The Alaska daily empire., 1920-10-04
HUGE CROWD TO
 ATTEND OPENING | OF WORI ) SERIES
Capacity of Ebbets Fiele Exceeded by Demand for
 Seats Tomorrow.

NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Demand for seats at the first game of the world g series opening tomorrow between the Brooklyn Nationals and the Clave- land Americans, pennant winners in the respective leagues, so far eX that thousands of applications and checks accompanying them will be returned, it was announced today
 However, notwithstanding the gen- eral increase in baseball attendance throughout the country it is unlikely that in the coming series to decide the worlds championship that new records will be made in attendance for single game or for the series. The reason for this $ that the capacity of the parks where the games are to be played is il- sufficient to erase from the recorl books the top-notch figures that have been established in previous years.
 The largest crowd that ever wit 1essed a single game in world 5 series was 42,620, which was the announced official attendance for the final contest of the 1916 series be- tween the Boston Red Sox of the American League and Brooklyn of the National League. played at Bo3- ton. The best record for total at- tendance at series was made ll 1912, when the Boston team of the American League and the New York team of the National League played to 251,901 persons in eight games.
 Tested to Capacity
 Ebbets Field, the home grounds of the Brooklyn Club of the National League, has been tested to it's ca pacity in one worlds series, that of 1916. and while it is possible for between 22,000 and 23,000 to crowd into the stands and pavilions, the largest official attendance there in the 1916 series was 21,662 The parks of the contending clubs for the American League pennant show no possibilities for new attendance if gures for a single game, or the like Hhood of a new record for the series when paired with the comparatively small capacity of Ebbets Field. The seating capacity of the park at Cleveland is approximately 2C,790. while that of the Chicago White Sox is in the neighborhood of 35.000. The largest number that has attended Q worlds series game at the grounds of the White Sox was 34.379, the official attendance at the fifth game of the series between the White Sox and Cincinnati last year.
 impossible to Eclipse
 Thus it is apparent that it will be impossible for any of the parks where the coming world series will be played to eclipse for single game the attendance of 42,620 es tablished at Boston in 1916, and even with the blue ribbon event of base ball being decided in a five out Gl nine series, the conditions estab lished last year, it will be improbable for the parks of the National ant American League winners to com bine to beat the attendance record O 251 .901 in the series between the Re- Sox and Giants in 1912 except tn der unusual conditions and interest
 After the coming worlds serie. have been concluded it is expected that the total attendance at world'' series games since they were inau gurated under modern regulations in 1903. will have gone beyond ,, 800 900. Up to and including taC series between Chicago and Cincin natl last year 2253,S42 persons hal paid to witness the contests betWec. the contending teams in total o 94 games. This makes an average attendance per game since 1905 ( 23,977.