The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-10-05
National Commission stops >Ad-
vance Sale for Worlds
Series.
MAGNATES TAKE EN- ALL
Wall About Spectators Again
Public Must Stand
in Line.

''0' "us' thN supply "ds tlSulIltleilt "
meet the demand and also because 'or-
eanized baseball got in on the ground
floor with applications. the National Com
mission. which Is managing the worlds
series. stepped in with an order Yesterday
cutting out the public sale Of reserved
seats at the Polo Grounds Tomorrow
When the announcement, WAS made yes
! terday afternoon much surprise was ex-
pressed by the fans. who knew that 5000
seats in the upper tier Of the Brush sta
dium had been SO, aside for to-morrow's
! scheduled sale.
who has bought the ticke.s:' was the
I query on the tip of the tongue. Have
the spectators snapped up many OF
! them"
/ John H. Fostsr. secretary Of the New
, York club. verified the story that the re-
served seat sale had been cancelled whom
TIE SrN man talked with him las, nent
Foster declared tina: this unexpected move
! had been made at the command OF the
National Commission and he added that
nothing else could hav. been done under
| the circumstances
Name Of Each Purchasrr.
V Then the Giants secretary mad- TINS
very Interesting assertion:
! Although 5000 seats have heor Dis
posed OF W. nave recorded tho mann.
OF each purchaser and the number Of
each ticket allotted. II tickets fall into
the hands of Spectators and thev ar.
brought to us by those who buy them We
can easily trace the source and will be
! in IN L. Iva, -.
Of person whose ticket or tickets are
offered for sale by scalpers.
when it was enormously printed in
one two papers last week that re-
served seats would b. sold IN advance
at our offices in the Fifth Avenue Build
! ing We tried to correct IN. mistake. hut
II was no use We were swamr.d with
applications for tickets al once.
But these applications did not have Z,
chance, as organised baseball was in
aheod Of them. Organized baseball in
cltnles the National Commission. all of the
sixteen major league clubs. all the minor
leagues and players OF both cou,.sting g
teams in tn" worlds series.
''Ncxt IN the order Of preference were
our regular season boxholdcrs and pat
rons who have been Oh our books for a
decade. They had to be taken care of.
II didn't take long to eat W the supply
and with the applications coming in here
by the hundred every mail what else
could have been done"
1T would have been foolish to hold a
public sale on Monday with about MY
seats to dispose Of. SO the National Com
mission called everything OF. But II,
baseball public will he well taken car'
of when We put 30. 900 seats on sale fou,
hours before Tuesdays game and III.
| other games TO be played at tn. Polc
, Grounds. These unres"rvod seats includ,
. :. 900 In the lower grand stand at s: eac'
and 10. 900 in the bleachcrs at a dollai
/, each. There ought to be room FOR all.
Ebbets Asked for 200 Seats.
/ Organized baseball must hav. been "X-
, tremely hungry for the series. President
I Ebbets Of the Brooklyn club said AT TIM
. Waldorf last night that he had filed al
/, application with the New York club fol-
twenty eight bOxes and 200 seats.
ri Il was cut down" said Ebbcts 10 s
crowd OF baseball men.
I "Who did the cutting was asked.
"Why. Mr. Hampstead, president Of thu
Giants" replied the Brooklyn man.
other club owners said that they ha,
J. been forced 10 take a smaller number %
tickets than they asked for because of thu
' excessive demand. August Hermann
chairman OF tho commission. who arrived
q here In the morning and issued the ord-
a that will be a staggerer for the fans. said
81 ut ia apparent to me. although
n haven't been here an hour. that the deman'
y for reserved seats at the Polo Grounds !!
greater than ever before. | am iniorme,
p that three times as many seats as alrcad
. set aside in the upper tier could be sold II
= advance Yet there are only 5000 re
a served chairs In my opinion Il mistak
= has been made in not reservin2 create
mart OF the lower grand stand at the Poi
4 Grounds.
"In Philadelphia twice az many seat
Are reserved and yet the seating capacit
~ OF Shibe Park Is about $4,000 less tina
that OF the Brush stadium. II seems
hardship for so many regular patrons
be deprived Of a chance to buy tickets ia
!. the local games in advance. But 1t is to
late to remedy the matter now.
- Spectators to Rlame.
These hardshtps, however. are cause
, by speculators. Two years ago the pla
to accommodate everybody with T..
~ served seat resulted In IA heap Of trOubl
and much scandal. The scalpcrs got hol
"" OF SO many tickets that the regular ian
>" were either shut out or had to submit
extortion. For that reason the Nation;
>, Commission took steps which have /,
=. suited In the elimination to large degre
~ Of the speculating evil In both this cit
I'd and In PHILADELPHIA.
Is THE New York club has facilities (,
selling $4,000 tickets and admitting (
), many purchasers to the Polo Grounds
N less than two hours. That IL why the r.
y. served seat section here Is 50 limited,
~ would advise persons who cannot obta
xt reserved tickets TO keep cool and so
N early on Tuesday. They will find tn;
there Ia no trouble about obtaining a Eoe
n seat either in the grand stand
70 bleachers.'
y, It In understood that as soon as specl
~ ~ ,ators begin to advertise reserved sea
"a for sale the commission will ask the Ne
York club to open Its books "a, an ofYic
uerusal