New-York tribune., 1908-10-09
GIANTS BOW TO
BITTER DEFEAT
CUBS WIN GREAT FIGHT
FOR PENNANT.
Thousands See Struggle, While
Other Thousands Storm the Polo
Grounds IN Vain.

moment in the third inning. the Chicago Cubs
| batted their way to victory over the Giants and
a third championship Of the National League at
! the Polo Grounds yesterday In that fatal In
] ming New York's hopes were dashed 20 the
/ ground as four gray clad players crossed the
plate. The score was TO 2. and fifty thousand
/ crazed supporters Of the Giants groaned as the
pennant was hopelessy lost for another year.
Words can tell OF how that game was Won
Words can seek 10 tell OF the frantic thousands
who filed the Polo Grounds Of the still more
frantic thousands and tens Of thousands who
vainIy fought get into the grounds after the
all too brief two hours allowed 10 those who
sought TO see the struggle Of the Giants for en-
trance. They can tell Of how crazed men burned
down a fence at one point and kicked their way
through a grandstand at another. o. how one
man. perched a pillar OF the elevated. where
he might see one play out OF ten. fell to his
death as he roared his JOY at the run New York
had scored at the very start
Words again. can be found to put into figures
a picture OF the vastness OF the crowd 1t 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 neigh
boring heights and that fully twenty thousand,
after their vain fight for admission. went sadly
home or kept up until the last play made
the desperate struggle TO win a way inside
against the iron wall Of policemen that guarded
every entrance
But words fail when tries 20 convey the
living single thing that crowd became Fused
by the interest the whole country has been
swept into by the most stirring struggles tho
sport of baseball has ever known. these thirty
thousand atoms were welded. by a force as nys-
terious as that which binds the PARTICLES OF mat
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whole that thought and yelled and moved ard
breathed as one suffering self as the tragedy on
the field was unfolded-
FIGHTING TO THE END.
For tragedy it was less to the great thing
that one must call a crowd than to the battling
players in the white OF the homo team on the
field Every player felt that ne fighting
again. and making losing fight after that third
inning for prize already won And. no mat
ter what individual ideas OF that disputed game
that being played over in the amazingly
unreasonable warmth and b-illiance OF the Oc-
tober afternoon might be. the great crowd. lost
as 10 all individual thought and feeling II
had been for hours. with the players IN
their wrath and IN their OF bitter injustice
being called upon TO play over once more a
well earned and cleaniy Won victory.
For the two hours OF the fight the sense OF
the great united thing was there Then as the
last play was made there was a sudden change
in the sigh that arose The force that bound
the atoms dissolved In a final moment OF
rending grief and the particles OF the crowd
streamed out. il was Over-with the game and
the great fgh. gailantly made. only to be
lost at last. with honor. truly, in the last
ditch
Clean cut and square was ChicagO'ss victory
yesterday. and New York players and loyal
aIfIr -ba
unknown man who threw bottle at Chance,
the Chicago manager. he to the club
house, hurting him painfully in the neck The
injury was not serious. and Chance was able to
leave here with the Chicago team for Detroit to
play the first game of the series for the worlds
championship Saturday.
The Cubs came to town yesterday morning
on the Twentieth Century Limited. which car
ried four extra Pullmans for the trip. The train
in time despite the extra weight and
the team left the same station at which they
had arrived in the morning last night having
won the National League championship in tho
eleven hours between arrival and departure.
GATES OPEN TWO HOURS
AS a matter Of record. the gates Of the Polo
Grounds allowing general admission to the game
were open for barely two hours yesterday from
II o'clock until l. Yet in that time every un-
reserved seat in the grounds was gobbled up.
and those who were TO the game from the
field behind the foul lines running down 20
first base and third, were all in their places.
That represented attendance of more than
twenty thousand alone. making allowance for
the section of the grandstand. which was
used. partially completed. for the first time. and
gave seats of a sort 70 twenty-five hundred
more fans.
At 1 o'clock both the main gates in Eighth
avenue and those leading 20 the chute from the
elevated station were closed Many forced their
way into the chute from the elevated platform
despite the efforts Of policemen. and found them
selves cut OF from escape. They could not get
out at the bottom. and the crowd that pressed
upon the gates above made it impossible for
them to return by the way they had entered
Most of those who were hemmed in in this way
held reserved seat tickets or boxes. and vera
bitterly indignant ar the complete failure OF
the club the police 10 keep any sort OF
entrance clear for the holders of tickets.
Their indignation was easy To understand.
and the police realizing their feelings. showed
patience with the many hard words
they had to hear. EsIt the crowd i'm
mense that IT would have taken five thousand
policemen to handle IL properly. and the coIH-
paratively small force hand did wonders
with the crowd which constantly degencrated
into mob in isolated parts Had these mob
sections ever been allowed to merge there Ia
would have been torn down and game would
have been absolutely Impossible
CROWD STORMS MAIN ENTRANCE.
Down In Eighth avenue. right outside the
main entrance. where the svirling crowd was
thickest. mounted policemen did yeoraan service
with their splendidly trained horses in ccntroIl-
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