Evening star., 1924-10-10

pass them out at a dollar a throw.
| He raked in the money SO fast thai
he soon found it inexpedient TO tuck
il away, but simply pulled the green
| backs inside and let them drop 10
the floor. When the gates banged -
and the section was sold out ut =
o'clock. he was standing almost waist
deep in something like 2,200 DOLE
bills and as many dimes. Incidentally
Uncle Sam will collect those dimes.
Eynon Under Fire.
If Ed Eynon were running for tn.
Senate or some other political oliic"
he would have cause TO worry. II
required three policemen to guard his
door from the thousands who thought
they had pull enough to beg tickets
from him. But there were no Ia
vorites despite insinuations from the
disappointed ones that big blocks OF
the precious cards were being held
for the call of higher ups Eynons
hours were hard ones, but he was
obdurate.
Goose Goslin succeeded in fighting
his way past the blue flock of guardi-
I, ans to the SeCretarys sanctum.
Muddy Ruel had beaten him in by
a scant minute or two and right
behind stepped Joe Judge, Tom Zach
AIRY and Freddy Marberry, all yelling
Justify to know where their tickets
were.
When Eynon announced that each
had been allotted only two or three
the storm of protest became so black
and ominous that Eynon disappeared
and returned a few minutes later
with Clark Griffith himself The
sight of the boss served to pacify the
Nationals only slightly, but after
| Griff had explained in suave tones
that they We're quite lucky in view
of the fact that they expected to re-
fuse something like 10000 persons
even standing room, Goose and his
pals took what they could get and
departed, mumbIing something about
having a base ball game to play am
how. That's the kind of favoritism
that was going on up here y
10000 seek 5000 Seats
At 10 o'clock it was estimated there
were perhaps 5000 reserved seats that
remained uncalled for. but they wer"
promptly put on public sale. There
were 10000 persons waiting for the
paSteboardS at that moment and no
lines of worry over possibly unsold
seats furrowed Eynon's brow. His
problem was to put three people
where only one could possibly squeeze.
But Ed and his assistants just kept
cool and did the best they could with
what they had
The signs of the times began MAX
ing themselves evident when II
husky. ebcny-hued vendors of eats
challenged the fans in the bleachers.
whom they had been bombarding in
cessantly with peanuts and mustard
carded hot dogs. to send an equal
number down on the field to decide
the foot ball championship for the
day
The gauntlet was snatched I'm so
quickly that it staggered the peanut
men. In moment enough contestants
TO organize dozen foot ball teams
were clamoring for positions. A trash
man who happened to be nearby was
collared and robbed of enough old !.
newspaper to fmprovise a near-pig-
skin. Then the fun began.
Band Quells Disorder.
Those who had failed to win places
on the bleacherite eleven refused to
take no for an answer and before the
hapless peanut vendors knew what had
happened it looked like the whole
stand was making doormats of them.
Whlte-coated reinforcements rushed
to their assistance, however and for
the next few minutes there was a
! friendly, If a bit rough free-for-alI
that ended precipitately when Myer
Goldman and his exaggerated orches-
| ira arrived to offer a new form of
| diversion. But that was the spirit that
| prevailed today just a few hours be-
| fore the base ball championship of
| the world was to be decided here.
1t was just a roilicking happy
go-lucky throng of men and women
! turned into careless kids for one
| more glorious day. Perhaps they
Will not be quite so cheerful tonight;
perhaps, on the other hand, their
| joys will know no bounds. But one
thing they made certain this morn
ing, today is a holiday and if light
hearts and confident spirits from the
stands mean. victory Washington's
heroes of the diamond are already
the champions of this tiny planet
Once more the wise acres" who
seem to understand, are taking odds
against Washington. 1t might be
noted, however, that they turned an
awful amount of money over to the
| fa"s Yesterday, az the -nne ~Av