The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-05
New York Ready For
 Big Game
Ruth Outstanding Figure Expected To Be Hero Of Worlds Series.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

as the Giants and ' anKe enteTSu tue first game of the Worlds Series.
 Thousands of fans, armed with proud reserve seat tickets, and other thousands who had to be content to take a chance on crashing the gen eral admission tickets windows, start ed their march on the Polo Grounds at sunup.
 ored with a crisp October tang and tempered with friendly sunshine com pleted the stage setting for what promises to be the greatest series ever played.
 Though the opening game was not scheduled to start until o'clock Eastern standard time the intense in terest in the battle between the rlVaI New York pennant winners ana the limited accommodations at the Polo Grounds caused New Workers to fall all over each other in the rush for tickets.
 The great stadium under the shadow of Coogan's Bluff will com fortab1y seat some 3S,000 fans. About 20, 900 of these seats are reserved, the rest being sold at the ticket windows the day of each game.
 Conservative estimates place the number of people in the Metropolitan district interested in the big series at something over 100000. Forty thousand at most, can see each game. If the series should go the full nine around 36O,000. So it is easy to see what a mass of fans will be disap- pointed.
 Babe Ruth. king of swat, was the pared for battle. The Big Bam" with a new home run record of 59 circuit swats in a single season and reputation as a murderer of all kinds of pitching, was the logical candidate for the role of Worlds Series hero.
 Rgth ' be is the eg ace es ef N the F9nhe 9abEe fans are counting on him to shatter | the defense of the stalwart Giants. He has hammered baseballs into the stands and over the walls at the Polo Grounds so consistently against the i best pitchers in the American League that his admirers can see no way for Giants twirlers to stop him. The more rabid the Yankee fan the more willing he is to wager that Ruth will Thanks to Ruth and his popularity the Tanks went into the series today carrying a burden of slight favoritism on their shoulders. Betting, however, was at even money for the most part bets among radical partisans of the rival teams.
 The intense interest among Gotham fans in this series has been growing over a long period of years. When the Yankees were first planted in New York they failed to attract much attention. It took them years to dragged along. Finally Colonel y Rupy pert and Colonel Huston got hold of them and they started to get bu1lish. Later the ambitious Colonels got Babe Ruth. Ever since this master stroke of baseball business the Tanks have been cashing and today they have more followers than the Giants Probable pitchers for the opening game today were Carl Mays, the sub marine artist, for the Tanks, and Nehf or Douglas for the Giants.
 John McGraw, who will always give | a reporter the identity of his pitcher if he knows who is going to work said last night that it all depended on who looked best when the boys warmed up. Nehf if he is right is the logical man to start against the Amer ican League champions.
 Much depends on today's game. Conservative baseball men believe that the team that gets>the jump to- day will win the series. Many also seven games and probably the full nine. Precedent in the matter of first game winners shows that in series | of the past the Phillies and Giants are the only teams that won first l games and then lost the series.
 lucky to be there. Slim Salee is one The Slim Sheriff from Huggins port was a member of the Giants when
 they won the flag in 1917- He was | later sent to the Reds in time to horn
 in on the 1919 series, now infamous 1 Johnny Rawlings and 'Irfsh''
 Meusel traded to New York by the | tail end Phillies, are also lucky to be
 among those present. Frank Baker,
 often retired but always doing a
 patti, did his latest just in time to
 buy another farm Elmer Miller
 from Michael Ke1ley's St. Paul out | fit, came to the Tanks in mid-Season.