Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-05
STAGE PREMATURE SCENE
DAMON RUNYON FEARS
FOR SUCCESS OF SERIES
Pat Moran and BilI Carrican Act
"IInstily'' at Polo Grounds Ncstcr-
day. and Result Mn, he ..SeriouS.''
ny ptNON RI,NSuN.

by DAMON RtNSON.
. NEW YORK, october i.--Ouc Of the
most essential ana certainly one of tho
most solemn scenes pertaining to II
wcll-rcgulatcd worlds series was Sc
rioUSly damaged, If not totally ruined,
10y II burst OF prcmoturcncSs up at the
Polo Grounds this afternoon. From
now on we IRE f9fmE I" iSe' am'SnntiS
impending series.
1t does not seem TO us that You can
20 ahead and put on Il scene as i'm
portant to a worlds series as this one
so lar in advance without taking some
thing away from the championship con-
test, and certainty without this scene Il
worid'S series would be something like
a New Wayburn SHOW. sans lc-er-ah-
uh-Iimh-ah'S.
Which is to say. a blank.
We refer. Of course. TO that sceno
where the managers of the opposing
clubs shake hands. That is the very
scene We arc mumblinE about, and il
is 4 great hit and has been for years.
II takes place just before the openin.
poraueous and aCcidcntal-likc, with
everybody else cleared away from Che
and with the managers holding each
others FrimN right paw as If it were
a dead FISH. THOR faces cracked in al
legged smiles. and their caps pushed
well back from their adamant brows to
give the poor lens chance.
Premature Scene.
This scene proves that despite tho
horrible rivalry existing between en-,
the managers arc none the less sports
OF friendship. especially when the pho
iorraphcrs are so insistent about IL.
We Just naturally hate 10 think of a
worlds series without this scene but
what do you suppose occurred up at
the Polo GROUNDS this, aftSrnoon%
why Fat Moran and Bill Carrigan.
managers of the Philiies and the Red
4 SoN put" on the scene several days too
soon, and now il viii be such old stun
I for the worlds series that the house
manager may demand they cut 1t out.
Pat Moran was, responsible for the
. nrcmaturcncSS. fic wandered into the
Iolo Grounds to-day to see the Red
Son play the Yankees, and he sat con
csaled behind Pos, - in the Grand
seconds. Then the inmates of the
( ,pat had With him Grover Cleveland
for the worlds championship the latter
part OF this week. and Grover brought
amt games Grover and Bin remained
| more open and exposed than Pat
throughout tho afternoon They are
/ what YOU might call shameless about
/ their presence.
Newspaper Men on Bob.
Between the first and second games
Pat went down TO the pest-boX gate
near the SoX bench and sQualtcd on his
haunchcs in the aisle, emitting cries
or about % per cent OF the total attend
ance. helped him out by lifting their
voices. acting as messengers and gen
orally making themselves useful and
obnoxious.
Biil was finally located, and camo
over TO tho gate, and then and there tho
scene, that SHOULD have been reserved
for the worlds series was pushed on
They shook hands. II was most i'm
,iISii9; rat,' SAID sill ill.,
And little did they think that Old
ironsides, the international News Ser
vice PHOTOGRAPHER, at anchor lay in the
2iiii$. snaichlns Photographic repro
! HuStlonS or the imposing situation
! while newspaper writers masscd them,
! selves CLOS" up and took notes OF the
! conversation with frantic haste We
/ "lSIlkc gossip and scandal. but we must
/ say mat We nave a feeling that but
Tor on" thing. ola Ironsdes would not
Urn Inn,,, in thoso films at this time, hut
I work during the worlds series, when
/ Ne Ne could SEND en- marked. Managers
I moran ana CarriGan shake hands as
I son ana Pills hurl themselves into the
The one thing that is going 70 nro-
/ vent TINS chichany on old Ironsides's
+ part - the fact that Pat Moran was
Mit,dred IN plain clothes. while Bill Car
ENcn as desperate a character as old
! lronsces would never try 10 yet away
! with that Kind OF film
More 'Conycrsntion."
EcsuminG our report OF the convcr
/ Sation between Pat and RiI. we fnd
on ono,i ref e, nee, TO orr notes that they
Hello Pat"
I very conventional. and not Worth nttbiim
! We hear that Pat congratulated Riil
1 and B!n congratulated Pat. and , b,ti,
Vol, ,eood-hy Pat" said Bill.
Friday" 10"
"All right. Pat" said Ell
II was certainly a great scene. with
, lronsIdcs snatching rlctrrcs o 1lI 1 ,ha
/ nineteen fans pressed in close amT
/ everybody all worked nm ANA nyo,.,
I thing, hut somehow, w,. faoi ~ every
have ciouded the film for the worlds
We saw a lot of norso,. ;r,.,
/ ing &. Cleveland AlcTand..rS !.To IcW
+ the Rod Sox Friday. hu, va ne, pa
! Tess We did not 20 near him ~ 80.
. afraid hc mi@ht say he is couGJa,rt
beating tho SON. alihou.h t,cw eo,,, ~
T nav. "a! good han ,Iul. .,I 90 IN ~