Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Immense Throng to See To-
days Ball Game.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE NEW YORK AND
PHILADELPHIA CLUBS.
Betting Ran to On the Local Team
Three Lines Of Ticket
Buyers.

1OAO 1OFA, OCuoOSE
10.-New Workers live in cavities in dried
mud canyons like cliff swallows; they hus-
tie through tunnels underground like moles;
they pack themselves in street cars like
oats in bin but when 1t comes to turning
out for worlds championship base ball
game. why then. be gee. they turn out like
New Workers..
That's saying a good deal. for today they
were coming Father Abraham. $1,000
strong. to see the Giants and the Sleep
Walkers from Philadelphia play the second
OF their series-their post-prandial series,
so to speak-here in the velvet green Polo
Grounds.
sportively inclined New York headed this
way-some of 1t did right after breakfast
When the admission gates opened this
morning a. thousand bleacherites were
waiting outside The turnstiles began
clicking ahead of time, because the throng
outside the fence, growing at the rate of a
hundred minute, showed the regal Inn
ptaience Of your truly American, truly Inn
perious base ball crowd.
Elevated Trains Loaded.
But the big rush really dated from noon.
Elevated trains got fiat wheels bringing
them up town. The gateway turned to a
hopper, with men and women as the grist
The money changers in the ticket box
worked like Swiss bell ringers passing out
the pasteboards and raking in the coin. soft
green and hard white, which flowed In
through the windows and all but sWamped
them at times. An unseen magician work
ed his wand and the bleachers were trans
formed from miles of red planking into
acres of humanity.
The grand stand loaded itself with its iiv-
ing cargo almost as fast
Nearly everybody YOU saw had an extra
dime for a flag. blue with white letters for
fapcferS OF the home talent and white with
blue ground for an advocate of the WIS.,
tors from Slumberburg. Pretty soon the.
crowd blossomed as new kind OF Burbank
rose with the waving remnants Naturally
most of them were blue, but Philadelphia
had its bunting and its leather-iunged root
ers wherever you looked.
Ate Camping Out Lunches.
The majority ate a camping-out lunch
con where they sat Thousands lunched
and swigged in company. and between
bites they cheered lustily-cheered for
nothing in particular. yet but just be-.
cause 1t was a glorious October day. with
4 sky light of FURNISHED blue steel buck
Ter overhead. The psychology of this
multiplying multitude lay in its good ma
ture and it's capacity for noise. The.
bleachers spent the waiting hours yell
ing. They gave the frankfurter man.
three and a tiger and they whooped again
for three mounted patrolmen who rode
around the diamond occasionally.
Thunderous Applause
pre.a,+1v M.+bawso, i,,o,L.a o.ra,a.s,,,
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along tne Inc OF VISION OF the sun gods
on the right, and thunderous vocal roar
went UP through which the rattle of
wooden ola nners sou,,ledI,la +e,a,-o,,h +,ot-
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ers III "inostorm. Cow peis and DUH
horns were likewise plentiful, and not a
few megaphones.
Nineteen out Of twenty were men. but the.
women. mainly young women, In their new
fall waists of flannel made it up by wav-
ing hags with or without provocation.
Long before the team made their appear
ance on the diamond the bleachers were
full and the grand stand was bursting it's
buttons under the strain. and the late
corners overflowed into the outfield beyond
the ropes.