Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-05 | Page 6 | Stampede for Seats for World's Series

STAMPEDE FOR SEATS S ATS FOR WORLDS 8 SERIES Pittsburg Pa Oct 4 The rush to se secure secure secure cure seats for the worlds championship baseball series to begin this week is the greatest In the history of the game Secretary Locke who has charge of sell Ing the tickets by mall mail said that thou thousands thousands sands sanda of remittances would have hav to be returned to senders because oi 01 oi the great demand Already the capacity of the park re reserved reserved reserved served for mall orders has been besa exhausted and the staff of fourteen clerks is work lug ing Locke has three baik bal Jt clerks assisting him and three adding machines are in constant operation The work of handling all the postal cards and anel returning tickets keeps keePf the en tire staff stair busy From the orders received for reserva tion it t is calculated that thousands of attendants from other National and American league cities will attend the championship series Orders were wera received receive from Chicago Philadelphia New York Cincinnati St Louis and other cities for seats in great bunches The national baseball commission hay hav ing charge of the sale eale of the seats scats an flounced tonight that the mall order sale salo of reserved ed seats had been unprecedented The tickets for each game at Forbes field have been sold 48 hours after mall mail orders were received An off dat cial of the Pittsburg Pitts burg club announced that worth of orders for seats for the first two games here have been returned with a notice that no reserved seats were left