The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-16
PHILADELPHIA
FANS ARE SORE
Spectators Have Bunches of
Tickets - Charges Made
Against Management

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fans are in q white heat Of rage over
! manner In which the speculators
have secured seats for tho two games
Of tho worlds series hero ana are
boldly haunting these paSteboards in
the faces Of those who have been ig-
: nored in the allotment at prices that
range from $3.50 to SO each.
How the management of h Ath-
letic baseball club can explain the
presence Of these seats In the hands
of the SPECTATORS and tinhorn poll
ttctans also is g matter that rests
solely with them.
The business; management Of the
American league club In his city had
only 10000 reserved seats which could
be sold by reservation, a curtailment Of
$4,000 over the mall order list Of last
season. This, Of course, limited their
allotments to same extent but makes
the presence Of tickets in the hands
. of speculators all the more peculiar
n all the more heinous in view Of the
fact that fans that have been present
all through the season have been al
lowed to file requests for tickets and
were turned down.
Bunch Of Forty
The presence Of tickets in the hands
Of the spectators is no idle dream.
One of the papers 10 in possession Of
facts that show this to be the status
of The case. A nan In the office of
the paper to see IL the talk that specu.
lators had possession of tickets. was
at the Bellevue-Stratford He was
asked If he had any tickets for the
worlds series, and the reply came over
the wire instantly:
b here at noon. All you want at
$40 EACH" That seemed like a fine
state of affairs where the regulations
for ordering seats limited each appli-
cant to two seats and this advantag-
eous opening started on a hunt.
At the Hotel Romaine on Chestnut
street. a man with q suit that could
coach was approached and he in
stantly declared that he had an entire
section which he had already clinch-
ed for sale as the result of a prior
bid.
At the dog store, Ninth street. below
Arch street, a man pulled out a wad
of tickets containing forty seats and
said that he was ready to do business
for prices ranging from $3.50 to $40
AND said that he expected to be in pos
session of more tickets before today.
In response to a question over the
telephone a barber or Shestnut street
stated that he had sixty tickets which
he expected to sell for $3.50 each and
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curb market for the pasteboards.
Work Boldly
In front of the Scott house and
the Jamison,, men were selling bun
dies Of the passports and made no
pretense Of keeping things under COW
er. But the checklist chap of all was
the fellow who boldly advertised in
n of the morning newspapers that
he had worlds series tickets for sale
and that the person DESTROYS Of pur-
chasing the same could be accommo-
dated by calling at a place of bust
hess at Twenty-second and Lehigh We
nue..
With the SPECTATORS boldly work
Ing in New York and Philadelphia.
chance of securing seats in a straight
forward way as a SNOWFALL has to ex-
LIST down where his Satanic majesty is
on duty.
In addition to the SPECTATORS every
politician Of high or low degree is
there with his seats and some of them
have bundles which they hold to the
game and the people who patronize
baseball all through the season.
New York, Oct. 16-The statement
was made in a ticket scalping agency
on Broadway that the New York base
ball club or someone connected
Herewith had sold out the bulk of the
grand stand tickets for the worlds Sc
ries to a trust Of spectators for q
bonus of 100000.
This bonus Of $4,000 it is alleged
was paid in excess of the. face value OF
the tickets by one man. This man
in order to get his bonus back. plant
ed hsi tickets throughout the city al
$3.50 each. putting 1t up to the other
scalpers and SPECTATORS to make
whatever profit they could. Agents OF
his man higher up" SO the story ran
were putting out their tickets before
the public sale began in the St
James building.
This story is denied by the New
York baseball club management.