Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-26
BALnIMoREs AREcHAMPIoNs
Yesterdays Defeat Of Cleveland Gave Them
the Fe ,nanto
Scenes I'm the Forest City After the
Victory Description of
the Bunting.

crazy
over the success Of the Orioles is indicated
by the staid Sun hoisting four-column
pennant at the top of it's sporting columns
as much as by anything else. The Sun
remarks that the scores of games others
than those played by New York and Balti-
more this week will not hereafter be print
ed in that paper. Yesterdays victory over
Cleveland assured Baltimore the champion
ship.
The Sun gives picture Of the pennant
which the Orioles will fly from now until
the close of next year, as a token of the
championship 1t has won.
The design was accepted yesterday by
Treasurer Vonderhorst and today he will
order the flag to be made.
The National League constitution requires
the pennant to be solely Of the United
States colors, and for this reason the Ofiole
colors were not used as Treasurer Wonder
horst desired.
The pennant is designed to be twenty-five
feet long and five feet wide at the mast
The head of the flag will be of solid blue
color, with the words champion Base Ball
Club of the United States" In white letters
These words are required by the constitu-
ton 20 be used with the name Of the club
and the year in which the championship
was won.
The pennant will have a broad border of
red, indicated by the gray tint on the pic
ture. and the inscription Baltimore. 1884,"
will be in large red characters on a white
field.
Scenes at Cleveland.
A special dispatc TO the Sun from Cleve-
land says:
The Baltimores are champions Of the
United States.
By their victory over the Clevelands this
afternoon they left the New York club
hopelessly behind, and nothing can now de-
prive Manager Hanlon and his great club
of the honors which they have honestly
won and which they so justly deserve.
AS soon as the game was over the Balti-
more players let loose yell fashioned after
the way in from the grounds they flung
the slogan upon the crisp and almost wintry
air. 1t ran like this:
Are we i'm it?
Yes we are.
Baltimore, Baltimore.
Rail- 'Rah! 'Rahr
The success of Hanlons men was proved
to be a popular one by the crowd of travel
ers from all over the country that gather I'd
on the sidewalk of the Holenlen Hotel to
greet them when they arrived from the
scene of conflict. 1t was well known among
them that Baltimore victory nIeent the
championship for the monumental city, and
grand hurrah went up as the best ball
team in the land drove up in their car
riages. Men from New York, Boston, Cleve-
land and other league cities rushed up to
them and wrung their hands, and New
Workers who had seen the games here were
loudest in their congratulations. assuring
the men that they did not approve OF the
methods which have recently been adopted
to belittle Baltimore's honest triumph. This
crowd of congratulated rit was aimCSt a
mob-hustled the boys into. the hotel CORR
doris and there. lined up before the counter.
they sang a song written by the clubs poet
laureate, Maj A. X. Fulton, who Joined the
boys in Macon, Ga, last March, and who
has stuck steadfastly to them and rooted
assiduously ever since. ms
Then Joe Kelly shoutedI
what will we do to the Giantse'
And all hands in a rousfng chorus gave
their awful war cry:
Get at en- ,n.d
Hanlon, during this demonstra ton. stood
by silent, but blushing and smiling, and his
bushes did not diminish jot when one OF
the boys cried:
What's the matter with Hanlon?'
And with roar that shook the hotel
calne back the answer:
He's all right"
Three cheers and three times three were
given by the players for the premier man.
ager of the league, and when The lads
finally decided to go to their rooms and Don
their everyday clothes there was not a
soul in the house who did not know that the
champions of the United States We're among
them.
Tonight the entire Baltimore club occu-
pied the boxes at the performance of "A
Temperance Town" at the Euclid Avenue
Opera House. Flowers were presented ia
all the ladies of the company by the club,
and Manager Hanlon was In turn given a
men of the cast. Manager Hanlon replied
in neat speech, and the house, at the sug-
gestion of the performers, gave three cheers
for THE Champions of 1884,