New Britain herald., 1921-10-05
MANY WAIT ALL
night FOR TICKETS
Fans AfOOt and in Autos Stand
Since Yesterday Morning

New Ork, oct. 0.-Ir11eS IKE the
diearmam ent conference, the Mayor
atty election and even the trend of the
cost of living were forgotten last night
while New York on the eve of the
first OF the worlds series contests
gave itself up to the mounting baseball
fever.
Stirred as never before, because for
the first time in eighteen years of an
nual contests for national supremacy
two New York teams will face each
other at the Polo Grounds at o'clock
this afternoon, the town, its hotels
bulging with fans fromw all parts Of
the country debated the relative |
chances of the Yanks and the Giants |
until the small hours.
Then the lucky 81, 600 of the $780,
900 in these regions-al who will be
able to cram themselves inside the
park-made final preparations for
wa itching a contest that promises to oe
historic. For many those prepar-
atoms took the form of hunting up
mid Winter apparel, for it was shivery
long before midnight and the predic-
ton for today was fair, but cool.
There was a lively-last minute traf
licking in reserved seats between those
who had been fortunate enough to
get them and those who had~' Of
fcially there were none to be had, as
every last ticket had been bought ex-
cept the free-for-alls in the grand
stand and the bleacher pasteboards
which went on sale at Z o'clock this
morning, an hour and a half before
the gates open.
100000 Wagercd in Wall Street
Betting wasalmost as brisk as ar
guing over the relative chances of the
contenders. Big bets generally were
placed at even money, but among the
smaller wagers the Giants appeared
to be slightly favored, the money US
ually being put down at to 5. 1t was
reported in Wall street that 500, 900
had been bet there up to closing time
and Brooklyn's estimate was that
$4,000 would change hands on the
series.
Along the White Way and in hotels
where enthusiasts from other towns
sought the very latest inside stuff
from New York friends who had been
able to follow the winning mines more
closely, there was more betting and
more arguing last night, but neither
side seemed to have the conclusive best
Of it.
Next to the probable winner, the ia
vorite topic was of course, that home
run wizard, Mr.. Ruth. The Yankee
fans found in him their mainstay Of
hope and PROSE, and even those whose
interest or money lay on the other side
| were keen to see what the Babe would
do at the opening of the years big
show.
Any one who may have doubted last
OF h cd
dered to the excitement of the ap-
preaching contest in way reminiscent
of the eve of the late Dempsey
fCarpenter arguent, would have found
himself mistaken had he visited the
| Polo Grounds where a little army of
workers had put almost the last
touches to the big baseball plant.
| First Fan at Gates at 10 A. NJ.
| The vanguard of the $1,000 got
! there at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
He was Charles Kierst, city fireman
Of Auburn, N. Y. He was still there al
midnight and manifestly meant tc
stay. BY then he had been Joined by
some forty others in the growing line
n front of the Eighth avenue window
where the bleacher seats are to bt
handed out at 81 each-war tax II
| cents. ney were IIdllhly llle llOl pOlIO
of the fans, so eager to see the game
they didn't care how much hardship
they had to undergo to get one O.
the best of the worst seats.
| Over on the Speedway was anothe
line. There were twenty of them a
midnight, and to the curious VIII
, watched them they represented tn
$ aristocracy of the early corners. The
were ready to pay SO each for gran
: stand seats as soon as the first sleepy
: | eyed ticket seller swung open n
: wicket in the morning.
> Then there was a third line of tn
, rich. They were the ones who intende
to drive to the Polo Grounds in the
= cars, and dint see why they mightn
as we'll do it the night before ar
get it over with. So they hustled u
or down, to the scene of today's d
! ings, parked their vehicles, MAJ
i, themselves snug inside and prepare
,s to debouch early in the m forming befo
", the lines ahead Of them were We
), long Some in that class were in the
a own cars. Some were in their maste
-, cars, but the awed curbstaneitets
- the bleacher line they all looked Ii
real wealth. until their snugly draw
curtains hid them from view.
Surer-Fa waits % IL Hours
tx To return to the young man nam
Or kicrst who now enters baseball histo
< NY Virtue of being first on the Ii
lie and a twenty-five and a half hour W.
Of | 90 get inside. He is % years old a
4 has seen at least one game of ca
as series. He means to see at Lex
one until the very end Of his Ii
- He was SO confident the series wOu
open in New York this year that
- worked right through the hot SUNNI
- when fires arc most unCOmfOrtai
o. and wouldn't take q vacation from t
81 engine house until the opening d;
- was announced. Now he's here for t
55 whole series and ne hopes it will
a long one-just SO the Giants win
81 Next in line was Charles Jacob, a
ST of Auburn. Kierst brought him do
81 for cCmrany in case he should
63 find any congenial spirits in the Ii
Ga The Cronies had kept their lon
"a vigil for seven hours whom the tn
fan appeared al o'clock in the e
4, ming. He was Leslie Carpenter,
years old Of 279 South street,
IN maica, who goes to High school in
morning, works for the Equitable 1