Evening star., 1916-10-14
BIG SERIES PRICES
WILL Be REDUCED
Ban Johnson Suggests Regular
Admission Fees Be
Merely Doubled.
GRIFFITH LAUDS SAM RICE
BY J. ED GRILLo.

will be a difference IN the prices
CHARGED for world series seats here
after Prices prevailing during the reg
ular season are only to he doubled.
For instance that share of the patron
age which wants to sit in the twenty
fve-cert bIeacllers viii br charged 80
cents TO sit~in these seats for the DIG
series games Those who paid 50 cents
for pavilion seats yin he admitted to
these stands for 81 Grandstand "ccu-
rants wiH nay twice the amount OF the
regul.r season price. and So on
Bar Ichrscn insists that tins system
will Ileip to porularize the game and be
sides il will give the real supporters or
>be sno~t a chance 20 witness the world
series without embarrassing their
finances
Inasn,uch as both Chairman Herr
r,anr and President John Tensr N",
this pan. there is no question o. " not
benz III vogue by the titu' the series
III f"F7 - played,
The world series as conducted at
present" declared Mr. Johnson, before
he left New York toJ h'aas", e,,c
sthreatens 10 jeopardizs the tair name
OF the came in public "pInlon, We
can never stand for that. Base bai Is
clean: II must be kept Ciean
The V ORD CHAMPIONSHIPS 50 l'' -
begun some years ago under auspices
Of the national commission as a true
sporting proposition. 1t soon pecaiie
an esta blished institution. tn" hlue RIO
bon event of the year
1t became very popular at once. il
Is still popular. But ! blush to confess
that the financial prospects have IN
Iew instances clouded the sporting pre-
ceptS of certain major league opcI-
ators, Year after wear prices have aa-
vanced until now the world series seats
are held at intoier1ble prices, e.s
There's some housecieaning to be
done" he Numbered. -Aud it's going
to start where the most dust Of discon-
tent has ga thered.
Il have talked with my colleagues OF
the American League Ban went "i'.
and I think they fully appreciate my
point have always been strongly op-
posed to the gradual increase in world
series prices of admission that now
have approached an exorbitant eX-
treme. at least so IN my humble "pin-
ION.
1t takes two TO make an argument
said Ban. u am sure of the surport
of my collea gueS. And ! think ] can
safely promise fandom on behalf OF
the American League that scale OF
prices more just to the purse OF the
great general public which supports
the game Will prevail in future. Far
better no world series Al all fand there
was no doubt of Nj. Johnsou's earnest
1,ess, than fandom should he plucked
or conditions tolerated that permitted
the most humble bieaCher patron to
feel that he was being Disseminated
AGAINST in the annual fall classic.
Il quite a readily as any one appre-
cate that the world series has out
grown the capacity Of existing base
ball parks. Prices that obtained at the
series lust closed might he defended
Compared to foot ball and champion
ship boxing matches, the base ball ad-
mission tax would appear paitfy, m
deed These arguments have been ad-
vanced TO me by those in support of
high tariffs in the past.
Nov | think base ball is the game
of the great public, not Of any special
class. The man whose interest in the
game prompts him to sit out in the
sun day by day through the champion
ship race should not he crowded out of
his point of vantage when the greater
championship arrives just becaus
some one of more financial stability is
willing to pay the increase.
This world series must again be
made the institution of the real sup
porter Of the game, not a silk stocking
event. And it must be done right
ava.
Fuzhey Fullerton. who poses as a
base ball expert, says the world series
should be abandoned. There is not a
<h.nce for this being done. for these
serfes- IRE much too popular with the
ma sees TO be dropped. True. the Ma
tic'ai League this season. as last sea
scr. wa much weaker than its rival.
Su there is no telling " hat the next
'arir aien nay bring about.
To tho closest students Of the game
.1o'n McGraw had the best balanced
:a,i 1t~oage- tsa.I in he history of
f""l Zig leagues AT the close of the sea :
ton. and this team IS certain to start
''t He- -ear nd yin the nerpant in
- cid league. in which event it would
y. DG-.~s fs.yf .HrF -l3I has been
;-,z'a1 wears TO NEE. th~ American n
u. remnant rinner in .he world
5. e.
'foaat T-v cobb said about sam Rice
'i.=oiuteiy true. said Manager Grif-
this morning Rice did some won
~ H.tt-n. al lie final iriis, when
covered his health. He was re-
:-~-t-ii'- -. every one Of the games
or that trip. and in the final
ais = three-run lead by cleaning the
! : IA ? triple in The ninth but the
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