Evening star., 1926-09-30
NEW YORK IS COLD
TO WORLD SERIES
'Sang-froid' of City Expected
to Fail, However, When Big
Games Start.
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.


NEW YORK. September 30.-New
York, outwardly-, is as cold and In
different as ever to the world base
ball series. Perhaps this attitude is
due to the cold weather OF the past
week, which has been suggestive Of
many things, but not base ball. Per
haps 1t is just the usual metropolitan
pose OF sang froid. There was no
red fire burned here when word came
from st. Louis that the New York
Yankees had finally won the pennant
And when the triumphant Ianks re-
turned from out Of the West on
gala special train there was only
to meet them.
1t is not that New York Is lacking
in civic pride. New York will make
big thing OF the series 1t will pay
out more money than St. Louis to
see the games, because the ball park
here is larger and because there will
be the usual sell-out. And once they
are in the stands and bleachers the
New Workers. will catch the infec-
tious spirit of base ball and will yell
their supposedly sophisticated heads
off
Crowd Always Cosmopolitan.
New York s base ball public always
Is cosmopolitan. The crowds here
consistently contain a heavy percent
age of Foreigners or visitors from
what New Workers are pleased to call
the sticks" New Workers like to
refer to 'the sticks because most
New Workers came from the disdained
hinterland themselves. No ons is so
much OF a New Yorker" as the most
recently arrived resident.
Broadway must be nonchalant. so
today Broadway Is nonchalant to
ward the world series. Probably some
price of the necessary tickets. but
this does not rob them Of one whit of
their jaunty air Of Indifference.
The truth is, OF course, that New
York has taken il for granted one
section OF the world series would be
played here. The Yanks were so long
and so far out front during most of
the campaign the metropolis consid-
cred them as good as in" They
slipped and skidded and slid in the
last quarter. more than most cham.
pionship teams usually do, but New
York did not lose confidence. or If II
cid. there was no outward indication.
And then again. New York has had
more than its share Of series.
In Limelight Again.
For a time il tried to monopoliZe
both ends of the classic" This was
broken up in 1924 when Washington
crashed through TO a pennant and
then humbled the Giants. Last year
found New York completely out OF
the limelight, but now it is in again.
New York doesn't take its base ball
O
burgh or Cincinnati or Washington
does Base balla here Is an amuse-
ment rather than an institution. The
crowds here will go to the series In
the hope that Babe Ruth will dram
atize the spectacle by whaInming out
a home run with the bases loaded.
If he doesn't do something like that.
or If II isn't good show" in some
particular, New York will feel disap-
pointed. win or lose. New York has
It's hectic moments. 1t responds as
readily TO a ballyhoo as Squash Cen
ter or any other American munich
pality.
The metropolis will go wild over the
return of a Channel swimmer or
champion golf player or the wearer OF
a new pugilistic crown. because 1t
seems at the moment the thing to do.
II will also go wild to some extent at
the proper time over the Worlo series
.-unleses there is excitement in some
ether quarter.
"Iuderdog" Has Backing.
The New York attitude toward base
ball as an amusement rather than
vital matter of civic pride makes the
local ball Yards the fairest playing
grounds in either league. The
"underdog" always has show here.
New York fans toward the close or
the season we're pulling for St. Louis
TO win That WAS because ST. Louis
SO long has been the underdog.
There will be thousands out at the
Yankee stadium on Saturday and
Sunday roofing for the Cards with
all their might and main. New York
fs that way. And that is why a visit
ing team can make such a good show
ing here The Yanks realize that
when they get to st. Louis II is going
70 be war to the knife and the knife
70 the hilt.