New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-07
THE GIANTS VICTORY.
divine precep,

m. r,;bune has maintained right along that
H., could do IT, We have repeatedly pointed
ont that the Giants were playing with the Bostons
in much the same way that cat amuses herself
with n mouse Still Boston couldn't see IL.
Indeed. the idea OF Boston winning has been so
nrenoserous that it has received no consideration
in NevYork at all. But the Boston club played
,velIin their hour of defeat we would not dis
uaraue their work. They were pluc1y, and
worked hard, and we extend to them our SYM
natbv. They can never realize how futile were
their eforts-what ap utterly forlorn hope they
led To them and TO many others IL will seem
that the Boston club being beaten by such an
insignificant margin, is, practically, Us good
club as New-YorlIs. Far from it, Had the
Bostons played twice as well as they did, still
tho Giants would have won. The Giants have
a great reserve power that Boston knows nothing
Of All the Giants wanted was to beat-tiere is
nothing piggish about that-lllle the poets Man,
the Giants want but little here below-a miss is
"a good as a mile. II Boston had won every
game during the season New-Yorl would have
done the same, and then have beaten Boston in
PLAYING of the tie.
But as we said, the Bostons are good players
of ball, and they deserved better fate than
befcll them, but il could not be otherwise They
were weak in various points. They could not
break the bat every time they struck the ball
like the Giants After they hit the ball it was
always found around in tho vicinity somewhere,
but to-day there are no end of balls batted
by the victorious Giants still shooting
away through space, beyond the influence
Of the earth's attraction, humping against
teors hurrying among the asteroids and coquet-
ting with the comets they switch their tails
and dodge around the sun. The Boston players
could not run halfway to base and then sit
down and slide the rest Of the distance like the
Giants. The Bostons could, perhaps, slide on
cellar door or down Bunker Hill, but they could
never overcome the resistance TO sliding offered
by background as could the Giants. When
Boston pitcher threw ball it was visible all the
way TO the catcher but when a Ncw-York pitcher
did the same thing the ball could not be followed
by the naked eye, and nobody ever knew where
it was till, with sharp report and little puff
of smoke, it struck in the catchers hands And
still in the light Of these wel-knOwn facts Bos-
ton seriously thought at one time that she could
win the pennant
To-day, in one Of the largest steel foundrieS Of
Pittsburg, score of men are busy pounding,
turning polishing and otherwise working with as
much care as was ever given TO a Toledo or DamaS-
Gus blade on certain solid bars Of the finest Steel
between three and four feet long, ana something
over two inches in diameter at the larger end
They have orders to make n hundred of these
Bats for the Giants next season, esteemed Bos-
ton. bats that won't break every time they strike
a ball.
So the great Baseball League race for 1889,
the closest and most exciting known in the his
tory Of the game is ended. New-Yorh won and
feels corrcspondingly happy but she does not
forget TO sympathizc with the defeated ones, and
especially Boston, which, at the end, found her
self so near and yet a considerable distance on
Of all