The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-26
SEEK TO PREVENT AUTO
 TREFTS AT WORLDS SERIES
Special Force of Detectives to Guard Cars-OId Time PickpOckets Have Vanished In Favor
 of Auto Thieves.

Cincinnati. Sept. 26-Basebau en- thusiasts from all parts of the couu- fry will come Co Cincinnati t0 see the Cincinnati Nationals and the Chicago White SUN clash in the worlds series games. If letters requesting seat reser- ynt{ons and hotel accommodations cun be relied upon.
 President Carry Hermann of tne Cincinnati Nationals was besieged weeks in advance of the closing of the National League season for tickets for the games by Cincinnati followers of the Reds and by fans from every section of the country, who desired to witness the games to be played in this city, Hotels also reported that hundreds of requests for rooms had been reoeiced.
 Acting on the request of President August Hermann the convention and publicity department of the Chamber of Commerce named special com ruittee of five to devise means for best meeting the desires of MT. Herr mann. The committee arranged to esta bIish a hotel bureau. in chsEge of a competent staff to look after all re- quests for accommodations. It was decided to list every available hotel room. and to add to these accommo- datious survey of every room in boarding houses and private resi- .dences where visitors could be lodged. All these rooms were to be inspected In advance SO there could be no ques- ton concerning their dcsirahiity-
 Word was sent to Washington. re- questing the cooperation of the Rail- road Administration in the matter of obtaining desirable parking places for special Pullman cars carrying large private parties to the games IL was expected that many visitors would utilize their cars for sleeping pur- poses while in the city, providing they had parking places. Arrange ments also were In preparation for suitable parking places for the auto mobiles of out-of-town visitors and for parking places in the vicinity of the baseball park during the games.
 For the protection of patrons wis fling Cincinnati and Chicago during the playing of the series detectives who are specialists i'm dealing with .plckpockets and auto thieves will be very active fin both cities. A large number of Chicago plain clothes men will be on duty here while the teams are in Cincinnati and in turn the local experts will miugle with the crowds when the scene shifts Co Chicago.
 Time was when the pickpocket clans gathered from the four quarters of the country to follow the pcuuant winning baseball teams to the fields of worlds series combats But times have changed, say the police, and now it is easier to steal automobiles
 The professional "dip" still attends
 The professional "dip" still ataends worlds champ ouship battles but his profession has fallen into decay. The onc-time adept at shipping a sparlller from a scarfpin whose artful methods combined courage and a sort of tegerdemain is as scarce as radium, accordlng to detectives.
 Picking pockets always was haz- hrdous and stealing automobiles has become profitable with even less cIe- ment of risk. So the pickpocket fra ternity 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 la world series or other national gath .erings take the stage, detectives go lon watch at the railway stations The tight fingered gentry are met by the reception committee and escorted to looms at detective headquarters whore they remain, as guests usually, ,ntil those with whom they hoped to
 rush shoulders have gone away
 Some dips" escape the net. how
 er, and practice their art with
 Sre or less success. A worlds series
 the invariably is the scene of oper-
 )ons for a number of them. Other
 iieves are there, too. The automo-
 .'e thieves predominate.
 . three days of worlds series con
 between the Chicago Cubs and b on Red SON In Chica go last year, the police arrested S5 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 majority were recovered but many were not.