Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-28
OVER $4,000 PRESENT.
The Vast ThrOng ON the Baltimore
Ball Field.


Ball Field.
From the Baltimore Sun.
1t was colossal affair in all it's hor-
rible, heartrending features. The excite
ment was stupendous, the interest SO big
as to roll like a tidal wave all over the
land, the expectations were huge on both
sides, the thong was enormous, and even
the score of 10 to 10 was big, while tie
difference by which the Boston Base Ball
Club walloped the champion Orioles of
Baltimore, was too large for comprehen-
sion-in this latitude.
The attendance the first day-last Friday
was 1904. and broke all records for any
game except holidays and opening days of
the season. Saturdays crowd was the
largest that had ever assembled at Union
Park up to that time, the number being
Is, 123 1t was thought that that would be
the banner crowd, but the immense con-
course OF yesterday aStonished everybody.
The attendance yesterday being 1880,
makes the total attendance at the three
games foot up to So, Ait.
Several Boston newspaper men said, after
yesterdays game, that, in their opinion
the crowd of yesterday was the greatest
that ever witnessed a ball game anywhere
While there may have been greater
crowds upon single occasion, 1t is pretty
certain that no other series of three games
ever drew 5000 spectators
AS the general admission in Baltimore is
% cents, the Boston club took away from
here in the neighborhood of $1,000 for the
three games.
The Baltimore club got about 5000 in
Boston on the last visit, but general adj
mission there is 80 cents.
What a struggle for life it was to get
into Union Park yesterday; what a battle
to get out again. From every quarter the
thousands came and packed Huntingdon
avenue for blocks. Long lines, waiting for
tlckets. extended to the east as far as the
York road, and another line stretched its
length westward to Charles street, while
new entrances were formed and still other
MES OF surging, struggling humanity were
formed 10 nnd their way into the Enclosure
through the club house door and the wagon
gates.
Once there was a crash. The eastern
most wagon gate, on Huntingdon avenue.
was pushed from its foundation, and two
thousand persons, some with tickets and
some without. some with the cheapest
pasteboards and some with grand stand
cards, burst through the new opening and
what positions they had nr had nor bought.
but intent only upon getting into the
grounds to see the base ball game of a cen
tury-the last on earth. II seemed to be-
Men with grand stand tickets jumped
from the stand to the ball 1ald, and many
of them later regretted that they had done
So Hundreds were found walking, around
back OF the crowd during the game. These
F'oiAASAioSAS iAou paul anywhere from
cents to 81 for the right to be there. They
could see nothing excepting an occasional
ball which went high IN the air.
Men and boys tore boards from the in
clined fences at the foot of the grounds
and stood upon the small ends of the
boards, which they rested against the
fence. A starch box was bought from a
boy for 81. bench was worth the price Of
private box at grand opera.
The scalpers who Were able to secure
grand stand seats unblushingly asked 50 to
s. for reserved seat ticket which cost
them - cents
By this time the view from one of the
upper boxes in the middle of the grand
stand took in a wonderful picture There
were the mass of faces on the bIeachers
the broad circle of people extending around
the deep ball park, down one side across
center field and up again to the grand
stand; the thousands on tho housetops ont
side of the grounds. the thick cluster OF
men in shirt sleeves along the top of the
bleacher ratings. the men and bows
perched high upon the grand stand rafters
and the hundreds of others who seemingly
hung upon nails and studded all the fences
and obscured every advertising sign
This picture remained unchanged until
the close. When the last Oriole had been
put out and the game was among the lost
the rope barriers were dashed aside and the
crowds in twinkle overspread the whole
field.
So thick was the mass that from the tom
most seats the entire greensward was blot
ted from view.
Peil nell toward the visiting players
dashed the greater portion of the crowd,