New-York tribune., 1911-10-15

. | The Polo Grounds. meath tOOgan's BluH,
a-nestling in the dell y Il.
/
lad was a glimpse Of the centre fielder.
like "A fixed star far below.
No Mercy on Spectators.
The police. 25O strong, under Inspect
org McClusky and Sweeney. arrived at
the grounds at < o'clock TO relieve the
smaller night force They experienced
/ less trouble than had been expected
I keeping the crowds moving and remOv-
/ ms spectators Six of the latter breed
gave the patrol wagons little exercise
| between the 1Jjth street elevated station
and the 152d street police station. Two
Of the prisoners We're accused Of selling
counterfeit tickets All We're fined so
I by Magistrate House. in the Harlem
court
Some fifty or sixty counterfeit tickets
were presented al the main entrance.
/ Their holders. when refused admission
/ by the special policemen. threatened no
/ disorder, but turned away quietly, and
in some cases sought out the spectators
who had sold them their tickets and got
their money back.
| What did bother the special police
men, however, was the presence Of
/ spectators just inside the entrance 70
/ the grounds selling 81 field stand tickets
/ for SO, 81. So and SO each. In all about
one hundred and fifty spectators tried
their luck before being rushed into the
arms Of the regular police waiting 10
catch them just outside
Spectators profits when they un-
loaded their tickets We're good, but many
OF them lost money. In a cigar store
/ Just south Of 155th street in Eighth ave-
nue. one speculator confded to friends
that he had paid So each for grandstand
tickets which he would gladly sell for 81.
/ Just then what looked like a customer
appeared and was asked TO buy at So
/ As he shook his head and started TO de-
part the speculator called after him:
/ well. how much money have you got
/ in your clothes?"
But not even this hint Of a bargain
/ suficed to attract the departing one, and
| the speculator turned away disgusted.
| In the saloon at the corner. where early
/ on Friday evening two young men had
advertised five hundred reserved seats
| for sale. the prevailing atmosphere was
one Of gloom. also. Too large a per-
! centage had remained unsold.
Ticket Sellers in Disguise.
/ Perhaps a hundred spectators suffered
| the loss of punches of tickets through
/ confscation when arrested. Many were
/ the subterfuges to escape this calamity
and still do business. One youth carried
a bundle Of papers under his arm, and in
! approaching a prospective customer
would hold out a copy Of the latest edi-
/ ton the while he announced in appeal
/ ing tones that he had grandstand seats
( 10 sell The gatekeepeC Of a parking
\ space for automobiles on the east side
/ Of Eighth avenue, after shouting loudly.
| Park your autos," would add in con-
/ versatonal tones. Have a grandstand
1 seat?" one speculator hid behind an
/ elevated pillar and popped out on the
unwary like jaCk-in-the-box.
/ And when spectators bad ceased for
/ the moment disturbing the orderly flow
/ Of fans" like as not d knot Of boys
would create a diversion by scaling a
fence into the grounds. or trying 10 do
| So About a dozen boys in all tore their
/ hands and their clothes in attempts to
scale the barbed wire which stretched
! across the top Of the high board fence at
| the main entrance and at the Speedway
entrance. As many more fell into the
/ clutches Of the special policemen. who
pulled them down and kicked them out
/ into the street regardless Of such appeal
| ing stories as that told by two Of the
unsuccessful-tha they had beaten their
way on a freight train from Philadel-
phia just 10 see the game.
! When the ticket booths opened for
/ business in the morning a little less than
ten thousand real fans" those who sit
I'm the field stands, We're in line 10 buy
The line had grown from nucleus Ct
three hundred sleepy, shivering boys
and youths who had seen the night
through on camp stools, soap boxes and
in one case, on an improvsed cot, Gre
ated from the best half of a broken SOFA
which had reposed an indefinite period
on a dump near by. The 'all-nighters,
when the vanguard Of early birds be-
pan arriving shortly before dawn, adopt
ed the lock step formation TO maintain
their places in the line. A little later
they began selling their places for %
cents. % cents and even as high as
$50. although fifteen thousand seats
were 10 be sold and not half that num-
her Of applicants had yet arrived.
Lieutenant Becker and his strong
arm" squad arrived shortly after y
O'Clock 10 moderate enthusiasm. while
twenty detectives in plain clothes min
oIad with the crowd on the lookout for
nickpockets. Peace and good nature
nrevailed. however, and the policemen
had little 10 do but long for peep at
the game.
UPPER MONTCLAIR CLUB.