DODGERS 10, EXPOS 4 With one big swing, Eric Karros silenced Montreal's largest opening crowd since 1993.
Three birdies in the first three holes and another on the sixth sent a ripple of anticipation through the record first day Open crowd of 35,191.
Many in the opening crowd Wednesday will be interested in the race preceding the Schuylerville: a $47,000 allowance race for 3-year-olds and up over seven furlongs with a field of nine including Macho Uno, last year's Juvenile Champion.
It hasn't had an opening crowd under 40,000 in a decade — Thursday's attendance was 42,021.
After the opening crowd scene, the bullfighters' march is led by the children's chorus; the crowd hails Escamillo before his short love scene with Carmen.
It was a typical nighttime Open crowd: lots of shiny skin, shiny shoes.
Over 21 years, the Open crowd became a sort of extended family for Agassi.
The Open crowd is necessarily limited to thirty-five thousand people, who pay ninety-five to a hundred and forty dollars per day.
And when Mr. Amis covered tennis for The New Yorker in the 1990s, he thrilled to the guttural United States Open crowd at Flushing Meadows.
On Saturday, the French Open crowd did not know whom to root for, politely applauding, not wanting to pull for one sister over the other.
