The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-17
THF WHITES WIN !!
The Championship Pennant
Won by the ChicagOs.
A RESUME OF THE STRUGGLE.
The Coming Contest for the Cham.
pionship of the World "A Very
Interesting Letter.
Special cOrrespOndence ofTHE HERALD.

CHICAGO, October II, 1886.
Certainly no pennant race in the his
tory of the National League has caused
the friends of the two leading clubs in
the struggle q greater degree of anxiety
has to so great sn extent filed hearts
with fear on one side and hope on the
other: has caused more intense interest
and aroused more excl .ement than that
which closed with the week Just passed.
And now that the prolonged fight of
six months and more is over; now that
it has been decided that the pennant of
1886 shall cast its shadow across the dia-
mond at White Stocking Park when the
opening game IN the season. of 1887
is called, feeling of relief and salts
faction at the teams good work has
settled down upon the baseball loving
community in Chicago-and that means
no inconsidersble portion of our big
city's popUlation-While a feeling of
resignation has found its way into the
souls Of betroiters, softened by the con-
seriousness that the Wolverines need
not blush for their game, although it
has not been a winning one. Detroit
has played tood ball {; the kind
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game love TO see, and had they gone
against any other team than the Phil
lies last Saturday for their last two
games of the season, the chances are
that the penant might have still been
anybody's flag, even though Chicago
had won her game with Boston as she
did, for under the league constitution
Detroit would have been privileged to
play other postponed game with Bos-
ton on Monday, October II, and il
would have counted as a championship
game. Had Detroit won the three
games she would have tied the race for
the peDnant even though Chicago had
won with Boston, and had Chicago lost,
Detroit would have taken the flag.
With this knowledge for reflection you
can well imagine that the returns of
the first game at Philadelphia were be-
ing received Detroit and Philadelphia
played a postponed as well as sche-
duled game Saturday afternoOn), was at
fever heat.
When the last inning in the first game
had been played, and it was known that
Detroit had been defeated, our watch
ers felt easier in mind, but still not con-
hdent; as there was yet remaining the
possibility of tie. Soon the reports of
the second game began to come, as also
the reports of Chicago's game with Bos-
ton, and then it was that such scenes
took place about the "tickers" in the
big hotels. the telegraph offices, and at
the various sporting resorts about town
as I do not think lovers of the game
have ever witnessed here before. Men
crowded and elbOwed and jOstled each
other in their desperate attempts to get
q look at the little strip of paper that
unrolled itself as the instrument clicked
out the result of each innings, and fin
ally, when the last inning had been
played and the result announced, max
ing Chicago the unquestiOned winner of
the pennant, the big crowds yelled
themselves hoarse in their excitement.
The news was posted upon the bulletin
boards of the big daily papers, and side
by side upon the big plate glass win 4
dows of the EUenjng Journal Office ap-1
peared the two announcements:
''JUDGE GARY REFUSES To ALLOW THE
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL, AND THE
SEVEN CONVICTED ANARCHISTS MUST
HANG DEC. 3.
and Chicago wins the League pennant
of 1898