Evening star., 1924-10-08
ADTHRONC READY
TO GREET GR|FFS
Thousands Will Shout Wei
come to Fighting Ball Club,
Arriving Tonight.

Those pennant grabbing. never-Say
die base bali heroes comprising the
rising young firm of Bucky Harris
and company will return from for
eign conquests to the old home town
late tonight amid the welcoming din
of Washington's citiZenry gone wild.
They are coming back determined
to settle this world championship
argument. where 10000 base ball
aberrated fans may see just how it's
done n the best circles. And those
audacious. fight-crazed. Giant killing
Nationals expect to walk right up
to their dizzy foe and obtain a stran-
gle hold on the enemy that he and
the world will not soon forget.
AS soon as the team walks off the
Polo Grounds this afternoon and
completes ablutions beneath the show
ers. 1t will hasten with fleet steps to
special train, steaming to go, and
turn a grim aggregation of faces to-
ward the Washington Monument
Crowd Will Give Greeting.
Regardless of the outcom- of todays
contest in the Giants stronghold, a
great crowd of shouting men. women
and children is expected to jam the
concourSe at Union Station around 10
o'clock tonight to greet the National
Capitals first and only pennant-win-
ming base ball outfit. just as they
welcomed II home. after ending the
season on top of the American League
heap of exhausted teams
VIII Help Curb Police.
Cooperation of the citizens in keep
inp ha oil of
bounds was promised today by the
citizens themselves. There has been
noticeable tendency lately on the
part of Maj. Sullivan's blue coats to
forget that they are invested with
| jobs of authority and to act more like
human beings The major himself
has been affected, and he forgot to
wear his uniform to that opening
game last Saturday. One of his pa
Sunday arrested an excited cheer
leader for not performing his task
well enough and, confiScating the
prisoners megaphone, showed the
bleacherites the proper way TO make
| themselves hoarse. The prisoner
then was released on probation.
Well. anyhow, it looks like old
Chris Columbus is going to discover
America for the second time on Union
boy could speak his feelings, he no
doubt would order the top sheet un-
furled and all sails set for Genoa.
Some VIII BE Absent.
There will be some rabid fans who
will deliberately absent themselves
tonight from the station. however. A
| casual stroller along ill-lighted Fifth
street. beside the Griffith Stadium,
would discern these faithless persons
| slumped shamefully against the brick
| wall of the right field bleachers, more
recently dignitied with the respect
| able title, Pavilion"
! AS morning breaks over Park View
| tomorrow, however. these men, and
! perhaps also women, will shake off
their lethargy and smile a broad
smile. They had missed mobbing
Bucky, and Goose and Marberry and
Peck and Walter and the rest on
| their arrival at the station, but they
| had assured themselves meanwhile
of seat in the very territory where
the Goose has a dangerous habit of
! polling perfectly good base balls.
These thoroughbred rooters will
not need to rely on the scalpers for
their seats to the game tomorrow
And the scalpers know better than to
try their gouging on them. The
| spectators did. however, manifest
themselves in hotels and other places
today and while their business was
| not done as openly as before the
opening game, they found plenty of
customers for their wares. Internal
revenue representatives kept tab on
their activities to see that the Fed
eral tax laws were complied with, and
police saw that no tickets were sold
in puhIic DJaceS without a hermit