The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-09
HOBO AT HEAD
OF FAN LINE
Expected to Sell His Place for Ten
Dollar Bill and Get His
overcoat Out Of
Pawn.
sH1vER1NG WITH COLD
Bio Crowd stood All Night in Front
Of Ball Park Gate, Awaiting
Opening for Today's
Game.
[By Hugh Baillie, United Press Stan
CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-Ah, us
nipping and an eager air, tits bltter
cold-the wind cuts like a knife, re-
marked w. Shakespeare few nun,
bred years back and thousano-oou
| loyal Giant supporters echoed the
bard's sentiments today as they hunch-
ed around the Polo grounds gates.
| But what cared Frank E. Flint Tor
the chill zephyrs even If they did
whistle Jelly through the holes In ms
shoes Frank, his clothes tattered,
his blanket Tapping in the breeze
! chung tightly to his place. No. !. IN
the line up for bleacher seats and med
itated on getting new start IN lie
. on the SO he expected to get on the
:; sale of his place Flint said frankly
The cared naught for baseball, but that
his overcoat was in pawn for $3.50.
He wants to get it out and have some
thing left over for the winter.
| Among those present when a misty
dawn broke over the scene of the
third worlds series game, was large
Ethiopian person.
"Nobuddy can have this chile's
place in line" he warned loudly. "Ah
come on Pullman all the way from
| Nawth Caw'lina to see disser game"
! "You came on Putnam" asked
his neighbor.
"Yassur on it is right On the ROOT
of 1t, that's whah ah was. Oh boy!"
A crowd Of several hundred Of the
faithful started the Polo ground line
up in the cleaning last night. One
row of patient walters was headed by
two boys in khaki. Donald Hillyer, OF
Los Angeles and Hugh Cooper, of Chi
tcago They managed to get leave
from their camp in Allentown, Pa, to
see the opener in New York. They
amused the shiverIng fans all night
with jolly ditt;es, such as down
among the dead men" and more work
for the undertaken Most Of the
night hawks brought no eats and had
nothing to sit on. Embryo merchant
princes made a handsome thing re
! failing soap boxes. The huskster Of
bow-wow sandwiches also profted.
F. Smith. of Onondaga.' n. Y, declar
ed at dawn today that baseball had sal
baths and massage frazzled as cure
for rheumatics. His testimonial fol
lows:
II was bedridden six years will
rheumatism. Nothing helped me
The other day 1 saw by the paper:
that the Giants and Sox would pla,
for the championship. And I put OF
my pants and walked. Here am"
James V. Mckinley. Portland, Ore
and Fred Bigelow, Hamilton. Ont
were others who greeted the clamm,
morning tide with frosted whisker
and wet feet.
Some unknown and unsung philan
throphist somewhere in New Yorl
. can declare himself a candidate 70
, president on the baseball ticket to
morrow and be elected with ridiculou
ease He is the kind soul who, arme,
with bucket of coffee and ladle
passed among the waiting fans durin!
the night-when the rain drippe,
!, steadily-and fed them steaming no
, cofree-free.
With the first streaks of daylight
the ladies began to arrive. The
. showed that they expect equal right
with the men by fighting for precal
, iods toe-holds on mobbed street car
and capturing advantageous places il
line with perfect "elan"-as the wa
J correspondents Say.
BY $50 a. M the lines had stretche
away up the hill and around the col
, ner. The beetling crest of Coogan'
bluff was crowded with umbrellas an
derby hats The peanut vendors whis
ties began to sing their siren songs
Ioyerhead the dark grey clouds ooze
occasional drops OF ice water.
The forecast yesterday was 70
: clear and colder" today.
And now look at 1t,
Let the weatherist beware
. The crowd is mdttering hoarsely.