The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-25
Second Will Be in Philadelphia
Clubs VIII Alternate.
NATIONAL COMMISSION BUSY
Prices Are Fixed, Umpires and
Scorers Selected.
List of Eligible Players Is
Announced.


that the New York team will win the
National league pennant, the members
of the National Baseball commission
today decided that the first game be-
tween that club and the Philadelphia
American league team for the worlds s
championship shall be played in New
York on Oct. Z.
The umpires agreed upon for the
series are T. H Connolly, John J. Egan,
William KLEIN and Chas. J. Rigler.
The second game will be played in
Philadelphia on Oct. s, after which the
clubs will alternate between the two
cities.
In case a game is postponed because
of rain or from some other cause, or
a legal game is not played, the teams
will remain in the city where the post
ponement occurred until a legal game
shall have been played. In the event
of a legal game resulting in a tie the
two clubs will not play it off in the city
where it occurred but will move on to
the next city, the same as though the
contest resulted in one of the teams
winning All games will start at
o'clock p. m. and there will be band
concerts on each ground from IL o'clock
a
the following prices will prevail: Boxes
accommodating four persons, $25; up
per gran1stand, reserved, So, admission
and entire lower grandstand, unre-
served, 81; bleacher seats, 81. Unre-
served seats will be sold a t the Polo
grounds on the day of the games, nrst
come, first served.
In Philadelphia the prices will be:
Box seats SIS each, reserved seats in
main grandstand So, reserved seats,
right and left field pavilions 81, bleach
er seats 81. The sale of tickets both
in New York and Philadelphia will be
under regulations made by the clubs
themselves. The commission an
nounced on behalf of the two clubs
that mail orders positively will not
be received Neither club will be per-
mitted to construct extra stands on the
fields and no spectators will be allowed
to overflow on the fields and there will
be no ground rules. Official scorers will
be Francis c. Richter, Philadelphia,
and ]. G. Taylor Sphinx, ST. Louis.
William ]. Macbeth, New York, and
Joseph NJ. McCready, Philadelphia, will
have charge of the newspaper arrange
ments in their respective cities. Appli-
cations for seats are to be made to
them. The commission appointed Les
lie H Constant, secretary of the Pitts
burg club, to represent it in both cities,
but he has not yet accepted the ap-
pointment. A preliminary meeting of
the commission will be held in New
York on October 6. Harry N. Hemp
stead, president, and John B. Foster
secretary, represented the New York
club, and interests of the Philadel
phian Americans were looked after by
F. Shibe, president of the
club. The date and place of the open
ing game was decided by a flip of
coin. AS Garry Hermann, chairman
of the commission, tossed a half dollar
into the air, Mr.. Hampstead called
heads and head it fell In the next
instant he called out New York, Oc-
tober IT,
The National commission after dis
posing of the worlds series details, ap-
pointed Umpires O'Loughlin, Sheridan,
O'Day and Orth to officiate in the Chi
cago series which begins on October
the arbitrators in the Boston city SER
The players eligible to play in the
world series are:
New York-Burns, Cooper, Crandall,
Doyle, Demarre, Fletcher, Fromme,
Grant, Herzog, BARLEY, Marquard,
Wiltse, Mathewson, Murray, Meyers, |
Merkle, Robinson, McCor- |
mick, Shafer, Snodgrass, Thorpe, Tes- |
reau, Wilson, Schupp.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Lapp, Thomas, |
Plank, Coombs, Houck, Brown,
Shawkey, Pennock, Bush, Wyckoff,
McInnis. Collins, Barry, Baker, Orr, !
Davis, Lavan, Oldring, Strunk, E. Muir |
ply, D. Murphy, Walsh, Daley.