New Britain herald., 1917-10-06
Do Not Mind the Trouble so
Long as They Are Able to
Get to the Bleachers in
Comiskey Park.
EAT FRANKFURTERS.
PROCURE SCORE CARDS
Ted Crag Of Los Angeles, Greatest OF
all Coast Fans, Gives Up His Job
and Is the First One in the Line of
Hundreds-Ideal Weather.

| IluHuiC11S-1uCAI Weather.
Chicago, Oct. '6.-Today is the great
day of all the baseball world. This
afternoon the New York team, cham
plons OF the National league, and the
chicago White Stockings, champions
of the American league were to meet
for the worlds championship.
All night long a line of two or three
hundred persons including few
women stood in line at the windows
where. at 10 o'clock this morning, the
$4,000 remaining pavilion and bleach
er seats were sold.
1t was cold and most Of the night
| there was a drizzle of rain. Some
quit, only to re-appear before dawn,
but mostly they obeyed the impera-
tive order of the good Of baseball ana
| stuck.
| Sunrise was delayed somewhere In
the fog. Through the long hours a
ghostly nne stretched its length along
the fence of Comiskey park. Electric
! lights showed dimly through rain
washed globes. The only cheerful
thing in sight was the flicker of the
gas flame under coffee boilers in
makeshift canvas shelter across the
street, although there was some cheer
too, in the steam and the odor which
arose from .frankfurter boilers, the
owners of which did thriving busi-
ness through the night.
Out of the surrounding darkness in
increasing numbers as the. hands OF
a distant tower clock wound round
the circle, other ghostly figures added
to the line.
First cock crow was greeted with
cheers and the matutinal cry Of some
| I Il, 80 I,
fan a good omen.
Say, just hear that bird, just lis
ten what it crows he exclaimed.
THAT bird is calling just as plain as
day, com -com-com Comiskey.' Don't
you get it. 1t says Comiskey. Them
| birds know, you bet, just like they
know when its going to be morning.
The reluctant gray of the morning
had not appeared when newsboys
came shouting on the scene with "all
about the worlds series.' and were
relieved of their supplies in short or
der A nearby lumber yard served to
supply fuel for innumerable small
fires over which the fanatics of the
game huddled and studied out the
stories, taking care, however, not to
leave their places in line. Policemen
kept order and settled more than one
dispute as to position.
Dawn brought no physical warmth.
but it was full of promise, as the
rain seemed to have ceased definite
ly, and spirits rose. New arrivals
came now in groups and the lines
grew rapidly until they wound out of
sight of the ticket windows around
corners into side streets. Vendors
with pennants began to appear, others
W.T. nthar nOiSp-m9 king
instruments and even toy ballons. The
business of the coffee men, which
had 1anguished when the newspapers
came, revived briskly, and many
small boy or girl came running with
hot lunch in a pail for someone who
had stood the long hard vigil.
Watches came out of pockets.
"Only four hours more till the gates
open" said the watches, and 1t seemed
little to those who had waited more
hours than that in the darkness and
cold.
First in line at the bleacher line
was the greatest of all Pacific coast
enthusiasts, Ted Crag, of Los Angeles.
Crag's boss couldn't spare him for the
series so he followed the advice of the
humorist, who said that if smoking
interferes with business, quit the bus
mess AEdS gave up tllc Joc t1hN " Go
first in line. Charles Cain upheld
Chicago's position as a real baseball
town by holding second position.
BY o'clock 800 persons were in
the lines. There were probably 80
women among them. They were for
the most part well-dressed and pros
porous Some of them ex-
planned that their money had been
sent back to them after the reserved
seats had been allotted and that they
| "just had to sec the games" and had
sacrificed some hours Of sleep to do
so. There were also a number of sail
Ors.