THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE FULL RECORD OF THE SERIES.
It has now become an established rule of the National League and the American Association, to close each season with a supplementary championship series of games between the teams of the two leading clubs winning the respective championships of the two organizations each year, to decide as to which of the two champion clubs is entitled to the honor of being the champion club of the United States, and consequently the world's champions in base ball. This supplementary series of games has grown in importance each year since the inaugural trial games of 1884, when a short series of games of this character took place on the Polo Grounds in October, 1884, between the League championship team of the Providence Club and the American championship team of the Metropolitan Club. It was a short series of best two games of the three played, the result being an easy victory for the League team, as the appended record shows:
THE SERIES OF 1884.
Oct. 23, Providence vs. Metropolitan, at the Polo Grounds 6—0
Oct. 24, Providence vs. Metropolitan, at the Polo Grounds 3—1
Oct. 25, Providence vs. Metropolitan, at the Polo Grounds 12—2
Total 21—3