The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-11
THE GIANTS |D0L|zEO
BY new YORK !.
P0PULACE
.
Nothing in Big Town That
McGraw and His Men
Can't Have
New York Ia baseball crazy.

New York Is baseball crazy.
So says James S. Eaton of New York
city. who arrived in Grand Forks this
morning to look after some interests
in this section.
The big town simply idolizes Nc
Graw and his men, with Mathewson
and Marquard as the heroes occupy.
Ing places equally as prominent as
the great pilot.
THE pictures of McGraw and his
pennant winners are in the windows
along Broadway and the one topic of
conversation in the cafes and oil the
street. is whether the Giants will be
b to repeat the victory they won
over the Athletics in 1906" said Mr..
Eaton.
New York has almost won the PEN
nant a number of times since it defeat
ed the Philadelphia team in the
worlds series. New York fans will
forget the time Merkle forgot
to tag second base. We have always
been up fighting for the lead and now
that We have gained our cherished am
bition. the big town can hardly con-
tain itself for pure Joy.
"McGraw can have anything in tho
city. Mathewson and Marquard are
Just about as popular. There is not a
player on the team that isn't lionized
when he goes to the theater or is seen
on the streets. There is nothing too
good for the boys who have brought
the flag to Manhattan.
II left New York before the pen-
nant was absolutely cinched. but even
then there was o the least doubt
but that the Giants would land. Even
then preparations were being made for
the worlds series, II not officially.
thon hNs thA v@or an $h1 ct~oot V,ho
was figuring ever then on the best
way to obtain a ticket.
1T is estimated that owe $4,000 peo-
pie a be crowded into the new Polo
grounds and II indications point clear
ly to the size of the crowd that will
witness the first game in New York,
1t will be simply A matter Of how
many fanatical and wild eyed fans
"a be packed into the huge enclosure.
When Chicago and New York play
ed off that post season game in the
mad and mad had a literal meaning.
One of the greatest crowds that eve
witnessed a game Of baseball in this
country was crowded into the grounds
that day. But If the interest in the
coming series between the I'VE pen
nant winners is any indication of the
number of people who want to see the
games and are going to make an effort
to witness them. all attendance rec
ords in the history of the game will
be broken.
Along in front of the big news
paper plants on Park Row during the
afternoons hat the scores were COM
ing in from the games the Giants were
playing on this last western trip. were
vast mobs that at times blocked traffic.
Along in front Of stores that received
special returns of the games. crowds
gathered intensely eager to know the
result of the game.
IF you should. walk along the street
after the result of the game became
known. you would hear men in twos
and threes or here and there a knot
fans standing and discussing the
chances Of the Giants to win the flag,
their chances in the game of the
next day. When a big city goes lit
and happily baseball mad. and
it's Inhabitants breathe and eat in the
of the national sport. you
begin to realize what a hold that game