The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-09
CHICAGO WINS
CRUCIAL GAME
THEN DEFEAT THE GIANTS AND
WIN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
| - CHAMPIONSHIP.
THEIR TEAM WORK PERFECT.
Cams PIayea In New York was VII.
Missed by Record Breaking
Crowd and Thousands Were q
Sttunsbie 10 Gain Admittanes.

New York, Oct. 9.--"Chicago 4, New
York G'--this was the tale in a phrase
told at the end OF the most decisive
baseball game played In this country
IN many years; played at the Polo
Grounds in this city Thursday to de
eide the National league championship
for the season Of 1908. In the pres
enee of record breaking crowd
which swamped the grounds and left
many thousands outside long before
the game began, a game was played in
deadly earnest TO settle as tensely
dramatic situation as the most ar.
dert lover of sport could imagine.
Chicago won and New York lost.
The game was played In the cheer.
ful sunshine 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
National league pennant which had
been absolutely unprecedented for
constantly intensifying interest and
uncertainty. At dusk the great multi.
tuderdeparted from The historic enelo.
sure--hushed and disappointed.
fl1e large black headlines in the
newspapers--"New York 2. Chicago A.
are like mourning captions over the
story Of some great personage's death
And vet probably Manager McGraw's s
words after the game, In the quiet of
the training quarters, where the
Giants were having their last showers
and fub-downs, epitomizes the feelings
Of the vast army of New Yorks fol
lowers: II do not feel badly about
the game; we merely lost something
we had won before" Fair or not, this
appears to be the view generally. OBJ
tanning in Greater New York.
1T was great baseball, witnessed by
the greatest of great baseball crowds
would have been more than
doubled could the fences have been
stretched out into circle of sufficient
size, to include all those who clamored
vainly for admlttance, and who
thronged everything that offered the
least possibility of catching even an
echo of the applause within. Specta-
tors who know the game, however bit.
ter they may feel over the tie decision
which made the game compulsory,
coDeede that the. work of the Chicago
team was practically perfect.
The Giants were outplayed. They
lacked, among other things, that Ger.
tain indefinable something, absence OF
which is probably in this instance ex-
planned by the results of the great and
steady strain they have been under
the past week. Chicago, fresh from
rest and well.judged practice and
coaching, were superb in form. Bril-
liant, errorless fielding, snappy base
and opportune hitting In the
third inning, which made effective in
scores a double by Chance, won the
game.
New York could not hit at critical
times. Mathewson, favorite of the
iayorites. could not keep his invincible
arm power and the effect OF a mo-
ment's lapse in that third inning could
not be overcome. McGraw's substitu-
tion of Wiltse In the box the last two
innings may or may not have been
wise. The home team needed a long
hit, needed the tremendous rallying
power which Mathewson has more
than once inspired in them at the
very finish, and wrung victory from
seeming defeat.
The gathering of the vast crowd
which witnessed the contest for the
premier honors OF the National league
was picturesque in the extreme. Att
daybreak the enthusiasts began to as.
seinble--and places In line were held
by dozens who had Travelled from some
midnight bread-line to get a place an
eager fan" would pay well for later
ipbthe day.
Immediately the gates swung open,
hdpdreds upon hundreds fairly hurled |
themselves within the enclosure. The
stands rapidly began TO fill, BY noon
the sale Of tickets, ended. and soon
there was not seat--hardly standing
eom, And out beyond the enclosure
every overtopping structure-chim.
neys, derricks. roofs-had their pre-.
cariously hung swarm Of "rooters"
Ihe two great innings OF the game
wRre the third and the seventh. In
tne former Chicago made all It's runs. |
IN. the latter--opening with tremendous
following the loud.shouted
slogan, THE Giants lucky seventh"
Slopes we're renewed, but died. after
obe run. which kept company With
tHht made in the first inning
Rfeistsr started 10 pitch for Chielgo,i
buts wga., ,takegkout in the hlstt inning
after The. Giants had scored one run.
Brown succeeded Pfeister and only al
owed fopr hits In eight and a half In.
4ings,