New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-02
Record Crowd
Awaits Clash
On Wednesday
Overwhelming Demand for
Tickets for Brush Sta.
dunn for Big Classic
By Jack Lawrence

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A dream that has lurked in the Stun
bers of New York baseball fans for
nearly two score years will materialize
wildly on Wednesday afternoon when
the Yankees, carrying on their should
ers the prestige of the American
League, clash with the Giants. cham
p'ons OF the National League, in the
first Of possible nine battles which
Will give to one club or the other
the highest honors in baseball
Ever since the New York American
League Baseball Club was orpanizod
nearly twenty years ago, it has been
the 1ervent wish Of every baseball fan
that ne, and in not few cases she.
would live to see the Giants and the
Yankees in worlds series combat.
For the lucky thousands who are
aoie to jam their way into the Polo
Grounds on Wednesday, when the first
game is played, and the following days,
this dream will have become q glorious
realization. Others, who cannot wedoa
their way into the Brush Stadium. will
take their thrills over the ticker or off
the mechanical miniature diamonds
that VIII record the historic series.
play by play, in Madison Square Gar
den, IN theaters and movie houses
New York Baseball Mad
New York City to-day is baseball
mad. The seemingly impossible has
come to pass and it has turned Father
Anickerbocker's head completely. The
old man doesn't know whether he is
on first or third.
a bunch Of wild-eyed fans we're
standing in the lobby Of the Hotel
Astor last night arguing whethe, the
1anNs-Glants series or & Cleveland
Giants engagement would create more
interest in this village. Tie over
whemlng demand for admission to the
Polo Grounds on Wednesday and the
succeeding playing days is one answer
to that question.
Some one with an eye for figures ha &
doped out that a. bail yard eight times
the size Of the Polo Grounds could be
filled on Wednesday afternoon and
there would still be thousands turned
away for lack of space This. however
is only one phase of the tremendous in
terest that is being taken in the an
preaching diamond classic BY the pub
lie in general. a major portion of
me great throng clamoring for tickets
consists OF out-and-out, dyed-in-t the
wool baseball fans, whose interest in
the sport is fired when the ball clubs
start south or their training trips in
FEBRUARY or March and lasts through
out the season. Their interest in the
present extravaganza is natural and eX-
pected. 1t fiared and burned in every
other worlds series and it was to be
expected that it would be even more
intense with the Giants and Yankees
coming to grips for the first time in
fight for the baseball supremacy of
the universe.
The Dempsey Carpenter fight dis
turbed the world Tor several weeks be-
fore it finally took place. 1t was re-
ga rdcd as the sporting event Of the
ages. The interest in that affair may
have been more widespread than the
interest in the coming worlds series
Dut IL is certain that among the mil
lions in little old New York the Juror
created by the fight pales to ins;gnifi-
canoe compared with the death grapplc
between Huggins and McGraw.
Topics of Conversation
The series to-day is the one TOPIC of
conversation in ard out of sporting cir
cics. 1t has permcated the homo and
threatens to lead to more domestic
Quarrcls than Acct Of blond vamps
could create. The coming series is the
first thing discussed at the breakfast
table and the last matter to be battod
over before turning in at night. In this
respect il is the most remarkable sport
ing event that ever occurred in this
country, because the interest has
drifted far beyond the ordinary realms
OF the regular baseball fan.
For nearly twenty years the argu-
ment OF Yanks versus Giants has ragged
in all OF our FIVE boroughs. In mauy
cases 1t has been the medium for bitter
invcctive and harsh words. In all
those years there was no definite or
decisive method of settling the dispute.
There were post-soason games between
the two teams, but in these neither
club put forth its full strength. be-
cause the result didn't mean ANYTHING.
This is the great year, the long
awaited series, the story of which will
go down through the generations until
i yesterday has faded from its page