Show Empty Etty Stands See Title Football Game Feeling High Secret Playoff Is Guarded by Cavalry MILAN Oct 31 What What was meant to be a world series event eventa In a Italian sports with prospects of ot long ong queues S and night campaigns to buy tickets and special excursIon excursion excursion sion trains from all parts s pf f Italy with lucrative returns Jn in millions of or lire Ire for tor the promoters was played before empty stands with only a few ew mounted peering their heir heads over the fences to get a glimpse glimpse of the play The event was the football match between Genoa and Bologna for the championship lp of Italy which be because because because be- be cause of fear of local spirit rising to 0 fever heat was played on neural neutral neutral neu neu- ral ground without a single paid admission The match mutch which took place at Milan Lilian was a third re play play for for on the he two previous occasions of ot the final Inal th the teams had drawn As a consequence the feeling among the followers of ot the two elevens had grown dangerously dangerous 1 high Matters were vere made worse by certain gr grave ve incidents which took place after aeter the I I second play off and draw raw at Turin On that occasion by an unfortunate I coincidence after the match two wo trains packed with excited football fans tans drew up alongside of each ach other at a small railroad stalon station sta- sta lon lion near Turin One train was tull full ull of Bologna followers the other was vas packed with Genoa enoa fans I I Taunts and sarcastic remarks remarks' non Ion began to fly from one train to the other and nd It ib was was was' not long I before there were two or three free free- I for alls taking place on the track and platform I Alarmed the railroad men hurI hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- lot got off one of or the trains but I some excited Genoa men fired a number of revolver shots after it lOne One man was wounded and some glass panes were broken I It was this Incident and the ru rumors rumors ru ru- mors of o-f vengeance sworn by the Bologna men which caus caused d the pre- pre j I feet of or Turin to forbid the playIng playing play play- Ing off oct of or the final at all In the province of ot Turin The consent of or the Milan l authorities author author- lUes was finally obtained to the playing off of the match in the Lombard capital The The- game took place at 7 in the morning in the workmen's called Vicentino At 6 o'clock work people going to their factories were surprised to see a display of police and caval cavalry y worthy of ot a general strike Word soon got round of what was taking tak tak- Ing InS place place but access to the playIng playIng playing play- play Ing ground was barred brt by cordons of ot mounted men There was however one block of or workmen's apartments which overlooked overlooked overlooked over over- looked the ground and the porter 0 or of this block made a rapid arrangement at ar- ar arrangement with the tenants to let letout letout letout out rooms for a few lire a head taking a percentage himself for his business acumen Thus some forty tr u fifty Milan l workmen got go a dis dis- dis tant view of or the famous match which was won by Bologna by two goals to none On the field of pl play apart from froma a small group of journalists and a knot of higher police officials no nobody nobody no- no body was present The venue of the final was kept a close secret until the evening e before when word was sent round by the police to the papers that tickets for a limited number of journalists would be given out on application to the au au au- |