Evening star., 1923-09-09
CAPACITY THRONGS
ASSURED, HOWEVER
Yanks Gaining Favor With
Fans as Popularity of
the Giants Wanes.
by GEORGE CHADWICK.

n IEW YORK, September g.
VI New York is beginning to
get ready for its third sue
cessive world series, but there is no
great enthusiasm about it. If both
New York teams win the cham
pionship in their respective leagues
the first game will be played on
October 9. Commissioner Lands
dropped in this week TO talk over
the arrangements.
I Although the spectacle of a special
~ owned and managed New York
world series has palled on Gotham
ties. that does not mean that the show
Will not be patroniZed. Very likely Ii
VIII be to the capacity of the re-
modelled and not improved Polo
Grounds and TO that OF the new
amphitheater of the New York Amer
lean League club, which maGks as a
stadium, but is not.
The last seat in both stands will be
| sold for the first game in each. AS
| seats probably will be sold for three
games en- bloc there will be reserva-
tions carrying for the series. The day
admissions viii vary as the hoi polloi
feel their enthusiasm diminishing
with their collateral.
AT the moment there is more hur-
rah among the bourgeois of the large
city for the Yanks than there is for
the Giants. Little by little ii has been
! noticed by those who hold to their
pearly ears the trumpet of public
opinion that the Giants have been
sagging in popular estimation. There
are reasons for IL, as there are rea-
sons for everything.
The New York public had a great
deal of confidence in the Brush re-
: gime at the Polo Grounds II was
John r. who built the stadium, and
while there was liking and a fol-
lowing for his players and his man.
ager IL was he who was the corner
stone, because his personal affiliations
reached far. He was n thirty-third
degree Mason and respected as such.
and he was one of the most popular
mem bers of the Lambs Club who was
not an actor.
After he died his club still was very
successful and conducted with the full
confidence of the public, but base ball
patrons seem to resent a mixture of
base ball with other sports. and that
Is one reason why the Giants have
been criticized.
ALI this will not have thing to do
with the world series crowds. because
IL there were not more than so per
cent OF the seats sold for the world
series to New York folks the re-
mainder of the seats would be taken
by fans who want an excuse to visit
New York. They come from as far
west as California and as far south
as Florida.
BOX Seats in Great Demand.
There is a great demand to obtain
box seats for world series Men
who never think of sitting anywhere
/, except in the pit during the regular
season are imbued with overwheln1-
ing desire TO buy themselves boxes
for the world series.
coin will he tossed to see which
ground will get the first game IL the
series Is played wholly in New York.
II the first game goes by chance to r.
the old Polo Grounds the attendance
Will be approximately $4,000.
When the engineers rebuilt the Polo
Grounds or added to it they made a
faux pas with one ofstheir overhang-
ing terraces. 1t overhangs all right
It overhangs so far that about eleven
or twelve rows in the rear of the
section which 1t overhangs are over
hung out of sight
II the first game takes place on
the Yank ground the attendance will
be around $4,000. 1t will depend
largely upon how many are slipped
like wrtggling sardipes into the seats
of the sun.
There is a cha. that the games
will be played in Cincinnati as well
as In New York but any Cincinnati
man who invests in peanuts to sell
upon the strength of the Reds win
ming the championship had better buy
III SdSC the
Reds blow.
II all the series is played in New
York there will be a great saving of
time. There will be no travel be-
tween cities. There also will be
fewer poker games and less shaking
of the, African golf tokens. Men who
come 70 New York do not spend so
much time in playing poker as they
did prior to the time that the large
city became a part of the equatorial
zene, making 1t almost impossible
for show girls TO dress warmer than
their native beauty and floating a
strip of chiffon.
If by any chance the series is won
in four straight games it will not
anect the peace of mind of the ball
players. They get their money in
four games and after that they play.
for the pig and the piper. 1t is sin
cerely hoped that 1t will not be neces-
sary to, get up any impromptu
charity matches this year. They do
not set as we'll with the public.
1n> the last world series neither
New Yor@ club made enough profit
TO pay for the glory. The Increased
expense ate up the Increased price
OF admission to q large extent
Incidentally. the Yenks have won
their wish to have a world series the
first year of their new ground and
maybe luck will turn their way 50
they will win the series too.
Copyright, 1921