New Britain herald., 1916-10-06

Thousands of Fans at Hand at Ebbets
 Field and Escort Favorites to Sub-
 way Station While Band Lends
 Proper Spirit to Occasion-Gadry
 Hermann Declines to Discuss Me- Graw's Accusations.
 Boston, Oct. 6.-Activities attend ant upon the opening here tomorrow of the world series between the Brook lyns, champions of the National league and the Boston American league title holders and present world cham pions, multiplied today.
 The Red Sox players at Braves Field for further and sharper practice, took part in a conference which Manager Carrigan had ordered last night. It was called early for the purpose apparently of working out signals and strategy to be tested in a practice game this afternoon. The Brooklyn team made Apo effort to hasten it's movement onto She scene of the series curtain raising and did not plan to arrive here until l with the Boston Nationals the team had gained a good working knowl- edge of conditions at Braves Field, which Manager Robinson thought sufficient preparation for the test. ' The weather man contributed his part to the arrangements with assur- kances of fine weather tomorrow. While Mt was warm today, there was prom ise of slightly lower temperatures for the game and with no early indica- tions of rain.
 Record Attendance.
 The attendance at the first game will be the largest in the history of X Baseball according to President J. J. s@e.annin of the Boston Americans. After working through the night again to facilitate distribution of reserved seat z tickets, Lannin said the interest in the series this year as indicated in many ways was greater by far than last year, when a record crowd of 42,300 saw the first game played in this city.
 The height Of this interest was shown by early morning crowds at & Fenway park, small in number, but @sager to obtain preference in the pur- chase of grandstand seats. The new system by which successful applicants were forced to fall in with a policy of first come, first served" at the ticket lines, instead of having certain tickets held to their order, caused some confusion yesterday and was re- sponsib1e for the early lines today.
 Prospective spectators were under b7 surveillance of police officers and Tlain clothes men who had orders to arrest any. persons trading in tickets.
 The time for exercising purchase privileges on reservations expires at o'clock tonight, after which un- called for tickets will be put together and prepared for a rush line sale to- |. morrow morning. This will be the A only opportunity for persons not suc- cessful applicants by mail to obtain such seats except by private transac- tions at increased prices.
 As far as could be learned today disposition of tickets for the games here has as yet developed no incident requiring the attention of the national commission Members of this board 1L.1rraged a meeting here late today al which plans for the series as already made are to be approved.
 Hermann Mum on McGraw. Whether the commission would consider the action of Manager Nc Graw of the New York nationals il quitting his team a few days agt with statements that his players dit k not follow instructions in the game (which Brooklyn won, could not b, learned. The only member of tn commission here this forenoon wa August Hermann, who would sa! nothing on this subject. Presiden
 Johnson of the American league ant President Tener of the Nationa | league, the other members, were ex Expected to arrive on an afternoon train
 & The umpires who will act in tn Y title games arranged a conference t & discuss the application of certai1 # rules of each league to the game gen orally, with discussion as to Whic1 shall obtain on each grounds. Sendoff for Brooklyn.