El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-18

7 sensation up 20 that time And Chi
] caSo went wild with joy When we
| got back home We were given a greet
| ing unlike any ever accorded ball play
I ers before We were the heroes of the
| hour-and Of the year
/ Three weeks later We played the
| secondhand the last game Of the series.
| IL was played in Chicago on a diamond
| in the Dexter Park race course. No
other place In Chicago was considered
! big enough TO Accommodate the crowd
that wanted to 90 10 that game
IL Was Mob.
The day the game was played the
crowds started for the park early in
the morning All forenoon and dur
carriages wendell their way 10 the
park and there was always outside the
gate mob bowling for admission Be
fore the same began 1900 admissions
AT 81 each. had been sold. with another
-5.fUo in "a wild scramble for tickets.
And then the fence. unable 10 with
stand the pressure Of that surgins
mob. went down with Grassland the
mob swarued in. Several attempts
were made by the club officials TO have
that broken section Of the fence fixed.
but it was useless. The crowd. rushing
in. swept everything before il. and
the game began with the fence broken
and the free admissions" still COM
ing
The paid admissions for that game
tOtaled - 600. the free admissions
went well beyond $4,000. making a
$4,000 crowd whiting the park when
the call. play ball' sounded-the great
est crowd that ever witnessed pro-
feSsional baseball game
Eleven hundred carrla Ses-the popu-
lar form OF Iocomoion in that period
also were inside the park
Umpire Was Paid 800.
Bob Ferguson. of Brooklyn. umpired
that game He was paid 500 and his
expenses and was guaranteed every
protection. Re was chosen in a rather
unusual way. About two weeks before
the game was played, Harry Wright,
manager OF the Red Stockings. and NY
self agreed that we would select the
umpire in this way, each would write
three names on a slip OF paDer and :
mail II to the other. In case one candi-
date was named by both, he would De
the umpire.
II was found that Ferguson had been (
named by both. whereupon he was ap-
pointed. The owners Of the Whi-e
Stockings wanted TO pay Ferguson I
$500 and expenses. but the Red STOCK
ings owners baked and all Ferguson |
got was 500 and expenses
Betting Was Even.
When the game began. the betting
was even. y vast sum OF money was
wagered on the outcome OF that dia-
Chicago fan wanted TO plunge his |
hanllroll on our chances The city. as !
= whole. had unbounded confidence IN I
our ability 4 big delegation Of Gin
Chicago for that game and from the |
way they flouriShed $500 and Slu"i |
bills in the stands. II made II look rs 1
though they were commissioned TO bet /
the entire wealth of the Ohio city on |
the chances Of their ball club.
Reds Got the Lead.
It was in that game. bN the way. thft |
the Reds introduced 20 Chicagoans- I
fast fieldinS practice as preliminary. /
Before that time no club ever had |
practiced fast fielding IN a game IN !
Chicago The efforts OF our PLAYERS /
were devoted only TO increasing their !
hitting skill
mighty roar went up from the |
stands when Ferguson sounded his |
play ball" and then the crowd settled |
back TO watch the game
Things broke badly for US in the !
early innings An error or two on the (
part Of my bows. mixed with several 4
them lead Of five runs Later on /
they increased il and when the seventh /
inning was ended the score stood II 10 /
in favor of the Cincinnati club.
Rallies White Stockings.
And then ! rallied Tuy boys
All together now" I told them.
Here comes our bloodfed innings Get
out and get after that pitcher. Wen
v5in-we can't lose"
And the boys began playing with a
new spirit Il always had been
popularity OF my White stockings 10
play their greatest ball during the
last two innings Of the game. and All
around the circuit the eighth and ninth
innings became known as the hloodsed
innings of the White Stockings. II
Made Five Runs in Eighth.
II so happened in that game that the Z
Red Stockings got last bats The
,hoice was decided by a flip OF the (
.oin-and ] had lost. So we went to /
lat first in the eighth inning and
hammered ont five runs. holding the ! /
Fed Stockings scoreless in their part
# the inning
With the score II TO against us
t the end of the seventh. the Cincin-
lati rooters were rushing around the
tands offering odds of from - to 100 4
o 1 against Strange rs il may seem H
hey found many takers Our hackers
till had confidence in US.
Cincinnati Was Beaten.
When we went to bat in our part of \
he ninth-the first half-with the II
core II to against us. the Cincin- II
atians still We're laying huge odds
gainst us. And then, amid an ever n
Increasing roar OF applause from the II
rowd we got" to that Cincinnati | II
itcher: rallied in a way that ranks II
mong the greatest ninth inning fin II
shes of all time We smashed the II