| Show GRAND JURY TO PROBE TICKET SPECULATION NEW YORK Oct 10 District District Attorney Whitman has determined to settle once and for all the tho story sl r that through Ir Irregularities Irregularities irregularities Ir- Ir regularities worlds world's series tickets tall fall Into the tho hands o of speculators o er every r time such sucha a contest Is staged In New York city On Wednesday next the matter will be laid before the grand jur Jury John B. B Poster Foster secretary of the Now York National league lea club held heid a a. conference confer collier ence with tho the district attorney yesterday a after which he IS Issued a n statement denyIng denying deny deny- ing log that tha t he had t said ald that an any tl tickets for forthe forthe forthe the present series 1 had hod reached elt city employees em em- and through them had been beon placed In the hands of speculators In Inthe Inthe Intile the tile form torn o of an affidavit It he Ito Issued another another an nn- other statement explaining how the tha SOO o odd d reserved seats scats had been boen disposed of or appending a alist lIlt of or persons to whom they had been distributed mailing SOur Out books as well as us our sheets for rOl boxes and seats scats says sas the statement are arc subject to the tho call o of tho the district attorney at al aU any time lIe He added that those 2 seats scats unreserved er ed which had gone sone out ii In advance ad had been beet delivered delivered de de- de- de livered with the tho sanction of or the national commission to President Charles Charl s H If H. H Ebbetts Ebbetts Eb- Eb betts of ot the Brooklyn club dub and to a few other oIlier persons whoso requests for or reserved seats scat could not he be full fully met Mr Eb- Eb botts botta he said received 50 of or these seats for each game Sixteen speculators were arrested outside outside out out- side Ilde the Polo grounds yesterday and andon andon andon on ono one of them according to the tho police 2 seats were found Tle They were fined lined 10 each for violation of ot the ordinance nanco nance against soliciting the sale eale of or tick tick- ets A few hours after aCtor Secretary Fosters Foster s conference with wit District Attorney Whitman a a ticket seller seUer Richard J. J Donovan was Tras arrested at tho Polo grounds after ho he had it is charged dis- dis is posed nosed of a block of 01 lower Jower stand 2 tickets to n a man believed to be a n go- go o. o between for speculators President Hurr Hurry X N. of tho the New York club who in court aa as complainant com coin a against the thc prisoner said jcl he ho hoped the arr arrest st t would rc result m t iu JU in c ex exoneration of oC tile the club to tho the public in inthe I the matter of speculation Detectives say n they saw Donovan I hand band the tho a white paper cov cred packet rho The Ro after a a. fight was tak taken n to the clubs club's offices cs whore the tho tickets wore were found on him and Donovan an was arrested In a ma mag magistrates magistrate's magistrates mag istrate's court Donovan was 8 held hold in m. m fl 00 bail bRilon on a charge chargo of violating tho the tipping anti statute Tho The alleged go go- between made a corroborating affidavit against t Donovan nn and was wan allowed to togo go go- t |
