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Show MODERN REPORTING. When 29.000 people had paid the. price of admission, admis-sion, $37,000, to witness the first baseball games of the world's series in Shibe park, Philadelphia, 150 newspaper reporters as tjie game progressed pro-gressed sat writing in the press box within the in-closure. in-closure. and 55 telegraph wires running out over the land from this box announced the battle, stage by stage. It is a far cry from the press of early days to this modern picture in Shibe park. When the battle of Waterloo was fought, in 1815. deciding the destiny of all the nations of Europe, the London Lon-don Chronicle devoted a third of a column to a description of the battle about as much room as a modern newspaper would take to report a small fire. . |