New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-10-11


perlence with it's first worlds series
games yesterday was satisfactory, so
Rar as the final outcome of the game
went. 1t began under depressing con-
alt1ons, for the results Of those two
games up at Boston were almost as
Milling to the fans as were the
eezes which passed over Ebbets
1ield and which had tingle in them
as II they had passed by a few ice
vaults in the outlying districts on
shelr way. OVercoatS, sweaters, and
1nrs were quite de riguer, as they say
81 the Heights, and arctic galoshes
and ear tabs would have been in evil
dence had visitors to the ball field
been as able to get at them as they
were at the frankfurters and sand
W1ches, we'll shattered with the hot
test of mustard, which warned up the
inner man, temporarily at all events.
For the benefit of the fans of the
bleacher variety there had been con-
structed in the rea~ of the center field
pen which would accommodate two
or three thousand of them at 81 per
fan. The tariff for their old roofing
space back of left field had been
doubled, and they had to forego the
pleasures of their old stamping ground
for the new barracks. These shut off
the view Of q great part Of the score
and announcement board from the pa
irons of the stands, and SO kept the
crowd guessing as to just what was
gong on when the pitchers and other
payers were shifted during the exig-
encioS of the game-eXigencie in this
Instance meaning casualties to pitch
crs who had been knocked out of the
box and gave way to emergency bats
men.
A substitute board was lacking, and
those who had paid their SO or So for
seat in the chilling wind and who,
with no familiarity with the counter
ances Of the players to cheer and en-
tighten them, kept themselves warm
for a few minutes by shouting franti-
cally at one another in efforts to de-
eide which one of the many guesses as
to identity was the correct one. The
announcers who shouted the changes
at the crowd through megaphones
were about as Ineligible as those in
railroad stations.
Many Vacant Seats.
Brooklyn took rather kindly to its
first experience in this worlds series
the Enclosure at the Flatbush grounds.
There were stretches of unoccupied
boxes at either end of them and vast
stretches of them in the upper tier.
The blearcherites had stood the gaff
periodically, but the man with more
money refushed to rush in thousands
for the seats which belated announce
mentS Tuesday evening said were to be
had at the ticket office with the open
+. ing Of tho gates yesterday. Meantime
the usual stories of vast premiums
paid fOr seats were put in circulation
by tho ticket spectators and their
friend. Yet it was wonderful how easy
| it was to procure from the thrifty
ticket vendors choice seats in the up
per tier which ordinarily would have
sold &c" SO ct 50 each and after the
gnrlc had advanced q couple of in
nirGG - 81. The Gpeculators had been
Stun crd stung badly, for q lot of
them "a ticI-ct3 which they were
quito r~adE to dispose of as old paper
after TIC game. Tho seats were rath-
er slow IN filling up in the lower tier
until after couple &C innings had
been paved and very many of the up
Ter tirs rcats were vacant all through
tn car2C.
Trat very picturesque bunch Of Bos-
tor:an$ who call themselves the Royal
PO0tc~~. and who are sane and con-
serVGti"c business mon until q worlds
series begins, seemed to be particular
suffercr~ in the matter of distribu-
lion OF tickets. They came down
from roston several hundred strong
with & relocated and lusty-lunged
Band, decorated themselves with
badges and sasheS and big medals with
Carrig9n's picture on them, burdened
themselves with bannerettes bearing
in huge letters either the legnd
.tRoyal Rooters' or Red Sox," and
then paraded about the streets OF New
York and over the greensward of the
ball field like an army possessed on a
holiday.
They wanted a good spot at the ball
field in which to exploit themselves
and their loyalty to the Red SoX. They
were ready to pay for it Instead of
getting it they got a section of seats
down in the extreme upper corner of
the stand nearest the left field, where
they were practically unseen and were
practically unheard. But their band
would not be silenced, and over the
grouchy bodies and heads of the Royal
Rioters it sent out the strains of the
war song, "Tessie" Brooklyn had to
zee the FtOOl5TS ana listen W Cllelr oollS
for they are both insistent and strenu-
pus. But they were very bitter because
they had been poked away into the
most undesirable corner of the stand
Royal ROOtcrS Loyal.
But they were loyal, were those
Royal ROoters, and even when the
score was against their boys from Bos-
ton they had offered to bet at odds of
4 to and then at even money that
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