Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
LONG-D|STANCEF
Panama Canal Workers Fol-
lowed Worlds Series.
PLAYS FLASHED TO THEM
Scores by Innings Sent Across
Isthmus by Wireless.
GREATEST INTEREST SHOWN
Visitors From Washington Marvel
When They Hear Merits of Play
ers Discussed by Laborers. -
GREATEST INTEREST SHOWN

Special Correspondence Of The Star
PANAMA CITY, Panama, October -. 1912
It's far cry from the grandstand Of
the Polo Grounds. in New York, to the
Canal Zone, on the Isthmus of Panama,
where Uncle Sam is putting the finishing
touches to the greatest engineering project
In history. But the excitement over the
plays in the worlds series base ball
games between the New York Giants and
the Boston Red Sox among the 40,OD3
fans that have been watching the games
in New York and Boston has had a
counterpart in this strip of~American soil
amid foreign territory. more than 2.Ou0
miles from Joe Wood and Christy Ma
thewson and their teammates
On the day of the first game of the
worlds series a party of visitors from
Washington. Baltimore and other cities
in the eastern section of the United
States as they disembarked from the
Hamburg American liner Prinz Eitel
Friedrich openly expressed their regret
that they were thousands of miles away.
even FROM scoreboards where the details
of the worlds series We're being ddisplay-
ed. But as they pulled out of Spanish
Colon on the observation end of the long
string Of yellow cars that comprised the
soon lost in searching for the first view
of the big isthmian ditch.
They were soon diverted b va sight
of Crstobal, the fresh Canal Zone city
caught the first glimpses of the houses on
stills that are SO characteristic of the
Canal Zone and that are designed to insure
health where fever threatens continu-
ously. The train carried the party through
Mindi to Gatun, where all alighted for
their first close view Of the engineering
features Of the gigantic project.
Inspect Wonderful Locks.
From the station platform they saw
broad stretches of concrete, huge struc-
lures OF iron, and extending far in the
distance. the famous Gatun dam. The
party was soon lost in the works of this
series Of locks. where huge 1.OOO-foot
liners are to be lifted eighty-five feet
from the level Of the Atlantic ocean to
the level of Gatun lake.
You said Boston would win, didn't
you." they heard one blue-shirted and
khaki-trousered workman say to another,
as the two met on the top of the wall
of concrete that formed one of the sides
of the giant locks.
"Sure they WILL" was the reply.
New York got two in the third COM
mented the first.
DaO tucy 6ct sumo httS oiA Soc Voou'
Il don't know. but they got two runs
and first blood"
The Washington members of the party
had to think hard to realize they were
not at 11th street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. instead of 1900 miles away. They
lodged a Gong iron plate tnat one Of the
huge cranes was carrying aloft and were
thus brought back to earth on the Canal
Zone from dreams of base ball diamonds
The guide. c. II. Ourand Of Washington,
D. c., suggested that the visitors de-
scend to the bottom Of the lock, and they
climbed down the 200 or more steps of
the temporary stairway to the cement
floor. and were kept busy dOdgln- what
looked like open manholes in the floor,
the openings through which water will
TOW when a boat in the lock is to be
lifted or lowered.
did Boston get the two back In the
fourth7" asked .. riveter. just as he
picked up red-hot rivet with his tongs,