The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-18
OURSPORTING LETTER,
The Lake City Jubilant Over
Its Victory.
OF THE NATIONAL GAME.
How Detroit was Beaten, and Ow
the DetrOiters Took Defeat Work
OF the League Teams.
Correspondence Of TEE HERALD

Correspondence OF TIE HERALD
CHICAGO, July l2.-Not since the
memorable games of last year
which decided the struggls for the pen
nant between the New York Giants and
the White Stockings have Chicagoans
witnessed so great an outpouring of
the people, and such grand ball playing
as thaD (which the series just closed be-
tween our own team and the Detroits
have afforded. The games and the in.
cidents attendant upon them can scar
cely remain other than memorable
events in the history of national pas
time, in that they have plainly shown
iast what amount OF reserve power the
White Stockings. as they are now or
ganized possess, as well as demenstrat-
ing to point that leaves no room for
argument from an opposing standpoint.
the fact that base ball is to-day more
firmly planted in the hearts of Ameri-
can people, and more worthy the name
of the national pastime of America
than is, or eyer has been, any other
form of field sport or outdoor amuse-
ment If there is any doubt in the
minds of any of your more proSaic and
advancement loving readers upon
this point see the following figures, fur
nished by President Spalding, and
showing the attendance at the games
OF the Boston and Detroit series both
of which were played last week, which
may at least cause them TO ponder.
Monday morning, 5000; afternoon,
5000; Tus sday, coo; Wednesday,
5000; Thursday, - 600; Friday. 800;
Saturday, 10.OOO Total. $1,000 people.
Boston played Monday morning and
afternoon, and yet Il will be seen, de-
spite the fact that Boston's drawing
powers are lessened this year because
OF its being losing club, that on that
day 2 total OF l3 0OJ persons were
present TO witness the game. Friday
was tbad day for the game, and it
rained heavily up to within an hour or
two OF the time play began, aud yet
600 people readily CHANGED the risk Of
! a ducking to enjoy their taste for the
pastime. a total OF 81 $50 people in at
| tendance during the week. Is there
any other form of outdoor amusement
| in tie civilized world to-day that can
make show ng against these hgureSI
As your readers doubtless know. lovers
of the game here and in Detroit have
been anticipating the series just played
with q de Of interest that
has not been known here this
season, aud oh, 1t Is safe
to saw, has never before been
experiences in Detroit in the history OF
that city as "a; eball town. When the
last series between the Two teams was
played there, Chicago went down IN
/ force, and with a huIrah that turned
the pretty little city upside down. One
/ delegation went down as self-announced
"Record Breakers, - in that Detroit had
not ost a game upon their HON
grounds up 10 that time this season,
and we had absolute confidence in the
/ ability of our boys to check that record
right then and there. Well, they did
/ it They lost the last two games OF
the series. it l. true, but they won the
game they wished most of all 10 win,
aud the Jubilee that was held in Detroit
tnat night surpassed any demOnstra-
! ton known before wit in the records Of
3 tie game, and Detroit's chagTin at 10 =
lirg the game which broke their record
was Keen indeed, but their victories in
] the two succeeding games imbued them
with new confidence, and soon the game
which they had lost began to be talked
/ of in Detroit as
Only a scratch victory, any way"
They wouldu have beaten US II
they had not have made those ground
rules"
What could any one expect of rs
with Bennett and Rowe, two of our
! best knocke out. II il hadn't have
been for those accidents We should have
won three straight"
Why our boys can play all around
/ Chicago. l never saw such cbump
PLAYING in my life as those fellows did
here"
Just wait until we go down to
Chicago. Wen give those fellows such
q licking as they never got before on
their home grounds or of of them"
These and other reassuring Teiiec-
lions were iadulged in by the Detr0iters,
/ and to do them justice il may be stated
there is little If any doubt but that they
were sincere in their estimate of their
clubs powers. The cnly trouble seems
TO have laid in the fact that the| either
over-estimated its own strength or els
possessed but faint idea OF how strong
I Chicago rea ~ was. For two weeks be
/ fore the series came OF, President
/ Marsh, of the Wolverine Club, and his
/ supporters were ulahluB dIAah GENE
/ to bring down upon Chicago q horde OF
/ Detroit enthusiasts that should, through
/ the very ardor OF their own enthusiasm,
have spurred their players on TO victory
were victory over the White Stockings,
practicable with any ball team in the
country to-day. They came with TIN
horns and reed whistles; they came
with cymbals and kszoos; they came
with tin ROSTERS and bunting, and they
went back with empty pocket-books,
| sad ensd lacss- ana 3 nainfnl reallza-