Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-09


Manarcr Of Nirt.ricgs Chicas" Team.
Winners of National I"a"uc Pennant
fer Three Consecutive Seasons.
lie as tene"ly dramatic a s,Eatiou as the
most ardent iovei oI sport could imagine
Chicago won ana New York ios,.
The game was played III the cheerful
sunshine If an ideal baseball day before
Il vast coIcruis" n peop.e who carried
with them IT. tin. polo grounds thti Lent
up cnthu.iasnr hopes and fears acrumu-
lated day by day through the closing
weeks of Il eeasont' h"ht fol a National
b League peinant which l. been absolute
ly unprecedented t"r cor family int ash =
Tying interest ana nn.elt Unity. AT dusk
the great Multitude departed III" historic
enclosure-hrshcd aud disarp"inte';. The
pennaut docs not wave above the sky
scrap-ls tonight lis winners. Who an
rived hc,e on TIC Twentieth Century
way westward. The largo black head
lines in me rev spapers-"New York ,,
Chicago Are lik" !nourninG captions
owe, the story Of some -'rat pa sonaSe's
death And yet prnhay.s Manager Nc
GraW's words after the game, i'll the
unwonted quiet Of the training quarters
Whore the Giants Nere having '"rir last
showers and rubGowr epitumlZcs the
feelings ri the Naai :lir OF New York
followers h"m tho u, the merest office
boy, who hih To ST'1jace anoth' l grand
an IT, pillar 80 an "ccIsiohi'l'>
diamondNalu, glimpse Q the or"upal' cd
&. grand stand box. l i" feel hahv a"'"'
the game We mercy lost s'rnr. "I'- W.
had won before. Fair or not. ~ tD-
pears 7" he the v"v GENERALLY .'lt@i.jna
in Greater New i"l
" WITS great base pHI. 'iif SO, lN tt'
greatest If great ia .-.t .1a .H I.,--Ntl !.
would hay, BEEN W.O' 'I.rt doubled
could the fences h.Nf .} i Tened e. I
into n circl, of SUN, i,nl Siz4 f. in, :ude
all thoS" who hat. 'lAmcred y. My for
admittAncr, and who thronged "viythinE
that Offered tn" least possibility OF
.,lAi fs..lt, 60
within. Spectat"Ts who knew the game,
however. bitter they may leel over the
decision which made today's game com
the work of the Chicago team WAS prac-
Tae Giants wen though they fousht.
something. absence of which is probably
in this instance explained by the results
of the great md continuous strnin they
have been under the past week.
Chicago, fresh from the rest and we'll
Judged practice and coaching, was superb
in folm. Brilliant, snappy. err"rioss field
ing, artistic base iunning-and opportune
hitting in the third inning, Il double by
Chance. wen the game. New York could
not hit at critical tines Ma1hews"n-
1tes--couid not mold his invlncble arm
power-and the effect OF moments lapse
in that third inning could not be oyer
come Mocha substitution -! Wilt
IN the box the last two innings may or
may not have been wise. The hone team
needed long nit ne ded the tremen-
has more than cnce inspired in them at
the very finish. and brought victory out
OF seeming defeat
The gathering of the vast crowd winch
mier honors IF the Nati"ral League was
picturesque in the extreme. At day
break the enthusiasts had begun to as
semble-ard places in line were held by
NJ ~
travelled from some bake,y's midnight
bread line TO get place an eager tan
would pay for later in the aay lmme-
upon huiNredss fairly hurled themselves
within the enclosure. The stands rapidly
began to fill BY noon the sale If tickets
ended and soon there was not Il seat =
hardly standing room And GU, beyond
the enclosure every overlapping snuctLrs,
chmneys, der1icks, roofs, had its preca
rious!y hung swarm OF rooters. Outside
the grounds for an hou, preceding the
calling of the game at IS O'clock there
was an almost uncontroahle crush. anX-
and hundreds rushed madly to the sides
of the field, fighting for places. stopping
the practice of the mines and causing pan
dem onium which seemed likely Ia becom-.
uncomfortable. Police fought the crowd
back and a sufficient margin of held was
maintained around the diamond
When the word ''Plav" came, hush
fell over all. The tense could b. felt
in the very atmosphere. The cownells
and horns We're unused. The game was
on. 1t held the crowd as in q spell. The
players felt the tension, That was evil
dent Chicago plainly showed IL and
Sheckard. facing the famous Mathew
son. struck out
The deafening greeting Of this WAS n
striking contrast with the unbroken 81
lence as. at the games end, the hone
team out one. two. three. rushed across
the diamond to their clubhouse
The two great innings of the game We're
the third and the seventh. In the former
Chicago MADE all their runs In the lat
fer--opening with tremendous enthusiasm
Following the loud-shouted slogan The
Giants lucky seventh''-llopes renewed,