Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — Cubs Gather First Game. [ARTICLE]

Cubs Gather First Game.

Only - one or two Rensselaer fans witnessed the Cubs-Giants baseball game at Chicago Thursday. It was the first of a series of three games that is being played at the west side park in the windy city between the two teams that are at present at the head of the National League. The Giants are on top and are full of ginger and all of Chicago is baseball mad. Twenty-five thousand fans went to the park and saw the game and 100,000 more lined up in front of the Tribune office and other places where the result of the game was displayed by innings and in fact at the Tribune office the plays themselves were illustrated just as they occurred. The Cubs took the first game by the score of 5 to 1. No game is scheduled for today, but they are to play again Saturday and Sunday.