Evening star., 1924-10-01
10000 STORM PARK
FOR SERIES SEATS
Mob Finds Cheer in Fact
They May Get UncaIIed- :
For Tickets.

Ten thousand milling fans. each
desperately clutChing a tattered bit
or paSteboard. Stormed the gates of
the Clark Griffith Stadium before noon
today, pushing and swaying in long
lines for hours to gain possession of
the coveted tickets that will admit a
scant 72.oo0 or 50 to the first two
games of the worlds series in Wash
ington.
When additional thousands who had
postponed ordering seats for the sea-
sons base ball classic until too late
surged around the stadium in disor-
dered throngs. the Washington man
agement issued a statement that it
lad abandoned it's plan of sending.
out second choice ca Tds and Whatever
tickets have not been called for by
b O'Clock tomorrow evening will be
sold TO the general public.
1900 Bleacher Seats.
About 5000 bleacher seats in the
temporary stands viii be sold each
day from the booths at the ball park
on The day of the game they are in
tended for. So many requests for
grandstand reservations had been re-
c"iVed by mail that Ed Eynon, secre-
tary of the Washington Club. had
planned to arrange 4 second list of
these and distribute among them the
tickets not called for in the first
batch.
one look at the detected thousands
VINO came to the park today TO plead
for seats. however, changed his mind
Not a seat in the park will be held
later than tomorrow evening. After
that all will be offered for sale from,
the booths under the old rule, first
come. first served" Whether these
viii be put on sale Friday or held
Tor the day OF the games has not yet
been decided
Line Forms Early.
Dawn - the first smiling dawn
Washington has enjoyed for several
days-had not peeped many hours
over the slumbering Capital before
the vanguard of the army of fans he
gan to arrive at the park Hundreds
VINO could not afford a several bours,
from work to stand in line waiting
TO get near the ticket window were
Obliged to crawl from warm beds
curry so they would be assured of
getting early positions in the line
When the club officials began to
arrive, shortly before O'Clock sew
eral hundred persons were ALREADY
waiting IN shivering groups. IT was
almost another hour before all of
the tickets had been finally assor+aa
and, carefully guarded by a half doz
en- policemen. carried to the resnac-
I've oooths from which they were
Momentarily the crowd er.u,
toned here and there merely - 80
Things moving. Soon that number
was doubled and by noon balf :,
hundred bluecoats had their hand
nun Keeping order in the block-Iorr
cues. And in the meanwhile. add.
tional hundreds were still arriyins
1T seemed that two arrived for eacb
one that left
Autos jam Streets.
Parking space was as scarce 8
.noush Dig game had actually been
IN progress, rather that the first
preparations for the Openine game
Saturday. BY IL o'clock not a park
ing space was to be had within three
blocks of the ball park and traffic
policemen were beginning to put I'D
signs forbidding parking on certain
thoroughfares out of Sheer necessity.
And with the great crowd of fans
who could well afford to pay to see
waiter Johnson and the Nationals In
their first world series came the pitt
full driftwood from the currents of
life that seem to wash in on thhe tide
of all such big sporting events. De-
jected men in tattered clothes clutch
ed in vain at the wire webbing that
protected the park from invasion.
pleading for some small Job in the
park that would give them an oppor
tunity of watching the classic.
Tragedy found it's way into the
ranks of sportdom. There was a
youth, once a sandlot idol himself
and perhaps possible big league ma
terial in the making. But war came
Now he is useless grist from that
great red mill, helpless and palsied in
his early twenties.
Falls Exhausted in Line,
They found him slumped down in |
heap beside one of the pushing
milling lines. His battered BODY had
given way under the excitement and
he was helped inside of the stadium
inclosure. There he admitted that he |
had no money with which to buy |
ticket, but said he had hoped for a |
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