The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-20
Brooklyn Fans Demand To Know Where They Sit In World Series
Ebbets Field,
 Packed, Holds 34,0OO People
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Editor


 New York, May 2o-Brooklyn'S inimitable fans already are stew Ing about world series accommoda- tions.
 You hear them lamenting over every FlabtuSh bar and hot dog stand with ears clamped to loud- speakers as the beloved Dodgers continue their sustained march in the hinterland.
 "Why, the jernt isn't one-thlrd big enough" they moan.
 Larry MacPhail can't cram more than 34,000 into Ebbets Field with 0 shoe horn.
 "Therell be that many from Greenpernt alone, and a hunnert thousand seats won't be enough when our buns put the slug on Bob Teller and them Indians"
 They might not be far wrong at that. With the Dodgers games Brooklyn and Cleveland clubs played at Yankee Stadium, the easily might set an attendance record after c 2l-year famine.
 There was much talk Of circu- lattng petitions when It was learned that all reserved Seast for the Memorial Day double-header with the Giants at the Polo Grounds, where 5000 can be squeezed in, had been sold by mail order and there would be no public sale.
 "rhat will be a Brooklyn crwod," declare the Flatbush ad- diets. New York now cares less about Bill Terry and them Giants than we do"
 What the Gowanus Gang wants Is the Brooklyn end of the world series played at Yankee Stadium, where 80,000 can be damned in.
 We never heard anybody eop- nectcd with Notre Dame or Army squawking about their football teams playing at Yankee Stadium instead of at South Bend or West Point" IS the Brokolyn argument,
 "T'he way them Yankees arc going, they haven't much use for the stadium anyway"
 REGULARS ARE CROWDED OUT OF EBBETS FIELD
 There Is precedent for playing world series games in the park of Q club in a rival league. The 1914 Braves played their home world series games ct F'enway Park and the following year the Red Sox played at Braves Field. The St. Louis clubs share Sports mans Park, the Philadelphia teams Connie Mack Stadium.
 There would be about 3o,00o reserved seats for the world series at EbbetS Field. The ticket pfl" critics of Commissioner Landis and the major leaS ueS would re- quire almost hlaf of that number. The Brooklyn Trust Co., mort- gagor of the Dodgers, undoubtedly would ask large blocks Of tickets for clients.
 A normal advance gle for world series is 30,00O, and any more than that in EbbetS Field stand or hang no rafters.
 The Dodgers play their first home night game June s, and thousands of addicts some time back found they were shut out of that one. A preseason group purchase plan accounted for the choicer pasteboards early In Jan- uary.
 BROOKLYN FANS DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT
 Cleveland has 800O0 seats in It's Municipal Stadium, and there arc that many within quick Sub- way ride Of the Brooklyn customers at Yankee Stadium.
 And Brooklyn fanatics, the like of whom there are nowhere else, do not intend to listen to their buns home world series games no the radio. Not after frequent ly getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning to stand in line at Ebbets Feild during the regular season . in good times and bad. They threaten to take tho ticket issue 10 Judge Lands.
 When a Brooklyn fan wants something or seeks to twin an ar- gument, he usually does some thing about it. Ridden 6 bit too hard aboue the Dodgers a couple of years ago, ono of thme went home, got a gun and returned to shot up tavern. He killed a bloke whom he thought was too rough on Van Lingle Mungo or some other Brooklyn bum. Bum is term of endearment in Brook lyn.
 And if you suspect the Brooklyn buns aren't going to win this year, don't say anything about 1t In Flat bush.