Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-15

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Frank Chances worlds champion
Cubs won their third successive Ma
tiOnal League pennant Thursday after
noon by defeating the terrible Giants
by the score of to > in a special play
off game ordered by the board of di-
rectors. In the presence of 10000 hos
tile, jeering. partisan New York spec
tatOrs the baseball machine from Chi
cago moved down the team that had
fought bitterly all the season until the
two teams were tied at the end. From
the manner in which the Cubs played
and simply outclassed the Giants from
start to finish, with the exception of
brief time in the first inning, one Won
dered how New York ever got a tie
with the Westerners.
In the presence of a record breaking
crowd which swamped the grounds and
left many thousands outside long be-
fore the game began, a game was play
ed in deadly earneSt-straight base
ball with no frills-tO settle as tensely
dramatic d situation as the most ar
dent lover of sport could imagine. The
game was played in the cheerful sun
shine of an ideal baseball day before
a vast cOncOurse Of people, who carried
with them to the Polo grounds the
pent up enthusiasm, hopes, and fears
accumulated day by day in the closing
weeks of a seasons fight for a Nation
al League pennant which had been alb
solutely unprecedented for constantly
intenSifying interest and uncertainty.
Cubs Hooted and Mobbed.
1t was the widest day in the history
of baseball. The greatest crowd ever
known in the annals OF the national
game began gathering long before dawn,
and. although $4,000 squeezed inside the
gates. twice that number were turned
away, and doubtless there were 10000
fans viewing the game from the bluffs
behind the grand stand, the 81" Struct-
ure viaduct, speedway, roofs, trees and
overhanging cliffs. One man lost his life
and the police carried away seven men
who went stark mad at the entrance to
the grounds when they were refused
admission, though holding tickets for
the game
And Chicago, by the most sensational
ball-playing, snatched the flag away
from the Giants and left the field
three-time winners of the National
League championship. The Cubs WOE
like sportsmen and gentlemen. They
faced the most perilOus situation in that
mighty thrOng that any band of ath
letes ever faced. They were cruelty
hoOted and Missed when they came upon
the field and were foully dealt with
by the New York ball club, which sue
ceeded in depriving the Cubs of their
batting practice before the game.
Such hitting as the Cubs did in that
all-important onslaught against Math-
ewson in the third inning! Four ire
mendous smashes were made by Tinker
King. Schultz and Chance. and they
yielded all the four runs the conquer
ors secured.
That rally was a round of terror to
the New York fans, who seemed so hos
tile in their demand for a New York
victory that they were almost imperil-
ing the life and limb of the Chicago
players. And so deep did the gaff sink
into the hides of the bitterly partisan
fans, who banked everything on Math-
ewSOn, that when it was all over the
Cubs narrowly escaped with their lives.
Unable to lay out any of the Cubs
before they reached their dressing
| rooms, several hundred violent fans
tried to smash the barriers separating
| them from the Chicago dressing-rooms
They beat several policemen. who final
ly had to back up against the fence with
drawn revolverS to prevent the Cubs
being attacked in their own dressing
rooms.
Manager Chance and his champion
team sought less hostile quarters as
soon as possible, and left for Detroit on
the first train to engage in the struggle
for the worlds championship with
Manager Jennings Tigers At dusk the
great New York multitude departed the
historic inclosure-hl.sLgu and disap-
D0infpl