Show CINCY PREPARES PREPARES- PREPARES FOR BIG SERIES Police Ready eady to Protect fans Fans From Grafters s' s and Professional Dips bip- bip p pC Sept 26 Baseball Baseball en enthusiasts en en- C CINCINNATI from all aU parts of the country country country coun coun- try will come com to Cincinnati to see seo seethe seethe the Cincinnati Nationals Nationals' and the Chic Chicago o White Whito Sox clash in the tho world se series series series se- se ries games if letters requesting seat reservations reservations reservations res res- and hotel accommodations can be relied upon Acting on the request of of President August Herrmann the convention and publicity department of the Chamber of Commerce named a a. special committee of ot five to devise means for best meeting the desires of pt Mr Herrmann The committee arranged to establish a a. hotel bureau in charge of a competent I staff to look after aCter all for ac act acI ac- ac t I It was decided to list every available hotel room and to add to these accommodations a survey survey of every room in boarding houses and private res res- residences I where visitors could be lodged All these rooms were to be Inspected in advance so there could be no question concerning their desirability Word was s sent nt to Washington D. D C. C requesting the cooperation of the railroad administration in the matter of obtaining desirable parking places for special man cars carrying large private parties to the games Arrangements also were in preparation for suitable parking places fo automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles of town out-of-town visitors and for parking places In the vicinity of the baseball baseball baseball base base- ball park during the games For the protection of patrons visiting Cincinnati and Chicago during the playIng playIng playing play- play Ing of the series detectives who are specialists specialists specialists In dealing with pickpockets and auto thieves will be very active in both cities A large number of Chicago plain plainclothes plainclothes plainclothes clothes men will be on duty here while the teams are in Cincinnati and in turn the local experts will mingle with the crowds when the scene shifts to Chicago I Time was when the pickpocket clans I g gathered th red from the four quarters of the I country to follow the pennant winning baseball teams to the fields of worlds world's s I series combats But times have changed say the police and now o i it is easier i to steal automobiles than to o extract extracts a s fat purse from the pocket of an excited fan The dip still attends worlds world's championship battles but his profession profession profession pro pro- has fallen Into decap The onetime onetime onetime one one- time adept at snipping shipping a sparkler from a ai courage i and whose n oe a sort artful fN of f methods legerdemain r combined r is n as I scarce as radium according to detectives Picking pockets always was hazardous I and stealing automobiles has become I profitable with ever evens even less element of i risk So the pickpocket fraternity has I lost many members to the easier means of unlawful pro profit ft say the plain clothes men Besides Besides of late years the police have I cataloged the pickpockets pretty thor thor- As a world series or other national national national na na- na- na gathering t takes kes the state detectives detectives detectives detec detec- I tives go on watch at the railway stations I The light fingered gentry are met by t the reception committee and escorted to rooms at detective headquarters where they remain as guests usually y until those with whom they hoped to brush shoulders have gone away Some dips escape the net however and practice their escape ar art with more t or OT less success A world series game in Invariably uben ri is the scene of operations for a n number of them Other thieves are there too The automobile thieves predominate In three days o of world series contests is between the Chicago Cubs and Boston arrested Red s Sox five eighty in Chicago 1 last suspected ss ltd year the pickpockets lt police ets and auto thieves Nearly motorcars motorcars motor motor- cars carz were driven away from the vicinity of the baseball pary by persons not their their woner The majority were r recovered I but many were not I |