The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-07
IS RANKED FIRST;
 HARVARD GETS SECOND PLACE
WORLDS SERIES COSTLY
 TO CHICAGO GAMESTERS
BY BERT E. COLLIER

part Contrary to precedent, the piker and plunger alike demands the best price with the result, we can account, in a measure, for the extremely close quotations which prevailed throughout the series. Tradition and the laws of chance We're dominant factors from the firing of the first gun In this respect l reprint an interview with James Q Lea ry. the stock yards bookmaker, at whose place future books are made on every big sporting event, and which is known far and wide as the largest of its kind in the country. O'Leary, when asked tc account for the deluge of Athletic support which poured in from Detroit. Pittsburg, New York and Philadelphia, said "These fellows have no inside dope But they figure. and very right ly so that you can't win all the time. It's the law of tradition and cold calcu- lation. Then, too, they are availing themselves of the palpably abnormal prices. Any price over ' to on any one game Is out of line"
 The hectic gentleman, who apparently has the "reverse English on everything he does and on whose 'tummey. tum- my tum the milk of human kindness has soured. laid it to the law of con- trarities. He argued that it was the same when a fellow comes into this world. He does without his consent. and he goes out of it against his will, and the trip in between is exceedingly rocky And he copped the negotiable grass of Uncle Sam in chunks.
 Of those who made cleanup on these series probably the Consdine brothers of Detroit and New York won the biggest bets These dyed-in-the wool spectators parlayed their winnings on the first three games. for, 1t Is said, s150,00o. They would have dropped a chunk on the fourth had aht tn t,la oil of fhaf, missions. On the other hand. they again served out a walloping to the local bet tors on the Sunday game. Of. the side lights of the game none were quite so outstanding as the sulking of the Peer less Leader, who refused to accede to the demands of the fans to start the series with Cole The reason for all this has leaked out There was actual rupture In the ranks of the Cubs over this same tonsorial artist, who. during the season, had made the balance of the Cub pitchers look sick. When at last Chance, In desperation. did give Cole chance, the big fellow delivered in the only winning game credited to the West. Siders. thus giving food for those who again argued what might have been"
 The scalpers too, and the methods they en: ployed menaced the longevity of the sport as no other thing has in years excuse me Mir Fletcher. That the man higher up will eventually be dragged forth into the calcium, goes almost with out saying The fellow who hooked the pasteboards on the streets. in the hotel IoEbies-the best seats in the grandstand was not, and is not to blame. He is merely a tool. Many. of course. blame 1t to the national commission, to this or that member, and offered as evidence that the scalpers had approached them in their places of business. when the only way of knowing that tickets were desired was through the national com mission divplging the return of checks for tickets. On the other hand it is argued that the scalpers are fed by greedy politicians. who hold up and demand certain blocks of tickets. The latter, probably, is a near-solution of the tangled skein.