Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-14
T1HNSON FAvORS
POPULAR PRICES
FOR BIG SERIES
\ inerican League Gear" In
.;sts That Normal Admis-
.;ou Rates Must Prevail
<oxnERcIALIsM MUST GO

|< -, .voRK. oct ii-Popuiar prices
| NV ~ ~ the worlds series baseball
~ " x. she future n Ban johnson. presi-
49, American League. has his way,
~ ~ ~ ~. veli.known Byron Bancroft
- n.s his way. such IL likely 70 pc
An The biue-ribbon event OF the
<'..k.ll world hereafter
p ....-,,,,r 20 Johnson, so far as the
'''-...r League II concerned. the popular
a Z ...sfion already Is settled. and all
~ - Ir necessary is TO whip the Ma
~ f-.rue into line. and johnson does
4. sxp<ct any trouble here after the
- VI incident OF raising the prices for
e. -<c,ss m Brooklyn
declared Mr.. Johnson today.
--s.r. 10 ieopartiize the fair name OF
~. m public opinion. We can never
Ia "a az that Baseball is clean; II must
! [ tsut clean.
~ ~ worIds championship series was
"A ~ome years ago under auspices OF
+. <- NATIONAL Commission as true SPORT
( q pfuposition. II soon became an estao-
IN Institution, the blue-ribbon event of
& ~ year.
!. -s.n,sr But blush TO confess that the
<.<<-~l.I prospects In n few instances have
<--Ss6 the sporting precepts OF certain
l,s.~ ,assue operators. Year after year
o.~e have advanced until now the worlds
~ spats are held at intoierable prices"
~ syss Of Mr.. johnson snapped.
s11srs's some house cleaning 90 be done,-
II. numbered and IT'S going to start
~ ths most dust Of discomfort has gath
R 4 have talked with my colleagues Of the
1.-.r,can League" Ban went on, "and
S<1rk they fully appreciate my point I all
,rsr have been strongly opposed to the
-11Susi Increase in worlds series prices Of
>1mluslon that now have approached an
,r>rtitant extreme. at least so In my humble
eplnion
s IL takes two TO make an argument" said
90 Il am sure of the support of my col
.&egosa And think i can safely promise
1<rdou, on behalf Of the American League
a. scale OF prices more Just to the purse
a ne rreat general public which supports
~ game will prevail In future.
.Fsr better no worlds series at all (and
<<rs was no doubt of Mr.. Johnson's earn
nulrsss) than tha fandom should be plucked
II conditions tolerated that permitted the
Inost humble bleacher patron to feel that he
- being Disseminated against In the an
nj fall classic.
4 quite as readily as any one appreciate
nsf the worlds series has outgrown the
npacity OF existing baseball parks Prices
nj obtained at the series just closed might
- dsfended, Compared to football and
cfamplonship boxing matches. the baseball
s1n.ssion tax would appear paltry indeed
1Ihs>e Arguments have been advanced 10
~ hy those in support OF high tariffs in
~ past.
Vow. l. think baseball is the game OF
~ great public, not of any special class.
TNm man whose interest in the game prompts
In 70 cit out In the sun day by day
through the championship race should not
n crowded out of his point OF vantage
vh>n the greater championship arrives just
Dscauss some one Of more financial stability
h'wllllng 10 pay the increase.
This worlds series again must be made
~ inztrution Of the real supporter OF the
Hme, not a silk-stoclSing event. And II
m1st be done right away"