The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-26
VAST THRONG WITNESSES
THE BARON-MOBILE BATTLE
MIDST OF THE FIREWORKS
EVERYBODY AND EvERYBODY'S DOG
AND BABY THERE-BOYS SELL
SOAP BOXES FOR SEATS AND
CORNs ARE MASHED

That baseball is resurrected in Birming-
ham was demonstrated yesterday after
noon when thousands upon thousands
crowded about the diamond and sat there,
with mouths agape during four hours of
fight.
Were Montgomery to draw that many
people in a week. Bill Stickney, with
shekels in his poke, would grin with de-
light. Mobile doesn't number as many
inhabitants as were gathered within the
enclosure of West End yesterday after
noon That crowd reminded of gather
ing of the bugs of Atlanta on the after
| noon of July 4.
At noon the crowd began gathering
on the corners and by O'Clock cars
loaded to the brim were grooming beneath
their burdens.
Men hung from the ratings and on the
rear platform ladies stood.
From 80 O'Clock until the beginning
of the first game there was an mex
haustible stream of people struggling for
breath in the narrow alleyway leading to
the grounds.
BY the calling VI the OPcLlhS DdttiS
every seat in every stand was occupied,
and men and boys began jumping over
the ratings into the arena.
According to the extras which are run
in Chattanooga whenever 5000 or more
people gather at that park, 1t was an
900 attendance"
After the conclusion of the first in
ming the umpires were forced to call
time on account of the string of people
romping across the diamond in an ef-
fort to find standing room.
BY the beginning of the second game
the vast attendance had formed a semi
circle about the field, cutting OF the view
of those in the lower boxes and cutting
off every breath of air from the press
box.
1t was a struggling mass of popula-
ton, but one on a fgurative Joy ride ana
jovial withal.
There were no growls, no cries of de-
rision, no knocks, no display OF ugly
tempers.
1t was a great day for the boys who
hang around the games.
They sold every available chair, good
seat going for a half a dollar. and one
of three legs for quar- ter. Soap boxes
were SOU " wv ili6hSoN o'NN'S' N-N
average going at Is cents.
From the residences nearby chairs were
rented by boys and sold at bargain
profit.
And selling was active. There was no
halt Money was In everybody's pocket
save the official scorers and the UNI
pires'.
II was a motley crew, too.
Here the vender of coca cola was
seated next to the president of bank.
There a member of the younger dane
ing set" was seated in the midst OF
teIephone girls Yonder a proud mother
daneled her 3-months-old and urged
him not to cry just because the IN
diyidual with three whiskers on MS
chin was doing boo-loo dance 10 sho"
his satisfaction.
few of the most daring climbed
upon the press box and dropped to-
bacco Juice on the bosom of the snowy
VIII lite shirt of one of the sporting
writer's.
If all the bulls Of all the peanuts
deyoured by that crowd were gathereu
together and dumped into the hulk
of a vessel there would be another
great catastrophe for the newspaper
of yellow" propensity.
If all the coca cola drunk by thas
mob was poured into the Nile there
would never again be a water famine
in the happy hunting ground OF the
Ptolemys.
If all the wind gathered by the
innumerabfe swaying fans of that
bunch of perspiring humanity shoul"
whistle with natural force around the
corner of a skyscraper 1t would skin
all the specks from turkeys egg
md sma sh the egg to boot.
And it was mighty hot.
1t was a joyful moment for Apollo,
indeed, and he grinned with the Siee
of chigoe on a picnic.
He first of all ctruck a blow to
the face from an angle and then NOV
ing onward beamed down With his
ferocious energy on the tops of the
pates
Men took of their coats without
apologizing.
Women famed and fumed and
famed.
Babies with Redeemed phiss. crying