The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-08
Thirty-six Thousand Pay Their
Way Into Polo Grounds to
See Mackmen Maui Their
Star Pitchers and Win.
AS Many More Denied Admis-
sion at the Gates---Camera
Brigade Holds Forth up to
Last Minute---Jake Daubert
Get Shalmers Trophy.
Nv VILLA.


(Sun's Chief Sporting Editor.l
NEW YORK, Oct. THE rising
sum-, vainly struggling to burn its
way through lowering clouds. found
more than a thousand sleepy-iooklne
men and boys stretched out In a line
from the Eighth venue gates Of the
Polo Grounds to One Hundred and
Fffty-eighth street. Before 1889
O'Clock this line extended TO a point
below One Hundred and Forty-hrst
street, winding around under the
viaduct. and down Bradhurst ave-
nue.. Police Inspector Titus had a
hundred coppers on duty that early,
and they preserved remarkably GOOD
order in view OF the steadily increas-
ing rush of wild-eyed fans, who were
| ready to pay 81 or So for admission
to the bleachers, or the lower grand
stand, respectively. :
Although it had been announced
by the New York club that the seat
sale would begin at s o'clock. 1t was
not until a:S5 that the turnstiles were
unlocked, and the ticket booths were
! opened. Prior to this welcome in
cident many persons who had In some
mysterious obtained admission
tickets had hurried through the por-
tasl and had taken possession OF
Lmany of the front row chairs. As
soon as the head of the waiting line
! received orders from the police 20
move forward II required the COM
| hined strength of a dozen bluecoats
to keep the fans who had waited all
night from storming the entrance.
$4,000 Enter In An Hour.
Ten ticket booths handled the
crowd at the lower gates. while hall
a dozen were doing business at the
end of the long runway from the
elevated station at One Hundred and
I FTfty-hffh street. Within II houE
and a half after the first tickets were
handed through the windows by the
sellers, II was estimated hat NOR
than eighteen thousand persons hac
gained admission. At 1850 O'Clock
perha ps one hundred early birds were
scattered through the upper tier OF
the stand, where all the seats hac
been reserved. while in the lower tiel
at least ten thousand of the ifteer
Thousand chairs were occupied. the
bleachers, which will accommodate
nearly fourteen thousand spectators
were about two-thirds filled with tbs
playing time two hour and a hall
away.
The New York club asked the police
for assistance shortly after the moor
hour. The stadium then seemed
about to be o~vertaxed. and for a tins
the sale of tickets were stopped. In
spector Titus promptly established 6
deadline at Eighth avenue and One
Hundred and Fffty-ffth street
through which no n could pass un'
less a ticket was shown. The police
estimated tha between seven thous
and and ten thousand persons were
held up In this manner. and that on1,
a few hundred more were allowed 4
purchase tickets before the gates wert
permanently closed TO the genera
public. fifteen minutes later.
Paid Admissions Totaled SO. 0oo.
The paid attendance showed thai
more than $4,000 persons saw thu
game, and there Is no doubt that i
there has been room these figures
would have been doubled, The upper
tier patrons. those who had paid al