The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-14

| tne FuUalO EHbteTu LEAGUE VedIIl tne
Surrogate Of Erie county and a we'll known
man in sporting affairs. Mr.. Hart tried
/ to. buy tickets for himself and friends. He
was turned down and had to go to the
/ spectators. Frank Farrell, owner Of tho
( New York American League team. who
turned his ball park over to the Giants a
| few months ago when fire ruined the Polo
Grounds stands, received no courtesies
! from the Giants management MIR.
Farrell had to buy at a hig price what
seats he wanted. j. }. McCrossin. a law
yer of $50 Broadway. was practically put
out of the office OF the National Exhibit, n
Company yesterday for insisting that he
ought TO receive The tickets he had ordered
by mail or else get his money back They
told him, he said. that his case would be
attended to next week. He wanted to
know how he would prove that he hadn I
occupied a box that he had ordered and
didn't get. There wasn't a way in the
world, he said. Looks like I'm stung.
said the lawyer.
| city officials made preparations yester-
day to protect the public as much as
+ possible. Fire Commissioner johnson.
on hint from Police Commissioner Waldo,
inspected the aislcs Of the new grand
stand and served notice that he wouldn I
permit any stardees With n crowd Of
possibly $1,000 people there are plenty Of
, opportunities for serious trouble, said the
commissioner, without permitting the
club management to crowd the aisles.
The Building Department inspected the
new concrete stands. Commissioner
Waldo sent letter to the Borough Prcsi-
dent suggesting that new concrete ought
/ to be examined pretty carefully before
being tested IA IL will be to-day. The
inspectors looked the stands over and
decided they would stand up.
The police arrangements we're made
with much care. There will not he a
single uniformed policeman inside the
grounds OFFICIALLY AZ any rate,. but Com
missioner Waldo has detailed tif,y
mounted men and $50 foot cops to shep-
herd the crowd tina, will begin to get Zig
arm men in plain clothes will be- on the job
to abolish ticket speculation and to put
down rowdyism. lf more help is needed
call will 90 in quickly I, tho WeS, l52d
street police station, where anot her hundred
men will be- held in reserve through
out the upper part of the city in the neigh
bothood OF the Polo Grounds squads viii
he held in reserve ready ~ hustle To tn,
ball park IL they are needed.
Inspector George ". AfcC luskey wil
be in charge Of the police and will have hi.
men on hand at ! o'clock this morning
Headquarters that after the bleachers
are full no one will be allowed to enter
the grounds. The police will not perrni,
the unlimited sale of general admission
tickets.
The elevated and subway lines hav,
made special preparations tn handle th'
crowd. Elevated trains will begin run
ming at 10 O'Clock this morning in specia
service on one minute heidway. TIL,
special subway service will begin al th'
same time and the subway people expec
To provide trains every minute. Extri
cars have been put ON the Eighth avenu,
surface line. Tho police estimate of IN,
crowd 10 be handled to-day is 1000. az i
is figured that at least 1000 people vii
not be able to get inside the Polo Grounds
At O'Clock last night the first of th
fans came up to the gate at the Pol,
Grounds and in his arms he carried
large folding cot Of the kind used in hos
ptals. Very solemnly he put the cot q,
the ground as close to the gate as he coul,
get it, turned up his coat collar an,
stretched himself upon il. That man wa
going to get his ticket. let there be no mis-
take about that Next came one bearin,
a camp stool. which he planted behind tn
cot and sat upon grimly. Then they be
gan to come faster. carrying boxes an,
kitchen chairs and moro camp stools an,
byl o clock "A line of ion had ranged them
selves along Eighth avenue. BY !
o clock the number had jumped TO 200. an
photographers and policemen arrived
The first thing the photographer
headed for with their fash powder wa
the man on th" cot, who put up n strcruou
objection to being shot.
At midnight the crowd around the en-
, trance had swellcd TO a thousand or moro
Seated on stools. camping chairs o
boxes they snapped base ball yarns an,
patronized freely the sandwich man. II
nearby saloons stories of the game IL
olden days doomed bigger and bigger