The Washington times., 1911-10-15
Big Chief Guessed Right.

big Chief"
Indian VS.. Indian.
The crowd saw the situation and
was q special lot of hooting from the
Athletic players bench. They were
kidding" Meyers. But he turned on
them with big. white te-teethed laugh
hand.
us that a promise?" yelled a mem
Der Of the Athletic team, the raised
digits Of the big chief indicating that
he meant to slam out a two-bagger.,
the New York Indian.
And-glory be-he kept It! The bat
cracked. And with 1t cracked down
for the Athletics hope Of taking the
| Meyers held up two fingers again at
the Philadelphia aggregation in token
that he had made good"
How They Were Betting.
How're you bettin'?" one "fan"
would shout to another across the sea
o; faces In the graRdstand.
| Us" would come the answer.
| US IL right the inquirer would re-
| plv. happily. And then each would
| study again the actions OF the players
! at practice.
Some Bank Roll.
After all the preliminar!es. when the
pictures had all been taken and all the
players and umpires and managers had
shaken hands to show the general good
feeling. and the last photographer had
tcen driven to cover. Silver" Phillips.
the center OF the diamond with his
trustv mcgaphone. You could have
heard \ mosquito wink. A hush settled
over the chattering. cheering. stamping.
eating forty hOi"auI spc :tators. Play
ers on each team ran speculative ewes
over the house and noted with pleasure
that every seat was occupied.
bet said peyn Ers1borSa to aaTFE eoadnt DHyI n
over The roll they took in for this
Eame.'
"And I'm going to do all can to
make ours the winners share"
The Batteries sang" Silver" Phillips,
will be Bender and Thomas for Phila-
delphia: Mathewson and Meyers for
place OF McInnes."
All Ready to Pose.
When the photographers walked
across the field at 12:30 o'clock the
bleacherites rose and cheered and
posed. ready to a man to see their pic
| lures in the paper in the morning. The
| enthusiasm that was wasted in this one
instance would. otherwise employed, dig
37n feet Of obstruction out Of the Gu
Zebra cut.
Fans Kill Time.
One Of the happiest moments in the
lives of the bleacherites at the Polo
Grounds yesterday was the oft recur-
ring one that offered opportunity to pelt
a woman with paper. The woman could
not retaliate; she could merely blush
and grow a little frightened and very
self-conscious and uncomfortable. But
there was nothing else for the bleacher-
ties to do. They had to while away
the hours before the game some way
and 1t was only noon and the big base
ball battle two hours away. 1t was an
old trick thus to shoot showers of mutt.
lated literature at unoffending women
but the bleacherites laughed and teered
and chanted In greatest enjoyment. II
: the trick had been brand new 1t could
not have been more noisily approved by
some.
Cautious Fanatic.
A speculator approached a man who
had been unable to buy a ticket.
Got something good for s6." sale
: the affabIe 200 per cent gentleman.
Beat It," said the other. "Tht
; newspapers have put me wise to you
want to see this game. but I'll try
to lick a cop before I'll buy anything
probably phoney.'
Scheme Failed to Work.
A speculator who was Offering hi,
! tickets one at a time was more sue
cessful.
~ have two" he said. "for which
, paid 81 each. One of them was for {
: friend who hasn't shown up yet anc
. won't be, here. I'll sell it for what /
cost me-"
: BY moving about in the crowd h,
: got rid of half a dozen tickets.
, Another fellow who thought he hat
the police outwitted had cut a pigeoI
. hole opening through fence. He go
| on the other side of II so that h
could not be accused of selling in tn,
, street, and began to do business. yell
: ing through meeaphone to attrac
a crowd, He did that, but he also at
tracted the police, who got behind TIL
fence also and took him to the lock
up, confiscatinI his tickets.
Got There Late.
q There was fine distinction among tn
: bleacherites A man who tried to TAX
= a bite on a homemade sandwich wa
. mobbed because he confessed that h
did not arrive until o'clock in tn
4 morning.
q Bender Always Smiling.
1t was a beautiful battle between tw
OF the craftiest pitchers In baseball
Mathewson and Bender. and. when III
game was over the difference betwee
|. the two was only a shade. Mathewsor
= the pale-facc, had won, but the eXtr
q run was due TO an error. Bender, III
K Indian. had lost, but he still smiIed .
the house. He smiled even though /