Evening star., 1924-10-10

HarriSmen Confident.
As the minutes tick quickly past in
q Kaleidoscope blur, the hour before
the supreme test of nerve and skill
nnds Harris and his teammates eager
and confident, calmly awaiting the
signal for the battle of their careers
To either Curley Ogden or George
Mogridse, who humbled the. Giants in
New York, will be assigned the hurl-
ing task for the last crucial contest.
Although Clark Griffith frankly
believes Ogden is ready and fit, he
mad given Bucky Harry complete
charge of the situation and among the
players it is generally conceded that
Mogridge Will start the fray. with
Ogden and Marberry held in reserve
should the elongated George falter.
Hugh McQuillan is regarded as Nc
Graw's most likely choice
fllched INTO roaring delirium of
frenzy by that game stand Yesterday
when these all-conquering Griffmen
came from behind just when the
walls of castellated hopes seemed 20
be tumblng in upon them and sent
the staggered Giants to defeat, howl
ing, irresponsible, milling thousands
of men and women were surging
around this SCARED arena this morn
ing.
$4,000 TO See Battle.
Perhaps $4,000 persons viii be
squeezed into it when the battle be-
gins at o'clock this afternoon.
There may be an additional thousand
or so of "employes" scattered around
with programs. peanuts and ushers'
badges. But conservative persons es-
Ilmated that before the day is over
10000 desperate human beings will
haye pleaded for admission
As the warm autumn sun mounted
toward the zenith of noon there were
already without the portals of the
arena more than enough of persons
TO fill it. Some had Zen there all
night. Others rose with the proverb-
lal rooster and fastened to the scene
OF sportdom's classic. there to camp
until the long-awaited hour when
the gates would be flung open and
the fight to get in would begin.
All through the night special corps
OF tired men had been standing in
the narrow booths passing out tickets
to fans who were fortunate enough
10 hold coupons from previous games
that entitled them to the first choice
OF seats for today'S classic. Hun
dreds of those fans after waiting in
line far into the small hours Of the
morning thought it useless to return
home and kept the vigil with the
DeTSplTlnS ticket sellers.
-Four o'clock this morning gazed in
arilazement at Washington it had
never known, at Washington that
no one would have seriously believed
might possibly exist.
Many in Line All Night.
Lines Of men and women, some ex-
pensively clothed and others appar-
emily dressed for the occasion ex-
tended block and half from the
booths. Seated. standing and lying
= around the gates were hundreds of
others. a few of the more thoug htful
had brought along blankets and they
found them none too warm for the
night was one of the coolest this Fall.
Policemen long experienced in
handling and estima ting crowds de-
clared with the utmost confidence that
there were 1000 persons scattered in
and around the bali park an hour
before dawn. The earliest harbing-
ers at daylight found the clans
gathering by the hundreds and thou
sands and the final hour in which re-
serve seats might be claimed by pos
SCISSORS of tickets for the previous
games witnessed scenes strangely
reminiscent of the latter days of last
week when the paste boards were first
being distributed.
Little Confusion.
There was little confusion in the
hctuaI sale of the tickets. Ed Eynon
had worked out details so carefully
that there was little excuse for mis-
takes. and, strange enough, the worst
trouble the police experienced today
were from those who either held the
precious cards of admission or were
reasonably certain only misracle
wou.G get them in. The excited
frenzy of the former class was due