Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-06
RUSH FOR TICKETS
GREATEST IN HISTORY
Scalpers Reaping Harvest
81 Seats Selling at $5
Are Grabbed
By H. G. Hamilton

Omitted Press staff CORRESPONDENT
| Boston, Mass, Oct. 6.-World s SER
!. les ticket spectators today grabbed
Boston, bag and baggage.
Perhaps never before in the history
of the world S series games has ticket
scalping been so braZen. Ticket specula-
ton is going on in utter defiance of the
National commission and under the
very noses Of Garry Hermann and Ban
johnson.
An advertisement appeared in Bos
ton newspaper offering tickets to
world S series games. 1t was signed by
the Hotel Brewster news stand. Many
agency in another advertisement.
The out of town patrons, who are
fast filling every available space in
Boston, are given the alternative of
buying grand stand seats at $25 or $50
pair for three games or doing without
For, out at Fenway Park, the world
was passed out long ago that he who
/ got into the chosen circle today would
be lucky.
Five dollars is being asked for tick
cts for the - section. The scalpers are
(utter!y Indifferent to the possibility of
arrest and thus far only one of their
number has been taken in tow by the
police.
/ Out at Fcnwav Park, where tickets
are being dis ributed, frenzied fans
crowded and fought Tor places in line
at the ticket windows,
Long before the windows were open
ed for business four long lines had for
med and at least one thousand persons
stood patiently in the hot autumn sun.
There were women, smartly dressed and
shabbily dressed; autrOcracy rubbed ell
bows with poverty.
At least 10000 applications for seats
have been made for the available 80
600 reserved seats, he announced and
the refund of money turned in Tor
seats ut the games has been begun.
The betting circle has gone dippy
Bets at almost every conceivable angle
have been made, What might be con-
sidered almost dangerous odds have
been demanded by National league sup
lportes. but nealy all have found taker
The majority of the betting has been
at odds to 10 to that the Red SoX
will win the series. One bet of $1,000
Mt odds of to 0.tha% Brooklyn would
win, was placed.
Night Watch Begins.
The night watch the final event be-
fore the opening of gates for every
world's series has started at Braves
field. About 3 CLOCK this afternoon
they began arriving, Messenger boys
in uniforms, clerks, holding places for
their employers, and every class of hui
manity which makes up the grand to.
tai Of baseball fans, gradually reached
the great baseball park and the long
line began to form.
Soap boxes "hot dog sandwiches, "
newspapers on which to snatch few
winks of sleep as the night wears on
bore mute evidence to the fact that this
worlds series is Just like every other
one The long lineup will be there
when dawn breaks tomorrow and it will
be there when the general admission
ticket windows are thrown open.
General admission tickets, which are
the only ones sold on the day of each
game, sell at 80 cents and 81 each in
Boston, and they will be sold to about
10000 persons. There is every indica'
tion that it will be impossible to care
for the number who want to push their
way into this section of the stands.
The greatest crowd which ever saw
o major league baseball game, with the
possible exception of the record break
ing crowd last year at Braves field
when the Red Sox defeated the Phil
lies in the third game of the world s
series is probable.