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`` Sell fifty more , '' telephoned Mr. Potter , `` and mark them ` Bench ! ''' Then he hurried to Odd Fellows ' Hall with a moving-van and transferred ten settees from there to the ball grounds and placed them in a double row all along the third base line . After that he threw up his hands . Shortly before noon a blue runabout , with its brass glistening radiantly and its newly varnished surface reflecting back the sunlight , stopped in front of the carriage gate at the field and honked its horn . After which Gordon , who rode beside the operator , jumped to the ground , climbed the fence and unbarred the gates from inside . Then Morris drove in , Gordon dropped the bar back in place and climbed into the car again and the blue runabout ambled across the white foul line and stopped a few feet from the home plate , with its glistening radiator pointed at the grandstand . `` That 's my last ride in her , '' said Morris regretfully as he got out .