Evening star., 1914-10-10
CAPITAL FANS FAVOR
THE BOSTON BRAVES
Crowd Before Stars Score Board
Wildly Cheers Stickwork of
National Leaguers.
About z Out Of 10 Seem to Be Pull
ing for Stallings' Aggregation
to Win World Series.

Washington is an American League
city, as everybody knows. or ought to
know. But one would never guess it
from the remarks made by the fans
that watched yesterdays game as re-
produced on The Stars score board.
Seemingly about seven fans out of ten
were pulling for the Boston Braves,
the National League contenders in the
worlds series, and the remaining three
of every ten-well If they were en-
thusiastic supporters of the Athletics
they kept their enthusiasm severely
checked. In fact, all Philadelphia pep
seemed to have been "deleted by CEN
sor." as it were.
/ All through the big crowd that watch
ed The Stars mechanical reproduction
of the game base ball enthusiasts ex-
pressed audibly their hopes that Bos-
ton would be returned the winner. II
the game fight the National League
champion made from the cellar posi-
tion to the top rung of the ladder was
recounted once it was repeated a thou
sand times. and every repetition. it
seemed. was listened to with as much
interest as II the hearers were not al
ready as familiar with the story as was
the one who told 1t.
Crowd With Braves.
Somehow the Athletics did not seem to
have the crowd with them It may be
that the bitter antagonism that has ex-
listed between the members Of the WASH
ingtonteam and the Athletics has spread
until it has inoculated a large majority
of Capital fans. Maybe the fans felt
that the Mackmen have had more than
their share of world series honors-and
coin. Or perhaps it was simply the ad-
miration a crowd usually feels for the
under dog, If that canine happens to be
a game animal And the Braves Ger
tainly have displayed gameness a-plenty
during the 1914 campaign in their league
Anyhow, the crowd was with them, in
about the proportion Of Z to 3.
Every Brave hit was welcomed with
a howl of delight Every Brave play
in the field was enthusiastically received
Every Brave run set the big crowd of
fans that almost closed 11th street to
the traffic to cheering and slapping
each other on the back.
And when the Athletics did the same
things nobody ever would have known
it without watching the score board.
That was the difference.
Crowd Was Orderly.
The big crowd was an orderly as
sembly. and the policeman charged with
keeping clear a passageway on the side
walk on the west side of 18th street, as
well as room for the passage Of vehicles
in the street, had little to do and did it
without even a semblance of trouble.
Women were noticeable more by rea-
son of their absence than by their pres
ence in the crowd. And there were COM
paratively few boys in the big audience
to get under the feet and in the way Of
fans Of more mature age.
And everybody kept his eyes on the
score board Not a move of the little ball.
not flash of the slides that indicated
base runners-not an incident of the
mechanically reproduced game on The
stars big board but was seen by every
individual oI>>the assembled fans. and
told to all the other fzns in the belief.
apparently, that nobody in particular
was watching the game, and that every
individual fans duty was to tell it all
to those standing around him.
And when 1t was all over and the last
man was out the fans still stood
around, waiting for The Stars base ball
extra. which was on the streets and in
the hands of the enthusiasts a few
minutes after the close of the game.