Evening star., 1924-10-02
Base Ball Car and Griffith
Complete Details for
Games Here-Team to
Work Out at Park Today.
HORDES DISAPPOINTED
IN LAST-MINUTE RUSH

TUI duulSSlONS W oC ldSCo oi
Sale When Reservations Are
Settled-Complaints Pour In.
Turning from the lighter. hilarious
! festivities OF welcome TO the home
coming heroes, Washington settled
down today to the more serious
problem of preparing for the first
shock OF battle when the Nationals
and the New York Giants clash in
world series combat Saturday after
noon in the Clark Griffith Stadium.
While desperate thousands assault
ed the over-worked little booths from
which the priceless tickets of admis-
sion are being issued and tens OF
thousands more struggled in vain to
get their minds down to their office
desks for a few brief minutes. at
least, the high command of the base
ball world arrived in the National
Capital and began putting the final
touches TO the ssCheme OF campaign.
John McGraw and his champion
Giants are scheduled to reach Washing
ton about CLOCK tonight.
LandiS Arrives Early.
Kencsaw Mountain Landis. czar of
the national pastime. hoped from his
train in Union Station. dropped his
bag in a hotel porters hands and
rushed without ceremony to the sta
dunn. where the first two games for
the world championship are to be
played. Piloted by Clark Griffith and
i,rt.
ton club. the high commissioner made
thorough tour of the stands and
playing field
En- route he was assaulted by a
regiment of camera men, posed for
several score of pictures, took the
photographers orders with a Cour-
teouS smile, put on his hat. took it
off again and then put il right back
on. smiled, looked severe, waved his
hand and paraded up and down. and
eventually was permitted to continue
his inspection of the park without
further interference.
Judge Landis paid most atten-
ton to the seemingly far distant
o!eachers and the newly erected
pavilions. Climbing to the farthest
corner of the uncovered stands, he
sat down. had several men stand at
home plate and declared that if he
had his selection of all the seats in
the ground he honestly believed he
would choose that one. Satisfied that
every move of the players could be
seen from every one of the most dis
tant seats, he proceeded to the grand
stands.
Picks Out Own Box.
In the course Of the tour Judge
Lands was shown particularly a box
on the third base line, near home
plate, which would correspond with
that reserved for President Coolidge.
Although it was not definitely stated
that the high commissioner had selected
it for himself. he indicated by a wave
of the hand that he would be satisfied
to watch the world series from that
point of vantage, despite the fact
that he may have to dodge some fast
foul balls rather frequently there
Judge Landis returned to the club
house with Griffith for a few minutes
and was hurried back to his hotel,
where he went into conference with
John A. Heydler, president of the Ma
tional League, who arrived in Wash
ington with him. This afternoon both
may return to the stadium to watch
the Griffmen keeping fit in a spirited
hour or so of practice and see the
entire team submit itself to the hands
of the dictatorial cameramen again
The gates of Troy were never called
upon to withstand a more ominous
army than that which stormed the
portals of the Clark Griffith Stadium
this morning. When the police guard
arrived on the scene at s o'clock,
1000 men, women and children, they
said, were lined up in front of the
various little booths, shivering in
the morning air, but determined to
get their tickets to the series.
ha6
that the sale would not begin until
$50 o'clock, but the throng wanted to
be sure of being on time. AS matter
of fact, it was closer to o'clock be-
fore Ed Eynon and his battalion of
assistants, working on sheer nerve
after two hours sleep each, had the
pasteboards ready and sent them to
their respective places under heavy
police guard. BY that hour the jam
had increased to 5000 and additional
police guards were rushed to the
park.
Complaints Pour In.
In the handling of so many eickets
and so many more requests than there
were tickets to dispose of, it was but
natural that mistakes should have oc-
Cured, and before IL o'clock line of
nearly a thousand persons was form
ed in front of the clubhouse. it's men,
bers waiting to see Eynon on some
complaint or another. Some declared
they had stood in line in front of
their booth for hours, and upon
reaching the window after such a pa
tient vigil had been informed there
were no tickets there corresponding
to the card that had been mailed to
them.
Others were disappointed because
their seats were not the best in the
grounds, and the remainder were on
hand to beg on bended knees for seats
''at any price" To all of the latter
there was but one response-Take
your chance in getting the uncalled
for tickets tomorrow. The dlsap-
pointed ones were told they had been
allotted their seats in the order their
requests had been received. They
would have found quick purchasers at
profit. though. had they been in
clined to sell.
Those who failed to find tickets
corresponding to their cards, how
ever, caused Eynon and his men con-
siderable worry. 1t was evident that