Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-03
100000 Want
To Co.; Gotham
Baseball Mad
Hotels damned; Fans
Expect Series TO Be
Last for Duration
BY JACK CUDDY
United Press stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (UP).-It
may be the World Series or it
may be the war, but never in the
history OF Manhattan Island and
its environs has there been such
a crush of humanity in the down.
town area. Everything is damned.
Since the Yanks and amazing
st. Louis Cardinals arrived in New
York last night after the deadlock
at one game each in the Missouri
metropolis, the usually calloused
city seems to have gone baseball
mad. This IS unusual indeed. be-
cause the city of New York, center
lof some 1000. 900 people. has the
habit of taking everything in
stride.
But little old New York and the
baseball fans of the nation are not
taking this series in stride. In
fact, President Ed Barrow of the
Yanks says, I've never seen such
Ia demand for boxes and reserved
seats. IL the stadium were twice
as large we could sell II out-just
like that"
KNOWS HIS STUFF
Barrow knows what he's talking
about because he didn't 60 to st.
Louis with the Yanks. He stayed
behind tn care for the seating
arrangements. "Giye US good
weather and we're virtually GER
tain to get q capacity crowd Of
20, 900 or more, because we're put
ting $4,000 unreserved seats on
sale when the sun reaches the
right height" Barrow said.
\ There were 100000 applicants
who couldn't get reserved pew
room-regardless of the price they
offered for blocs of tickets to
three games. No allotments were
made to ticket spectators for this
series since large portion of the
proceeds are going to the united
service organizations. But those
spectators who did obtain blocs
that sold over the normal counter
at $3.50 for three games were
giving them reluctantly to choice
customers for 500. And the
chosen customers were glad to
get them.
ROOMS SCARCE
If a fan from the hinter was
fortunate enough to purchase him
self seat for the series at any
price he was even more fortunate
If he grabbed a hotel room. I'm
less one secured a room by tele-
phone a week. in advance ne Just
tcoufdn't get space in any down.
town New York hotel.
This Is an unusual situation in
deed because the mightiest of
American cities is geared to care
for 10000 visitors on. any given
day. But for the past six months
almost every important downtown
hotel has been taxed to its limit
by servicemen on furlough. Add
the $4,000 or 10000 who come In
for the series and you have a real
crisis.
There are many reasons for this
Times Square jam:
Most baseball fans are
keyed to the paramount in
spectator pitch because the
Cards and Yanks are even.
Stephen as they barge into New
York.
2-Virtually every one figures
that this will be the last World
Series for the duration.
3-The Brooklyn rooters, who
were so sure the Dodgers had
the pennant they ordered reser-
vations for tickets, changed not
only their orders for seats but
also for hotel reservations II
they happened to come from out
OF town--as half of them did.
We believe Barrow summed TN
the situation when he said:
I've never seen so many
people wanting TO see q series
and I've never seen 30 many
? people with enough money to
buy the best seats-if we only
had them. I've never seen 90
much money afloat."