Evening star., 1924-10-02
GRIFFITH DENIES
COMPLAINTS JUST
Declares No Favoritism Play
ed in Assignment of
Series Seats.

Every world series has had it's quota
of complaining fans who felt they
had been unjustly treated by the bust
ness management of their favorite
club in the matter of ticket distribu-
tion. and the present series promises
to rival preceding ones in that re-
spect.
Fans are charging the Washington
management with favoring certain
prominent folk and ignoring the mass
of regular supporters of the club.
There may be some instances in which
complaints are justified, but generally
it appears the great task of putting
out the tickets for tAe base ball
classic between NationAls and Giants
due to open here Saturday has been
well handled.
"All applications for world series
tickets filed with the Washington base
ball club have been taken care of as
well as humanity possible" declar ed
President Clark Griffith of the Ma
tionals at his office today.
Started Work Mt Once.
you must remember that we could
not act upon applications until we
were assured Of the pennant. When
the office force knew Monday evening
that part of the series would be held
here, it Immediately set about for
warding reservation cards and has
been hard at work since.
I'VE received applications for tick
| cts as far back as June, when the
Nationals first became prominent
pennant contenders, and before an
other month passed they were pour
| ing into the Office until within the
! past few weeks we were averaging
| as many as 5000 a day More than
| $50 900 were received.
Our ball park will seat only $1,000
and as no reserved seat single game
| tickets are sold you can understand
what we were up against. Every ap
plication was recorded on specially
| prepared cards and filed in chrono-
| logical order. We were Swamped with
requests, but wanted to give as many
| applications as possible considera-
! tion and in many instances were COM
| PEELED to reduce the total OF tickets
| asked.
I'VE gave the grandstand applica-
tionS first consideration and when
| they took up all available seats of
that class, we sent to the remainder
of grandstand applicants pavilion
tickets. Naturally that soon exhaust
ed the pavilion reservations and re-
naming applications that could be
considered were filled with tickets for
seats in the outfield stands
But in handling this ticket propo-
| sition. we have first given considera-
tion to Washington fans. After them,
we took up the applications of nearby
Maryland and Virginia supporters of
the Nationals. And no other prefer
ence has been shown. So-called pull
does not figure in the distribution"
Charges of favoritiSm are rife
among the Washington fans. but
there seems TO be no real basis for
them. There were a number of men
prominent in civic organizations pres
ent at the testimonial dinner given
the Washington team at the Occi-
dental last night and many of them
had received only pavilion tickets,
while others had gotten none at all.
Some of them complained. too. that
| they had filed applications weeks ago.
| and among them were personal
| friends of the president of the Ma
| tionals. but it developed that many
| applications had preceded theirs and
| they had to be content with what
they drew