The New York herald., 1921-10-11
ANOTHER day or
: ROLLlCKING FUN
IN THE BLEACHERS
Giant and Yankee Fans
.-,.,,. 4sa Scattered and Cheer
ri, ing Wanes.
. BUT THE FUN CONTINUES
. Fat
Ont Of Town Fans Come
''s~ Up and Introduce
q, Themselves.
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.

*, ter the grounds we are accosted by a
boy who is peddling chocolate bars. II
he sells four more bars. he tells US. he
will have sufficient money to buy a
seat in the bleachers. His appeal
.ssbrings a lump to our throat With
: tears in our eyes and trembling with
s4emotion, we listen to his story. Only
srthe price of four chocolate bars stands
nstetween him and a seat in the heavenly
bleaehers- Let, US see. Can we afford
o.to. purchase four chocolate bars?
Twenty cents is lot of money Our
=. =, trousers need patching and we could
use another pair of socks. Have we
ia right to be extravagant? /.
Shucksi 4, Here goes! Maybe we can
n sell the bars at profit in the bleach
--ers. Who can tell? The kid thanks
."tis and we enter the Polo Grounds
,suffused with that. glorious feeling Of
.: saintliness that rushes over one when
he feels he has done noble deed. .
11:15-We fall heir to another thrill
AS we lesurely saunter 9own tho
bleachers runway in. quest OF seat we
are met by guard of honor--Yankee
--@heer leader Warren c. Cloyd and Giant
cheer, leader Danny Russell-who escort
.us to front row seat near the left
~ field foul line. We are overcome by this
= foyal reception. Sunday we had only a
single escort. To-day we are. fanked on
sNeither side by noted bleacherite
We are rapidly becoming famous
= II seems. We wish those people in the
sixth, eighth and ninth rows would stop
z; pointing MS out to their peighbors.
-, II :30--Cheer Leaders Russell and Cloyd
begin whooping 1t up. The cheers sound
7. weak to us for the first time. Being an
= -inquisitive guy we promptly ask for an
explanation. We've got to know every
tiring or we aren't satisfied. We are in
formed by the cheer leaders that the
Yankee and Giant rooters are badly
scattered and that 1t will be difficult to
- accomplish any organized cheering to-
vnday. Thank God for thatl We yearn
n, for day Of rest
~. II :45-Elwood Regan, q fan from
Avoca, Pa, comes over and introduces
himself. Elwood says he read, that
article of ours yesterday in which we
spoke of searching through the bleachers
...tfor out OF towners and thought we
I; might like to meet him. You bet! Ell
wood is here to root for his frierd Mike
McNally. Mike. he tells us. comes from
Minooka. Pa, which Is q hop. skip and
jump from Avoca. The boys back home
=. are planning grand reception for Mike.
c-''he says. The near beer will flow freely
land the speeches will be many. =. /.
un'$ Ewood reminisces interestingly about
Shfs home town. Avoca, he tells US. has
- many historic baseball associations. For
one thing, Hughey Jennings was raised
there. Jennings says Elwood. once
aob6inted out the little town to McGraw
from railroad train. According to the
legend, McGraw couldn't see 1t as there
was box car on the crossing. Other
well known ball players who come from
-eAvoca and environs. says Elwood. who
.. ia becoming more friendly every minute,
s'are Buck Harris Of the Washingtons
Chick Shorten Of the Detroits and Steve
- ONeill OF the Clevelands. Some place.
this Avoca!
.ar. 70 :00--Anoiher out of town bleacher-
ite comes up and introduces himself. He
Is Arthur Baldwin of Wilmington. Del
He is here to root for his friend. Frank
i Baker. He wants to know why Frank
isn't in there playing. Search US. Ar
al 1huri
.,s,a l2 :is-Larry Decker Of the Bronx
:.buys an ice cream cone. Who says
iLarry's broke because he lost a dollar
ION the Yanks Sunday?
~ :S0-Abe Altberg of Brooklyn won
ders why there are so few women In
the crowd to-day. Wash day is the
answer, Abe.
~ ;4o--A fan to our right Is kicking
z tecause one end OF the frankfurter he
has purchased bears mysterious I'm
= print In indelible Ink. We undertake to
~ calm him by pointing out that the I'M
print may be Harry Stevens's autograph.
,"None genuine without the signature, -
IL the way we put It. He refuses to be
consoled Oh. we'll
~ 10 :45--A soda vendor drops whole
sa~-a- - Hvr
~ ter all over the runway. He pursues
them, captures them ALL brushes them
of. put them back In place and In a few
seconds is again serenely shouting. Get
cold drink here. gents Orange. sass
4 and ginger ale!"
.lH 12:60--We go for our daily stroll
down the runway. We like to imagine
that the field Is the ocean and that we
are on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City.
~ = We have Just been hit by
Y wave. No. we are wrong. It was just
~ some tobacco Juice that some one didn't
want.
49, l:Oe--we go out to inspect the club
house. There is. a crowd In front Of the
|. entrance. What's going on? Ha! A
! reunion Of old-timers. There's old Bill
/. Tydings. trainer for Jack Dunns Balti-
more club, reminiscing about the old
/: Orioles. Bill used to be a rubber and
I. trainer for McGraw In those days. he
. tells us. Among the many things Bill
I. tells the boys Is that Jack Bentley. slug
|. ger of the present day Orioles, will be
/, az good as Ruth one Of these days. Bill
: starts an argument by declaring that
; Baltimore will run away with the In
ternptional League pennant next year.
!. 4 gentleman from Rochester Il In the
= gathering and he objects.
The arr,,meent Is going on at a great
rate when Babe Ruth. attired in a gor-
geous lemon coored topcoat and an ele-
! giant tan English golf cap dashes up In
! his shiny new automobile. The arguers
disperse and run over to get peed at
the Babe. In his present makeup he
. resembles French bouIevordisr. Some
Auds. Babe!
r:so--we return to our perch In tho
bleachers. After many fruitiess
. efforts Cheer Leaders Cloyd and Russell
J manage to get a sizable whoop ont of
their cohorts. Taking II by and large.
, the boys are pretty quiet to-day. What's
. the matter. fellers? Tired out7. :.
So are wei
2:00--"Piay ballw Unless we are
mistaken you win find an account OF the
game elsewhere ON this page II not
send us a stamp. self-addrcssed envelope
y ana we'll tell you who won.