New-York tribune., 1912-01-06
Supreme Court Of Baseball
Finds No Evidence OF
Any ColIuSion.
DETAILS IN THE FINDING
Every Precaution Taken by the
Clubs Here and in Phila-
delphia to Protect
the Public.

The New York Club OF the National
League and the Philadelphia Club OF the
American League have been acquitted by
tho supreme court Of baseball OF the
charges Of collusion with ticket spectators
in the sale OF seats for the worlds series
games last October. The National Com
mission reached this decision in Cincinnati
last Wednesday, but the finding was not
promulgated until Yesterday.
This settles a case which for time
threatened almost TO disrupt organized
baseball and which has aroused much talk
and unfavorable criticism Byron Bancroft
johnson, president Of the American
League, expressed himself forchly on the
question and was even quoted as saying
that a case would he proved against the
Giants Charges and cOuntercharges were
made. while many followers Of the teams
in both cities felt that discrimination had
been shown in the distribution of tickets.
The commission i'm its finding says that
ticket scalping on large scale took place
IN both cities. but that no evidence was
produced to show that either club or It's
employees were in collusion with the specu-
lators in view of the widespread interest
in the case the comprehensive finding OF
tho commission follows in full:
After a thorough investigation Of reports
from newspapers and other sources tndl
ticket SCdlping was openly praCuSed III eaI' u"
,ity represented by its team IN tie Woriu 5
series OF l|l2, the commission h''s r'd'I'''
tho following conclusions:
T. tickets IN large numbers we're I'm the
lands OF spectators I'm both the cities 0i
New York and Philadelphia. ana were so'u
IT ryorhitant prices, which was, tHerctof"'
~ imposition upon the public. II i"H"WS
that the newspaper criticisms we're 10 th7
extent warranted and justified. 8.
In New York the sale OF u'N''S pN
srec,lators was carried on almost, 'NCiu,
siyeIy i'm hotels cafes. neWsstands d'u
other public places. In PhiladeIphld, III a., 90.
di,ior 10 the sales in theSc lla(,FS, il,
were also conducted by tn" spectators l."
;ho lohuiCs Of TN" hotels anu III III.
highways. ,, ,,,.,,ors or +b,
regular officials of the TWO cluos are c,.o c|o-
I.Tred there has been nothing WhateNG,
6,,clGped even by intimauon, that Noulu
in arr way implicate any o. %, ,CLi icRo, az sne@n @
i"tors. hut or the contrary, IT Las ne ~
shown that every reasonable pre-" ~, ,t,
vas taken by both clubs 70 pro,rgl ia va
,rIbliC Therefore. the Cluh oWntIS an"
thr regular offlcials of both clubs arc com
p'eteiy cXonerated.
# ,olusion did exist. then II was be
,vccn one or more employees OF tne IcsP',-
,iyc clubs and the ticket SpecuIatOrS' :"
....r,o one rpproScutinC them. althoucn SGCl
a condition was almost lmposSiuic IN Hi,a H
d.lrbis when tho manner OF the nlStlluu,
,scn Of the tickets i'm that CITY IL TAX"
into consideration. However: II sus" 20 -
gordition did exist in either city. then We
,I,b itself should not he Censured' uule>S
- could he shown that II al4 h''
,rouer prccaution to prevent II. 10, ,.
II Is evident that II was th" am ~.
hoth clubs to provide Adequately TOT ,I'n
lespective regular patrons IN ) .l'"uIIJ5' sIJ for
INC total number Of reserved seats sou" ~,
,,e Fret dey was S.gGS ~ this hummer L'c
club itself distributed S.lAl nchclS SinImS
Seventy-threc persons. ton,lNIr~ ,,,...
nfECials. public officials, Philad"Ipha n"NS-
papers, PLAYERS and miscellaneous ~. IN,
tho names Of all Of these persons ia 'l,7
been Furnished Ia tn" commission ~ ~ ~
IitioD TO this that club has also lnrhlSn'u
80 ,or,r,issior1 with a statement showing
1o whom the tickets furnished theSt PEI
sons were afterWard allotted lhuS Iildh"IS
complete record or the dS dlSPoNIt5oi --I, b.,
s lsj tickets out of a total of S,Ssb sold Inc
1ickcts representing the difference between
those properly accounted for ana the totai
l.uDhcr sold were sent out tnrouSh man
orders 1t must be apparent thtreioIe' Inar i
whatever tickets eventually found thelf
vyav into the hands of spectators was
through methods best known to those en-
gagged i'm the business Of sp"cuIalnS IN uch77
cts and in small numbers I'm "a'h lot. ana
Tor which neither tho club owners, their
officials or employees We're responsible.
In New York the tickets FOR the first
game were disposed of in IN" following
Ia5"Out Of total Of au loxes the com
mission was furnished with a list showing
rhe names Of persons 10 whom 329 Of these
boxes were sold directly 10 the purchasers
10y the club
'b5-The club has also furnished tho com
mission with statement showing Inc
names OF individuals Winety-tiyc) 10 whom
fhcv personally distributed 4,uo3 tickets
This number includes l.5i9 tickets furnished
The National Commission. Included In this
number were the tickets distributed by the
..1r minis .--ff
the country.
,c1-The club has also furnished the com
mission with a sworn statement showing
that there was sent out IN them through
the mails 4,e7 tickets.
Idl-The club also states that they sold
~ their Offices on the day before the pub
lie sale TO players, newspaper friends OF
the club and privileged persons total Of
1873 tickets. The names OF these persons
were no, submitted 10 the commission.
tel-Thc total number Of tickets sold (re
served for the first game. exclusive of box
seats. shown 10y the records was 23.+17. It
that the difference between this amount
aud IN" number Of tickets shown under
b. &c" and "a represents the total num-
her of tickets sold ~ the public sale on
Thursday. viz, '2G2'.
:. u Is also the contention of the New
York club that tickets secured 10y Spocu-
lafO~S through mail orders aud a. the pub
JIG sale were without doubt very large in
number. They base this contention upon
'rc fact that they received great many
letters for mail orders which looked sus-
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