New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-08
Mingled Hordes Conquer Polo
Grounds, but Thousands of
Late Corners RepuISed.
PREY FOR SPECTATORS
Early Bird Put to Shame by
Rooter Who Starts Line %
Hours Before Beginning
of the Struggle.

phia and probably hundred other towns
TO the Polo Grounds yesterday. Women
and children. food merchants and pick
pockets, ticket spectators and Just I'M
classified human beings heard the call OF
the first worlds series game.
They came on foot, in surface cars.
elevated trains, buses and automobiles
came and kept coming until long after the
last hope OF actually entering the grounds
and seeing the game was over. Then many
thousands of them turned and went away
whence they came, or TO seek a square
foot Of standing room or seat at the
many places about town where the Incl
dents Of the game were unfOlded TO them
by tickers and Paragraphs and bulletin
boards.
But other thousands were not able TO
take themselves so far away from the
universal mecca Of "fandom.' They
climbed up on the tops OF surrounding
houses, cambered on the skeleton work
OF tall signs or massed themselves on
the bluffs back of the Polo Grounds-in
fact. they chung to almost any place
where they could command a sight Of the
big scoreboard down in the arena, or at
least hear the shouts OF their happier
brethren within the shrine of the world s
greatest baseball event
Few Fall by Wayside.
These fifty thousand came. saw what
they could. and for the most part, went
away. tired but still under their own
steam. There were three. however. who
vent away in ambulances. The first OF
these was Frank Colloran, forty-fve years
old OF No. ls5 Greenwich street. He was
among the advance guard who stood In
line all night. waiting for the general adj
mission gates 10 open. At o'clock In
the morning he was overcome with
fatigue and exposure. and although his
fellows in line and policemen did their
best for him. he was at last taken to the
Harlem Hospital 10 recuperate.
He will be all right. but he won't see
the opening game" said Or. Kahn. who
responded TO the call. as the unconscious
man was put into the ambulance.
The next one to go under was Arthur
Howard. Il contractor. OF Glen Cove. Long
Island He was among those who could
not get ir. and had taken up a perch in
a tall tree at l6Jth street and Edgecombe
avenue. From his perch he could get a
view Of the outheld and the scoreboari.
Everything was holding strong until
Merkle made the first run OF the game.
The shouts OF Joy from the bleachers
animated Howard and several others in
the tree and set them craning their
necks 10 see iust what had happened.
Then something gave way. and the limb
on which Howard sat broke with crash.
throwing him and Ave others TO the
ground.
When the heap OF tree fans IMPLIED
themselves Howard was unable to rise,
having broken two ribs. and received cuts
and bruises. He was taken In an ambu-
lance to Washington Heights Hospital
while his more fortunate companions in
the smash found other points OF vantage.
But He Saw the Game.
The third man to need an ambulance.
unlike Howard and Colloran, was one OF
those who came and got in. He was
James McGurvie "A clerk, who came all
the way from Westerly. 4. l., to see the
game. After It was all over he was wait
ing for a Bronx surface car on the Wa
duct. as were many thousand others. He
was pushed on the tracks, and his foot
was so badly crushed by the wheels OF
car that he was taken TO the Harlem
Hospital for repairs.
When the gray light OF morning strug-
Glands II found
fully a thousand I'm line waiting for the
gates TO open. Among them was one
woman. who took up her position at l
o'clock in the morning with her husband
She was Mrs. Winifred Hutchinson, Of
Mobile. Ala She kept sturdy awake
Throughout the long walt despite the
Meas of her husband. who caught a few
snatches OF sleep by resting his head on
her shoulder. TO give II up.
Il have seen more than one world s
series. and | am not going 10 miss this
one" she said. Am | sufraget;e!
You bet I am. but there is only thing |
am going TO talk about to-day and that
baseball"
The head Of the line was held by John
Harris, a chauffeur. OF No. SIS West 49th
street. He took his position at o'clock
the afternoon before, having taken few
nips OF sleep leaning against a wall.
Twelve hours on the job. and sill
going strong" he said at O'Clock in the
morning.
When the gates were thrown open there
were fully five thousand people In the
line. which extended from a point one
hundred and fifty feet from the gates,
down Eighth avenue to l55th street
thence west TO Bradhurst avenue and
down the avenue for about four blocks.
From s o'clock on Inspector Titus was
on hand TO take charge OF policing the
lines. The twenty-five patrolmen who had
watched the lines all night were then In
creased to two hundred. while squad OF
nIainclothes men were also sent to mingle
among the crowds to watch out for pick
pockets.
The crowds were incensed by see
ing numerous ticket spectators with
plenty of tickets to SELL for which they
got as high as $40 and SIS piece. The
crowd wondered how this came about,
when the management had said no tickets
would be sold until yesterday at the gates
and the purchasers would have to pass in
side the grounds at once
Nine OF these outside ticket sellers were
arrested and fined SO for vending without
license.
II was estimated that 10000 devotees
watched the game as the plays were re-