The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-06
SPECULAIORS
 HAD TICKETS
NATIONAL BASEBALL coMMis SION RENDERS DECISION IN
 FAMOUS SCANDAL.
Proof Falls to duplicate Either Club, Managers or Players, But Scalp CTS Had Unlimited Supply
 of Tickets.

Cincinnati. O., Jan 5-The final Id was clamped and sealed here to- day CT the celebrated ticket scaiping scandal that marred the baseball hor. izon imediately after the worlds championship series .a New York and Philadelphia last October.
 While the National Baseball Com mission gathered enough evidence to assure 1t that wholesale ticket scalp ing took place in both towns, this evidence indicated neither the New York National nor Philadelphia Amer ioan League Club owners, managers, players or employees were in collu- sion with the scalpers
 The commission holds that charges of the press at the time were justified but generally scores number of peo- pie who. at the time of the episode offered to produce proof as to the al legged collision but failed to deliver any tNlucuCc Oi value
 l.n addition to exonerating both the clubs. the commission praises them for the extra precautions that were talken against scaiping., State and municipal legislation against scalping is urged
 The finding in part follows:
 After a thorough investigation ot reports wrom newspapers and other sources, that ticket sealping was op- only practiced n each city represent ed by it's team in the world series of 1912, the national commission has reached the following conclusions
 Tickets in large numbers we're in .s hands scf sieculators in both ths cities of New York and Philadelphia and were sold at exhorbitan prices, which was therefore, an imposition upon the public.
 Insofar as the club owners or of. ficials of the two clubs are concern ed there has nothing been developed, even by intimation. that would in any way implicate any of them as. having been if collision with the ticket spsculators, but on the contrary it has been shown that every reasonable precaution was taken by both clubs to protect the public.
 eIt is evident 1t was the aim of both clubs to provide adequately Tor their respective regular patrons.
 Tt is the contention of the New York club that tickets secured by ueculators through mail orders and at the public sale were without doubt very large in number. They base this contention upon the fact that faey received a great many letters for mail orders, which looked suspi. clous. declaring. however hat such suspicious letters were thrown into the dischard They also contend that suspicious individuals were put out If the line at the public sale and yet in spite of all care and precautions the club officials admit that the spec ulators obtained worlds series tick cts.
 Members of the commission were beyond doubt justified in the ex- planation as individuals that thor cugh investigation would establish tollusion between spectators and one or more employees of the New York club for these reasons:
 1.-TWO days In advance of the publio sale of tickets to the Polo Grounds, every newspaper of prominence in New York ran the advertisements of every we'll known ticket scalper of that city that choice seats for worlds series games would be on sale at his place of business.
 "On the afternoon prior 10 the op- ening game. tickets were on sale. as advertised, by spectators in such large numbers as to absolutely per. wade the idea that they were secured through the channels by which the public was supplied. The publica' ti'a of the advertisements referred to carried with it promises to patrons which none without exceptional fac ilIties for securing tickets could re deem.
 Tt is the contention of the New York club That mall orders for the serles were deposited In the various snbstations of the postoffices Tues