The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-16
FANS PLEASED.
Enjoyed the Weeks Series Of
Champion Baseball.
Stirred Upa Wonderful Amount.
Of Enthusiasm.
CROWDS WERE FAIR.
Giants We're Clad Throughout
With Natty Uniforms.
The Athletics Looked Like Men
From a Brush League.
WE'RE FAIR.

Cincinnati. Oct 1s.-T Fl. Murnane,
in a special from New York to the
Enquirer says:
Great is the national game! New
York and Philadelphia have talked
nothing but baseball for the last week.
Even the popular amateur game of
football was lost sight Of and horse
racing in New York was slimly at
tended,
The Giants and Athletics were fight
ing for the hOnors and a fine slice of
the gate money, while every lover of
the game was anxious for every bit
Of news and comment about the men
interested.
An army of skilled telegraph opera
tors clicked every move on the ball
field to all parts of the country the
instant it took place.
The leading writer's on the game
from all sections were there. Henry
Chadwick the veteran Of 80 years, the
historian Of the game, tanning with
Grandand Rice, the brilliant writer
from Atlanta, Ca.
dagnates and players came from so
organized baseball leagues, until at
least one-fourth of the immense at
tendance was made up of men who
were directly interested in the game at
one time or other.
A. G.. Bpaldlng, the most famous
player Of his day, now a millionaire
with his home in California, enjoyed
the first New York game at the Polo
grounds from a box seat alongside of
ET9SlQenC Bau Johnson, While John III,
Ward, the player who, in 1890, had the
old National League on the mat for
nearly the full count, sat in the front
row OF the press box commenting on
the great game that has added no new
plays for the last ten years, but has
perfected the old ones.
Crowd Was Fair.
The fairness Of the crowds was re-
markable and must be accounted for
on the ground that the friends of the
American and National leagues pulled
for the respective leagues in prefer
ence to the cities they represented.
Chief Bender, the Indian pitcher,
was cheered to the echo for his spIemd-
id work in the first game at the Polo
grounds. This could not have hap
pened in midsummer as the American
league sympathizer was conspicuous
by his absence.
In the Boston-Pittsburg series two
years ago the Boston club found few
admirers or Well-Wishers at the smoky
city until after they made it plain that
they were ball players of a superior
quality.
When the burgers thawed out. at
New York and Philadelphia. last week,
local enthusiasts had their favorite
leagues ana clubs.
The enthusiasm was not as great at
New York and Philadelphia as it was
at Boston and Chicago and this was
due perhaps to the conditions.
AS MattheWson had the game we'll in
hand in the first contest, Plank did in
the second game. To see the real eff
feet of a. bowling crowd on the players
you must have hitting-as they had in
the last half os the Boston ittsburg
series.
Boston was represented at the series
by at least 100 loyal rooters, mostly
American league sympathizers, but ball
fans always. It was a. part Of the
crowd that followed Boston to Balti-
more in '97 and Boston to Pittsburg two
years ago, and to New York last fall
and up to the present series was led
by brass band. No city has roOters
like Boston who have developed the
business and feel put out when they
are deprived Of a great privilege each
fan by a failure Of the Boston club to
be in the race.
Players Were Shut Out.
The national commission did its work
well
The only cut was the division of re-
ceipts, the players not being consid-
cred after the fourth game, although
they played hard every inch of the way
1T was John z. Brush or James A. Hart
who suggested the players be cut out
OF the financial end of the series after
the fourth game. This was a cold in
situation that the players might jockey
il they were allowed a piece Of the
money for the series. And right then
was where the ball players failed to
assert their rights and demand an even