Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-09
THIRD INNING WAS
FATAL FOR GIANTS
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ing on the field. but it was hard to I'M
derstand why those who held tickets for
reserved seats or boxes should not have
been let in AS a result there were many
empty seats in the reserved sections of
the grandstand, and, after the game start
ed, many took seats to which they We're
not entitled, practice that was Wlnked
at by ushers who had been seen. 1t
was taking chance, as the holders of
tickets could have claimed their seats
had they been able to get in. but it was
seldom that one of the trespassers was
disturbed.
II Is conservative to say that S0OOO per-
sons saw or tried to see the game. The
crowd inside was not the biggest that
ever damned the Polo Grounds. and has
been exceeded at least five times this
season, but that was due to the early
closing of the gates Thirty thousand may
be set down as seeing the game legitl-
mately. that is. by paying admission and
going in order TO "a place in the grounds.
But at least many more the
game, Snatches of il from a hundred
places outside. They Swarmed the ele-
waited structure. packed the viaduct across
1a5th street. ten deep from the rail, and
were damned in thousands on the great
rugged Height of COoganS Bluff.
Every roof that gave even u glimpse of
the field was packed all the afternoon, as
was every pole that overlooked the
grounds. The roof of the Putnam rail
!
and every fence around the Polo Grounds
was lined with men and boys. who could
not he driven back.
Fire Used to Crowd In.
Thousands swarmed into Manhattan
Field, and, once there. burned down a
fence to get into the Polo Grounds, only
to he driven back by the police. One
small mob attacked the stand and pushed
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entrance being found, stones and rocks
We're used in a regular bomba rdment. PO-
licemen quelled this mob after a hard
fight by turning hose on. but not before
one special officer had been captured by
the crowG, which tore most of his gray
uniform off and then fought for rags of
it souvenirs
A few ventureSome souls made their
way to the top of the grandstand. and
then entered into a combination to make
some money. They got a rope and a
ladder. and 800 men and boys paid 81
apiece to be hauled up to a precarious
seat on the ridge. Two or three fights
started there during the game. and only
he direct intervention of Providence can
account for the fact that no one was
killed. After the game this crowd jumped
down to the lower stand by way of the
top of the stairway to the reserved seats
and number of those who were going
out were hurt jumping men hit them.
some rams BurfOW 1ue1r way In.
! After the game started the policemen
relaxed their attention for moment,
and the respite was long enough to en-
able a hundred more men to crawl
| underline new srandstand back of third
base They burrowed through to the
| front, and then began hail of kicks on
the boards. Many planks were kicked
through as the officers Vainly looked for
| the source of the noise, and through the
| holes that were made 300 or 300 extra
rooters quickly poured out on the field
There were fights here and there in the
| crowd all through the game, but the
most serious trouble came between the
] halves of the ninth inning, in the right
! field hlcachers when score of police
men were required TO stop each of Two
| fights The nsStiest incident during the
actual play was i'm the seventh inning.
when q rooter threw bottle at King
! as the Chicago catcher was about IL