Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-10-09
WESTWARD AGAIN
GOES The f WANT
Chances .Men 0twa HcGeaw's
0u'fi; N Easy Style Record
Breaking htleId]Nce.
Ca0W) AND PLAYERS FEEL TENSION
csoW) AND PLAYERS FEEL TENSION
No More Tickets Sold After Noon
Mathewson Has One Fatal Inning
Pfeister Replaced by Brown In
First-Winners to Meet Detroit
Americans On Saturday.

NEW YORK. Oct. S.-"Chicago 1
n York 2"-ThiS was the tai" ir
a phrase TOLD at the end OF tn most
decisive ball game played in this
country in many years; played at ;he
POLO grounds in This city today &c
dtcid" the National League cham
pionship for the s. ason of 1905.
| All Conditions Propitious.
! In tn presence OF Il record break
ing crowd which swamped the
grounds and LEFT many thousands
| outside long before the game began,
/ a game was played in deadly earnrs;
to settle as tens ~ dramatic a sit-
| uation as the most ardent lover OF
sport could imagine The game was
| played in the cheerful sunshine OF
| an ideal has" ball day befors a vast
concourse of people who carried with
them 10 the Polo grounds the pen;
up hopes and fears accumulated Jay
by day. in the closing weeks of =
5 asOn's fight for a National Leagu
pennant which had been absolutely
Unprecedented for constantly intensi-
flying interest and uncertaily.
At dusk the great multitude d.
parted from the historic eclosure-
hushed and disappointed
The pennant does not wave ano'e
tha skyscrapers tonight. lis winners
who arrived here on tn twentieth
Century Limited this morning. are
now on their VIZ westward. Inc
large black headlines in tn" news
papers-"New York >. Chicago I.
are Hk mourning captions over Inc
story Of some great parsonage >
death And yet probably Manager
McGraw's words after the game. IN
the quietude of the training quar-
tiers. wher. the Giants were having
! their last showers and rub downs.
epitomizes the feelings OF tho vast
army of Nv York's followers, iroH
those Of the merest Office boy to tn
! occupant OF a grandstanG box:
Il do not feel badly about tn"
game: We merely lost something W"
had won before
Fair. or not. this appears to b.
the view generally obtaining IN
Greater New York.
Not Room for Crowd.
II was great baseball. witnessed
by the greatest o; baseball crowds
which would have been more thar
doubled could the fences have beef
stretched out into circle OF sum
Glen, size to include all those wn'
had clamored vainly for admission
Spec; ators who knew the game. how
ever bitter hey may feel oyer IN
tie decision which made today
game compulsory. 81 m TO conced'
tina; New Yorks work was perfect
i. | The Giants. we'll though they played
were outplaved. Chicago fresh from
rest. was superb in form
= The Eventfui Third.
Brilliant. error! IS fielding. snapP
base running and oppor;une hittin
in the third inning which made q
!cctivc scores double by Chance
won the game New York cou
not hit at critical times.
Mathewson the gr n; "Ma'ty. fa'
oritr Of the favorites. could not he"
his invincibic arm power. and IN
effect Of a momenius lapse in tina
third inning could not be overcome
!, Study Of the Crowd.
Tho gathering Of the vast crow
!. which Witnessed the contest va
A picturesque in the extreme. AZ da,
o break the enthusiasts had begun
r ass mblo ami places in line "
{ held nv dor ms Of tho great unkno~
! who had trav"U d from som" mi
n nigh, breaG-lIne 20 get piac" a
II eager fan" would pay VOL for late
+ in the day.
Seats Al Taken at Noon.
Immediately ih"Igat"s swung on"
" hundr Dis fairly hurled thcms"iy'
within tho enclosure BY noon II
sale Of tickets ended and soon the
was no, a. at hardly staniii
room. And out beyond III" enciosH
every r+oppirE s'ructur"-chi'
ucys drrricks. roofs-had their hu
A. swarm o; rDo'rrs Ouisii" II
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