The Washington times., 1924-10-03
POLICE IN RAID.
ON Baseball
SCAPERS
One Arrest Made as y. S.
Revenue Agents Help
Collect Evidence
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agents stationed themselves at every
one OF the selling offices and
watched every transaction.
The SPECTATORS offices were not
crowded. No ore seemed overly
anxious to sell the hard gotten raste.
boards. and few cared to pay the
high prices.
The customers seemed 70 be whit
ing FOR q break in the market. With
the law ON watch, that break was
bound to come.
shortly before noon the internal
revenue men came back to Chief
Mueller for further instructions and
to give him Information they had
cleaned In connections with law
violations. The chief set ~ o'clock
as the zero hour He communicated
this Information to the police de-
partment.
PULP Proves Useless.
The nerve-center Of washington
today is ct American League Park.
Police showed several thousands Of
fans into two thick queues at 10
o'clock and told them that 1000 I'M
called for seats would be aold, begin
ming at noon.
The numbered booths, which were
raided by baseball bugs with notifi.
cation cards yesterday and the day
before, attracted little attention
today.
Short lines were in front Ct each
window. and never ct any time did
the box office men risk heart failure
from 1renzied business.
In front of the clubhouse, wherein
the Washington officials were work
ing away In q terrific din and llE-
der q heavy cloud Of tobacco smoke.
q crowd Of fans assembled.
These fans thought they had
pull Of one kind or another, but
It didn't make much difference.
Sooner or later each one dejectedly
beat q retreat to the end Of the
lines.
Old Orders Ignored
Some were kicking, and the most
grandstand seats back in August,
centerfield pavilion. Why, know
Z Teller who ordered grandstand
seats last Week, and GOT EN-"
and here the voice rises to a broken
fortissImo, and ends In vocal IRE
works.
For those fortunate few who had
Legitimate business at the park.
there was admission at the press
On the field itself, the washing-
Iiton team took q workout today. In
the presence Of about 100 spectators.
Including camera men.
Somehow, few high school Flap.
pers, who had apparently played
hockey, got into the stands to watch
their heroes.
Away out in leftfield some over.
allied laborers were giving the once
over to the seats.
Among the boxes there were dots
Of light color. These were the new
additional seats, placed in the aisles
OF the boxes for the series.
Fence Bars Windows
Ear In center field another gang
Of workmen were putting up q high
board fence between the new per,
manent bleachers and the temper
ary seats. excluding view Of the
park from the windows OF adjacent
houses.
Leaving the park, II was noted
that the buying lines were per.
ceptibly, increased. and it was clear
that hundreds would be disappointed
today.
Tomorrow win be the day for the
early risers. It viii be the last
chance for prospective hieacherites
to get tickets for the opener, unless
they mortgage the house and buy
from the spectators.
Ticket prices at the Spectators
shops scared yesterday and Will
again today, while tomorrow the
'sscalper" ticket emporiums will re-
semble millionaires' clubs.