Evening star., 1924-10-09
Booths to Be Kept Open All
Night-32,000 Stub Hold.
ers Get First Choice.
ADMISSIONS ON SALE
BY 5 THIS AFTERNOON
Griffith Announces Full Procedure
for Fans to Follow to
Get Seats.
IF WASHINGTON WINS TODAY

There will be hot time at the old
park tonight.
Between 10000 and $4,000 fans,
seething in lines kept orderly by po-
lice reserves, will storm the gates.
holding on for dear life to the little
identification stubs which had been
attached to tickets for the game to-
day, and which will become certifi-
Gates for preference in getting re-
served seats for the seventh and de-
Gliding contest. The assault on the
gates will start one hour after Wash
ington has won the sixth game.
And then, ON through the night the
SleeplesS thousands will be crowdng
nearer and nearer to the IT booths
where lie the coveted pasteboards for
grandstand, box and pavilion seats for
the ahray tomorrow. At 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning the Identification
checks will revert again to the status
of scraps of paper. From that time
forward the motto will be. First
come, first served.
Grimth Announcement.
The last-minute announcement of
Clark Griffith, president of the Amari
can League champions. today was:
Here's the lineup for tickets. II
there is to be a seventh game, booths
will open one hour after the game
ends today. They will remain open
all night and until 10 o'clock tomor-
row morning for the express and eN-
elusive accommodation of those who
hold identified ton stubs that are now
attached to tickets for the sixth
game. These stubs will be returned
like rain checks at the gate to those
who enter today. After 10 O'Clock to-
morrow morning. the tickets tnat re-
main will be placed on sale. From
that point on. it will be: First come,
first served
The most efficient scientific arrange
ments have been attempted in an
effort to make sure Of accommodating
the estimated $1,000 holders of the
posing that there were $4,000 identifi-
cation stubs out. officials at the park
have made arrangements for IL
ticket sellers at the Georgia avenue
entrance and at the Bohrer street en-
trance. This means that 1000 would
have to be accommodated by each
ticket seller. And if the ticket sellers
sell two tickets a minute, which
gives them time to take money, see
identification stub and make change,
they can just barely dispose of 2,040
tickets in the II hours. This is all
based on the presumption that Wash
ington will win the sixth game at
4 O'Clock this afternoon and that the
ticket sale will start at o'clock for
holders of identification stubs
Instant Changes Planned.
E. B. Enyon, secretary of the
Washington Base Ball Club, says that
he doesn't see why ticket sellers
should have any trouble doing this.
In case Of a jam-up, however, it was
stated, arrangements will be made on
the instant to take care of the neces-
sary additions.
At any rate there'll be a hot time
at the park tonight. Imagine this
group of rabid rooters standing
throughout the night in the line for
tickets. There's going to be small
chance for sleep, for the line will be
in perpetual motion. There's going
to be some mighty long serpentine
trails from each box-office window
stretching down to Georgia avenue
and weaving around Florida avenue
for blocks. It'll be great days for
the hot dawg" and Java" peddlers.
sc.lpers Still Busy.
Ticket scalpers were still plying
their trade today. Offers ranging to
SIS Tor one SranUSldHu seat lOI lo-
days game were current, with prices
ranging down for other seats.
And then. special offers, conditional
and otherwise. were being made for
the Identification stubs alone. This
is a pure gamble on Washington's
chances of winning today. But the
stubs alone brought up to SIS, provid-
ed Washington won. and 81 or 81 with
no strings at all attached to the Of
fer.
If there is such a person as civic
physician with a civic thermometer,
he could easily find that the civic fe-
yer temperature of Washington today
is around 1OS degrees, with the city
still stirring about.
And now, regarding the non-re-
served bleacher seats. They will, as
usual, be placed on sale at 9 o'clock
tomorrow morning, and no difficulty
is expected in filing the orders from
the 200 fans for the sun gardens
long before starting time for the
game.
AS usual also, the standing-room-
only line will be held outside until
about half an hour before the start
of the game.
All that has gone before is con-
tingent upon the first four words in
this article
If WASHINGTON WINS TODAY.