New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-14

At midnight last night fourteen hours
before the first game in the series 10
establish The worlds baseball champion
ship. a thin file Of tattered boys. number
ing several hundreds and constantly
growing. sat on boxes outside the main
entrance 10 the Polo Grounds. waiting
10 sell their places % fans when the
box office for field tickets opened this
morning The dingy saloons ~ the
usually deserted neighborhood were do
ing a thriving business with these very
fans" while the black eXpanse Of Coo
gan's Bluff stretching above the battle
ground was dotted with bonfres around
which all-night campers slept or made
merry. according 20 temperament
II was not a good natured crowd
which enlivened the night I'm the mme-
date neighborho0d Of the Polo Grounds.
FOR shortly after 10 o'clock large signs
appeared in the saloon on the southeast
corner of Eighth avenue and l51th street
advertising tickets for sale az double
ard treble their face value All day
the feeling against spectators hac been
growing in the breast of every true
fan" and the explanation NJ the two
young men in the saloon who held the
tickets that they had FIVE hundred did
not allay the irritation.
Besides this. late in the afternoon
bogus tickets began % appear IN great
numbers.
William VI GRAY secretary. made the
following statement last night.
a newspaper reporter told me 20 day
il had been stated 10 him that ticket
speculstor named Marks had srrsnde-
77ents will, certain New York Club Off
cials which enabled him 20 secure one
thousand tickets in the worlds series at
go cents advance ticket. This state
rnent / brand unauslifiedly malicious.
malignant lie. and will give $1,000 70 any
one who can prove that any such arrange
,oent with Marks or any other living IN
dividual existed whereby they could Sc
cure a sinele ticket for speculative pur-
poses.
would not have worked NIGHT ard day
since last Thursday night. with large
force Of assistants, 10 prevent speeuia'
tors from getting the tickets and m an
earnest effort TO serve the public II the
stat.r,ent that we stood IN with spec
ulators was true.
Any man who says that any official OF
the New York club stood m with spec
ulators, in the sale OF tickets FOR this
worlds series is Just what ! brand nlr''
, r,alic,ous liar. and he can oct $1,000
az nv money when he proves ne is not.
This ooes for them ALL now and here
after. WILLIAM M. GRAY
3oqus Tickets IN Big 8unches.
To add 10 the woes Of the baseball en-
thusiast bogus tickets of admission made
their appearance in big bunches yes'er-
dav The forgeries were SO nearly like
the genuine card that hundreds u mn
suspecting persons purchased them. 20
learn later that they had been swindied.
one man bought three Of the bogus
tickets and paid S15 to a speculator AZ
10Th street and Broadway. The ticket
scalpers offered 60 sell him thirty-fve of
Them for SlOO He had a bundle ~
probably three hundred tickets and sold
a large number Of them.
The chief difference between the genu-
inc and forged tickets is that the regu-
lar ticket bears the signatures Of John T
Brush and John Whalen, while on ths
bogus ones both OF these names ara
printed
Holders Of these tickets will have L---s