The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
HEAVY RAIN ALL
DURING THE NIGHT
Line Before Philadelphia sleaeher
Ticket Office, However. Grew,
a. the Day Ap-
preached.
1900 THIS MORNING
Tickets Selling al FabuIou. Prices
sealpers Hold up Fans in
the Down Town
District.
THIS MORNING

i Stan Correspondent
i PHILADELPHIA. Oct S.-A cold
and gloomy day chased "a dreary.
chilly night out of Philadelphia All
might long fina drizzle whipped by
]; fitfsl gusts OF wind galloped up and
down the streets, driving everyone but
THE SPECTATORS into the hotels.
This afternoon the sun, apparently
ASHAMED Of himself. refused to be
;;ccaxed out and getaway day left
i much to be desired, climatically
J, speaking.
1t appeared certain. however, that
the Red Sox and Phiilies would clash
as per schedule. barring unexpected
/ upsets. Club officials were on the
grounds at daybreak looking over the
| field and squirting at the skies. Az
ier giving everything the up and down
including shivering line OF some L.
500 baseball nuts who stood before
the ticket window. 1t was announced
that game would In all probability
ibe played.
/ Officials privately expressed the
sopinion that couple of barrels of
gasoline scattered promiscuousIy over
the field with a match applied would
dry OF the diamond sufficiently 20
play.
i Up to Commission.
i Final decision however, rested with
the National commission and unit,
that august body convened at the
Bellevue Strat.ord shortly before
noon 1t was absolutely certain the
fcIans Of Moran and Carrigan would
perform for an expectant populace.
! Seldom in baseball's long and vart-
gated history has the gullible public
been prodded in the pocketbook to
such an extent as 1t was last night and
today. Spectators seem to have cor
lnered the ticket supply and were
fairly well advanced along the road to
independent wealth. Sets Of three 50
seats were bringing $40 and $40 with
out more than feeble protest John
ID and Andy Carnegie could hardly
have touched IS square Of cardboard.
1T was impossible to walk through
Broad, Chestnut or Market streets
without being fairly mobbed by
iscalpers The police, who are popu-
larly supposed to possess an undying
hatred for speculative creatures, we're
conveniently absent and the grand 1T
tile sport OF prodding the populace
went merrtly on.
Betting at Even Money.
Betting was, practically at even
money. Occasionally some feverish
partisan would offer five to four on
the Red Sox to cop. but just as often
1T would be the other way round.
The papers reported heavy betting
jbut it was not visible to the nude
EYE. There were reports that bets of
| 50 600 to $4,000 had been made on the
iBostonians to win but they neglected
to say who the betters were. Dozens
lof bets of $1,1o0 to $1,000 with Car
rigan's crew the favorite were re-
ported but unverified.
/ About $50 persons. mostly youths.
stood. before the ticket window at the
ball park all night, through the dris-
izle. for the opening at II o'clock. At
6 a. M there were probably 500 shiv-
ering In the line and by o'clock the
number had grown to 1900. Heading
the string were about twenty-five
youths who frankly admitted they
didn't expect to see the game-thev
wanted to sell their places for prices
that would make Charley Schwab
blink