El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-17

ming all OF our games by oyerwhelm-
ing scores. We beat the Memphis
team. champions OF Tennessee 157 to 1
and Foley was very angry because
We had permitted the southerners to
score their lone tally
At last We reached ChicagO-and We
got wild ovation The town had gone
crazy over baseball Our wonderful
sweep through the south had caused
the Chicagoans 10 feel that our chief
aim-to defeat the Red Stockings
a certainty.
Defeated Rockford. Too
Our first real game in the north was
against the crack Rockford Qlis) team
the club on which Adrian Arson and
A G. Spalding got their start. The
Rockford people backed their team
heavily IN the betting that preceded
that game-but We sWamped them. We
scored Il runs in the first inning and
after the fifth were so far ahead that
I gave my boys orders TO take il easy.
and by that additional victory set Chi
cago further aflame with baseball en-
thusissm.
Then We started east to play out the
schedule which was so arranged that
the Cincinnati series did not come until
the end OF the season. Our success con-
tinued- Ny boys were wonderful bat
tiers and every additional contest they
engaged in seemed to increase their
hitting power
Hitting Was Chief Asset.
In those days ability to hit was the
main asset of a player. In his batting
power lay his baseball value. Not much
team in fielding II was figured that
fielding would come naturally but that
batting must be developed.
During the latter part OF Nav two
of my players took sick while we were
on tour and 1 had to send them
#T~- g
Joined the hospital squad I filled in
with amateurs. sent to me from Chi
cago. but / found. quickly that they
wouldn't do.
SO, along about June 4 when found
that my ailing quartet was not con-
valescing very rapidly. T cancelled all
our remaining June and July games
and stayed in Chicago.
Late in July when all the players
were back in shape we resumed team
playing practise All during the time
the four boys We're sick ! kept the
others at batting practise for two
hours day and the experiences in the
hitting line continued TO increase
About August We resumed our sched-
ule and PLAYED out the season. winning
all Of our games from the resumption
in August until the end.
Then Came the Big Game
And then came the grand climax of
the year-the task for which we had
been preparing ourselves. the battle
with the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
As chaliengers we were compelled to
play the first game Of the series-a
best two out Of three affairs-on the
home diamond of the Reds. on the same
field whore they never had tasted de-
feat Only once during the two Years
1859 and lS70-had the Reds been
beaten and that was suffered on for
eign territory. the Atlantics of Brook
lyn. turning the trick in 10 innings.
to :.
Three Games Scheduled
1t being necessary for the first game
TO be played in Cincinnati and the
second in Chicago; the place for the
third-if a third was necessary-was
10 be determined by a flip of a coin
Chicago ROOters PesSimIstic
When We went to Cincinnati for that
first game even our most loyal rooters
were pessimistic. II was not that they
lacked confidence IN our ability. but
because they feared we would be
"jObbed' by some Cincinnati umpire or
menaced so by the rowdy crowds that
we wouldnt play our real game because
Of fear of violence II we should win.
But we did win and the story of that
game. together with the second in Chi
cago which was witnessed by a crowd
beyond 10000 shall form the next chap
ter in this recital
tNOte-Chapter five. which begins
tomorrow. tells Of the two most bitter
" contested ball games il baseball his
tory. 1t tells Of a game that drew
10000 spectators-the biggest crowd
that ever saw a professional ball game