The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-06
Some Women In Line Be
fore Box Office At
Comiskey Park
GREET FIRST COCK
CROW WITH CHEERS
More Than $1,000 In Line
When Gates Open
AT 10 O'clock
Try Associated Press.J

Chicago. Oct. b.-Today Is the
great day Of the baseball world. This
afternoon, at o'clock. the New
York Giants. champions oft'tbe Ma
tionai league and the Chicago White
Stockings champions Of the Ameri-
can league. are to meet for the
worlds championship. e..
All night long a line Of 200 or 500
persons, including 4 few women,
stood in line at the windows where,
at 10 o'clock this morning, the $4,000
remaining pavilion and bleacher
seats were TO be sold.
Theirs not TO reason why, theirs
to get in or die" was the perverted
motto. 1t was cold. Most OF the
night there was a drizZle OF rain.
dawn, but mostly like the famous
six hundred, they obeyed the order
of the god of baseball. and stuck.
Sunrise was delayed somewhere in
the fog. Through the long hours a
ghostly line stretched its length
along the fence OF Comiskey park.
Electric lights showed dimly through
rain washed glopes; banners hung
limp. The only cheerful thing in
sight was the flicker of the gas
flame under coffee boilers in a make
shift stand across the street.
Out OF the surrounding darkness,
as 1the hands Of a distant tower
clock wound round the circle. other
ghostly figures Joined the line, and
added to the receipts of the coffee
and the frankfurter vendors.
Cock Crow chesred.
First cock crow was greeted with
cheers and the matutinal cry of some
bedraggled hen was taken by a local
fan as a good omen.
Say, just hear that bird, he ex-
claimed.
Just like any other hem, re-
sponded his companion.
''It amt neither. That bird-just
listen now-that bird is calling just
as plain. as. day.. 'com-com com
Comiskey, com-com- COM Comis-
key.
Them birds know who's going 10
win just like they know when it's
morning. 81
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 I'm
short order. A nearby lumber yard
served to supply fuel for innumer-
able small fires over which the fana-
tics OF the game huddled and studied
out the stories.
The papers, IL appeared, were
certain that Cicotte would
pitch for Chicago and Schupp for
New York. Second choice was Fab
er for the locals and Perritt for the
invaders.
Quits Job To Attend.
First in line at the bleacher. line
was the greatest of all Pacific coast
Ted Craig, OF Los Ange-
les. Craig'B boss couldn't spare him
for the series, so he followed the ad-
vice OF the humorist who said that,
il smoking interferes with business,
quit the business. Craig quit the
Job. and was first in line.
Charles Loper, Of Charles City, Ia.s
well up toward the head OF the line,
had an umbrella and earned enough
money by selling space under IL, at
worlds series prices, 20 pay his own
way into the grounds.
BY z o'clock l,500 persons were In
the lines.
At 1880 tarpaulins were removed
from the base lines and the grounds
were pronounced reasonably fit for
the historic contest about TO be put
on. At this hour, also, the score
card Halesmen brought new bright
ness into the lives OF those in line
with their cries OF you can't tell the
players without a score card". Most
of the dyed-in-the-woo1 fans there
could have told the players in the
dark, but they bought the cards.
anyway.
skies Clear.
After a night OF cold and rain the
skies cleared this morning and the
for the first Of the worlds
championship games between the