Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-19
THE DIAMOND
TWO IN A ROW
 LOOK VERY GOOD
New York Has the Rails Creased and is Now Sliding Rapidly
 Pepuaptward.

New York, Sept 19.--The harder the opposition the harder the New Yorks play. The Pirates of Pitts burg bore down on the Polo grounds bent on stopping the rush Of the home team to the championship, but they were beaten in two games, trampled and annihilated by the ir- resistible attack of the New Yorks, and the latters' pennant chances scared as high as the shining moon. The immense crowd that saw the double victory, and which was the biggest that ever saw baseball game, not only came away convinced of this but also thinking of other things celestial. The New Yorks, they believe, have hitched their wagon to a star. for although the Pittsburgs were the first first clasA team they have played in two weeks they won from them with the same strong all around playing that has disposed of less troublesome rivals and which has enabled them to take II straight games.
 There was catapultic hitting by the New Yorks all afternoon, but the Pittsburgs dealt few body blows to the ball themselves in the second game, which was much harder than the first to win. Mathewson tanned the Pirates to the zero point in the first engagement, and as the New Yorks clouted the ball to shreds and punched thefr hits while doing 1t the first game was all theirs. There was no second. In the come back clash they had to take the bit in their teeth, and thrust out their jaws, for the Pirates got away in the lead and 1t required courageous and un. ceasing battering for the New Yorks to fight their way to the front. Among the casualties was the knock ing out of the box of Wiltse, co-star with Mathewson.
 It was the first real test of wheth- CT the crowd would be big enough to fill the enlarged stands and also whether the enlarged stands would be large enough to accommodate the besieging myriads. The answer was that the biggest crowd in the history of baseball was there and that this same crowd was handled and distrib- uted admirably. The increased seat ing capacity was one reason for the latter being the case, the other was the presence, for the first time in months, of city policemen on the grounds. The special dispensation or plea. or whatever 1t was that sent real blue coated, helmeted cops to the grounds, was as welcome to the baseball lovers of this city as was the dual victory.
 The cops, under the direction of Inspector McCloskey. made their appearance a short while before the game began and were greeted with a heartfelt cheer. They got down to the business of herding the over- flow back where it belonged at once, and group which had come out too far on the field melted away like ice cream in an oven as the cops made for them and commanded a retreat. For the first time the attendance was so big that the figures 30,000 are warranted in defining the nnm- bers, but they were kept back all around the field and there was pIen- ty of playing room. A ground rule was necessary, of course, but the fringe on the field interfered but lit tie with the fielders. As matter of fact batting and not fielding was hampered, if there was any hamper ing. Of the wholesale quantity of two-base hits made several would have been three-base hits but for the ground rule restriction.
 The stands themselves provided a sweep of seating room which formed a. huge horseshoe around the field, leaving only breaks between the ends of the stands and the quarter roost. Rome's coliseum used to pile its gatherings higher up in the air and Harvard's stadium does so now, but neither inclosed as much playing area, nor equalled the Polo amphitheater in lateral scope. In any event, the great spread of the assemblage marked an epoch in base ball, and as for the poor Pirate, the luckless scrappers in the Coliseum never looked up to see thumbs more turned down. The scores:
 First game: