Evening star., 1924-09-30
REJOICING CAPITAL
BAN|SHES GLOOM
AS SGR|FFMEN WIN
Smiles, Everywhere, Drive
Worried FroWns Away as
Cares Are Forgotten.
WORLD SERIES--TlCKETS'
ON SALE TOMORROW
Lucky Applicants to Receive Cards
Telling Them Where to OBJ
tain Pasteboards.

Well, it amt gonna rain no mo
now,
Sodden skies may spill their mois-
ture by the bucketful. but in the
singing hearts of Washington's clans
there is naught but sunshine today,
for this dignified old Capital of the
United States has gone base ball mad.
Countenances furrowed by long
wears of puZZlinG over delicate mat
fers of state were wreathed in smiles:
perplexed minds that had been anXi-
ously contemplating gloomy political
futures set worry aside to join the re-
joicing Youthful clerks with bell
shaped trousers clean forgot their
permanent haircombs.
Washington had won a pcnnant at
last:
Flock to Ticket Booths.
And as the city turned en- masse
toward those little booths up Georgia
avenue way, where the world series
tickets will be issued. the august
business of the United States went
straight to pot. with the likelihood
that it will stay there until sometime
toward the end of next week.
w nat WIFI tie
ages of the Giants, madly pulling
eleventh. hour wires for the best seats
and preparing fitting welcome home
to those heroic Griffmen who clirched
the American League pennant in
Boston yesterday, there simply isn't
time for anything else here now.
Base ball is king, and will be for the
next ten days. anyhow.
Grants veterans marched down the
OF nf Y ia
In the stirring sixties: Pershing
swept past frenZied throngS with his
immortal LIST Division just few
hurried years back. Tomorrow Bucky
Harris and his never-say-die cham
pions will write the latest chapter
in the history of that thoroughfare
of the Nation.
President to Greet Grifs.
AS conquering heroes they will be
received. From Union Station to
the Ellipse they will proceed through
unbroken lines Of cheering fans, to
be received at the end of their jour
ney by President Coolidge and other
high officials of the Government and
congratulated for having brought to
the National Capital its first base
ball championship.
Yesterdays victory over the Boston
Sox. which clinched the pennant,
opened the fioodgates of fans that
had been gathering in front of the
. terror-stricken Edward B. Eynon,
jr.. secretary of the Washington club,
ever since the Griffmen made door
mats of the unfortunate Yankees
long weeks ago and came back home
leading the league.
Letters had been pouring in by the
thousands, pleading with poor Ed to
save this tan or that fanette the
tefr Il
result the Clark Griffith Stadium to-
day is virtually sold out for the en-
tire series of games with the New
York Giants here and there is even a
second class waiting 20 get the paste
boards that earlier birds fail to call
for.
Tickets on Sale Tomorrow.
Distribution of the tickets will be-
gan at $50 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing from the regular booths at the
ball park. Requests for the tickets
have been filled exactly in the order
they were received. Today Eynon and
his regiment of assistants began
mailing out the cards to fortunate
fans announcing that there would be
SO many seats for them at a given
booth at the ball park.
The person receiving the card must
present it, together with the price of
order to get the seats. No tickets
will be issued without the card, and
those who forget them will simply
save time by going back and getting
them. No amount of begging will
persuade the club officials to part
with tickets unless the card mailed
out today is first presented.
On each card will be found the let
ter or numeral corresponding to the
number of booth at which each set of
tickets may be found Nearly every
one wanted tickets in the grandstand,
and these seats were soon exhausted.
AS soon as the grandstand tickets
gave out Eynon began allotting tenn
porafy pavilion seats in the order the
requests were received.
Seats For $4,000.
. Thus far the demand has far ex-
ceeded the seating capacity of the
park. 1t was announced this morn
ing that the stadium will seat 35, 200
persons with it's additional pavilions.
Requests received for tickets after
the entire park had been sold out
have been duly filed and these per-
sons will get tickets that are not
called for by Thursday evening. Sales
to the second choice lot Will begin
Friday morning.
Just how many seats have been
withheld for public sale on the days
of each game, no club officials would
venture to say today. That announce
ment will be withheld for the present,
Eynon declared. a tremendous task
remains for the present to dispose of
the thousands who ordered weeks ago
and must be disappointed for lack Of
room as it is.
Stand in Rain to Cheer.
The story of how Washington
watched and waited for news of the
deciding victory yesterday is a
tribute to the loyalty of the Capitals
fans. Unmindful of drenching rains,
blown through the streets with sting
ing force by high winds, thousands
stood in front of mechanical score
boards throughout the game and
greeted with almost delirious shouts
the winning plays of the champions
to-be.
| Many, many additional thousands
sat at home and heard the news over
the radio, while those who were less
fortunate oesieged newspaper offices,
telegraph offices and even the head
quarters of the leading radio cor
porations with Anxious queries as the
contest's progress. The widespread in
tcrest the Capital showed in the con-
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