Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-17


she Pennsylvania Railroad, in the
rear of the centre field bleachers.
The future greats witnessed the
game from the territory along the
left field fence and in front of the
bleachers.
A fan suggested that nufhers be
placed over the engines on the rail-
road near the park to check the noise.
The Elks. Heptasophs and Eagles
were the fraternal organizations rep
resented in the parade.
The huge American flag In centre
field was raised, amid the air of the
national anthem, at 800 p. M, and 1t
was not until S:41 that the contest
got under way.
Jim Johnstone. the veteran ar
bitrator, who makes his home in New
ark, judged the balls and strikes. Out
side of decision at the plate in the
NTH inning Jim got along nicely.
Both ends of the grandstand were
| screened off and furnished the sec
tions for the "fifty-centers Bewixt
the half-dollar fans were those oc-
cupying boxes, reservations and
seventy-five cent seats The twenty
five cent bleachers are located in CEN
tire field.
Members Of the st. James Catholic
Cub We're in the line of march with
tne -. James Fife and Drum Corps
heading the procession.
Floral horseshoes to Messrs. P. +.
Powers and Harry II. Sinclair, Enos
kirkpatrick and Harry Swacina were
presented by the B. p o. Elks No. 21.
Germany Schaefer. the Peps' first
baseman, was quiet for once in his
life. Germany says he can't put over
his act with a brass band and Scotch
oagpfpes for opposition.
The stands were still roofless, but
no one was bothered. After every
seat was taken up the late-cominE
fans stood up in the runways and
In the aisles and hardly any of them
went until the last man had been re-
tired. In the crowd that stood were
many women and there also was a
sprinkiing of men in clergyman garb,
Outside the gates there were two or
three thousand who could not get in
at all unless the fences had been
made OF rubber. They were content,
though, to stand around and await
the result of the game.
Hundreds of fans from New York
city saw the contest Dave Driscoli
the baseball impressario, who was
ON hand with a party of friends, said
| that the early afternoon tube trains
were filled with enthusiastic Manhat-
tan fans who desired to see the New
feds in action.
Manager Bill Phillips. of the Pops,
| Secretary Steve Harter, Captain
Frank Laporte, former United States
Senator James Smith. jr., Charles P.
| Gillen, chairman of the general cele-
bration committee. and Joseph P.
Norton sporting editor of the Eve
| ming Star, were presented with gold
medals before the game.
Members of the Newark and Balti-
more Federal League baseball clubs
attended the theatrical performances
at the Newark and Proctor's Thea
tire last night The players visited
the theatres upon invitation of Man
ager Louis r. Golding. of Proctor's
and Manager George Robbins, of the
Newark Theatre. Though the Balti-
more players are stopping at the
Hotel Endicott, New York, many of
them dined in Newark. after the
game and accompanied the Pep play
ers to the theatre.
Motion pictures of the parade and
opening game will be shown at
Keeney's, Proctor's and other local
playhouses next week.
The Federal League officials,
James A. Gilmore, P. I. Powers.
George S. Ward and C. B. Comstock,
dined at Achtel-stetter's after tho
battle.
The game at the Peps' Park today
is to start at $3.50 p. M, while to-
morrow afternoon the umpire will
call play at o'clock.
1t is more than likely that the cleo
trical scoreboard at the Harriso I
grounds will be in action for the
FIRST time tomorrow. The frame
work was up yesterday.
p. T. Powers announced today that
the games at the Federal League
baseball park In Harrison on Sat-
urday would start at $3.50 o'clock.
Sunday games will start at o'clock
and on other days tho game would
start at 3:45 o'clock. Vincentz's
Band will give concert at the game
tomorrow.