The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-22
CAN NATIONAL COMMISSION
 PREVENT A TICKET SCANDAL?
EXPERT CONSIDERS BOSTON AND NEW YORK AND CON- GUIDES THAT GIANTS HAVE ADVANTAGE IN PITCHERS. HIS DOPE
By WALTER MARcHAND

New York, September 21-It will be interesting to see what success the National Baseball Commission will have In circumventing the ticket speculation in the approaching worlds series. If it succeeds in getting through the games without ticket scandal the hats of fandom should and doubtless will be doffed to 1t.
 Of course there is bound to be disap- pointments, kicking and accusations when ,000 people want to go, when not more than 50,0O0 may be packed in It is a simple problem in arithmetic to figure that 100000 will be disap- pointed IL is equally an axiom that when 0,00O men, especially baseball fans. are disappointed very big pro- portion will feel sore and insist that they have been treated badly.
 Up to the time of this writing no scheme has been evolved which will prevent the specuiator from getting hold of tickets when there is prospect of big profit in sight.
 Hence. the national commission Whlch is to have complete charge of the sale of tickets both at New York and Boston is in for storm of criticism, but If they make sure that all would-be pur- chasers have fair show and there IS no ground for graft charges they will have done well.
 The Winners Compared
 There is chance for some smart arbitrage business on the coming series. In Boston the betting odds are on the Red Sox. while in New York those who are inclined to pin their faith on Matty Tesreau, and Marquard, are willing to take the Giants on the short end of the betting. Under these conditions 1t ought to be easy to make a winning book.
 Being New Yorker, I am inclined to give the Giants the best of 1t. With an even break in the luck of the game, 1t seems to me they should win. l can't figure that Wood. Bedient and O.Brien are quite the equal of Matty, Tesreau and Mareuard on the mound, in short series. The Giants and Sox are so nearly even in the percentage tabie that the percentage of the pitchers may fairly be compared. Wood leads the bunch with .sS6; of the other Boston sIabmen Hall has 727, Bedient .667, IOBrjen .557, Pape 300; Marquard leads the Giants staff with .757, Tesreau .75O, Crandall with .706, Mathewson with .667 Ames with .643. Wiltse with .s15 l The Giants also lead Tn pattihs ana I ibaserunning. And this combination should give New York the edge, unless of course. some Frank Baker does not de- velop in Boston.
 The Football Schedule
 Here are the football games scheduled | for next week:
 | Wednesday. September 2a-corneil Tvs. Allegheny, at Ithaca: Carlisle Vs Lebanon Valley, at Carlisle; Yale Vs Wesleyan. at New Haven.
 | Saturday. September 2S-Yale Vs Holy Cross at New Haven; Princeton vs. Stevens at Princeton; Harvard vs Maine. at Cambridge; Pennsylvania vs Gettsyburg, at Philadelphia; Cornell vs Colgate, at Ithaca; Amherst ys. Tufts lat Amherst; Dartmouth ys. Bates, a Hanover; Bowdoin vs. Fort Mckinley at Brunswick; Bucknell ys. Lock Haven at Lewisburg; Dickinson vs. Carlisle, a lCarlisle; Rutgers vs. F. & M., at New Brunswick: Lafayette vs- Muhlensburg at Easton; Lehigh vs. Delaware, a South Bethlehem; Massachusetts Agri icultural College -vs. Union, at Amherst Trinity vs. Middlebury, at Hartford Williams vs. Rensselaer, Poly, a Williamstown; Syracuse vs. Hobart. a Syracuse; Wesleyan vs,. Norwich. a Middletown.