The Washington herald., 1913-09-26
WORLDS SERIES
STARTS OCT. I
National Baseball Commission
Completes Arrangements
for the Big Games.
WILL OPEN In NEW YORK
Polo Grounds Scene Of First Encoun-
ter-Umpires Named and Other
Details Announced.
WILL OPEN In NEW YORK

Philadelphia. Pa, Sept S.-The mem
| bers of the National Baseball Commits
sion met here today and completed tn
arrangements for the worlds series {
be played between the New York club
OF the National League. and the Phil
adelphia club, of the American League
The opening game will be played in New
York on Tuesday, October Z. Despit
the fact that a possible chance remains
for the Giants to lose the championship
OF the National League. the Nationa
Commission decided that the possibilit!
of this occurring is so slight, as to b.
almost negative.
The second game of the series will b,
playedsin Philadelphia on October s. afte
which game will be played each daI
alternating between the two cities. II
the event that game is postponed OF
account of rain or for any other cause
or in the case a legal game is not played
the clubs will remain in the city wherI
the postponement occurred until a lega
game has been played.
In the event of a tie game, the tie will
not be played OF in the city where the
tie occurred, as has been the previOu.
custom, but the following game will bt
played in the city where the tie did moi
occur the same as though the contest
had been won by one of the clubs
The umpires selected by President Bar
Johnson TO represent the American
League in the series are Messrs. Con.
molly and Egan. President Lynch selected
Messrs. William KLEIN and Charles
Rigler.
Games start mt = O'Clock.
= All games will start at p. m. Al
both the Polo grounds and Shibe Park
band concerts will be held from II a. m
until ! p. m.
In New York, the following prices will
prevail:
For boxes accommodating four persons
$25; upper grand stand, reserved, s.; ad
mission and entire lower grand stand
unreserved. s.: bleacher seats. 81. Unre.
served seats will be sold at the Polo
Grounds on the day of each game. and
distribution will be on the principle OF
first come, first served" All reserved
tickets will be for the three scheduled
games in each city. In the event that
three games are not PLAYED in either city,
the money for the third game will be
refunded.
In Philadelphia the prices will be:
Box seats, s. each; reserved seats in
main grand stand. s.; reserved seats in
right and left field pavilions, s.; bleach
ers, 81
he management Of both clubs have
announced that they positively will not
receive mail orders for tickets, but that
the sale will be made according to regu-
lations to be established by each club.
Neither club will be permitted to con-
struct extra stands in the fields, and no
spectators will be permitted to stand in
the field or to overflow the stands in any
way There will be no special ground
rules for the series.
The Official Scorers.
Francis c. Richter, of Philadelphia. and
J. T-ylor Sphinx. of St Louis, were ap-
pointed official scorers.
William ]. Macbeth, of New York, and
Joseph NJ. McCreedy. OF Philadelphia.
will have charge of the newspaper ar
in their respective cities, and
all applications for seats for newspaper
writers must be made TO them.
Leslie II. Constant secretary of the
club. has been appointed to
represent the National Commission in
both cities.
Harry n. Hampstead, president, and
John B. Foster, secretary, represented
the New York club at the meeting and
Benjamin +. Shibe, president of the
Philadelphia club, looked after the in
terests of his team.
Garry Hermann, chairman Of the COM
presided at the meeting. The
selection of the city in which the first
game is to be played was made by the
toss of the coin. Garry Hermann
tossed a 5O-cent piece and President
of the Giants. called heads"
and the coin fell heads, giving New York
the plum in the shape OF the opening
game.
The players eligible to compete in the
worlds series are:
New York-Burns, Cooper, Crandan,
Doyle, Demaree, Fletcher, Fromme,
Grant, Herzog, Hartley. Marquard,
Wiltse, Mathewson, Murray, Meyers, Nc
Lean, Merkle, Robinson, Mccormick
Shafer,' Snodgrass, Thorpe, Tesreau,
and Schupp.
Philadelphia-Schang, Lapp. Bender
Thomas. Plank, Coombs, Houck, Brown,
Pennock, Bush, Wyckoff, Nc
Innes, Collins, Barry, Baker. Orr, Davis,
-avan, Oldring, Strunk, L. Murphy, D.
Murphy, Walsh, and Daley.
Garry Hermann announced that no
players eligible to compete in the series
would be allowed to write signed articles
'r allow their names to be signed to
Irticles purporting to have been written
~ them during the playing OF the series.
The National Commission will impose a
'enalty upon any player violating this
ule.