New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15
TO PROBE TICKET CHARGES.
Ban Johnson Orders Meeting OF
National Baseball Commission.
NOTHING TO IT, SAYS BRUSH
Admits Spectators Got Seats,
but Says Club Was Not
in Plot.

Outside the statement of President Fan
Johnson of the National Baseball Commits
sion that any clews leading 10 the idenu-
fication Of persons connected with the
wholesale ticket speculation would be
vigorously followed up, the notorious
"scalping" situation which disclosed itself
in all its magnitude to the thousands OF
angry and disguised fans" yesterday re-
manned undisturbed.
While Garry Hermann. the Cincinnati
member of the commission, was credited
with the assertion THAT New York's fans
got as fair deal as they would in any
other city. and it's only few soreheads
who have never seen a baseball game
that are doing the kicking he was not
borne out by his chief Against Herrmanns
remark. that the national commission was
altogether too busy at the present time TO
consider the kicks of the disgruntled ones
IS directly opposed the statement when
President Johnson sent out from his head
quarters at the Hotel WolcOtt last night
that. following the meeting tomorrow IN
Philadelphia, the commission would imme-
diately return TO New York and be ready
to take up the ticket speculation scandal on
Tuesday.
1--WE absolutely shall not wait for this
championship series to close before we
get after the complaints Of the public. We
shall 80 to the bottom Of the matter now
was the way President Johnson put H.
President John 7. Brush said he had done
his duty and cared nothing for the criu-
cism that was being heaped upon the head
Of the management lie said it, however
I'm a fashion that made .he windows i'm ms
apartments at the Hotel Imperial fairly
rattle in their castings.
81 want TO sum up this whole ticket
situation i'm the shortest and most direct
fashion possible" said President Brush,
"and l say that if any one can produce
proof of cOnnivance with spectators or
culpable negligence on the part OF the New
York Club, let them come forward with II.
Otherwise We suggest that they use little
sense and keep quiet
a week ago Thursday we had notice
served on us that a worlds championship
baseball series would lie played in this
town The National Commission served
this notice and then ducked out OF town,
leaving us to do whatever We could in the
way OF making arrangements. Since then
day trying to take care Of correspondence.
We made our plans for taking care of the
public on the basis that the fans who
patronize baseball all through the season
were entitled to first consideration, and
we decided to fill the orders FOR series tick.
cts first. This we did. and afterward be-
gan 10 tackle the mass Of requests for
single tickets.
I'VE knew that spectators were trying
TO get tickets on y big scale. | don't know
how long Houston street Is, but IL must
he twice as wide as Manhattan II all the
people who ordered tickets from addresses
there actually lived in the street. These
letters came in by the thousands, hundreds
of them in the same handwriting All Of
them were packed INTO bundles and
labelled suspicious In every case We did
our best 10 prevent speculation. bat the
public has about as much an idea Of the
work we had in front Of us as toad has
about astronomy For one week ana
half all the people we could jam inside
headquarters have been at work night and
day, and tonight there are 10000 letters
down there that have not been touched.
Il don't blame people who were disap-
pointed for kicking, but the swindling
schemes have had as much TO do with this
cry OF speculation as anything. Persons
who saw men on the streets yelling that
they had tickets and holding up punches
OF them naturally thought that the specu-
lators had bought out the grounds. They
did not know that about five thousand Of
these tickets were fakes, and that those
who bought them threw away their money.
The New York club has done everything
in its pow r to give the public the best
deal possible, and if the national commits
sion will be good enough to make an in
vestigation we shall profit by it"