Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-26
BASEBALL FANS
ON T|PTOES FOR
WORLDS SERIES
From All Parts Of Country They
Will Flock To Cincinnati For
Games
EXPECT GREAT CROW D

Try will comcm to Cincinnati to see the
Cincinnati Nationals and the Chicago
White Sox clash in the world series
games, if letters requesting seat rcser-
vations and hotel accommodations can
be relied upon.
President Garry Hermann, of
he Cincinnati Nationals, was besicged
weeks in advance of the closing of the
National League season for tickets for
the games by Cincinnati followers of
he . Reds and by "fans from every
'ection of the country, who desired to
witness the games to he played in this
'ity. Hotels also reported that hun
lreds of requests for rooms had been
'eceived. To give every attention and
convenience to visitors during the
worlds series games the Cincinnati
'hambcr of Commerce planned to co
operate with the Cincinnati Club man
lgement.
Acting on the request of President
August Hermann, the Convention and
Public Department of the Chamber of
commerce named n special committee
Of five to devise means for best meet
ng the desires of Mr.. Hermann.
The committee arranged to establish
4 hotel bureau, in charge of a compe-
'ent staff to look after all requests for
accommodations. 1t was decided to list
very available hotel room. and to add
% these accommodations n survey of
very room in boarding houses and pri-
Iate residences, where visitors could he
edged. All these rooms were to he in
pected in advance so there could be no
question concerning their desirability.
Word was sent to Washington d. c.,
requesting the cooperation of the Rail
-oad Administration in the matter of
obtaining desirable parking places for
special Pullman cars carrying large pri-
vate parties to the games. 1t was ex-
oected that many visitors would utilize
their ears for sleeping purposes, while
n the city, providing they had parking
places.
Arrangements also were in prcpara-
ton for suitable parking places for the
automobiles of out-of town visitors and
Cor parking places in the vicinity of
the baseball park during the games.
For the protection Of the patrons
visiting Cincinnati and Chicago during
the playing of the series, detectives
who are specialists in dealing with
oickpockets and auto thieves will be
very active in both cities. large
number of Chicago plain clothes mon
viii be on duty here while the teams are
n Cincinnati, and in turn the local ex-
Derts will mingle with the crowds when
the scene shifts to Chicago.
Time was when the pickpocllet clans
gathered from the four quarters of the
country to follow the pennant winning
baseball teams to the fields of worlds
series combats. But times have chang
ed, say the police, and now it is easier
% steal automobiles than to extract a
Fat purse from the pocket of an excited
fan.
The professional "dip' still attends
world s championship battles, but his
profession has fallen into decay. The
)ne-time adept at sniping sparkler
from scarfpin whose artful methods
combined courage and a sort of leger-
demain is as scarce as radium, accord
ing to detectives.
Picking pockets always was hazard
Gus and stealing automobiles has be
come profitable with even less element
of risk. SO the pickpocket fraternity
has lost many members to the easier
means of unlawful profit, say the plain
clothes men.
Besides, of late years the police have
catalogued the pickpockets pretty
thoroughly. As world series or other
national gathering takes the stage, de-
tectives go on watch at the railway
stations. The light fingered gentry are
met by the reception committee and es-
,orted to rooms at detective headquar-
ters, where they remain, as guests us
Ially, until those with whom they hoped
to brush shoulders have gone away.
Some "dips' escape the net, how
ever, and practice their art with more
or less success. A world series game
invariably is the scene of operations
for number of them. ther thieves are
here, too. The automobile thieves pre-
dominate.
In three days of world series con
tests between the Chicago Cubs and
Boston Red Sox in Chicago last year.
the police arrested So suspected pick
pockets and auto thieves. Nearly 100
motor cars were driven away from the
vicinity of the baseball park by per
sons not their owners. The ma iority
were recovered but many were not.