New-York tribune., 1911-10-16
CITIZENS HONOR GIANTS MANY SPECTATORS FINED
Magistrate Says He viii Give
Them Limit During Series.
"FRESH" ONE GETS So EXTRA
Negro Janitor, Who Tried to Sell
Roof Accommodations, Is
in Batch Of Thirty.

The last batch Of the hundred spectators
who sought wealth from selling tickets 10
the first game of the worlds series at the
Polo Grounds on Saturday found their way
into the Harlem court yesterday morning.
There were thirty in the lot Magistrate
House, before fning each Of them so, eX-
cept i'm a few instances. was emphatic as
TO his stand and the attitude he Will take
toward others who violate the ordinance
prohibiting specuating and are brought
before him during the series
you are all well dressed" he said, "and
II will do you no good to try to palm your
selves off as truck drivers and the like. II
YOU are arrested for ticket specializing in
this series of ball games you will get the
limit when brought before me. 1t is about
time that the public got a chance TO see
some sport without paying the terrible
prices you men ask. ! am going 10 take
/ the stand that you are spectators, pure
and simple. and will act accordingly"
The majority of those arraigned before
Magistrate House had been bailed out at
the l52d street station, where they had been
taken from the ball grounds on Saturday.
They were arrested by the following mem
bors of the Central Office Squad: Detec-
tives Cosuma. Hughes. Green, McElroy,
Shields, Wynn, Moses and McCrossen.
/ one who got more than the SO fine was
| Victor Grant. OF Newark, y. j.. whom the
! MAGISTRATE termed rs fresh" He had
come into court with his hat on, and the
magistrate ordered him 10 take It off. Then
after he had been fined $40 Grant got into
I a discussion with chief Clerk Clark about
diamond ring which with $40, the specu-
| Lot AT ar
| Clark had given the man the ring, but
Grant insisted that there was 80 more due
| him.
! \ discussion followed but It ended quick
Ily by Clark ordering the man out Of court.
/ A. Grant started out he put on his hat
and the magistrate called him back and
fined him g more on a dlsorderly conduct
/ charge This ne paid. and when he started
| from the courtroom again he kept his hat
off until he reached the hall.
John Hickey, Of No -32 East 18th street,
was fined $40 for Offering tickets and $40
more for interfering with on officer who
. had arrested one OF the spectators. Max
Bernstein, of 80. l29 West 18th street was
less fortunate. IL was alleged that he as
saulted one of the detectives and he was
held in $1,000 bail for trial in the Court Of
| Special Sessions.
Herbert Dixon, Of no. III West 2Sth
street. got of with so fine. although he
excited the wrath Of the magistrate when
the detectives said he had asked $l2 for a
g ticket Thomas Matchen. Of No. 4j3
West o5th street. was fined -. Joseph
Brown, negro janitor of a house near
the grounds. was fined $; ihe detectives
said he was bargaining with men TO see
the game from the roof of his house
Those who were fined SO were Charles
Belts OF No. III West 10th street; Harry
Stern. OF No 222 Lenox avenue; David
owens. of No &c Stuyvesant street; Arnold
schwartz. OF No. $40 West l2ith street
David Neufuld, of No. s. West 10th street
Harry Lumberg, Of No. jO1 West ll5th
street: John Lyons. of No. 333 East SD
street: Samuel Blau. Of No. 536 West llitf
street; Charles Brown, Of No. $40 West 4btf
street; Nathan Raphael. Of No 2jO West
l22d street; Charles Forsey, OF No. 40 Eas'
43d street: Morris Lester, OF No 26O Sew
enth avenue and Max ,Zimmon, who saic
he lived in Boston.