The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-07
Grandstand Section Seating 800
Set Aside for Them.
GET SEATS BY MAIL
Checks SWampClerks at National
Commission Headquarters.
Brush Expects Biggest Crowd
That Ever Saw Game.

New York, Oct. 7.@Three hundred
skilled baseball writers and artists
VIII be called on to appease through
out the country the whetted appetite
OF thousands for news of the premier
event of the national pasttime=tha
WORLDS baseball series-which COM
mences here next Saturday between
the Giants and the Athletics. From
all parts of the United States base
bail experts have applied for seats at
the games. here and in Philadelphia
and the National commission has set
aside section of the grandstand for
reporters No event, probably, with
the exception of conventions that
nominate the presidential candidates
calls forth more newspaper men than
those annual clashes for the world s
championship on the diamond.
Scores of telegraph wires will be
used to transmit the progress of the
contests play by play. Besides the
regular corps of baseball writer's, sew
eral prominent baseball players have
been engaged to report the games.
Ihelr accounts of a days game written
and tlied, the newspaper men will en-
train for the next scene of battle. Last
year the correspondents travelled be-
tween Philadelphia and Chicago on a
special train with the national COM
mission and players but the proximity
of the two contesting cities this year
makes the jumps easier.
Ambulances Will Be on Hand.
The greatest crowds that ever
packed ball yard are expected to at
tend the games this year. Just 124222
persons saw the series last year. The
new Brush Stadium at the Polo
grounds, filled to capacity. will hold
approximately fifty thousand specta-
tors and the grounds of Shibe field
can accomm odate about thirty thou
sand. To handle the immense crowd
special details of police have been or
dered. Hundreds of enthusiasts will
stand in line all night to obtain the
draws near for the game the crush
will grow larger. Ambulances with
hospital surgeons will be on hand to
take care of any injured.
I'VE expect to handle the greatest
crowd that ever cheered for the home
team and do it without semblance Of
disorder and to the satisfaction of
those who come" said President Jno.
7. Brush Of the Giants.
Ticket Orders Pour In.
Within twenty-four hours after the
of the schedule of
games for the 1911 worlds baseball
applications for seats
sane in such mum bers that the officers /
0f the New York baseball club were |
Hooded with check-laden missives. |
The demand was so overwhelming that |
Extra clerks were engaged to attack /
he mountain of mail. The applications |
we're too numerous to count, but they |
an up into many thousands
In addition, hundreds of local fans, !
they could thus get in on the /
ground floor, went to the offices only I
o find that no tickets would be is
ued until the advance sale begins
Thursday.
The clerks bundled the letters in
packages of a hundred, stamped ac-
ording to the time of receipt to be
ure that the early applicants are tax
n care of first. They were instructed
to watch closely for ''sus-
,icious" applications that looked as
hough they might be from specula-
ors. BY strict enforceme ment of the rule
f only four tickets to one purchaser
nd the rejection of suspicious appli-
it is hoped to reduce specula-
ion to a minimum.