Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-14
NEARING THE CLOSE
Fifth Game in Exciting Base
Ball Contest.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
IMMENSE GATHERING OF THE
FANS IN NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Today's strug-
gle-Feeing at High
Tension.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Special Dispatch to The

Special Dispatch to The Star
POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, October
A-One game lies between the Giants and
the championship of the world. They now
have three games out of the necessary
four, and IL form is any criterion. roday's
game should end the series, and the post
season period which has done more to
wake up the base BAH germ in Slumber-
town and the city which outlying America
calls Gotham more than the whole of the
other six months of the long season.
New York thought 1t was going to have
wake of 1905 base ball, and old Father
Knickerbocker could give the little busy
bee pointers, for he was working so hard
over time to furnish good one. Before
the gates opened at u o'clock this noon
his children We're knocking to come in
From that time on the subway discharged
them like ants out for an airing, and the
elevated sent them down like chimney
swallows Hopping down to an open fire.
The first sound that met their ears was a
continuous clicking like an old woman chat
tering with ill-fitting false teeth. 1t was
the turnstiles revolving like wheels of for
tune and continuously sending out their
product, long black line of humanity
Whlch split on the other side and diverged
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grandstands and the other running at full
speed for places in the bleachers.
Good-Natured, Happy Crowd.
1t was the crowd of Monday again. a.
good-natured, happy crowd, anxious for
the base ball treat which they believed was
In store for it, but chiefly bent on enjoying
to It's full the August day which October
should provide, and the noise it could make
For 1T again a noisy
every few moments yelling and cheering at
nothing. and so pleased with itself that it
would laugh at anything. from the indignity
of yellow dog to the strength and dignity
of a mounted policeman.
By 1:3O o'clock, an hour before the game
was scheduled to commence the bleachers
had been changed from rows of pine boards
to two vast human landslides, and the turgid
pIack streams which the big red gate dis
charged flowed on steadily and unabated
Everything was signal for noise but the
real capacity of the crowd was tested when
the Catholic Protectory Band came march
ing slowly across the field. playing an air
which told of the destruction of John
Browns body and the salvation of his soul
And the bleachers paraphrased to read
Connie Mack's hopes lie moIderng in
the grave. while McGraw goes marching
on" Just then McGraw did come march
ing on. moving slowly across the field with
a gait appropriate for attendance on
rivals funeral.
Yell for Little Johnny.
The noise which greeted the band was but
slight sample of the yell which went up
when Little Johnny appeared. The band
very Internationally struck up Tho Con-
quering Hero and McGraw waved his
hand impotently at the storms of noises
from either side. which met him as a vor-
tex. At quarter before 2 the stand had un-
bottoned their last button and the over
flow surged onto the field. Ten deep they
stood, extending from the right and left
field bleachers, and almost meeting in CEN
ter field
Groundkeeper Murphy had still another
idea to put into execution today. Near the
Athletics and Giants benches two Irish
flags tried to flap In the absence of breezes
The one by the Giants bench made de-
cided HIT but that of Connie Mack's plac-
Hartsel came on the field. He is of the stock
that makes the University of PENNSYLVANIA
foot bail lineup look SO like a Russian
mortality list every year. Soon after this
Mathewson came across the field and the
stands, which had previously been yelling
reared
Bender had just preceded him on his way
to the bench, and the crowd let loose an
other notch to show their appreciation of
the Indian who had worsted the Giants at
their own game.
There was big Philadelphia element in
the crowd, and 1t made itself known again
when Connie Mack came grinning across
the field
By O'Clock the field looked as if its last
bit of capacity had been reached. and that
the late corners could squeeze in only on
the principle that there is always room for
one more. 1t looked as if Tuesdays at
tendance record would be broken When
the game called at 2:30 the attendance
was variously estimated at from 2S,O0O to
So GOO.
Batteries for today's game: Bender and
Powers for Philadelphia; Mathewson and
Bresnahan for New York
Empires: O'Day and Sheridan.