The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-11
Staid Capital FOrgets
Dignity IN Glorious
Victory Celebration

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The echo &c lAst. exu1fnnf
'hOoray" spent itself A the papers
today. !.
The sun that had remained over
Washington yesterday iust lOne
enough TO witness the championShin
drive q Earl McNeelv and mon lIe.
parted. returned III the heavens this
been wrought IN its absence.
Washington had had Its big mo
ment.
Baseball champion Of the world
for the first time IN history. the
Capital had taken its run where It
found IL with little or no regard
tor city ordinances, traffic regula.
tons or the whims ot blNelaw pro-
motors.
Center u Carnival.
Most Of the fun was found on r.
street ana Pennsylvania avenue.
from Fourteenth to Ninth, where
from sunset to long past mldnight
the great Joyous spirit Of carnival
ruled with q hand that show6red
confetti and . sceptre ot tinsel and
ribbons.
The carnival spirit thar pervaded
the city broke loose ct WArdman
Park Hotel when Muddy" Ruel.
Goose" Goslin and .'Curley" Ogden
were escorted IN BY 9 party Of ex-
uberent fans, Persons who prob.
ably never gave q thought to baae.
ba1l before arose and cheered. The
hotel, which was the headquarters
for the Giants, was virtually taken
over by the champions.
The capital remembered the Arm.
istice and tried to butcher that
war-ending celebration.
There were sorrUws mixed up too
closely with the happiness Of elk
years ago. Last night there were
no sorrows, unless one felt inclined
to weep At the misfortune Of Hank
Gowdy and Travis jackson, or OF
young Fred Lindstrom ana vlrgfl
Barnes.
But one didn't one thought only
Of Walter johnson and "Bucky''
Harris, Of Earl McNeely ana Mud.
dy" Ruel, and the other twenty.odd
heroes OF the team that had driven
on through the Argonne OF base.
ban to the victors' seats at the
treaty table.
Exhaustion Ends It.
Asball bounding over the shoulder
Of Fred Linstrom into deep left
field began the celebration. Tx.
haustion ended It, after midnight.
As pep" Young rolled the ball
unhappily In his glove, disconso-
lately watching Ruel cross the plate
with the championship run, the
stadium crowds broke for the field,
For twelve innings the faithful
forty thousand had alternately sat
and stood IN those stadium stands,
pleading frAntically for Just one
more hero to win just one more
BAH game.
The spirits Of sixteen heroes re.
plied-and the greatest Of these was
the spirit Of the Old Master and the
Young Manager.
That one more ball game was
won, and with It the. championship
of the world.
The crush was on.
Base Actually Stolen.
Across the playing field swept
thirty Of the forty thousand, howl.
ing, shrieking, mad.
One man stole third base liter.
ally stole it, pulled it out Of the
dirt, stuck Il under HIS cost, and
went home. Another stole Sec
Ond and another first. An urchin
Of ten dug his finger nails valiant
" under home platee but without :
success.
Bats disappeared. The little cache
OF baseballs was looted.
Then the trophies gone, the crowd
snrged around the WASHINGTON auR.
out. The American flag was torn
from the Presidents box and held
aloft. A cheer leader, then score
Of them, volunteered their services.
''E1ooray. Whoop. Hooray."
Hats, program and cushions flew
through the air IN q victorious
barrage. A crack on the nose, 4
slap In the eyewho cared7 This was
victory.
For more than an hour the crowd
remained, that It might cheer lust
once again the appearance 0f the
champions.
Then, its spirits still rampant, its
emotion still unspent, the crowd
milled through the exits ana 10
town 70 make 4 night Of IL,
A parnde formed itself and around
and around the Capital'e loop went
the triumphant procession.
Horns and sirens shriekina cut