The Washington times., 1924-10-10
THOUSANDS IN
LINE FOR Ball
TICKETS
Early Crowd at Park Il Silent.
Spectators Are
Active
lcontInued irom FIrat 80

Continued from First PAge.)
game meant. rhe spirit was one
| az dO-orlie.
All ushers strike vas runored
shortly before noon. The boys
were promised $3.50 game % be
paid BY the baseball commission
after the series. "A large group
OF ushers arranged a protest early.
today "A petition was circulated,
but the boys signed fictitious names
almost to man and the plan
was abandoned. The boys wanted
their pay before the game today,
Ends In Fist Fights.
The strike seemed To have ended
| in . few list lights IN the stands
at noon.
Unhers who were playing In center
field and spectators from all over
| the park ran to the grandstand for
the fistic arguments, but fireman
| had already separated the sparriag
couples and the excitement abatkd.
AZ the bleachers packed In their
mob and the krandstands became III.
habited, the strike talk had dropped
20 futile Rrumbles and the uoherB
were all at work.
Gate crashing was q dIfficnlt pro.
position today. The guardians u
the portals had become increasingly
hard boiled. Few Il any ''deadheAds
entered paradise.
s'The President o coming out. !"
was q fAyoFtte conversation. starter
IA the stands.
~ hope No brings 40 luck was
the unvArying response.
Speculation On Pitchers.
There existed considerable specu-
lation On the choice 81 1 washing.
ton pitcher despite the early an.
nouncement that Harris had chosen.
Ogden. Some had bet on MosrIdge.
the standing room line was not
long not even after ~ o'clock. Hpec.
tators who commented on tie brew.
ity were told BY fIremen that they
should have been out between 8
and il o'clock last night when the
demand for tickets boraered on q
riot.
The band moved toward the grand.
stand at l2:i6 and the crowd waited
expectantly Tor Bucky Harris cham.
p1ons % take the Held.
influenced BY increased numbers
tho crowd bestirred itself. Voices
lifted, laughter was general ana
newcomers waived At friends a.
they troa the steps 70 their seats.
The sale OF tickets stopped short
| " before noon but the Inevitable
scores of hopeful fans continued to
IstArld bS the closed windows.
The first Washington players came
on the field at 1910. me crowd
called them BY name but made no
general demonstration.
/ At Il o'clock this morning there
were lines that wound FOR blocks
around the ball park and therein
were representatives Of every walk
OF life IN the Capital. Congress.
men and Government officials In
quest Of boxes and grandstAnd eeAts
rubbed elbows with urohins whose
ambition and purses went no
further than the biehchera. The
/; go the weary waiting IN line---and
then stuck around 70 watch the
boys.
The unprecedented confusion d
the ticket situation was caused
largely by the fact that no tickets
had been printed or Nsold for d
seventh game III Washington. The
club management rushed the
printers and undertook to dispose
OF the last game tickets on the
basis Of the first three games,
namely. holders Of stubs were to
be given preference and the same
seats 30 Tar as possible.
This put the business Of getting
a ticket for the seventh game clown
to hours OF standing In line and
/ presentation Of stubs at the box Of.
flee.
Wrong Windows Confuse.
The situation was further conDli.
Gated by the fact that seven booths
handled the sale, each dealing IN q
different brand OF paeteboards, and
1t was a common occurrence
throughout the night for coupon
holders to spend hours in linc ana
then get up to the window TO find
they had to go to another booth.
which eltailed starting IN az the
rear.end again and working up to
the window.
Loud ana long were the iamenta-
tons that went up around the park,
- Y - WA StdEbCN. elluhtlC
police were hard put to control the
situation.
The lines began to dwindIe Just
before dawn this morning, only to
fill UP again az the sun came up.
The magnet that drew them this
morning was the announcement
that at 10 o'clock $500 general ad.
mission tickets, together with all
others, would be thrown IN the
market on q basis Of first come,
first served. The lines Of specula.
tors formed on the right for these.
Rush Downtown.
The rush for tickets in the down
town district was today more pro-
| IouHced than II has been since the
opening OF the series.
"Ecalpersp on Pennsylvania ave.
nue. offered box seats at SIS, grand.
stand seats at $12 and pavilion
berths at So each. Some grand.
stand seats were available at $40,
and q number OF pavilion tickets
for $6--but the box seats remained
at maximum Of SIS, for the
spectators knew their public
%Scalpers' Row. found q slow but
steady demand for tickets. It was
| probable early today that prices
would increase as the hour for the
game neared.
This neighborhood and the prin-
cipal hotel Hobbies were crowded
with sleek. stout men whose hard
eyes and flashy dress proclaimed
Them RrnaHVva vifQa Thav vvorA