The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-04
HAVE NO TICKETS
ScaIpers at Chicago Find Them
selves in Pretty Plight.
Giants and SOx Both in the
Windy City Now.
BY I'll. c. HAMILTON.

Chicago, Oct 4-Fifty thousand
distinct bellows of rage and disap-
pointment blended today with the
signs of several hundred ticket scalp
ers in the mightiest worlds series
ticket roar Chicago ever heard.
Today was distribution day at Co
miskey park. Seventeen thousand
persons have been favored with Or
ders for reserved seats to the world s
SERIES About $4,000 others have been
advised to begin standing in line right
now to wait for general admission
pasteboards.
Scalpers have no tickets-as yet
They are advising patrons to come
back a little later They think maybe
they'll have a few seats for sale then.
Prices range from almost any price
save that printed On them to almost
any price. Of the several hundred
known to be advertising that they will
have tickets, 119 stand chance of
making the acquaintance of a >jaiPs
interior. That many will be refused
tickets when they present their or
ders. If they can prove their right
they will get the tickets-and a new
shadow. Detectives are going to have
their eyes on that bunch from now on
Weather Clearing Up.
The weather man is getting some,
smoke on the fast one. Weeps that
would have done credit to most any
picnic have been turned on here, but
today saw the end of it as the Giants
and Cubs planned to stage an alleged
thriller at Charley Weeghman's North
Side park. Good weather is now being
promised right up to the opening OF
the series.
The Giants are getting very little
attention in Chicago. There1l be
lot of folks out to see the game this
afternoon, but Chicago's heart and
the heart of it's town full of visitors
is planted with the White Sox. Where
the American league club goes there
will be the fans. The Giants are be-
ing treated just now as a team that
gives the White SoX an opportunity to
show their class.
Clarence Rowland is somewhat dis
appointed today, for he expected real
benefit to come from the scheduled
exhibition clash between the Sox and
Indians. The weather made it i'm
possible and the practice was lost.
However, the Sox spent the afternoon
in Comiskey park club house and
held long skull practice. Eddie
Cicotte, Eddie Collins and Kid Glea-
son, the three musketeers who were
at Philadelphia, did the talking. The
rest listened. It was probable more
spying expeditions would be sent out
today to watch the Giants in action
against the Cubs. The Sox reported
early at the club house for another
rally round the round table.
Betting is practically nil in Chicago.
Big gamblers are holding off. Bets
that are being made are coming from
supporters of the teams, digging out
the savings bank book for the sake of
sentiment and civic pride. The series
is regarded by the wise ones as a fifty
fifty proposition, with an element OF
luck too pronounced to allow heavy
betting. Where betting is being done
to any extent odds are being de-
manded, with the White Sox on the
short end of six to five.
Betting on this series, in Chicago at
least, probably will be lighter than on
any series for years. No pronounced
advantage is given either club by the
supposedly wise dopesters'' among
the gamblers.