Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-13
sERlEs IN ,s2 EoR TIrLE.
Fierce Six Game Scrap Between Chi cago and Cincinnati Resulted in Tie.


 In every baseball history accepted as a text book in the college of dope. diamond historians refer to the pres ent worlds championship slash as the 18th of the series since the advent or dual major leagues. Usually history behaves beautifully. but in this case the Ridpaths, Froudes and Bancrofts of baseball have fonled out, so writes Rem Mulford. Jr.. of Cincinnati In all current guides the date of the first meeting between champion topnotch- CTS is given at 1884. In that year the Providence club-the National league champs-cleaned up the .Metropolitans and laid them away fin balloons morgue with three wreaths of immor- telles on their brows. The American campaigners failed to puncture the Rhode Islanders in a single game. Just Ayhy all baseball historians have over looked the struggle in Cincinnati when the champions of the infant American association clashed with A. c. Anson's Chicago White Stockings and enjoyed an even break is a mystery. The fact that this has been done makes the post championship games of 1882 take on the Importance of sport news--as interesting to the fans of today as the discovery of some old manuscript dug up in an Egyptian sepulcher.
 The NatiorNal league wasn't known as the ancient and honorable back fin S2 The welcome they gave the Am erican associatSn was just about as cheerful as the message which Lieut.. Peary sent to the world when he heard Dr. Cooks story of the conquest or the pole. The National league imag- ined that it had thu major field mall ed' and when. at thA close of the sea son of 'S2. the Cincinnati Reds-who hal bagge1 the flag in the association sent challenge to Nsptaln Anson's league champions. the White Stock ings accepted with glee. Y
 Chicago looked on Cincih uatfs team as collection of pygmies. sn1d expect ed their annihilation at the hands or Anson's champions. No Natiokal com mission ruled these games. Tbc tar1n was only 35 and 50 cents. In the good old times" stands were primitive Twenty-seven hundred tnthused over this historic championship encoupter, and 3.500 at the second contest so jam med the pavilion that the overflow crowded the left embankment
 Tbe meeting of Chicago and Cinein~ natl was viewed by tho baseball sharps' Of long ago in much the same light as the famed encounter of Goliath against David. Will White pitched for Cincin-- natl. and this spectacled twirler found his old backstop Charley Snyder. dis ablad. Phil Powers caught him. The game was a screecher Were to live | to be as old as Methusaleh I'll never forget the scene that followed the ldrive of Bid McPhee in the fateful sixth lt was the one large inning of Red events. | Harry Wheeler had gone the Orwlie ! Wright route to Ag Dalrymple. when | Kick Carpenter. the Reds third bas@- man. singled over second. Danny | Stearns' smash that followed got safe ! ly past Captain Anson. Another safe | drive by Charley Fulmer sent Carpcn- | ter home. When McPhee smashed the | ball to dep center for three bases the crowd went wild. and Bid followed the | pair he drove home by scoring himself | on a wild pitch. That was the score, | to 0. for Fred Goldsmith held the Reds | down after that. and White was able | to personally conduct Ansons big fel- 1 lows right on the skunk farm.
 Next afternoon Chicago handed back i the keys to that runless reservation ! and Cincinnati was blanked. to O. | will White went in and pitched again.
 but a tumble by Carpenter and a wild
 throw over third by Wheeler gave 1 Chicago the only runs of that contest ] Larry Corcoran held the Reds safe and only four of them reached base. There
 wasn't much difference between those
 old scores and the summary of a mod ern game. Cincinnati outhit Chicago | 10 to in the first game and each team | made. two errors. Tn the second con- l test the hits were to in Chicago's i favor. while on the count or errors Cin- 1 cinnati spilled three and Chicago playef | withotu a wabble. This completes In ! brief the story of the earliest collisions l between nGjor league chs niplons-two | exciting games that diamond histor- ! ians Of today have entirely overlooked l in their chronicles of deeds of Valor I on worlds championship fields.