The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-07
ARMY Of CAMPERS
At POLO GROUNDS
WAIT FOR TICKETS
Long Vigil Started Early by
Hundreds Wanting to See
Worlds Series
TAKE PRECAUTIONS
AGAINST SCALPERS
Advance Guard From Boston
Arrives in New York--May-
or Fitzgerald to Head
the Rooters

dred campers, gathered round fiickefN
ing fires in Eighth avenue. above On0
Hundred and fifteenth greet, just outs
side the Polo grounds, heraided the
first activities of basehalrs annual
classic. These were on hand to begiH
the long vigil prior to the opening Of
public sales for what are left of the
reserved seats for the local gamess B
Each hour added hundreds to tho
motley throng and by midnight close i
to 1000 faithful souls were congre~
gated without the forbidding gates.
At o'clock tomorrow the residue
of reservations will be disposed Of
first come first served"
approximately 1000 of these seata
are to be offered the public. OF tho
forty odd thousands of accommodate
tons in Brush stadium but S,50O--re4
presenting the box seats and the up4
per tier grandstand spaces---were roS M
served this year The entire lower
grandstand and the bleachers will be
sold daily, prior to the gamesy the !
same for the regularly scheduled
contests of the league schedule.
The general public was shut on
from more than half Of the reserved
seats by force of circumstances. The
solute charge of the distributions, felt
in duty bound to protect the pillars
of the national pastime. Magnaten
with all their capital devoted to the
propagation of the sport, newspapers
which popularize the game, and the
general clientele naturally found f1rnt
consideration. Though u limit wan
placed on these benefciaries, so great
proved the drain that more than half
the available reservations were ex-
hausted in accommodating the first
call
Scalpers Are Scalped.
Many mutterings of dissatisfaction
were heard today relative to ticket
sales. The sealpers were loudest in \
their imprecations. The plan. adopted
this year simply to cheat the specu-
lators. imposes some hardships upon
honest patrons. yet it cannot fail to
minimize the Illicit traffic in paste.
boards. Heretofore there was great
waiting over the prospect OF paying
SPECTATORS prices: with this evil ~eyt~~-
IDENTIFY eliminated the public still
grumbles. 1t Is simply a New York
characteristic of preferring to double
the tariff rather than submit to bodily
Inconvenience. #M
Many messenger boys, bivouace4
outside the Polo grounds tonight, tea.
tilted to the earnest endeavor OF the 81
scalpers TO cheat the national COM.
missions best laid plans. There n
absolutely no chance of any but the
comparatively few remaining reserved
seats going into undesirable hands,
And to safeguard the reservations
every precaution has been takAnS
These reserved tickets will be anld
from three booths. One will cons
tai,. ha tieE fn 49,
another for the second. and the third
for the third. But two tickets wiz
be sold to an individual in any line. N
purchaser leaving one line will De-
forced to form up with the extremMs
end OF another line Thus any chancem
of Implications will be minfmized ana
no Individual VIII be able to pur1
chase many tickets for the variou4
games, even should he be able to Co.
cape the vigilance of the plain clothe1N
men who will watch for repeating.
Fear Being Left Out
All the general admission tickets are
to be disposed Of In a manner thak
will absolutely bar speculation. Each
Individual must purchase his ~
ticket, after which he must pass d.
rectly into the park. Though there
are 10000 general admissions as op~a
posed to 1000 reservations, extreMo
panic reigns locally over the pros
pect of being left out In the cold o.
the last minute. Secretary Joe @ Brien.
of the Giants. has becn flooded with
letters of abuse from his clients. Who
figured ON using some pull to get pAnoa
the rigid rules. Visitors are even moHoA
annoying.
Mr.. O'Brien devoted a couple o.
hours today to running down an xd-Ss
vertisement which appeared in Local
paper Sunday to the effect tha4#
worlds series tickets would -
bought sold or exchanged" Pinno4
down. the advertiser admitted that h6Is
could not produce a ticket before nOOma
tomorrow, even for 500. He furthe4
admitted that he expected to procur3
the pasteboards through the puhM4a
sales tomorrow morning. a43
The pol cy of holding back the tie1eS
cts until 3 o'clock tomorrow. Il IT.
believed. will thwart attempts ca
counterfeiting. A special marked po@j
per has been used for printing purs
poses and no more OF this can b0 o.
tanned in time for use.
Boeton's Mayor Leads R0OteFM
The advance guard OF Boston rooe&
ers arrived today from Boston. coMn
pletely beside themselves with N1
Sox fervcr. The Huh enthnxiaxfy cyl
ried well filled wallets and No4
eagerly seeking Giant supporters IA
ling to wager. sS$s125
The tip was passed BY H0G&4la
scribes tonight that Stahl's supp0rt0
were ready to 20 broke on the 0t
| come Larry Gardner. the crack TIN
| sacxer Of the speed boys. will ~ I'M
to face the Giants IN the OPEL
game. Until yesterday hix appeax&
was paired on Hpt HIS injured Mj4
geon has patched X up until
almost a. good as new.
Mayor Fftxgerald af HQn&Nl
leAd into town I'M HID