I’ll bet they were whistling Dixie.
This was probably before the Danube was blue...
Whistling Dixie
No but 1900 years later Red Barber was:
1966 With only 413 patrons in attendance to see Yankees 4-1 loss to the White Sox, The veteran broadcaster will reportedly lose his job when he continues to tell his audience, “I don’t know what the paid attendance is today, but whatever it is, it is the smallest crowd in the history of Yankee Stadium