The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-05
ODDS FOR YANKS
Gotham Fans at Last Minute
Feer Toward Americans.
Many Stood in Line All Night to
Get Tickets.
OVATION is GIVEN YANKEES
Game Officially Started by
Mayor Hylan at 2:05.
Were 10000 Seated in Stadium
When Game Started.

Polo Grounds, New York, Oct s.
An azure, cIoud-flecked sky, a fairly
warm sun and a capacity crowd of
some 10000 baseball bugs greeted the
Giants and. Yankees here this after
noon when they lined up for the first
game of the aII-New York worlds
series.
The advance guard Of fans, led by
the usual alI-wooIers who camped at
the ticket windows all night, filed into
the park at 10 o'clock when the gates
were opened.
Miller Huggins's clustering Yankees
were the favorites by a slight margin
as the series opened. The Yanks, on
account of their terrific hitting ability,
have swung opinion to their side.
Two hours before the game was
scheduled to start, the bleachers and
half the unreserYed seats in the upper
grandstand were filled.
Giants First on Field.
The men of McGraw were the first
to arrive on the field. They entered
the park from the big gate in the right
field bleachers at 1925 o'clock and
their appearance was the signal for a
big ovation from the crowd.
Babe Ruth, king of swat was the
outstanding figure as the teams pre-
pared for battle. The big bam,'' with
a new home run record of SO circuit
swats in a single season and a repu-
tation as a murderer of all kinds of
pitching, was the logical candidate for
the role of worlds series hero.
Ruth is the big ace of the Yanks.
He is the "keg" of INT whom Yankee
fans are counting on to shatter the
defenses of the stalWart Giants.
He has hammered balls into the
stands and over the walls at the Polo
best pitchers in the American League
that his admirers can see no way for
Giant twirlers to stop him, the more
willing he is to wager that Ruth will
monopolize the series.
YanI1s Get Ovation.
The Yankees strobe onto the field at
1852 o'clock. Their appearance was
the signal for a tremendous outburst
of applause from the crowd. They got
much bigger reception than the
Giants.
The Yankees had on their road uni
forms of gray, with dark blue caps and
blue and gray socks. They looked de-
termined and cleancut. When they
/ came up to the visitors bench they
were assaulted by the young army of
camera men and submitted to the
many whims of the snapshot men with
grim smiles on their faces.
At 1880 o'clock the Giants took the
Hugh Jennings batting to the infield
and Dolan and Burkett hitting to the
gardeners.
The Giants were full of snap. Peck,
Frisch and Rawlings scooped up hard
hit Founders out of the dirt. and
flashed the ball around the bases with
( a vim.
Polo Grounds, New York. Oct. g.
After a night of feverish expectancy
downtown and long hours of leaning
| on the barred portals of the Brush
stadium uptown. New York snapped
into its per cent worlds series early
this morning.
! At 9:47 O'Clock this morning the
/ turnstiles began to revolve at the en-
| trance on Eighth avenue and One
Hundred and Fifty-fifth street and a
/ few seconds later the benumbed fans
who had stood in the front of the line
thru the chilly night were engaged in
/ foot races to restore their blood circu-
lation and to snatch the choicest seats
in the sunny section which was by far
the more comfortable today
Ten minutes later the waiting lines
on the speedway began to writhe- along
as the back door of the Polo grounds
] was opened to accommodate the three
3 customers in the upper deck Of the
huge grandstand In both these sec
tions, the seats were not reserved and
/ the early birds got the choice loca-
tions.
Those fans who had the forethought
! to provide themselves with chairs and
heavy blankets or overcoats were able
I to doze off now and then, but it was
/ a heavy-eyed collection some 1000
men and boys who waited in line most
of the time.