The New York herald., 1922-10-04
Every Reserved Seat Is Sold
Fans Gather Early at
Polo Grounds.
BUSH TO FACE NEHF
American Leaguers FavOrites
in Betting, but Few Wag-
crs Are Made.
BY w. o. McGEEHAN.

The first act OF the annual national
drama which they call the world series
will start at o'clock to-day in the
moro or less historic Polo Grounds
field under Coogans Bluff. Clamoring
customers were besieging the offices OF
the Giants and the Yankees until a
late hour last night, though the an
nouncement had been sent out that
there was not even a ticket to be had
by close relative of Judge Kennesaw
Mountain Lands, High Commissioner
of Baseball Before midnight small
groups of patient and determined GUS
toners gathered near the box offices at
the Polo Grounds to wait until morn
ing to buy their regular admission
tickets.
The actors in the national drama
collectively will be the same that
staged it last year-the New York
Giants and the New York Yankees.
Individually the teams have changed
considerably. The show will be
shorter and consequently more inter-
esting, as it will be concluded with
the winning of four games out of
seven instead of five out OF nine.
Miller Huggins. the demi tasse man
ager of the Yankees, has announced that
Bullet Joseph Bush, who won twenty-six
games during the regular season. will
start for the Yankees. He worked out
at the Polo Grounds yesterday morning
! and the mighty soup bone I'm the flaming
red flannel sleeve was pronounced to be
in the best OF condition. On the ability
of Bullet Joseph to hold the Giants safe
in the first game may hinge the drcc-
ton which the series will take.
McGraw Depends Upon Nehf.
To hold the Yankee sluggers with the
drive furnished by Babe Ruth. Walter
Pipp and Lank Bob Meusel Manager
John Joseph McGraw of the Giants will
send in Art Nehf, the left hander from
Terre Haute, Ind. On Nehf, compara-
lively fragile and still suffering, like
Achilles, from an injury to his heel. may
depend the Giants chances. II he can
battle the Yankee offensive the tighten
ing up in the betting which was in evil
dence last night may be justified. I'm
less the Yankees take the first game this
collection of temperament may curl up
early in the pitched battle which is 10
be waged under Coogan's Bluff.
The betting. which started when the
Giants reached the mathematical GER
talnty" of their pennant. made the Yanks
favorite by to 5. That was when 1t
seemed that the Yanks would continue
the drive they started in the West. But
the American Leagueres were so long in
reaching their mathematical certainty
that some of their adherents lost faith
in them, especially when they finished
their season only one game ahead OF the
st. Louis Browns. The followers OF the
Giants took courage from this and at
the last hour prayed hunch--McGraw
and the Giants, especially McGraw.
While this series Is being played the
iron gray head of John Joseph McGraw
will not be i'm the thick of the carnage
after the fashion of the helmet of Ma
varre. IL will be concealed In the Giant
dugout where it will be buried in deep
thought, for McGraw will direct every
move of the Giants even to the pitching
of each ball.
Yankees Do Their own Thinking.
This series will be the baseball genius
of McGraw against the somewhat err
ratio individual stars with their some
what loosely organized thinking which
make up the Yankees. Higgins permits
his players to think because they insist
on this point especially when near
crisis arises and the tide OF battle seems
to turn against them. McGraw has been
known to fine players for thinking out
OF turn. Perhaps McGraw IL right
Many q ball game has been lost be-
cause n player paused to think.
In world series there Is one thought
which will be unanimous with the ath-
letes. This Is the thought Of the differ
ence between the winners and the losers
end. which Is a matter of nearly s2,50O.
The Yanks are looking 10 Babe Ruth,