favor of Chicago. Never in the
history of base ball was there so much inter-
est taken IN series of games. The enthu
siasm was not merely at Chicago, but
it was national, the people of every city in
the United States taking interest in the re-
suit, and never before were four games wit
messed by so many people. Each day saw
from 10000 to II, 600 people on the Chi
cago base ball grounds. The clubs were led
to the grounds by brass bands, each band
striving to Outdo its rival in loudnesS of
music. Betting On the first two days was
even, but on the third New York sports
took a tumble and reformed, refusing to
back their club at any odds. On Friday the
clubs rested and for the Saturday game the
New Workers thought to run chances again,
and doubled their bets. They were sue
cessful in regaining much of what they had
lost. The day, however, was cold one
and there was very little good playing done,
the players fingers being so numb that it
was impossible to handle the ball properly.
Just before commencing the game of Sat-
urday Capt. Ward of the New York
f1lub produced handsome sill1en
bag of white. with a crimson
barsacross it inscribed New York to Chi
cago," and, handing it to Capt. Anson of the
Chicagos said: 1--WE came to Chicago
hoping and expecting to win this last series
of games but you have beaten us fairly and
by good ball playing, and therefore we have
no complaints to make. On the contrary,
as souvenir of the seasons struggle and as
an earnest expression of our friendly feeling
the New York club presents to the Chicago
club this flag" The crowd cheered and
Anson looked wistfully at first base, but
when he saw escape impossible responded
for his men in fitting terms.
Despite the loss of Saturdays game Chi
cago has to win but one game from the
Philadelphia club this week to clinch the
championship. But should New York win
four from the st. Louis team and Chicago
lose four to the Philadelphia club the two
clubs would be tied. and an extra game
would have to be played. But such result
of this weeks playing is not to be expected.
and the championship for 1885 is probably
settled. Philadelphia now holds third place
and Providence fourth. while there's a
fight between the Maroons and the Bisons
for tail end. After the season of the Ma
tional league and the American association
is over, which will be this week, series of
games will be played between the Chicagos
and the st. Louis Browns, champions of
the two organizations, to decide the suprem-
acy. A purse of 81, 200 is to be made by
equal contributions from the two clubs, and
the players of the CLUB winning a majority
Of the games in the series is to receive the
purse. The first game occurs in Chicago on
Oct. Is, and the second in st. Louis on
Oct. &c. In each Of these games the play
ers of the home team will be given the en-
tire gate receipts. Following is the record
II detail: