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Show GOVERNMENT AGENTS FOIL SPECULATORS CHICAGO, Sept. 30. Ticket scalpers apparently have been foiled in their efforts ef-forts to obtain any considerable number of admission slips to the Chicago games of the world series, for a round of their offices today revealed virtually no grandstand grand-stand seats on sale and only a few box sears. The demand for tickets so greatly exceeds ex-ceeds the supply, however, that the scalpers scalp-ers are making a gross profit of more than 600 per cent on what few pasteboards they have obtained. For a set of box tickets for the three games here Friday, Saturday Satur-day and Sunday the ticket vendors demand de-mand $100. the face value of the tickets being $16.50. Grandstand seats, the normal nor-mal value of which Is $9.90, for the three games bring $60, with only a few on sale. The net profit is cut down, however, by the 50 per cent tax which must be" paid on the advance in prices. The scalpers Insist, however, that they will have plenty of tickets by Friday and are willing to take unlimited orders, j One fan today offered $200 for tickets ; for the three-game series, apparently without any takers. Federal agents are watching the scalpers scalp-ers closely and the authorities have announced an-nounced that any Infringement of the law in the sale of tickets, no matter how slight, will result in prosecution. Special agents have been assigned solely to this work. |