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Show idO !5 ILL HET OP ABOUT THESGHLPEHS City Authorities Enlist ir War on the Speculators; Practice Games for Contending Clubs. CHICAGO. O.-l. 2. With the arrival toniht of the first out-of-town i-ontln-.qont for the world's series, the prices of tickets for the three Chlraso games were, sent skyward by scalper;;, who insist in-sist they will be able to supply purchasers purchas-ers who tailed to get seals through the regular channels. j Although the reserved seat tickets and the box 'seats will not be distributed to the fortunate purchasers until 'I hursday. scalpers are opening deposits cm ordeia and arc asking $50 for a So box seat lot three games and J3.'. for stand seats which sold for ?1.50 each. What system the speculators arc using In their attempt at-tempt to obtain tickets is puzzling ofll-clals ofll-clals of the Chicago Americans, as all tickets are registered and numbered and the applicants will be obliged to call m person for their allotment. A Chicagoan who balked at the prices demanded bv the scalpers inserted an advertisement ad-vertisement in a newspaper today orier-ing orier-ing $2H for two grandstand seats for the first two games. City to Help. Samuel A. Ettleson. corporation counsel, coun-sel, joined the fight with President lo-misAey lo-misAey of the Chicago club against scalping. .. "We arc going after the scalpers hard. Ettleson said. "There will be complete co-operation between the city and the, management of the series. Although tho details of the system for checking the tickets are being kept a secret, I have been told enough to convince me that scalping is going to be dor.e at a great risk. Any person buying tickets from scalpers is in danger of having it taken up at the gate." Purchasers of 18,000 bleacher and pavilion pa-vilion scats which will be plnced on sale Saturday will be obliged to pass through a long "wire cage entering the park immediately im-mediately after buying their tickets. There will be no turning back. The reason rea-son for this Is to prevent purchasers from getting tickets and then mingling with the crowds to resell them. Banquet for Sox. The champion White Sox will return home tomorrow for an exhibition game with the Cleveland club. The players will be guests at a. banquet tomorrow night given in their honor by the "Woodland "Wood-land Bards, an organization composed of President Comiskey's personal friends. Seats for 1400 persons have been arranged. The New York National league baseball club will plav an exhibition game here Thursday with the Chicago Cubs, It was announced here tonight. The Giants will close the season with Philadelphia and will arrive here Thursday noon for the opening of the world's series Saturday. The game with the Chicago club will be their last before the world's series. See Giants Perform. ' PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 2. Second Baseman Base-man Kddie Collins and Pitcher Cicotte of tile Chicago American league team were spectators at the New York-Philadelphia National league double-header today to get a line on the work of the New York team. |