three o'clock
The cheaper seats beyond held about as many spectators as they were built to hold . The attendance , that day , was nearly three thousand . Gardiner had sent a delegation of nearly one-tenth of this number . Before three o'clock the band began to play . Whenever the musicians launched into a popular baseball ditty the crowd joined with the words . `` Prescott is going to pitch ! '' `` No , he is n't . ''