To the Sports Editor:
Re “Cubs Dreams Dashed in Loss to Metropolitans; Prayers of Wrigley Faithful Go Unanswered,” Oct. 23: Your encomium to-day to our victorious Metropolitans was well writ. The New-York Daily Tribune of yore reported on August the 16th of 1858 a sound defeating by the Metropolitans of the Manhattans. Came then the professional Metropolitans of 1880, members of the American Association from 1883. Too, let us not forget the Metropolitans of 1910, whose victory was reported in this very blat on the 30th of June that year under the headline “Opera Ball Team Trounces Boston.