WEATHER.
Fair tonight and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature; mod
erate northerly winds. Temperature
for -1 hours ending at 11 a.m. today:
Highest. <sl, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday;
lowest. 11. at 6;15 a.m. today.
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HARRIS’ HOME RUN
GIVES GRIFFS LEAD
IN FINAL CONTEST
EOS WORLD TITLE
Bucky Starts Odgen to Draw
■•Right-HancT’ Line-Up,;
Then Switches to George i
Mogridge.
BARNES TAKES MOUND
AGAINST WASHINGTON
Taylor, Despite Broken Hand.
Flays Third Base. With Bluege
at Short in Place of Peckiu
paugh.
Thr l-ine-up.
\K\\ YOUK. WASHINGTON,
l.inrtstronl. ;{b. Mi'Nwly. cf.
Frisch, 2b. Unrein. 3b.
t ittinic. rs. Iticc, rs.
Krllj.rf. Gosiin, If.
Terry. Ih. .ludgr. lb.
YVilson. If. Kluege, ss.
.1 nek son. »s. Taylor, ah.
fiowdy. o. Ituel. e.
Bamn. p. Oudrn, p.
I mpircs —Hint en behind the plnie;
Quigley on lirM base; Connolly on
IKTflnd; Klein on Ihinl.
BY DKNMW THOMPSON.
< SLARK GRIFFITH STADIUM, Oc-{
tober 10.—For the seventh and dee id- 1
ing game of the world series. Man
ager Harris selected Curley Ogdon,
young right-hander of the Griffs' j
burling staff, to farce the Giants. »>g- .
don pitched to two Giant hatters and
■w as then relieved by George Slog- ;
ridge, veteran southpaw. I’ilot Mc-
Graw placed his dependence iit Virgil
Karnes, right-handed Hinger of the
Gotham crew, to toe the slab in this :
important tilt.
The Griffs grabbed Ihe lead in their I
half of the fourth inning, when Bucky
Harris met one of Karnes' fast shoots, j
the first hit oIT him. and poled a home i
run into the center-field bleachers.
The score at the end of the fifth
inning stood; Griffmen, 1; Giants, 0.
MKST INMNG.
NKW YORK- —Ogden's first delivery!
to Lindstrom was low. Warren hooked
a slow floater over for a strike, made ■
it two strikes with his next pitch, and ■
on Ids fourth delivery, a slow hook that
was wide ni the plate, Lindstrom waved
ineffective!! and retired to the bench.
After hur'ing three low bails to Frisch
Ogden cut the plate with a strike, hut:
the next was low and Frisch walked.
Calling a conference in the center of '
the diamond between Manager Harris
and Hue!, the boy piict summoned i
George Mogridge, veteran left-hander j
of the Nationals, to the mound. Mo- ;
Bridge’s first delivery to Young was 1
wide, the next fouled off for a strike, I
and then George followed by hooking '
one over the center of the p ate for two |
strikes. Young then fouled one down i
the right-field foul line, and the next j
delivery, a wide hook, a hook at least a i
foot wide of Ihe p'ale. was missed by j
Young. Kelly fouled one off for a strike, ;
the next deliver;., a slow ball, was j
bounded by Kelly to Tayjor, who tossed |
him out at first. No runs.
WASHINGTON—McNeeiy, on Ihe i
first hall pitched, rolled to Liudstrom, j
who toss. J him out. Harris was given a }
called strike. Harris asked that the j
ball Barnes was using be examined. ;
Tmpire Dineen, after inspecting it, put ;
;t hack in play. Bucky looked over an- j
other go.nl one. passed up two balls and |
finally missed a swing for three strikes. :
Rice ignored two balls before taking a I
strike, and then missed a swing so I
vigorous that the bat tiew out of his j
hands nearly to first base. Rice fouled j
off the next one, took another ball and j
dribbled to Barnes, who tossed him out !
at first. No runs.
SECOND INNING.
NEW YORK—Terry smacked the first
ball pitched to Harris and died at first.
Wilson was another first-hall hitter.
Kluege ran over close to second, knocked |
down his drive with one hand and. re- 1
covering quickly, flipped the bail to j
Judge, who made a Hue stop of the low j
throw to complete a classy play. Taylor, 1
leaped high to spear Jackson’s high I
bounder and fired the ball to Judge, hut i
the throw drew Joe off his base, and i
when the first-sack.r was unable to hold !
it Jackson was' safe, and Taylor was |
••barged with an error. Howdy singled
to left, sending Jackson to second, j
Barnes swung and missed Mogridge's j
first offering, he fouled off the next for (
a second At this point some com- .
motion was caused by discovery of the '
fact that the infield tarpaulin had
caught on fire evidently from A dis- .
carded cigar by a fan. Firemen with (
hand extinguishers quickly put out the |
blaze. With a count of three and two j ,
on Barnes, he fouled one off and then ,
missed a hearty swing to become Mo- (
gridge’s second strikeout victim. No
runs.
WASHINGTON Gosiin missed a
hearty swing at the first ball Barnes 1
pitched. He took one ball, swung in
effectively for a second strike and then
set down, fanned, when he failed to con
nect with a high one on the outside.
Judge ignored a strike and missed a
swing after taking one low ball. At
Joe's request Umpire Dineen inspected
the ball, and once more put it back in
play. Judge then lined a wicked drive
toward right-center, which Frisch leaped |
high into the air to Intercept. The force |
nf the drive nearly caused Frisch to j
Jose hie balance when he came down.
Bluege ended the session by rolling to I
Jackson. No runs.
THIRD INNING.
NEW YORK —Lindstrom took a ball,
then rolled to Taylor, who on this occa
sion got off a perfect peg to Judge.
Frisch took a strike, then bunted
the left-field line, and was credits with
a single when Taylor fumbled the ball.
Mogridge hooked a strike over on Young,
tosaed a wide one, and the count became
two strikes when Young fouled one off.
After fouling another Young raised an
easy pop fly to Judge. Kelly hit the
q-st hall ->!♦»•»:,'"<* -n a * ?o Bl” ~
Former Page Boy,
22, Buys Exchange
Scat for $Bl MOO
i Isy file Associated Piess.
| NKW YORK, .October 10.—John
A. Coleman, jr., 22 years old. has
bought a seat on the New York
| Stock Exchange >for SSLOOO and
I will be the youngest member of
i that institution. For six years ho
wa- a page on the floor *V the
• stock exchange. Later he became
a trader >on the curl) exchange.
His fr ends say recent profits on
the eurb enabled him to buy the
slock exchange scat.
■SHENANDOAH RACES
ACROSS MOUNTAINS
TOWARD SAN DIEGO
liy the AeserisreU Press.
I*HOKM\. Ariz., October 10.
Tlic Shenandoah nitrreiTly missed
disaster early today when she sail
.rd within IS feet of the top o's
l*ieaeho I’rrtk. between Tucson and
I'asa Grande. Aril., according to a
rad in message picked up here.
. Ky the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO. Calif., October 10. —
line Navy dirigible Shenandoah con
tinued to slip easily westward to
ward this her second stopping point
on her precedent-setting transconti
! nental flight early today. She was
safely' across the continental divide
by dawn and daylight raced past her
t us she neared Tvcson. A Hz.
Cruising along the southern nir j
route recently followed by the around
the-world flyers, the Shenandoah was
forced to stab the sky at unwonted 1
I altitudes, and making f.O to 70 miles
j an hour with a favoring breeze, was:
1 7,000 feet up as she neared Tucson.
Approximately 900 miles had been
covered at dawn since the Shenandoah
; cast off front Fort Worth, Tex.,
mooring mast 21 hours previously.
No definite lime had been set for her
arrival here, but site was expected |
"before sunset.” From here the course i
of her third and final Kg of th-' West - ‘
ern trip will be up the Pacific Coast 1
to Camp Lewis. Wash. From there ■
she will retrace her path through the 1
1 heavens to N. J.
; Leaving Fort Worth, the Shenan- ■
doah bucked a headwind and an !
i average speed of 40 miles an hour;
was maintained. The big ship was j
held as close to the ground as safety !
would permit in crossing the mouri- ■
tains of western Texas so that as ,
little as possible of the helium gas In i
her hags would be forc< d through the j
; safety valves by the rarefied atmos- !
; phere.
As it passed Sail Simeon, the i
dirigible got into radio comtnunica- I
tion with the University of Arizona ;
station long enough to give its po
| sition and send greetings.
| San Diego, the rendezvous of daring '
i airmen and scene of many aircraft i
i records, was awaiting the novelty of a I
: visit from America’s big dirigible with ;
’an aerial circus. It will start with ler |
arrival and end when she floats into 1
. the sky for Camp Lewis.
_
I missed two swings at wide curves and j
! retired to the bench. After passing up |
! two wide ones. Hue! took a strike, j
| passed up another wide one and got a j
j second strike, straight over the p’ale. J
: He hit the next pitched bail over third. !
i which was foul by only a matter of j
i inches, and then bounded softly to j
1 Barnes. Mogridge fouled off a strike. 1
| missed a swing and then took another j
j strike, to be retired on three pitched j
, halls and to run his consecutive whitting i
; record up to five , George having fanned j
i on all four of his appearances at bat in !
; Tuesday’s game at New York, which j
| the southpaw ’won. No runs.
IGI RTH INNING.
NEW YORK —Terry took a strike, j
missed a .•■wing for another, waited for |
two wide ones and then took a third
strike, a low hall that Mogridge hooked j
over the plate. The count on Wilson was >
three and one when he hit a nasty hop- j
per which Bluege handled in workman- j
like fashion. Bluege also took care of \
Jackson's roller. No runs.
WASHINGTON Mogridge appeared i
to be in fine form, displaying fully as |
much stuff as he had in his initial es- j
fort of the series, although given but j
two days for recuperating. The crowd j
was whooping it up as McNeeiy came i
to bat. With a count of two and two i
the best Ear! could do was to wave at a 1
third strike. Barnes was exhibiting fine |
control of a curve bail, and has five j
strikeouts to his credit up to this time, j
With a count of three arid two on him I
Harris poled one of Karnes’ offerings j
into the stands in left 1 center for a home i
run, thereby duplicating his wallop of
last Sunday’s game here. Wilson made
a desperate effort to intercept the ball,
leaning high and half falling over the
barrier. Th<- President and Mrs. Cool
idge jumped to their feet and applaud
ed with the crowd Harris' wallop. Rice's
slow liner to left was converted into a
putout when Wilson ran far in and
dived to catch the ball. He slid several
feet on the ground, but retained his
clutch and was given an ovation for
his feat. With a count of one ball and
two strikes on him. Gosiin bounded to
Terry, who raced to first ahead of Goose.
One run.
FIFTH INNING.
NEW YORK—Gowdy raised a near !
Texas Leaguer to right-center which i
Harris chased out and grabbed. Hank I
had swung at the first pitch. Barnes |
had a strike registered against him j
when he rolled over by second, where j
Bluege made a fine stop anefc tossed him 1
out. After taking one ball Lindstrom i
lined to left over the upstretched hands j
of the leaping Taylor, and reached I
ond before Gosiin. who momentarily t
fumbled the ball, could return it. Frisch
took a wide one. fouled off a strike and
1 then took another one straight over the
middle. Frisch met the next ball pitched
| for a liner to left, where Cfeslin inter
| ccpted it. No runs.
WASHINGTON —Manager Harris had
: Martina warming up in the bull pen as
a precautionary measure. Judge fouled
off a strike close to the right-field line,
took another and then rolled to Terry,
whose toss to Barnes beat Joe to first
base. Bluege took one strike, failed to
connect in an attempt to bunt and then
hit a high bounder close to the line
which Lindstrom and Barnes avoided at
Gowdy's command to let it roll foul.
After taking three straight balls Bluege
hit another foul and then rolled to .Tack
tfho •osse'’ i out from deep short
W\t lEteriing Bfetf.
y v J \ x WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION \~S
ARMY BLIMP. TC-2.
WRECKED BY BOMB;
FIVE OF CREW HURT
I
Premature Blast Tears Silk
Bag 150 Feet in Air —No
Time for Parachutes.
HELIUM GAS SAVES LIVES
OF MEN, EXPERTS HOLD
Lieuts. Martin and Puryear Se
i riously Injured—Three Ser
geants Shocked.
1 tty Iho 1 *rrs-.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va„ October
10.— Two officers and three men were
j injured, some of them seriously, when
| the United. States Army blimp TC-2
| was sent crashing to the earth short
j lu before noon today by the prein a*
! lure explosion of a bomb.
The injured were rushed to the
j base hospital ;i? Fort Monroe by air
j plane and ambulance. Liculs. Bruce
j Martin and Alfred Puryear are be
j lieved to have been seriously hurt,
j although the exact condition of hone
i OI the live has as yet been deler
■ mined. The others tire Master Sergt.
| Fitch and Sergts. Wells and Jacobs.
Were at Target Practice.
■ hast two of the injured were
thought to have been hurt internally
j when the big bomb exploded as it
i was about to be released in target
practice and s nt the craft crashing the
: 150 feet to earth.
For the first few seconds the
ts” s.owly, but spectators be’ow soon
• sa« a puff of smoke, heard a muf
tiod roar of the pomb and then the hiss
; of Sins and the blimp hurtled plummet
| hhe to earth. It did not catch fire, but
I struck the ground with force that twist
j ed it into a mass of ruins.
Blast Ih Premature.
i The TC-2 came here yesterday from
j the Army proving grounds at Aberdeen,
iMJ . to participate in the bombing
i maneuvers which got under way last
j flight. It was on Its first flight here this
; morning when the bomb, carried be
j neath the basket and about to be r>-
| leased from a low altitude at a target
below, exploded prematurely. A board
i of inquiry will be appointed this after
i noon, it was announced at Ismgiey
i Field, to investigate the cause of the ex
! plosion.
i The explosion of the bomb broke !
; the gas bag of the ship, which came ■
I to the ground as the non-inflammable
j helium with which the, bag was filled
j escaped. The crew had no time to ,
i take to their parachutes.
! The full extent of the damage to
; the ship has not been determined
| beyond the fact that the gas bag
j was severely torn by the explosion
j and fall which followed. The fact
: that the ship was inflated with non
j explosive helium gas probably pre
j vented her complete destruction and
j the loss of the lives of all the mem
) bers of her crew.
The TC-2 has a length of 196 feet
! and an over-all height of 59 feet.
| It was constructed for training pur
j po~es. her car being of an improved
| pattern and 40 feet in length with
j two 150 horsepower motors set on
i a platform aft. She had a speed of
j (50 mi Vs an hour, and an endurance
i capacity of 10 hours in the air at that
i rate. Her total lifting capacity was
1 close to 12,000 pounds and her useful
j load 4,000 pounds.
The ship had taken on her cargo of
four bombs this morning, and at the
time of the explosion was 150 feet
1 in the air.
I.lent. Martin Worst Hurt.
Lieut. Martin is the most seriously
injured of Ihe five men. He has a
j fracture at Ihe base of ttie brain but
>sii’l has? a fighting chance for life.
• He makes his home at Aberdeen with
j hit: wife, but comes from Watertown,
\ N. Y., although he joined the service
| while in California.
Lieut. Puryear entered the service
I from Tennessee. He is married and
i lives at Langley Field,
j Sergt. Pitch and family live at
j Aberdeen, where he Is stationed, al
; though their home is in Philadelphia,
i Sergts. Weils and Jensen are sta
| lioned at Aberdeen.
HELIUM SAVES‘LIVES.
Its bag torn by the concussion and
| splinters of a bomb explosion on the
ground, the Army non-rigid dirigible
TC-2 crashed at Langley Field, Va„
today from an altitude of 150 feet,
according to a report to the chief of
Army Air Service today front Maj.
Oscar AVestover, commanding officer
of the field.
Maj. Westover said Lieut. Bruce
Martin was seriously injured: the con
dition of Lieut. Alfred Puryear was
undetermined and three sergeants,
Fitch. Wells and,Jacobs, were shock
ed. The foregoing comprised the
officers and crew aboard at the time.
The TC-2 was of about 200,000 cubic
feet capacity and about 100 feet in
length. Its home station was Phillips
Field, Aberdeen, Md., from where it
flew to Langley Sunday to engage in
bombing practice. It could carry a
load of bombs weighing 1,000 pounds.
It has been flying about three months.
The blimp was filled with helium,
the non-inflammable and non-explosive
1 gas, to which fact Air Service officers
here attribute the saving of lives of
j the crew. If the bag had been in
i slated with hydrogen, they declared,
no one would have escaped instant
death, even if the ship had been on
the ground.
“UNCLE JOE”' SCORES
LA FOLLETTE’S COURSE
By the Associated Press.
HOOPESTON, 111., October 10.—
“Uncle Joe” Cannon, retired veteran
Representative, came out of nearly
two years of private life last night to
address a business men's meeting here
and to attack Senator Robert M. La
Follette, Independent candidate sor 1
President. 1
Mr. Cannon said he had little re
—ard for ”a man who l« elected as a
' *n
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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1924 - FORT 1 Y- KHIH T PAGES. ***
' V '' * * !
CROWD AGAIN IS SLOW
ASSEMBLING FOR GAME
■
| CLARK GRIFFITH STADIUM.—I
The crowd is coming into the park |
i late again today. Washington pn/b- 1
; ably is too dignified to rush to its j
, reservations early—especially when ;
j it knows it can rush to the park at ]
i the last minute and be assured of :
; its setils. The co: ps of ushers or- '
ganiz>*d for the world series’ game i
I here is most efliecient.
Joe Martina is working overtime as j
a batting practice pitcher these days.
He did the hurling in the drill for
the fourth successive day tiiis after
noon.
Ernie Maun served the Giant hat- 1
ters when they first took the field |
; for their practice.
Several of the Giants propelled the \
j ball into the left field stands during 1
j their batting drill. Evidently they
I are tuning up for a real slugging I
: game this afternoon.
| But they had nothing on Goose!
| Gosiin. during Ihe National's drill, the ]
I husky swatter first sacked a foul over
: the right field wall, then knocked a
i fair one that cleared the crowd in
the temporary center field bleachers.
Howard Baldwin relieved Maun on
the mound during the Giants’ club
bing drill. It appears that McGraw
is certain Harris will start a right
hander in this seventh game of the
series.
Virgil Barnes, right bander, and
! Art. Nehf, southpaw who pitched
| yesterday, warmed up before the
game for the Giants. Curly Ogden
was the National pitcher in the bull
pen.
George Mogridge, left hander, and
Fred Marberry, king of relief hurlersj,
also warmed up for the Nationals.
Kicking the starting pitchers is not
so easy.
President Cooiidge is here again.
He arrived about ten minutes before
game time and posed with Mrs.
Cooiidge, Bucky Harris, John Mc-
Graw and Judge Landis for the
cameramen.
Bucky stood between the President |
and Mrs. Cooiidge, while John -Mc-
Graw was on the left of the nation s
Chief Executive, and Judge laindis
stood behind the group.
-The Star Spangled Banner" has
been played and every one is ready
for the game. Warren Ogden is to
start in the box for the Nationals',
with Kuel catching, while Virgil
Barnes is to go for the Giants, with
Gowdy behind the bat.
With Roger Peckinpaugh out of
action, Ossie Bluege has moved to
shortstop and Tom Taylor has gone to
third base for the Nationals.
Manager Harris used a bit of
strategy when he started Ogden. He
had planned to have McGraw send
the left-hand hitting Terry to first
base, then to yank his right-hand
pitcher and substitute a southpaw.
So after Ogden fanned Lindstrom and
Walked Frisch, in came George Mo
gritjge.
Young, first to face Mogridge, look
ed foolish when he waved at a pitch
far outside for the.third strike. Then\
Newspaper Advertising in Washington
Month of September
1924 1923
Lines
The Evening and Sunday Star 2,139,343 1,989,552
Second Paper, Morning and Sunday... /63,960 914,364
Third Paper, Evening only 615,538 524,535
Fourth Paper, Morning and Sunday 427,899 500,960
Fifth Paper, Evening only 105,033 100,569
1,912,430 2,040,428
Star Gain Over Same Month Last Year—149,791
During the month of September The Star not only gained
149.791 lines of advertising, but printed more advertising in
its Evening and Sunday editions than all the other daily and
Sunday Washington newspapers combined.
The reason for this is that The Star’s circulation both
daily and Sunday continues to increase with the growth of
the city, The Evening Star’s circulation in the city and
suburbs being 40,000 greater than that of any other Wash
ington daily newspaper and The Sunday Star’s circulation
in the city and suburbs 38,000 greater than its nearest Sun
day competitor.
CIRCULATION
Yesterday's Circulation 104,160
Circulation Year Ago 96,110
I &03)
• ■ * *
i Broken-handed Taylor tossed out
! Kelly.
Barnes had an easy time with the 1
j Nationals in the first inning. Harris ,
i fanned after McNeeiy grounded to .
j Lindstrom and Rice could only roll |
weakly to the pitcher.
j Klyege made a sensational play on j
| Wilson in the second session. H*- ran
i toward second to knock down a
j grounder that Mogridge had just 1
I tipped with his glove, then recovered i
| the ball and heaved fast to gel Hack, j
• Terry had grounded to Harris before ;
! the play and after it Jackson got a'
I life when Taylor made a wild throw!
j and Gowdy singled, but Karnes, with !
1 a three-and-two count, fanned
I _____ I
i Frisch's leaping catch of Judge's j
| liner brought much applause from the j
j fans in the National's second. Gos
iin. apparently trying too hard to j
) meet the ball, had fanned before the *
I gtali and Bluege rolled to Jackson
j after it.
Another Giant hit was made la the i
third, hut if was a puny"line. After |
Taylor threw out Lindstrom. Frisch |
bunted toward third, and Taylor fail- !
ed to get to the ball in time for a ‘
play. But Young's best was a pop j
to Judge and Kelly forced Frisch, i
Bluege to Harris.
Barnes appeared very good in the
third. He made Taylor fan at a third
strike, and after Kuel roiled to him
pitched a third strike past Mogridge.
Kluege had plenty to do in the
Giants' fourth, after a third strike
was called on Terry, Ossie made a
splendid stop of Wilson's grounder
and flagged the runner, then took a
sizzler to retire Jackson.
That first hit for the Nationals came
In ihe fourth and it was a homer by
Bucky Harris. He crashed the ball
into the left-field temporary bleachers
after McNeeiy fanned. That circuit
blow brought a roar from the fans. 1
Even I’resident t’oolidge and his wife j
arose and cheered the Nationals' man- ;
j ager as he crossed the plate. It was j
“Bucky's" second homer of the series. |
_____ , i
Wilson look a header into the
bleachers as he tried to follow Harris’ I
hit. and had to lie pulled out of the
seats by some of his teammates. He
was limping as lie returned to his
place in left field, but was not hurt
enough to prevent him from a diving
catch of Rice’s apparently certain
hit. Then Gosiin rolled to Kelly to
end the inning.
LA FOLLETTE PRIVILEGED.
CHICAGO, October 10.—Chicago's
traffic ban on left turns in Ihe busi
ness district wilf he lifted for Senator j
Robert M. La Follette, Independent
presidential candidate, who will lie
escorted through the district, upon
his arrival tomorrow, hy delegations
from political and veterans organiza
tions.
Senator La Follette will speak to
morrow evening at a meeting presided
over by Miss Jane Addams. His ad
dress will be radiocast from station
WEBH.
THOUSANDS RUSH
TICKET SELLERS!
(
Optimism Prevails as Last-j
Minute Scramble for Covet- |
ed Pasteboards Rages.
With more than three-fourths of |
I the approximately 32,000 .seat reser- j
i vations subscribed for overnight by !
j privileged fans holding ticket stubs.'
thousands of men and women storm- j
j‘ il tile ticket booths at Griffith Sla- j
i dium when they were thrown open j
j unreservedly to everybody at 10 >
j o’clock this morning - , and it wasn’t !
j long before every remaining box,
1 grandstand and pavillion seat tor
I today's world series c'imax had been
I gobbled up.
| Contrary to expectations, there ■was
no serious jam for tickets last night.
| dll*-, apparently, to the fact that the '
I customers fortunately did not ail j
1 converge on the park at once, hut j
t came in a steady stream troin the j
i close of the game yesterday until |
! after midnight.
This, coupled with the fact that '
most of those in line purchased not '
one. hut three and four tickets each,
diminished fjreatly the crowds seek- ;
ing tickets and eased correspondingly j
the iask of the 17 ticket sellers, in- j
stead of the 35.<>00 persons- antici
pated at the park yesterday evening !
and last night there were probably
not mote than 15.000 and they pur
chased. some 22.000 tickets, it was,
stated today by Edward,!!, iiynon, ,
jr.. secretary irf the ball *club.
Optimism Ucigns.
Tiiat same old optimism that has
marked the demeanor of Washington ,
fans since Bucky Harris and his gang j
of gloom chasers shinnied up the
mizzenmast and pinned the American
j league pennant to Admiral Griffith's 1
| flagship cropped out again yesterday I
I afternoon.
j Confident that the Nationals had ;
j effectually smothered the Giants for j
■ the remainder of the game, hundreds I
of rooters for the home team deserted
their reserved seats at the end of the j
eighth inning yesterday and rushed j
pell-mell for the ticket booths where 1
I reservations for today’s game would :
be handled. They left the game flat, i
with not a doubt in their minds, in !
spite of the formidable line-up of ■
New York baiters scheduled to face !
Jezebel Tecumsch Zachary in that i
last frame —for instance. Kelly,!
Young, Meusel and Wilson. They ■
placed their faith in Zach and his
teammates, and they were not disap
j pointed.
j In fact, the crowds at the booths !
j right after the game mid up to 81
o’clock were much larger than
at any time during the evening, i
Many a supper that once was hot i
suffered a spasm of chills before i> |
found its way down the hungry, j
though hoarse, throats of thousands ;
of men and women among the early ;
customers. The lines at sunset ex- |
tended far down Georgia avenue in I
two directions and the police re- j
serves on hand from several outlying!
precincts, in addition to Capt. Doyle’s j
men. had a busy time for several !
hours.
The lines moved toward the ticket
windows with remarkable progress,
however, and the coveted admission
cards passed over the counters rap
idly. Only those having stubs from
yesterday's contest, of course, were
permitted to buy their, tickets for
the final game.
A new type of scalper meanwhile
had made his appearance. He bought,
sold and exchanged ticket stubs for
-•prices ranging from a dollar to sev
eral of them per stub. There were
plenty of headquarters detectives and
a number of deputy revenue collectors
around, but the speculators succeeded
in keeping their operations under
cover so far as the authorities were
concerned.
On the opposite side of the park
“the faithful’’ kept their tryst be
neath the shadows of the bleacher
walls, ready to say howdy-do to the I
genial dispensers of bleacher seats
this morning.
The all-night line presented a more
settled and comfortable appearance
last night than it did on the three
previous occasions. Nearly every
one of the hundred or so men and
boys who camped for the night
brought thick bnaknets and .heavy
protective do'" ''i'’ I ’'? learned
lessens by f
them had b<
times befc :
steeled to t
Instead o
as on pr ivi
bleacheri et
es and bene,
as 8 o’cloc
they m'ght
force thosi
see TVazshln
home Man
pionsW of
GRIFFS OUT TO GRAB
CHAMPIONSHIP AND
150,000 EXTRA PAY
Thousands Battle for Seats for
Game That Will Settle Base
Ball Supremacy.
*
CROWD THRILLS AT QUICK SHIFT
FROM OGDEN TO MOGRIDGE
Nationals Confident of Beating Giants.
Taylor Put at Third—President and
Mrs. Coolidge Attend.
BY HAROLD K. PHILIPS.
C LARK. (iRIITI 1 H STADIL M, October 10.—With the world
j championship and a $50,000 bonus hanging in the balance. Wash
ington plunged into the deciding game of the world scries at
2 o clock this afternoon, determined to march into the throne
room of base ball over the hapless forms of the Giants.
Crippled once more by the loss of faithful old Roger Peckin
i paugh at short, the fighting Nationals entered the fray ready to
| light with that game, never-say-die spirit that has pulled them
j more than once from the yawning Talley of defeat to the height-
A»f victory, whatever the adversity of misfortune may have cos’ -
| them through injured veterans.
Ogden to Pitch.
Into the hands of Curly Ogden, the i
; right-handed twirler who pitched
i Washington to many victories hack in I
■those heart-rending days when it:
I looked as though a sudden slump
! would cost Washington its pennant.
Bucky Harris entrusted the fate of
today's game, the most crucial of the
| series, but he was yanked in the first
inning in favor of Mogridge. Opposing
-Mogridge was Harnes, right-hander of
i the Giants.
| Once more President Coolidge for
j sook the \\ hite House and sat in his I
• private box to lead 38,000 throbbing. '
I ectastlc fans who packed and jammed j
I every seat and every inch of standing 1
I room within sight of the diamond !
both in and outside of this stadium I
I a » they cheered their heroes on to !
victory in a delirium of frenzy. And I
beside him Mrs. Coolidge sat, as usual. !
smiling and thrilled as the most '
faithful follower of the popular!
pastime in the bleachers down center
field way.
Hut overshadowing even the joyous :
; tension of the day, the moment Avheh
: a victorious Washington team stood
j sac- e to face with a worthy foe, lied
i f° r ibe base ball championship and
j ready to decide the issue in fair com
| hat. was the atmosphere of a great
I battle impending.
■ As the warm autumn sun mounted
i toward the zenith of noon there were
: already without the portals of the
, arena more than enough of persons
; f° bll if. Some had been there all
' night. Others rose with the proverb
' * '1 rooster and hastened to tMe scene
of sportdom’s classic, there to camp
until the long-awaited hour when
the gates would be filing open and
; the fight to get in would begin,
j Ail through the night special corps
|of tired men had been standing in
• the narrow booths passing out tickets
to fans who were fortunate enough
: to hold coupons from previous games
i 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
i home and kept the vigil with the
■ perspiring ticket sellers.
Four o'clock this morning gazed in
I amazement at a Washington it had
! never known, at a Washington that
j no one would have seriously believed
j might possibly exist.
Many In Line All Night.
; Lines of men and women, some ex
l pensively clothed and others appar
ently dressed for the occasion, ex
i tended a block and a half from the
j booths. Seated, standing and lying
! around the gates were hundreds of
| others. A few of the more thoughtful
: had brought along blankets and they
■ found them none too warm, for the
I night was one of the coldest this Fall,
i Policemen long experienced in
! handling and estimating crowds de
clared with the utmost confidence that
there were 5,000 persons scattered in
| and around the ball park an hour
| before dawn. The earliest harbing
! ers at daylight found the clans
i gathering by the hundreds and thou
| sands and the final hour in which re
j serve seats might be claimed by pos
-1 scssors of tickets for the previous
i games witnessed scenes strangely
1 reminiscent of the latter days of last
! week when the paste boards were first
| being distributed.
Little Confusion.
There was little confusion in the
actual 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
was from those who either held the
precious cards of admission or those
who were reasonaly certain only a mira
cle would get them in. The excited
frenzy of the former class was due
to nervousness, but in the latter it
was easily to be excused.
At 10 o’clock the gates to the ball
park were literally clogged with fans,
some of them again equipped with j
camp chairs and reading material to
make their wait, a purely useless wait
it was, more comfortable. Around
back, where the bleacherites held the
fort, similar scenes were in progress
and when the ticket office was thrown
open at 9 o’clock, the pasteboards
found eager customers. Just as
quickly as the man in the booth could
• .
i: 11 - - .
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour ”
The Star’s carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 104,160
i pass them out at a dollar a throw.
; He raked in the money so fast that
! he soon found it inexpedient to tuck
| it away, but simply puiied the green
; backs inside and let them drop to
the floor. When the gates banged to
and the section was sold out at T!
o'clock, he was standing almost waist
deep in something like 2.200 doll 1 "
bills and as many dimes. Incidentally
Uncle Sam will collect those dimes.
Eynon Under Fire.
If Kd Eynon were running for fii.
i Senate or some other political ollii ••
|he would have cause to worry. li
I required three policemen to guard his
I door from the thousands who thought
j they had •‘pull" enough to beg tickets
! from him. Hut there were no ta
| vorites. despite insinuations from the
1 disappointed ones that big blocks of
I the precious cards were being held
| for the cal! of "higher ups." Kynon's
i hours were hard ones, hut he was
; obdurate.
I Goose Goslin succeeded in fighting
j his way past the blue flock of guardi
ans to the secretary's sanctum.
Muddy Ruel had beaten him in by
a scant minute or two and right
behind stepped Joe Judge, Tom Zach- .
ary and Freddy Marberry, all yelling
lustily 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 ('lark Griffith himself. The
sight of the boss served to pacify the
Nationals only slightly, but after
Griff had explained in suave tones
that they were quite lucky in view
of the fact that they expected to re
fuse something like 40.000 persons
even standing room, Goose and his
fiats took what they could gel and
departed, mumbling something about
having a base hall game to play any
how. That's the kind of favoritism
that was going on up here- \
MMNM) Seek r>.»oo Seats.
At 10 o’clock it was estimated there
wore perhaps 5,000 reserved seals that
remained uncalled for. hut they Her
promptly put on public sale. There
were 10.000 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 witu
what they had.
The signs of the times began mak
ing themselves evident when 11
husky, ebony-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 fool ball championship for the
day
The gauntlet was snatched up so
quickly that it staggered the peanut
men. In a moment enough contestants
to organize a 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 improvise a near-pig
skin. Then the fun began.
Band ((dells Disorder.
Those who had failed to win places
on the hleacherite 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.
White-coated reinforcements rushed
to their assistance, however, and for
the next few minutes there was a
friendly, if a bit rough, free-for-all
that ended precipitately when Myer
Goldman and his exaggerated orches
tra arrived to offer a new form of
diversion. But that was the-spirit that
prevailed today just a few hours be
fore the base hall championship of
the world was to be decided here.
It was just a rollicking, happy
go-lucky throng of men and women
turned into careless kids for one
I 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 ajid 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. It might be
noted, however, that-they turned an
awful amount of money over to the
Veste —H«> V , a 1 " 1 the 'nir ~ev
TWO CENTS.