The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-09
NO BALL GAME
TODAY, RAIN
IN NEW YORK
Steady Downpour All This
Forenoon
WILL PLAY TOMORROW
Four Games in Succession Will Be
Played in New York If the
Series Lasts That Long
WILL PLAY TOMORROW

The two teams arrived in New
York last night. The Giants were
greeted by hundreds of friends as they
dropped off their special train in Har-
lem Those who expected to see de-
jected lot OF bail tossers missed their
guess On the contrary, the men
greeted friends as cheerily as il it
we're the White Sox that had suffered
the bitterness of defeat. Each player
felt hopeful that today's game would
tell different story.
Victory was written all over the
faces of the Chicago players. A large
crowd and band were on hand to see
Rowland's men and they were given
cheer as they left their train. 1t
was happy lot of athletes brim full
of confidence that the worlds cham
pionship will be theirs. To the vic
torious American leaguers it is not a
question of winning the series. but
whether they can do it in four
straight.
Weather conditions for today's
game promise to be all that is desired.
A light rain fell early last night, but
the weather man soon eased the fears
OF fans when he announced that to-
day would be fair and cooler. The
playing field is expected to be in ex-
cellent condition
A crowd that will tax the capacity
of the stands is predicted for the
fray The entire upper grand stand OF
5000 reserved seats has been sold in
advance and the distribution @of the
tickets was completed yesterday. A
/ force of clerks under the direct super
vision of Harry Hampstead president
OF the New York club, worked all
through Sunday and late yesterday
in sending out the pasteboards
Hundreds of kilograms and letters re.
main unanswered. The club offices
were crowded most OF the day with
fans trying to buy tickets, but there
were none to be had.
Last night some of the reserved
seats began to appear at ticket
agencies, but the number was not az
large as was expected. The New York
club took every precaution, based on
past experience. to get the much
sought.after tickets into the hands OF
patrons and not the spectators.
Nevertheless, some choice seats in
the upper stand were offered at $35
for set of three, and $40 for two
seats TO each OF the three games.
Some seats near third base were of
fered for sale at $40 each.
While the inquiry for tickets was
brisk, most of those seeking them
were slow to buy at last nights high
prices, hoping that there would be a
drop today. Some of these fans are
figuring that because of the two de-
feats suffered by the Giants the de
mend for tickets will not be so great
and that prices viii begin to drop this
morning
More than $4,000 tickets for the
lower grand stand and the bleachers
will be placed on sale this morning
and when the seating capacity of the
grounds is reached, all gates will be
closed. The buying tickets must go
directly into the grounds The club
management hopes by this arrange
ment the number of tickets falling
into the hands of spectators will be
kept down.
The bleacher line began to form
last night and is expected to lengthen
rapidly during the early hours to-
day. large detail of police was on
hand to keep the crowd in order.
The New York club management
expects about $4,000 will pay to see
the game. Thousands of persons from
other cities have arrived to witness
one or more of the games and hotel
accommodations were idfficult to OBJ
tain last night.
What little betting was reported
last night was two to one that the
White Sox would win the series. 1t
was even money when the Giants left
for the west. Some New Yorl, bettors
were looking for longer odds. Bets
were made that Chicago would not
win four straight and other bets were
recorded that New York would win
! two games in the series.
New York fans hope the Giants
pitching staff will pull itself together
and that the team as whole will
start hitting. They figure that Zim-
norman and Kauff, who failed to con-
meet safely in the two games at Chi
cago are about due to break loose
with their bats The Giants confident
ly count on winning the opener before
the home crowd and feel that the
chances also will favor them to win
on the following day
The followers of the western team,
however, flushed with two victories,
scent another one today Having