Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-09
THIRD INNING WAS
FATAL FOR GIANTS
Words Cannot Express Feeling
of Gotham Fans.
GREAT TRAGEDY. SOTO SAY
Gates Open Only Two Hours to Let
Crowd Through.
THRONG STORMS ENTRANCE
Holders of Reserved Seats Denied
Admittance-Fence Burned
at One Point

NEW YORK. October 3.-Fallinc
upon Mathewson he wavered
for moment i'm the third inning. the
Chicago Cubs battcd their way to vic
tory over the Giants and third cham
pionship of the National League at tie
Polo Grounds yesterday. In that fatal
inning New York's hopes were dashed to
the ground rs four gray players crossed
the plate. The score was to >. ana
fifty thousand crazed supporters of the
Giants groaned as the pennant was hope
lessly lost for another year
Words can tell of how that game was
won. Words can seek to tell of the
frantic thousands who filled the Polo
Grounds. of the still more frantic thou
sands and tens of thousands who vainIy
fought to get into the grounds after the
all too brief two hours allowed to those
who sought to see the struggle of the
Giants for entrance. They can tell OF
how craZed men burned down a fence at
one point and kicked their way through
grandstand at another of how one
man. perched on a pillar of the elevated,
where he might see one play out of ten
fell TO his death he roared his joy
at the run New York had scored at the
very start.
Words. again. can be found to put into
figures picture of the vastness of the
crowd III Is easy to say that not less
than eighty thousand men, women and
children tried to see the game. and that
thirty thousand of them actually gained
entrance to the park while as many
more saw fragments of the play from the
neighboring heights. and that fully twenty
thousand, after their vain fight for adj
mission. went sadly home or kept up until
the last play was made the desperate
struggle to win way inside against the
iron wall of policemen that guarded every
entrance.
But words fail when one tries to convey
the living. single thing that crowd be-
came. Fused by the interest the whole
country has been swept into by the most
stirring struggles the sport of base ball
has ever known. these thirty thousand
atoms were welded by a force mys-
FERROUS AS that which binds the particles
of matter In nature together into a COM
pact, united whole. that thought and yell
ed and moved and breathed as one sui
ferlnS self as the tragedy the field
was unfOlded
tnlng that one must call a crowd than to
the battling players in the white Of the
home team on the field. Every player
felt that he was lighting again. and max
ing losing fight after that third inning
for prize already won. And. no matter
What individual ideas of that disputed
game that was being played over in the
amazingly unreasonable warmth and bril-
lance OF the october afternoon might be
the great crowd. lost as to all individual
thought and feeling as it had been for
hours, was with the players in their
wrath and in their sense of bitter in
Justice at being called upon to play over
once more a we'll earned and cleanly won
victory.
For the two hours of the fight the sense
or the great united thing was there. Then
as the last play was made tn IRE was Il
sudden change in the sigh that arose
The force that bound the atoms was dis
solved in a final moment of rending grief
and as the particles OF the crowd stream
ed ont. it was Over-with the game and
the great fight so galantly made only
to he lost al last. with honor. truly even
in the last ditch.
Clean cut and square was Chicaeo.s
victory yesterday, and New York PLAYERS
and loyal rooters alike joined in their in
dlgnation al the unknown man who threw
Il bottle at Chance. the Chicago manager
as he ran TO the clubhouse, hurting him
painfully in the neck. The injury WAS
not serious. and Chance was able to leave
with the Chicago team for Detroit to play
the hrSt game OF the series for the worlds
championship Saturday.
me Cups came to town vest erday morn
ing on the Twentieth Century limited
which carried four extra Pullmans for III
trip The train was in on time. despi.e
the extra weight. and the team left the
the morning last night. having won the
NATIONAL League championship i'm the
eleven hours between arrival and de-