Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-26
RED SOX LOSE THE FIRST
SKIRMISH WITH GIANTS
IN THE WORLDS SERIES
McAleer Fails to Call Turn of Coin for
First Game and Polo Grounds Will Be
the Scene, Tuesday, October 8.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Play for the
baseball championship of the world
will be begun on the polo grounds in
New York at . o'clock Tuesday after
noon. October 8. The second game
will be played In Boston the follow.
ing day. Play will alternate each fair
weather day between the two cities
until either New York or Boston has
won the four out of seven games nee
essary to give them the 1912 title.
Prices for, and the method of sell
ing tickets TO. the games will be alto
gether different in the two cities. Bos-
ton will conduct its sale practically
in its own way. with preference being
given to all of the seasons patrons OF
the game who have been ~canvassed
The sale in New York will be in the
hands of Secretary John A. Heydler,
of tho National League, and $4,000
of the $4,000 seats will be held fol
sale at the entrance of the pole
grounds. and n to each purchaser
on the days of the games. ?.
The umpires for the series will be
O'Loughlin and Evans. of the Amer
lean League. and Rigler and KLEIN
of the National League.
These are the principal features o
the arrangements perfected yester'
day at a meeting of the Nationa
Baseball Commission. consisting o.
Chairman August Hermann ant
Presidents Johnson and Lynch, of thu
American and National Leagues, a
the suburban home of John T. Brush
president Of the New York Club. Also
present were President James Nc
Aleer and Secretary Robert McRoy
of the Boston Club: Secretary Joseph
O'Brien. OF the New York Club. ant
Secretary Heydler, of the Nationa
League.
New York Twice Winner.
The meeting was virtually a series
Of contests preliminary to the cham
pionship, and resulted in the New
York Nationals twice winning ovei
the Boston Americans. in the Amer
lear League president defeating the
National Commission and in the Ma
tional Commission defeating effec.
tually, 1t Is believed, any possibility
of q repetition of the ticket specula'
ton scandal in this city which marred
the series last year.
Advantage of opening on home
grounds was lost to Boston, when a.
the toss of a coin by MIR. Johnson
President Brush. of New York, called
tails and President McAleer. o.
Boston. chose heads The coin fei
tails. New York won this so-callet
advantage of the opening game last
year.
The Boston club desired to start tn,
series Monday, October I. president
Brush regarded Monday as a poor
day for an opener In New York and
probably also foresaw an advantage
IN giving the Giants an extra days
rest after their probably late clinch'
ing of the pennant title. He wanted
the games to begin Tuesday.
Call It," said Chairman Hermann
as he Tipped a coin. Heads" sale
McAleer again. Tails" said Brush
The coin again fell tails. scoring Q
double-header defeat of Boston.
Ban johnson Scores Victory.
Coin-tossing decisions were simplt
as compared with the arguments
which followed the next business or
the program. Determined to abide
by his declaration that the Boston
American Club should handle the sale
of tickets in its own way, President
johnson, of the American League
had come to the meeting to fight II
out. The discussion of the much.
disputed question. In which August
Hermann took the stand that the
National Commission should have
authority owe the sale of tickets in
both cities. and in which President
Lynch Is said to have sided with him
was conducted behind closed doors.
The American League president
was backed virtually by an ulti.
matum in the form of a resolution
adopted by his league last winter, de-
clarlng that 1t never again would
engage in an interleague series un-
less its club was given control Of the
ticket selling in its city. On the
strength of this determination, Sec
rotary Mercy, of the Boston Club,
carlv in July began plans for