The sun., 1916-10-08
CROWDS AT HOME
WATCH DOWNFALL
OF FAYORITE SONS
Residents Of Greater City
damned Around Bulletin
Boards During Game.
BROOKLYN STILL HOPES
FOR BETTER RESULTS

Business was entirely suspended In
BROOKLYN yesterday. The inhabitants OF
N. huge Long Island borough spent the
greater part of the afternoon in wretched
silence watching scoreboards. tickers
ard any other news agency which might
tell them the narrowing details of the
fate Of their favorite 5uperbas. Brook.
iyn Is not downhearted. but rather tenn
rorarly breathless and spcllbound that
ts baseball heroes should have proved
~ he unequal to the frst task in worlds
series warfare
No less Interested in the Boston ex-
element was Manhattan. Everywhere
crowds gathered watching the bulletins
~ The annual diamond classic. But as
was the case in Brooklyn the Manha:-
.ari,es were awcd to silence by the
Aiming Red Sox. who were shown hit
''0s. heldng and pitching past all cf-
forts Of the National IeaEu" champions
"Just wal, until We get them at Eb-
nets Field" was the warning o: the de-
T'fNNtu anu utltttt tu iVlloW'Irs
"Roston figures to win on their home
pasture" was the decision of many.
E-citin~ in Ninth.
There were two big times III the carly
mart II the game FOR the home crowds.
\ cheer that nigh, have been heard in
Paris came from n million throats when
rs h Wheat tripled with Casey Stengel
N ra ing distance Of the plate. Again
when chief Meyers was shown speeding
around the sacks following his smash to
centre field for three bases.
However, neither of ;hese thrilers
was a cau;ion TO the hope and suspense
brought about In thsi ninth inning.
When the Dodgers began their Anal at
trek "a few cheers greeted the knowledge
hat one man was on base. but when the
next followed 20 FIST safely and the
r.Vt and theN continued until four runs
vcrc uver the plate. three on bases and
o''y q single needed to a; least tie he
% re. Brooklyn Tcr cf st1.d haht;s tpr-
20. their trcirrg. Eac'., were slapped,
rhaer tf:e- cNcer rent The air. In Man
Na',,r around I.onra"re Square he
ro., was so great that theatre croSds
A. drs were r:'Sr 'catd. hut when learn
.rg the cause the too Joined In
Wih Jake raurert at ba: and the
ca0,o ia the balance BROOKLYN was al
most overcome. "Wi!l Jake do it,"
mean, more to the residents OF New
York about o'clo X yesterday than
Hren the war is o be over. who IL to be
,he nex' President or whether the sun
VII come Up In the morning.
Dsubrrt Breaks Many Hearts.
When the mighty and long reve.cd
paubert made his effort and IT resulted
IN an emulation o. Casey, excepting that
nauhert showed an easy Grounder TO the
inneld and Casey missed connections al
together. Brooklyn WAS stunned.
why. oh. why did you do 1t. Jake"
one hyterical fan muaned. And the
crowd took II up. From dreams Of We
tory that crowd was transposed To the
horror of defea; In an instant. Men who
hut second before were shaking with
confidence. reused to the highest degree
Of hope. seemed to crumh.e In despair as
L beset upon by some destructive force.
Brooklyn is gloomy but with hope re-
vived
Almost everywhere room could be
found In the greater city bulletins were
posted on the game and at every place
thousands elbowed each other and fought
for advantageous spots. Around Boz
ough Hall In Brooklyn il Is estimated
that 100000 persons were Jammed
watching the scorcboards erected by
Brooklyn newspapers. So dense was the
trafNc In this region that for the two
hours during which the game was played
police reserves were kept on the jump
A. first trying TO md room for traffic.
and failing in this rerouting everything
that came in that neighborhood Prob
ably this assemblage was the greatest
of New York.
shouting Thousands In Brooklyn.
Al the space around Atlantic avenue
and Flatbush another monster crowd
Was gathered This crowd was not 20
large as the one around Borough Hall,
but II possessed greater volume as far
as noise making was concerned. When
Brooklyn threatened TO win the game in
the final inning and finished with a
sprint that raised the hopes Of Brooklyn
beyond expectations the Atlantic avenue
crowd started yelling with the opening
OF The inning and did not stop until
hunderstruck by Dauberts failure.
thousands more OF Brooklyn's faithful
gathered at Washington Park, the
Twenty-third Regiment and Broadway
sporting Club, where the game was
SHOWN In detail on electric scoreboards
In theatres and other public places the
nanagements OF the respective attrac-
oons realized the intense interest in the
natlons sport classic and continually in
of'Sted the performances TO advise
lheir patrons how the game was proceed
,ns This complimentary action almost
hroke up several supposedly deeply in
'eres'ing plays as the audiences were
usually more impressed with the notices
~ 'ne progress OF the worlds series than
N" talented display OF the actors and
Actresses
Clubs Are ia m med.
Almost every club in the greater city
had detailed accounts OF the game flashed
On srecially constructed bulletin boa rds.
IhaSmuoh as Wall street closed at noon
mere we're standing room only signs in
me usually deserted clubs.
The telephone company was kept busy
rom early until late answering calls for
information about the game. As in
i'lmer years the management; of the
"I'1npne company tried TO give out the
scores and 10 accommodate their patrons
,"s'efday, many girls were given extra
al'y. But after several million questions
haf been answered the tcleDhonc officials
decided they had picked out a job
Never before have we had so much
ons'n"Ss,' was the way one prominent
'"'"phou" official stated the matter. 81
."'ly believe We answered 5000. 900
'e"hill questions during the daylight
Ssurs Of Yesterday"