Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-08
SPECTATORS IN sWARMS
DEMANDING FANCY PRICES
FOR BIG SERIES TICKETS
Damon Run!on Visits Philadelphia md
Hears Weird Stories of Brewing
Scandals.
m DAMON RuNYoN.

striking distance of the dollar gates OF
the OH baseball yard of the Philadel
Broad streets, a motley army of men
ana boys * beddcd down tonight in
packiins, cases nled with straw. or
awaiting the charge upon the blcuChcr
seats for the opening game OF the
worlds series tomorrow.
y cold autumn rain is having the City
Of BrotheriY Love; Driprine and
semblance OF u limo which stretches
nearly All the way from Fifteenth street
10 Broad, on Lehigh Avenue. Here and
Downtown the hotel lobbics arc
packed with notablcs OF the baseball
world. ON the sidewalks in from, OF
every hostclry range hungry hordes
OF ticket SPECTATORS. Everywhere
there is 4 hum OF rOssip-stories OF
the. local baseball maEnates by the
philadelphin civic authorities and poll
the Phiuy field, and some talk OF the
baseball game that is scheduled for
Small Chance of Game
1t is not likely that the game will
be played The ball ground IS soaked.
and the weather prediction for to-mor-
row is more rain Unless there is Il
strong blast OF sunshine In the morn
ing the opcnnC OF tho series Will have
10 be postponed until Saturday. The
wet line waiting ont there at the ball
park Will have had its weary vigil for
ncIni1E.
of 1911, when the Giants were raincd
in here for couple OF days during the
series with the Athletics. and when
inertia developed the widest kind OF
GOSSIP and weird rumors Give base
ball crowd twenty-four hours of idle
ness and II Will work up It's own sen
salons without any vast effort
The :squawk OF the cNaspcrated Phil
aIsirhia fan AN fils the Gomm4ni,E 'his
philadelphia club viii seat about 81
600 people, and all the seats have been
seats. which will he tossed to the
waiting line at Broad and Huntington
about II o'clock tomorrow morning
olG-tlmc fans, followers of the philu-
4elnhias. who have been spending their
money az the ancient bah yard year in
arn{d year out, say they have been ,un-
the tickets. but YOU would have to pay
as :h high as $50 for set Of pastchoards
that have face value of 50. These
arc the So seats. aud for s. seats the
"peculators moJestly asked sos "A SGT.
Police After Spectators.
II is unfair TO say the spcculators
don't ;appear to be in possession OF any
considerable number OF tickets Most
10 sell. In other years, When the Aih
letics were playing in the champion
ship games. the specs" would he iinea
up al along BROAD street, from the
station TO tho bellevue. and all were
on the sell. They gcn>0lly had plenty
at tickets for sale. ana surgcd through
The local police began chasing them
ur again insist"n' and persistent.
Among the numerous rumors font
in- about to-day was one that tho no
5." had tried 20 shake down" the
Philadelphia management for a hir
bundle OF tickets threatening to with
hold rolicc protection if the tickets
We're not forthcoming, hut tho coppcrs
seemed activ" enough tonight against
As m3,ttGr Of fact, the Philadelphia
10 eiIS OUT. of that ngnher the Ma
der some inalienahlc baseball riph,
which has ever been 4 deep mystery.
Ih"n ,ncr" are, some twenty-five
stockholders in the club. men who
bought stock at q time when Phiiiv
stock was not generally rc@ardcd rs
worth more than n very few bars or
song, and these stockholders had TO
MIG Demand for Tickets.
:. Nv ., 'v' VIA. ; G!uh is headed by
c}uh is headed by a Now Yorker. 'S luz i'.
,noS' 81 The Philadelphia stockholdc-s
't" mere, and th"N have their friends,
10 snGdHniy dGy'SSIIfoped . Startling in
,,tssesl IN The rhiilies after they won
IN" p"nnant Each OF the dozen or SO
newspapers i'm PHILADELPHIA get $50
seats. where each had fondly antici-
pat"d several hundred, and the cnsu-
inr outcry a: we'll he imagined nv
,ae tim th.H. ita nHsi;ment got around
- Ola frleri ifoi nGlloi, It discovered,
- Us intense establishment. that il was
--o-. half out OF tickets. Twelve
'.e-tard had scarcely gone anywhere
an wherefore, Hoi Polloi gets
a-a' technically known as "ihc
Twas ever thus
e- somc Of tho rroudcst and
ST. aEr!zhcd baseball magnntcs
- 'Na national pas'iwc were
'-E around Tho Bellevue lo-night
-f 'r"N mad been denied all TN,
wanted That crowd to-