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

Those pennant-grabbing, never-say-
die base ball 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 in 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 viii not soon forget
AS soon as the team walks of the
Polo Grounds this afternoon and
completes ablutions beneath the show
ers, it will hasten with feet steps to
a special train, steaming to go, and
turn grim aggregation of faces to-
ward the Washington Monument.
Crowd Will Give Greeting.
Regardless of the outcome of today's
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 it 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
fvocr tnI 20; -
bounds was promised today by the
citizens themselves There has been
a 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
Station plaza tonight, and if the old
boy could speak his feelings, he no
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 dignified 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 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
era1 tax laws were complied with, and
police saw that no tickets were sold
in public places without a permit.