Arizona republican., 1912-09-26
Championship Contest Will Open in the Metropolis on October s and Continue Alternately There and In Boston.
GUARD AGAINST
 TICKET SCALPING
Scandal of Last Year Can not Be Repeated In Face of the Safe Guards Thrown Out By the Commis- sion.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl


 NEW YORK. Sept 25-The Nation al Commission at it's meeting here to- day decided the first game of the worlds championship series between New York and Boston will be played at New York Tuesday, October s. One game is to be played in each city. alternately. until the series of seven games is decided The umpires se- lected are Klem and Rigler, of the National league. and Evans and OLoughlin. of the American league.
 The toss of coin decided which city would get the first game and also the date. Boston wanted the series to start on Monday. October | In the event Of rain the visiting team shall remain in town until the game sched . Uled is played Great caution was taken by the commission to prevent tickets from falling into the hands of spectators.
 The meeting virtually was series of contests preliminary to the cham pionship and resulted in the New York Nationals twice winning over the Boston Americans, and the defeat it is believed. of any possibility of a repetition of the ticket speculating scandal in this city which marred the series of last year
 The advantage of opening on the home grounds was lost to Boston when at the toss of a coin by Ban Johnson. President Brush of New York called tails and President McAleer of Bos- ton chose heads" The coin fell tails. The Boston club desired to start the
 
 dent Brush regarded Monday as d poor day for an opener in New York and probably foresaw the advantage of giving his team an extra days rest after d probably late cIinching of the pennant title. He wanted the games to hegin on Tuesday On the toss of a coin. Brush won.
 The commission believes it has at last checked the ticket scaIper by the following program for the sale of tick cts for the New Yorw games: Of the 3s. 900 seats at the Polo Grounds. the 1000 bleacher seats (IInreserved) are to be sold at one dollar each. the 1000 lower gandstand seats at $2 each, the 5000 upper gandstand seats selling at $3 each; and the boxes seat ing four persons at s25 each. With the exception of the upper grandstand and boxes all tickets are to be held here for sale at the Polo grounds on the days of the games.
 one ticket will be sold to person and purchasers will be required to en- ter the gounds immediately after buy ing. The block of 5000 seats in the upper tier of the grand stand are to be disposed of at d public sale on a date to be announced later with an all lowance of two seats to each pur- chaser This sale will not take place, however. until from 5000 seats are taken 75 for each member of the na- tional commission and two to each eli gible players, and until requests fOm prominent individuals and officials of organized baseball and season box holders have been taken care of. All seats left may be bought for from one to three games in advance, but no mail orders will be accepted. Boxes will be placed on sale at the same time these seats are offered to the public.