The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-08
THOUSANDS GATHER AT THE POLO FIELD
 IN SEARCH 0F SEATS
Fans Spend Night About the Ticket Office in Efforts to Get Tickets-PrOminent
 Ball Men to Attend

New York, October 7.-Sunrise on this, the day before the opening of the world s championship baseball series in New York, found more than 800 men and boys at the Polo grounds camping. Sitting around bonfires they had waited all night for the first chance at the 400O upper grandstand seats to be placed on sale at o'clock. Each person will be allowed to buy two tickets. At the sale of tick cts tomorrow only one ticket will be sold to a person. This is an eleventh hour ruling designed to defeat spectators. In the hotel Hobbies here are gathered hun- dreds of men notable in the baseball world among them Presidents Lynch and Johnson of the two big leagues and Au- gust Hermann of Cincinnati, who con- stitute the supreme tribunal" of base ball. Each had an informal meeting scheduled for the day at which they planned a final supervision of arrange ments for the big games Players and managers from all but three teams in each league are also gathering here Those staying away are Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia, who will engage ill series of their own this week. All are confident that the coming series will eclipse all past struggles for the world s championship. not excepting last years games, which far surpassed all former contests. Chairman Hermann was es- pecially enthusiastic.
 'The advance orders which have poured in for seats both in New York and Bos- ton have been enough to indicate that n. all the contests" MT. Hermann said. "and the combined fields will accommo- date more fans than at any previous se- ries. We have worked especially hard to keep the pasteboards away from the speculators this year, and indications point to great success in this regard. The players of both clubs will enter the series physically fit It ought to be great series, and I would not be surprised to see it go seven games before decision is reached. .'
 Though the New York Giants have an exhibition game arranged for this aft ernoon with the New York Americans for the entertainment of Uncle Sam's bluejackets, yet the day will mainly be one of rest for the worlds series players. II IS understood that MatheWSon, Iesrt>lu and Marquard will do the brunt of the pitching for the Giants, and will have a final workout. Larry Doyle's slight in- jury sustained at Brooklyn on Friday left no i'll effects and the New York champion will surely take part in the biS games. The Boston Red Sox, led by Manager Jake Stahl, are expected to ar rive at sundown and put in good night S rest. The arrival of out of town news paper men included most of the knights well known throughout the country. They were established in hotels at once The Boston delegation immediately hoisted it's colors. Mayor Fitzgerald with a trailer of 900 Red Sox supporters are expected tonight and many automobile parties have booked reservations.
 Betting remains unchanged with the Red Sox supporters willing to give odds of $10 to $S. The weather bureau hopes to provide bizarre weather for the open ing game. Its forecast for Tuesday is "erroress, fair and colder: moderate variable winds."
 It could be several degrees colder, how ever, without spelling the play.
 Three. thousand fans were still in line when the last reserved seat was sold. There were still a supply of the paste boards left for the second and third games undisposed of