The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-29
Scalpers Getting
Up to $50 Prices
SPORTSMAN'S PARK SCENE
OF WORLD SERIES OPENER

Philadelphia, one from New
York, another from Chicago, and
one from St. Louis have regis
tered.
AS St Louis prepared for its
sixth worlds series in II years,
the ticket problem became the
perplexing subject. All of the
22,879 reserved seats and 3,168
box seats were quickly sold and
the ticketless Fan faces the prob
lem of rising early and standing
in a long line in an effort to
obtain one of the 10000 tickets
that will 60 on sale at z am.
at Sportsmans Park the day of
each game. There will be about
1000 tickets that entitled pur-
chasers only TO standing room.
HOTELS FULL
st. Louis hotels, already fill
cd to capacity, are declining
thousands of applications. There
just aren't any room to be had.
Unless reservations were made
weeks ago, visiting Worlds
Series fans will need to depend
on st. Louis friends with an
extra bed unless they want to
curl up on an automobile seat
during the night between the
first two games to be played
here.
Three large national business
organizations h a d scheduled
conventions here a year ago,
with no thought Of the series at
the time, and their delegates are
now occupying rooms for which
the fans are clamoring. One
large hotel received such
flood of applications that the
management had to engage three
extra employees just to refuse
them.
Sid Kecner, In charge Of the
press arrangements said today
that for the first time in years
baseball writer's from Pacific
coast metropolitan dailies would
be missing, undoubtedly because
of the war transportation prob
lens. The most western points
from which visiting writer's are
coming are Denver and Pueblo,
Colo. Havana, Mexico City and
Montreal, however, will be rep
resented.
$50 NEWSMEN
There will be $50 writer's,
plus telegraphers, crammed into
the regular press box and the
emergency one built in the mid
die section of the upper grand
stand.
Branch Hickey, vice president
and general manager of the
Cardinals, is convince the Red
Birds have an excellent chance
Of defeating the Yankees. He
bases his observations on the
fact that the Cards are a fast
base running team, with reck-
less speed land if they can
keep their .et on the ground
and play the Xxi ! of baseball
they have been playing, they
can win"
Johnny Beazley, the Cardinals
23-year-old freshman pitching
star, is making good on his pro-
mise to three Nashville, Tenn,
high school mates of several
years ago, when he boastfully
told them he would invite them
as his guests when he pitched
the first Worlds Series game.
Two of the three are certain to
be here tomorrow.
They are Joe Howard. In the
air corps at Shepherd Field, Tex
as, and Billy Riggi :, oil COM
pany employee at Nashville. The
third, Roy Elliott, now working
in Nashville, may not make it.
GET PRACTISE
Manager Billy Southworth Of
the champion Cardinals, order
ed his players out gain today
for two hour batting. fielding
and pitching drill The Yam
KEGS arrive about 6 pm, and
therefore will not have an OPP
portunity to practice until they
60 on the field tomorrow
The diamond at Sportsmans
Park is bald, the barest in the
major leagues The grass
curled up and died under the
tarpaulin which had covered the
diamond every night during the
season The park is used by
two clubs the Cards and