The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-16
Clear Weather Sent Espe- cially From Washing
 ton for Day
EDWARD MARSHALL
 DESCRIBES CROWD
t Was a Good Natured Crowd, Even If a Large Part of It Had Been Up All Night
 in Line
p EDWARD MARSHALL

Rx EDWARD MAh sh r. ona
 New York, october lo-NeaiiS
 rsonle saw the game and hall as many ,,,ore would have been glad to buy theii r.o,, in if there had been any way lot
 .,a Fine. clear weather, perhaps !" +-iee chilly, but not cold enough to ihS"e .Lo crou,ds really uncomfortable' Was s,,+ m from Washington espeeiaHy ioi .,a oooosion. and. being plainly made 10 order. was all that could nave pee" s;,ad I secuted around the Polo sIouiiu9 late Friday night to see if tales were U .,.. fans already were gathering theie' r,;lline. 4o watch the night out so as 'o 'e oa-+atn of an early choice of oieaciAei ~.a+s Ii was good dope. The tales "eie +,.,e The neiehborhood looked Ike ,;,,o,oc Along toward morning 1t looked like morgue, waiting Tor 0Hs.o'..' ,.abriel to rouse the dead 10 lite' lnei vere exhausted sleepers Of all soIes III every weary attitude.
 wherever men could find thing to leah srainst place to stretch thelr lliiiDs' ,hara they were keeping vigil soii'e aysta nursing their enthusiasm through .+o ,ong watches of the nigth, ready 'o eo,t in deadly earnest if any one' rom a rival fan to a policeman tfleu 'o ui them from whatever vantage point uies had selected: many asleep and dreaihihS sweet dreams of home. saturuaS liio.i ing employees of the elevated road uis- covered some who had, With lhIlhite 1sbor. wormed their way tip in the steer structure till they had found positions whence they might observe the contest u-ithopt paving entrance fees. They eo,,ght like tigers when they were eJecteu
 The vicious scandal which attended 'ne sale of seats to spectators cast piAeh shadow on the management or the fair. one of the meanest nastest oues rages which has been associated Wlth our national game of late years and later. doubtless, someone will be called to answer for it; but the disappointed n,eanly cheated fans did not get then hands upon the perpetrators of the out lage.
 They were too busy trying to maintain their places in the long and crowded line. which oueued off from the ticket sellers windows If they had not been some speculative gentlemen might have had their wisdom teeth cut for them with brass knuckles New York fandom never Will forget the outrage of this days bus hess. It has hurt baseball in the minds of thousands.
 As early as 10 in the morning the hleachers had filled up till, seen from a distance, they seemed mere black masses, turbulent, disturbed. but with few gaps. By the time the game was called there were no gaps: but the turbulence re rlained. Remained? Well, some. It was the first worlds series game in six long Cars to be played at the Polo grounds.
 It was a good natured crowd, even if large part of 1t had been up all night in line before the gates or elsewhere-good natural and strong voiced, much given 10 r.dicue as baseball crowds are, ever eat ing at the mighty lunches it had takeS to the grounds with it, prone to stick the bones from it's pickled pork chops down the neck of whosoever sat in front of it, and even willing to accept in its own col lar without fights the pork chop bones V hose sat behind. It was a picturesque crowd, warmed by all varieties of gar ments, from the smartest coats of the Fifth avenue tailor to the careless sweaters of the office boy, or, even in some instances, where the overcoat. per-. laps, had gone to hook for funds where with to buy the seat its owner sat in. a bed blanket. There were those in the ciowd, whose vitals. thrilled with hunger which they had not the price to satisfy, even as the khaki clad vendors of mys- terious eatables passed among them there were those among the bleachers who might have lunched luxuriously but pre- ferred to eat the mysteries or let their stomachs gnaw. unsatisfied, rather than to miss the game.
 - In the great crowd which packed the vast cement enclosure there were many women and at least a dozen skirted ones were among the line of weary and bedraggled ones who waited through the night to get an early chance at the ticket windows. One of these was, it was said the wife of a Brooklyn college profess sor, but this is unconfirmed at the mo- ment when put this telegram upon the wires. She may have been. Heaven knows New York was crazy-mad from hub to felloe-and the lunatics with skirts were ss nutty as the panted bugs.
 Neither at the grounds nor elsewhere were the crowds disorderly. The police had little trouble with them at the grounds even when before the noon hour notices were posted saying that the last of the 15.O00 general admission tickets had been sold. There were hundreds of the smaller crowds, many of them reaching well up into the thousands, scattered through New York wherever there were bulletin boards. In the neighborhood of City Hall park, where the newspapers kept the anx- ious fans informed the streets were packed with breathless fans: al Herald Square the normal traffic of Broadway and Sixth avenue was impeded, at Times Square the bulletins drew crowds which made the junction of Seventh avenue and Broadway not. as usual a taxi vor- tex, but vast spectatorium, emitting. when the news good, such thun- derous cheers that all election days were left stuck at the post, and, when it was bad, expressing grief in groans of depth and power which Dante never dreamed of
 It was a harvest day for piclpockets in old Manhattan. The unique ability ol Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo in po- lice management was everywhere ap- parent where crowds gathered, for nevel were such throngs so well controlled be fore in New York city; but petty crim finals caught many fans loose jewelry unanchored watches, and whatever none, that was not nailed tight in the pocket.
 The arrival of the Athletics on tn grounds evoked wild enthusiasm from