The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08
BY EDWARD MARSHALL.

BY Leased Wire TO The tribune.
NEW YORK, Oct If there is war
in Turkey. New York has forgotten II;
whether Taft is going west or east. New
York cares not at all: Wall street has no
fascinations for old Father knicker-
booker; Woodrow Wilson could not find
an audience TO listen TO his talk on poll :
tics: the actors on the stages will forget
their lines tonight and with increasing
frequency throughout the week: there are
those irreverent enough 10 hint ina Ger
tain pastors may have trouble In re-
calling what their texts are tomorrow In
their pulpts. The town is STEALING. seetl .
ing breathing hard. What's the answer?
Baseball Yes; that's all
/ have seen this town stirred UP a
week before election, hut l never saw
II SO aroused by anything else and II
would he some election which wonld work
II up until it's mouth frothed hall as
heartily as il does tonight There Is no
one man or woman or child who don
know the names McGraw and Mack--of
troll the baseball forces in the warfare
which will start in Just week.
Seats Almost Priceless.
Any sum you care to name could he
obtained for seats tonight week ahead I;
next Saturday morning they Will he az
priceless as were scatlnSs at the recent
coronation OF some king ! really for
get his name-just now-I am so busy
Thinking about Christv Mathewson 1t
is fact that applications for seats nave
been so plentiful that an extra mail car
rer was this morning added to the force
delivering letters 10 baseball headquar-
ters. because the regular mans back
was breaking. And each request was
a check we'll certified This DAYS mall
alone contained 5000 letters, and these
letters had at least 100000. Every seat
win be completely filed with clothed en-.
a.. lat 16C- nd
invariably yelling.
Most OF these enthusiasts Will be OF
local origin. New Workers get first show
in the scat distribution. disappointment
will bc scattered through the world at
large, not concentrated in Manhattan: al
though there will be shut-outs here by
thousands. This same rule Of preference
for native sons Will he observed in Phil
adelphia. II is said that as a conse
oucnce q large number OF New Workers
are leading double lives. a. present one
In Sleepy Hollow. one on the Great White
Way. There are those who have estab-
lishcd residence in Philadelphia almost
as carefully as II they planned TO sue
for divorce there The seat allotment
papers for the list of suicides among
the diss ppointed.
Giants Are Favorites,
In the betting the home team are ia
voritcs and there Is betting In spite OF
all the laws which have been framed 10
curb the gambling prediction III the
breast of man Betting-well little.
There %ill be 80 many nauperS in New
York no matter how the cat Jumps.
after the fight is over that their lack
Of car fare will affect street railway
earnings for the year.
The winners will use taYic3bs. 4 base
ball reporter whom | know predicted for
certain newspaper tina, slo0,o ooo would
be vagercd on the series. and his editor.
who knows this old town better. took his
hiue peucil to add another cipher for the
string. thus probably experimenting facts
With greater accuracy. The odds today
ran 70 {. ard New Workers crowded all
the trains TO Philadelphia hoping 10 find
better odds there. They did very little
business. and. by the way. the Gotham
ties who went over IN place bets made
the discovery that there WIN he no more
room for Giantitas in Phjlad elphia than
there is room for Athletaniacs In New
York. Sad are the fans and hopeless.
too.
Among the interesting visitors from
ont Of tovn H. A. g. Spaldng. the father
OF the game. He brought his genital face
and sunny smile across the continent
from far Los Angeles to do the series
bonor He cheerfullv predicts a bitter
battle for tho championship.
THE teams are In ideal condition for
a memorable struggle" he said this af-
ternoon-
"AImos, anything may happen for
Msck's mon are worthy of the best the
Giants have To give them. | won't make
any predictions. know better