The evening world., 1888-10-22
BOYS SEE THE GAME
1.-THE Evening World" Baseball
Bulletin Delights the Gamins.
They Only Need a Few More
Post-Ofice Pillars.
co,pps of Vantage That Usually Rise to
Premium.

Extreme baseball cranks have frequently
discussed the project of fencing i'll City Hall
Park and making it the future home of the
Chants, especially since their victorious rec
ord of the present seasons: but it was reserved
for TIE EVENING WORLD to even more than
realize this seemingly wild and impossible
scheme by making Park Row the scene of
the exciting contests for the Worlds Cham
nionsbip between the pets of Gotham and the
famous representatives of the yellow mud of
the Missouri.
II didn't require any fencing in to accom-
plish this remarkable undertaking either.
In fact there was free admission to all the
Games, and the entire series of the most in
t~eresting exhibitions of the national game
ever played IN this country is to be con-
Quoted. so far as the spectators are concerned.
on the grand democratic principle of first
come first served"
The first Ave games of the series has shown
this plainly enough, and 1t ID very difficult
10 believe that the people who secured choice
seats on the grand stand at the Polo Grounds
last Saturday afternoon had any better fun
than the crowd In front of The EVENING
WORLDS blackboard, as they watched the
movements of the red and blue pegs around
the miniature diamond.
They appreciated every play just as keenly
and they cheered their favorites just as en-
Enthusiastically as the uptown crowd, the only
difference being that. at the Polo Grounds
there were 10000 people to applaud the grand
rally of the Giants. while in Park Row the
area to be occupied by spectators being nee
e~ssarilv more limited, there were only 5000
to do the same thing.
Reserved grand stand seats at the down.
town game were ut a big. premium Saturday
afternoon, and the architect of the Pest
Office. had he been present, would certainly
have felt that he had made q great mistake III
not foreseeing the possibilities of his orna-
mental granite pillars. only four of which he
had located jost opposite The WORD build
ing.
The occupants of these vantage points were
the omnipresent street urchins, who formed
an important element in the big crowdt that
had assembledt there Mt 3 O'Clock. They had
introduced II new feature in their improyised
grsnd-stand arrangements by bringing with
them short pieces of board, which, when
placed between the pillars. resting on the or
namental s~tOnework. made comparatively
comfortable seats. They had learned some
thing by their previous experiences. and even
the Young ragalnufin who had perched him
self inside the framework of the empty street
lamp Just below them acknowledged that his
con rades had longer and more level heads
than his own.
These desirable seats commanded q pre-
MUM of six cents before the opening of the
game, but when the interest began TO grow
their value rapidly increased and it was not
long before bids of II and even IL cents
found no takers.
Those who came later had to accept the less
comfortable positions ont he lodges at the bases
of the pillars, window stills and other narrow
and, to any one but the most diminutive sort
of a gutter-snipe, insecure seats upon various
projections of the big buildings, which lifted
them q little above the heads of the crowd
and enabled them TO see the great game.
But there were IN the throng many down.
town business men, lawyers. clerks and
workingmen. who were Just as enthusiastic as
the boys. and once i'll sight of the score board
they couldn't any moro leave it than had they
been witnessing the genuine game.
1t was SO absorbing after the third inning.
when the Browns got the lead, that they
fairly held their breath when each successive
peg-player went to the bat, and the suspense
continued until he had been removed and un.
tremendously thrown into the basket or was
pegged upon first, second or.third, as the case
might be.
While the crowd was bowling for Tiernan's
tier of the Post-Ofice private boxes kept his
companions below posted on what was going
on.
"Dey got a ruin in, f%ellers," he yelled,
after whistling vigorously several times while
ratified. Dere's anudder Teller on de base"
is Buck bin to de bat yet ~ piped out
one Of the unfortunates on the sidewalk.
..cG o0, The. he's in in de soup" was the reply.
What's de matter wild slattery ?" came
He's all right. Can't yer give de boys O
chance ?"
After a while the boys caught on to the
numbers on the pegs and followed each
player to the bat with all sorts of amusing
comments.
Now yer got 'em, Roger!"
Hit Ter hard!"
Now fer a home rum"
Thus they yelled when red peg Nc. 4 was
stuck in at home plate, and if he succeeded
and a shrill piping of whistles which con
tinued till the next player came on but if he
was retired he simply was consigned to the
Soup"
Johnny Ward and Buck Ewing were treated
In the same way, and the pegs with theil
numbers ON were watched with as much in
terest as though the crack players were IL
plain view of the crowd in uniform.
On the contrary, when the Browns were al
me bat there was nothing but kissing fol
their hits and cheers for their outs, for the
Missouri element in the 5000 was apparently
30 small that it did not care to make itsel1
Conspicuous.
Latham, No. 1 blue. was singled out as {
special object of derision and obloquy
Whenever he was not removed and played
would yell Why don yer got him out .
Hes no good ?'' 'Strike him out, Tim
What err yer good for Pr
In the lucky eighth inning the boys go
1alrly frantic and Ewing's three Dagger wa
received with as strong a veil as if the Grove
mad seen him drop the ball over the right
neld picket fence. When Conner followed